Laura+&+Whit

Laura & Whit....Officially Geocache Hunters! 

Our Adventure Begins...



We were in Taylor after class finding the places we wanted to go. We chose to do our geocaching in Angier. So we headed to the gas station to fill up and pulled over to get the coordinates in the GPS and could not figure out how to work it. We watched videos and tried to find directions but nothing worked. After an hour of frustration we realized we could use the geocaching website to put the address in our phones and head to our destination. Needless to say, we thought that the GPS was useless.



Our first stop was named Angier's First. Our phone took us to a church parking lot, we thought the cache was there. After thirty minutes of looking, Laura thought about trying the GPS one more time. Thankfully we figured out how to read the coordinates! We ended up across the street. After finding the coordinates, Laura looked at the light pole and THERE IT WAS!!!!!!!!!



We found a film canister with a plastic baggy inside. Inside the baggy we found a paper log with over thirty entries.



We were so excited!!!!!!!! We thought of ourselves as explorers!!! We both signed our names to the log! Geocaching was not as bad as we thought.



Then we put it back for the next Geohunters!!



Our next stop was a geocache called A little bit of this A little bit of that. It took us to Angier Park but after we found the coordinates there was no geocache in sight. We were VERY disappointed.



Our final destination led us to Fox Trot. We looked and looked and could not find it. It was very frustrating and sad. Then we thought to check the hint on the geocaching website!!



Us being geniuses paid off!! It told us to look deep in the belly and that's what we did!



When we looked in the belly of the tree we found another film canister. We were slightly disappointed to find another paper log, but we signed it anyway.



We put it back just the way we found it! After our geocaching adventure we decided that was not as bad as we thought it was. It was fun and we cannot wait to do another one in the future!!!

Here is an excellent way to incorporate GPS technology into your classroom.

By: Laura Musmeci and Whitney Guthrie October 15, 2012