Today when everyone had arrived at Wakefield we started geocaching. We separated into three groups of varying sizes and were given a compass and three hints, the first two were riddles but the last one simply said north east. Eventually my group figured out that the first hint meant behind the gym attached to a set of lockers lying on the ground, the second hint meant on the sand pit by our golf course, and the last one meant in the tennis courts, but unfortunately the note had blown away.
Later in that day we did geocaching again but we were given a GPS and a compass. Also instead of having riddle clues we were given GPS coordinates and an altitude. The locations these led to weren’t land marks like the previous ones but simply random places on the ground. This made it much more difficult to find them but we managed to find all of them. I enjoyed the second activity because it was more difficult.
-James
The G.P.S. helped me and my group find the location of the notes that had numbers written on them. But one of the problems with the G.P.S was that if we went down hill it said we were going up hill, and if we went up hill it said we were going down hill. It was very difficult to find the numbers but we found them.
- Alec
Today we went geocaching twice, once with a compass and once with a G.P.S. I thought it was easier with a compass because when we had the GPS we were more focused on getting the coordinates right then finding the note. It was really, REALLY fun and I like running around the whole campus to find one little note.
-Marlaina
Today we went geocaching it was like super fun it was awesome we had abandonment issues like James. The hints were really hard because it took a really long time. And there was two riddles the last one we had to figure it out without help and only our compass
Then we went geocaching with GPS instead of a compass it was harder in a few ways but easier in a few other ways. It was really fun. And we found all of things we were supposed to.
-Tyler
Today we went Geocaching. We did it in two rounds. The first was with a compass; my group couldn’t find the last item because it blew away. The second time was with a GPS, my group came in second place because the GPS’s reading told us one item was 20 feet underground. Over all it was pretty fun.
-Adam
