PhilatSea

Okay I have figured it out with past posts. The original cache was archived. It was then done as a redo and the new CO copied the logs from the original cache to make the cache page. I did not go down the "new" cache page far enough to see the current logs that are current. When I was in chrome I was looking at the "new" cache page that was different than the archived one. I did not look at the GC number because the start of the cache page was the same. Thanks to all that helped me understand what happened.

Yes. cleared the cache as well in both.

This is a bit of a weird one. Looking for caches in Punta del Este Uruguay. I load the map and see a cache and click on it and all looks good. I then click on it and it loads and the page looks like it has formatted correctly until I move down to the logs . It is not formatted correctly at all. It appears to be disabled back in August 2020, but nothing further. I then opened it in Chrome and and it displayed correctly along with 3 additional logs with the last one showing archived. Tried the old clear the cache etc. but still not right. Any thoughts? Below is Firefox Map below is in FireFox of the logs Now 9in Chrome

I have just gone back and looked again and all the duplicate logs I noted are gone. I am using a windows 11 machine on Firefox by the way, so no Android problem for me. Could the CO have gone in and removed them?

It appears that GeoWoodstock https://coord.info/GC86VDF has many duplicate logs when cachers posted yesterday after the event. Was this a problem yesterday at GS as we are not suppose to be able to log an cache anymore more then once? Today appears okay for logging. Thanks

And do you know once cachers start logging it, all the email that will be sent out with those logs. I am not sure Groundspeak is ready to generate that many emails every few seconds. How to create a DOS attack.

Thanks, Then why would they post it under images to let the cat out the bag sooner than needed. This only creates probems.

Am I missing something here? It sure looks like NASA has posted <redacted> on it's page.

Lets see over the years I have found 2 bags of drugs in/near a cache. The second one was heroin that I had touched on the way to the airport to board a plane. I was really hoping the drug dog was not working. I was on a walking trail with another cacher when I got to GZ to find a loaded 9 mm gun next to the cache with a school across the street. Trying to talk to the police was interesting. The most interesting set of three caches was in Barstow doing the Planes/Trains series. The first cache i came across had a rusty can as cover and I lifted the can and then reached to grab the pill container that was covered in camo tape when I realized that there was way more camo there than there should be. I removed the sunglasses to find a Rattle snake under the cache. The next cache I came across had a California King snake leaving the cache. I was on the way to the third cache and rounded the corner to find a large desert tortoise in the middle of the road. At that point I figured I was 3/3 and caching for the day was over. The most bizarre situation was doing Route 66 and going off a side and driving down it when the navigator yelled at me and said look out there is a tarantula on the road. I said what did you say when I heard the squish. There was a question from the back seat asking what happens when you run over a spider of this size? Well a few hours later we were in a major Thunderstorm with very heavy rains flash flooding etc. The weird part about this was after I ran over the spider and we got back on the road on Route 66 was all the tarantula walking down the white line on the right shoulder for the next 10 miles. Yes these are a few of the weird things I have come across.

I have noticed caches that are archived are still being displayed on the Map. Take a look at Northern Nevada.

When we did Mary Hide last year I pointed this out to GS and I was told it would be solved for the ext time. It wasn't and I have no idea why. You don't have to use TB's of others to do this and get the points. You can take your collection of TB's and drop them say in your own cache and gather the points by posting a note. The only person that gets spammed is You as the CO. As far as Souvenirs are concerned the only ones I enjoy are the Country and State ones. Not sure why the USA doesn't have one while other countries do like Canada and many others.

Firefox has a ESR version 52.6.0 that one can download and the Garmin Plugin will work on it. You have to go into about:config and change xpinstall.signatures.required to false. You will have to download the plugin once more and when you try and use it a box will pop up in the upper left asking to allow, say yes always and you are good to go. I have written about this before and it still does work.

While I realize this cruise is past, I have great experience in Geocaching and cruising. Having started cruising in 1983 and later in 2008 Geocaching it is a perfect way to see the world. I have seen baby Penguins in the Falkland Islands only a few feet away while others on tours had to stay back hundreds of yards. This occurred because of a cache we were getting. I have cruised literately around the world and Geocached along the way. There is no need to buy a SD Map card. Use OSM maps as they are free and updated every few weeks. They are available for around the world, did I say they are free? Buying and using SD cards can be a problem. Italy for instance draws VERY slowly on a GPS especially in Venice. OSM does not have this problem. You can also order a complete map for your whole trip and not have to have several SD cards. If cruising the Caribbean make sure you download ALL caches on the island. One never knows what may happen when you arrive in port. Excursions get cancelled or previous plans go sideways. This happened to me on Dominica and we had to book something else last minute, thank fully I loaded the whole island. We arrived at a park on the other side of the island and looked at the GPS and there was an Earthcache there. Take trade Items to give to locals such as Flag pins. There was a group of us in St. Kitts that did the Vet College and the cache was in the Guard House. After giving the Guards pins we were offered a tour of the Vet College. Don't be afraid to rent a car in places and go over the island. I did this in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and managed to climb a dormant Volcano and look inside and then go and do a cache at what the locals call La Bomba's and then look inside a Jamous. Visiting a church in Athens that was built around 1050. Had I not been Geocaching and stopped to do the cache I would never have known this information because the sign was in Greek and the group had no idea what it said. It was Greek to us after-all.... Contact local cachers and ask for advice. You may be surprised what will come of this. I have met many local cachers because of this. Keep your head about you is a must. If there are 2 or more of you always have one person watching out. There are several reasons for this. It is likely you may not speak the local language and this could pose a real problem. There were 3 of us looking for a metal tube behind an electrical box in the Canary islands once near a bus loop. Local Police pulled up about 200 meters away and got out carrying machine guns. Having seen this I advised the other 2 to stop looking. I don't think no one wants to be seen removing or replacing a metal tube behind an electrical box in some places around the world. Think of recent events here. You also want to protect the group from things like pick pockets and being robbed. You may have to visit a store and ask for a cache in some places around the world. The store owner may not be the CO but is the local guardian. How about bring food to a house and having Tea with a local family in the South Pacific to get a cache. I have had to tip a local in a flea market to get a cache because they set up their booth in from of the cache and they know the cache is there and won't give it to you unless your cross their palm with some money. Watch out for others in your group as you walk as we were recently in Vietnam and one of the group had their head down looking at their GPS and stepped off a curb without looking and was grabbed and pulled back as they were about to get hit by a taxi. We all get fixated on our GPS at times. We had a group this year that cruised to India where our group rented a house boat to take a tour and do a cache on an Island. I also advise take LOTS of water with you. Local bottled water can not always be trusted. Now when you log your caches make sure your date is correct that you are logging on. If you use GSAK and GSAK is set to your local time zone (say North America) at home and your GPS is set to local time say in Asia you can end up logging the cache the day before. Virtual caches in places other than North America are a great way to see some pretty Historic Places. It is a big world out there and lots to see. How about being on a cruise sailing through the Gulf of Oman and hearing that a freighter was taken by Pirates 18 hours before you get there? or a Sand Storm as you cruise a few days later up the Red Sea. This happened to our group this past March. Hope this helps. Now you may understand why I have the Geocaching name I do. PhilatSea

This week one can drop/retrieve TB's/coins from caches and score 10 for dropping off and 5 to retrieve one. It would appear there is nothing to stop one from dropping/retrieving Trackable that they own in a cache and get the points. Just an enhanced way of a TB "visiting" a cache and getting 15 points for doing so.

Nope. The last cacher (before the cacher I got them from) that had the coins had retrieved them over 1 year ago while active is not answering email. We tried to get them to drop the coins in the cache they were found in but that didn't happen so we had to take the coins from that cacher. The owner of the coins is still active too and doesn't answer email either.

I was given 3 coins by another Geocacher to place in a local TB Hotel. One of the coins had been dropped in a cache that we had both done, so no problem. Now the next two coins presented a very unique problem. They had no mileage or real history other than being discovered back in 2005 (not a mistake,yes 2005). This is almost 12 years ago. The coins were taken from a cache in June 2015 (found log shows on the cache) that was archived in June 2004. That is 13 years ago. The cacher that last had the coins won't answer emails about dropping these coins in a cache so I had to grab them from the cacher. I suspect the cache owner archived the cache way back when to use as their personal coin chest. I find it odd that the coins are now coming back into play with no mileage some 12 years later and a long way from their original home. Just an interesting history of two coins I now have to move along.

For those of us getting these HTML notices on our phones without unlimited data this is going to start a new problem for us. Phil

Interesting. I just got one of the "new" log types. Mine says this GC number "has a new Found it log from" So mine is showing log type. I am not sure that I like the new HTML emails for those of us that get updates on our phones as this now uses additional data. Phil

I have corrected the TB log.... Phil

I have even tried to correct the date and it doesn't subtract the mileage. Phil

I made a mistake yesterday while logging a few caches and having trackables visit the caches I logged. By accident I wasn't paying attention to the date of the caches I was logging as individual caches because they were Earthcaches. I was logging trackables in Alaska some 900 km from my home coordinates. This was for May 4th and then by accident I logged a cache for yesterday near home and had my coins visit the cache but the date was for May 2 2014. So it added an additional 1800 km to the trackable. I then thought I would delete the log and this would correct it but I found out it doesn't. Is there a correct way to do this to fix it? Thanks Phil

Our group has noticed this on an Oregon 450, 550 and GPSMap 62S. It happens roughly every 38 - 52 caches found. Only happens when doing power trails. While Garmin says it happens with corrupted GPX files we find this hard to believe. Each of us have loaded different GPX files off of different computers and it still happens. I replaced my 62S and it still happens. I have come to expect it now. The one thing to remember is that the last cache you were about to log as found will show as unfound and in reality it has been marked found in the found file. If one marks it as found again in almost all cases it will be a duplicate. Phi

Since I negotiated the new policy here in BC I would like to remind cachers that if they have caches in BC Parks older than 3 years that they please do the required maintenance check. There is a group of cachers paying attention to this and will ask to have your cache archived if this check is not done soon. I had asked that no archives take place till after the summer to allow all caches to come into compliance. This was never written into the agreement because it was thought it was not needed. Just remember that BC Parks are the Land Managers and can have a cache archived at any time regardless of the 3 years. Phil

When I go to Map view to view caches in an area no caches are appearing on the Map. This occurs in both Firefox 19.0.2 and IE 10. Didn't have this problem last night but noticed it this morning. Thanks

I went on to run a PQ for tomorrow and wasn't logged in. Used my password and get user not found. Asked for password reset and get email and use the link and enter new password and user not found. What's up. Phil