I haven't written anything about Geocaching before. It's one of me and my boyfriend, 
's, hobbies. And it's a really nice way to experience the amazing nature, and visit new places we don’t have seen before.
This is geocaching:
It's easy. You download the app "geocaching" and you have to registre yourself. After you registre, you will se a map from where you are, and also all the caches that are near by. You can search on the map and therefore you can plan a route you want to go. The geocaches are usually boxes, tubes or microboxes. And they aren't always hidden in easy places. Some of them are camouflaged like they belong to the surroundings. I have one example later in this post.
When you are looking for caches you have to be careful to not reveal the spot for other people (muglers), because we don't want people that don't do geocaching to find it and in worst case: destroy it or remove it.
This is from the map where we went on our geocaching trip. The green spots are geocaches I haven't found yet. The yellow one is the ones I have found.
If you chose to buy a membership, you will get the opportunity to see every cache. If you don't, it's limited to how many caches you will find.
I have in total found 236 caches! Mostly in Norway. But three caches in Denmark.
This is one cache that we found on our lates trip. It's easy to spot when you know what you are looking for. But this one was pretty cool. I love when people have gone all in when they are placing a cache.
How do the creator of this cache know that you have found it?
You have to write your geocaching name in the book/paper that are in the box. Even the micro ones have paper where you can write your geocaching name on. Write the date you found it too. And afterwards you have to write a logg on the cache in the app. You don't have to write much. But some people like to write a whole story about their geocaching day.
You can also logg that you didn't found the cache. If a lot of people haven't found it, the moderators of Geocaching will give the creator of it a few warnings so they can check upon the geocache. And if the creator of the cache haven't done anything about it, it would be deactivated after a while.
This is an another cache that we found. Mostly of the caches around this water looked like this. They was easy to spot when we knew what we was looking for.
There is usually a hint in every cache on the map, so you know what you are looking for.
An another thing to remember is: Bring your own pen!
We have a few times forgot it, and have taken a picture of the paper where you sign. But this isn't the right way at all. If you are lucky, there will be a pen in the cache.
We packed a good lunch!
It's important to remember that looking for caches can take a while. And you can also be cold while looking, or I does. I always bring some extra warm clothes.
We enjoyed the great view and the nature at this place.
This is the nice part of it, because we have a lot of great places we have visited. We also got some workout too, and it's a nice motivation to find more caches and at the same time get in better shape.
This is one example from Denmark where the hint was «divorced?».
In Norwegian (and danish) it’s translated to «skilt». The Norwegian word of skilt is both divorced and sign. Sign made sense because we have found a few of these before.
As you can see, I could remove the sign on the fence. Just remember that when you are finding caches, do not destroy the surroundings!
All of these pictures is taken by me and the one picture of me is taken by my boyfriend,
Have you tried geocaching before?
Thank you so much for reading.