Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users.
(Salisbury, MD) Add some adventure to your 2011 summer by taking part in the Geocache Dash. This free, family-friendly event will kick-off a new geocaching virtual trail that takes cachers to 22 exciting locations across Wicomico County. Join the Wicomico County Convention & Visitors Association along with Wicomico County Recreation, Parks & Tourism on Saturday, June 11. The day will begin and end at Pemberton Historical Park (5561 Plantation Lane, Salisbury, MD).
The Geocache Dash will launch Saturday morning at 8am. Cachers can register, pick-up their passports and cache information at Pemberton Park. From there, the search will be on for caches, which have been placed in locations such as parks, marinas, museums and historical sites. Two of the caches will only be accessible by boat, canoe and/or kayak. During the launch of the trail, kayaks will be available free of charge from designated boat launch areas. After June 11th, cachers will need to provide their own water transportation to access the caches.
After a full-day of searching, cachers can return to Pemberton Park to celebrate their finds. During the celebration, which will last from 5pm to 8pm, the first 200 cachers finding 18 or more caches will receive a custom 2011 Wicomico Geocache Dash trackable geocoin. Door prizes and cash prize drawings will be up for grab. A full day of caching will no doubt build up everyone’s appetite, so food and drink vendors will also be on-site. Participants can also opt to enjoy an all you can eat crab dinner and corn from Fat Boys Crabs for $25/person. Crab dinner tickets can be purchased at registration the morning of the event.
If you want to participate in the Geocache Dash but have never geocached, a free basic class will be offered the morning of the event from 8am-9am at Pemberton Park. If attending, please bring a Handheld GPS or a GPS-Enabled Smartphone and Camera or Cellphone/Camera Combo.
Organizers of this event have hopes it will turn into a "Mega-Event", which means that 500 or more people attend. If you want to be one of those 500 people visit Wicomico County Tourism's website, http://www.wicomicotourism.org/, to learn more! Although the event is free, participants are asked to send in a participation form and register the morning of the event. The website will give you up-to-date information, as well as explain how to retrieve the coordinates and other location information for the geocaches. You may also contact the Wicomico Tourism Office at 410-548-4914 Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm.
Wicomico's Geocache Dash is sponsored by Comcast Spotlight, Delmarva Power, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay and the Centre at Salisbury
2 comments:
You should look into Fat Daddy's Crabs. I live through the woods from them and on any given day especially in the morning all you can smell is a very foul rotten odor. From what I'm told, (don't know if it is true)Fat Daddy's dumps the crab remains/shells in the woods.
That should say Fat Boy's and Not Fat Daddy's. They are located on Old OC Road.
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