About a year ago, when doing research for an automobile GPS, I came across information on a relatively new sport: Geocashing using a handheld GPS. I thought, what fun and what a great way to be outside. After much debating with myself I decided on a Garmin Dakota 20 which I bought in Calgary on my drive out West. It is small, light and easy to use.
Victoria, in fact Vancouver Island, is a mecca for geocashes and geocashing is a great way to explore the area. I particularly enjoy finding the earth (natural environment) caches. The GPS helps the searcher get to the vicinity of the cache but actually finding it is not always easy. For each cache I have found there are two others that I haven't. This week's search in the Dallas Road area was fun and successful and since I now always carry a camera with me I made a mini documentary of the event which I am adding to this blog (another first).
Geocashing is so popular that visitors to Victoria and people on cruise ships spend time searching for hidden caches during their time here (and Tourism has started to capitalize on this interest.) Each geocasher is encouraged to enter the date of their find in the cache logbook, and Granma's cache logbook had an entry by a geocacher from Germany!!
