Some students at Dufferin School are part of a Geocaching Club that meets during Performing Arts time.
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and “treasure,” usually toys or trinkets of little value.
For the traditional geocache, a geocacher will place a waterproof container, containing a log book (with pen or pencil) and trinkets or some sort of treasures, then note the cache’s coordinates. These coordinates, along with other details of the location, are posted on a website. Other geocachers obtain the coordinates from the Internet and seek out the cache using their GPS handheld receivers. The finding geocachers record their exploits in the logbook and online. Geocachers are free to take objects from the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value, so there is a treasure for the next person to find.
Dufferin students created travel bugs which are objects that are moved from cache to cache and whose travels may be logged and followed online. The students identified different goals for their travel bugs. Some are going to travel to Las Vegas and others are going to travel to New York and then travel back to Winnipeg.
Students released their travel bugs last week by hiding them in a cache. These travel bugs were picked up by another geocacher and are now on the move. Stay tuned as the Geocaching Club gives updates on the locations of their travel bugs.
For more information on Geocaching check out this website:
These travel bugs are ready to head out on their mission.
This is a hand held gps unit like the ones we have.
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