Riley and I were very excited to find out about Geo Dog Day! August 16th marks the date and fun new adventure for us.
One of the first things we did was follow the instructions laid out by Gizmo and registered on Geocaching.com. But it appeared we already had an account… had I been here before? or was this deja vu? No as it seems I had signed up for an account 6 years ago, in a different life and when Riley was only a twinkle in her daddy’s eye! Once online we found all the cool caches around our area!
So we read all the descriptions and decided on one called Grand Old Tree and set out on a small adventure. I wish I could say that we trekked through the woods and streams, but it wasn’t so. This was an urban cache which consisted of a mile drive in the car, walking less than 30 feet to the “Grand Old Tree” and walking around it a couple of times. What I found is that some caches can be extremely hard to find if you are a beginner, especially if they are small. Of which I also learned one very valuable lesson while caching… always bring along a pair of gloves if you don’t like sticking your hands into small, dark places!!! But we found it!!
This was so much fun we decided to go look for another one in the same area, unfortunately there was construction where it was supposedly hidden, and we think it’s gone 🙁 .
We plan on adding geocaching to our regular adventures but will remember to bring the following along:
- Gloves for mommy
- A good camera, besides the iPhone, and remember to take photos and not get to caught up in the moment!
- A pen to add our name to the log
- Water & a bowl for anything that is not an urban hike
- Lot’s of poop bags, just in case 🙂
We would like to give a big shout out to our hosts for Geo Dog Day 2013, GizmoGeoDog’s Terrier Torrent & Finn & Charlie Too
We are also happy to be participating in the FitDog Friday blog hop brought to you by SlimDoggy and co-hosts Peggy’s Pet Place and To Dog With Love …
Love your tip abouthaving lots of poop bags when searching for a geocache.
For some reason little shih tzu’s always decide to go multiple times on an adventure!! lol
I learned the pen lesson too……but in the end it didn’t matter because I didn’t find it. When I went back with my hubby we had the car…which had a pen in it. It turns out we didn’t need it though because there was a pen thrown on the ground not far from the cache. Coincidence or a gift from the people who had been the cache a few days before? Ha, ha.
Good hint on the gloves. I didn’t even think of that, although I did have to check in a few icky tree crevasses. I found a stick and routed around in there 🙂
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It really sounds like you need a do’over on the geocache experience… I was disappointed when we couldn’t find the second one.. but right now it is so darn hot to be outside 🙁
Nice find! We started out close to home, too, and we found an easy cach for out first try. It was still fun!
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Glad you joined in too… I plan on doing some more… I hope you do too!!
Riley you are well on your way to become a great geodog and you’ve already learned some important lessons (eg. gloves for those small dark holes…momz also has tweezers & hemostats JIC)…
Thank you so much for joining the Geodog Day fun & make sure to post about your next adventure!
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Congratulations, have a a great Geodog Day!
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Thanks so much!! We had a lot of fun 🙂
Hi there!! Great job finding such a small cache your first time out!!! Glad that you enjoyed it. Oh yes, sometimes you’ve gotta stick your hands in somewhere icky to get it, but it’s worth it, we think! Thanks for playing along with us today!
We did have a lot of fun, even though we didn’t find the second cache… we will be taking a day trip this weekend… we just have to figure out where and then we will map out new caches to find 🙂 and we definitely will be bringing the gloves!!
We tried geocaching for the first time too! It was fun – I think ours was too close to home, but moms says next time we’ll try a harder one. Thanks for joining the Hop.
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