Where In Sussex

I have gotten myself a little GPS Bluetooth device, which I’ve borrowed from Eugene and I’m using a piece of J2ME software for my mobile phone called Track My Journey, which allows me to upload my journey, live, as it happens, to the TMJ website…. all very exciting. The stats on there are really good and I’ll be using it for the London to Brighton bike ride this Sunday.

I have outputted the results onto a map, so you can see where I am, when using the system!

For those of you who have never heard of it, Geocaching is a kind of “Hi-tech Treasure Hunt”….. basically you have your GPS (Satnav) and a co-ordinate of a location.  The idea is to go to this location where you will, after some hunting, find a little “box of treasure”.  These will often contain funny little items, a log book and other things which people swap in and out.  Sometimes the first location will have a sign or other things which give you clues to a second location, where you will find the cache.  The website I use is www.geocaching.com where my profile is “Brightonian“.

This week I decided I would have a go at this, after originally registering about two years ago!  I have found caches at Hartfield Station, Wythiam Station, Southease, Piddinghoe and Tidemills.  I have also retrieved a “travel bug”, which is a trackable item with a unique number on it, which people move from cache to cache.  The one I have in my possession is “Fischer-Bug“.

Here are some Geocaching pictures I took….

This is a great new addition to my bicycle adventures!  Or a nice walk…. either way it’s fun