Actually I'm not sure that you can make a profit from Geocaching, but I do know people who have done it and tell me it can be alot of fun. I am an SES volunteer, and I must say our training searches using GPS can be a bit hit and miss, so it would be interesting to see how hard it would be to fnd the 'Cache. Looking around on the Geocaching Australia site it seems to be a very popular activity. Some caches have puzzles to solve before you get the details, and other just give the co-ordinates.
I can't see Geocaching being used at our library anytime soon (funding & staffing), but I could imagine it would be possible to make use of it. For example you could have a Local History heritage trail using Geocaching to lead you from one point of interest to the next.
Hopkinton Library Puzzler requires you to use the library to solve the puzzle which will give you the Geocache co-ordinates. Clever!
The idea of using Geocaching for Local History heritage trail is very interesting and could be fun for young and old. You could also use it for tourist spots but that is more the Visitor/Tourist center driven that Libraries, but if they did that it would be easy to give out the information in the library to Visitors, as they seem to go to the Library as 1st contact alot of the time.
ReplyDeleteThe Local History idea is a really great one. It seems like a great way to get people to heritage spots without spending too much time or money!
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