Geocaches

Today I found out about the coolest thing. There are caches (containers that contain items of some kind) hidden all over the place. They are of different sizes and of different difficulty to find. There is one that I heard of that you have to dive for in the sea. My family and I went out to the closest and easiest geocache in our area and found it almost instantly, taking no less than 5 minutes to find it. At the website, they have directions for the general area in which the geocaches are hidden. Their website called http://www.geocaching.com/ . You can use a special GPS system to find it (which is much easier than a blind search) or try to find it on your own if it is in an easy enough location (like the one we found today). When you find the cache, you are allowed to take one of the items that are inside but you have to replace the item with something of equal or greater value. We took a bouncy ball from inside it and replaced it with a dollar coin. You also have to update the log book inside the cache to show that you found it. they have special prizes to the people who find the new geocaches first. There are currently 1,384,446 active geocaches in the world. We are going to start making it a weekend activity. It is very fun and something that I would recomend for a summer activity.