Takeing my nephew on his first Geo Cache experience

Although this post is being written on the same day as my first post the event actually occured 30 days later.





We started out my second and his first experience in a local park here in San Diego. We actually started by going out with the family to have a little fun with the new Garmin as shown below
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We pulled over just a few hundred feet from where the 1st of 4 caches in the area was to be found.

We hiked down the small road away from the park while the wife and kids enjoyed a small picnic lunch.

So as my nephew and I cruised along the local road trying to avoid being obvious that we were planning on tracking through the local shrubbery in search of a tiny little cache hidden somewhere close by we chatted about the new world of geo cacheing I had stumbled into.

Well it only took us about 5 minutes to find our central point of reference.

It was an interesting experience since neither of us had any idea of what we were looking for. And since I had a experienced geo cacher with me the last time it made things a bit easier I think.

So we tracked around for a good 15 minutes or so digging through the bushes. We eventually triangulated where the cache should have been.

However we did not have any luck finding it. So after several cell phone calls from the wife wondering where we were we decided to give up and go onto #2 Cache.

So back up the road we trecked into the park central.

Leaving the wife and kids behind, which I later found out she was not happy about, my dad, my nephew and I went trecking around the Park.

Now a small description of this park since I didn't think to take pictures.. It's a big open meadow essentially surrounded by local area brush with small service roads and a small area for the kids to play on the play equipment.

We attempted to find the three other cache's that were supposed be located in the area. I would estimate a several mile hike around the outside rim of the park. Still now luck in reaching our goal of at least one cache that day.

With the first two still unfound I attempted to call my experienced teacher and ask him what to do since I was getting very discouraged.

His advice was not to worry since it wasn't uncommon to have abandon cache's and to just chalk it up to a good time with family and mark them on www.geocaching.com,where you can find all the cache's you want, as Did not Find. Now this will alert the owner that either it's been stolen or too hard to find.

So that's just what we did.

We then spent a little time at home and off to our next adventure. For me it was a revisit of the very first cache I ever went on and for my nephew his second adventure in geocaching. It was to be a better experience for both.

Be sure to read the next post to find out what happend. And this one I will include pictures.

Until then Peace be with You.