Cushie Butterfield

Great idea, I hadn't thought of that, I will go and look to see if they own any others. Thanks.

I replaces a film cannister full of papier mache last week. There was no room for the new log so I took the wet clump out and dried it off. Still nothing from the owners but I will hang on to it as there are years of messages in there.

Sorry to come up with a 'what if' BUT what if the original cache has been muggled, there is nothing at GZ and the original owner can't be contacted. Can it be archived and a replacement cache put in the same place by other people? Surely the 'spot' it was hidden isn't a geocache so it can't be the property of the original owner?

We didn't realise we would need a team name until we found our first cache and read the logs so we had to decide on the spot. We like piratey things but didn't want to use pirates in our name because it sounded like we were plundering caches and we don't. We all had t-shirts with various skull designs so we came up with Team Skully. We like it because we can leave skull themed swaps and 'team' covers all of us as sometimes we drag friends out with us too.

I wondered why the OP went caching there if he thought they were inappropriate places? There are plenty of other caches to do if you don't want to go in a church!

We have a multi cache in our village church, set up with the help and full co-operation of our lovely reverend who is all for geocaching. She loves the idea of a family pastime out in the countryside and is always interested in the logs for the cache. The two stages and final are well away from recent burial places out of respect for visiting loved ones. It's a beautiful building, full of history and the reverend is happy to see visitors if they are there for worshipping or not. What's a waymark?

We choose these ones too, with young children it makes all the difference when they can find caches every so often along a route. It makes the walking seem shorter too!

We use a 60csx and iphone. I pdf the logs and store them on my iphone to save printing them out, I can use it for maps and I have it set up to email any new caches to my phone which got me my first FTF a few weeks ago. My contract gives me unlimited downloads. It doesn't have satnav though, hopefully it will be added in the future.

Thank you. I have one in mind and now feel confident enough to go out and hide it (Eckington runs for cover)

Have you ever: Put caches out then dreamed about them during that night, from them falling apart, being muggled, or being unfindable because you got the co-ordinates all wrong and they are not there in the first place? or put caches out and sent them for reviewing then checked your emails every 2 minutes to see if they are published yet? or once they are published (and the reviewer has again realised how stupid you can be) check the listings every 2 minutes to see if they have been found, even though it is only possible for Superman travelling at the speed of light to find them in that time? or been tempted to drive out, hide nearby and keep watch to see who turns up? or just look at the map to see your collection of little stars amongst the smileys? Do you drive past your caches on the way to wherever and have a little smile to yourself knowing they are are hiding there? or is it just me who is totally and utterly sad? I think I am well and truly hooked and have OCD (Obsessive Caching Disorder)

It is disappointing to lose a coin when it is out on its travels but that's the risk of putting them out there. We've had one go from the very first cache we placed it. The most annoying is one of the children's coins, we set 4 away at the same time in a race and one has gone. Maybe it will turn up somewhere. We drill all of ours now and put a keyring through the hole with details of the coin's mission and who it belongs to but that doesn't seem to have made much difference. On a similar note I bought a couple of very smart Bison screw tubes to place as caches but I wonder if they will get pinched too, a film pot seems a lot less attractive and probably a better idea to use!

I know on the directions it says that they can be closer on a multi cache.

Thank you

I want to place a new cache which will be more than the distance required away from the nearest cache BUT the published co-ordinates for a nearby cache are for car parking very near the site I want to use. Does the 528 feet rule apply to the actual cache co-ordinates or to the published co-ordinates for car parking?

We love geocoins, both collecting them and finding them. It's quite disappointing to find a laminated copy instead of the real thing. We don't bother with them and just leave them where they are. I wouldn't do it with any of ours. We have released quite a few into caches, a couple are missing but they might turn up again sometime. There were quite a few going from local caches and we thought about going round to collect ours back up but it would be cheaper to buy another coin than to pay for the petrol! We have activated some of our collection and will take them to events to share but we wont stop releasing them, if we like finding them then it's only fair that we out some out there too.

I ordered yesterday from ukgeocachers.com and my order arrived this morning, I've always had brilliant service from them so haven't tried any others.

See - you get out of the car for a smoke and look what we dragged you into So pleased you are enjoying it, we've been watching your finds

Congratulations Wendy. What an amazing opportunity and fantastic memories to treasure for you. I'm very impressed with Caesar coping with all of those people, my dog would have mullered the minders!

It's all been said, if they are that sort of people you wouldn't ever want to go on a group walk with them anyway would you? They would have been found overnight if they were in our area.

I feel like a frail loop just trying to read the last few posts

Don't be ridiculous!..hide the b***y thing elsewhere! Oh for heaven's sake. As previously stated in the thread, the box in question isn't a bird box. It has no holes in it. It's 4' off the ground and only just into the tree, it's so obvious it isn't a real one, it's the easiest cache in the series in question (which is brilliant) There is a protected section of the park put aside for nesting birds which is closed to the public during the season. The cache is nowhere near that area. It's been approved by the park owners who may just know a little bit about birds and placed with their permission. Nobody is being forced to go and look for it, there are plenty of other caches out there. I know we have only been geocaching since October and we are quite new, out of our meagre 50+ this series was the best caching day out we have had so far. If all of the caches were as good as these and placed with as much consideration it would guarantee a brilliant day out every time we went caching.

We had our first FTF yesterday and it was quite exciting, looking over my shoulder all of the time to see if anyone was coming. Once found we went and hid out of sight while we opened it but then panicked a bit in case somebody came and started looking while we had the cache with us. We were spotted by another team leaving the car park afterwards but I think that's the closest it's been so far. What are you supposed to do if you find it and somebody else approaches? Do they turn their backs or go for a little walk while you hide it again so they can look or just show them where it was and give them the cache when you are finished with it?

<UN-PC mode>The ones affecting this topic probably couldn't spell geocaching to get here in the first place.</UN-PC mode>

Or, kids with a GPS phone could discover Geocaching and join the sport, some of them are actually quite nice people. There's plenty of plundering going on in our area and it's not down to youngsters

If it means that everyone is more aware of what could happen and looking out for suspicious people I would be quite happy to be stopped every time I went caching. If you're doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to be worried about. If a particular cache is causing concern then I would assume a responsible owner would remove it anyway, regardless of what the police could/would do about it.