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    Roadside caches with no point

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Get 100 people to stand at some arbitrary spot and take a single photograph. The result will most likely be a couple of variations of similar points of view. But there will always be one photograph that will make everyone say "were we in the same place"?

     

    Also, keep in mind that the environment can change dramatically in a day....>

     

     

     

    Agreed, I must say that this has been an aspect that has horrified me in some cases. When placing a cache for interest or beauty whatever, Always try to think of what it will be like tomorrow, next week or next season. Not so easy is it?

     

     

    Like my Poor Pigeon Toes: It has now surfaced that all that is left of the cache is the actual Pigeon Toes (legs) as a fire must have goit to the polystyrene birds body. Funny how the name of the cache still remained appropriate. ;) However, Since the Log was iinsde a plastic containiner in the birds chest, this was destroyed aswell. So I wonder how many people actually saw the whole bird or just the Pigeon Toes?!

     

    Sorry I digress.... The thing is, I did not think of Fire when I placed this Road Side Cache. And it was a nice clump of trees if I ever saw one. :P

     

     

    Another example, on one of my Caches, I placed it in Summer, the River was in Full Flow, The Trees and Grass all around the area was beautiful. My Family and I spent 3 hours there I think it was. And it is just there, in the middle of nowhere. I took a particular picture of the Great Big Weeping Willow Tree at the head of the bridge. Someone found the cache and took a similar pic... To my disgust it was in winter and the tree and surrounds really looked nasty. :huh: Not at all like it was in Summer. Not what I had inteded either. But some other people visited it during summer and got the jist of the cache. So I suppose it is all worth it in the end.

     

    Maybe there is something in that? Seasonal Caches :huh:;) . Or recommended to do in x Season but available all year? As an Attribute? Or does it exist already? Sorry, I have been dormant of late so things might have changed on the site.

     

     

    Sorry for the long post.... :P

    Roadside caches with no point

    in South Africa

    Posted · Edited by triptrick

    ...BUT. We just returned from Bela Bela, and sadly, as long as we have event days where there will be 'blanket-cache-droppings', we will have useless roadside caches. Good for the numbers, but nothing else.

     

    Hi There,

     

    I hid 2 "Road Side Caches" as part of the Bela Bela Event.

     

    Rootstock II GC136RB

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f2-71f76d8915b7

     

    And the Now Disabled:

    Pigeon Toes GC136R1

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...de-f867e5c4b498

     

    One just needs to read the logs on these two caches to realise that they were not the "Typical Road Side Cache" although they were right next to the respective roads.

     

    Rootstock II takes you to a beautiful Counrty Lane (apparently very muddy in the rainy season :ph34r: , more the fun I say)

     

    And Pigeon Toes won a Prize for Day 2 of the event. So if for nothing else it's originality should be enough if not for the long and Winding Sand Road through a great piece of country side.

     

    Point is... Like mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it depends what you are looking for in a cache.... If a Road Side irritates you, Dont Do It!

     

    When I started this hobby / Pass Time whatever, I felt the need to find every cache that blinked up on the GPS screen. Then learning what people do, by basically just throwing a film canister into a hole somewhere, I do not enjoy this. So I dont Do It anymore. However, If certain Cachers hide a micro, I will find them as I know I will be taken to a good place, or interesting something at least.

     

    My 2 cents anyway...

     

    Keep on Caching....

    How to make it stop?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Hi triptrick.

     

    What has happened - it is one month since I heard from you. Did they move you to another Institute? I am still incarcerated in "Geocache Meadows", the food is O.K. but the wardens has no sense of direction. Can't wait to be re-united at the Sp"Ring" bash, miss you guys.

     

    Got to go - they are doing their rounds and it is best to pretend that the treatment is working... :)

     

     

    Shhh... This new institution has me busy man. Had much more time to cache oin the previous one. :o .

     

    It has been a while since I was let out, you are right. Planning an AWOL tomorrow though.

    "Denial of Service" attack from Groundspeak?

    in Website

    Posted

    I live in a very rural area. I am too far away from a telephone building for DSL and there is no cable way out here. Satellite Internet is possible for people who can afford it, but I cannot afford the equipment and the $60.00/mo fee. This ISP, which until last Friday, has been very reliable (I never get a busy signal), only costs $100.00 per year.

    Doesn't DSL run on your home phone line? Do you have to be close to a building for that?

    I looked into that before we got cable. You need to be no more than a certain distance from the nearest telco substation in order for DSL to work on your line. We were out of luck.

     

    My understanding is that you need to be on a Digital Telco Exchange and not an old Analogue one. So most Exchanges here have both because of the upgrading happening, so if you need DSL then they can move you to the Digital switches in most cases. So we can get up to 4mbps lines now... But they cost plenty. So I got a 512k ADSL line that costs an equivalent of $142 /month. Way more than the world standard. But it is getting better.

    "Denial of Service" attack from Groundspeak?

    in Website

    Posted

    AOL had this issue a little while back and there's no telling how much mail i missed getting. I ended up using the gmail workaround (having it forwarded to my aol account from gmail) and it seems to have been working fine. I have also set up a couple of test pocket queries to come straight to my AOL address and they are coming in the way they are supposed to now, but i'm not going to revert back yet, as i figure this can happen again.

    Whoooo Hoo! :ph34r::yikes: Old mail is slowly coming in this morning, and I got a message from Annie from GC.com who wrote this:

     

    Some ISP's will blacklist geocaching.com and label us as a 'bulk

    sender." This is true and false. While we do send emails in bulk,

    these filters do not distinguish between solicited and unsolicited

    bulk email. If this is the case you will need to contact your ISP and

    ask them to allow email from these IP addresses:

     

    66.150.167.133

    66.150.167.157

     

    These are the originating IPs for all mail from Geocaching.com.

    So, I will send that message on to my ISP and hope they don't do this again. In the meantime, gmail forwarding works, so I will continue to use that. :)

     

    Well, I just changed my email address to my Yahoo! one. I wonder if all those messages sitting on the server will be sent to the Yahoo! account now?

     

    I don't want that to be a permanent fix however because it takes way too much time to view my mail over the web with my 24K connection speed . . . waiting.gif

    It shouldn't take any longer than downloading your email from your ISP. Actually it should be faster because photos and other attachments stay on the Yahoo server unless you download them. :o

    Since I changed my GC.com address to one at gmail, I don't have to deal with Yahoo!, but the reason it is so slow is waiting for page reloads. It takes more than 30 seconds for page reloads with a connection this slow . . . :) And, to get a PQ through Yahoo! takes three page reloads . . . before I can finally start the three to four minute download of the PQ. faint.gif

     

    Ever Considered ADSL, HSDPA or 3G?

    I was always under the impression that you folks in the USA and other First World Countries had massive bandwidth (in excess of 2mb) to your houses for a very small cost? :grin:

    Soup and Sherry

    in South Africa

    Posted

    They intend to drink lots of Sherry - probably of the OBS type and then you can "eat" anything. ;)

     

    :laughing::laughing::)

     

    Very Funny... Thanks for that... Made me laugh... alot... Why is it that many a funny thing is usually true life...

    How to make it stop?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Er I seem to suffer from this too. As there are very little caches in my area I am now resorting to dropping them as I go. I find myself going down unknown dirt roads and plotting routes on google earth with the hope that a wonderful spot will show up fit for a cache. The family is usually dragged along on weekends to go exploring, usually to moans and groans half way out on the trip. Eish.....

     

    Leonw if you are wanting to drop caches, I have a lot of open space just for you here in N-KZN area.....

     

    Hey Wazat,

     

    My Wife and daughter usually grumble a little too when I "Force" them to cache with me... But my son is bok for sport...

     

    I am looking into a trip in December from Gauteng, through Mpumalanga then to N KZN and onto Ballito Area then Home.... Maybe spend 10 or 15 days cruising around.... Finding Caches of course....

    How to make it stop?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Hi Triptrick

     

    Please help, I got it bad. Can't stop hiding caches. Need a doctor urgently. Must go and hide a cache, hide ...

     

    :P

     

    Dear LeonW, (my Dear Sick Friend)

     

    I have noticed of late your splurge of caches hitting the Area north east (ish) of me. You had better slow down hiding caches otherwise you could suffer from Cache Hiding Burnout!

     

    Changing the subject a little, If it was not for your "Gold Receipt" I would have had no finds this month yet... Been a little pre occupied, but I will try catch up by a few this weekend. Also have some nice idea's for a few hides again aswell, so, hopefully I will hide some soon.

     

    I look forward to finding some of your caches later in the month or early August.

    Deleting another cachers log !

    in South Africa

    Posted

    I DID IT - I DELETED A NODDY LOG! :blink:

     

    Let me tell you why. My most recent cache had some fundamental flaws so I took on Noddy's comments and another cacher's comments and revised the whole cache, therefore making the logs no longer relevant.

     

    Am I wrong to delete 'no longer relevant' logs for a cache whose original format has completely changed?

    Everyone's thoughts welcome-good or bad.

     

    P.S. If I offended you Noddy, then I apologise. :blink:

     

    :laughing: I was dying to know the details. thanks :laughing:

     

    I reckon if the cache was changed dramatically a curteous email would have gone along way before deleting the log(s). Maybe leaving the cachers that have found it already as-is. Thats MHO anyway. :laughing:

    How to make it stop?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    The Cure?

     

    Wonder who places the first GAD only cache, only logs from members with more than 500th finds allowed?

     

    Cache-Fan

    Um, My Translator must have packed up... :laughing:

     

    Fish Eagle

    Yes you seem sick with GAD. I mean 600km for 4 caches?? But then to return for another 2 caches the following weekend???? I am afraid you have past the point of no return. :lol: Ja well no fine, Just go with it. I seriously need to go down to your neck of the woods to find some. Should be fun!

     

    Geocacher_coza,

    You too, are sick. I saw your finds come through on GeocachingRanking.com. I am not sure how people find so many in such a short period of time. Are they placed all in a line or something 161m apart? so as far as one can walk in a day is how many caches you can pick up?

    And to wake up at 4AM for a FTF Run is Insane! Your wife is correct. :laughing:

     

    Hey At Least have fun with it... Keeps us out of trouble. :laughing:

    GEOCACHING MAGAZINE

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by triptrick

     

    Hmmm - don't want to write for a magazine, won't read one, won't pay for one... exactly why are you in this thread?

     

    You're not involved or even interested, by your very admission - move along, there's obviously nothing for you here. :(

     

    :D Glad it came from you, because I was thinking the same :laughing:

     

    edited: dang spell checker... :D

    GEOCACHING MAGAZINE

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    somebody spammed my local mailing list about this magazine. i think it was you guys. i am not happy about it. i don't know how everyone else feels, but i sure don't like it.

     

    Seems that the other magazine being talked about in here that was started up with the "Anonymous" guy did the spamming... See previous threads...

    GEOCACHING MAGAZINE

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by triptrick

    How about something like: (some Idea's)

    go!

    caching

    Your hunt starts here

    Or

     

    Cachezine

    Where the Hunt starts

    Or

     

    inside caching

    Or

     

    CADzine

    The magazine for people with Caching Addiction Disorder :o<_<

     

    They're not great but it's an attempt...

     

    :unsure:

    GEOCACHING MAGAZINE

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Not trying to be too critical or negative here (too late?) :unsure: And you cant please everyone all the time but my $0.02 worth (Which is more like ZAR0.15 from where I am from) <_<

     

    http://www.geocachermagazine.com -- does not look good at all. I realise it is still under construction but first impressions last as they say. There will need to be loads of more input and fixing up. Graphics need to be redone, resolution dropped to 1024X768 maximum, future menu bar on left needs lots of work etc etc.... Not gonna even comment on http://www.myspace.com/geocachermagazine's layout.... :unsure:

     

    In fact, while everyone is dissagreeing and agreeing with each other about a Magazine, I will go out Caching :o

     

    I reckon Mr. Rambler, from what I have read and seen to date would pull it together better.

     

    As I said, my $0.02 worth. Use it, Dont use it.

     

    :blink:

    Google Adds

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    In my opinion the membership fee is far too cheap for what we get out of it. Even £10 per month wouldn't be too expensive - comparable to a TV license for which we willingly pay and never watch as we're always out caching!

    Steady on there! :P

    If we're willing to pay much more as premium members, there's never going to be the possibility of getting all these other freeloaders to contribute :):D:P

     

    I've never seen anything from a non-PM acknowledging that they get something for nothing: they're in denial. The only "valid" point ever made is the "but, mister, you said it would always be free, you can't charge now" line, and it's only valid in the sense that it once applied. Look at the excuse they often use: "I don't use the PM features so why should I pay?" Now the owners are spending serious cash on the technology we all use and not just the PM services and they have a right to change the rules.

     

    I don't really care about adverts as they can be ignored. I don't mind people not paying either. Honestly. What I do object to is their continuously justifying not paying a bean in the face of overwhelming facts. Just once I'd like someone to say (without sugar-coating it), "yeah, it's free and I'll use it like that if there are people willing to subsidise me." At least that's honest.

     

    That said, though, I would be interested to know how many premium members there are relative to those cachers who elect not to support the caching community. Are we really in such a minority? Supporting the community does not mean going out and setting caches either. We all do that.

     

    Has anyone noticed that the people posting in this thread are, by and large, premium members? Everyone else has remained very quiet; off caching at our expense.

     

    ;) Seems I'm going to enjoy this one! :D

     

    :P:D:P

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