There are plenty of others in my state, just not in my home county. I can go to several neighboring counties and have a field day.

Wat brand GPS do you use for geacaching?
Will give the Mr. one for his birthday.
We can use it for making bicycle trips and for geacaching.

I actually use two GPS devices. I used a Garmin NuVi 300 for driving directions to places that I do not know the area well. Then, I have a Garmin eTrex Venture HC that I use for the actual hunting of geocaches. It's made more for hiking and camping. It gives you a basic topographical view of an area and only give you major highways and waterways so that you can find your way back to civilization if you get lost. You can load geocaches directly to either unit, but I only load them in the eTrex. I can just type in the coordinates on the NuVi for the driving directions.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of geocaching. There are events to celebrate all over the world. There is one being held in Nashville at 2 PM. I am planning on going and searching for several of the caches in the area while I'm there. You get to meet a lot of other fellow geocachers, and you get to go find a few. What could be better, right? The cool thing about the party is that you have to FIND the location. You have coordinates and clues to get you there, but you have to find it. I am pretty sure it will be at a local Taco Bell from the clues. Finding the party will count towards my total number of finds.

I'm trying to get Sabidoo to go.

Sounds like fun, have a great time.....(I'm stuck at work today)

I got to attend the event, and it was cool to meet some people who have this same strange hobby as me. Due to the rain, however, I only got to get one geocache in the area. So, I still have a ton of caches to find around Hermitage, TN.

Hope Sabidoo went with you to the gecaching event.

It's not a strange hobby, it's nice.
When we have the GPs we'll start too.
Maybe we can find things in Canada.
I only hope it's not brown or black with 4 pews and it makes a growling noice.
No ... no it's not a "cookie monster".

Sabidoo's wife wouldn't let him out of the house to play. So, I went by myself. The event was held indoors at a Mexican restaurant. Due to the heavy rains and flooding, though, I was unable to hunt any geocaches.

Hmmm a Mexican restaurant is not a bad place to be for an event when it's raining.

How is it with the rain?

I did not answer your question. It rained for two days and there was much flooding in Tennessee. Much of downtown Nashville was flooded and remains closed. The Bridgestone Center, home of the Nashville Predators, is still closed. The Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ol' Opry, and Opry Mills mall are all still closed. Opry Mills mall is located next to a river and only had a mere 9 feet of water in some parts of it.

I had a great idea for a micro geocache today. I have a rubber, but realistic looking, tarantula. I have put a tiny micro cache container in the spider's belly and intent to put her in a hollowed out tree. I think I will name it "Watch For Spiders" or "Arachnophobia".

Oh man that is mean (but hilarious)!

I'm warned now not to find that cache.
A taruntala .........
I like the last name.

Do you have to register you caches?
Or how does that goes when you hide a new cache?

It sound very serious Tennessee is still suffering from the flood earlier in May.

So I'm a very newbie cacher?

Are there rules for hiding caches?

There are both rules and laws.

For example, one of the rules is that you cannot dig a hole to hide a cache in. You can use preexisting holes and use leaves and such to make it harder to find, but you cannot dig a hole.

As for laws, those vary from state to state here in the USA, and probably from nation to nation. Some US laws:

1. No caches near any Federal buildings.
2. No caches in Nat'l. Parks.
3. Caches are allowed in state and local parks if permission is obtained first.

TN laws:

1. No new caches in cemeteries. The laws changed somewhere around 2003. Any existing caches in cemeteries may stay, but new caches must be 1/10 of a mile (528 ft.) from a cemetary

2. Caches must be at least 528 from an elementary or middle school and cannot be on school property.

3. Caches near high schools must be 300 ft. from the building and not on school property.

I want to show you my spider cache before I hide it. This will be considered a micro because the actual container is so small. Here's the spider in my hand:




And here is the underside where the small tube with a scroll to be signed by anyone who locates this is hidden:

That spider if you is a scary critter.
To bad you can't see the faces of the people who will find this "hairy scary" spidy.


You have a several sections for caches?
Mircro - big?

My son is scared to death for this spidy.

A micro is tiny....very small. A nano cache is even smaller.


Small caches are usually anywhere from 3-4 inches wide. A regular cache can be as big and even bigger than a shoe box. There are even some large ones that are as big as a 5 gallon bucket.

The more I read about geocaching the more I like it to get started and find something.

Yes I'll be a good girl and find first 100 caches before I'll hide my first cache.

Have you ever hidden a big cache?

Two of mine are regular sized boxes with goodies (we call that swag) inside. Both are in really cool locations that I just kind of stumbled across. The other 6 of my current hides are all micros. Most of them are here in Watertown, so they don't get found very often. I also have one at the Walmart in Lebanon, TN. With it being a busy shopping spot on a state highway, it gets found a lot more often.