Sara and Joe Boileau are so enthusiastic about the GPS-aided treasure hunting hobby that they have become living geocaches
Sara and Joe Boileau, who make up Team Clockwork, started geocaching ten years ago and, at time of writing, have found 2,046 geocaches.
They use a global positioning system receiver or mobile device to locate and get to caches at specific locations marked by coordinates hidden by other geocachers at different places all over the world. "We kept that one where we could keep an eye on it," she said. "It was fun to see people look for it and finally find it." "We look at the place we want to put one and then decide what we're going to put there," Sara said.
That's another reason to be careful when you pick up and open a cache to make sure curious muggles aren't watching you, she added. They, like most geocachers, use an app from Geocaching.com on their phones to find and log caches found, track caches they've placed and watch for geocaching events. Both Sara and Joe have put a different twist on the trackable cache. They both have bugs tattooed on their arms. If a geocacher approaches them and they offer to have their tattoos scanned a screen will pop up in the app telling the geocacher who Sara and Joe are and why they like geocaching. They are, in effect, living geocaches.
"There are some we found but couldn't log because we couldn't solve the puzzle," Sara said. "They can be frustrating."One of these cache trails led to a geocacher's mailbox at the end of his driveway. He was sitting outside on a lawn chair watching when Sara and Joe arrived to try to find the last cache hidden in a puzzle.
Joe prefers caches that present a challenge. He also likes to try to be the first to find new caches so he can claim that achievement but he's not alone in that quest.