The event will be open between 11:30 and 12:00 (lunch time)
âI use multi-million dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods⌠Whatâs your hobby?
~ Every geocacher ever
History of International Geocaching Day
Geocaching has been around as long as our GPS satellites have, but it has its roots in an older practice known as âletterboxingâ. Letterboxing was a hobby that focused on creating small weatherproof boxes with clues within to new locations. Each letterbox contains a notebook and a (typically custom carved) rubber stamp that letterboxers would use to stamp their notebook indicating that they found it. With the invention of GPS satellites, a whole new generation would discover this hobby in a whole new iteration.
The first geocache was placed on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer, a resident of Beavercreek, Oregon. He then posted the coordinates and invited others to go locate it. From that time forward it has become an explosive hobby that people everywhere participate in with new people joining every year. Anyone can place a geocache and share it on sites like Geocaching.com so that other intrepid adventurers can find it.
You never know what youâre going to find in a geocache, often they contain notebooks for leaving personal messages for the next to locate it, or little treasures with a âtake one, leave oneâ philosophy to it. What will you find when you seek out your first geocache? International Geocaching Day encourages you to go find out!
We appreciate that 18-Aug is also the annual Bad Poetry Day, but please be considerate to our geo-hounds and don't update them with any poetry at all, it makes Choxi bounce more and Abby to start howling, it's just not what we need and may insight complaints from my mother-in-law who can issue a wicked crack over my head with her walking frame!
