Hiltay

Hi its good advice to wait a week as others have said, we have decided not to pick up tb's anymore as we have dropped them off whilst away for a weekend but someone has picked them up before we have had chance to get home again and log them as dropped off.

Hi we are camping not far from Bude in a weeks time and are looking forward to doing some caching in the area too.

That would depend how close to home your "home coordinates" are, and how much you give away in your logs and forum postings. If you've set your home coordinates to be close enough that your "nearest caches" list is still relevant but far enough away that it doesn't identify a specific house (I set mine to a major roundabout not far from my home) then even if it is published (which I understand it isn't) then someone has to be pretty determined to figure out that "Hiltay" lives somewhere within a mile or so of some coordinates and is away on holiday. They'd also need to know whether it was worth making the effort to travel to wherever it is you live, tracking down the specific house, and breaking in (i.e. whether you had anything valuable enough to make it worth that much effort). From your profile your location is listed as "Yorkshire" and your profile photo shows a man with two rather large dogs. Yorkshire's a pretty big place to hunt for a man with two large dogs on the offchance you've got something worth stealing, especially given the extra unknowns that MrsB just offered. Honestly, I reckon it would be easier for a burglar to watch the houses in their own neighbourhood for evidence someone was away. I've logged caches from my home, from holidays within the UK, from several different states in the US and not worried about it. thanks for that shot of reality , i think sometimes you can read too much about being internet secure, not giving out any details that people can use, etc. there are bad people out there but most are normal friendly just like us and since my husband and i started caching its been great to be part of a wider community.

When we were away i logged all finds via mobile internet at the end of each day but someone pointed out to me that doing this let people know that i was away from my home co-ordinates leaving my home possibly vulnerable. This has now made me stop and think twice about logging whilst away and next time i will probably leave it until i return home. Am i just being paranoid?

Here you go? Many thanks

We cache with two geohounds who I hope others find well behaved, we always put them on leads when people approach although they are both more interested in finding caches then bothering other people. Check out our profile for pictures, i couldn't work out how to add the picture to this post.