Geocaching is an international game using your GPS to find caches that others have hidden and uploaded the coordinates to www.geocaching.com
A couple we met on the Island Princess, Bob and Joyce, were intrigued and joined us in the search.
We started off looking for the #10 bus that drives out to the beaches. We walked out of the cruise compound, turned to our right, and walked down the street a bit. On the left hand side of the street is a bus parking lot. We walked in and found the sign post for the #10 bus. We'd heard that it runs every 15 minutes. But we were in port on a Sunday. The #10 bus only runs once an hour. Nevertheless we only had about a 5 minute wait before a bus pulled in. They take US dollars and it costs $2.50 each for a round trip ticket. We had the GPS on and when we closed in on the coordinates for the first cache, about 10 minutes or so ride, we pushed the button and got off.
The caches we searched for and discovered were the Divi Tree Cache and then we walked down to the Flowers with Wings cache, about 10 minutes walk. Fortunately we did this fairly early in the morning, around 9am, before it became too swelteringly hot in Aruba. I managed a quick swim in the ocean and then we caught the bus back to the port area where we wandered around the shops for awhile making a couple of purchases and then returned to the Island Princess. Ahh, air conditioning! Cold drinks!
Its very easy to find both these caches and do other activities and have plenty of time to make the all aboard.
Have fun geocaching in Aruba!
The Divi Tree Cache is hidden behind this coral. A little out of place in the log.
Team Mermaidude with the Divi Tree Cache.
The contents of the Divi Tree Cache.
The Flowers With Wings cache is hidden here.
Bob watches Mr. Mermaidude search for the cache.
Mr. Mermaidude has the Flowers With Wings cache in hand.
Bob watches Mr. Mermaidude search for the cache.
Mr. Mermaidude has the Flowers With Wings cache in hand.
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