Easy Leap Day Smiley! There are no geocaches in this area so we thought we'd add a couple. This is our first Texas cache. Stay tuned as we hope to plant more along this route. There's a little bit of a shoulder where you can park but please be careful, especially if you try for this one at night.
Leap Day is a special day because it only happens once every four years. Leap Day babies are called "leaplings" or "leapers".
Every wonder why we have Leap Day? We did some research on Google and found this explanation: Leap days are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth's revolutions around the Sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242189 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds – to circle once around the Sun. This called a tropical year. Without an extra day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days.