danieloliveira

Fui a uma cache hoje e reparei, como já tenho reparado em outras visitas a outras caches, que num logbook novo com 4 ou 5 visitas já ia na página 7. O primeiro faz uma festa porque foi o FTF e percebe-se. Cada um dos seguintes escrevem o nome e a data numa página nova. Porque não poupar espaço escrevendo o vosso log na mesma página do visitante anterior se houver espaço? Ou logo no verso da página? Assim o logbookvai enchendo mais devagar e o owner não recebe um "needs maintenance" porque o logbook está cheio quando na verdade existem uma data de "buraquinhos" para preencher.

Ai se o Hugo e Sara sabem disso

Como geocachers o que vão pedir ao Pai Natal este ano?

Hi Nats, The only caches you'll be allowed to leave behind on holiday will be EarthCaches and if you're going to Madeira, check out this one.

Um rapaz de 16 anos chega a casa com um Porsche e os pais gritam: - Onde conseguiste isto? Ele calmamente responde: - Acabei de comprar. - Com que dinheiro? perguntam. Sabemos quanto custa um Porsche! - Bem, disse ele, este custou 15 Euros E os pais esbravejaram ainda mais: - Quem venderia um carro destes por 15 euros??? - A senhora que mora no fim na rua. Não sei o seu nome, recém mudou-se para cá. Ela viu-me a passar de bicicleta e perguntou se eu queria comprar o Porsche por 15 Euros. - Santo Deus! gemeu a mãe, deve abusar de crianças. Quem sabe o que fará depois? Joâo, vai até lá imediatamente, para ver o que está a acontecer. O pai foi até à casa da senhora e ela calmamente plantava petúnias no jardim. Ele apresentou-se como pai do rapaz a quem ela vendeu o Porsche e perguntou porque havia ela feito aquilo. - Bem, disse ela, esta manhã o meu marido ligou. Pensei que estivesse a viajar em serviço, mas ele fugiu para o Havaí com a secretária e não pretende voltar. Pediu que vendesse o Porsche e lhe enviasse o dinheiro, então eu vendi.

Epá! Gosto de pizzas e o resto do pessoal cá de casa também Não fica nada prometido mas vamos ver como saiem as coisas.....

Tenho uma pronta há meses entre Alter do Chão e Portalegre mas estou de sabática durante 3 semanas. Depois disso fujam e salve-se quem puder

Quando precisarem de ajudas para uma, duas ou mais EC's é só dizer. Será um prazer ajudar.

...e a linha? também, não?

Até aqui estiveste quase, quase a levar um estalo mas depois lá te endireitaste e safaste-te

Já estavam à espera desta não estavam? Não consigo passar muito tempo sem falar das EarthCaches....... mas gostava de ouvir a opinião de quem as faz e cria. - Têm algum gozo em fazê-las? - servem para alguma coisa? ou é só mais um found? - Qual a vossa melhor que fizeram até hoje? Seja em Portugal ou no estrangeiro.

De facto este forum está subutilizado

E aqui um diamante da mesma equipa. Aliás, eu poderia colocar aqui todas as respostas e logs que os Playmobil me enviam das minhas earthcaches. É claro que a seguir teria de matar todos que lessem as respostas.

Chateados? Digam porquê!

After they've turned to stone ...... I've cooked up this one.

Stubborn, uhhhh!

I have one that is even weirder. A while ago one of my EC's was disabled by GS. It turns out that they had received a complaint from the police in the Faro (Algarve) region that a box was found with my name in it. It just so happens that I happen to pay special attention when placing EC's and NEVER leave a container with my name on it at the site. Also, the police station in question was more that 150 km from the EC site and unlikely that their jurisdiction stretched that far. After contacting the police and getting a precise location of the "offending" container, it turned out to be a cache nearby Faro that was located near the house of some elderly couple who found it very strange that every now and then there would be some people searching for something near their vegetable patch. They alerted the police, the police found the cache, kept it and somehow associated the cache with my name. How? I have no idea as I have no caches nearby. Anyway after many phone calls to the police explaining how the game works and what it entails and many mails to GC.com, I finally got my EC back up and running.

Besides all the (valid) methods already proposed, I like to guesstimate by comparison. The best comparison that I see is knowing that each floor of a building is approximately 3 metres high. Therefore a 5 level building will be 3x5 m=15 m. When you use methods like this you immediately limit overexageration.

12 October 2008. The day dawned late and grey… and misty…and muggy. Was St. Peter about to spoil EarthCache Day 2008 – Pt edition? We would find out in approximately two hours. The previous days had been a hive of activity preparing the field guides for the 51 “will attend”, printing them and getting some “goodies” for (some of) the kids on site. On the day and because of St. Peter’s quirks we had to hunt for our weatherproof jackets as well about an hour and a half before kickoff time. Getting to Ground Zero meant having to circumvent the Marginal road due to the Estoril Triathlon that would take place that morning. At GZ the die hard cachers and the other half of the organisation waited patiently for everyone to arrive. The surprise was that in spite of a possible wet morning, ever more cars kept arriving and out of those ever more cachers and other interested muggles kept streaming out of them. With ten minutes to go before kick off, St Peter opened up the flood gates and a heavy rain fell sending the die hard into the Cresmina Fort and the less brave scurrying for their cars. Some still considered abandoning the event but a clearer southern sky persuaded them that good times (and weather) was still ahead. The geological explanations at stops one, two and three took place under this heavy rain with people huddled in groups under umbrellas, rock outcrops or under the hoods of their weatherproof jackets. The kids seemed not to mind the rain at all. Why do adults? Prof. Paulo Fonseca kept the audience enthralled with explanations of dykes, sills, transition zones, marine platforms, gastroliths and other fossil remains and the cachers eagerly taking notes; as best as possible on wet paper, and getting the solutions to the various earthcaches along the route. The walk along the Guincho road must have raised a few eyebrows amongst the passers by. Would you be surprised with about a hundred people filing by in the midst of a heavy downpour? At the Praia Grande do Guincho, St Peter, having exhausted his reserves of H2O, let up on the rain and the traverse across the wet sand to an extinct volcano was done under a much more jovial mood. Of course amongst every group there were those that questioned whether a volcano did really exist on the spot – geologist’s fairy tales? Into the contact metamorphic zone of the limestones the group waded flanked by angry sea on one side and green, peaceful mountains on the other and bubbling geology at our feet- dykes, the principle of intrusion, the x-dykes (how do they form?) and the sills in the now grey limestones in the scarps of the mountain. Hanging valleys? Wow! At approximately half past one the still strong, and thirsty for science, group arrived at the final “observation platform” to view the dykes and sills in the mountain side with Sintra (s.l.) looming above. From the positive comments received in situ I would say that the event was a success (and something to be repeated?) Follow the link to the logs and pics ps. this is a copy of another post in these forums.

12 October 2008. The day dawned late and grey… and misty…and muggy. Was St. Peter about to spoil EarthCache Day 2008 – Pt edition? We would find out in approximately two hours. The previous days had been a hive of activity preparing the field guides for the 51 “will attend”, printing them and getting some “goodies” for (some of) the kids on site. On the day and because of St. Peter’s quirks we had to hunt for our weatherproof jackets as well about an hour and a half before kickoff time. Getting to Ground Zero meant having to circumvent the Marginal road due to the Estoril Triathlon that would take place that morning. At GZ the die hard cachers and the other half of the organisation waited patiently for everyone to arrive. The surprise was that in spite of a possible wet morning, ever more cars kept arriving and out of those ever more cachers and other interested muggles kept streaming out of them. With ten minutes to go before kick off, St Peter opened up the flood gates and a heavy rain fell sending the die hard into the Cresmina Fort and the less brave scurrying for their cars. Some still considered abandoning the event but a clearer southern sky persuaded them that good times (and weather) was still ahead. The geological explanations at stops one, two and three took place under this heavy rain with people huddled in groups under umbrellas, rock outcrops or under the hoods of their weatherproof jackets. The kids seemed not to mind the rain at all. Why do adults? Prof. Paulo Fonseca kept the audience enthralled with explanations of dykes, sills, transition zones, marine platforms, gastroliths and other fossil remains and the cachers eagerly taking notes; as best as possible on wet paper, and getting the solutions to the various earthcaches along the route. The walk along the Guincho road must have raised a few eyebrows amongst the passers by. Would you be surprised with about a hundred people filing by in the midst of a heavy downpour? At the Praia Grande do Guincho, St Peter, having exhausted his reserves of H2O, let up on the rain and the traverse across the wet sand to an extinct volcano was done under a much more jovial mood. Of course amongst every group there were those that questioned whether a volcano did really exist on the spot – geologist’s fairy tales? Into the contact metamorphic zone of the limestones the group waded flanked by angry sea on one side and green, peaceful mountains on the other and bubbling geology at our feet- dykes, the principle of intrusion, the x-dykes (how do they form?) and the sills in the now grey limestones in the scarps of the mountain. Hanging valleys? Wow! At approximately half past one the still strong, and thirsty for science, group arrived at the final “observation platform” to view the dykes and sills in the mountain side with Sintra (s.l.) looming above. From the positive comments received in situ I would say that the event was a success (and something to be repeated?) Check out the pics in the logs and HERE

Great initiative! Well done. I hope you'll post a report back with lots of pics as well.

Definitely! Daniel has been doing an outstanding job in Portugal for earthcaching. Geocachers are really now more geo-aware. Keep it up! Nice to know someone is paying attention. Thanks Sup3r

Got some pins from Geoaware - thanks a lot. Now we're all set for the big day.

I would too. Pity it doesn't work now.

Aw! C'mon....When is this coin going to show itself?