ayrbrain
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since my last posting on this subject (easy caches in Vancouver) I have had a travel coin dropped in one of my caches which all came about through a chance meeting with another cacher, Canada was mentioned and they asked if I could drop off the coin in Vancouver to help it get to another Canadian state, (can't remember which state at the moment)
so it is all tucked up in an envelope ready to be put in my luggage and hopefully I will find a suitable cache in Stanley Park to place it in, I have printed out a few caches within the park to take with me. ooooooooooh I hope I can do some over there 
I will need to check before hand that they are still up and running though 
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oh they are so cute! especially the skull and not-quite-crossed-bones one
I hope I find one to move on
(what a pity two are already MIA
)What is MIA ?
Missing In Action
lol I see. thank you
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WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY ......looks like its right up there....and my other one Me is also well on its way....not sure whether if at the top as you are right there is no real mileage Table
.....do you think i should start one?..all input greatly appreciated...feeling well chuffed 
My one and only TB I have placed so far out in the wild hasn't moved an inch since I placed it a few months ago
So I am at the other end of the scale. Oh well maybe once the better weather is here someone may find it. 
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Thanks Amberel and Lovejoy & Tinker I see it now ........................corrrrrr never looked below my logs
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I cannot remember how to add a photograph to the log page once I have added my log
I have done it before but for the life of me I can't think how I did it, I have been all over the site with no luck, any help please. thank you -
oh they are so cute! especially the skull and not-quite-crossed-bones one
I hope I find one to move on
(what a pity two are already MIA
)What is MIA ?
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Chicken Alert!
KFC - Kernow's Fast Chicken landed in the cache "Silent Sentry 3" (just west of Farnborough) nearly two weeks ago and has made herself far too comfortable. It's time she got flapping on her way again!
If anyone is in that area and would be willing to tweak her tail feathers to get her moving it would be much appreciated.
MrsB
awwwww lol so cute and cumfy looking. I would love to keep hens.
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What a great idea, I hope they reach Scotland and maybe I will get to see/move one on.
good luck with th race.
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The little 'my finds' smilies aren't showing when I click on the map. I haven't changed by browser (Google Chrome) or anything like that. Is anyone else having the same issues? Or does anyone know why this has suddenly happened?
Same here! I noticed they were missing on mine when i looked yesterday.
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I am looking at past caches I have found........ well I like to see who has found them after me :-) I notice on the map of areas I have found caches instead of a smiley face for my found caches it is showing as a normal icon for caches. Why is this does anyone know?
thank you
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Hi all, just wanted to put this tale on here as a thanks to you dedicated cacher's that have made this activity what it is today.
Me and my wife decided for our 1st wedding anniversary that, weather permitting we would go to windemere to celebrate it, we had hopes of walking down to the lake and taking a few boar trips up and down said lake to see the sights. Upon our arrival the sun was out but quickly his its sunny self behind some clouds and so we decided before the boat trip we would hit costa coffee for some caffeine fortitude. While the better half was getting our stimuli I was left unattended at our table so i hit facebook to see what my pals were doing, one old old friend's status read so. "off out to whitton park to do a spot of geocaching" hmm i thought, whets that? hes a bit of a techno geek like myself ill check it out. Hitting google I typed in the the word that would change the day from a nice walk in the country to a great little adventure 'geocaching'. after reading about it I headed off to the app store and downloaded the free app and found out there was one about 600 meter's away, at this time the missis arrived so i told her about it and asked her is she wanted to check it out. Unsure if this was wise she agreed and we set off not knowing what awaited us or how addictive it would be.....
After about 20 mins of wandering round a very busy car park feeling the eyes of muggles staring at me looking in trees and under bins we found our first stache! what a great little feeling it was, we wrote our names in the book and i popped a plectrum i had in my pocket inside, well that was it.... all afternoon we were a slave to the app and wandered all around bowness and lakeside looking for the little hidey-holes and had enormous fun doing so (the one in the centre of lakeside made us look like we were casing the place and took us 2 visits!) . upon our arrival back in blackburn we went to a a friends house and told them the story... 15 ,mins later were hammering around out local area notching up the finds, now there's 4 of us on the hunt!
Our first anniversary was always going to be a momentous occasion but finding about geo made the day all the more memorable and gave us both a feeling that wed not had since we were kids, of exploring the world and everyone (well most, there was one another cacher that got to every one just before us!) else was unaware of the treasures that we knew existed.
So to those out there that placed or popped things in the caches we found a hearty thank-you from us and to everyone else on the hunt, i salute you all for keeping up such a wonderfull activity.. and yes were hooked line and sinker...
now to save up for a fancy gps!
Geocaching will take you to places you didn't even know where in your neighbourhood! At least that is what we have found. Yesterday we were in a lovely village a few miles along from our house, even though we had been there before we had never walked the country lanes, but we did so yesterday and found four caches. I don't have a fancy GPS, I bought it second hand from ebay and has served me well so far, since I started last September. I hope you continue to enjoy the sport, I know I am hooked :-)
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We left ours in the car boot this afternoon
and we needed them as well as we were up and down embankments in the woods geocaching this afternoon -
Cyclists who don't announce their approach.
Now that is one thing I hate more than anything else!
The other day I was walking along the prom not hearing a cyclist behind me and I happend to step in their path!
The cyclist had to stop dead to avoid hitting me but then started using real bad language at me.
Well ...... I saw red!
I grabbed his handle bars and pointed to his bell while shouting: Do you know what this is for ... do you?
I think I scared him to death!
This thread is making great reading....... lol
re the cyclist we were out the other day on our bikes along a walk/cyclist path, ahead of us were a couple walking, hubby sounded his bell and the poor guy walking jumped about 3ft in the air. We do say "Thank you" when we ring and overtake them. Mind you i have jumped when walking and someone rings their bell :-)
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Is it just me? but i love to read the logs folk write when they find one. Some of them are witty and I have a good laugh at them (the logs)
there is one near me which is easy but hard to do, if you follow me! The written logs make for good reading. I have yet to try this one but it is one the books................... ok I did try once, but couldn't reach :-( but will try again.
Nursing sore legs tonight as we both walked miles! and i mean miles and STILL didn't find the cache :-(
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Walking beep beep number of miles (as in this afternoon!) did we find the beep beep cache? did we heckers and now have sore calves tonight lol each time we get up from a chair it's with a "ow"........... or "ahhhhhh". Didn't help that we were on the wrong side of the river to start with and had still walked miles looking for a crossing! only to turn around and eventually found a crossing but STILL didn't get the little blighter....or words to that effect!
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If you have someone with you who isn't as keen on geocaching but would like to see some cool sights, I'd recommend Stanley Park, Robson Sq area and False Creek/Granville Island. These locations are high on many tourists lists and also have great caches. We also liked the caches in Yaletown along the waterfront walkway. There was a great Robson Sq area multi during the Olympics. Can anyone provide the GC number? Is it still there?
Great photo ops where Landsharkz have mentioned, and just so you know...Mrs L has Scots heritage, I believe! If the multi that Landsharkz mentioned was Blue Sky "something," it appears to be out of commission at the moment.
Looks like Stanley Park is a favourite :-) I have a few co-ords for there and hope to put in more before we leave in a few weeks time. I now have a Geocoin that wants to get to Canada which was left in one of my caches, so hopefully I will find one in our (Canada) area that will accommodate the Geocoin and allow it to continue onwards on its journey to another part of Canada. Thank you for all help.
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I'm stuck
how do I add a photo here please?many thanks
Ask Mrs B , she knows, you know!
Th photograph has to have a URL. One of the easiest ways to give it a URL is to first add it to one of your cache logs, as you have with the photo you link to above.To put that photo into a forum post:
Copy the URL link for the photo, then
Click the + AddReply box to make a post
Click on the little tree icon above the reply box
This will open a separate little box - Paste the URL of your photo into that box
Click OK
That puts the link to your photograph into the forum reply box. Then add any title or comments as required. To see whether it's worked properly click "Preview Post" before you click the "Add Reply" to submit your post.
MrsB
Many thanks Mrs B I will give it a go
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my Garmin etrex is great. I bought it secondhand,I'm not proud
on ebay, just to see how I got on with geocaching, I am totally hooked on geocaching and will keep using my little Garmin Etrex until it gives up. Hubby wanted to buy me a new one for my BD this month, but if it aint broke........then........ !! -
I'm stuck
how do I add a photo here please?many thanks
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We have had a static TB sticker on our car since last Nov. And other than hinting to someone that we had one and they were near the car, no one else has spotted it, except our daughter when we pulled in to her driveway down in England. I was hoping someone would see it on our travels about the town and elsewhere
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In a cache I have hidden there is now a geocoin. If it is still there after a while say maybe a month or so, is it okay for me to take it and place it elsewhere even though I didn't place it in the cache.
Thank you.
Anyone can grab a coin to move it along but don't forget to log the grab and maybe even a courtesy note to other cachers going to your cache to get at it that you picked it up.
I have moved geocoins before, but was unsure when it was one in my own hidden cache. I will move it on at some point unless it moves beforehand.
thanks
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Many thanks for your reply.
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In a cache I have hidden there is now a geocoin. If it is still there after a while say maybe a month or so, is it okay for me to take it and place it elsewhere even though I didn't place it in the cache.
Thank you.
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I always find the site slow in an evening, the rest of the world is waking up.
so it is all tucked up in an envelope ready to be put in my luggage and hopefully I will find a suitable cache in Stanley Park to place it in, I have printed out a few caches within the park to take with me. ooooooooooh I hope I can do some over there 
I will need to check before hand that they are still up and running though 
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.....do you think i should start one?..all input greatly appreciated...feeling well chuffed 
and we needed them as well as we were up and down
TB hotels
in Canada
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Is there a TB hotel within reach of West Georgia Street Vancouver? I found one, but with not knowing the city I am not sure if we could get to it, I need a back up in case I cannot drop a Geocoin in a suitable cache(it is wanting to go to Canada)which was dropped into my own cache.
thanks for any help