Date: Saturday, 18th August 2018 between 1:00 - 2:00pm Place: JC Park Near the train (Bring a picnic rug)
This will be an excellent opportunity for both new and more experienced geocachers to meet up with others and enjoy a social chat with like-minded people. The event will be held at JC park and I'll try get there early enough to get a spot under the rotunda.
Please BYO food and drinks if you want to eat. There are BBQ facilities, tables and seating under the shelter. There is also a large playground for the children and vendors selling hot food and drinks etc.
History of International Geocaching Day:
On May 3rd, 2000 the first geocache was placed near Beavercreek, Oregon, USA by Dave Ulmer. The cache was a bucket and contained various items including videos, books, software, and a slingshot. Dave posted the coordinates to a GPS users' group on the internet and challenged others to find it with a very simple rule: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff." So the hobby of geocaching as we know it was born and many other enthusiasts followed Dave Ulmer's example by hiding containers for others to find. Today there are now over a million active geocaches in the United States alone and over 76,000 geocaches in Australia. To celebrate this wonderful activity, International Geocaching Day is now observed on the third Saturday in August each year. I have no idea why this date was chosen - probably something to do with it being summer in the Northern Hemisphere but there may be some other significance to the date that I wasn't able to find.