More Geocaching Fun!

We had fun climbing huge boulders with Aunt M.













Here is Janny with her first Geocache find and our first of the day at Moss Rock. CashFamily (that's us) has logged 9 finds in three days... I think we are addicted.
















Here are some serious hikers. We spent nearly 5 hours at Oak Mountain and the kids were great. We did some treacherous climbing with each of us falling at least once - yes, even mom and dad!

The Preserve

We heard about the Preserve (250 acres with hiking trails and a nice waterfall) and the neat Boulder field somewhere inside and we decided to visit. After our second non-challant visit with no success of finding the Boulder field we decided to do a little research to make sure we found it today. Finally SUCCESS! Just a mear few hundred yards from where we had been before. Topos (rock climbers) were everywhere. We quickly moved on to find some more caches with J (G's Mom) and M (G's sister) in tow. J found her first cache at the top of the waterfall area between two rocks. The second cache was discovered across the creek and behind a stump. To end the day we all got our picture made on top of one of the boulders.

GeoCaching!

As you can see K is very excited to go geocaching!
Geocaching is a phenomenon that is catching on world-wide. People hide items and publish the coordinates on the web. People like us can use our handheld GPS units (that Santa brought) to try to find them. There are many different sizes from a small pill bottle to a large rubbermaid container. The larger ones contain treasures which you swap with something you brought. The smaller ones may only contain a small log book to sign in proving you found it.

Do you see anything that looks like it could be hiding something more? Of course you could stick your hand down that hole to see what you find, I'm not!!











If you look closely you will see a small fishing line coming out of the hole. Well if you pull that line out comes a small container that can be opened. This cache is a multi-cache. Which means it only gives you clues to the coordinates of the next cache. I almost gave up before finding this one.