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We have been caching a while now, and we mix and match - in the cooler months big walks through the bush trying to find those elusive mole people! In the summer we focus on more urban areas as this is when the wildlife is awake and hungry! On Monday we did ten caches mainly nanos in urban parks. After the last cache in a park by the river we returned to the car to see a snake in a tree about 2 metres away http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/f00bb24e-47ca-428c-be64-3dcdc668f2b0.jpg . We think it is a Dugite (which is venamous), Glad we didn't see it before we found the cache or it would have been straight back into the car without looking!

Good Morning, Is geocaching a sport? Or a hobbie? Maybe even a lifestyle? I was recently trying to explain geocaching to some colleagues at work (as I was telling them how I sustained a laceration to my forehead while caching!), I went through all the treaure hunting using GPSr and sattelites etc. but then couldnt think is it a sport or a hobbie? I know lots of cachers get competetive about numbers of finds, FTFs etc - therefore is it a sport? We love the hunt, going to places we wouldn't normally go, the challenge of a cunning hide - so is it a hobbie? But I also can get obsessed - when can I find my next cache? We are going there for the day, are there any caches? Where can I hide my next cache? I check in on geocaching.com at least once a day (maybe more?) is it a lifestyle or an ADDICTION? What do you think?

Hi, We are an English family who live in Western Australia, we have lots of Aussie freinds who are geocachers and have also recently run a geocaching event where we met loads more cachers. Here in Australia they pronounce caching as CAYSHING and CAYSHES (as in rhymes with hay!) As Brits we pronounce it CASHING or CASHES I have read somewhere on the website that it should be pronounced CASHING but can't quite convince the Aussies! What do you call it?

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I have recently had an article published in Great Walks magazine here in Oz, no on-line version to get a link on the news letter, so I have scanned it and loaded it onto Picassa. http://picasaweb.google.com/102531456090880674916/GreatWalks The best way to read it if you are interested is to download the individual pictures then you can see it full size. I also wrote the reviews on the toughcase and eXplorist GC. Hope to have a different article published in another magazine in the new-year.

Our first find was with some freinds who introduced us to caching - http://coord.info/GCXVBZ found on the 27/09/09. It is still active, but we have taken over the maintenance as the owner is no longer contactable and we are running an event in the area.

Our first hide, in a reserve close to our house - http://coord.info/GC1ZYAR We still walk the dog within 10 metres of it everyday and occasionaly meet fellow cachers, easy location to maintain and drop off or pick up trackables! I love ammo boxes so was excited to hide one. Since then have gone onto hide quiet a few more! Love to think of and make camo caches and not just small ones! Like to read the logs when somebody finds them.

G'Day, I am hosting an event in Decemeber, South of Perth in Western Australia - come a long it is shaping up to be a good one! http://coord.info/GC2F12T Anyway I am after a banner with the geocaching logo to hang up, or the tear drop style to help promote the event on the day. Does anyone have one they want to sell or know if there is an official supplier with the artwork already completed? I dont mind looking over seas for it with the Aussie Dollar so strong at the moment . Thanks Mark

I have seen TB car stickers in some of the on-line shops - are they just a sticker to say "hey look I am a geocaher!" or do they work as a proper TB with a unique identifier? How do you log them? What is there purpose?

That is great news, will have a look at it - so far have ordered stuff from the UK (takes about a week) and from another online shop over east and it took 2 months! Have got 4 hides at the mement and am planning another 3 (have the contatiners, just got to find the time to hide them) but I will be looking to hide more! gum-nuts

We have both! We started with the car sat-nav but after doing a couple decided to buy a hand held GPSr, the pointy arrow makes finding GZ so much easier! We sometimes use them together, the car sat-nav to get us close to the location/somewhere to park (specially in an un-familiar area) then we use the hand-held on foot. We bought a Garmin Etrex H and think it is great and fairly cheap (AUD$142), batteries klast forever and gets us within a metre everytime. The kids can also follow the arrow, which makes it more fun for them to have ago. Secured around their neck.

More than happy to have the moderators delete the GC, I would do it myself but cant see how! Somebody asked for it, I didn't know it was bad form to post it! I Apologise if I have upset anybody! Thansk IBcrashen for your advise I will have a go!

I didn't want it solving for me, I just wanted to know how to add and subtract from the coords - check my original post! To check I was doing it right. The answers I have been given dont make sense to where the cache is supposedly located - so I will keep working it out for myself!

GCMX7G It is supposed to be anout 5kms from my home, so the changes in the coords dont make sense!

We call that sort of junk geo-crap! My 9 and 6 year old started of grabbing anything, they now appreciate the fun is in the finding and will only take something decent, we will only try to leave something good.

Doing a cache in the bush about 10 minutes from home, we spotted a tiger snake (a venamous ozzie snake). I'm not sure who was more scared - the snake did a runner(!), my daughter screamed and started to head back to the car. The dog decided he wanted to play, but thankfully the snake was quicker and got away! We still got the cache!

This is the clue that I un scrambled - "I telephoned miss terry on one of her better days last week and she invited me over for a cup of tea and a chat she told me of another of her treasure troves but said that to find it you would first have to find her helper though she didnt say what her helper was she said that she could not remember the exact spot where the helper was located but it was very close to the following coordinates thirty two degrees eleven point zero nine seven minutes south one hundred and sixteen degrees one point two eight five minutes east how can she remember such things as helpers' coordinates whatever a helper is when she cant remember where she left her treasure she also mumbled some thing about the xfactor making it hard to miss and some thing else about the treasure spot being visible from a far when i asked her what i should take she quickly suggested a powder then laughed and said to take a canteen of water and perhaps a sandwich she doesn't realise that drinks come In cans or plastic bottles these days after listening for what seemed many hours she remembered that the coordinates she gave were wrong and added that you should take point two minutes from the easting and add point five minutes to the southing i wonder what she meant by that" I have highlighted the coords, others have found it but it is confusing the hell out of me!

This is my first post - we have been caching in Oz for about 3 weeks and have got 25 so far with one FTF, we have also hidden our own cache. I have decrypted a clue for a cache (In Australia) which has the co-ordinates embedded in it then near the end it tells me to add to the southing and take from the easting to find the true co-ords. When I have tried this end end up in the ocean, so i guess i am going wrong somewhere! Maths isn't my stong point! The coords are S32degrees 11.097 E116 degrees 1.285 The instructions are " you should take point two minutes from the easting and add point five minutes to the southing"