Geocaching one of my new hobbies – the modern art of „Schnitzeljagd“ using GPS. After I got an PDA and navigation software I was very surpriced about this new gadget and how accurate the software and GPS can tell you your location. Navigating as really funny, makes traveling much easier.
Some days later I was googling around searching for more ideas how to use the GPS. I heard about geocaching – treasure hunting the modern way. Some people hide a box called cache with some personal stuff or a small log book in it. The GPS coordinates of this box are published to a geocaching portal like http://www.geocaching.com and maybe some more hints to find the cache easier.
As a cache hunter you can now search for caches and downloads the coordinates from http://www.geocaching.com and try to find the hidden box (cache). If you find the box than you can take something out of the cache and must place something new in, make a log record, close the cache and hide it again.
So for me i sounded quit interessting and I tried it the first time during a business trip in Frankfurt/Main. I picked the Cache (chun hua yuan) from www.geocaching.com and tried to find it. It was an easy cache for my first trip. The nice thing is: When you walking around searching the cache you will find nice pathes, places and interesting things to see. In my case I was guided by my GPS to the Chinese Garden at Frankfurt, which is a really nice and silent place to relax. On my first visit there were to many people around the garden and so I could not search and pickup the cache. Two days later a came back again to the garden, took a book and read some pages until the sun went down and now people were around the cache. I picked it up, wrote a log message and hided the cache again.
Done – found my first geocache!!
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