Isonzo Karst

That a one or two ounce glass? and what's the white powder? great great sig item

Toot Toot Toot these three caches

Sprocket1980 claims the one day AZ caching record of 73. Also personally, I'd grant her funniest post of many on this cache.

T'was intended to be humorous - though it's true we sometimes work from the GPSr going from cache to cache, reading the cache description from the PDA on an "as needed" basis. Hey, where it's deliberate, part of the cache design, this is fine with me. I think some cache owners don't indicate micro 'cause it's not a film can - but end up indicating nothing and making their caches more obscure than they intended. Not to mention hard to filter. Click micro then indicate smaller than a film can - nano, quark whatever

Lately I see a lot of very small micros with no size indicated. I understand that the cache owner may not see the "film can" option on the cache write up page as correctly descriptive (film can? this thing isn't one tenth the size of a film can !). But if no size is indicated and then a bug gets bounced through or mislogged onto the page, hunting the cache can get really confusing . Okay, so this may be intentional in some cases, but mostly I think not. The cache owner expects me to read their write up ("nanoish") and not just glance at the coords and symbols. Help me out, call a micro a micro.

Here, that's called bouncing bugs - it's done to add to the bug's mileage, to add to the interest of the bug's trip. I don't think I've seen it done with YJTB, though.

A good indication of a "golden cache" already exists in the form of the number of people watching it. If there nearly as many watchers as there are Found it - you've got a special cache.

The Spirit of Florida

This thread is very similar to another recent thread. After reading that thread I changed the cache type of one of our caches from multi to mystery. But I think it's not always clear whether a cache is an offset multi, or a mystery. If the calculation/arithmetic/navigation is pretty simple, I'd call it a multi not a mystery. I have a cache that involves a bit of very simple arithmetic that I'm calling a multi as the calculation is so easy. Here's a mystery cache that I think is correctly labelled. Individually, each of the calculations is easy and all the information is in front of you - but you do have to work through 6 calculations and some alphabetical gyrations to generate your second stage coords.

We've attended three events in the last three weeks. At all three of them were print outs of new caches "released" that morning in time for the event. I assumed this was common across the country, but perhaps not. Our Florida cache approver (Crow T Robot) is willing to work with event holders on timing of approval. I don't know, but I'd guess, that many of the new caches released at RREngineers event will be his own.

Another source for the stainless O ring pill containers - at $1, instead of $2.95 try IMS Surplus scroll down this page.

A rule that often applies to urban micros is Low or High - even cleverly camoed, it's not often at comfortable seeing/feeling height, too easily muggled.

The link at the top - to the NEFGA forum thread on this topic answers nearly all the questions posed so far.

I nominate Doc - at the moment the cachers themselves are probably sleeping or logging caches

From Zatoichi's post on the NEFGA (Northeast Florida Geocaching Association) site: New post Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: 24-hour Cache Record Reply with quote First and foremost, I want to thank all those people who encouraged Dan, Dave & I to attempt this crazy record. If our friends & families did not support us, our goal would never have been achieved. Thank you. I am proud to announce that the 24-hour cache record has fallen. The new ante now stands at 246 caches. 'Team Rebellion', consisting of CaptDC52 (Dan), Luke 11.9 (Dave) and Zatoichi (Chris) went to Jacksonville early on Sunday, October 24th, 2004. 24 hours later... tired, dirty, wet, smelly, bleeding... the record had fallen. BTW... the three of us have known each other for over 12 years. We are all career firefighters with Marion County Fire-Rescue, Florida. http://www.nefga.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=9398#9398 These guys had no Jax assistance, no guide, no driver, just came up from central Florida and did it. Expect this record to fall yet again around the GeoWoodstock III to be held in Jax this May Congratulations to Team Rebellion!

That's the way I would do it as a cache owner - anytime the posted coordinates will not take you to the cache, or the first stage of a multi-cache, I'd call it and like to see it called a mystery cache. Though if all the information you need is at the site of the coordinates, and the calculation is extremely simple perhaps it's still a traditional multi. I've run into two caches lately where we needed to see a picture on the cache page to understand the write up. "Note the green objects in the picture, how many....?" Pretty useless when caching out of a PDA. I guess the only way to handle that is to call it a mystery cache (both were called traditional). Mystery should alert you to read the cache page in advance of attempting the cache.

I save every packet of dessicant that comes my way - vitamins aspirin and most prescription drugs have some in the bottle. Shoes often have a fairly large packet. Bagged with the log it will help with the high humidity of a Fl summer. But you have to do maintenance - replace or warm on a regular basis.

Magnets rust, so inside the container is good , if possible, or a quick coat of urethane

Getting twitchy, need my fix..

I've already contacted Jeep@Geocaching.com asking that they consider asking Ebay to pull the listing. They are the owners of the bug, not Brazzlebooks. My real concern is that it will lead to cache plunder, which is what I expressed to Jeep.

[To encourage (not that you are doing that) any type of plundering and theft at all is not what we should be doing ] If he gets any kind of price for this - $75! Then it will piracy for sure....

Ebay item Weird - can't see any way to stop this. Maybe it doesn't need to be stopped, but it sure feels wrong. Though maybe not for that Swedish cacher, who isn't going to see a YJTB any time soon, unless he buys it on Ebay.

The battery canister for large scuba lights( cave diving, photography) makes a true water proof container. Now, getting users to properly clean the leaves/sand/dirt off the O ring seal before resubmerging, that's another story. So maybe the chuckles still apply.

Yeah - google brought me here when I entered Florida Geocaching as a search term, I was hoping I'd get floridacaching.com, but no luck so far... I don't even recognize most of the usernames.

Here's one: Nature Coast GeoEvent If you show up we can call it an international event. There are lots of caches in the Central Florida area. Don't know what type of caching you like, so you can email if you like. Isonzo