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Well the vast majority of caches (at least it seems so in this area) are located on or nearby well maintained trails that are used somewhat frequently. I'd bet that only an extremely small minority of geocachers are doing the ones that require specialized safety equipment. I wouldn't expect there to be all that many deaths for that reason.

Well I just started (only found three so far), and sort of copy the form that everyone else is using because I didn't really know what to write. I suppose, fortunately, I'm the type of person who could talk my head off, so my logs do seem to be a bit on the longer side. I actually thought they were kinda supposed to be short since everyone else's kind of is. I always assumed mine where kind of too long, so I've been trying to edit them down. Good thing to know though. Next time we go out, I'll throw in all the details.

So you take your dog to a park and let it loose to chase down, and if it were able, attack and kill rabbits. Is that not a correct statement? How cute and friendly your dog must be. So essentially, the dog was unleased, running loose and beyond control of the owner, and then jumped on a child. Please explain how anyone can determine, in 5 seconds, if a running dog is friendly or not. No. You are not responsible dog owners. You let your animals chase wildlife and can't prevent them from jumping on people. Keep that point in mind. You are not walking dogs, you are letting them run uncontrolled to harass wildlife and jump on people. Your claim of respect is false. If you respected other people, you would control your animals. Spoken like someone who knows nothing about dogs or animals in general, and very little about people. Hahaha... that's exactly what I thought. As far as "chasing down wildlife" goes, I hear this ALL the time from people who don't know a thing about how dogs act. My dog killed a squirrel, twice, which I believe is the dream every dog that has ever lived has. People told us "oh, now she's a killer. You better watch out". That is the most ridiculous thing. Dogs are very smart animals and they know the difference between wildlife and people. This dog is now 12 years old and has never bitten anyone. In fact, if robbers broke into our house, she's probably greet them wagging her tail (she's not the greatest watchdog). Also, if you know anything at all about dogs, it's extremely easy to tell when a dog is running at you because it wants to greet you and when it's charging at you because it wants to attack you. It's pretty obvious. Obviously you've also never been to an off-leash dog park, because they are exactly what the name says. If you don't like dogs, or don't want to risk a dog jumping on you, then logically one would assume that you should stay away from the off-leash dog park. And did you not pick up where the original post mentioned that the "child" in question was a 14yo teenager?

I love dogs. I love dogs more than I like most people! This woman sounds insane, and police won't do anything if there's no injury. An "injury" that fades into nothing soon after is not an injury. You should have just driven off and put her out of your mind. Some people just want to make big deals out of small matters.

Hey Titusville! Cool. I'm in Port St. John. I actually don't know Black Point Wildlife Drive is, but I do know that Playlinda Beach is on federal property (I'm pretty sure). Yeah, I think it does have a lot to do with the proximity to the Space Center. They really don't like any kind of out of the ordinary activity going on over there. There are a lot of archaeology sites in that area too, and I volunteered on once. We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get permission to do that.

Whatever happened to artists who created art for the sheer love of it? I wonder if Vincent Van Gogh rolls over in his grave every time someone looks at one of his paintings on the internet rather than buying an original? Would he say "why don't you just go look at someone else's art instead!"

I was a cache (sort of) once, and met the people placing "us". This was in 2005 (I think). I was an archaeology major and I had to do a field school. My university owns a large block of historic property and a nice museum in downtown Pensacola, FL (it's pretty cool if your ever in that area. They've got a living history village and the museum is free). The field school was in the grassy area behind the museum, and UWF's archaeology program is really into public outreach programs. So, since this was an urban area, we were sort of "put on display" for the curious public passing by....which was REALLY ANNOYING when it's five thousand degrees outside, your trying to concentrate on what your doing, and you have every single person walking past you going "Soooo, find any buried treasure yet. Hur hur hur" , but it was a major grade so I dealt with it. Anyway, so these two people came walking by us with a GPS. They talked to the site supervisor and said "we're geocachers", explained what that was, and asked if they could put our dig site on the website as a cool spot to find. She said sure, but I don't know if anything ever came of that, as I didn't see any other people walking around with GPS's that summer, and I didn't really know what geocaching was at the time so I never bothered to check the website.

Awww... I love bears. I'm not going to lie though. If I came face to face with one, and it wasn't behind a wall at the zoo, I'd probably need to change my pants after that. I've heard, though, that black bears (unlike grizzly bears) are scarred out of their minds by people. They're big wimps unless they're starving or you provoke them, so chances are he saw you coming up the trail and hid to avoid you.

These are pretty much the results you would expect. A hand held GPS is something not a lot of older teenagers and college aged people can just up and buy for a game, as $100 can be pretty steep for someone trying to make tuition payments in addition to other bills. I could barely afford food when I was in college, there's no way I was going to buy a GPS, even though I've known about it for a while and it always looked interesting. That's not to say they don't enjoy it. I got a GPS for Christmas and so I just started. I took my 19 year old brother out with me yesterday and we found our first one. He really loved it.

I'm completely new to geocaching. I actually just got my first GPS for Christmas, so today was my first attempt. I took along my brother, but unfortunately we got rained out after about ten minutes, so it was kind of a bust. However, I work outdoors doing environmental survey's, so I'm VERY experienced with the downside of hiking in the woods. One of my biggest concerns is Lymes disease, but fortunately you might be relieved to know that it takes a deer tick anywhere from two to three days to transmit the disease to a human. If you found one after a hike and plucked it off before it burrowed under your skin, the chances of catching that particular illness from it are very small. I do have a scary moment, but it's from my job, not geocaching (so far the fear of rain ruining my brand new toy would be the scariest). I was in Mississippi, my very first job out of college. I was fighting my way through the most awful dense thorny underbrush I've ever been in. The woods where we were surveying was so thick you really couldn't see more than five feet away. I stumbled into a clearing and stuck one foot into a pile of leaves without thinking (I always carry a stick and normally poke around at things before I step in them, but I was hurrying because I just wanted to get out of there). Suddenly I hear movement in the leaves that is not coming from me, and the sound of a soft rattle going off. I looked down and sure enough...HUGE FREAKING RATTLESNAKE!!! I never ran so fast in my entire life... Also, same job but not as scary, I nearly face planted into a black widow spider's web. The spider just sort of looked at me indifferently.