How We Got Into Geocaching
Ever since we started Geocaching we have met other cachers, attend monthly meetings and go to events to meet others who are more experienced and also cache with them. Most people we have met discovered Geocaching through friends or family. We on the other hand discovered it a completely different way.
A few years ago my Wife and I were bored and as you do decided to hire a movie. The name of the movie was called. “Splinterheads”. The movie was released in 2009 and is about a carnival that comes to this town and Galaxy who is played by Rachael Taylor is one of the carnival folks who pretty much makes jabs at people to suck them into playing the carnival games. She ends up getting Justin played by Thomas Middleditch sucked in to having a crack at one of the games and then not long later they form a friendship. During one of their outings she introduces him to Geocaching and during the movie they go out and find caches together. Galaxy even explains some of the basic rules for playing Geocaching. When we saw this movie we decided to look it up online to find out whether this was a real thing that people did and of course soon discovered that it was. I did a little bit of research from what I had found at the time but obviously not good enough as at the time I only found an Australian site where the caches were a bit of a drive away and at the time weren't very many on the site. We of course discovered ages later that there was another site that if I had visited earlier could have got us started but I guess we just didn't realise what to look for at that point.
Fast forward to last year when I saw something somewhere about it and thought I check it out again. This time I found all the right things and before you know it I had signed up with the site, downloaded the app and was off finding my very first cache with the rest of my family. By the next few days we all signed up for Premium accounts and over the past 4 months have found over 300 caches, hidden 7 and met other like minded cachers. This has been one of the best things I have done so far, I'm enjoying my caching journey and enjoy how the geocaching community are so welcoming and happy to share their experiences and help others as much as they can.
