#61 - Geocaching at the Dr. James Rich Wildlife Management Area

Today my husband and I drove about 30 minutes north of Lexington for a little geocaching date. I love just spending time in the woods and geocaching has added a whole new level of enjoyment to that!

We visited the Dr. James Rich Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and spent about 4 hours basically playing in the woods. It was awesome! The WMA is 1700 acres of wooded area. It is a public hunting area so it's a good idea to wear blaze orange during hunting season.

Entrance 

Information about the WMA

 We found 9 caches today and tried to find a 10th but couldn't find that one. Here I am signing one the logs. I must say we found some of the most unique caches we've found so far during this adventure. Special thanks to Ground Fox for placing all these fun caches!  Yes my shirt is on inside out. I was trying to keep the right side cleaner since it was kinda muddy out there today and I was climbing through trees etc.

Found a cache!

Putting a log back inside the cache for the next person to find.

All smiles! I love being in the woods!

Isn't it gorgeous?!

#40 - First Geocaching Adventure - Masterson Station Park

After our geocaching workshop at Beaumont Library, my husband, our two dogs, and I went on a little adventure to Masterson Station Park and found 4 caches. :)

Here are some pictures from our adventures today. It was nice being outdoors with the dogs on our little scavenger hunt.

On our way to find "Flood Insurance" which we failed to find today. 

Flood Insurance cache is in this area somewhere
 but we were unable to find it.
The dogs had a blast playing in the creek though.

Found my first geocache ever!!
I won't tell you which one it is so I don't spoil the fun for you locals! 

Signed the logbook for my first cache :)

Comet waiting for Demetrius to return...we found the cache separately
 since it was a brushy area and leashes + brush = disaster!

First mini cache I found :) Isn't it cute?

#39 - What is Geocaching?

Today I attended a geocaching workshop at the Beaumont Branch of the Lexington Public Library.

Here's a little summary of what I learned:

Geocaching is a basically a high tech treasure hunt!

Geoky (pronounced "jockey") is the Kentucky geocaching organization

It's free to start geocaching. Just sign up for a basic membership on geocaching.com and use your smartphone to start finding them. :)

Smartphones will work for geocaching but are not as accurate as GPS receivers (GPSr).

There's nearly 2 million caches hidden all over the world.

There's over 50 caches in the park across the street from our house! (Masterson Station Park)

Thanks to geocaching.com member deewhoa for presenting Geocaching 101 to those of us interested in learning about geocaching!

We also got to find our first cache as part of the workshop. :) Here's a picture of the little log. Isn't it cute?