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Let's Look Over Thayer

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  1. This Just In... The interesting thing is that this is not the actual equator, in spite of the claim on the sign. According to my GPS (displaying an EPE of 15 feet), this line is ~6/100ths of a minute (360 feet) south of the actual equator.
  2. Honk! Honk! Honk! Honk! ... travel photos please? Never fear, Harmon. I got ya covered. It's just gonna take a couple of days to wade through the pile...
  3. This Just In... Honk if you know where this peice of luggage has been...
  4. Hey Now! Super-cachers to the rescue! Way to go! If there's anything that truly deserves a "Like" button, this is it. I have to admit, I was wondering about that myself...
  5. Ummmm...I believe that this is the Spirit of Dana Point. Californian is square-rigged on the foremast and has three sails at the pointy end...
  6. Man...if a cute little kitten can't get at least one thumbs up...what's the world coming to? Methinks that Harmon is going to have to cultivate a different image. The down-trodden beat-upon "Poor ol' Harmon" thing just doesn't match his approval ratings...
  7. Nope. I tried to get on HMS Surprise but they needed hands to sail the Californian. So that's where I was...
  8. Uh, oh. This serious. But I won't go down without a fight. Let's see if this can turn the tide...
  9. I'm not normally one to point fangers, but a response is required... First off, Fanger A points to the "sheet". The sheet is nice and tidy. Shipshape and Bristol-fashion, as it were. Second, the clew of the sail (indicated by Fanger B ) is attached to the sheet and clew blocks (the round blobs to the left of Fanger B ) so there is a limit to how tidy the sail can be furled in the best of circumstances. That little bit is always going to stick out like that. Thirdly, you're right. That isn't very tidy. The part of the sail indicated by Fanger C is called a "deadman" because it looks as if someone furled up a body into the sail. We try to avoid that. In my defense, though, I didn't furl this sail when it was put away last. In this photo, we are unfurling the sail.
  10. This Just In... For some reason, most people don't seem to like "yard caches". I think they can be pretty interesting, but this one was a DNF (that's me in the center.) Photo credit: SqrRigger.
  11. Nice one! O sure, somehow I knew that you would like this one. Sorry that there isn't one of those silly Facebook "Like" buttons for you to click. I tried clicking on the "Like" button but it didn't work...
  12. This is the tops'l schooner Cailfornian. Here she is as I saw her in 2004. The puff of smoke is from the fact that she has just fired one of her 6 pound guns. (She's a replica of the C.W. Lawrence which was a revenue cutter operating off the coast of California circa 1850.)
  13. Here's a juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron that I saw while walking back from a cache that honors Harmon's arch-nemesis, cegrube. The cache is In Memory of cegrube. The heron did not seem to be afraid of me and it let me get pretty close.
  14. Working, of course. It's a dirty job but someone has to do it.
  15. This Just In... The connection to geocaching is a bit tenuous, I'll admit, but there is a connection nonetheless... Honk if you know the name of this ship...
  16. I have not personally experienced it (apart from a particular cache that went missing within a couple of weeks every time I replaced it...) but other instances of this sort of thing have come and gone. Unfortunately, avenues for defense against such things are limited. Fortunately, most of the time, eventually, they tend to get tired of the "sport" and move on to other forms of anti-social behavior. I tend to go by the philosophy that when someone places a cache, they promise to maintain it. So if it is clear that a cache "needs fixing" and is not being maintained (either by a cache owner or by some Good Samaritan that has taken on that responsibility), I have no problem making the suggestion to archive it. Ultimately, it is a reviewer that will make the call -- usually, they will disable the cache for a few weeks and if there is still no response, then they will archive it. It's a process that is more than fair and but if someone gets bent out of shape when it happens, I'm not going to lose sleep over it...
  17. Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Glory Hallelujah Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down Yes Lord, You know sometimes I'm almost to the ground O yes, Lord, still Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Glory Hallelujah If you got there before I do O yes Lord, Don't forget to tell all my friends I'm coming too O yes Lord, still Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the Tralfamodarians I've seen Glory Hallelujah
  18. A different sort of cache critter today. Most appropriately, it comes from Spooks Canyon near SC: The Hook. It's tempting, given the cache series, to think of it as a mummified frog, but I suppose that it is merely desiccated rather than mummified.
  19. Which raises the question how Harmon got his mitts on it... (I suppose it could have happened that the postman misread "Heaven" as "Harmon"...)
  20. The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. Careful, it's got a vicious streak a mile wide and nasty, big, pointy teeth! Spotted on a "bunny trail" on the way back from End of the Trail - 4S Ranch to Lake Hodges. Also spotted on this same trail is this plant that looks, to me at least, like dragon's bones. Not exactly a cache critter, but hopefully close enough for gu'mmint work.
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