mattandjax

we would give it a few days, then contact the cacher and ask what he wants you to do. he may have forgotten to record the tracking number before moving them along (which we have been guilty of on one occasion!) or not have access to a proper PC to log correctly at the time.

in an ideal world someone will have picked it up and will move to a new cache soon, correctly logging all movements....however this often doesnt happen. we had a bug went AWOL after being dropped in an in event in Minnesota. Many people 'discovered'it, but it was still in the itinery long after the event. I contacted the people who dropped it there, and they said someone must have taken it, as it wasnt left behind. it was a case of wait and see... But the happy ending is, that it has just turned up 4 months later. someone found it in another cache, and has kindly 'grabbed it' so give it time. it may turn up somewhere. give it a year before you write it off forever!

yep I agree! when you want to read the TB's log page...its just full of boring dips! cant see the point really. why not just dip it in the last one? Its quite nice to dip a bug in a special kind of cache and take a foto of it there. that has more meaning and shows it was really there! like the top of a mountain,or famous place or Icon etccc

But I did find it, there it is in my hands in the pic i uploaded So I did find it? Good job it's just a game then ... as you say. But ...but ... i take lovely picture! Thing is, I have another life other than caching (as much as I wished I didn't) And when I have say: 3 hours free to do a trail, but spend far longer than expected trying to find a cache (I don't like giving up you see, I like to 'FIND' them.) Then i see I am quickly running out of time .... but i can't just jump back in the Jeep (because I'm half way round the trail) so I run to the next cache and on finding it (or not, according to you) I take a picture! This is the way I play the game. I don't armchair cache, I don't log a find if I didn't find, I'm geocaching MY way! Feel free to delete any of my logs if I didn't sign the log ... oh and delete my lovely pictures too (If I'm ever round your way caching) so these people dont have time to sign the log, but have time to photograph each one,upload the pictures, resize, and insert them in each log...?

cute! and unusual, we like

THE BLOB! this is my latest idea. the cache finder can get creative and hopefully upload a foto of their masterpiece. its quite new out, and seems to haVe got a bit lost. hopefully someone from the event has taken it and will Log it again soon jax

we kind of agree with this,, we were the FTF of a restricted FTF cache. it was our very first, FTF. we had all the excitement and adrenalin buzz of rushing to the site, finding the cache and signing the brand new log...and then it was kind of like... oh.. where is everyone else?? it seemed as if we had been given a head start in a race, and therefore not really a winner

Cool! I'm up for a beer. About time we had event out East. I'll spread the word. When's it happening?? sounds a good idea. any idea for a venue? a pub meet? or a BBQ in the park type of event?

look out for events that happen fairly regularly in Auckland or nearby cities. they're extremely sociable and you may hook up with others in the same situation.

Well our logged find did disappear for sometime, but hey-ho as we said we are not bothered by things like this and if you do come along to any of the social events we will buy you a beer!! It's a great idea if done properly, why don't you put it back but make it clear that it is a dummy? maybe crank up the difficulty, change the hint to not under a rock and make a card that clearly says you haven't found it?

What do you mean by this? which silly comments. None of them seem silly, detrimental or negative.

we found this cache a few weeks ago. listed as a regular. the clue actually said 'dont let this one rock you' which made us think it was either under, or disguised as a rock. and sure enough, at the givne coordinates , under a rock we found an official geo cache container.inside was what seemed to be a muggle info sheet folded up and no log book. we signed the paper, and mentioned this in out log later. the owner then deleted our log, saying we hadnt found the real cache and the 'joke was on us'. sorry we didnt even notice there was a joke.(and neither did some other cachers) we were just out to find regular caches that day. we wondered about cache saturation, as the 'real' cache was hidden just a few meters away apparantly?. anyway- it wasnt clear to us at all that we hadnt found the real cache. maybe the owner should have written on it 'not an offcial geo cache' or made it clear on a tag inside that we had to find the next one. other decoy caches mention in the description 'make sure you sign the real log' etc..so the joke was lost on us Im afraid! M&J Time to add my penny's worth as the cache owner. The cache was listed as regular. Which it was. The clue was "Don't let this one rock you." This was designed to guide you away from the rock, but I guessed that most searchers would look there first. About a metre away from GZ (who is that accurate anyway?) there was a rock. Under it was a cache container. Inside the container was a sheet, which M&J did not read, which stated "Actually - I’m sorry - you haven’t found Gosford 01. Remember the clue was:- “Don’t be rocked by this one.” But you are close!!! Please put this back and cover it so the next geocacher can join in the fun." This took up about one third of an A4 page. M&J signed the back of the sheet, as did one other Geocacher. I am completely mystified why / how they did not read / see my note. Previous Geocachers did, and enjoyed my SOH. Also, as a matter of interest, I don't think cache saturation comes in to it - what they found was not an official Geocache. And, notwithstanding what M&J said above, I have not deleted their log - well not on here anyway. And I did not say the joke was on them - I did make a comment that they did not share my sense of humour. When I took the dummy cache away I took my note as well, which they had signed. I still have it if they want to see it : they could take up my offer I made some time ago to meet for a cup of coffee. Keep on Caching On. fotomacc just to clarify, for the record- we dont have problems with decoy caches, we just didnt realise this WAS one! it was listed as a traditional, 1.5 star difficulty,found at the given coords, under the hinted rock, in an official geocaching container, the large A4 sized paper was folded so that the only bit you could see said "Congratulations you have found it" followed by the normal muggle sheet spiel - why would you bother unfolding and reading the rest? Maybe it was the way someone else put it back but there was absolutely nothing to indicate that this wasn't the cache. and YOU DID originally delete ours and another's log, and wrote your log explaining why you had done this. (these have now been reinstated since you removed your decoy). we then E mailed you asking for an explanation, and your reply ended (copy & pasted from your e mail)... "As you will see from earlier posts other finders have appreciated my little joke. Sorry if it has backfired with you." we were going to go back and complete the finding of the 'real cache',to get the smiley face, but then you reinstated our find, so was no need. Decoy caches can be fun. we just missed that this was one. maybe if the container was marked 'NOT an official geo cache', and contained a small plain card (instead of a multi folded large piece of paper)saying so- and maybe if the clue had said 'NOT under a rock' and listed as a harder difficulty- etc..etc..we would have got the "joke". At the end of the day we weren't that bothered, we certainly didn't ask for the dummy to be removed just suggested maybe it was made clearer that it wasn't actually the cache when found. M&J

Duplicate post - d'oh

we found this cache a few weeks ago. listed as a regular. the clue actually said 'dont let this one rock you' which made us think it was either under, or disguised as a rock. and sure enough, at the givne coordinates , under a rock we found an official geo cache container.inside was what seemed to be a muggle info sheet folded up and no log book. we signed the paper, and mentioned this in out log later. the owner then deleted our log, saying we hadnt found the real cache and the 'joke was on us'. sorry we didnt even notice there was a joke.(and neither did some other cachers) we were just out to find regular caches that day. we wondered about cache saturation, as the 'real' cache was hidden just a few meters away apparantly?. anyway- it wasnt clear to us at all that we hadnt found the real cache. maybe the owner should have written on it 'not an offcial geo cache' or made it clear on a tag inside that we had to find the next one. other decoy caches mention in the description 'make sure you sign the real log' etc..so the joke was lost on us Im afraid! M&J

if you do a search for the area in Auckland you are interested in, the list of geocaches comes up with a favourite rating. if people have voted for it its probably a good un! do you want quirky camo'd caches? or clever hides? or interesting/beautiful views? WackyB or A N D Y has done some great caches just off the top of my head.. and here are some our personal favourites in Auk GC1ET65, GC1KM4H, GC250Q5, GC27RPX,

weve moved from UK to New zealand so this seems very apt! Have ordered one. cool coin!

we are off for a weekend in Tauranga in 2 weeks. we would also lke to do this cache. please contact us if still on

and kiwifamily purchased not long ago from trademe. local company at Onehunga site here http://www.dangerousmagnets.co.nz/ They had been good and the magnets are very good. seem to be same company. got a pack from trade me and theyre on thier way to us now!.. thnaks for the info.... just need a job lot of Eclipse tins now, and a magnetising-we-wil-go!!

fantastic... we were looking for a local company. thanks!

hey. that would be cool! where are you planning on touring?

thanks everyone..will look into it

where does one buy some decent magnets to glue in a cache? we live in Auckland and not sure what type of shop to find them in.?

thats nice! i also appreciate when some one moves and correctly logs any of my TB's, so now i include on the bugs webpage, in its description, a "thankyou to anyone who moves this bug along" message

whereabout in NZ will the person be staying? were in east of auckland, and would also take the TB for you.

i just love their individuality. like they have thier own personalites. its great fun looking up the website and learning about their adventures, and then be able to participate. we released our first one yesterday, and its already been picked up from the new cache, so we eagerly await the next update so see where its gone...