Geocaching

We spent yesterday Geocaching with Suzy (daughter), Bethany and Ben (grandchildren). For those who don't know what this is, it's like a treasure hunt. People hide the caches - quite often in plastic sandwich boxes - and then enter either the co-ordinates or a clue for you to work out
the co-ordinates on the website http://www.geocaching.com/ . You then use a GPS to find the cache. Caches contain a log for you to sign when you find it and some bits and pieces (treasure). You are allowed to remove an item from the box and replace it with another item that you brought with you. Some items can be kept, others must be moved to another cache to help them travel. Such as this coin that we found in a cache near the airport. It had been put in the cache by someone from Germany!



We searched for five caches. Three near the airport, one at Carrington Moss, between the training camps for Man City & Man United, and one in Broadheath, near Altrincham. We found three of them. We could not find one of the ones near the airport. It turned out to be extremely small, so we probably overlooked it. We did not find the one in Broadheath because there is a riddle to solve and we couldn't solve it. We will have to work on it. (Photos taken by Suzy - hope you don't mind me nicking them Suz!).

The adults enjoyed the day more than the children. They were OK with the first one, but soon got fed up with walking in the cold, rain and mud.

When we got home we searched the geocaching site for caches near canals. There are loads, so we may get ourselves a GPS and do some geocaching when we go cruising.