Jordan got his own GPS as a Christmas gift so yesterday afternoon Hannah and I went with him to find three geocaches. We were three for three by the time we finished but the first one was really hard to find. It took us an hour to locate it. The clue given said it was hidden "in a hidey hole in the base of a tree". That sounded easy enough and the difficulty level was not very high so off we went. Little did we know that when we got to the area that nearly every single tree there had a hole in the base of it. The GPS coordinates seemed to jump all over the place. We searched high and low, over and over and over. Jordan and Hannah were ready to give up but I persisted and finally found it. In the photo below you can see Jordan pulling the box out of the hole in the base of the tree that was leaf covered.
This was the second cache and much easier to locate than the first one. It was hidden at the same lake but on the other side so we had to drive around the lake to find it. The GPS led us right to the site and within a minute we had located it. Jordan traded for a nice brand new, still in the package, tape measure and Hannah took some playing cards.
The third and final cache was hidden in the picnic area of a nearby Rest Area on I-85. The difficulty and terrain levels were both pretty high but were very deceiving as we walked right to it and found it with ease. There was nothing difficult about it. This time it was hidden in a small tupperware container at the base of this large tree near the fence. Hannah traded for a dollar bill.
We had a lot of fun, got some exercise and checked out some areas we never knew of around here. It was a nice day weather wise and we always have fun geocaching.
