We've been geocaching now 5 times and made only 1 find. One of those failures was explained by my husband confusing east with west. But the other times, we've looked and looked and not found anything, despite being in the right spot (as far as we know). My husband and I actually find this way more frustrating than our five year old, who seems to expect not to find anything now, and so doesn't get frustrated. We wish we could be more like him! But he did get very excited when we made that one find! And we'd like to do that more often. (Not least because we took a travel bug from our one find - which was our second geocaching outing - and need to deposit it in another cache!)
So..... how long do you tend to look for a cache? The most difficult one we've looked for is 2 stars, and the others are 1 star, so we're not being over ambitious. Today my husband and son spent about an hour looking in the area the GPS led us to. The day before yesterday, my son and I spent about 45 minutes looking for a different cache. Are we not finding them because we're not spending three hours out there searching? Do most geocachers find it this difficult at first? Or are we peculiarly terrible at this? Any tips you can give us?
Thanks,
Zena99.
