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High-tech Treasure Hunters Coming to Warminster Saturday
Warminster Community Park is hosting a geo-cache hunt as part of the township's Tricentennial celebration.
There's going to be a treasure hunt on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. at Warminster Community Park. But there will be no Xes marking the spot, no shovels to dig and no chests filled with pirate gold.
The event will give the uninitiated a good taste of the sport/hobby of geocaching. Basically, there are tiny magnetic capsules hidden throughout the park. Seekers plug in the GPS coordinates of the capsules into either a dedicated GPS device, or they can download an app on their smartphones. They then follow the coordinates to find the capsules, which they can open up and write their initials into a tiny log, place it back in the capsule and leave for the next hunter.
"The GPS doesn't take you right up to the location," said organizer Richard Luce. "It gets you within six feet, the rest is up to you. They can be attached to the back of stop sign, at the bottom of a lightpost, so you need a good eye."
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Luce first heard of geocaching last August during a meeting of an area amateur radio club. He tried it out while vacationing in Hawaii and became an instant fan. When he returned, Luce began planting caches around Warminster and presented the idea to the Tricentennial committee to host the one-day hunt on the grounds of the former Naval Air Development Center where the technology was originally designed.
Be sure to watch the video to get a quick tutorial on how to participate in the geocache hunt.
