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It would be nice if the had $100 notes waiting for collection that would make it worth while!
My kids have been geocaching with us (mainly the wife) for the last couple of years and really enjoy it - a little less so as they get into the sulky mid teens I must say..
It's one of those cheap, if not free, things that can be done in an hour or all day if you want. We started with the free app on my "smart phone for a dummy" and as the family got more keen we bought a secondhand GPS on an auction site and have a group of friends who are competing to find the most caches.
By the way it's world wide so if you are super keen you can try geocaching in Maui if you want instead of going sailing 
Oh - that explains a recent find whilst searching a crime scene (with SES) on a scenic walking track, we came across a box filled with weird items! Thought is was someone's idea of a time capsule. I'm not sure what happened to it, but the Police were informed of it's location.
Geocaches in the country (coastal or inland) are generally placed at an area of interest by a local. We have discovered some great spots that we would never have found otherwise by following a geocache. And the best thing is you can use your GT-31 to search for them. 
Tried geocaching yesterday. Getting to the area was fun, but then...
The cache is hidden somewhere in dense scrub. Somewhere in a 20m radius. After leaving the kids back up on the trail and climbing down a damn sleep slope I got to "the clue". But I have no idea what I'm looking for here. It could be anywhere in this thick scrub. There are large, fallen trees, vines everywhere, rock ledges. ****. You could have a team scouring this 20m radius for hours and not find it, if you even knew what you were looking for. Site was rated as "easy". I gave up after 15 minutes of poking around undergrowth and rocks with a stick and getting giant cobwebs and spiders on my face and falling over and scratching the hell out of myself. I'll add that poking around the sydney undergrowth this time of year can be damn dangerous, I saw a few funnel-web holes.
Getting there was fun, couple of wrong turns made it somewhat challenging. The last 20m sucked. Completely. Never found the cache. 
Funny story about Geochaching.
My daughters friends do it all of the time, they love it. So they convince my wife and daughter to do it with them.
My missus is rummaging around in the dunes in Coolangatta looking for the Cache. She finds a plastic case, and they're all excited they've found the cache.
They're trying to open it and then realise that it's actually a needle case dumped by someone likely using Heroin or whatever. They've all screamed and freaked out......
Wife and daughter Caching career over........
Here is a geocache I made for my wife. The cow is hollow and the cache is inside.
Awesome idea! There's 3 of them in the wetlands behind my place. Couldn't find the buggers though but I'm feeling a strong urge to head back. The missus loves the amazing race do ill get her onto it.
Jeez I Just had a look at the link on the original post, there is more then a hundred within a ten minute drive from here. Most active in the last few days, some people really get into it. Whoever Ian and Sue are, they have laid bucket loads of them.
There's a geocache on the International Space Station (ISS). 
With the ISS orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of the cache would be somewhat 'dynamic'. 
www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1BE91_international-space-station?guid=611d0635-a1cf-41bc-a0cc-a6038ae288d5
