It turned out not to be a good boating day yesterday with the threat of severe storms and wind. Since we did have a window of sun, we decided to go geocaching. We set out to find our first geocache. I had found a few not too far from us. So, after loading the waypoints onto my GPS and uploading the description info on my Visor, we headed out.

The first one was in a park we knew, but never really explored. We found the area to begin right away. The first thing we noticed was that the mosquitoes, the state “bird” of Minnesota, were out in force. Definitely something I don’t miss about summer. We followed the unimproved trail, with me reading the coordinates and my husband doing the searching. After going by the area twice, we finallly spotted the green ammo box. The idea is to take something from the cache and leave something in return. There were some stickers and kid stuff there, but we ended up taking a new bungee cord that we could use for the boat and leaving one of my Weborg Lodge Studio cards for our contribution to the store.

We were addicted. The weather still seemed to be holding out, so we set out for the next one. This one was again located in a park, one we’ve passed many times but never explored. In fact, the description of the geocache gave us the history we didn’t know. We parked and headed into the park. This time I relied on my GPS’s GoTo feature to point me in the direction of the cache. Once we were close, I then relied on reading the coordinates. This was much quicker. We found this geocache in five minutes. The cache unfortunately, didn’t have a lot in it. We took a quarter and left another card.

Had it not started raining, we would have headed out for another. What a great way it was to get out and walk and see some new places! I’ve already downloaded several geocaches for the where we’re vacationing so we find some there. Though it’s threatening storms again, we’ll probably get out to find one or two today.