Of Geocachers, GPS, and a get-together after the adventure:
A UAE Geocacher’s memoirs of a leap-day treasure-hunt
What do normal people during the ‘leap-day’?
Most people just let it pass as
just another day in the calendar. But the geocachers in the UAE decided that this was the perfect day to enhance their geocaching statistics and host a gathering, along with their GPS-guided treasure hunt which allowed them to log a cache on the ‘leap-day’. Since geocaching started around 11 years ago, February 29, 2012 was just the third opportunity for cachers to log a find on a ‘leapday’.
GeoCRAt claims the FTF
A special word of thanks goes out to Sara from the hotel’s marina for taking such good care of the local cachers and to the Golden Tulip Al-Jazira Hotel and Resort for extending such warm hospitality.
Regards, Charles Arnestad.
After some excellent planning by the cacher ‘geodanieldxb’, known to his friends as Dan, cachers gathered at the marina of the Golden Tulip Al-Jazira Hotel and Resort at 6:30PM for dinner and to update each other on their most recent geocaching adventures. Some intrepid cachers even took the opportunity to search for caches prior to the event just to be sure of being able to log a cache on ‘leap-day’. Between the club sandwiches and French fries, coffees and Cokes, cachers exchanged travel bugs and ‘geo-coins’ so that they could continue their journeys to different parts of the world. cacher GeoCRAt had even promised to take some travel items to the Titanic Memorial Cruise when it departs in April 2012. After an update on their recent caching adventures, with some persons flaunting their new hand-held GPS’s and their swag from caches found earlier in the day, the geocachers bid farewell with the hope of running into each other in remote parts of the UAE or Oman on yet another exciting geocaching adventure.
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