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Went on my first intentional geocaching trip today. I say intentional because i found one quite by accident recently.

I’ve been interested in Geocaching for 5 or 6 years now, but i’ve never had a chance to do it because i didn’t want to commit to an expensive GPS receiver which didn’t have the features i wanted. But after finding one while out on a walk i couldn’t resist, and purchased a brand new Garmin Etrex H.

A few days ago i went out hunting a nearby geocache, but after quite a while scrambling up and down rocks i gave up, wondering if i had inputted the co-ordinates wrong. Today we went back to the spot, and after a long while searching, and climbing.. We found it!

Yup, we couldn’t spot it either.. But here it is:

Very well hidden. The box itself had some kind of camouflage coating which made it very hard to spot. Not to mention the fact that it was in a cleft between some rocks, which you had to climb down to reach!

You can see the camo coating here. The cameraphone picture doesn’t do it justice, but trust me that the colour and texture were spot on. The only thing that gave it away was the corners!

The contents. It’s a dinosaur themed cache, and the guy who left it instructed all other geocachers to leave a drawing of a dinosaur in the log book. I didn’t take a photograph of my drawing simply because art is hardly my strong point. You can also see some plastic dinosaurs that had been left as geoswag, some coloured pens for the dino drawings, and …a golf ball.

I took something and left something, as is the spirit of geocaching. I took the rubber lizard and left an LED keychain light.

All in all, success!