Geocaching – Llansteffan

It’s about time I caught up with some blogging here, but we have been so busy recently that writing about what we’ve been doing just gets in the way of DOING.

Complete Idiot\'s Guide to Geocaching (Complete Idiot\'s Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))However, one thing we have been doing a little bit of is geocaching. For those of you who don’t know what it is, basically its an up to date version of a treasure hunt really. People hide containers all over the world, publish the coordinates of the whereabouts of these containers on the internet and then using a GPS receiver you can navigate your way to the location and find the cache. Most of these boxes have a few items in them and you can swap items if you wish. They also have a log book where you can place an entry to say that you found the geocache.

Put like that it doesn’t sound too exciting, but it is a good excuse for a walk and it tends to get you going a little off the beaten track to places you wouldn’t normally have gone. The nice thing is people tend to place the geocaches in places that they particularly like or that have some meaning to them.

Just the other weekend I had been on my brothers stag do near Llansteffan, before I went I had noticed that there was a geocache just a couple of miles down the road from where we were staying, so at the end of the weekend, instead of just jumping in the van and heading home, I went to look for the cache. It was located by the castle, and didn’t take me long to find it, but it did mean that I got to explore the castle and some of the coastline, something I wouldn’t have done if it weren’t for geocaching.

We quite often go out as a family looking for them too, which is nice as it gives us something to do together. OK, we could just go for a walk together, but geocaching simply gives us an excuse to do it.

Here are some photos from Llansteffan Castle.

Llansteffan CastleLlansteffan CastleView from LlansteffanLlansteffan Castle

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Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.