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I don't have any problem with it either! Edited to add.. I didn't read further than catsnfish's post before responding and seeing the Part Deux of this awesome challenge! Hmmmm..........

My first (and still used) GPS is a Garmin Legend. Both my husband and I bought one after going on a camp out with the Ocala Jeep Club in the Ocala National Forest. At night, a lot of them went off geocaching and we were intrigued. We didn't have a hand-held or one in the car, so we went with some friends and we discovered what Geocaching was and that was it! My husband's interest has come and gone in the past years but now that I got him hooked on the iphone app, he's back into it again! He uses his iphone for his GPS.

Beautiful coin and message! Congratulations!!!!

Thankfully the rest of the MEKK team were good sports last night! The town canceled their fireworks due to cutbacks, but there are always fireworks going off in our neighborhood (holiday or not). I went through my checklist... all were checked. My teenage daughter agreed to be the victim er... subject and my 6 year old son wanted to stand along side her holding a sparkler while wearing his "crown", too. But all good plans are subject to change when little ones and sparklers are part of the plan! The fireworks were going off in all different directions EXCEPT when the candle was lit. However, when the candle flame went out, fireworks were everywhere! Thought I would try to make "the" cupcake a little more patriotic with LOTS of icing by taking the icing off the other cupcakes so I piled one layer of red, a layer of white and then a layer of blue. Great idea!....but this is Florida and even at night, it is HOT so after the icing started melted down my daughter's arm while waiting for the intermittent bursts of fireworks, I went back to a simpler method - just one layer of blue. And a change of a subject and since my husband said no way, it was up to me. So, I put on everything, daughter clamped Old Glory to my clothes and I stood in the middle of the street.... and waited. When my neighbor came out and started laughing, I told him not to ask and he replied that "you just never know what you are going to see sometimes..." (he's a funny one) Still had the same issue with the candle and the fireworks timing but my husband did great manning the camera. I was doing a long exposure with no flash so I told him how long to hold the remote in to get the shot. The best photo was one where the fireworks had just ended, the ones of my daughter, there's a ghost image of my son walking through it, so this is the one that showed all the elements the best. The coin is one that is very special - a Fallen Heros Geocoin - which I just received about a week ago, but am waiting on them to activate it (a special request to hopefully have this one dedicated to my husband's cousin who was KIA in Iraq Christmas Day 2007).

I have a few cool ones that I haven't placed yet. One is the acorn nano, another a small log with a hollowed out area for a film cannister, a few screws/bolts, one that is blades of fake grass with a tube attached to the end of it. One I came across recently was a paper mache like piece molded over chicken coop wire and a baggie taped to the underside. It was shaped and painted to look like an ant mound and was placed in the woods at the base of a tree. Love reading about all of these!

These are great! I just put in a request for the pink one!

WOW! Awesome! I'm a little green with envy!

This is a GORGEOUS coin!! It will definitely be added to my "wish" list

We had one like that here (GCVPV6). It was a pile of smallish rocks that made up a drainage area. My two kids and I looked everywhere and then gave up. About an hour later, we ran into some other cachers and even 8 of us couldn't find it. We went back and found it about a week later, it had been moved from where it was supposed to have been - but it was a challenging and well earned smiliey! That was one of the more memorable ones I've found! I'm also working on a very challenging puzzle cache. It was hidden 3 years ago and still has not been found. You can understand why when you check it out! This one will be VERY memorable! (GC11AYQ).

I think those are what scares me most about caching here in the woods. I have never seen one personally, but I know they're someplace. I carry a snakebite kit in with my first aid kit and hope I'll never have to use it. The strangest animal I've ever come across were some wild pigs. We were doing a night event cachea few years ago and while they didn't bother us we could hear them pretty close. When we saw some of the others from the event, they said that that's what they were. I'm glad we were out of there before they came too close!

Lots of great info there! I've been on a puzzle cache solving mood lately. Love the challenge! I am planning on placing my first cache shortly and I want it to be a puzzle cache. In the middle of cooking right now, but will look through it again more thoroughly!

I have purchased a few coins on ebay lately and yesterday, I received a Bolt and Screw Coins! I was so excited because they were much larger than I expected them to be! I really need to stay off ebay, but there are soooooo many awesome coins!!!

I would also very much like to adopt a coin. I don't yet have any that I can bring myself to part with, but I will certainly pay it forward when I have one. Thank you for the consideration!