DeeGee26

Hi folks, I'm Darren, I'm trailing round hunting for "treasure" with my seven year old son, and occasionally with a toddler as well. It's super "Dad and lad" time and the boy's getting well into it. We've found 16 so far, we know what we like, and we're thinking about doing some hiding soon.

Hi folks, I've been doing a bit of geocaching with my son as a bit of fun to get us outdoors. We've found a few so far, mostly in our local area, but also a couple on holiday. Now I'm getting a bit better at finding things, I might have a go at some of the more interesting looking caches. The boy has started to ask about making our own caches to hide, and we've found a couple of likely locations close to places we go regularly. A lot of the stuff around here is quite (sub)urban, with metal fences and stuff to hide things on. Therefore there are lots of magnetic nanos. I'm happy spending 20 minutes looking all over for one of those, but it's not so good for a boy of seven. We have enjoyed a couple of caches we've done with hidden bison tubes, and I might get a couple of those in. Ideally I'd like to get a couple of travel bugs too, to drop into some of the caches. While I'm thinking about designing my cache, are there any decent alternatives to the nano that can be stuck to metal? What do I need to think about if I want to make my cache "family friendly", but not likely to be muggled in a hurry, particularly, as I suggested, in a suburban area. Sadly all the countryside stuff seems well saturated (even if I couldn't find it) so I'm going to use the local streets for the first instance.