I had a hard time finding the first geocache I ever went for, after finding a few others I realised caches could look like anything! I went back to the one I never could find and found it straight away! It was disguised as a bolt.
Oh yeah, if you don't know the typical hiding places, you can spend a loooong time looking for a cache that's right under your very nose. We've had this too, searching a long time for our first cache. Only when another team came along, they pointed out the cache to us. Then we knew what to look for!
So if you have a friendly local geocacher, maybe you can ask to accompany them for a day, so you can learn what to look for?
It won't hurt to go out on your own first -- maybe you can find your first geocache on your own, you don't know before you try! One thing to look out for, if you're caching in the woods, is the 'Unnatural Pile of Sticks'. You can see a good example in this video. Might help you know what you're looking for.
First one I ever found was when I was riding my bike home one night and saw the cache symbol on the map (I'd downloaded a bunch of local caches to my GPS).
I found myself in the middle of a small flowerbed in a park. I was looking around, scratching my head and I suddenly realized that there was one of those round, black plastic drains that you see in some decks and the like.
Thing is, it was at the highest point in the flowerbed. So I took hold of it and it lifted right out. The pipe iyt was in the top of had one of those widemouth hard plastic water bottles in it. Full of stuff.
Sneakiest one I ever found was driving a dozen of us crazy during Portland Cache machine II.
It turned out to be a piece of that magnetic stuff like they make the fridge magnet business cards wit, but a bit larger. The white side was wrapped around a post of a tall cyclone fence between two of the bands holding the fence and a gate. The outside was painted with aluminum paint to match the post. It took something like 20 minutes for someone to spot it.
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We've had this too, searching a long time for our first cache. Only when another team came along, they pointed out the cache to us. Then we knew what to look for!
So if you have a friendly local geocacher, maybe you can ask to accompany them for a day, so you can learn what to look for?
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I found myself in the middle of a small flowerbed in a park. I was looking around, scratching my head and I suddenly realized that there was one of those round, black plastic drains that you see in some decks and the like.
Thing is, it was at the highest point in the flowerbed. So I took hold of it and it lifted right out. The pipe iyt was in the top of had one of those widemouth hard plastic water bottles in it. Full of stuff.
Sneakiest one I ever found was driving a dozen of us crazy during Portland Cache machine II.
It turned out to be a piece of that magnetic stuff like they make the fridge magnet business cards wit, but a bit larger. The white side was wrapped around a post of a tall cyclone fence between two of the bands holding the fence and a gate. The outside was painted with aluminum paint to match the post. It took something like 20 minutes for someone to spot it.
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