Loonie Easter Bunnies

It came to me in a dream! If it sounds too far-fetched, then I suppose we'll have to go back to the original theories that fall somewhere between the Times-Colonist version where Team K gets enjoyment out of seeing the looks on people faces when they discover the treasure, and the rather less benign version where they get a power kick out of watching everyone scurrying around like lab rats in a maze. Choose your position somewhere between the two! I wonder how Mr. Gigabyte is making out with his investigation (very early in this forum). ARE YOU STILL THERE MR GIGABYTE? [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on December 12, 2002 at 11:47 PM.]

Since A Watcher’s Point of View won’t be found until after Christmas, I would like to make an additional suggestion that might be considered by those so inclined: Geocachers, hikers and others who spend time outdoors owe a lot to people who work to save green space for the enjoyment of future generations and for the sake of the environment itself. An organization that I am aware of is The Land Conservancy of BC (see their Capital Regional District acquisition projects donation page at http://www.conservancy.bc.ca/Projects/CRD/crd_parks.htm), but I’m sure there are others. Since I’m not a philanthropist myself, this is not a challenge but just an idea – thanks. This suggestion is NOT IN ANY WAY intended to distract from the importance of helping people less fortunate than ourselves, especially at this time of year.

Equip it with a guided missile paintball system to wipe out opponents. This let's-all-be-buddies-smile-for-the-camera-it's-Christmas stuff is for the birds. Loonie Easter Bunnies (I only get 'em if they're easy and close)–

The WHO The two gentlemen on motorcycles are Americans buying up real estate on Vancouver Island/Gulf Islands and scouting locations for a new resort business investment either here or someplace around Merritt. These two are the ones putting in all the money; one or both of them is based at their waterfront mansion on Beach Drive and is the webmaster for Team KFWB GPS. They have two local partners who head out with trucks and find all the places, plant the tags and paint marks, bury the treasure and report the coordinates. The WHY The American and their partners are using the much-visited and highly-regarded geocaching.com web site and the thriving Vancouver Island geocaching community as a testing ground to work out details of the adventure game that will be the core of their exclusive high-end resort business, and are hoping to get some international publicity while they’re at it. The adventure game is going to use a specialized gps tracking gadget they are developing for use exclusively in this game. It will involve treasure-hunting, eradicating opponents and very high stakes. Forming alliances will be an important part of the game. (Sociological observations are an important part of the current R&D phase.) Instead of having to drive all over the clearcuts and do a lot of calculations, the participants/resort guests will merely pay plenty for the experience. It will be mainly an on-the-ground action sport, with all-terrain vehicle chases and gps technology thrown in and some limited clue-hunting. There is no television series (sorry folks), but each participant will have the option of subscribing to some kind of closed-circuit system for their friends and family to watch their adventure, and will receive a souvenir dvd to take home afterward. No endangered species will be harmed or illegally imported during the staging of this game. No animal parts will be exported. Charlton Heston will be neither an investor nor a consultant. The only wildlife is on the resort's West Coast Cuisine menu. Loonie Easter Bunnies (I only get 'em if they're easy and close) [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on December 12, 2002 at 11:32 AM.]

Brilliant! Priceless!! !!! (you did miss your calling). Frame it, wrap it, and present it on Friday.

Mariner - if you're going to be picky, at least get it right. "Loose" for "lose" and "solarplex" are both spelling, not grammatical, errors. Geochamp - love your character and your attitude and the cute idea of patrolling forums and then stepping in with your big chest and small solar plexus just when things are about to get out of hand. But I agree with Mariner: If you're going to drop out of "here and there" with 0 finds and enter the rink (arena? ring? - not up on my fight terminology) at this stage of the game threatening to knock some sense into the forum participants , then you owe it to the forum to also make a stimulating contribution to the topic under debate. Stimulate: post something to a forum that encourages a rash of replies to keep the momentum going.

Maybe bigger isn't better after all, if it has such a major design flaw (cord not long enough to fit over curly-head). Cute and yellow has its advantages.

I know you guys are on to comedians and "gazintas" now, but anyway . . . The following wouldn't be suitable for everyone but works perfectly for me. Always wear denim overalls with a roomy bib pocket when geocaching. The pocket is just inches from your neck, allowing you to tuck the whole cord away so it won't dangle and snag, and also taking the weight of your unit so you can't even feel it around your neck. You can very quickly grab it and just as quickly tuck it out of sight, but it always stays around your neck and the only way it can get lost is if you hand it to someone else. Face the screen outwards so it doesn't lose its signals.

With an audience of 1,296 I can't resist the urge to bring this forum back to the top of the list. Haven't come up with a stimulating contribution to the debate, so instead let me tell you a true story. This morning I woke up from a dream . . . The first batch of TEAM KFWB caches was finished. BOLD ENDURANCE and the last remaining BIG$ one had been found, and there was no new crop looming on the horizon. On some of their pages Team K had posted an easy clue sending everyone who reads their caches to a certain location at a particular time to pick up a final prize. The location was a real estate office, big bright modern. It was in Shawnigan Lake and many cachers were there. For some dream reason it was not deepest December, but sunny, dry and hopeful--probably June. After each cacher claimed their prize (the dream did not concern itself with what the prizes were) they were offered coffee by two young women at the front counter of the real estate office, then handed some stapled-together papers that explained who Team KFWB GPS really was, and why they put such large sums of money into geocaching. The real me tried desperately to get the dream me to focus on reading the pages before I woke up, but in typical dream fashion everything conspired to thwart. I did manage to see that there were four head-and-shoulders photos with a few paragraphs about each, and caught a glimpse of the word "paintball," but I still couldn't concentrate on the elusive goal. Time was starting to run out; I could tell I was almost waking up. Then everyone was sitting around on the lawn outside the real estate office in the sun. The earth didn't rumble or erupt, but suddenly there were cracks in the grass. Through the cracks we could see things bulging up from underneath. El ectronic stuff mostly--there were gps's, cell phones, palm pilots, cd players, waterproof containers, cd's, and much more. The crowd of cachers scrambled frantically, but we weren't scrambling to grab the loot. We were horrified that we hadn't buried it well enough, and worked together to get it all properly buried before anyone could notice. Somewhere in all of this I managed to ask my son if he had read the sheets. Yes he had. I asked him if Team KFWB were owners of a paintball game attraction. Yes they were. . . . end of dream I truly did not make any of this up. It was tempting to embellish the story by at least making Team K the owners of a *CHAIN* of paintball adventures, but that would not have been how it really happened. Thank you, Mar iner, for providing the forum. (Now if I can only convince myself that most of the 1,296 aren't just the same two obsessed egotistical internet addicts, Zuuk and LEB, endlessly rereading their own words.)) [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on December 07, 2002 at 09:35 AM.]

Cutthroat competition. Calm-before-the-storm.

I have just seen the Christmas Cheer gathering in Victoria, which takes place sooner than New Years, so we'll be taking Tonto's Fox there instead and it will then be in another cacher's hands.

Okay - took most of the negativity out of my last post. And Canadazuuk, I actually was trying to be friendly by suggesting googlewhacking - you seem to enjoy coming up with words (multitude of muddy roads?) so I thought it just might be up your alley even though I didn't find it very absorbing. I heard about it the same place I first heard about geocaching - CBC radio.. [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on December 02, 2002 at 07:45 AM.]

For every hour I spend surfing the geocaching web site I will spend two hours outdoors finding caches. For every hour spent outdoors I will limit the logging of finds to ten minutes. For every hour spent browsing forums and making posts on them, I willspend four hours outdoors.

One thing seems safe to say about Team K from their cache descriptions and people's logs - they always do what they say they're going to. So, unless ALL those 25 upcoming caches are in the Okanagan, California, etc, it certainly looks like I have to eat my words from last week! Glad to see people on both sides of this issue making the effort to be friendly to each other on this forum - the real opposition may end up being the ones who go and grab the money and don't log. This seems to have happened on a couple of the Team K caches, and if it turned into a trend would be a very unfortunate legacy of all the high stakes and publicity. Re Conspiracy - Canadazuuk you overlooked caffeine cravings, complete concentration, compelling computations and caustic commentary. And as for me, I just can't comprehend those complex calculations. PS have you tried googlewhacking; it's non-addicting, you can safely try it out once or twice.. [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on December 02, 2002 at 07:38 AM.]

Well - time to get my thoughts on here, and I've had plenty of thoughts believe me. But - it took so long to figure out what they were and how to write them up, and now guess what - it hit me that it's all going to be irrelevant soon enough, so I've scratched those thoughts and come up instead with this: The way I see it this whole Team K thing is a massive blitz campaign. They must have planned it very carefully for many months before anything ever showed up on our favourite web site. Now for the past two months they've been carrying it out with military precision. But there's no way they're going to keep up the "bombardment." Very soon it will all be over and done with--either they'll have successfully completed their campaign and will pull out as planned, or if they don't have definite plans to end it they'll in any case lose interest and move on to something else. It will take awhile for the fallout to settle. Those who got their adrenalin and grey matter going are going to feel at a bit of a loss (or maybe a huge relief?). Some of us will get so used to seeing those 40-some unfound caches on the list that they'll gradually become invisible and not bother us, or we might figure out ways of getting them to not show up. (The thing that bothers me most about them is there's no way to mentally put them in order--you can't tell where they are and the names are virtually impossible to remember because they all sound alike and seem to have no relationship to anything.) Others might work at crossing them off their list one by one. But I'm sure I'm not the only one dying of curiousity. Wouldn't it be something if Team K did come to Newcastle or if Mr.G. found out and shared the information! Thank you Mariner for posting this very thought-provoking forum topic ***** PS Canadazuuk you don't need a digital camera to post photos - get two disposables (or a 2nd-hand autofocus from a used camera store for $20), snap all your photos and then have London Drugs scan them for you. You need a photo editor to reduce them to 100 kb though. [This message was edited by Loonie Easter Bunnies on November 25, 2002 at 10:40 AM.]