On Saturday over 30 geocachers that included cacher families attended the Intro to Geocaching a the Big Cypress Park located five miles outside of Greenfield, Tennessee. Salamander60 and I co-hosted the event after months of planning and discussions. It has been observed that the event has been a huge success. The same weekend, a new cacher family from Sharon, Tennessee begun caching. And due to the media exposure prior to the event, many Fall Festival participants were aware of the sport and asked some very good questions. The event began at 10 am with a presentation by myself after an introduction by Salmander60 whom is the President of the Friends of the Big Cypress Park. Presentation including the history of GPS where the military was first to use the technology, various types of handheld GPS receivers, who GPS can be used on a laptop with voice directions. The presentation went into the history of geocaching and explained the sport.
Cachers came from all over to attend the event in the beautiful day where the temperatures were in the 80's and no rain. Cachers were from GOWT, JAG and non-associated with any organization. Attending were: cannotreadgps from Dresden, TN, Salmander60, is daughter Lil Sal and wife Sweet Thang from Greenfield, TN, Penfencer from Montevallo, Alabama, Cataluna Woods and RaevenDarkWings, UT Martin students, yogi & dolphin of Yuma, TN, BigdaddyD of Scotts Hill, TN, dalls of Beech Bluff, TN, RiverNWick drove in from Parsons, TN, cachestalker and minnie mouse of Dresden, TN, Pharmd93 and Sherlock121 of Martin, TN, 1998volsfan of Greenfield, tnwoodturner from Paris, TN, Williefan of Bruceton, G-T-Martin came in from Kenton, TN, 76Stinger and Poohbear94 of Munford, TN, Leavarock of Clarksville and gleasondad of Gleason, TN. Lost-n-tn became cachers that day and logged the cache page.
Good times were had be all in attendance. Cachers enjoyed the new caches in the park and speaking to the muggle audience about our obsession. Cachers witnessed a Bird of Prey presentation by the Reelfoot State Park employees, there were Arts and Crafts on display, a nature trail to walk, Civil War re-enactors and their campsite to view.
3 comments:
Really enjoyed the event Andrew!! We had a great time and you and Carey did an outstanding job!!
We had a great time at your event.
Thanks to you an Carey for taking the time to put it on.
My son Ethan (Sherlock121) and I attended the event. Thanks to you and Carey for putting this event together. I grew up in Greenfield, so it was nice to see some old friends. It was fun getting reacquainted with my caching friends and meeting new cachers at this event. I enjoyed going on the cache run around the park with the new cachers and talking with them about our many caching experiences. I look forward to another event like this here in the future. Thanks for a great day!
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