Poly Clay Play Geocaching ~ Notes from Trish
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It will be fun to see where they go!
OK...I am hooked! I went to my yearly weekend retreat with my cousins and Betty brought her GPSr (Global Positioning System Receiver) and a couple of "maps" for the area. The "maps" were actually pages with a whole lot of information I didn't understand. Betty told Michelle and I to follow the coordinates on the map using the GPS. Low and Behold...we found our first cache. It was up a hill of vines, bushes and who knows what, behind a tree. The good news...the joy of the find was great...the bad news, the mosquitos almost ate us all up as their snack. We walked back down the hill and our jeans were black instead of blue...covered with the thirsty bugs. That's OK...we survived, the bugs didn't fly away with us and most importantly, I had found my first treasure.
I have always liked treasure hunts and scavenger hunts...that is what this is all about.
Basically:
Someone hides a box or even a tiny capsule.
In this cache, you find a log for you to write that you have been there.
Also, some leave trinkets for you to trade for, the rule of etiquette being if you take one, you leave one.
It is a great way to get exercise without even knowing it! When I got home, Mark and I went out the following weekend and walked around a park near us...the next day we realized just how out of shape we are! LOL
So...like anything I ever get interested in, I want to do it all and have all the toys involved...including making Signature Items to leave in the boxes.
Signature Items
I want to make my own to leave and it is great that my craft lends itself perfectly for this.