{"id":158,"date":"2004-07-12T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T04:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/12\/geocaching\/"},"modified":"2004-07-12T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T04:28:19","slug":"geocaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"GeoCaching&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott and I went together and bought Dad a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garmin.com\/products\/etrexLegend\/\">Garmin eTrex Legend GPS unit<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not sure how I managed to go this long without a little recreational GPS.  Anyway, we gave it to Dad, but since he&#8217;s been feeling under the weather and not able to use it, he gave it back to me to &#8220;play with&#8221; until he can get out and about.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Dylan, Quinn and I went looking for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">geocache<\/a> in Fish Creek Park.  The basic idea is that someone hides a little cache of goodies (keychains, pogs, whatever&#8230;) and records the latitude and longitude of the hiding place.  Then other people go find it, like we did.  Usually you leave a little something and take something else, but we weren&#8217;t really prepared for that tonight, so we just signed the guest book and left.  The mosquitoes were ravinous despite the massive amount of &#8220;Off&#8221; we applied, so I would suggest NOT going tramping through bush at twilight in mosquito country!<\/p>\n<p>Another thing we learned was: don&#8217;t necessarily park and head STRAIGHT for the cache.  By the time we found it we discovered we would have been a lot better off following a path as close as we could, THEN charging into the brush.  Ah well, next time.  So, rack up a &#8220;find&#8221; for cache &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?guid=a2ed9d2c-f630-4d16-9bce-7c6f1d8315b6\">GCFEED<\/a>&#8220;.  Yes, I&#8217;m &#8220;Iggybung&#8221; on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott and I went together and bought Dad a little Garmin eTrex Legend GPS unit. I&#8217;m not sure how I managed to go this long without a little recreational GPS. Anyway, we gave it to Dad, but since he&#8217;s been feeling under the weather and not able to use it, he gave it back to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}