While camping at Lake Osooyoos over Memorial Day weekend my friend Kirsten and I noticed some golf balls on the bottom of a tributary out of the lake. Kirsten, by far the more adventurous one, decided to dive for them and I appointed myself her spotter. She plunged into the frigid water over and over (we got 18 golf balls) and while I was spotting I noticed a sinister looking man plant an equally sinister looking box underneath the railing that I was leaning on. It was painted the same parks and recreation green as the railing and I, being the more imaginative one, immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was a bomb or dead-drop, a communication device used mostly by undercover spies. I raced back to the campsite to get my dad while Kirsten watched the box to make sure no one came back to retrieve it. I returned to the scene with my dad and we finally conclude that, since the box wasn't ticking, it wasn't a bomb. We pondered it for a while and finally my dad cautiously slid it off the underside of the railing. The box was attached with an extremely strong magnet and had a small door that slid off on the bottom. My dad carefully pulled it open. Was it a bomb? No. A dead-drop? No. A secret recording system? No. It was a geocache!!! Geocaching is a popular hobby among hikers and nature enthusiasts where a box is place somewhere secret and the coordinates are retrieved online. For more info go to www.geocaching.com.