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HEY GUYS AND GALS, IM NEW TO GEOCACHHING, I STARTED LOOKING AT CACHING YESTERDAY AND HAVE YET TO GO LOOKING TO FIND A CACHE, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME PICTURES OF WHAT YOU'S ARE FINDING OUT THERE, AND ALSO DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY NEWBIE CACHES IN THE SARNIA, ONTARIO CANADA AREA THA A FATHER AND 3 YEAR OLD SON COULD START OUT ON? ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED.

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HEY GUYS AND GALS, IM NEW TO GEOCACHHING, I STARTED LOOKING AT CACHING YESTERDAY AND HAVE YET TO GO LOOKING TO FIND A CACHE, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME PICTURES OF WHAT YOU'S ARE FINDING OUT THERE, AND ALSO DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY NEWBIE CACHES IN THE SARNIA, ONTARIO CANADA AREA THA A FATHER AND 3 YEAR OLD SON COULD START OUT ON? ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED.

 

Welcome to Geocaching GOOBR!

 

If you would like to see some pictures of what geocaches look like, have a look at the Groundspeak store at the containers. We often camo ours with camouflage paint and tape just to blend in more. Also check out the Cool Cache Containers forum topic for some more creative interpretations.

 

For beginners, we recommend looking for easier caches - 1 to 2 in difficulty and with your child - easier terrain - again 1 to 2.5. Regular or large containers will have swag that your little pirate will enjoy trading. The Favorite points may indicate some better caches. Also check to see when it was last found, you don't want to go looking for a cache that has a few DNFs (Did Not Finds).

 

If you go to the Canada forum section, you can find local geocaching associations. You can contact them and see if anyone is willing to go out with you. Also events are a great way to meet other geocachers, share stories of the hunt and get some hints.

 

Enjoy your geocaching adventures! And let us know how you did.

 

mwellman from Alberta.

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A common recommendation for beginners is to stick with small small.gif size, regular regular.gif size, and large large.gif size caches. Until you're more experienced, avoid micro micro.gif size caches, some of which are smaller than most beginners can imagine (sometimes called "nanos"). Save those for later, after you have some experience.

 

Also, stick with caches that have a difficulty rating of no more than 2 stars stars2.gif. Save the more difficult ones for later. You may also want to choose caches with easy terrain ratings. (The difficulty rating tells you how hard it is to find the cache once you get there. The terrain rating tells you how hard it is to get there.) And it is often best to start with traditional 2.gif caches, which will be at the published coordinates. Multi-caches 3.gif or mystery/puzzle caches 8.gif or other cache types can require more work just to figure out where the container is located.

 

Under ideal conditions, a consumer GPSr will be accurate to about 3m (10'). That applies both to your device, and to the cache owner’s device, so you may find the container 15-20' from ground zero under ideal conditions. Under less than ideal conditions, both GPSr readings can be much less accurate. Once you get within that distance of ground zero, put your device away and look around for places where a container could be hidden.

 

Go ahead and read the cache's additional hints (if provided), and read the past logs and look at any photos in the cache's image gallery. They may help you understand what you're looking for, and how/where it may be hidden. It may also help to look at some of the cache containers available online. For example, check out the cache containers sold by Groundspeak. Also, take a look at the Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's) thread in the forums.

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One more thing, if you use the geocaching.com search function to search for caches near your home, then look towards the bottom of the page. There is a "Highlight beginner caches" checkbox. If you select this, then some good beginner caches will be highlighted in the list. (In this case, "good beginner caches" are defined as caches that are more likely to be found by beginners because they are traditional type, low difficulty, larger than micro, recently found by others, and free of reported problems.)

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