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    Should O.C.B. come to Australia?

    in Australia

    Posted · Edited by jgc3

    Hi all,

     

    If like me you'd never put too much value in a can of beans.. think again.. :blink:

    I had a quick chat to TEAM360 and learned of O.C.B... got to make you smile..

     

    Anyhow, then I learned of how to get the OCB to an event... ouch $$$$'s

     

    But my question is..

     

    Do you think we should try to start a "Bring OCB to Australia" fund?

     

    An event staged.. a few dollars each from people and maybe we could pull

    it off... ideas? suggestions?

     

    I'm in for one.. I'll promote it through my geocaching magazine and website.. see what the response is.....??

     

    Thanks for the feedback..

    Caches near light houses?

    in Australia

    Posted · Edited by jgc3

    Hi,

     

    I'm trying to put together an article which has a theme of caches placed near light houses..

     

    Can anyone recommend any they have seen or know of please? Any help would be great.

     

    Cheers

    James

    GSWW Victoria

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    You're welcome. I'm about to do this one soon. Worth a look, I've done some of it, just to check it out, not as well mantained as the GSWW but some nice areas. I did about 5 caches in a about 3kms distance along the walk from the starting point.

     

    http://www.lavenderfederationtrail.org.au/

     

    Do you have any Australian walks you've done you can recommend??

     

    Cheers

    James

     

    Very cool 8) Thanks for posting the link. I love moderately long walks/hikes of that sort. We didn't quite make it out that far along the coast on our last visit. Maybe next time :)

    NEW Australian Geocaching Magazine

    in Australia

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for the ideas. Time is the big factor as it goes to print soon.

    But hope to be able to follow some of those ideas up.

     

    Regards

    James

     

    Hi All,

     

    We've got loads of input, articles and photo's from overseas but we're short on

    AUSTRALIAN input so please consider dropping us a line and getting on board..

     

    Thanks

    James

    gps help

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    If it's the model I think it is you may of been supplied a cable that you can easily upload

    waypoints from your PC... check out one of the electronic / gps suppliers they should have it

    if you don't.

     

    Hope that helps

    Your geocaching stories in print.

    in Canada

    Posted

    Hi All,

     

    We're launching a new full colour Australian Geocaching magazine,

    we've gone full colour although much more expensive we think many

    geocachers have great photo's that really need colour to look great.

     

    We have currently 12 pages dedicated to USA, CANADA, UK, EUROPE

    and would like to hear from you.

     

    So if you'd like to submit a story and / or photo's

    or simply have some questions we'd like to hear from you.

     

    Simply reply on this forum or

     

    You can find me as JGC3 on geocaching.com

    OR

    http://www.australiangeocachingessentials.com/

     

    If you wish to send photo's etc great

     

    Thanks

    James

     

    Posted with permission from Groundspeak

    Geocaching Magazine

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Hi All,

     

    We're launching a new full colour Australian Geocaching magazine,

    we've gone full colour although much more expensive we think many

    geocachers have great photo's that really need colour to look great.

     

    We have currently 12 pages dedicated to USA, CANADA, UK, EUROPE

    and would like to hear from you.

     

    So if you'd like to submit a story and / or photo's

    or simply have some questions we'd like to hear from you.

     

    Simply reply on this forum or

     

    You can find me as JGC3 on geocaching.com

    OR

    http://www.australiangeocachingessentials.com/

     

    If you wish to send photo's etc great

     

    Thanks

    James

     

    Posted with permission from Groundspeak

    NEW Australian Geocaching Magazine

    in Australia

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    Thanks for the positive response to our magazine launch. We've got some competitions in the first issue so you can possibly win a prize and we've got an interesting idea launching regarding travel bugs. Stay tuned. So if you want to submit a photo or story please do.

     

    Regards

    James

     

    Posted with permission from Groundspeak

    Borderless

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Entertaining story thank you. Will definately put in the geocaching magazine readers section. Appreciate your approval. Please tell you freinds.. :)

     

    Regards

    James

     

    This was a seamail I received from my son while he was on the last leg of a 45 day sea term. Their ports included Dublin, Malta and lastly Brest France. His 1st hide included the TB found in France GC2M0WE

    Enjoy the read.

     

    seawave.net:

     

    Hey i actually had a good day in france today.

     

    So today I was Rather Upset that I couldn't go to Normandy as the school

    wasn't able to get another bus. I was reading the Brittany (region Brest

    is in) info paper our librarian wrote and it said an art festival was

    going on in Quimper. I mentioned it to my friend Caleb and he said we

    should go. As we left I forgot something so I went back to get it but when

    I returned he was gone so I was like whatever I'll just do some shopping

    in town and Enjoy A Few Drinks, Responsibly. Of course I had forgotten

    that it was Sunday, meaning nearly every store was closed. After wandering

    around for an hour I saw Caleb walking up a street so I waved him down. I

    asked if he'd found the train station yet; he hadn't so we kept walking

    and eventually a local was able to point us in the right direction.

     

    Inside the station we were in a magazine store; Caleb was looking at a map

    of Brittany. Seeing that Quimper was a small landlocked town he was like

    no let's not go there we'll get bored with the festival after like 20

    minutes then we'll be stuck in some Quaint Yet Boring town. I told him to

    pick somewhere else then and he said he wanted to visit the North coast so

    we were looking at the nearby towns. We eventually picked some random town

    called Morlaix near some river that went out to the sea. After navigating

    the unnecessarily complex ticket machines we went to the platform to

    board. It cost A Whopping 35 euros for two tickets, and that's with the

    student discounts. The train was very nice though, sleek, clean and most

    of all quiet at 85 mph.

     

    Most of the Brittany countryside we saw was rolling farmlands and trees

    with small suburbia communities of similar looking but widely spaced

    houses. We arrived at Morlaix after 40 minutes or so and our first

    impressions were not great. The place was Very Quiet, but we'd already

    paid for our tickets so we just started walking.

     

    The road to the town center was a long, winding steep hill. We passed by

    countless houses and numerous shops, all closed of course. A ways down I

    noticed a side-path; a worn and weathered stone staircase leading down to

    some kind of decrepit pond/pool in something like a really tiny and

    overgrown park. The pond was rectangular and covered by an open roof -

    that is I mean a roof with just the sloping borders, with an open top to

    let sunlight in. As I walked down the steps and came around I could see

    the water was stagnant, with lots of pond-scum everywhere. In the

    surrounding stone walls there was a small alcove filled with water you

    could reach into (it had lots of bugs so I didn't dare stick my hands into

    the water). What caught my eye however was a standard 8x11 sheet of paper

    on the ground. It had been there for some time as it was damp and badly

    discolored. As I got closer though I was able to make out the header at

    the top of the page...

     

     

    Geocaching.com! My brain immediately did a

    did-I-just-read-what-I-think-I-read as I snatched up the paper for a

    closer look. Sure enough, it was a printout from geocaching.com; it was in

    French so I couldn't understand it, but what I could understand were the

    coordinates, just beneath the header. I knew it then, fate had given me

    these coordinates- I *had* to find this cache.

     

    Caleb had no clue what I was all excited about so I gave him a brief

    explanation though he didn't really understand. We continued our journey

    to the town center, which was situated under a very large stone bridge

    that met the beginning of a river. The Geocache coordinates were only

    about half a minute of latitude off from our current location. Caleb was

    trying to bum a cigarette off the locals but they were having none of

    that. He didn't want to bother with the cache, and since we didn't have a

    lot of time to get to the coast I considered moving on, but then I

    thought: if I came back to the States and told Nelson about this, and

    *didn't* find the cache, well, I'd never hear the end of it. I told Caleb

    if I did only one thing in this port it was gonna be finding this cache.

     

    The GPS led us along the river, though I wasn't sure which side I was

    supposed to be on since the gps-compass was being screwy. We crossed over

    to the west side and as we followed the GPS we came across a road next to

    a stacked-stone wall with numerous holes perfect for hiding caches in. I

    searched every one but alas came up with nothing. the GPS said we were

    still ~150ft off, but it was pointing to the wall and we were in no mood

    for climbing. We followed the road along the river until we came to a side

    street where the wall ended. Just around the corner there was a hill

    leading up to a trail going into the forest atop the wall we were at

    before. The search was on once more.

     

    Hiking up the steep trail brought us to a spot overlooking the river and

    Morlaix, we searched high and low (well, mostly low) but our attempts

    yielded nothing yet. From there the trail descended a ways downhill,

    though not far from the overlook there was a side trail that was curiously

    fenced-over, we found the explanation on a sign post that read DANGER OF

    FALLING. Of course I wasn't going to let a sign or fence stop me (a non

    barbed or electric one anyway) so I walked down the trail and started

    searching the stone wall supporting the overlook above. Many of the rocks

    were loose; I could stick my hand in and pull out lots of smaller ones. I

    couldn't help but think these would be perfect spots for caches, and that

    it'd Be Very Painful if I pulled the wrong stone and the hole caved in on

    my hand, however unlikely that might have been.

     

    Unfortunately all I found were rocks as I just mentioned and fine cobwebs..

    I decided to get around the fence somehow so I held onto it and swung out

    and around over the edge of the trail. The forbidden-trail went a ways

    along the wall I was searching; around the bend it ended abruptly in a

    sheer drop to certain death on the riverside below so I was extra careful

    to not die. Long sentence short I didn't find anything. Well, except for

    some false alarms which turned out to be an empty wine bottle and a small

    milk carton. Trash people had thrown over the side of the overlook no

    doubt. Discouraged I walked back to the other side of the fence where

    Caleb was rolling a cigarette.

     

    I told him maybe it's somewhere else and started up the trail back to the

    overlook when I noticed another loose stone on the wall. Every loose stone

    and crevice thus far had been duds so far but I figured it wouldn't hurt

    so I gave it a tug. It slid out easily and lo and behold, a small

    tupperware container was staring at me through the darkness!

     

    I took it and knew immediately I had hit a jackpot: this thing was *full*..

    Compared to the stuff we found in NYC caches this one had genuine

    treasure. From the vault I took three objects, three times more than what

    you're supposed to take- so in accordance I left 3 of my possessions. It

    was a hard choice; I hadn't planned on geocaching at all so I didn't bring

    anything I intended to give. I searched my bag and after some internal

    debate I parted with one of my navigation dividers, one of my old Delta

    company pins and a quarter Caleb had in his pocket (which was I might add

    minted on my birth year). For the exchange I chose a 5 Franc coin dated

    1947, a bracelet like trinket made of rope decoratively

    wrapped around a clear marble and finally a special item which

    you'll see when I get home, I won't spoil it here. In the logbook I made

    sure to sign my name and I wrote a paragraph too about myself and the

    circumstances in which I came across the cache.

     

    Anyway, that's it for story-mode. That was definitely the best part of my

    day but it was only half of it. The latter part involves hitchhiking, a

    castle in the sea, bad kayaking, French sailors in distress and cider.

    I'll tell you about it when I get home, but for now I'd like to get some

    sleep. Peace.

    Finally cracked 100

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Well done. A milestone is always exciting. On to the next hundred..

     

    Regards

    James

     

    Just a bit happy tonight as I have finally broken the 100 goal.. I'm now at 104.. It took a long time but I made it. I'm going to be trying to give more time to the sport in the future. Now that I have reached this goal... I want to place at least 5 geocaches this year. I'm anxious to get into that side of the sport.. thanks to all who have helped and given good advice.

     

    Redyak1

    John McGeough

    Hiding your first cache - a few questions

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    From my experience it doesn't sound as if you'll have any issues, although

    there's a slim possibility that it can be too near another cache as in the

    final unpublished location of a multi nearby, as I've had that happen but

    I wouldn't expect so by your description. Good luck.

     

    Regards

    James

     

    Hi all,

     

    I'm going to have a go at hiding my first geocache within the next few days - exciting! :)

     

    Anyway, I've gone through all the guidelines and they seem pretty self-explanatory. I don't think I'll have any issue with cache proximity as the nearest one to where I want to place mine is more than the minimum distance away.

     

    Anyway, the area I want to hide it is not far from my house, under a structure that's about 5 metres off a public footpath/sidewalk. It's 100% accessible to anyone and hundreds of people every day walk through on the way to one of the local parks. It'd definitely be classed as an urban cache with high muggle factor since the structure has residential windows looking down on it from 3 sides.

     

    Do you think there will be any issues with cache approval based on the info above? Please assume for now that all the other factors are OK as I'll worry about them later.

     

    Other than, do you have any tips for those wanting to get into the hiding side of the game?

     

    Thanks! :)

    Want a "famous" travel bug

    in Trackables

    Posted · Edited by Eartha
    Adding Groundspeak approval, and re-opening thread.

    Hi everyone,

     

    Thanks for checking out this post.

     

    We're launching a new full colour geocaching magazine and

    we are having a two page spread dedicated to TB's

     

    Do you have a cool one? Perhaps done alot of miles?

    Just want it to be "famous"

     

    Then please contact us... either via this forum.. or

     

    You can find me as JGC3 on geocaching.com

    OR

    http://www.australiangeocachingessentials.com/

     

    If you wish to send photo's etc great but we'd prefer 300 dpi quality if available.

     

    Thanks

    James

     

    Posted with permission from Groundspeak.

    NEW Australian Geocaching Magazine

    in Australia

    Posted

    Hi All,

     

    We're launching a new full colour Australian Geocaching magazine,

    we've gone full colour although much more expensive we think many

    geocachers have great photo's that really need colour to look great.

     

    So if you'd like to submit a story and / or photo's

    or simply have some questions we'd like to hear from you.

     

    Simple reply on this forum or

     

    You can find me as JGC3 on geocaching.com

    OR

    http://www.australiangeocachingessentials.com/

     

    If you wish to send photo's etc great but we'd prefer 300 dpi quality if available.

     

    Thanks

    James

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