Harry Dolphin

Found a cache in a cemetery today. Gravesite for the cacher's late wife (and his in the future). There is a hole drilled in the bottom of the monument, covered by a rock, with a bison tube inside. Only a geocacher would drill a hole in the monument, to hide a cache! 48% favorites! Got a favorite point from me!

I was helping my sister hide some caches. We found an ammo can! It was the final of a multi that had been archived four years previously by the reviewer, because the first stage had disappeared.

My first cache hide I checked on nine years later. It was still in good shape. I have a lot of hiking caches. I do not do maintenance unless there's a problem.

I had a GeoArt series along a walkway along the Hudson River. I archived them five years ago when my Geocaching partner died. No one has place any new caches along that walkway.

Ah. A small stuffed bird slept in my sister's luggage, when she was visiting our brother in Seattle. So, we attached a TB tag to send it back to Seattle. He made it there! So our brother attached the tag to a Furby to send it to our sister in Maine. The Furby went to the Czech Republic. but finally made it to Maine! Our sister attached the tag to a small stuffed bear to come back to New Jersey. It was picked by a newbie in Montana, and hasn't been seen since. Oh, well. It did travel 27000 miles.

As a senior geocacher who only uses a GPSr, I have done two caches with QR codes. One was a LetterBox Hybrid. I took a photo of the QR Code, Scanned it into the computer, and returned another dy for the final. The other was a multicache. Five stages. Took me five days to photograph the QR Codes, return home, scan into the computer to read, and return for the next stage. As a GPSr geocacher, I hate QR Code caches! Not Geocaching if I need to take photos of the code and come back for the next sage.

Yes. There's a local who posts "Wish I had a favorite for this cache." I have a number that I have not given out. 284.

I have posted this before. Someone logged two of my caches in one day, along with a lot of caches in the area. The two caches were two miles apart. But the driving time was about an hour. One in NYC, one across the river in NJ. No one had ever logged both in one day. Took me two weeks to check both. Cacher had not signed either. Turns out he had not signed any logs on that trip. Might have been the only cacher's logs I've deleted on regular caches. On the other fin, on my WebCam Cache, I delete any log that does not meet the requirement "Photo of you taken by the webcam must be posted with the log." Well, I send an e-mail first, explaining the requirement. If the required photo is not added, the log is deleted. WebCams can get archived for allowing selfies. I have delete quite a large number of selfie logs.

A brother-in-law dared me to set out a GeoArt series. All of the puzzles were different. It took us a couple of months to get them all done. Twenty four caches in total. I decided that it would be interesting to set out one 5D/1T. Tough to find a spot that was wheel-chair accessible, less that .20 mile from parking, and could be retrieved from the wheel chair. It had far fewer finds than others in the series. About a third as many finds. Very few actually solved it. Some noticed there was an empty spot on the map. Many got help from them or their logs. The guideline is: Sign log, then you can log it on-line. So I had no problem that very few actually solved it. The series was archived when my friend died. It required quite a bit of maintenance.

Yes. Cannot sign in.

I vote for the New Jersey Devils!

Interesting. But it gives me finds in ten states that I've never cached in. Mostly Locationless caches, and, perhaps a few moving caches. I still qualify. But should Locationless caches qualify? 14 finds in California? I've never cached in California.

Deleting logs has been there for a long time. Deleting photos was added recently. When deleting photos was installed, it came with adding 'the reason for the deletion'. All we are asking is that 'the reason for deletion' be added to deleting logs.

Yes. I have a six stage mystery cache. First stage is small. Final is regular. Four stages are micros. About six-hundred feet of climb on the round trip. Doesn't get a lot of finds. 25 finds in 15 years. But it does have 36% favorites. Everyone has enjoyed it.

Well, I've been geocaching for more than sixteen years. Hit find 9800 today! Depends on what considers local. Still lots of caches within an hours drive. Well, I avoid New York City urban area about thirty-five miles east. Lots of hiking caches to the north. New caches do keep popping up. But I have found most of the caches nearby. Except those evil mystery caches... I'm not going to watch movies for the answer to mystery caches.

I do about twenty pocket queries. Covers 65 miles from home. Download them to GSAK. Then sort.

I used GSAK. Sorted my pocket queries by CO name. Finally found a CO whose name started with 5. A fair distance off.

My Geoart was not a power trail. That didn't stop one cacher from taking the MKH from the fence and putting it where the nano was on the bench. Then put the nano where the fake bolt was on the bridge. I assume that the bolt was then put where the bison was hanging on a bush. (Which is why I could not find that cache, and had to replace it.)

I've run across several cases of a geocacher's signature stamp having a TB code. No problem. Meant to be discovered. I've also run into a few cases of duplicate TBs. One was a re-release of a bug that had been missing for years. Then the original was found in Europe and moved. The owner asked that I mail the one I had back to him. And he repaid me for the postage. Another was obviously several bugs released. I grabbed the one I found and put it in a cache. Someone grabbed it from that cache, and moved it elsewhere. The cache where I hid it was archived, so that resolves part of that problem.

I need one Solar Challenge. Found seventeen caches yesterday. A nice trail in a GeoArt series. I still need that one Solar Wonder.

Two of the caches I've found (that I know of) were retracted. One was too close to the final of a mystery. That was 2006. Back then, I don't think the owner of the mystery had to give the reviewer the coords of the final. The other was in the foundation of a ruins that was deemed to be historical and preserved.

Thirteen caches yesterday. Only picked up two Solar Wonders.

My streak ended at 937 days. We had 30" of snow, and the governor closed down the state. The trains were not running (or I would have tried for a parking lot cache near a train station.) I did try for a parking lot cache within walking distance, but was unable to find it. I did not find a cache that day. My streak ended. I would never have considered moving a cache I found to that day. That would have been cheating.

Nice take off of David Bowie's song from 1969! Yes. I remember that one!

From a cacher with 18 finds in two months. Checked it and the whole back of the log was empty.