Welcome Aboard Junior Girl Scouts...
for a true and interactive sailing experience in Annapolis, Maryland
on two, fast and fun 74-foot wooden schooners,
Woodwind and Woodwind II.

2012 Sailing Season: April 21 - October 28

Schooner Woodwind Geocaching Adventure Trail

We have developed the "Schooner Woodwind Geocaching Adventure Trail" to show Girl Scouts some of Annapolis' heritage spots as they walk around town looking for clues and coordinates. Geocaching will also help them understand navigational skills, whether they are used on a boat or on land. This Geocaching Trail is only for guests who participate in one of our Girl Scout Cruises. The most relevant is the Sailing and Navigation Girl Scout Cruise with a 100 Years of History.

Schooner Woodwind Geocaching Adventure Trail Goal: To use their skills of Navigation with a Global Positiong Device (GPS) on a treasure hunt on a short walk in Annapolis. They will complete a "Puzzle Cache" and "Multi-Cache", where at each new coordinate the girls will have to solve an interesting puzzle to get a hint to their next stop along the trail. The final location will have the physical geocache container filled with trade items and maybe even a travel bug for your troop to advance into the world. The basics of navigation they will learn aboard the Schooner Woodwind will help them in understanding navigation and GPS as a global concept (pun intended). After completing this trail, JUNIORS can earn their GEOCACHER badge.

This Geocaching Trail will take just under an hour for most troops. It is available 7 Days a Week during daylight hours for participants of our Girl Scout Sailing Cruises. This trail is NOT listed on geocaching.com, because we do not want the public to use this trail. This is a special trail we designed for our girl scout programs.

How do you prepare for this trail? Please read up on the GEOCACHER Activity in the JUNIOR "Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting". Learn steps 1-3 as a troop and we'll take care of Step 4. Bring at least one GPS with you to find the coordinates. The more GPS's the more "hands on" it will be. A Smart Phone will work, we'll send you instructions on what Apps are the easiest for your phone. A handheld GPS used for hiking or camping will work fine. Any Car Navigation system that can be used remotely, we'll send you instructions on this. Have the troop make or bring trade items to trade once they reach the final cache location. Have the troop make or find (from a previous geocaching hunt) a Travel Bug to drop in our cache. (Step 5 "Take Part in a Bug's Travels").

There are no minimums to do the Geocaching Trail. The trail can be done at your convenience.

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Girl Scout Home

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting! Learn about interesting events that happened in 1912 and how those events have shaped boating and the Navy today. (Work towards your "100 Ways to Celebrate the 100th Patch") Available on most of our 2012 cruises.

Prices start at $30.00 per child (under 12) & come with a soft drink or bottled water, snack, and Schooner Woodwind Participation Patch.

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