East Grinstead District Scouts

Rowfant Explorers have recently taken part in geocaching after winning two GPS units. Geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing) is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache’s existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS device can then try to locate the geocache. More information can be found at www.geocaching.com

After an evening learning to use the GPS units and finding out about the sport of geocaching, the Explorers decided that they wanted to lay a Unit Cache. In the logbook each member wrote a few lines about themselves and what scouting means to them. Rob and Tom then hid the cache, ready for people to find it. As a test, the Explorers will also be finding it in the near future. Since laying, there have been 4 visits, two of which are people also involved with Scouting!

A Travel Bug (a tag with a unique number, so that it can be tracked) has been fixed to a unit Necker in the hope that fellow geocachers will pick it up and move it from cache to cache. The Unit can then see where the necker travels using the unique number on the geocaching website. Currently, it has been taken from the Rowfant Cache and is in transit to a new cache. We are looking forward to watching its progress!