Every inch of Wharncliffe Mill was explored top to bottom last weekend by treasure hunters hunting for hidden geocaches.
Nature Play, an not-for-profit organisation that promotes playing outdoors, hid geocaches all over the forest surrounding Wharncliffe Mill for 60 families to locate.
Geocaching has grown in popularity all over the world and is essentially a worldwide treasure hunt where people hide hidden boxes and mark their location on GPS to be found by treasure hunters.
Some boxes contain hidden prizes and after each cache is people log their success online while hunting for the next one.
The Bakers family took part in last weekend’s event but, even though they are keen geocachers, they found the course challenging at first.
After rummaging around logs, bushes and tree stumps they soon found the first cache and were eager to run off to find the others.
“We hid 50 caches around the Wharncliffe Mill for people to find,” Nature Play Co-ordinator Natasha Madams said.
“This is the second year we have run geocaching.”
Nature Play is a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on getting people outside and enjoying nature. They found geocaching was the perfect way to get people outside and discovering nature.
“Sometimes people need a little structure to go out give the outdoors a go and geocaching is great for that.
“It’s a challenge, and the excitement of finding treasure that makes it so much fun.”
With more than 2.5 million geocaches hidden around the world Nature Play is encouraging Margaret River residents to get involved in the activity as you are never far away from treasure.
To get the ball rolling they have hidden 10 geocaches in the forest surrounding Wharncliffe Mill for people to find.
People interested in finding them can log on to geocaching.com to find geocache locations near them.
