Rainbow Spirit

I have a similar cache GC23ZVC and it uses what everyone will have with them, their lungs. It consists of some 50mm (2") PVC pipe, two pieces about a metre long, joined at their base with a short connecting piece. Set vertical and tied to a tree. You blow down one piece (the other is cut jagged) and a light weight aluminium vitamin tube pops up out of the other tube. To prevent the container jamming a small piece of metal fly mesh is at the bottom of the container tube. Also there is a very small hole at the base to let out water, and in fact that is another way to release the container.

Every cache I find is a FTF for me..

I once found 60 caches in 15 hours to celebrate my 60th birthday, lately I did a small power trail and found 60 in 6 1/2 hours. You know which one was the most fun, yes the 60 in 15 hours, the small power trail was BORING.

Yes, we have done it. On September 27, 2012 we found a cache in Tasmania Australia for our seventh continent concurrent with our 1,000 find. (OPs original quote) Tasmania is not part of continental Australia, but a separate island.

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I search for all types of caches, big, small, in the bush (woods), in a carpark, I don't care, I just like to find caches Now how much enjoyment I get from each type is another thing entirely....

ving,as you know I have had a DNF on the cache in question. It is just off into some bushland, and as ving has said it is out of sight of the muggles at the nearby houses. I must admit the hint bamboozled me, but hey that's caching, quite often the hints only make sense after you find the cache! I will get back to it when I am in the area again, as I now have an added clue from a previous finder. As ving has pointed out there are koalas, in the area, but I doubt you will see them as they are very elusive. Certainly no wolves, bears and cougars.....

If you really want more people to visit your caches you should try some of the following: 1/ Traditionals only, 2/ No long hikes to get to them, 3/ Easy parking and access, 4/ Placed close to a known centre of cachers, 5/ Placed on or near a main interstate highway, 6/ Placed at an interesting location, 7/ Use a 'fun' container. Of cause not everyone may want to get a high find rate on their caches...

You have got to love the English language, where phonetics isn't spelt fenetics.

I have posted a number of NA logs. I usually do so only if there has been a long list of DNFs and ignored NM logs, over a long time frame. I only log NAs if I have searched for the cache, or I am heading that way for a search, and it meets the above criteria. My two cents worth.

Of cause any spot on the globe will have an antipodean point, with NW Spain and the south island of New Zealand I was looking for the two spots that already had caching activity. Hong Kong is at an antipodean point to northern Argentina, so that would work as well. If you are not fussed about antipodean points, then I guess Australia would do for an opposite site to California. I know Sat Down, they are great local cachers, and if they can't help, I know I could help.

North west Spain is the antipodes to the south island of New Zealand according to the tunnel tool, so it would work there as both points are in areas that cachers use.

I occasionally cache with a friend, who is registered with Groundspeak, but after logging his first 20 or so caches he is now happy to come along and sign the logs but he no longer logs online. I'm guessing he would have over 300 finds by now. Each to their own I guess.

Benchmarkone, I thought screwing eyebolts etc, into a live tree was a no no?

Just remember that most printer inks will run when wet, and logs often get wet.

I use this to help when searching for a spot close to other caches: www.freemaptools.com/radius around a point htm or just search: radius around a point. You can set any sized radius you like on a map, and you can set the point by coords if you like, or just click on the map. Helps me set hides that are close to others.

Sounds like a unfun place, why you can't even throw a snowball!

Really? You can't climb trees in Toronto parks? I wonder if we have a similar by-law here... I somehow doubt it, but it could be one of those 'It's on the books and nothing more' deals. But then again, all of the tree caches that we have around here are in fairly secluded areas that probably wouldn't be patrolled for that sort of thing Hmm... That will be interesting to look into... City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 608, Parks. § 608-6. Injury and damage. No person shall in a park: A. Climb a building, structure or equipment, unless it is equipment designed for climbing; B. Break, injure, deface, destroy, move or remove the whole or any part of a flower, plant material, fungus, tree or other vegetation or a building, structure, equipment or other property of the City; C. Unless authorized by permit, climb, move or remove the whole or any part of a tree, rock, boulder, rock face or remove soil, sand or wood; D. In any manner, disturb ground which is under repair, prepared for planting, has been newly seeded or sodded or is in an area posted to that effect; E. Drive, park or walk in an area posted to prohibit the activity; or F. Unless authorized by permit, place, throw, cast or otherwise deposit snow.

Every cache I find is a FTF for me.

So Near, Yet So Far?

Especially don't hide micros in the woods/bush.

My first 30 finds were found without any type of GPSr, I just copied the Google Earth map, and using the map scale I triangulated to GZ from obvious objects on the map. That is, say from that red roofed house go 40 metres NW and site back SW to a large tree,and site east to a fence.A compass came in handy. Then I bought a GPSr, much easier now!

Believe it or not our ancient ancestors didn't have designer sports shoes when they chased down their evening meal...They relied on years of toughening up to get their soles as thick as possible. When I went bare foot years ago whilst farming, the soles of my feet had calloused skin about a 1/4 inch thick, and I could walk across rocks and stones with impunity. Broken glass though......I still have the scar from that day!

I only came to know Steve through his caching videos, and I must say his love of caching will live forever on his youtube clips. I thought he was a great individual, which came through in these clips. Who are we to judge why he came to his sad death? There has been times in my life when I contemplated a similar fate, and it was over a break up as well. RIP Steve, aka sven.

In the very early days(sans a GPSr)it was paper printouts and google maps. Then it was printouts, and an eTrex GPS. later on I replaced the printouts with hand written notes to save paper and ink. Now I use my Garmin Dakota 20 for cache details, a hand written list of caches, and a marked street directory. I think we all cache differently in the end. There are many ways to skin a cat.