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Just saw this - not a problem at all on the wait. Hope you get your kitties taken care of soon (if not already ) - the real ones - not the coins

I'll take a set.

Okay, not a cache but if you're staying on Tybee, find time to eat at AJ's. Get there early so you can get a parking spot (the parking lot is TINY) and sit out on the deck and enjoy the sunset over the river. The food is great, too!

Sorry, I keep thinking of great caches I've done in and around Tybee. Another one of my favorites is in Bonaventure Cemetery - Famous Neighbors. I've actually found this cache but haven't gotten around to logging it. If you like cemeteries, this one is a must!

I would also highly recommend My batteries are not holding up! at Fort Pulaski. You have to pay to get onto the fort grounds, but visiting the fort is worth it (and picking up a cache is good, too ). There are also a couple of earthcaches there - Cockspur Island Lighthouse is one. And if you're bringing bikes, there are several along the rails-to-trails path - Railroad Trail is one of those and is a 2001 cache. If you have time to get to Skidaway Island State Park, there are several in there (some are virtuals). If you've done any of the Georgia State Park challenge caches, you can grab another one at Skidaway.

Here's a bookmark by one of the locals.

Oh, rats! I did too. And I'd really like to have it back. Oh man, bummer on that one for sure. All of mine is lost in cyberspace too. I see we lost some of the signal icons too. Did Signal sell the tiniest violin on eBay? No more ice cream? No more popcorn? Oh the humanity! Some of us do have Signal stored away though. Still there - just click on the "Show All" and they show up. Now if the clipboard information was as easily fixed.

Oh, good grief! I second your good grief and add a

Oh, rats! I did too. And I'd really like to have it back.

YES! But I also understand why it's restricted and wouldn't want it to be changed, either.

I agree with this. I actually like it and I'm usually a "Change is Bad" kinda person.

Here's a bookmark I put together a while back of haunted caches. I list the State in the comments section. My criteria was that it needed to have at least some sort of haunted story attached to it.

Geocaching hates North Korean chinlren. Will that one ever get old? Nope!

It's there. I think Clan Riffster hit the nail on the head about the PHW ratio. There just might not be a lot of PHWs in your area. I will say that as a PHW I don't typically even look at the difficulty rating. I know nothing about aircraft but had a good time solving this puzzle. If I'm ever in the area ....

If you don't know and understand history (and learn from its mistakes), you are doomed to repeat it. Understanding WHY there were so many problems with virtual caches should help everyone that the argument of "bring them back with stricter guidelines" doesn't really help. There have been MANY posts with individuals indicating that when virtuals first started, they had NO guidelines. I remember a particularly NASTY topic in August of 2001 where someone posted a whole bunch of virtual caches called "Cup o' Joe" - you guessed it, coordinates to their favorite coffee shops. That brought about the reaction of the guidelines to have no advertising or commercial aspects to them. Jeremy didn't want this to become a Yellow Pages of coordinates. But that didn't stop people from marking every cemetery, pretty view, place where they first kissed their girlfriend - as well as rotting deer carcasses and old tennis shoes as virtual caches. Now we add the "wow" requirement, coupled with "show the reviewer how this couldn't be incorporated into a stage of a multi". Those "more strict requirements" were in place for around 3 years. Meanwhile Locationless Caches came and went. The forums were FULL of people saying that their favorite pretty post-card location was really special, but the mean old reviewer wouldn't publish their spot. So Jeremy and crew started trying to find a better way to list locations without containers. If you really understand the history of WHY these locations are listed on Waymarking.com instead of geocaching.com, people wouldn't be saying "Bring them back with stricter guidelines." They HAD strict guidelines. In Illinois, there are 36 surviving geocaches. 2 were published in 2001 28 were published in 2002 2 were published in 2003 4 were published in 2004 None were published in 2005 The heavy restriction on virtuals went into affect in 2003. The ban on new virtual caches wasn't implemented until November of 2005. There were 6 virtual caches published in Illinois during the heavy restrictions. Care to guess how many people from Illinois complained about their virtual caches not being published? I think a BETTER solution would be (as others have pointed out) to improve Waymarking, which has always seemed to be lacking in some of the Geocaching.com features. But then again, Geocaching.com memberships - not Waymarking.com memberships - pay the salaries of the developers. +1 (Excellent post!)

Every year the members of the GGA (Georgia Geocachers Associaton) vote on outstanding caches in different categories. You can check them out over here.

I used a Magellan Explorist 500 for years and really liked it. However, it has one "quirk" that you should be aware of - it's very easy to out-walk the signal so that you end up with a boomerang effect. You end up going past the cache and then need to backtrack. I used to stop at about 200' from the cache and let the unit catch up. Since I mostly cache by myself, this works fine - not so much, though, if you're caching with others. Good luck.

Looks like you didn't "drop" it into the cache you placed it in. When you log your visit to a cache, below your comments is a spot that shows travel bugs in your inventory. You can highlight the ones you dropped in the cache. Once you've done this, it will show up in that cache's TB inventory. A lot of times people forget to drop off TBs in their original log and will post a note so they can drop the TB. No bragging rights. The person who placed the TB was just trying to make sure the TB got mileage credits. HTH

Ditto for me. I'm not much of a wordsmith so I don't write very long logs but I do try to put in something so I can remember the experience later. I also like to take pictures, so if there was anything photo worthy during the cache hunt, it gets posted. Here's the link to the previously mentioned topic - The lost art of logging.

Fascinating and disgusting all at once. Seriously, great photos (and yuck).

Now that's very interesting - same here with the mosquitoes. And I've never had poison ivy and know I've had contact with urushiol. However, I do get a very bad skin reaction to asters, of all things.

The closest one to me and my first find was an Unknown cache so the distance is approximate: 1.7 miles. Now the closest is .7 miles.

Wow! What perfect camouflage - I kept thinking "There's no snake in that picture." Here's a rattle snake I ran across - he didn't want to have anything to do with me and was leaving as I was taking the picture:

Too cool! If you cached in my area I'd be "stalking" you to get one. My swag includes small stuffed animals - sometimes these are keychains; sometimes not. The World Market near me used carry the sand stuffed animals but I haven't been able to find them recently.

Really? I've been very disappointed in mine.