I have now created a login over at geocaching.com and am able to see the coordinates of the hides. I was pretty shocked at just how many there are in the Aberdeen area, so that was exciting. In fact one of them is about 3 blocks from here.
Rather than wait until we had things like a GPS unit, I just plugged the coordinates into google maps and got a fairly close idea of where it was (not sure this is a very precise or good way to do the hobby).
The clue was the title "S.kid T.ires O.n P.avement" to which Toni immediately said, "a stop sign!" This seemed like a pretty good idea, so we packed up the kid and dog and headed out to see if we could find a stop sign on that intersection with a geo-cache.
Now, there is other information that seems relevant to, but I don't really know about it. For instance, the size of the cache is listed and seems relevant. This ranges from micro to large. A micro cache is something like a camera film canister... but I have no idea what the other sizes actually are... things like plastic containers and ammo boxes I think.
Anyway, we get to the designated intersection and start looking at stop signs, but we also quickly notice that there is a covered bus stop. So, we start looking in and around the bus stop, anywhere we think it might be... all to no avail.
It is then we realize that we have no idea how accurate the map we were looking at is. The coordinates I plugged in might be right on top of it, but the google maps might not be as good.
Well, we gave up. I remembered another a few blocks down that was something like "for our fallen heroes." Since there is a fire station on that block with a memorial it seemed like a no brainer... well, we didn't find that one either.
Maybe this geocaching with out a GPS isn't such a good idea.
But... we still got out for a walk and had a good time... Toni is going to see if she can borrow a GPS from a hunter at work.
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