GEOCACHING--

And the beat goes on; continued

Geocache containers come in a wide variety of sizes and designs.

A "micro" sized cache is less than 100 milliliters; about the size of a 35mm film container.

A "nano" sized cache is a sub-group of the micro's but is 10 milliliters or less in size.  Now we are talking about something near the size of the tip of your little finger.

That's a nano in the photo (left) we recently found in Florida.  It has an opaque plastic tube about 1/4 inch in diameter with a waterproof, black plastic cap.  The white visible in the tube is a paper log where there is barely room for the geocacher to write his or her caching name and date.

This cache was stuck in one of the holes stamped in a metal sign post at ground level and covered with sandy debris.

We also found a nano sized cache recently in the towing structure of a WW-II canon in a cemetery.  It was a finely machined tube about 1/2" in diameter and 3/4" long with its own magnet and stuck in a hole in the canon.

Small caches range from 100 Ml to less than a liter.  They would be the equivalent of a sandwich-sized plastic container.

Regular caches range from 1 to 20 liters; something about the size of a shoebox or metal, ammo can.

Large caches would be larger than 20 liters; about the size of a large bucket.

In addition to these size variations caches come in about a bazillion different manufactured designs.  Add to that caches hand-made by creative cachers and the variations become limitless.

Recently we found a toy, plastic zebra attached to the branch of a brushy growth.  It was hosting a nano in a waterproof hole in its belly.

The largest cache we've ever found was about 2 feet square and 8" deep; a flat plastic container like you would use for storage under a bed.

We've also found caches posing as watering nozzles in landscaping.

Recently we've been finding caches made from 2" x 2" plastic, zip-lock type bags covered in camouflaged tape.  These can be folded or wrapped around some difficult to find locations. 

Imagine trying to find a cache which is in a tube, hiding in a hole drilled in a piece of limestone and lying in a pile of limestone rip-rap.

True, a GPS does a fine job of guiding you to the latitude/longitude coordinates of the location you are seeking, but, it does not guide you to THAT particular folded plastic bag or rock.