Geocacher Badge, Part 2

Step 5:

We learned about Travel Bugs on geocache.com.  Travel Bugs go in geocache boxes. The person who starts the travel bug sets a goal for it. Then, when people find it they move it to another geocache and log the miles. We think they are cool. If I had a Travel Bug, I would start it in Germany and plan it to come back to Georgia. We saw many logs from Germany online.

Step 2:

We did a photo hunt. My mom and my sister went around the neighborhood and found coordinates for three things: a bush, a fake bunny, and a power box. I put the coordinates into an app and followed the map to those things.

This is the end of my geocacher badge. It was awesomely fun!
 Anne

Geocacher Badge, Part 1

The first badge I worked on was the geocacher badge. 

Step one: 

I went to the geocache.com website and read about geocaching and how it works. I learned about different geocaching slang. My favorite term was "FTF" which means First To Find. I want to be the first to find a geocache someday!

(We skipped step two and will come back to that in a later post!)

Step three: 

I made trade items for the geocache.  I talk about them in this video:

Step 4:

Then we went on a geocaching hiking adventure. We went on two geocaches at Tribble Mill Park. Here are some photos from our hike. 

Here I am looking at the items in the geocache. Another girl scout troop left something!

The second cache was in a dead tree trunk!

I kept these binoculars!

Here I am writing my name in the logbook.

Then I put it back for someone else to find!  

Here's a short interview I did with my Mom about geocaching.

I will also talk about step five in my next post!

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This is my girl scout blog. I will be doing badges and journeys for girl scouts. I will let you know what I do on this blog. Please send me questions or comments. Thank you for reading!