Harry_Bristol_UK

Maybe you are right! I won't be making many friends on here at this rate Thanks for the replies

Cool! 1,000 caches shows some devotion!

Hi all, 'scuse my newness. I am still trying to find my way around. I just had an email notification for a cache that I had recently visited with "Toibs". We found 2 caches that evening and dropped a travel bug into one of them. Ironically another cacher has followed us and put the travel bug into the other cache we visited In the report the cacher says "The other 3 TB's listed as being in this cache seemed to have disappeared!" so I went to the page to have a look and there are now 4 bugs listed against this cache (including the one moved there that we had placed into a cache down the road). This is the cache in question: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f8-a10fd53af394 Very few people have been there this month according to the site. Do some people just not bother logging their visits? Surely part of the "sport" is updating records and letting others keep track of their bugs and seeing who has visited their caches? If people pick up bugs and don't update the records then it all gets very messy for everyone doesn't it? This cache is particularly well hidden so I wouldn't have thought that anyone has stumbled upon it and helped themselves, it does seem more likely that a cacher has visited, picked up the bugs and not reported back yet. What do you all consider to be a reasonable amount of time for someone to log a visit / record a TB movement? Do you all do it yourselves religiously? Do many TBs just "disappear" never to be seen again?

Sounds like the age old problem of the few spoiling it for the many. I am new to Geocaching (started just under 2 weeks ago and have found time to find 5 so far). If the site was chargeable I probably wouldn't have got into this. Now I have started, I'm hooked! I have been going out with a mate (Toibs) and using his GPS as I only have GPS in the car at the moment (I can drive to within metres of a cache, then I'm stuffed ) Once I get my own handheld I will certainly subscribe for the extra features. (Would have purchased one before now but have to go into Hospital next week for an op so have had to put some aspects of my life on hold ) The caches I have found so far I have ensured are well hidden and protected from the elements before leaving them. It's common courtesy to do so. If people are going to bother themselves to download co-ordinates to find a cache only to "muggle" it, I think they will find a way to do so regardless of whether the site has restrictions on it. I believe that restricting the site will probably also restrict the expansion of the sport.

OK, my moment of blindness is over. The shop is HERE for anyone else looking

'Scuse my ignorance and apparent blindness! Could someone provide a link to the Geocaching merchandise. I am thinking of setting up a cache or 2 in my area of the UK and would love to get hold of some of the "official geocache" stickers to put on to some ammo boxes.