Geocaching...Finally!

Probably about two years ago I downloaded a geocaching app on my phone, and last weekend we finally tried it out. In case you're not familiar, geocaching is an activity where you use a GPS device (in this case, our iPhones) to located hidden treasures that other geocachers hide. When you find it, you can take something from it, leave something, or just sign a log book.

We headed out to the Barton Creek Greenbelt, of course, and followed our GPS coordinates to find our first geocache. It took some searching, but we found it. It's not about the cache itself - the search is the fun part.

We decided to search for another cache. I let the boys navigate up a steep cliff while I waited below. A little while later they returned after finding geocache #2. It turns out we could've gotten there a MUCH easier way, but we're always up for an adventure, right?

Oh, and we saw this guy while we were looking for our second cache... and to refresh your memory, the rhyme goes, "Red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black friend of Jack." Mr Coral Snake is quite poisonous, but since we were on his turf, we took a few pictures and were on our way. (Although Dave did touch him with a stick to try to get him to move away from the trail... he got a bit squirmy and we hot-footed it outta there!)

I think geocaching will definitely be a new Horridge hobby!