A friend (Kurt) and I went Geocaching yesterday in a beautiful park here in Virginia.
Seashore State Park.
We found 8 or so caches back in the woods and all over the park - it was a perfect day.
Well, rather than go BACK to the parking area to begin a particular search (which is what the instructions told us to do) we started trecking in the park FROM one of the other caches.
We got deeper and deeper into the forest/swamp area and couldn't actually GET to the cache we were searching for because we were blocked by the swamp at every turn.
We walk on and on and things only got worse - and the sun was setting soon!
We decided to attempt to get back to a nearby road (we could hear the cars going by off in the distance)... but were blocked by swamp in that direction too.
Luckily we had our GPS units and followed the 'track-back' feature to get most of the way back - but found a fallen tree which we used as a bridge to make the final crossing to higher ground!
It was fun and we didn't even have to get our shoes wet - but it was certainly a better option than spending the night in the woods.
Ain't Geocahing fun?!
Check it out for yourself at www.geocaching.com!
1 comment:
Now that sounds like what geocaching is all about. Wish I could have joined you. We haven't been able to go out hunting for a while, so maybe I can live vicariously through your aventures till then.
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