Superted

I would like to make a suggestion/plea for there being Wales, Scotland and England Souvenirs. Note that I am purposely refraining from calling them Country Souvenirs as the United Kingdom already has a souvenir. My argument is based on cache density and cache numbers i.e. these regions have high cache density and numbers without there being individual regional souvenirs. They would in effect be similar to State souvenirs in other countries where there is high cache density. I think I am right in saying that the artwork already exists for these three regional souvenirs. Thank you Superted

I would just like to add my name to the list of people expressing their disappointment that this well-motivated change to prevent people accidentally logging a traditional cache more than once may inadvertently see the end of the extremely popular UK's Ye Old Survey Monuments cache (GC45CC). In the 14 years I have enjoyed this hobby I can't recall a change being implemented that will end up impacting my motivation and way in which I geocache. I plan trips around this specific cache, maybe visiting one or two of the locations, and picking up other caches in the area. It has taken me to many beautiful places and given me many adventures. Getting an additional smiley for visiting this cache has never been never a real motivation but seeing where I am on the league table of visitors has certainly been a driving force. May I ask out friends at GC HQ to please make an exception for this cache and allow us YOSM enthusiasts to continue to enjoy this cache. Many thanks.

I am keen to encourage geocachers to consider Waymarking as a new hobby. A number of my caches have Waymarks close to them. I also visit caches where I create a new Waymark nearby. I have therefore developed the attached picture to upload onto my cache pages or to attach to my appropriate visit logs. Others are free to use this if they wish. Feel free to suggest improved wording if you wish, although I wouldn’t be that keen to increase the number of words greatly.

I've recently started logging visits to my own Waymarks (gone over to the Dark Side). However, I am only logging visits if I visit the location on a separate visit from my original visit to photograph and record the details for posting the original Waymark. In this way I have developed a whole new series of locations for me to go and visit. It's a bit like maintenance visits for caches, or to put it another way, a good excuse to go for a walk.