Yesterday one of the Young Leaders from 3rd Ware took me on my first Geocaching trip! The idea was to use a GPS device to find hidden treasure (a cache). We did not go too far because we were only looking for the cache that was nearest to our HQ building.
We found it, placed inside it 3 special items, re-hid it and went home.
The three items we placed were travel bugs. These wait in the cache until another Geocacher comes along. Hopefully this new person will collect a 3rd Ware bug and move it to a new cache. If this Geocacher then logs their find on the online site we will be able to follow the progress of these bugs.
Quite a few of our Leaders and young people are Geocachers and so this seemed like another interesting way to celebrate our 100 years.
Today we dropped off one Travel Bug for each age group in our Scout Group. They are attached to the badge that a Cub designed to celebrate our centenary. (I will tell you more about that another time.) I named them:
These travellers want to travel far and wide and meet as many other members of Scouting and Guiding as possible. Who will travel the most and meet the most people in this special centenary year for our Group?
If you are a Geocacher, why not look them up and follow their progress or even try to meet them and help them on their journey. If you are not but, are a member of 3rd Ware, then you will be able to track their journey at out HQ building.
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