Geocaching

Geocaching is a kind of treasure hunt that anyone wherever they are can participate in provided they have a GPS made especially for geocaching (finding these treasures). The gadgets tell you the name of the wood, river or outdoor place that the treasure is hidden in. It will then tell you how many steps in which direction you need to go to get to it. If you stop walking while holding the gadget, it will get confused and show you the wrong direction so it's very important to keep moving even if you are on uneven ground  with branches catching your clothes.

When the GPS starts showing lots of different instructions, that means that you've reached the place where you need to start looking: under branches/leaves, in trees/bushes, tree stumps etc. The 'treasure' is normally kept inside film canisters, ammunication cases or tupperwares. 

When you find it, you must sign your name in a book kept inside the container, put a gift in (small trinket, McDonald's toy, 1p coins, face-cream sachets, hairclip, pencil), and if you want, take a gift out that someone else had put in.  When you get home, you go to the website and you note down which geocaches you found that day. I haven't got an account to do this but I do sign my my name on the log there each time. We found two the last time we went. The first time I did it which was a year ago I also found two.