At first, I thought these were chocolate and was disappointed when they weren’t. Then, I saw geocaching and immediately felt better. Not ‘chocolate’ better, but close.
Someone hides a camouflaged container in a slightly interesting place (e.g. behind a statue, near an old church, some place with a nice view) and registers the GPS location, usually on an app. In the container they’ll put a small (sometimes tiny) notebook and sometimes a little trinket of some sort. They may also put a couple of text hints on the app as to the container’s exact location.
You then use the app to navigate to the GPS location and search for the container. Put your name/nickname in the notebook, take/swap/leave a trinket, and re hide the container.
We do it most often when we’re on holiday with our kids (both under 10), it’s usually a nice way to explore the area you’re in, since the locations have generally been chosen by someone with a good knowledge of the local area. There’s only been 1 so far we’ve been unable to get, and that’s because it’s 15m up a big tree and we don’t have any climbing gear!
My biggest issue is my wife doesn’t find it fun so most of those are from before marriage or when she’s out of town. I look forward to introducing the kid to it later on to possibly have a buddy.
Wow, that is done really well. How long did it take to finally notice it?
My favorite camouflaged cache was a hollowed out tree limb that had been attached to a metal stake which was placed in a forest around other sticks and leaves. I only found it because I accidently kicked it.
I got very lucky on this, and arrived just as two other cachers were pulling it from its hiding spot. I’m sure I would have been looking for a long time if not for them!
My partner pays for the Premium service. We go geocaching together all the time, I’d say it’s worth it. Lame subscription model aside, it’s pretty cheap entertainment and it gets us outside.
We don’t subscribe in the winter so it’s only a few months a year we need to pay for.
We’ve got one like this near us, but on a green painted fence. Took ages to find, the children had absolutely lost the will to live by the time we eventually got it! Really cool though, a bit of a challenge.
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