Morag's Blog http://moraggiblin.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:13:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Geocaching http://moraggiblin.edublogs.org/2006/03/22/hello-world/ http://moraggiblin.edublogs.org/2006/03/22/hello-world/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:31:02 +0000 moraggiblin logoJust before Christmas 2005 I heard a radio programme report (old technology) about a ‘new’ pastime called Geocaching. It was described as a kind of treasure hunting using a GPS (http://www.libanphone.com/gsm-glossary-of-terms.htm). Having once been a keen orienteer and also quite keen on technology, this sounded a really good pastime.

I did a little research and found an excellent site (http://www.geocaching.com) which explained in more detail what it was all about. More importantly, I discovered that there was actually quite a large geocaching community in Scotland who have placed ‘caches’ (the ‘treasure’) in all sorts of different interesting places.

Duly interested, I asked ‘Santa’ for a GPS for my Christmas.

You must register with a geocaching site (the one above is the most ‘global’) and there you can get details including co-ordinates of caches near your chosen area.

I have now now logged a number of caches in my local area and am currently planning to place my own caches.

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