One of the things I like doing is finding geocaches. These are containers hidden in the landscape, city or country, and identified by their latitude and longitude. Armed with their GPS devices, millions of people globally hunt for perhaps a million of these caches located just about anywhere. I've planted two of them in the Armidale district and Greg, who is an ardent cahce finder is staying with us for Xmas. Naturally we've been out tracking down mine and a varietu of others despite awful weather. It's not so much cold and wet as prone to very heavy monsoonal showers! Our present climate resembles the hills of Assam and if it continues like it has over the Christmas period we're going to drown - despite being on a hillside 1000m up!
Anyway, we've visited six in the last two days at some nice spots. The accompanying pictures show (1) the Gara Gorge (one of my caches); (2) the Thomas Lagoon (an inland drainage area near us); (3) the cache site at the Armidale Arboretum; and (4) a termite mound with some seekers in the Armidale pine forest. We had great fun finding them and logging our visits both at the cache sites and on the web home page. I've found about 40 that are logged and Greg has found five times that number!
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