Geocaching Interest Group: Training Field Trip

Geocaching is an activity in that gets participants to use navigational techniques and a global positioning system to find caches (usually containers with items, logs, trackables, and assorted sundries) called "geocaches" at specific locations.  See https://www.geocaching.com.  On May 10th the geocaching interest group had their first field trip at MacArthur Island where the City of Kamloops has supported the MacArthur Island Treasure Hunt.  See map of route.....

 

Five Grassland Probus members attended the training session.  

Here Isabel finds a cache aptly named 'Knot Here'.

 

There are many, many types of caches.  One form of cache is an EarthCache. These can be sites of cultural significance, history, geography, or natural phenomenon and are intended to enrich and educate.  On this trip we stopped at an EarthCache named Freshet wherein the history of flooding in Kamloops was the topic.  See picture of Rabbit Island.

Planning another field trip for later in June or possibly in the summer that takes us out of Kamloops.