We've had lots of fun geocaching this summer! Geocaching is a world-wide high tech treasure hunting game, started in 2000, where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers. We found our first cache under a cabbage tree at Cape Fowlwind after viewing a seal colony. Since then we've found them in Greymouth, Hanmer Springs, and up north in Whanananki. When we find a cache we log our find into the notebook inside the cache and also online. Depending on the size of the cache we exchange a "swap", e.g. a soap for some Japanese tissues, a peg for a Ninja Turtle. Geocaching has been great at getting us off the beaten track in places we wouldn't have gone otherwise :) Definitely worth a try!
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This sounds like something I'd love to do. The whole idea of having this unique connection with strangers (between time, between worlds kind of thing, hee hee!) really intrigues me!
Have you heard of Book Crossing? You kind of do something similar, but with books!
Book Crossing? No, I haven't. What is it exactly? :)
This is what it says on the website:
"At BookCrossing, you can register any book you have on the site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new readers.
Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel next. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person."
I've never tried it cuz I'm a bit of a book hoarder/lender, myself. But the concept intrigues me!
The website is:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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