It is difficult to describe geocaching to the uninitiated in a few sentences. It is part treasure hunt (you are looking for something hidden), part exercise (to get to the hidden caches you may have to hike several kilometres), and part adventure travel (you go to out of the way places you would not normally visit).
Basically, geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. You navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
We have been doing it as a family for the past couple of years and it is lots of fun. One of the things that makee it fun is the use of "trackables". Each trackable is etched with a unique code that can be used to log its movements as it travels in the real world.
Before our trip, we bought 8 trackables to release in geocaches in the countries we visited. With trackables, you should define a goal - essentially where or what you want the trackable to travel to.
With our 8 trackables, we defined the goal as to make it back to a geocache in Ottawa where we would collect them and use them on future trips.
You can check the progress of each of our trackables by clicking on the following links:
William at the Kongsvegur geocache in Iceland
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