Last night while we were sitting around the dining room table shooting the breeze, as we often do at Tia Mena and Tio Shorty’s house, I was messing around with my phone. I clicked on a Geocaching application that I had downloaded and saw there are several cache’s around the house!
Today after breakfast we decided to set out and see if we could find it!
It was cold today so we geared up in beanies, gloves and coats. Uncle Dee got the dog out of the kennel, leashed him up and we were ready.
I turned on the C:Geo App on my Droid and hit my live map icon to show where the nearest cache was.
GC-Code: GC1QCPB
Type: Traditional Cache
Cache Name: Diamond in the Rough
Distance : 1092 meters
Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
Not too bad! We were off walking. We walked about 15 minutes to the nearby softball park and looked at the tips. Several people said they had found it and that it was outside the fenced area. It also denoted that it was a magnetic key holder with a log in it. The most interesting point on the description was that “there will more than likely be a lot of mugglers around”. What the heck is a muggler? Here is the definition from About.com
Muggle: (or muggler) A non-geocacher. The discovery of a cache by a non-geocacher is a very real problem and a cache needs to have an identified purpose included in the container. When someone refers to a cache as having been muggled, it almost always means it was stolen or vandalized.
So we started looking 
at the fence. We went up and down the fence with my Droid compass on but could not get to the exact location. I came to the impression that the Droid’s gps was not exact.
Finally after about 10 minutes of searching we found it! You can see in the photo above that it was simply a log sheet with names and dates on it! The front was filled with about 60 names, so we wrote on the back:
“SparkDad.com – Dad, Porkchop, Stickman, Tio Dee and Nico”
It was great fun! I think later we will search for another one!
If you are interested in starting out in Geocaching you can buy a GPS device. Here is a recommended device.
Garmin nüvi 205W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
At the time of posting this GPS was only $79.99
It will help you with Geocaching and directions!
- Spark Dad
