I had one hour off of work, just enough time for a mini-adventure in my current city of St. Augustine, FL. Below is a slideshow documenting my adventure to find the cache known as "Redneck Fishing Hole." Unfortunately being new to Flickr, the photos are a little out of order, but you catch the drift. I literally went through step by step on how to get started geocaching.
For this adventure I used the built in GPS on my BlackBerry Curve to help me along my travels. After a comfortable hike to the coordinates listed on this humid day, under a palmetto tree I struck gold! To my dismay there were no sign sheets or a logbook in the cache, but I logged it in my personal logbook. Feel free to view the photographs and let me know what you think! I'll keep you updated on my future geocaching adventures.
There's also geohashing. Every Saturday people meet up at a location defined by a pseudo-random algorithm in a particular graticule. The most popular implementation is done by the xkcd guy. It's pretty neat.
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http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/
http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page
Had not heard for this before now. No more living in the dark ages I'm going geocaching!
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