Condorito

Here is my local map, of Townsville, Nth QLD Australia. It is only a few thousand kms north of Sydney My really local area is on the bottom left hand corner of the screen... We have three PTs(I'm pretty sure) the most notable being the RRPT (Ross River PT). It winds through the city as you can see, following the river.

This doesnt sound very good and i will be following this thread to see what happens... Does anyone know if it has also changed prices in places outside the european union, such as Australia?

MY first Geocoin (unless you count farmtagz and trackable tshirts and geocoins) was one i had made for me... It is based on my username Condorito. I had 50 of them made, and only some have been activated

When you are reading this at night when you have a Maths assignment(yr 12) to hand in on Tuesday... Ha! It even contains a similarity to this thread!

That's what I thought

Yeah, just the fact that it says peak season. I don't think it should be there if it is always peak season

Every time I have hidden a cache it says that it is peak season for cache hiding(if I remember correctly). Is this a permanent thing, or does it get removed at some point in the year?

Yep, I share your problem. If you try to introduce someone to geocaching. It's usually a good idea to have them find a cache you already found yourself. That takes off the pressure for the next couple of finds on the trip. That's a good idea... I'll try to keep it in mind...

Yes, definitely... you feel like you should give them a good impression, and its really embarrassing when you dont find it straight away. then i start getting sweaty and convincing myself its not there, and then we found it...

Where were the FTF hounds back then?

Sound good

I still need x and z. I only recently got q. I have been geocaching since 2008, but only got more serious last year around July... I also need quite a few numbers

I still need x and z. I only recently got q. I have been geocaching since 2008, but only got more serious last year around July... I also need quite a few numbers

This is cool... Seeing as geocaching is a worldwide sport, why couldn't they make the competition worldwide? Mine lab does exist in aus, I've seen it around...

I understood your reasons from the beginning. Now I hope you understand that there's a down side. A cache's list of past TBs can be useful information for tracking down TB movement, but it becomes useless for that purpose when most of the entries in the list are TBs that really had nothing to do with the cache other than being autovisited because they were in some cacher's inventory. (One can hope the TBs were actually in the cacher's possession when they were signing the log, but, of course, that's not a given, either. To be honest, I have my doubts about whether someone with 40 TBs would actually carry what must be a faily large bag full of TBs to each and every cache. I'd be much more inclined to believe that they leave the bag in the trunk -- if it gets that far. Why bother to carry them to the caches when there's no intention of actually leaving one in any of the caches they find?) I'm not trying to tell you not to do that, I'm just asking you to look at it from the point of view of people that don't care about TBs that are never really put into caches. To us, those logs you consider so important are just junk we have to step around. In response to your paragraphs in order: I agree that some might think that the TB hasn't really had much to do with the cache if it only visits. Personally, my understanding of trackable items is that they travel to as many locations as possible. As they don't have microchips, the only way to know where they have been is to visit them in caches they go to. The tbs I have don't auto visit, they actually do visit caches. If we didn't visit them, how would we know where they have been? In my humble opinion, they did have something to do with the cache as they went to its location with the cacher. Therefore they have the same amount to do with the cache as the finder. I also think it adds history to the cache itself. Maybe you could start a feature discussion to distinguish the visited tbs from tbs that have actually been dropped off in a cache on the past tbs page. Just a thought. To this one it is again a personal reply. I always carry all TBs that I visit in a cache to each cache they visit. I have a t-shirt tb that I carry with me. Sometimes, if it is in the washing, it will not visit the caches I find when it is not with me. I do not believe it is honest or truthful, to yourself, the TB owner, or the cache owner, to visit TBs in a cache if they haven't been there. I can honestly say this. Also, I am 16, and can't drive myself around yet, so cache a lot on foot. I have a backpack that I take everywhere with me- work, geocaching etc. I carry it on, not in, my trunk/back . the tbs always stay in that bag, and they do visit the caches. I recently went up to this cache. My Mum tried to convince me that it would be too heavy to take them, so I should just print a page with the codes and visit that. I didn't think it was right, and all the tbs went to the summit with me. As I explained before, many are mine, and I am keeping them with me until I feel like I should let them go. The rest I would only like to place in 'tb friendly' caches, for reasons I have explained previously. There aren't many big enough or safe enough for them, so I would rather keep them with me until I find a suitable cache to leave them in. Again, I will eventually let my tbs go. I just paid a lot for them, and know they will most likely disappear soon after their release, so would rather give them a few KMs before releasing them. I suppose if I ever find one of your caches(highly unlikely- I'm in Australia), I won't visit the tbs in my inventory in them. If I ever find one of your tbs, I won't visit it in caches, I'll just take it and drop it off somewhere else, or maybe just discover it. I respect your thoughts, and I hope you can understand mine... I think we'll just have to agree to disagree Condorito

Yeah: don't visit TBs indescriminately. It's bad enough when people automatically add 3 TBs to the past TB list of every cache they visit, but 40 seems beyond the pale. Hi dprovan, Thanks for your comment! When Geocaching or doing other things in life, I try to use this as a motto/guide: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (based on Matthew 7:12), and hope I am at least partly living up to that standard. At the present I have around 37 TBs active. Most are with me, so I visit them in every cache I go to, as I like them to have as many kms as possible. I enjoy people visiting their TBs in my caches, as it adds to the history of the cache, and gives the TB owner more kms and another log for his TB. Some of my TBs aren't with me. With those TBs, I would much rather that the TB visit as many caches as possible while in someone's hands, as that reassures me that it is still safe and that the geocachers are responsible enough to visit it. So when I take other people's TBs, I always visit them in caches. I went on a holiday several months ago, and grabbed quite a few TBs to bring back with me. Some have been dropped off, but I only like dropping TBs in caches that aren't likely to be muggled, but where the TB will move on shortly. So I still have many with me.... I hope you understand my reasons for visiting caches better now Condorito

So I logged a cache the other day a few days after I found it... I found three on that day, and for the first forgot to change the date... I have quite a few tbs with me at the moment, think around 40(I think, most mine) and I always visit all tbs with me in the cache I found... So when I noticed the error, I went and edited the date of the log... When you fix the date of the log, it doesn't change the date of the tb visits. It's happened to me before, and I feel like it stuffs up the logs a bit, but I don't have time to change it on each tbs page... Can't it just change all the tb visit/drop dates as well? It can log them all from the log page, as that's what it does when you visit/drop them when writing the log, so it should be able to correct those tb logs when you change the found date for the cache... Any comments?

Ok, interesting... Just wondering why it said 51 when I am sure they are only 50 (for now)... Thanks for your help...

I was looking at alamogul's profile, and checking out the astounding stats, and then i noticed this: which state is the 51st?

that is a nice round number with a lot of zeros on the end...

Its a nice concept... But I don't think it would be more than a few weeks before the dvd would disappear...

Are you using an app? I'm assuming you are. Are you using an iDevice or an Android? You can mark a waypoint in any cache on the iPhone app, not sure about android... If using a GPSr you can also make waypoints... Can we get a more detailed question?

Wow, the android app does seem to be missing various features... The iPhone app has a way to save caches to the app as well, and you would have expected the android one to have it as well.... Yes, it looks like you'll have to go with c:geo or the website for now... Maybe you can put a feature sugggestion in the Feature Discussion and Suggestions forums.... Sorry I can't help more...

I use the official iPhone app, and all my personal notes are synced between the two. On the app, the personal notes section is called notepad, and you can see it when you scroll down on the cache page on the app... I don't know if that he's at all, but maybe notepad is on the android app as well...

I use it on my ipad about 80% of the time while out caching, and don't have any problems... It is very good(other than the battery loss issues)