FIB
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I got into geocaching 10 years or so ago. I enjoyed it for a while but grew bored with it.
As it happens, I'm the top ranking female Geocacher in Japan and I've found geocaches in 50 countries around the world.
Part of why I've recently gotten into metal detecting is that I live on a rather small island and I've found all of the geocaches near me. Making and publishing new geocaches is fun, but it can get expensive, as can traveling long distances to find outlying caches. So I figured- a nice addition to my digital treasure-hunting hobby would be actual treasure hunting. So far so good!
Well yes, I got into geocaching about 12 years ago. I found a hundred or so caches, and I still have 3 Garmin handheld gps units, which I continue to use now and then, whenever an interesting cache pops up, close by home. It's really a fun activity which will definitely take you to some neat places, that otherwise, you would probably never see. I also have several geocaches, that I have placed myself, and I occasionally go out to service them with new logs, etc.
So, if you enjoy getting out and exploring, give it a try. Nothing to lose, but an afternoon of metal detecting, and heck, you might even find it just as enjoyable. One thing for sure, you will be completely blown away, when you discover just how many are actually located, very close to your home. It's really amazing.
Now Thats awesome! I knew it was a big Sport, with rabid afficianados such as yourself, skills and effort unto its own right, but I never gave it much thought to get active in searching for them......I accidentally found one though, a few years back, I was out detecting the High Dunes here in the early Spring....Way the Hell out in No Mans land and eyeballed what looked like a tacklebox half buried in the leaves......So I sat there on the Southern escarpment, opened it up, and read the entries in the GeoCache log book!...
It was very cool how many people had been here before me and located this GeoCache! From all over the Country! World even! I felt a kindred Spirit shared by Hinterland hunters and adventurers!... I had no idea 'Cachers are ranked according to their finds!
This Sport must feed your same interest/skillset to get out and track down Humans?...I can see that...tracking down treasure through the fog of Time is one cool thing!
FWIW, I wrote a nice little encouraging post in the GeoCache logbook Titled: "More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys!"
I'd like to try geocaching....now to find a super cheap handheld gps.