And when you find it, the joy of looking in a geocache hide is not there. It takes forever to get out the log (if you can get it out) and even longer to get it back in.
I have just stopped trying to write the log anymore and save my update for the online file at www.Geocaching.com

well that is the rant for the day. please do not hide these nano geocaches out in the field, there are so many more types that are more enjoyable to hide and find!

So I would often walk by somewhere and go “it’s not here!” and then find that it really was. After I started getting my “geosense” I could start to think how these things are hidden…and that’s when I became a true geocacher!

This geocache blog post is here to show an example of a typical geocache hide that I call “The Post”. You’ll be walking up to the coordinates and you’ll see a post….but where is the cache?

This picture is a close up….does it give it away? Can you see the fishing wire? That is a clue that something is IN the Post!

And if you pull at the fishing wire, you won’t find a fish (like I did in my previous blog write up!!!!) but you will find a geocache! Hooray!

Other common geocache hides include the lamp post geocache hide and the Ammo Box.

I was out on a geocache hike in San Diego and saw the geocache name “45 Gallon” on my Garmin and thought “interesting”. I read the full log description and the clue was in the title, 45 gallons was the actual size of the geocache. So it surely must be easy to find? I have to say it was very cleverly hidden and unless you know you were looking, it would be easy to miss. Guess that’s why it has not been muggled yet.

After finding it, Bangers & Mash joked about it being so big that you could fit a person in it, so I of course took the challenge and got in the geocache hide.

You might be wondering what was in the geocache hide….of course it was the biggest geocache logbook I have ever seen as well.

What is the biggest geocache hide you have ever found?

I love finding geocaches that are unusual. I walked past this one several times before I worked it out, and now I see it a lot.

Can you see the geocache in this picture?

Let’s get a bit closer….this will give it away.

Yep, it’s the sprinkler unit! I suppose the fact that I was in a nature reserve area should have told me that there would not be any sprinklers!

So keep your eye out for geocaches – they are everywhere around us!

If you liked this one, you might also like the very common lamp post geocache hide and the Ammo Box hide.

When I tell people about geocaching, many ask “what’s hidden in a geocache” so I thought I’d share a picture of an example or two in this geocache blog post. These are caches that I’ve just hidden (my first hides – exciting!).

Usually you find:

• The geocache container (might seem obvious, but some are very clever!)
• A log book or log sheet where people can write their names that they found the geocache
• Small trade items – you take one and leave something different

Small trade items could be:

• coins
• stamps
• toys
• a travel bug (a portable item to carry to a different geocache)
• batteries (to keep you out geocaching on your GPS unit!)
• NOT food or perishable items
• NOT anything un-family-friendly
• NOT anything marketing or selling something

The scariest thing I found was a lizard on top of a geocache – was not sure it was worth getting the cache – but I did it!