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I got into Geocaching in 2006 after a friend (who later got into geocaching himself) told me about it. I borrowed
a GPS receiver and found my first cache, A very interesting Fountain indeed!!! (GCVJM9) on July 11th, 2006.
My wife - Joanne - and I only found a few caches in Vancouver until we moved to Salmon Arm in 2007 and finally bought a Garmin eTrex-H as an early Christmas present to ourselves.
The following year we really got heavily into geocaching. Joanne's parents
(who had become avid geocachers as a result of us telling them about geocaching on their previous
visit) visited us from Australia - resulting in many geocaching trips. We also drove across most
of Canada that year, giving us an opportunity to find caches in 9 provinces. Later, we ourselves
traveled to Australia, and did quite a bit of geocaching while we were there. In all, we found 317
caches during 2008, including two international FTF's.
Due to time constraints and other daily obligations, we probably won't ever
find as many caches as many other geocachers. And to be honest, that's not really our
goal anyhow. Many geocachers make it their goal to find as many geocaches as possible,
regardless of the cache type of challenge involved. In fact, as a result of this, many
of the truly great geocaches are passed over as they focus on getting as many of the easiest
caches as possible to bolster their finds.
For us, geocaching isn't about how many caches you can find. It's about letting
geocaching take you places you normally never would know about, and it's about trying to find some
tricky, ingenious or other extremely well designed caches. We are also interested in
discovering or moving along travel bugs and geocoins, and as such we'll often try and track down
caches that supposedly contain them. Typically we don't take trade items but will sometimes leave
something. We've also hidden a few caches, visit our profile
for more details.
If you're interested in getting started with Geocaching, we encourage you to stop by one of the Geocaching web sites
and sign up. You may also be interested in reading my introduction to Geocaching.
Prepping Lock-n-Lock Containers
Our Geocaching Blog
Happy caching!
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