Snakecatcher

Here is a little food for thought. as we as geocachers move from doing cache to cache in an area, then we more on to the next area and so on. As some cachers place there cache containers out in areas in grasslands, woods, forrest, hills, vally rivers etc... Everyday more and more people are taking up this great outdoors activity. It makes me think, how much of an Enviromental impact are we creating. A fellow cacher in Victoria Australia has just pulled in a series of 8 mystery cache's because they were in state park area. Park Vic are saying that there are leaving an eviromental inpact to the area. Yet there are walking tracks that have been cut throw the heaths that have been there long before geocaching even start. Mind you there is a large open cut mine near one of the cache location (not to close thou)An area has been blocked off due to recent rains and part of the colaspsed. This seems to be having more impact in my eyes. Then a thought came to me the other day. How much impact do we really have on out enviroment. As a Scout Leader, I've been always one of the mind set of treading lightly when out in the bush and leaving an area better than I had found it. Anyway, after doing a few Mystery/Puzzle cache's up north from home and sitting down to rest where we were camping near a lake, pulling out the grass seeds for my socks to dispose of them into the bin instead of dropping them on the ground. Are we walk through grassy areas we collect burrs and grass seeds in our socks and shoes, then we more on to another area, sometimes it may be an area well away for where we were caching. We may be introducing new weeds to an area. Not only weeds but the possible chance of disease from plants. Eg Cinamon fungus. This played on my mind so I thought that I would post something on the Forums. What are you views on this? Do you do your part in caring for out surroundings and enviroment? Thanks, SNAKECATCHER.

Here is a little food for thought. as we as geocachers move from doing cache to cache in an area, then we more on to the next area and so on. As some cachers place there cache containers out in areas in grasslands, woods, forrest, hills, vally rivers etc... Everyday more and more people are taking up this great outdoors activity. It makes me think, how much of an Enviromental impact are we creating. A fellow cacher in Victoria Australia has just pulled in a series of 8 mystery cache's because they were in state park area. Park Vic are saying that there are leaving an eviromental inpact to the area. Yet there are walking tracks that have been cut throw the heaths that have been there long before geocaching even start. Mind you there is a large open cut mine near one of the cache location (not to close thou)An area has been blocked off due to recent rains and part of the colaspsed. This seems to be having more impact in my eyes. Then a thought came to me the other day. How much impact do we really have on out enviroment. As a Scout Leader, I've been always one of the mind set of treading lightly when out in the bush and leaving an area better than I had found it. Anyway, after doing a few Mystery/Puzzle cache's up north from home and sitting down to rest where we were camping near a lake, pulling out the grass seeds for my socks to dispose of them into the bin instead of dropping them on the ground. Are we walk through grassy areas we collect burrs and grass seeds in our socks and shoes, then we more on to another area, sometimes it may be an area well away for where we were caching. We may be introducing new weeds to an area. Not only weeds but the possible chance of disease from plants. Eg Cinamon fungus. This played on my mind so I thought that I would post something on the Forums. What are you views on this? Do you do your part in caring for out surroundings and enviroment? Thanks, SNAKECATCHER. Will also post this on the Australian site.

One of my cachs has a telescope hiden to be able to view the coords for the GZ through.

Sometimes the best thing about caching, is the journy that it takes you on to get there. I hope that you find the thing that drawn you into caching soon so that you are able to enjoy all type of caches. At time, you may not be able to find a cache due to one reason or another, but this can happen. Some cachers try to hide their caches to add a bit more of a chellange. Don't get frustrated by it. It only adds to the expereance. Happy Caching, and Good Luck. By the way, make sure that you log it as a DNF (did not find). List why you DNF so if will notify the cache owner that it may need maintanence as it has not been found for some time.

"The Pirates Treasure-Trove" GC23BYM This is one of mine. The Coords are hiden in a poem that I had written. Not in the poem in the words in the line, but in the first letter going down. Oh yeah, the Cache container is also a puzzle that I made with a fulse front.

O.K this is easy fixed. I found this problem myself. To over come it you need to right click on the map image then press open in new tab. This will give you access to be able to zoom in on an area also be able to scroll around the area. Hope that this helps.

That's awesome. LOVE THE HOLE!!!! Wonder if anyone has tried to drive through?

I am normally at a Scout Camp running Abseiling over the Easter W/E, but try and stop me from being at Australia's 1st Mega Event. I will be attending!!!! One Adult. And will be camping in own tent. Will thumb a ride up will Geewok. See you all up there.

Thanks all foryour help. I have now got it onto the listings of the cache with the help of a friend. We ended up using the way that Prime Suspect said to go about it. once again thank you for you help Prime Suspect, SSO JOAT, and even Motorcycle_Mama

Thanks for the help. This is the Cache name and GC code. "The Pirates Treasure-Trove" GC23BYM I'm not much of a computer programmer so I don't not fully how HTML works. I will look into it to give those a try to see if they work. Once again, thank you.

Thanks for the help. This is the Cache name and GC code. "The Pirates Treasure-Trove" GC23BYM I'm not much of a computer programmer so I don't not fully how HTML works. I will look into it to give those a try to see if they work. Once again, thank you.

I have just had one of my Cache's published and I am having trouble putting "EVINCE" onto the listing. The problem is that every time that I tic the HTLM it changes the whole lay out of my listing. This is a problem as it is required to be the way that I have set it up, otherwise the Mystery Cache will be near impossible to solve. How can I go about placeing the "EVINCE" onto the listing to help fellow Caches solve this Puzzle cache without the HTLM changing the layout of the Cache. Can anyone help me with this please. Thanks if you could help. SNAKECATCHER.

I have just had one of my Cache's published and I am having trouble putting "EVINCE" onto the listing. The problem is that every time that I tic the HTLM it changes the whole lay out of my listing. This is a problem as it is required to be the way that I have set it up, otherwise the Mystery Cache will be near impossible to solve. How can I go about placeing the "EVINCE" onto the listing to help fellow Caches solve this Puzzle cache without the HTLM changing the layout of the Cache. Can anyone help me with this please. Thanks if you could help. SNAKECATCHER.

Thanks JABs, I will give that a try. Happy Caching.

I have just had one of my Cache's published and I am having trouble putting "EVINCE" onto the listing. The problem is that every time that I tic the HTLM it changes the whole lay out of my listing. This is a problem as it is required to be the way that I have set it up, otherwise the Mystery Cache will be near impossible to solve. How can I go about placeing the "EVINCE" onto the listing to help fellow Caches solve this Puzzle cache without the HTLM changing the layout of the Cache. Can anyone help me with this please. Thanks if you could help. SNAKECATCHER.