Geocashing in Tampa Bay


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Geocashing is a treasure hunting game.

Geocashing is a great past time to enjoy in Tampa Bay.

What is geocashing? It’s the process of finding cache that folks have hidden. You find the caches using your GPS hand held device.  

   Geocashing gets you out of the house and walking around.
Looking for caches hidden around the world, many are here in Tampa Bay area. It’s a well organized game and a system exist for your to get the details and start finding caches.

What to you need;
You need a handheld GPS and some time. Here are the steps to a getting started.

1 Purchase a GPS handheld unit. You don’t need an
   expensive unit. There are benefits to buying
   a GPS that you can put extra memory into but it’s not critical.

2 Go to geocashing.com and sign up, it cost nothing unless
   you want a premium membership.

There are good benefits to purchasing the membership but it isn’t necessary to start.

Type in the zip code of the area you want to search.
You’ll see a big list of cashes.

When you sign up to use the website you will see the GPS coordinates.

Type the coordinates into your GPS and you’re ready to start the game.   Be careful about entering the numbers into your GPS it’s easy to make a mistake.

Make sure that you read about the caches you’re going to
hunt for.  You can find hints on the page that will help you to find the cache.

The more you know the easier it will be. You can learn if the item is a large box or a small micro cache.

You can find out if the cache is on the ground or up in the air, hanging from a tree etc..

Set the GPS to show you the way to the new coordinates and you’re off.

Bring a pen to sign the log book. Some times there isn’t a pen or pencil and you need to sign the log.

Looking for the cache;

As you approach the area where the cache is be discrete so that folks in the area don’t see what you’re doing.

You don’t want to give the cache away to people that aren’t involved in the game.

Get the cache and move to another spot to look through the box.

You can talk a treasure and/or leave something. The most important thing is to sign the log book.

Once you’re finished put the cache back were you found it and don’t let anyone see you.

Then when you get back to your computer log back onto www.geocashing.com  and declare your finds.