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geocaching
donn - May 6th, 2012 at 05:18 PM

Any Geocachers here, only found out about it a week ago, looks like a bit of fun


Bizarre - May 6th, 2012 at 05:23 PM

The_Bronze is into it


11CAB - May 6th, 2012 at 07:41 PM

Yeah been caching since 2005, found nearly 1200 so far between Mackay in Queensland and Syndey in NSW


Camo - May 6th, 2012 at 08:29 PM

For those that don't know what they are talking about, like me until a minute ago. It is:

Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device[2] and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.It is a derivation of the outdoor sporting activity of Geotrekking.A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek", sharing many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.[3] After almost 12 years of activity there are over 1,639,000 active geocaches published on various websites. There are over 5 million geocachers worldwide.


Sorry guys, but seems like you must have to much time on your hands :lol::lol:


11CAB - May 6th, 2012 at 08:40 PM

Geocaching takes you to some great out of the way places that you never would have known about without Geocaching.

Geocaching started on the 2nd May 2000 to celebrate the US Military turning off the selective availability of the GPS system for civilian use which made GPS accurate for everyone not just the US military


1303Steve - May 6th, 2012 at 08:41 PM

Maybe I should mark my tools with a GPS locator so that I can find them after i put them down


whathaveidone - May 6th, 2012 at 09:06 PM

what about one for a nut you drop in the engine bay?????
Seriously though, sounds like a fun thing to do!!