Yurt Camp - Saturday Geocaching

So with handy GPS in hand, we drove around Bandon looking for caches. We were actually really hoping to find a little Girl Scout doll. There's a GS World Center in Switzerland, and a troop of girls sent 3 little GS dolls with "travelbugs" attached so they could track them online. They are hoping to meet up with their dolls when they make it to Switzerland themselves. That's pretty cool!

Even though I'd checked before we left on our trip, the doll was gone - she'd actually been picked up in December, but the folks that took her only just logged that online over the weekend - oh well. We checked where they placed her, and it's not far from Lee's family's area. So... if she's still there next time we go down, we'll see if we can grab her to introduce her to our girl scouts here.

In any case, it was pretty damp and there were a LOT of salamandars scurrying out of our way as we hunted for the cache. Both of the ones we found were in ammo boxes. We found a different Travel Bug in the second cache, so that's what we took to bring home. It's a Geocoin and Diana's holding it in the bottom picture.

One of the other scouts from different troop found the first cache, and I found the second one! Whooo Hooo!

This was way cool & a lot of fun. The other leaders that came along are looking forward to creating a geocaching event probably close to summer.

Today (Jan 9) I took my own troop to look for caches around town. I wanted to put the geocoin in a new home. We found a microcache which was too small for it, and then the next cache we tried we were not able to find in the dark. Oh well, maybe next time.

I'm really looking forward to finding more caches with my kids. We'd like to do a couple of travel bugs as well - just to see where they wind up!

:)