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I have a kayak I use all the time, atleast 3-4 times a week and in all honesty, I am looking for a good 2 person canoe cause ive larned throughout the years of kayaking its a lonely mans sport and most people dont hav or want to buy kayaks or canoes, so its best to have a kayak for yourself and a canoe for when you want to bring others along, once that is established you will always be able to find people to go with you, if its just a kayak only day good luck finding anone with a kayak, unless you belong to a club for example ie. i belong to the CCA a kayak and canoe fishing and wildlife conservation group so I know all kinds of kayakers, but amongst my friends, only 2 of them have kayaks but thats also what I like about the kayak, I know if I want to be alone when i go fishing Isay im taking the Kayak and no one is interested, but if i say i am taking the canoe then i have too many people asking (myfriends and I share a canoe that was a great idea/option we came up with cause it is only needed sometimes so why do all of us need oe, but now its gotten to the point whre we need anothe one and i want one for myself)

Yeah, its me again, the one who just likes to jump in head first. Hey got a question, I decided to get a Travel Bug Sticker for my truck when I was initially getting registered and buying stuff in the middle of the night, not necvessarily knowing exactly what I bought til it arrived a few days ago. Well I have registered my sticker and it is all official and now on my back window, OK, so thats done, now what? Do I log my truck everytime I want, or is it for other people to log I just dont know, should I glue a log book on my window as well? Anyhow I have tried and tried to read about these Travel Bugs and I undestand the concept of the ones that are like dog tags, I guess I bought some of those also LOL, but I ant seem to find any information on the sticker, if yall could give me somekind of rundown on this id highly appreciate it, try and keep it simple cause im already confused from all the other reading I have done, I have now printed a decent books worth of info and still need help so PLEASE help a brother out, THANKS AGAIN

im new to Caching myself infact I havent even logged any finds yet,but one thing I do know is GPS and I am in love with my Rino 530HCx by Garmin, but it might be a litle overkill for just Caching I am a huge kayak fisherman in Florida and am out on the Flats all thetime and if you dont have a GPS your as good as dead. Im on my second unit no fault of Garmins, I accidently threw it away while after having a few to many drinks and the urge to clean, but its a great unit, its made to be beat and submerged at the same time in both fresh and salt water plus it has the radio option which is one of the main reasons I went for this particular unit (I also saw a special on the Military Channel and the Special Forces use this same device) IT IS NOT CHEAP AND NEITHER IS THE MAPPING SOFTWARE but I depend my life on it especially when its over 100 degreesand im 10 miles out and everything looks the same no matter which way you go or look and there is no frehwater around. Garmin in general, my opinion, makes the best units out there, there are a few others that I thought about replacing my last Rino with but just couldnt sacrifice the quality for price. Good luck, study up

If it helps, which I am seeing that it must, I have a Rino 530 HCx with full topomaps and full marine maps (Garmin likes to refer to these as BlueCharts, I like to call all their software "GoldCharts", for the amount ive paid), this is my second unit its an exact replica of my first other than newer sotware, I had my other one just over a year and a half before I accidentally threw it away at an ex girlfriends, anyhow I spend a great deal of time out on our coasts flatsfishing out of my kayak and when im not doing that im training by rowing the Butler Lake Chain, so my expertise with my GPS is up to par Id like to think. As for finding lost items by coordinate I was a BoyScout most of my youth and then went into the Explorer Program and had extensive training with the US Special Forces on compass reading. lfe saving etc... I have grown up either hiking and camping in the Blue Ridge or surfing and fishing Florida that is what has brought me into wanting to paricipate in this Geocaching, well cause somedays just want to go for a drive an have an adventure. The importance of 10/17/2010 mid morning which is creeping up on me is that had planned on doing a big row today of the Butler Chain starting at my dock on Lake Down rowing til the end and coming back (19 miles round trip) and I figured what a btter way to start Geocaching by putting a Cache out along my route. I have now been reading the rules on the proper way to hide the Cache and the rules of what this Cache is supposed to hold in it, both the min and the max, and so far everything even down to the location fits within all the correct guidelines. The problem I have had is that where I lve when I pull up local Caches I can look at them on the map and I have lived here so long that I dont find a lot of interest in setting out to a bunch of parking lots or church crosses (especially since I can see that church cross from my back window). That is why I want to hide something, something that is more than just a half star or even 2 stars, I want to start adding challenge to an area of Central Florida where there doesnt seem to be any challenge, im more interested in hiding these Caches than I am finding them, I want people to find and see the stuff around this great state of ours tha they most likely will never see if not given the choice. I guess I will go find a few of these local caches and get an idea of what to do. I guess I better oook up those rules now LOL ive only been studying the leave a Cache rles and not find a cache, im guessing there is probably some mobile app that I shold get in order to record my find huh? Now im confused

Tomorrow I am starting out to become an official Geocachier. I have only recieved a first hide kit and some other swag for myself an 2 Geocoins and a couple of Geotags. I have not yet attempted to find a Cache yet so I have no idea of what to expect when I find one, so, I really have a ver limited idea of what I am supposed to leave, that is why I am here asking. I know that for official what I am leaving in the box is 1.Pencil 2.Official Geocaching Logbook 3.An activated Geocoin. Besides that is there anything I am missing? Also once I hide my cache, what do I do then? I know I have to record its co ordinates but other than that can anyone give me as most or as many suggestions as possible. I am doing this Geocaching from scratch I have no friends that introduced me to the sport, so what I know and what little ive ben able to figure out on my own has been from the web, and reading blog posts. I hope to get the answers I need by tomorrow mid morning so that I can go ahead with my plans, cause once I start trust me, im gonna be the one who makes this game how it should be, so pease HELP, I will make it worth all Geocachiers time and adventures memorable, if of course you are up to my challenges, both the easy ones and the hard ones.. I embrace this kind of sport and can show people places they never knew existed