Dear Tim & June.
As newcomers to Geocaching we would just like to thank you for the words of wisdom & welcome!
We fell in love with the sport right from the word go but, must admit that having read some of the other posts directed at us "newbies," we'd started to feel a little apprehensive.
We have just hidden our first cache (which you approved - hopefully it's OK, as we received no mail to the contrary!) after only finding six. Perhaps, after reading this post, we appreciate we should have gained more experience first. However, at the time, the first thought was to "Give something back." As we were benefiting from others efforts to provide caches to go out there and find. We learnt a very hard lesson when after we logged our very first find, the cache then disappeared, even though we did our best to be discreet & replace it back exactly where & the way we had found it.
Thanks again - education & constructive critisism helps us with our initation but "Newbies" need to be loved too!!