This weeks blog assignment was to investigate Geocaching. After reading about the subject I became very excited about the Idea. It is actually a very brilliant Idea, incorporate technology with the love for the outdoors and adventure to create a sport that almost all can participate in. Geocaching is where you get a set of coordinates from a website. Then you use a G.P.S. to navigate your way to the cache point, this is where the, “treasure” that you are seeking is located. As the online introduction states, it’s deceptively easy. It's one thing to see where an item is, it's a totally different story to actually get there.
To participate in this activity you need three main things, the first is a set of coordinates marking a cache, these can be found using the internet or by going to a place that has cache point coordinates. The second thing you need is a G.P.S. or a Global Positioning System. A G.P.S. can be purchased at any outdoor store, electronics store or online for $100 to $1000, they vary in features such as screen size, color quality and accuracy but they all serve the same general purpose. They use satellites to find the position of the G.P.S. device and directions to any point you impute into the G.P.S. The only rules involved with Geocaching is that it you take something from the cache you should leave something in the cache and write in the logbook.
A similar, but much older activity is known as letterboxing, this was supposedly invented when a man simply left his calling card in a bottle near a pool in
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