A good friend of mine recently came into possession of an iPhone... something that has increased my total curiosity for this highly popular little device. Anyhow, one application became of particular interest late yesterday afternoon: Groundspeak's Geocaching Iphone Application  Such was our introduction to what we decided was almost an underground sport... geocaching.

What is it?  Essentially, people all over the world have made it their mission to hide suspect packages in unusual places for other people to find by using GPS co-ordinates.  Sometimes the packages have special items from which you can take but you also have to contribute.  The are also log books that you can sign to say that you have found the mystery package.

Late yesterday afternoon we decided to have a go at this activity and picked a series that would require us to be creative and work out how to open a box within the outer box in order to sign the log book.  Our location of choice was Toohey Forest.

Firstly, can I just say that Toohey Forest is a lot bigger than I realised with a few different complicated paths...some of which were rather steep and tricky to get up.  Although, we must suck at the bushwalking thing given that we were overtaken by a cyclist who was nowhere to be seen when we first started out.
The first part did take a long time. Primarily because we did choose the wrong path at the beginning and essentially meandered around in random circles before finally stumbling across roughly where we needed to be...  We then had the task of making sense of the location hints and found ourselves forcing our way through scrub, trying not fall and break bones.  But there finally was glory! Short lived when we realised that in order to open the inner box, we were going to have to go all the way back to my car to retrieve a certain item.  *Insert images of me crashing through leaves, rocks, spiders webs and branches like a mountain goat, off to the car*.

Yup!  We did it!  In fact... twice!  (The second time was much easier knowing how it all worked).  It is quite an exciting and accomplished feeling, finding these things which have been hidden so the general public doesn't stumble across them.  Very underground and kicks arse over any scavenger hunt I've ever been on!


Today, I am feeling tired... again.  Not really all too sure why.  Not really feeling like being back at work again tomorrow but at least I only have two more days and then life will be good again.  I need to get a few things done e.g. replying to emails, preparing lunch for the next two days, more laundry etc.  Think I'd rather go back to bed!