Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
All you need to play this amazing game is a GPS or a phone with GPS ability.
The aim, as noted above, is to find a hidden geocache container, which can be something as large as a suitcase or as small as your finger tip.
World-wide there is something like 2 million geocaches in just about every country in the world with over 6 million geocachers looking for them.
In the Hilton/Howick/Midlands area there are over 500 geocaches in some of the most amazing places that you would normally never go to.
Did you know, for instance, that there is a 800m long old railway tunnel under the Shell garage in Hilton ? Well there is and inside the tunnel there is a geocache.
Then there are old railway stations all over Worlds View and Winterskloof all of which have a geocache hidden somewhere. Do you know where Boshoffweg, Winterskloof, Teteluku, Ketelfontein, Hilton, Leonards and Aradec Railway Stations are ? Go geocaching and you will find out.
But there are other places to go to where the views are just amazing. What about the Worlds View Look Out Point, or Beacon Hill above Howick, or on a lonely bridge on a lonely road overlooking Midmar. And there are more secret places like the Garden of Remembrance in Hilton and have you ever been to the old Astronomical Observatory in Worlds View ? There is a geocache there.
And what about the place where the first heavier-than-air flight took place, not in America but right here in the Midlands, in the Karkloof. On your way there stop in at the Karkloof Conservancy and look for the geocaches hidden in the Hides there.
So, geocaches are all over the place and in places where you might never ever go.
To become a Geocacher costs nothing. Just go to the Geocaching website at www.geocaching.com and register. When registering, give yourself a “handle” which might, or might not, be your own name but something that you will remember.
Enjoy !!!
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