GeoCache Kayaking

Just recently I purchased two Garmin hand held GPS walkie talkies for my kayak guides to use on the water to communicate with the kayak bus operator and each other. They are really fun and offer the ability to see the opposite persons coordinates and detailed travel itinerary such as their speed and time of arrival. Another great advantage of having these units is the ability to navigate to a specific location to find an item or landmark often called GeoCaching.

In all of my 10 years as a kayak guide, I have never gotten lost, nor needed a GPS to tell me where to go yet. Saying that, we have always taken kayakers out to see shipwrecks which were a few hundred yards off of the beach and were difficult to locate via our past methodology of triangulation, piloting, and luck, sometimes it would eat up too much time locating the shipwreck and our guests would want to venture on. Thanks to the GPS, we could find the shipwrecks once and mark the landmark as a waypoint or coordinate on the GPS for future use.

Many of the guests we have come on our kayak tours have children. The best part of using GeoCaching and this technology with the kayak tours is letting the kids discover the shipwreck, often times they find the waypoint much faster than the adults, imagine that. The parents are proud to see their child in the outdoors using the latest in technology to find a buried shipwreck with a history lesson behind it. They become technological pirates.

David Rack has been a kayak guide for 10 years in places such as Maui, Door County and abroad. He is currently ACA, CPR, and First Aid certified.

Join him on a Kayak Tour of Door County at http://www.DoorCountyKayakTours.com

To find more kayaking locations visit http://www.DoorCountyKayakTours.com/destinations.htm

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