10 Year Event - Maritime Geocaching
Ten years ago on this day (May 1st
2000), the United States Government announced that they would be
shutting off Selective Availability (SA) on Global Positioning
Satellites, effectively giving an instant upgrade to tens of
thousands of GPS receivers. Literally overnight, the accuracy of
civilian GPS receivers improved 10 times. On May 3rd 2000, Dave
Ulmer placed the first 'GPS Stash' (geocache). From this initial
experiment, geocaching grew tremendously and GroundSpeak was born.
Ten years later, there are over 1 million active caches
worldwide.
We are having a BBQ event to celebrate all of this.
Please come join us!
The event will take place in Centennial Park.
The MGA will be setting up early, so if you want to come
early
and cache in the area, we should be there at around 11:30 AM.
The event will start at 1:00 P.M.
We'll be having a BBQ event.
If you'd like to bring something along, please do, and let dally know.
If possible, please make sure to let us know you're coming so we're
ready for you!
As an added bonus, there will be surprise participation prizes!
If there are more than 10 people at the event, everybody who
attends will get the icon above added to their caches list. This is
a once in a lifetime opportunity to attend a unique event and get a
unique icon. The 10th year anniversary will never happen again!
This Cache was hidden by a member of the MGA!
-=Maritime
Geocachers Association=-
