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I spy Webscouter too!

Gotcha B&F!

I spy... Discombob! Who do you spy at the bottom of the page when checking the forum?

Soup sounds tasty. Let us know the date and we (2-3) shall try to be there.

We quite possibly were up before everyone else that morning but only arrived at 8:30 due to some poo and eating that had to be handled with urgency. All three did find a cache afterwards with the rest of the gang though. Good time was had.

We didn't make it at 7:07 but others did! Yikes, you guys are tough. Good to have breakfast with everyone this morning. Cho Cho...

Didn't know I was really in charge of this. Whoops! NY Bagel it is for the morning of the 7th! We can only get there by 8 at the best, but please do try and hold GR to his word of 07h07. I hear another team will be there. See you all there.

Either place is fine, but we can actually only get there for the later hour (sorry guys, Geo-P rulz our schedule in the mornings). Bagels do sound really tasty. I'm going to eat lots of them when I go home soon.

We are in but not until later. The non-geocacher thinks it is crazy to get there so early. More like 8:30 -9:00

I'm in for breakfast. May not be able to do any caching in the afternoon though. Family stuff to attend to. Should we set a time and place?

The breakfast is yummy indeed and cheap! Non-geocacher and I got out of there recently with full breakfasts, drinks and tip for R40. Almost unreal. And the food is good. Thistles Cafe, Wynberg. 3am? What? Yeah, we should make a plan. My caching has been pathetic lately. Need the assistance of a 'real' cacher.

hehe. Let's make a morning out of it!

Telkom owns 50% share in Vodacom. Can't get away from them either way. But yeah, connection is same day with HSDPA/USB modem option.

I noticed those recently. I really don't mind them. GC must cost a lot to operate so the funds have to come from somewhere. If google can subsidize our premium fees, better for us. Go for it. I want to figure out how to do Adwords only targeted to Groundspeak. Then I can run ads for travelmaps on GS without junk searches killing my daily spending limit. Anyone know?

Who's got DSTV and want to let a few caches what the concerts at their place? 07:07 might be early, but it would be fun to try for it. There's a small nice cafe in Wynberg with a delicious french toast with bananas and syrup for cheap. Anyone want to join us?

Anyone doing anything? Had on been on my toes, I would have planned an event cache breakfast or something. Rats!

Sure, no prob. BTW - In August ADSL price drop should be happening. Why not drop the dial-up and get ADSL Bob. You will love it much more that Dinosaur Internet. Example: ADSL self install = Free ADSL modem = R499 (might have a free modem for you here at the house) ADSL 384 = R152 per month 1 gig WebAfrica Prepaid bandwidth = R70 Total = R222 per month + phone line rental It makes sense now to just go for the real thing. Note* Telkom stills sucks. They are increasing the line rental from R99.92 / month to R111.90 / month to keep their profits up. Decrease prices for the minority, increase them for the majority. What a way to do business!

I threaten the same thing but haven't really stuck by it. I have had a log or two deleted on me. I siply email the cache owner and explain. He/She has allowed me to relog the cache afterwards. Machu Picchu virtual cache comes to mind on this.

yes you can. Do all the writing offline and then email it out when you are ready. If you need ADSL for the research, stop by my house. I don't have the time to write such a long newsletter at the moment.

Or my dumpy Mazda 323! Under a pile of rocks.

There are a few here in Cape Town that I have been wanting to get my hands on, but hiding might be a bit problem-matic. There are easily 10m long and some have Sea/Land or Mearsk written on the sides of them. Go check em out on the side of the N1 near milnerton.

I'll purposefully place some caches where the coords are 10m out, that way you'll be spot on I'll lend you my GPS so you get it right. Would hate for your GPS to throw the whole thing off.

True dat. I wasn't even going there, but yeah, have noticed the 5m phenomenon myself. Perhaps it is the csX that is making people be ultra-sensitive with GZ? BTW-will be in the north searching for caches next week.

You must be trying this using the geocaching kml for cache locations. It is common knowledge that those waypoints are offset by up to 200m to prevent anyone from using it to find caches. When you manually add coordinates from your GPS 9for example) the waypoint stays in the exact same position. I just looked at a site in Franschhoek (with terrain on/off) and it remains in the same exact spot where I can see the thing I marked. GE is accurate with its imagery. That would be because we are just slightly more enlightened down here! 14m... that's fine for me. I am not replacing the GPS instead buying a new Macbook soon! You are right, I am not stressing just wondering why people comment on 10m differences. I have found a couple of caches without GPS, so yes, planning beforehand on GE is very doable.

They do and that is why I am there. General GPS coordinates are adequate for my reports. No surveyor required. Care to explain that GE thing there? They license the photographs from various places, and as far as I know try to be as accurate as possible with image georeferencing and content features such as roads and boundaries. Why would offsetting features circumvent copyright? WC has a slight energy problem, but Gauteng has been having a worse time recently.