If you love the outdoors, high-tech equipment and adventure then the hobby of Geocaching is for you!  Here at CBEC we have over 20 caches to find so spend the day with family, friends or co-workers, bring lunch and explore the various habitats of the Chesapeake Bay.  To find all about geocaching go to www.geocaching.com

CBEC Partners in Geocaching

The Military Association of GeoCachers (MAGC) is an organization of US military (past and present), their families, friends and allies who mix technology with outdoor adventures to find geocaches around the world.  Being military, their home is where the government sends them and as such, the local MAGC chapter (The Beltway Bandits) partnered with CBEC as a way to give back to the community.  Each spring the MAGC has a Cache In Trash Out (CITO) event at the center as a way of promoting bay restoration through geocaching.  The MAGC has established and maintains numerous cache sites at CBEC, both traditional and Earth caches.  For more information on MAGC go to www.militarycache.org

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) branch that develops and maintains the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) is called the National Geodetic Survey (NGS).  The purpose of this system is to define with the highest possible accuracy, latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity and national shorelines throughout the United States.  This in turn provides the foundation of accuracy to reliable transportation, communication and defense systems, boundary and property surveys, land record systems, mapping and charting, public utilities, coastal zone management, natural resource conservation and scientific and engineering applications.  NGS also does research  to improve collection, distribution and use of spatial data.  The precise nature of this system has lead to the development and refinement of technologies available to the public, including Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying techniques.  Find out more at www.ngs.noaa.gov including access to its data base www.ngs.noaa.gov

CBEC Cache Coordinates

Cache the Center     (sm)   1.5/1.5         GC19FC7

N 38’56.894                   W 76’13.692

Hummock Loop        (med)   2/2             GC19FA6

N 38’57.030                   W 76’13.700

Mature Loblolly         (med)   2/2             GC19FBE

N 38’56.712                   W 76’13.761       *Go Deep

Daniel’s Lookout      (sm)   2.5/1.5          GC19FC1

N 38’57.102                   W 76’13.774       * Pushing the edge

Take a Knapp            (sm)  2.5/3              GC19GXY

N 38’57.015                   W 76’13.996        * Approx. 4ft off ground

Hood Point V             (med)    1/2.5           GC19GZ3

N 38’56.617                   W 76’14.004

Listen to the Birds   (reg)      3/2              GC19Q4D

N 38’56.101                   W 76’12.710        *Think between row 7 & 8

Co-ords are for the main gate to CBEC. Drive along the rd to the sign for Loblolly Plantation – take a set of co-ords at this sign then: add .016 to N, subtract .012 from W. Now hunt cache. GPS will bounce so use geo sense.

Realm of The Fae – Isle of Mist                  (reg) 1.5/1.5              GC1PFEW

N 38’56.981                   W 76’13.423

Duck, Duck, Goose                                        (reg) 1.5/1.5              GC1PQ3W

N 38’56.807                   W 76’13.729

Just Off Discovery Lane                              (reg) 1/1.5                  GC1PNNZ

N 38’56.910                   W 76’13.976

Green Matter                                                   (reg) 1/1.5                  GC1PFX8

N38’56.761                    W 76’13.952

Not What It Seems                                         (reg) 3/2                     GC1PQ6N

N 38’56.959                   W 76’13.806

Eye of Newt                                                                2/2                     GC1PFC9

N 38’56.854                   W76’13.890

Geodetic Markers

Site 1:                                                       N 38°56.969’                 W 076°13.089’

Site 2:                                                       N 38°56.663’                 W 076°13.779’

Site 3:                                                       N 38°56.810’                 W 076°13.034’

Site 4:                                                       N 38°57.127’                 W 076°14.036’

Site 5:                                                       N 38°57.122’                 W 076°13.755’

Site 6:                                                       N 38°56.851’                 W 076°14.124’

Paulas:                                                    N 38°56.884’                 W 076°13.931’

Commemorative Marker:                     N 38°56.898’                 W 076°13.755’