Hi,
Just a quick note to let you know we’ve published a tool to help you create a pretty geocaching.com profile full of your own information and stats with a simple WYSWIG editor so you don’t have to mess around in HTML code or learning styles.
Pop over to http://www.thegeocachingshop.co.uk/profile-creator.php and have a go, let us know what you think!
Do you want £40 to spend at The Geocaching Shop? Well we are giving someone the chance to win by simply sending us a photo and having the world decide whether it’s worth the bounty.
For more details see our Geocaching giveaway page
Thats right, we are going to give someone a £10 voucher just for writing a few words about a product listed on the shop. We want to help other shoppers choose the right product and the way to do that is to hear what other geocachers are thinking about products they’ve used or bought previously. So for those willing to spend the time writing a quick review we are offering the chance to win a £10 gift voucher.
For more information please see our geocaching giveaway page.
Thats right, we are going to giveaway a free Garmin eTrex Vista after the 1st November 2010. For your chance to own this GPSr all you have to do is re-tweet our original tweet here, or, visit our Facebook fan page and click the Win… tab and follow the instructions.
Good luck 
For more information visit our website and follow the giveaway link.
So we see it all the time, what is Geocaching and what’s the best way to start Geocaching or how do you Geocache? Well we thought we’d do our best to answer the questions and give some good tips on how to begin Geocaching. Basically it’s a high tech treasure hunt, containers called caches with inexpensive bits and bobs are hidden all around the world. The cache location is posted on the main website geocaching.com, the latitude & longitude which you then use to find the cache. When you find a cache you sign the log book to record your visit and if there are knickknacks you can exchange.
The minimum you need to play is a handheld GPSr (Global Positioning Satellite receiver). GPS devices are used in all forms of navigation today most commonly in cars and boats. Global positioning satellites send signals that these receivers use to figure out where on the surface of the earth they are.
As Geocaching has grown it’s developed a number of variations the common being:
Here is a full list of geocaching types
Geocaching is a great family activity, using a GPSr only helps to find a cache so much, a good cache will be well hidden from geocachers and what the community call ‘muggles’, people who don’t know about geocaching thus providing a great “hunt” to find and re-hide the cache. Not only that Geocaching will take you to all sorts of beautiful and interesting places that you might not have otherwise been to or even known existed.
Once you’ve experienced a geocache you may go on to hide your own, or find more and come across the treasures of geocaching. Travel bugs and geocoins crop up in caches from time to time, these are significant items that are tracked by unique code on the geocaching.com site mostly. You can buy your own Travel bug or geocoin and release it into the geocaching world and track its progress as a whole new angle on the geocaching adventure.
Above all Geocaching should be fun, don’t put yourself or others at risk and respect the land and others around a cache location or place of natural beauty.
The poll is now open for 1 month, get your votes in on the only poll that matters!
Geocaching Cachekinz everywhere!
We now have:
Dragonfly, Bee, Monkey, Penguin and the Ladybug Cachekinz in stock.
Hope you had a lovely easter break, we managed 30 finds over the weekend let us know how many you found or hid via twitter @thegcshop, or email sales@thegeocachingshop.com, we’d love to hear from you.
