Geocaching

[Futuo]

Anybody do it?

Getting quite into it with my 6 year old lad.

Sort of like a genteel road rally

[magpies]

what exactly is it?

[Kinky]

Yeah - got into it vaguely

Did all my local ones - but haven't had time to 'explore' further!

[Futuo]

magpies said:

what exactly is it?

http://www.geocaching.com/

Sort of like a worldwide Treasure Hunt using GPS devices, I have a Garmin Quest sat nav that also does grid refs or longitude / latitude, so works fine.

It's good fun esp with kids finding the containers and swapping cheap toys etc.

[uk89camaro]

Been doing it (in my Mustang sometimes) for a couple of years. The link below is to the search page that allows you to key in your postcode and see where the caches are closest to you.

It depends in the density in your area, but it's not uncommon to find over 200 within 5 mile radius of your front door.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx

alternatively, here's a new stats site for geocaching...

http://www.icache.co.uk/