Printess Caroline

Welcome! Have fun!

Upon getting home, we promptly got online and logged the Bug retrieval. Pretty cool...the bug started its journey in Ohio. C. Yay! Enjoy!

I've done it both ways. I see little difference except that the owner of the TB won't be able to see the cache until it is published.

Write a note on your page and check the bug name in your inventory that appears at the bottom of the "write note" page. (This assumes that you have logged picking up the TB already. If you haven't, you'll want to do that first.)

Why don't you bring it up in the web site forum here? An historical interest icon might be a useful and interesting additional option for cache pages.

Welcome to the fun! Don't forget to log your find of the TB. I have a lot of fun moving and watching those little guys. I bet your daughter will, too! She'll probably want to send out one herself.

Welcome and enjoy your new GPSr!

It's better to beg forgiveness than ask for permission. No, it's just easier and cowardly.

Comment: Sometimes you just shouldn't ask. Or sometimes it wasn't the best idea, anyway. There are other ways to camouflage a big bucket. I think that coming up with a more creative solution would be much more fun for you and the finders.

This is certainly true. I don't think that an owner should be too shy to request the removal of a picture that might spoil the cache either in regard to its placement or its uniqueness. Generally, a considerate and well-worded note to the poster will result in the photo being removed and a note of apology to the owner. Sometimes, I guess a poster's feelings could be hurt and they might respond defensively, but I think that would be unusual. At least, that's what my positive thinking leads me to believe. Ultimately, it is the owner's responsibility to protect and preserve the experience for searchers.

I will often look at the photo gallery of a cache to determine if I want to look for that cache. It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally, I will come across a spoiler picture that diminishes the experience of looking for the cache. I will not necessarily read through all the logs, so if the cacher posts that his picture is a spoiler in his log, I may not be adequately forewarned that I could see a spoiler. i have not posted to my logs a lovely picture taken at one of your caches. you know which one. you work is beautiful enough, though, that i had to post the picture somewhere because i found it so striking. it's kind of hidden, but if you know where to look, you know where to look. Aw, shucks. Thank you! I found that I knew where to look. Lots of really wonderful photos there! I'm happy to see my silly little cache included with them.

I will often look at the photo gallery of a cache to determine if I want to look for that cache. It doesn't happen very often, but occasionally, I will come across a spoiler picture that diminishes the experience of looking for the cache. I will not necessarily read through all the logs, so if the cacher posts that his picture is a spoiler in his log, I may not be adequately forewarned that I could see a spoiler.

I try to be sure that my pictures do not give away the hide so that others will have the same fun that I had. I had one occasion when a photo of my cache, nicely hidden in its hiding spot was posted by a new cacher. I sent a polite email to her welcoming her to the game, informing her of the general practice of keeping the hiding spot of the cache out of photographs and asking her to please remove her photo. She sent a very nice email in return after she had removed the spoiler picture.

Is there another term for deliberately trying to inconvenience other people for laughs? I can think of a few: inconciderate, impolite, smart-alecky, offensive, antagonistic. I know I could think of more, but I think rude covers it all. Plain and simple, it's just not nice. I will use a hint if my cache is located in a place that takes some effort to get to. I don't want them to have to log a DNF in that case if I can help it.

I like the geocaching t-shirt idea! Let's say I met someone else on the ship who was also into geocaching and had a TB on them. Could you just exchange TBs or do they have to be logged through a cache? You can log them as a "Discovered It". Or you can exchange TBs and "grab" them from each other. Doesn't sound nice, but it is a friendly act in this case.

The best idea, whether you are new to caching or an old-timer, is to hide the type of cache that you would like to find.

I would assess the situation when I got there. If the cache didn't seem to be in a good location for the TBs, I would "dip" them rather than drop them in. By virtually adding them to the cache and immediately retrieving them, the TB will at least have a record of going on the journey with you. I'd add a picture, too. It's almost as good as being there!

I don't know. Certainly, less than 10, but I can only remember two. Those two were awesome caches that made me proud to be the first to find them. The rest, obviously, were forgettable.

This reward wouldn't motivate me, but I'm not a big FTF hound. I have no problem with it, though. You will give the one cacher a 24 hour notice before hand and, then, when the cache is published, all are welcome to look for it. That is the way it should be. Once a cache is published, EVERYONE should be welcome to find it.

I've never heard of such a practice. To me, it seems quite uncommon, weird and unfriendly. I would not think well of a cacher who would place such strange requirements on a FTF log. There are much better ways to honor other cachers. Well, then. You wouldn't like us downstate cachers then, I guess we're "unfriendly" in your eyes. Though thats hard to figure since we honor a lot of cachers down here. To each their own; in this neck of the woods ITS common practice Yep, I guess I'm another one of the "unfriendly" ones since I honor tribute cache requests. The last time I remember this coming up it was specifically about leaving FTF for a local Long Island cacher. People from far away lands were furious, a couple even vowing to make a trip of hundreds of miles just to spoil the FTF if they could. What was funny was this: No one here would CARE if an outsider was FTF, either by accident or on purpose. The tribute request is just that, a request. Yeah, we have some local customs, but mainly we are an easygoing group of folks who play a silly game. After the party, everyone moves on to something else. Oh, yeah, to anyone who is terrified that I might honor them with a request to save FTF for them on a new cache... Don't worry! I won't do it! We pretty much know the people we do that for. That sums up the UNFRIENDLY customs on NYC and LI cachers. So, you're only unfriendly to EACH OTHER you're saying?

Let me note also that this cache is a LAME MICRO! Just by show of hands, who here would pass on a 5 star terrain Island Cache to retreive a lame micro? If it is in an interesting or beautiful spot, I would gladly find a boat or strap on my snowshoes to go look for it.

Even better!

I like setting up caches with a theme of some sort. It helps me focus my thoughts and stretches my imagination. The original contents of the cache, therefore, follows the theme. That is part of the fun for me. For instance, I had a beaver themed letterbox cache that started out with a carved beaver, a set of hillbilly teeth, some wind-up chattering teeth, carpenter tools, some foam stamps and a few other things that I can't recall. For me, all those items related to the cache in some way. I don't list the original contents on my cache page and, except for one cache, I haven't requested that a swag theme should be kept by future cachers. It's primarily for my own amusement, but I hope that the first finders get a little kick out of the items. I, personally, don't care much for the practice of listing the original contents on the cache's page. It isn't interesting reading nor is it important information. If I were one of the first finders, I think that it would actually lessen my enjoyment of finding the cache. I've never had that experience, though. By the time I've found a cache whose original contents is listed on its page, all that stuff is long gone. The primary reason that I can think of to make such a list is for the benefit of the owner so that they can remember all those great "gems" they left. However, the list is usually something unremarkable like: three erasers, a yo-yo, a red glow stick, a green bracelet, some stickers, the logbook, a pencil The only time that I have found the original contents list at all interesting is on one of flask's caches that tracks the evolution of the swag in the cache. Interestingly, that swag hasn't seemed to degrade in the same way that the swag in most caches tend to.

I've never heard of such a practice. To me, it seems quite uncommon, weird and unfriendly. I would not think well of a cacher who would place such strange requirements on a FTF log. There are much better ways to honor other cachers. Well, then. You wouldn't like us downstate cachers then, I guess we're "unfriendly" in your eyes. Though thats hard to figure since we honor a lot of cachers down here. To each their own; in this neck of the woods ITS common practice While it is very nice and friendly to place a cache to honor another cacher, the FTF is not part of the honor unless the coordinates are given to the honoree before the cache is published. To become upset that someone other than the person for whom the cache is named claims FTF is plain odd and not nice. I think that it is friendlier to be happy for whomever is the first person to find the cache. Whatever. I'll keep your odd custom in mind when we cache downstate. Don't want any irrate cachers on my tail! You're right that I wouldn't feel real friendly toward people who are upset with me for no good reason.

I've never heard of such a practice. To me, it seems quite uncommon, weird and unfriendly. I would not think well of a cacher who would place such strange requirements on a FTF log. There are much better ways to honor other cachers.