Geocaching (By Her)

You will quickly learn that I am not very verbose and posts by (By Her) being me will be much quicker to read and may even be grammatically incorrect but I am OK with that and hope you will be too.  I do not intend to be a frequent blogger but will strive to put meaningful and readable material on here that you may actually enjoy in some sense or the other.  I personally am not much of a blog consumer.  I do have subscribed to several food blogs but have now resorted to following those bloggers on the 'Gram to get a more condensed update on what their slinging across their kitchens. You may now have a sense that I like the Cliff Notes on everything and have been known to glaze over when (By Him) provides the Britannica version to everything.  There may be readers who do not understand that last comment.  If you don't, I actually feel some sorrow for you.  Because, back in the Britannica days, that was the Google of our world and I must say it simplified a lot of things for us. Now we rely on Google, Alexa, Siri, Wikipedia to be our "sources of truth" and I think the information overload can be crippling at times.  But let's get back to the subject of this post - Geocaching (By Her).

(By Him) has spent considerable time researching compasses, GPS accuracy, geocaching practices and has shared our initial forays into this new hobby.  By Him always invests 150% of himself in all things new and of interest to him at the onset (case in point with our tree house that will never be).  By Her, not so much.  I "like" geocaching but will not invest any money nor much time with the preparations.  I will rely on my Android phone compass to steer  "close" to geocaching coordinates and if I find one, great!  If not, I'll just go look for another.  Which was the case recently when we visited Pratt Farm in Middleboro.  For the full topography and detailed history about Pratt Farm, I am certain By Him will include in an upcoming post, and for those who are too curious to wait for that, you may read all about the location here Pratt Farm.

It's a great location for exploring and well traveled but we ended the day with a success rate of 50%. There are in total 20 caches in this location of which we set to find 8 of them for the time we had.  What contributed to our low hit rate?  Who knows?  Possibly because most were micro/nanos and locating them is made all the more difficult when they are hidden under lots of growth and brush and supposedly per GPS reliance from Android, in some swampy areas.  We also did not have the better part of the day so we limited time spent looking for each cache so we could continue to others before the sun set.  It is a challenging spot and am certain that By Him will suggest we return to conquer those that defeated us the first time.  We'll see....

Next up By Her - "These boots were NOT made for walking"....  My transition from Hi-Tec boots (I know, but I was a greenhorn then), to Oboz to Salomon hikers.