• YouTube has almost 400 thousand videos about geocaching.
• Google produces about 17 million results when searching for ‘geocaching’.
• There are over 10 million registered geocaching users worldwide.
• There are over 3 million geocaches (containers) hidden around the world!

What is geocaching?

• Finding hidden containers (geocaches) and logging your find,

  and (optional)

• Hiding geocaches and telling people where they are.

Finding a geocache (or simply, a ‘cache’) isn’t quite as straightforward as you may think.

Some are easy, some are an incredible challenge.

Imagine if I told you I’d hidden a box of cereal in one of your kitchen cupboards…
You know what it is, you know how big it is, what it looks like and pretty well where to look.

Now imagine I tell you I’ve hidden a small box of matches somewhere ‘on’ a bus (inside, outside, underneath, could be disguised, camouflaged, stuffed deep in a crevice, taped under something, etc.).
This time you know very roughly how big it might be, but apart from that, nothing much else. It might even be in the engine compartment somewhere, and possibly with a red herring.

So it is with caches, some are quick & easy, others may require skill, experience and equipment.

The GeoWifi.uk geocache was put together by

Dave Pickering

part of the Pickerings! Geocaching squad.

red herring

noun

1. a dried smoked herring, which is turned red by the smoke.
   synonyms: bluff, blind, ruse, feint, deception, subterfuge, hoax, trick, ploy, device, wile, sham,                   pretence, artifice, cover, smokescreen, distraction, expedient, contrivance,
                     machination; More
2. a clue or piece of information which is or is intended to be misleading or distracting.
   "the argument about women's choices is largely a red herring"

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