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Treasure Hunting in Miramichi

Lets go Geocaching!
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting
game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a
specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the
geocache (container) hidden at that location.
Founded in 2000, Geocaching HQ is dedicated to
inspiring and enabling discovery, exploration, and adventure
through a unique combination of outdoor recreation and
location-based technology. The game's passionate community
of millions of players use the
Geocaching® app and GPS-
enabled devices to find
cleverly hidden containers world!
called geocaches. Today, there On the geocaching.com website and/or app, you can
are more than 3 million search for geocaches in your area. You might be surprised
geocaches in over 190 by how many geocaches are in the Miramichi region (see
countries. map). When you find a cache, you can take one of the
treasures from inside, write in the enclosed log book that you
Get Started! Go to found it, and leave something for the next hunter to find!
www.geocaching.com and The map above shows the location of geocaches in
sign-up for a free account so Miramichi. Each cache is different, they can be big or small,
you can explore, find, log and just laying on the ground, or cleverly hidden.
hide geocaches around the

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