The geocaching we did with the Champaign park district did not really prepare us for the sport. Today we were in Busey Woods and decided to try geocaching again. I opened the app on my phone that reads my location and searches for any registered caches that are nearby. There was one within 1/3 of a mile so we started the hunt. Googles navigator could only get us to within about 200' so I switched to the geocaching app. This app uses a compass and distance to lead you to the cache. 50' was the closest we could get. I think all the trees were interfering too much with the gps. We looked for quite a while but did not find it. I did get a couple of pictures of a cool shelf fungi, but it was with my camera and not the phone. My daughter and I had a pretty good time, but my son did not. We were really not prepared for that type of adventure. I think I need to plan ahead a bit more. Our next
hunt will be in a friendlier environment. Eventually we will go back and find this one though. Later.
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