I've been geocaching since the beginning. I've hidden and found caches in about 15 different countries.
They are absolutely everywhere.
Geocaching used to be an adult game of hide and seek with a GPS. Originally designed to get you off the couch and take you someplace you would normally not have gone. It was directing you to some really cool places. (started by a couple of scientists dropping notes and stuff off to each other)
Somewhere along the line it changed. It became, how many can I find. I have more numbers than you do.
And they started popping up on every phone booth, parking lot light pole, roadside garbage dump, and just about anything else of no interest to anyone worth a darn.
The interesting caches are still there, just harder to cull out of the zillion trash caches.
I'm in a motel in Maine, working a different job. There is a geocache in the trees next to the hotel. Big whoop...
I was looking for a place to go metal detecting while here so I logged onto my geocache site.
I found a foot trail, in the woods, with public access, that allows hunting. So, detecting should be okay.
Going to the geocache took me to a nice out of the way detecting area. It was where I just found a 1744 KGII coin. My first! (Posted in today's finds a couple of days ago)
Looking for another spot, I am going there on my next day off. So, they can work hand in hand.
If you take up geocaching- avoid the trash caches, go for the interesting places. Something neat. Christ of the Abyss off of Key Largo (underwater) is a cache, as is the top of the Statue of Liberty.
You can have a great time caching, just avoid parking lot light poles and convince stores.
If you have access to kids, they have a blast treasure hunting. I gave my grandkids a compass and while I was using the Garmin I'd give them the secret headings and they would follow the needle to the cache. Sometimes an ammo can with toys and fun stuff.
Enjoy, happy caching and beeping!
Here is Portland Maine. Every little box is a geocache.
