lee737

What do your cache pages look like to GPSr users??

Shoot for newer caches (or clearly well maintained ones) too.... finding moist wads of paper mache won't be inspiring for any newbie.....

I suppose on thorns and such, nothing really worthy though.... most blood is from leeches!

12..... I've shed blood several times, but never signed with it.....

Making it a multi or puzzle will reduce cacher visits, and expose it to muggles' gaze less often.... hiding it better can backfire, as cachers will spend longer looking for it, and be more suspicious.....

I must say I found it amusing to see signs nailed to trees in the Botanic Gardens in Sydney a few years back...

When starting out, go for low difficulty/terrain caches that have been found recently, and probably not micro sized - go for small/regular sized or higher. Watch for helpful hints, maybe read some past logs before you go out, and check for images in the cache gallery....

I'm hearing you, but the short answer is that finders aren't required to prove it apart from signing the log....

They probably weren't allowed to....

1. Around here, if it is public bushland/park, just submit with implied permission. 2. Cable tie, wire

Same here.... I'm happy not to have an old service station (gas station) docket as the log, cheers.....

People don't seem to take criticism well now, it gets called hating/shaming..... you're just poor-coordinate-shaming me!

We've had criticism in the past for the density of bushbash that was needed to get to the cache, where, if the finder had paid attention to the description, they would have been directed to a fairly open way to traverse across to the hide, which was a 20L/5ga bucket, so couldn't really be popped under a seat on the main track....

I agree with your sentiments, but constructive criticism can be useful, like container suitability and ratings (when they are *way* off).

I'm not sure about your area, but here, a week probably means something may be up.... our usual delay would be about 72hr ± 72hr.....

We have four peoples TBs in our inventory at the moment.... Picked up about a month ago whilst away. We were on a weekend away recently, and despite finding nearly 90 caches, I can only recall one or two that were truly big and dry enough. A lot of wet muck, I'd never put a TB in those. Actually one nice dry ammo tin, but it was a Geocaching Australia cache, wrong platform... Other weekends at home we've been busy placing 2 small cache series, 14 caches in all, whilst checking/repairing and replacing a couple of others. I'd give people more slack than a month.... some of us are contributing a lot in other ways - we'll get there!

If you have messaged them and got no response, I'd delete the logs, especially the private one....

I see trackables a bit like hiding caches - ie. just a contribution I can make to the overall game. They're cheap, and its fun to see them get overseas and travel about. Once we buy it and put it together and release it, you sort of know you'll never see it again regardless of whether it travels all over or croaks in a month....

I wouldn't get worried about a month.... sometimes people just forget, or can't find caches big enough... once they've had it 6 months plus, send them a friendly reminder.... Don't get emotional about TBs.... just send out some more if some go missing!

It never ceases to amaze me how the CO's who drop massive country road power trails put caches right out the front of houses when there are literally kilometre after kilometre of vacant scrub in between..... a handful less caches in your 65 cache power trail won't be noticed.

I adopted 5 out to my two sons before submitting for publishing on the weekend- it is a tedious process.... maybe it could be streamlined? An option in the cache owner dashboard would be nice, especially if it could be applied to several at one time...

There goes my suggestion!

It's sort of weird how possessive some get.... we parked on the median strip between a letterbox and the roadway to find a cache, found it and went back to the car. As we were about to drive off, a young guy approached from the nearby house - I assumed it might have even been the CO, wound down the window..... 'you're parked on my yard!' we got - I explained we were on the footpath... 'you parked on my yard!' is all we got..... I mean if we started digging with an excavator or dumping rubbish, fair enough.... but some dude and a child parked there for 5 minutes.... why bother? Even if it was your property? I just closed the window and drove off mid next sentence.....

Good call.

I very rarely add photos to my reviewer notes - exceptions would be approval forms from National Parks where needed. One time I did is when I used screws to attach a container mount to a walkway - I wanted to point out exactly how the screws used existing holes in the walkway, and did not cause any changes to the structure, anticipating someone complaining....