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SeekTheCache

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  1. Tudo verdade! Pelo menos por mim falo, que noto que acabo por só usar o que é prático, apesar de já ter seguido alguns tópicos aqui neste fórum e de ter visto aqui várias coisas muito interessantes, por exemplo, a nível de elaboração de caches. Conheço este fórum, conheço o geopt.org, conheço uns grupos de Facebook e conheço um grupo no Telegram. De entre todos, acaba por ser apenas o Telegram que ainda acompanho de vez em quando. Por acaso tinha deixado um pedido neste tópico para ser notificada se tivesse atividade, caso contrário, não tinha cá vindo...
  2. Yes, I do see the problem. It's my first and only TB so far, so I was getting worried that the person who is holding it had forgotten all about it, since I was expecting to be notified if there were logs and had received none. I'm sure the eagerness will pass soon enough
  3. It breaks my heart that those won't fly away across the Atlantic by themselves... Cost of shipping and customs would be a nightmare Hope you will get back soon.
  4. Ok, that explains it. Thank you for clarifying this for me. HQ might have a point, but I still would like to be able to decide for myself whether or not I want my inbox clogged so I agree with you, having that option would be nice.
  5. Hi everyone! Is there some way to select that I want to be notified whenever there is movement on a TB that I own? My TB was grabbed from my iventory in January. I got a notification of this. Since then I got nothing else, so I was thinking that it had no movement logged since. I was about to send a message to the geocacher who is holding it, asking them to release it when i noticed that the TB has already moved around a lot. This geocacher has logged dozens of visits, the TB has travelled over 12000km and I received no notifications of its movements. What am I missing? Can anyone help? Thank you
  6. I've had two encounters. The first time, I was spotted by a fellow french Geocacher. It was during a summer hollyday in the south of Spain. I was with my husband finding a series of caches placed along a long walk by the beach. This particular one was supposed to be on a stone wall. When we got to the spot we couldn't find it. We could see lots of stones had already been removed by other geocachers looking for the container and there were already a few DNF's logged, but still we decided to take a look. We were really absorbed by our search when after some time we notice that we were being observed and the man comes up to us and says, in a very strong french accent "You are playing the Geocaching game, yes?" We just laughed and thought stealth really isn't our super power. The second time, we were the ones who spotted another Geocacher. This was in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, earlier this month. We were walking the streets, finding whatever caches we happened to come across. We had just logged one, placed on a traffic sign that was somewhat in the middle of the street and off any reasonable way a pedestrian would normally take. Anyone standing there by that sign would look conspicuous, so we brought the cache to the other side of the street, signed it and crossed again to place it back. Then we stood there by the sidewalk for a few minutes while deciding which way to go next and that's when we spotted a girl, right there by the sign, sitting down to log the cache. She looked our way and we waved at her, so later she and her partner came to us and asked "are you Seekthecache? we've been following you!" turns out they had been finding the same chaches we did, only a few minutes behind us for quite some time.
  7. Presente! Ocasionalmente vou espreitando nos dois
  8. Just out of curiosity, in Portugal: On the app On the website
  9. My two cents on this matter, as a very, very recent cache owner, is that your caches are a bit like your children. Your first born will give you all the thrills, the sleepless nights waiting for birth, clicking F5 on your “newest caches in the area” page to see if it’s already there. Then they are born, and you hover, become a helicopter parent for some time. Eventually you will want to stop babying them and hope that they will have strong legs to stand on and live a long independent life. You will, however, care for them for the rest of their lives. And specifically, as a geocache owner, you are responsible for whatever you put out into the environment. So, in my opinion, it’s with good reason that the hiding guidelines clearly say: - Don't hide caches far from home. Vacation/holiday caches are usually not published because they are difficult to maintain. It's best to place physical caches in your area so you can respond quickly to maintenance needs. In rare circumstances a vacation cache with an acceptable maintenance plan might be published. Regarding the question about replacing the logbook, when I come across that situation when I’m geocaching, I leave an SOS logbook when I have one with me and there is space in the container for both the old one and the new. I NEVER remove the old one. When there is no space or if I have nothing on me that I can use, I usually take a picture of the old log to let the owner know the current state that it’s in. Recently, since I have read that NM logs are unwelcomed by some owners, I have opted for leaving a NOTE separately from my “found it” log, as a way to try to get the owner’s attention. As a cache owner, I would also appreciate being given a “heads-up” before the logbook is totally useless, but personally, I have nothing against a NM log. Again, according to the guidelines, it’s the right thing to do. I think it’s also the best way to get your attention, especially if you own quite a few and even more if those are in high traffic areas. It will become difficult to get that information from the regular “found it” logs unless you want to read them all in full. I usually do, but I realize that in high traffic areas, it can become a full-time job. I think that when you decide to hide a geocache, you are committing to the responsibility of maintaining it, so you should be willing to go there and respond to NM logs and do whatever needs to be done.
  10. This is Zambujeira do Mar - Portugal. That's my husband on his way to the GZ -https://coord.info/GC60EYJ Eventually, after a few deep breaths, I found my way down there as well.
  11. Thank you both. A submission for coordinates check purposes seems to be the answer. Thanks
  12. Thank you barefootjeff I think I had already read that suggestion further up on this thread, and that does seem to be the best way, although if I remember correctly there were still some different thoughts on whether or not a cache should be in place for that submission, even for a coordinates check. If it can be done, that is probably what I will do in the future.
  13. Hi Tricia, thank you for trying to help. But no, that is not my issue at all because that issue was delt with immediately. The caches were removed and put on standby, while I considered a different project for them. Sometime later, when I came up with the thought of creating a PT, those same cache pages were reutilized to become a part of it. They were placed elsewhere and with a different setup, nothing to do with the original listing. To try to explain my issue a little better and in a "cliffs notes" version: Two PTs from different owners are being developed at approximately the same time for the same area. The cache pages have been created, there is work being done building the containers, work that depending on the complexity and free time available may take weeks, and, for either one of the owners, there seems to be no way of knowing that there is going to be a conflict due to proximity until caches are being submitted for publication. By that time a lot of work may have gone to waste if there is no way to overcome that conflict. So, my question is: how can we avoid this?
  14. Sarcasm is funny, but not helpful though. Your previous suggestion seems to be what I did, and we still had the problems I mentioned. Or am I missing something here? What could I have done differently? Thank you
  15. All valid points, and I get it! I don´t like it any more than you do, but I also didn't enjoy almost seeing so much work going to waste. That doesn't really work. Originally, I buit and placed two caches on those fields. When I submitted them, I was told they could not be published because they were strapped to a species of tree that is protected, which I didn't know at the time. So I had to rethink them. That's when I came up with the idea of setting up a PT and then opened the remaining cache pages. So, by now I had two older cache pages and 11 newer ones, right? By the time I opened the 11 newer ones, the owner of the other PT was probably already working on his. But neither one of us was made aware of that conflict until caches were submitted for publication. As a result: a) I lost two caches and had to reorganize the rest. (bummer, but I still got it done) / b) He has two caches of his PT that will not be published because of my two older ones, which is also not cool. One of them I might be able to liberate, but the remaining one will not be possible. Having a way of knowing that the place you are considering is in conflict with someone else's work would be ideal, as it would save everybody a lot of wasted work.
  16. Asking the same question, but with some different terms. Is it ok to design a generic listing and place a simple container just for publication purposes, then deactivate while you finish building your final container and then reactivate, say within a maximum two-week period? It would allow for certainty that those spots will be there when you finish your work. I'm asking this because I had a bit of a disappointment recently. I was preparing 13 caches to be placed on the fields that surround the area where I live. These are the spots I walk every day. Some of my caches are quite elaborated and my work was halfway done when another PT was launched on the same area, causing half of "my spots" to be compromised. I had to give up on 2 of the caches I had planned and change locations for 4 other ones. I almost gave up. I only didn't because everything was almost done, and it felt like such a waste. But it was still hugely frustrating because the trail was basically ruined. I have another area that might be cool for another project like this, and it would be nice to have a way to secure the spots I find good for hiding and still have some time to work on the containers, without risking losing them just days before they are ready.
  17. Great question! I am also preparing a cache that will have the night cache attribute and there are a few things that you have mentioned here in this post that I had not considered, such as marks to hint that you’re in the right path. I am using a solar lamp that will glow after dark, I have already tested it and although you may easily miss it during daytime, it is clearly visible from a distance during nighttime, so I think finding the cache will not be a problem, but the waymarks might be very useful in finding your way back. Curiously, I have never logged a night cache myself. I don´t think I have ever even had one come up on my to do list, so there are no tips I can give from that experience, but I think that making the cache easy to find might be better, because a long search is probably a lot more frustrating during the night than it is during daytime.
  18. Steal away! I'm doing something with a solar lamp, not sure if it will work as well as I hope. I can share how it turns out when it's done, if you like.
  19. Wow!! I am currently building a few containers for a project related to cinema and a few of my favourite movies. One of them is about Star Wars and I decided to go for the lightsaber, but, looking at your work, I was thinking that something like this would have made a fantastic Jabba the Hutt!
  20. As a newcomer to this game, I’ve rediscovered the thrill of the find and recently discovered the thrill of the hide. So far, I only own two, but I have a handful of new ones in the making. My idea of geocaching mostly goes along those same lines, but for me there is also another side to this. Exploring and discovering new places is the greatest reward I get from the game, and with this in mind my emphasis would totally be on chaches that bring me to new places. But exploring new places is something that I only manage to do on holydays or the occasional weekend. I do, however, enjoy playing it all year. I joined in 2008, but never really got to it, came back in July 2021, so there are still a lot of caches for me to find in my area, but thinking of those who have nothing new to find near their areas, reviving an archived cache will give them something new to find on those times when your life does not allow you to go caching far from home. One of my caches was placed on a spot where an archived cache used to exist. In this case, for most people, there would be no new place to find, right? So, I thought: let’s make it a new experience to have. Don’t just drop a medicine bottle on the ground, make it something fun, or something challenging, something that will be worth the visit even for those who have already been there. This is the sort of thing that, to me, makes it also important to have the same place bring you to a new cache.
  21. Going off topic here, but I'll add that I go back to it every now and then and it seems there's allways something new to discover.
  22. I first started geocaching in 2008, but life got in the way and there was a hiatus of about 11 years until I came back. I started again this year and along with rediscovering the thrill of finding them, I found the thrill of the hide as well. I currently have two active ones and three new ones in the making. But as much fun as it has been coming up with new concepts that will reward the player for coming to visit, I am also quickly coming to the conclusion that I need to rein in that enthusiasm or else I will soon have much more than I can handle on my plate.
  23. That you should find the need to almost apologize for writing a long text .... There's nothing wrong with it. The attention span of readers that is forever decreasing, and makes them loose interest after 10 lines is what's wrong. I had a somewhat similar experience not so long ago. There was a cache I really wanted to find, located in an abandoned ceramic fatory. I followed the trail only to find that to get to the GZ I would have to go by a gipsy camp. I gave up. On the one hand I felt ashamed and thought I was being outright prejudiced to feel fear on account of their ethnicity. On the other hand, I imagined what it would seem like to them, to see someone lurking by, moving awkwardly around fussing in the bushes and thought they would be right to be suspicious and it would be best to avoid the hassle. Still, it felt like I was just finding an excuse to my not so noble behaviour.
  24. About that, funny thing I noticed: it depends on the browser you're using Using the ancient IE On Firefox and Edge for example
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