Becca and I took the kids to Antelope Island this morning. Becca had taken an interest in letterboxing recently, and there is a letterbox hidden on the island. (Letterboxing is the analog equivalent of geocaching.)
Our first attempt at letterboxing had a hitch or two. Becca's camera had dead batteries. We forgot to bring a compass (and had to take our bearings off the position of the sun). We managed to find where the letterbox was hidden eventually though.
We were the first to record a visit in 2005. Of those who'd signed (& stamped) the book the farthest visitors had come from upstate New York last summer. We signed & stamped the book ourselves and rehid it in the same location for the next letterboxers to find.
There are quite a few other letterboxes hidden in Utah that we can go looking for sometime. Probably won't see buffalo at many others, though...
UPDATE: Becca wrote about our Antelope Island adventure from her perspective.
—Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, February 05, 2005 at 14:02