GatoRx
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Hot - first TX geocoin I've ever found.
Not - pack of bubble gum, a lighter, and a book of matches (in three different caches.)
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Woops... didn't realize the name of the other one. Guess that's what happens when you never get a chance to see the news...
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This might put a dent in your plans... NASA unable to communicate with Mars rover
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The TB Exterminator hasn't made it that far East, so I wouldn't worry too much. I'll post a note on the cacheflorida forums though, since more Jax area cachers tend to frequent there.
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Would finders be required to go into the hotel to find the cache or log their find?
If not, and there's no requirement to spend money at the hotel, I wouldn't view it as being commercial. If you had to stay two nights to log the find though, that's a different story.
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A cacher here in Jax recently placed The Twelve Days of Christmas series. Ten micros hidden around town, each with a number and corresponding letter. The eleventh cache tells you what order the numbers go in, taking you to the twelth and final bonus cache.
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If I change to another type of specialty plate I can do 7 letters so that may work better but I hate to have to give up my Univ of Florida Gators Plate!!
Don't do that! Don't give up your Gator plate! I'm sure you can come up with something that's 5 or fewer letters.
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I guess I just squeeze into this group with my first find being 12/29/01.
I find myself agreeing with a lot of what has already been said. When I started, my 100 mile radius density was somewhere around 65. Now its somewhere around 900 (and may be even more - I haven't checked in the last few weeks.) Everything was either in an ammo box or tupperware, with the occasional virtual along the way. I couldn't figure out why anyone would hide a micro - how could you trade anything in such a small container? Micros now dominate my area; there have been plenty of good ones - some with intersting containers, others hidden using very unique methods - but there have also been plenty that weren't so good. Finding a cache in the 'old days' always meant a walk or hike through an interesting city or state park, and generally had good views at the cache site or along the way; the same doesn't hold true anymore. I know I've changed as well; I remember going to Wal-Mart and the dollar store right after I got my GPS and filling up with trade items, but now about all I carry is a few of my geonickels and a pen (on the shorter trips anyway.)
The rules have certainly changed since then. The first two caches I found on my own were probably 200 feet apart. Not all of the changes have been bad though.
The one change that I've enjoyed the most though is the sense of community in my area. Since forming NEFGA, I've gotten to be really good friends with a lot of cachers in the area. We always have fun at events, and getting together for cache hunts is always a blast. That's one change that I've been very glad to see.
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I found one of the stones about a month ago. The description of the cache said that it was a 'unique' container (or something along those lines), and when I got to the area, the large pile of rocks & boulders the GPS was leading me to made me suspicious. The color of the stone was just a shade or two lighter than those surrounding it, and the gc.com logo gave it away when I looked really close. Overall though, I wouldn't expect a muggle to pay any attention to it.
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"Huckle Buckle Beanstalk!!!!!!"
When you're caching in a group, and you find the cache, you walk away from it, wait a minute or two while others look, and then yell/say that. Everyone else does the same when they find it, and the last person to find it gets to retrieve it. It lets everyone involved have a chance to find it, and the walking away and waiting part can help keep the location from being too obvious.
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A park near my house had been 'remodelled', including a nice set of trails (some paved, some not), boardwalks, and a long pier going across part of a swampy area, ending on a floating dock in the inlet of a nearby river. The area was very nice, but I didn't think that one cache would get people to explore the whole thing. That's when I hid my first multi, Ring's Challenge. It covers many stages, with coordinates on small tags from a label maker, and ends in a pretty cool spot (can't give away too much of the surprise.
) Its been well-liked by those who've found it, and those who haven't finished vow to return to complete the challenge.
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Here's a link to the NEFGA's webpage, home of the Northeast Florida Geocacher's Association. I'm not sure if all of the info you're looking for is on there or not, but let me know if you have any questions - I'll help out with what I can.
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My work just bought me the Garmin Streetpilot 2610 for geocaching along with getting me from place to place. They don't really know that they did this for me so shhhhh.
That's quite a gift!!
To reward my bravery for going and standing in line with thousands of other people at Best Buy and Circuit City at 5:30 the morning after Thanksgiving (and as something of an early Christmas present to myself), I upgraded to a GPS V. My Legend was fantastic, but I'd ogled the V for much too long.
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If they're what I think they are, they made up half of my backyard until a couple of weeks ago. Good thing it wasn't too late in the year to put down Scot's Miracle S - it took care of them in about a week.
Of course, I now have large yellow and brown patches across half of the yard where they used to be. At least the dog doesn't come in covered in the things now... The joys of a new house with a yard that hasn't been properly maintained in years...
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I went out and found 14 caches in two afternoons in an area I hadn't cached in for over nine months - lots of caches had been placed, and I was FTF (MEFF!) on one. I also hung out on the cacheflorida forum, although it wasn't nearly as active as this one (some day though
). And I made an attempt at learning some basics of HTML. Not too bad, I suppose.
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The TB Exterminator is primarily a problem in the Gainesville area, which is a pretty decent distance from I-95. Except for a hit at a hotel west of Jax, there haven't been any problems in the area. I haven't heard anyone around here mention a trip overseas, but you never know.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Booty nuggets is still, by far, my favorite term. And to think that the whole thing started with someone forgetting a comma.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Originally posted by cutsandbruises:Sorry for opening a big can of worms. Just thought you people would get a kick out of the article.
No problem. I'd imagine that Tsegi Mike would agree when I say that pharmacists like to try to keep medication-related information as truthful as possible, or at least put it all in perspective.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Originally posted by nincehelser:Wired is one of the worst magazines I've ever seen when it comes to science reporting.
Look at the second sentence of the article: "At least one researcher suspects that they do not, and that serotonin and other drugs commonly disposed of through sewage systems might be harmful to aquatic life and even humans."
You can find "at least one researcher" who will "suspect" anything.
What's worse is that the article says: "When people flush expired drugs or excrete them, chemicals enter sewage systems"...excuse me? I can't even go to the bathroom anymore?
"Wired" is a waste of money.
George
I had to go the link to check that second sentence for myself. Someone who would write such thing did not do their research. I don't know of any antidepressants that contain serotonin; and if I remember correctly, the serotonin molecule is quickly degraded in the stomach. Such wonderful 'scientific' writing...
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Originally posted by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking:And what do you think the pharmacist does with them? We (pharmacists) don't throw them out because people root around in the garbage looking for pills (potential lawsuit), so we flush them or dissolve them down the drain.
Call your local poison control if you want to know what the pills are. They have a book that describes each pill for identification purposes in overdosing.
Exactly. I've flushed or recommended flushing medications many times. I'm more worried about someone ingesting something they shouldn't have than trace concentrations in the sewers.
Here in Florida though, Poison Control won't ID meds - they'll refer you to a Drug Info center. And the DI center won't ID medications that you found somewhere. You're better off flushing them.
Thanks fly-tier. Its always seemed geo-appropriate to me.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Cool! I'm hoping to be there.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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Get them out of the cache as quick as you can. And don't just throw them away, flush them. Garbage cans/bags are still accessible to other people and animals, which means there's a chance for poisoning.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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There are a couple of other TB safe houses around northeast Florida now. Both Paintfiction and Dave&Michelle have placed safe houses/portals in the area. Its rather sad that they had to create such a thing, but it seems to be a necessity for the time being.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
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From the Cache Listing Requirement/Guidelines page:
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Locationless Caches
There is currently a moratorium on locationless caches. No caches will be approved until functionality is available to better serve this unique category.
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Sorry, but it can't be done at the moment.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
Tb Treading Water In Florida...help!
in South and Southeast
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Kinda strange that no one has visited the cache in so long... I'd go for it myself, but I'm not particularly close to the area at the moment.
Have you tried e-mailing the cache owner? He's a nice guy, and might be willing to go pick your TB up and get him moving.