Our vacation this year was November 28-December 5 on Hilton Head Island and so glad the days have been so nice. There is no way to predict the weather this time of year. It was perfect fall temperatures with low humidity so I was glad that I went on geocaching.com and printed several cache data sheets prior to hitting the road. I brought my box of geocaching stuff, GPS, extra log sheets, Bug-A-Boo eggs, lots of loot to exchange, cameras to document finds, and a travel bug to drop off. I knew this would be the best time to introduce Robin to geocaching. I wanted her to know what I was talking about when I spoke of looking forward to the day that Isaac and I could go out together to find caches. 
On Monday we headed to Sea Pines to visit Harbor Town then headed to the closest cache which as at the Banyard Ruins. I taught Robin to navigate with the GPS and to read the compass when we started our walking search. It was exciting to find the first cache and glad it was a larger one so we could go through the contents. This picture shows Robin's hand as she was going through all the contents of the cache! Afterwards we spend time reading about this historical site. We also visited Compass Rose Park where we learned about the history of Hilton Head Island. The modern development here started in the early 1950s where there was careful planning to have a blending of the environment and man-made structures.
We both enjoyed this so much that we found eight caches over the two morning we spent geocaching. Locating these caches took us to some of the the many parks and recreational areas on the Island that we would not have visited. I have found that this sport takes you to many special locations that otherwise would have been missed. We enjoyed finding the larger caches the best but found ourselves seeking some microcaches as well. This is a picture of our first find of an aluminum micro-cache capsule purchased from geocaching.org. If you are a member of geocaching.com (free) you can view our logs to learn about places we visited and see the pictures we submitted.
Logs for
11/30/2009 found Peligro:los lagartos [log]
(Travel Bug Dog Tag) from Land Locked
(Travel Bug Dog Tag) in Erkeno's Ruins [log]
(Travel Bug Dog Tag) from Erkeno's Ruins [log]
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- Glenn A. Gurley Jr.
- Charlotte, NC, United States
- I have two daughters and four grandchildren. I am retired from teaching after 30 years and have been training and consulting since 2005.
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