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    Geocaching activities on land adminsitered DOC

    in New Zealand

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    This is supposed to be a fun, no harm, explore the environment, get out and about, low cost thing to do.

    Now someone wants make us turn it into another incorporated society. What a nightmare.

    No wonder that things like boating are so popular. There is less bureaucracy out on the water.

     

    Hmmm MSA is reputed to have plans drawn up for more bureaucracy on the water.... Just waiting for the right accident to generate the required public outrage

     

    Child gets hurt... no one is going to stand up and say "hang on.... you are doing as much damage with your rules as you are preventing!"

     

    Thats as it may be.... the overiding problem we as a country face is that our children aren't getting out there enough and when they do they are surrounded by rules protocols policies and other cotton wool. Geocaching helps get them out without all that BS and in so doing gives them opportunities to learn. Real experiences and challenges... real risks, decisions and consequences... real Successes and failures.

     

    Doc should be encouraging this activity, perhaps using it in conjunction with its education programmes. It could be a tool within the risk management strategy rather than a threat to it.

     

    We need rules but we need the rules to be few and simple... isn't that what makes a good game?

     

    If the real world was like Playstation perhaps then the kids would want to play in it. If all they do is play Playstation maybe thats what the world will be like? If DOC made a playstation game the kids could learn about the outdoors... and then really go there... and blow it up.

     

    Ok I'm ranting but arrrgh! Playstations

     

    If Doc have discression to waive or reduce the concession fee why do they not have discression to abandon the opinion that the exchange of trinkets is commerce? A much smaller philisophical jump IMHO.

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