Pendragon Crew

There was an alligator in the way and I had to find a new route. Need I say more?

I found a ziploc cache and figured it was a temporary replacement. (Found it on a whim with the Jr - so no prior info on it.) But when I got home to log it I found out that the cache was indeed a ziploc. It seemed a bit odd to me, but since our family has yet to place our first cache, I am really not one to judge.

We have seen your pins in a few caches. My daughter wanted to know where you get all of those little bowling pins.

I have learned to overcome some of the "feelings of right and wrong" I grew up with when it comes to geocaching. But it took some time! Even though the description clearly states, "placed with owners permission" or "owner knows all about this" I am still leary. One my husband and I did was in the fenced backyard of a business. (Gate left open.) That one really made me feel weird! We did a front yard cache and met the owner in the process. I learned a lot about geocaching from him. There is another in our town which is a front yard cache, but I haven't done it yet. I am getting bolder, but I still get that awkward feeling.

You sit around twiddling your thumbs until someone places a series of shopping mall caches near you? We live in Florida and try to grab most of ours in the morning or evening. Try being the opportune word - it hardly ever works that way. We have only been caching since April but we are beginning to realize that summer is not the busy time for caches here.

Ours started as an experiment in junk mail years ago. I used to sign up for catalogs and whatnot using various fictional names just to see what company would spawn more junk for other companies. I always used book character surnames - anything from Moriarty to d'Urberville. Pendragon was the one that kind of stuck. We still get catalogs and even telemarking calls for the Pendragons. We added the Crew just to signify that we are a group.

I am so glad someone bumped this thread. As a newbie to geocaching, I am very excited about this one. The kids will love it! But I am wondering if someone could tell me how to use the attributes to find only hamster caches in our area. Exactly what category does it fall under? Being a Floridian I love the baby gator variation. Our family has been stopped by gators more than once on the way to a cache. But it never occured to any of us to put a gator IN a cache! Pure genius!

Our Bed Bath and Beyond sells them. Of course with some of these stores closing, B threes are harder to find. As newbies (we haven't put out our first cache yet) we bought Rubbermaid ones for our future caches. I guess we will have to see how well they perform. What surprises me are the caches that are in those disposible containers made by Glad and Rubbermaid. They bill them as being disposible for a very good reason - they fall apart easily. But I am digressing from the OPs topic. Sorry!

My 5 year old used to be a "potty tourist." Now she is a "geo-peeer." (Yes - there has got to be a better way to spell that.) It is amazing that she always needs to go when we are at a cache in the woods. Is it acceptable to add "peed near cache" to the log? As much as I am hoping she will soon outgrow this, it is oddly comforting to know that she isn't alone!

Ok, I'll call this one. Because most glass is at least semi-transparent, it couldn't heat up more than the surrounding material. I *might* possibly believe you if you claim that bits of clear glass could magnify and focus sunlight on the surrounding vegetation, heating it to the point of ignition (most kids do this experiment with a magnifying glass). But you're saying that random bits of discarded glass causes more fires in Florida than arson, negligently built campfires, lightning, or drunken fire flies? Have to agree with that one. Arson and debris from controlled burning are the leaders in causing Florida wildfires. The Pendragon that was once a Florida firefighter (and fought his share of brush fires) suggested that glass could certainly cause a fire - if someone decides to make a Molotov cocktail out of a glass bottle. Fires aside - at least you don't have to worry as much about someone dropping a rock on your cache in Florida. They aren't exactly plentiful in the woods here!

I really wish all caches would be so easy to spot Easy to spot, yes, but not easy to get to! It's about a 3/4 mile hike up a gravel road with a total of about 500 feet elevation change, and the last 200 feet of the hike is about 80 feet elevation change with no trail. Figured I would make the search easy as reward for the hike Already been found twice, and both people enjoyed it a lot, so I'm very happy with it! Yikes - and you lugged a lightpost up all of that? What a neat cache!

Our screen name signifies a group and we post that way whether it is all five of us or just one of us. Rarely is it all five of us because my teen son isn't really thrilled with going anywhere with his little sisters if he doesn't have to. (Gee - what a surprise!) On those rare days I go by myself I will write "I" did this instead of the "we" that is normally posted.