Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunt. People hide little treasures (usually not of any monetary worth), called “caches”, all over the world, and post the coordinates online for others to find. You can have caches that are very simple to find and more complex caches – like a cache that has a clue for you to find another cache, then the next, and the next, until you get to the end point. After finding the treasure, you sign the logbook in the cache, and if you want you can exchange the item in the cache (or one of them) for something else that you’ve brought with you. Then you hide the cache back in its hiding spot for somebody else to find.

Yesterday my boyfriend and I found our first cache. We were so excited! We looked through the logbook signatures and they dated all the way back from 2006! I thought about how fun it would be to start going geocaching with Keeda. She’d get to go on nice hikes in different environments and we’d hunt for treasure. We’ll definitely start doing this when I start driving.

Have you ever gone geocaching?