Hi everyone!
My husband and I are new to the whole geocaching thing, and getting pretty frustrated by it. We really enjoy finding the caches we do find, but we seem to strike out a LOT. It's really frustrating to read the cache logs and everyone but you says "easy find" or "quick p&g" and you spend 30 minutes searching and can't find anything. I do have to wonder how many other people don't find the caches, and simply don't log their dnf's. I always log mine, I'm hoping someone will take pity on me and help me out.
Anyway, we don't have a fancy GPS, we're using a TomTom one with most recent maps, and TT7 on a pda. I realize those probably aren't ideal? But it's what we've got. Any suggestions appreciated here.
We can be standing right on top of the correct coordinates according to our GPS, and find nothing. I don't know if I'm missing the point of this whole geocaching thing sometimes. I feel like coordinates sometimes put me right into a patch of trees and thorns and snakes, with no hint, other than it's in that area somewhere. For me personally, having to look up and down every tree and bush within a 30 foot radius isn't fun. If that's what I'm supposed to be doing, I might not be a good geocacher.
Any help here is appreciated, like I said, we really enjoy the ones we find! Thank you!