I had found a geocoin a while back, and had it quite a while, due to illness and the weather and the fact that any cache we found was a micro and too small to leave it in. Someone e-mailed me and asked that I get it back into play, and I assured him that it was never my intention to keep it, and that I’d put it back out the first chance I got.The thing was, it was already past when I’d normally be out looking for caches. So, one day, when I knew we were headed for Ottawa, I scouted out some possible caches on route, to see if there was anywhere we could drop it, without wrecking out city clothes. It seems there’s a park in Leitrim where they play soccer and such, and there was a cache hidden there, so that’s where I dropped the coin.
Someone picked it up again before the day was out so I’m happy to know it’s back in play, as I didn’t get to take it as far away from where I found it as I would have liked.
That will likely be the last of my geocaching until next spring now, even though we don’t yet have any snow. It’s almost as muddy as in the springtime, but it’s also cool and damp.....two conditions I’m not fond of.
I saw a video today, that I thought I’d share. Apparently the very first geocache was stashed in 2000 and it had some pretty good stuff in it. Take a look.
http://firsttofind.blogspot.com/2009/12/geocaching-tip-of-day-43.html
I found a CD once, and occasionally I find something someone has made, which is pretty cool. But mostly, I just find Dollar Store trinkets. Even so, I prefer that to the micros, where all you can do is sign the log. Especially now that I like to take the grandson along, it’s way more fun if there’s treasure of some sort to find. I do think the geocoins are wonderful treasures though, even if I do have to give them up again. I can at least keep a picture to remember them by.
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