A new sport will come to Tarboro on Saturday, as visitors and locals can use their handheld GPS devices to go "geocaching" around town.

The event, called "Coffee and Cache" will begin at 3 p.m. at the Main Street Café.

Main Street Cafe owner Jennifer Price said the event will coincide with Tarboro's 2nd Saturday, as people will go around town with their handheld global positioning devices to look for specially placed packages.

Price called the sport a "high tech treasure hunt" that she has been playing now for around four years.

For Saturday's event, Price said she'll have some caches placed around the Historic District and Tarboro's various parks, to "give (visitors) a neat tour of what we have here.

"When you go to an area, as a tourist, you don't know all the little parks, neat places to go," she said.

When her family has taken trips and gone geocaching, "(we have) found places we never would have thought to go," Price said.

"Every time we go on vacation, we try to go geocaching," she added.

When her husband Mike, her two boys Seth, 7, and Drew, 10, and she went to the Outer Banks last week, they visited the Aurora Fossil Museum in Aurora while they went geocaching. They also tracked some caches in the woods at Nag's Head, where she said they had never been before.

When a friend introduced her to geocaching, she said she would go to events in Rocky Mount, where there are more than 30 geocachers. There are around 15 geocachers in Tarboro, Price said, and she's hoping this event will draw people from Rocky Mount as well.

To participate Saturday, people will first have to sign up with a free Web site, www.geocaching.com, to get location coordinates for the packages, so they can locate them with their GPS devices. They can search for caches by ZIP code, and their GPS units will point them in the direction of the cache and show how far away they are.

Price said the coordinates are accurate up to around 20 feet, and that people will have to do some searching to find some of the caches, especially if they're in a wooded area.

Price suggested not using a car GPS device, but a handheld GPS device to go geocaching. She said the handheld GPS devices cost between $75 to $300.

She said that the search for the caches often takes people into wooded areas, and trails where car access isn't possible.