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    Nuvi 500

    in South Africa

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    I've been caching with a Nuvi 500 since around January of this year, and found close on 300 caches with it.. It is a great GPS, ideal for caching with custom Geocaching Functions... It is very user friendly, and it does not take too long to get the hang of it...

     

    There is lots of plusses, but the only drawback is that the battery life is not too hot... They claim up to 8 hours, but my experience puts the best performance at about 3 to 4 hours... Doing urban caches, this should not be a worry, but hikingtrails, forrests and mountains will frustrate you...

     

    Take a look at http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2008/07/garmin_..._500_review.php

    Snake bite

    in South Africa

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    I very nearly had a bad run-in with a snake at a table mountain cache.. When I spotted it we were about 2 meters from each other.. My legs turned to rubber and my mind froze in utter fear as it raised it's head..

     

    Thankfully it turned upon itself and backed of.. The snake was fairly thick, about 8 foot long and yellowish... I know very little about different snake species, but was later told by others that this guy was a Cape Cobra, and that it is of the nasty variety..

     

    Truth be told, even if I had info handy, a snake kit in the backpack, and a number on the cell.. If that snake had a piece of me I would have gone into a flat panic, and probably have done all the wrong things.. I suppose one needs to have a cache buddy that can keep his cool and take control of the situation..

    What does everyone think of this?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    It works really well... Pooks does have a point though... It does take a little bit longer to load, but when we get to a point where there is let's say about 20 votes on each cache you will have a good indication of what cache quality is, and that will outweigh that extra second or two...

     

    I recently did a 3-day stint to East London and back, and this rating system would have come in handy.. Given limited time I had to pick some and leave some.. Some caches was good and some not, but if GC-Vote was around then I would have picked a bit better I suppose...

     

    One small gripe I've got though is that you can only rate caches as 1,2,3,4 or 5 star... So what do you do if you feel that a cache is better than 3-star (average), but not really a 4-star (good)... I would have liked to have a 3.5-star as an option...

    Share your Centroid

    in South Africa

    Posted

    S 31° 23.837 E 22° 21.174

     

    In an area called Ubuntu Rural, a few kilometer west of Victoria West in the Northern Cape...

    Interesting that caching in WC, EC, FS & GP can give you a centroid in NC...

    Guess I will have to go and cache in the NC then sometime soon...

    Have you ever lost a TB or GC or had a close call?

    in South Africa

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    I placed my 1st TB and a geocoin from someone in Europe in Discombob's "Lost in Dollosse" a while back...

    No activity happened on the cache for a while, and eventually Pooks e-mailed me, as I was the last to find the cache... It looked as if the cache could have disappeared.

     

    I checked up on it, and it turned out to be bad news... From what I could see the municipality must have cleaned out the xxxxx (not to give the cache away) and the cache was gone...

     

    I felt bad about my TB, but felt like a real crook when I e-mailed the owner of the GC... He replied kindly, but I still felt that maybe I was at fault for placing the GC there...

     

    Since then before placing a GC or TB in a cache, I ask myself what would the chances be of this cache being muggled... If I think that it would be a safe bet (Of course there is no guarantees.) I'd place it, otherwise hold on to it a while longer...

    Hiding a Cache in Africa

    in South Africa

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    I've been caching for about 15 months now, and never really looked at the Forums before...

    Reading through your guidelines here is most interesting, some of it I knew and got right with my cache placements, but some notes opened up my mindset to where I could have done better...

     

    Thanks for all the effort...

     

    Guess I'll be looking at Forums differently now...

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