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    visiting the South Island

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    You could come north from Chch to beautiful sunny Marlborough

    Stop at Kaikoura on the way to see the whales

    Stop again at Kekerengu to enjoy the beautiful beach .. or if the wind is in the wrong direction you could take photos of the impressive waves

    When you get to Blenheim (we have camping ggrounds and backpackers) tour the vineyards by bicycle or in a mini bus (organised)

    The travel on up to Picton (only 26km) to explore the sounds. There is good walking.

     

    Yes Marlborough has some caches too :-) :anitongue:

    visiting the South Island

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    Guten Abend!

     

    I am about to explore the South Island. From July, 12th to July, 29th. I will start my journey at Christchurch.

    By now, I do not have a paricular plans what to do or to see.

    Bungeejumping and whale-watching would be nice (perhaps at the same time... ;)

    Oh, and of course trapping a penguin so I can train it to hunt rabbits.

     

    This is why I ask some questions:

     

    So, are there any Events to attend?

    Are there some nice Geocaching-Trails? Or some very cool caches to find?

    And what should one have seen in this part of New Zealand?

     

    Thanks in advance!

    If you need further information feel free to ask.

     

    lg

    Rüdiger aka Huhnbeauftragter

    Dummy containers

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    I would have assumed [before looking] that it was double blind stuff and that it had to be under the fake rock :unsure: ... then would have felt like banging my head on the rock :mad:

     

    I'm new at this so dont have any opinions based on tradition

    I'd rather find a dummy container than a wet soggy useless unattended 'normal' cache.

    Exchange Travel Bugs

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    I am a school teacher near Pittsburgh, I would love to send our school travel bug

    I hope a fellow geocacher can give me an address

     

    Please contact me by email and I will help ... you could send some flat travellers for the kids to track as well

    name change

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    After an abortive start 3+ yrs ago and then a very long gap I have a new toy and I am ready to start again :D

    I'd like to know what happens if I change the name we use. Does it go back and change all the records so our totals will accumulate or is it a fresh start? :blink:

    new GPS

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    I am a very inexperienced geocacher who operated for a while with a borrowed GPS.

    Now I am going to buy my own but dont really know what to look for. :rolleyes:

    I'd welcome input on the relative merits (or not) of teh following

    Garmin Etrex

    GPAMAP60CSX

    GPS60

    eTrex Legend

    eTrex Vista cx

    eTrex Vista

     

    I'm new at using this forum so will accept email also at canajanz at xtra dot co dot nz :(

    Thanks for any help you all can give me

    Direction Indicators

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    I seem to have a problem

    The wee direction indicators which show where the caches are in relation to home co-ordinates are pointing the wrong way.

     

    I entered my home coordinates ... .. I think the problem could be with format

    The ones I used are degrees minutes seconds and the ones that now show are degrees minutes/seconds decimalised ...

    How do I deal with that??

    Cache Co-ords

    in New Zealand

    Posted

    Interesting that I have a similar problem. My son is in the Dunedin area with a TB from the UK that had migrated to the US and now needs to be placed in NZ. We figured he could place it using maps as I do here, but seems to have had a problem getting ones good enough to locate a cache near his home. Anyone in the area willing to guide us to good on line maps or alternatively grab a TB over an ale some afternoon and get it moving again?

     

    If he gets as far north as Blenheim I will either take it off him or show him where to put it in a cache

    Direction Indicators

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate.

    So the map on this page accurately shows your home and surrounding neighborhood?

     

    NO it doesn't. :anitongue:

    From the little that shows on that map I think it is at least several blocks away.

    The direction indicators think that a nearby cache is SW .45km when it is actually NW about .2km. :anitongue:

     

    How will I ever find the difficult ones if I can't find home ?

     

    Still hoping to find an answer

    Direction Indicators

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Did you put your home coordinates in your profile? If so are they correct?

     

    I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate.

    It occurred to me that there might be some sort of offset sytem in place (as in Minute War) and that I have just not discovered it yet.

    Direction Indicators

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    :oOn the page which shows 'caches listed closest to home co-ordinates' ... I see that the wee direction indicators and matching NW/SE descriptors don't actually give accurate info. They seem to assume that I live north and west of my actual location.

    Can anyone help me sort this out?

    Hoarding Tb's

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I really like helping travel bugs move long distances,

    Is it legitimate for me to send a hitch-hiker on his way with someone else ... to be delivered to another geocacher farther up country? Or am I bound to place him in a new cache myself?

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