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    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Would you please be willing to share the GC numbers of a few you liked.. perhaps we're able to spread the word of some better ones..

     

    Hi all,

     

    I've just recently put out my first night cache GC2V39X,

    and although there's nothing stopping anyone

    doing it during the day the location is special

    at night but plain boring during daylight...

     

    Can you describe what it is about your cache that makes it more interesting at night? I have yet to do a night cache that I actually enjoyed, simply because there was nothing to see.

     

    I like caching for the chance to see new areas and spend time out-of-doors breathing fresh air, hearing birds call, etc., and caching at night makes me miss out on all of that (except the fresh air, I guess...)

     

    Wow. I've only done a few night caches but I've really enjoyed them. To each his own.............

    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Sure. It's in a location that is on a dirt road with no street lights.. no houses.. just farmland and 10-15 minutes from the closest sealed road.. the road itself is in good condition.. and suitable for all types of vehicle.. but what makes it special or at least special to me.. there's a nearby wind farm.. and at night the sky lights up with these "red" lights on the towers.. and the noise of the wind.. in the distance towards the coast you can see this light house's beam breaking over the nearby hill.. looks great with the stars on a clear night.. my opinion so I decided to share the location..

     

    Hi all,

     

    I've just recently put out my first night cache GC2V39X,

    and although there's nothing stopping anyone

    doing it during the day the location is special

    at night but plain boring during daylight...

     

    Can you describe what it is about your cache that makes it more interesting at night? I have yet to do a night cache that I actually enjoyed, simply because there was nothing to see.

     

    I like caching for the chance to see new areas and spend time out-of-doors breathing fresh air, hearing birds call, etc., and caching at night makes me miss out on all of that (except the fresh air, I guess...)

    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks for clearing that up.. appreciated..

     

    If someone signs the log of the cache can you legitimately delete the log if they found it at a time of day you're not happy with?

    No. Sign the paper cache log, you can log it online.

     

    That would be like me deleting the logs of everyone that caravanned out to one of my puzzle caches when only one of them actually solved it. I may not necessarily approve of it, but there's nothing I can do about it.

    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    lol. Might of been a big bad wolf in the woods perhaps?!?

     

    I was out doing a night cache in Rhode Island, and we were apporcahing hte final stage, which was indicated by two red reflectors. I was leading our small group, when I spotted to red glows in the distance.

     

    "We're almost to the end" I tell the others over my shoulder. When I look back at the two red dots, they begin to move off trail into the woods!

     

    "Oops! Nevermind - that was some kind of animal!"

    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Fair enough.. hadn't thought about it like that.. altho i doubt i would delete a log for that reason.. but thanks for the post..

     

    If someone signs the log of the cache can you legitimately delete the log if they found it at a time of day you're not happy with?

    Night hides / finds

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I've just recently put out my first night cache GC2V39X,

    and although there's nothing stopping anyone

    doing it during the day the location is special

    at night but plain boring during daylight.

     

    Which got me thinking.. do you have any interesting

    hides / finds at night you wish to share?

     

    Please be aware I'm doing a feature in my

    geocaching magazine and will quote some

    posts.

     

    Thanks

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Congrats on the First to find... the first of many more i hope.. but I must admit I haven't managed too many recently... still a find is better than another dreaded DNF!

     

    Being new at this Geocache thing, I was amazed to find a local cache, newly placed nine day previous, on a pond I long ago often paddled/fished. An opportunity to log a FTF possessed me and the following evening, after work, my sweetie joined me for a shared canoe ride to the GZ for my first FTF. It had been about four years since we enjoyed canoeing and look forward to a few more outings this summer.

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

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    Appreciate the post. Sounds like a great time would of been had by all.

    Thanks for the offer of a link on your site, Happy to put one up for your

    site as well... cheers

     

    I've hosted several boat-caching events and people love them!

     

    My GCXAZA Pirates at Cherokee Lake? event had a group of cachers on two pontoon boats, one ski boat and a jet ski on an all-day cruise to find 22 caches on islands or on the shore of Cherokee Lake in Tennessee.

     

    This is caching with style!

     

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    Here's a certain well-known Reviewer relaxing on my pontoon boat between caches:

     

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    Here a motley crew searches for an underwater cache made more easily available when the water level is down.

     

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    Boat-caching events always get great logs, like this one or this one.

     

    I sold my boat and thus adopted out most of the 15 island caches on Lake Martin in Alabama but they are still being maintained by the new owners and are regularly found. That lake tour takes you to some beautiful remote islands, a state park, the Kawliga Bridge where a morose Hank Williams penned the song by that name, an abandoned gold mine accessible only by boat and numerous other interesting spots. I have hosted two events there where boatloads of cachers took the 10-cache half-day tour on pontoon boats. Great fun!

     

    I still own a few island caches that you can swim to or get by boat, like this one and this one.

     

    My weekend event at Lake Guntersville Alabama gave cachers an opportunity to get 11 boat-access-only caches around that lake from my pontoon boat.

     

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    At my 3-day Alabama Open Invitational event I included a half-day deep-sea fishing expedition, not exactly caching but the cachers sure enjoyed it!

     

    Here a couple of California NUTS take on the briny deep off Alabama shores on a break during a week-long cache tour of the South:

     

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    Here I am with some that became the geocacher's dinner that night:

     

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    Go for it! Water outside the cache is a good thing!

     

    When you get your article published let me know and I will link to it in my geocaching magazine, The Online Geocacher http://onlinegeocacher.com

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks for the post. Sounds interesting... lol going overboard is not good when in a kayak.. Cycling caches, I had two people log one of my caches last week travelling by bike.. first time I'd heard of it..

     

    As might be expected from our screen names, we do much of our geocaching by bicycle (road, mtb, beach cruiser, you name it) but within the last year we have become avid kayakcachers. We bought 'yaks last fall and now, when we travel, we find ourselves looking to rent kayaks as often as we rent bikes. Lots of hydrocaches here in South Jersey and the surrounding areas. We have, perhaps, gone a little "overboard" on occasion as when we tried to go for FTFs on a series of caches on Game Creek the day after New Years (GC2K4XK is the one we finally got to a couple days later)

    This is what we found a few hundred meters from the put in:d9c27511-7a68-4189-a4d4-ec8258ea37b4.jpg

     

    We're going back to get the rest today, rain or no rain!!

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks for the tip. Cheers

     

    It would be nice to be able to search on things like "Kayak needed" or "hiking required". It seems that Kayaking would be a perfect fit with Geocaching.
    Premium members can use pocket queries to search for caches in various ways, including by caches' attributes.

     

    For more info on pocket queries, see:

    http://www.markwell.us/pq.htm

     

    For more info about attributes, see:

    http://www.geocaching.com/about/icons.aspx

    Geocaching with pets?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks to the last few posts. Managed to sneak you into the geo-pets feature.

     

    Regards

    James

     

    Here's my GSD with his 3rd cache, he actually finds it before me sometimes. He was sniffing around a rocky area and I was sure the cache wasn't there, he proved me wrong. Again :laughing:

     

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    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    That sounds amazing. Would like to hear more. Hard to imagine "few roads" for us city folk.

     

    Where I live there are very few roads. None of the towns are connected. For caching locally on the islands we use boats. To cache in a nearby town we ride a ferry. Either could be done with a float plane but it's much cheaper by boat.

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I will have a look on google maps.. thanks

     

    there is alot of water caches here in SC. Search Columbia, SC on the google maps, then zoom on in to the river and check them out. Then find I-95 and follow it down to Lake Santee and check out all the Kayak only caches in the upper part of the lake which is mostly swampy

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks will check out the listings..

     

    Perhaps we can find someone around where you are that could help??

    If you want to share where it is..

     

    There is a lake near me that has an island that I would love to put a cache on , but I don't have a boat .

    GC2T3K5 GC2TM5Q GC2T3MY the caches are at Curtisville Lake near Mannington WV . To most people this would be a small Lake . It was built back in the 70s for flood control .

    Boating and Caching

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Sounds interesting. Thanks. Let us know if you manage to find the right spot.

    Good luck.

     

    I live next to Poole Harbour in the UK and have found a couple of caches by boat. I might place a few around the shores during the summer as there aren't many at the moment. I'd like to find somewhere to place a boat only cache but I am not sure where at the moment... :)

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