Geocaching: Dave Ulmer started it by hiding a cache of goodies and posting details of its position to a net newsgroup. Someone found it three days later and a new websport was born. Geocaching is now played in 43 states and 12 countries, a high-tech version of hide-and-seek which involves planting caches, usually a logbook to record visits and stuff like maps, toys and food - the point isn't what you find, just finding it, using GPS (global positioning system) info supplied by the cacher. The successful geocacher takes something and leaves something behind for the next hunter. Are there any in New Zealand? Heaps.

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