Any Sowal geocachers out there?

[Evangeline]

We've seen some really amazing things when geocaching because the caches are often at some little known point of interest. One of my favorites was the 2nd largest oak tree in Florida at the entrance to a state park in Fruitland Park. And we found one at the location of the Love Canal in New York--a quirky historical kind of cache. On another we thought we were headed for a cache about 3/4 mi away and ended up walking a gorgeous, but grueling trail up and down hills to the top of a mountain ledge in N. Carolina. The GPS shows distance "as a crow flies" so it can be a little deceiving sometimes. It was so worth it though as the view was amazing and we would have never even thought about going up without the incentive of the cache. You can find caches anywhere you travel and it's a great way to get off the beaten path. You can just print out the coordinates, or better yet, load them into your GPS before you go somewhere and then use them to explore an area. When you join the Geocaching site you log your caches on the site so it's also fun to look back at all the caches you've visited. We haven't done it in a long time, but I feel inspired now to dust the GPS off and get searching again!

 

[30ABandMan]

It is a blast and I have several along 30A as do some other cachers. Aggie, go to the website www.geocaching.com and sign up for a free user name. I pay for the membership because it offers a bit more but you can still access everything under the free membership as well. When you get into the site, just find the area that says "find caches" or something along those lines. Type in your ZIP and you'll be amazed at how many are out there. If you use the google earth feature it is even more impressive.

Good luck and Happy Caching!

 

[CastlesOfSand]

We just started geocaching recently. We are called LateNight5 (me, my husband, my sister in law and my 2 girls, my son is 15 and doesn't have time for it). Our first cache experience was around midnight one night here in Dallas after we had heard about geocaching from a friend of my sister in law. We had flashlights and an iphone but couldn't find one so we all got up at the crack of dawn and went back to the ones we had tried to find and found them. We have been hooked ever since when we have the time. We all cached week before last in SoWal and had a blast. It was the perfect thing to do while the rain came down!! We found quite a few and they are logged under LateNight5. We placed a travel turtle that we found in a cache in Dallas in "Who Let the dogs out". It is really FUNN!!! Glad to know there are some more geocachers here!!

 

[Aleigh]

Sounds like so much fun! I had never heard of it before your posting here... Aleeza and I are definitely interested.... I'll have her speak with you about it... Thanks, Aleigh

 

[Koa]

Could be fun, but wouldn't having a GPS and coordinates kind of ruin the hunt? If you know exactly where you are going, I think the fun would be gone. I like the idea of a treasure hunt trail, finding clues along the way to a big real prize. SoWal could even hide gift certificates in the cache for local businesses. Now that might be fun.

 

[Aleigh]

Could be fun, but wouldn't having a GPS and coordinates kind of ruin the hunt? If you know exactly where you are going, I think the fun would be gone. I like the idea of a treasure hunt trail, finding clues along the way to a big real prize. SoWal could even hide gift certificates in the cache for local businesses. Now that might be fun.

I nominate "KOA" to be the event planner/organizer... hip hip hurray!