Joeru

Yeah I plan on doing some more research before investing into anything. Speaking to Groundspeak is on the top of my list if I decide to go ahead as I would like to use official merchandise only. I agree that geocaching couldn't be the only thing, Luckily where I live you can go from Beach to River to Country to Forest to Mountains all within less than a 1hr drive. This would give me access to things like Mountain Climbing, Kayaking, Surfing, Diving, Swimming, Hiking, Horse Riding etc etc as well as some really amazing food and some vineyards and distilleries also. I really appreciate all the advice you guys have given so far it has been helping me brain storm Keep it coming.

The new caches would be maintained by myself as a lot of people would be tourists. The creating a new cache is more novel than anything else and teach the tour how to do it and give them tips and they would feel a slight ownership to the cache as a group but ultimately the tour company would be the maintainer. As for bus loads as I posted afterwards it would only be groups up to a maximum of 12 - 14 due to the bus size so finding a cache wouldn't be all that hard in a group that small.

The main idea was to build new geocachers, particularly through schools and use it as a way to both promote geocaching but also to teach children about nature and how important it is to maintain. Outside of schools I was thinking to promote to both corporate sector for team building exercises and to adventurist tourists, seeing as the Tweed & Gold Coast attract millions of tourists every year that there may be a market for it. I dunno just a idea, thanks for the feed back so far. Also the bus I was thinking of would only be for 12- 14 people depending on the model, so this would not attract great attention. Regarding caches and owners I would of course ask for permission and there would be education to all people on the tour regarding proper care both for the environment and for the cache. Also I think it would give a chance to bring some people to some of the towns that are dying in the community such as the town of Moobal which was once a hot spot for travellers leaving Qld to go south, but since the new highway this old route is dead and there is little left of this cute little town that is painted black and white like cows. I dunno just pipe dreams for now I guess but more feedback would be great.

Hey everyone, I have been thinking about this for a while and wondered if something like a Geo Cache Tours would work? I live on the Gold Coast in Australia and this is an area full of natural beauty and a big tourist hot spot. I was contemplating buying a tour bus and running Geo Caching tours throughout the Tweed Coast, Mount Warning, Gold Coast and Mount Tamborine. Idea is to go to a set selection of caches and have a bunch of GPS devices and have everyone go hunting at each location? Also to allow the tour to create their own cache and place a TB inside so they can all track it. Do you think something like this would work? Any tips or ideas or anyone doing this sort of thing already I would love to hear some feed back. Cheers Joeru