Seaglass Pirates

... which should never be mentioned again ... in the same way we do not mention your predilection for inappropriately touching broccoli and the green lantern fetish.

Oh I got that thing in there alright. Yes it took me an hour. Yes the next person that takes that lid off may lose their hand or shoulder, but that thing went in there. Now we just have to find a tree hide for this bleeding thing we got stitches up with. Arrived on the doorstep ... http://coord.info/TB61FH4 It's the size of a frigging shoe!

Brilliant just brilliant. Happened to a friend of ours. Has happenes to the same friend a few times. You can imitate talking to someone on the phone to cover yourself ... but you start to hear replies. You lost weight when you started and now you're fat from takeaways so you can cache longer. When someone publishes a TB hotel near you, you groan audibly. You know caches near you that contain a pen when you forget yours and you stop off on the way. You search for a certain cachers found its, because you know they drop swag from a certain company. You know it won't be worth it if a certain cacher has already been. You own more rechargeable batteries than you ever have before in your life. You can tell who has searched a GZ by the state it's been left in. You can tell if a certain cachers DNF holds any value. You know exactly who will have beaten you to FTF dependant on time of day. You can see a hide from the car and are totally shocked if you are wrong. You love the new search facility because it allows you to filter certain cachers caches. You no longer notice cuts and bruises. Maybe in the shower but only in passing. You start telling newbies off for grabbing TB's and they miss mileage. You can't remember the doing the cache at all to log it, until someone reads the hint. Youve trodden in more dog mess in the time you have been caching than you have in your whole life and you can clean your boots in minutes. You pick up your own dogs dog mess more since you have been caching than you have in your whole life. Your muggle friends faces go blank and eyes glaze over as you inflict them with tales of caching and they tell you the punchline of the story. Your logs read like a review of a movie instead of logging what happened. You know at least two cachers you literally loath but you have never met them. You do a cache and remember the one that was there before it was archived. And the one before that. And the one before that. You can touch type on your smartphone. You keep your nails short and now own a scrubbing brush. You used to use alcohol gel and wet wipes religiously. Now you just wipe on the top of your leg. You actually send old fashioned letters again ... sending items to other cachers and waiting for yours. You can no longer watch hoarders with your head held high. You can make ink from crushed grass, mud, or anything. finally - your geohound lunges into the car to go geocaching. But the next day has to be dragged into the car.

"Yes It was me who ditched the container. Yes it was me who logged a needs archived. How was i supposed to know the deodorant can was a geocache. If you're going to use a covert cache container to make a difficult hide you should expect that it will be CITO'D. Next time use a proper container or tell people on the cache page!"

Of course there are several solutions ... Ain't she pretty - http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00N9ORDUY/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1429273472&sr=8-6π=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=night+vision+mms+camera&dpPl=1&dpID=410RA7-i1WL&ref=plSrch

Make sure you can be contacted - if you have caches or find caches or take TB's the one thing that infuriates people is not being able to email or message you to ask something. Nothing else is as important as that. But also don't put it like some sort of seminar briefing note lol. About us: Achievements: Aim: Conclusion: That's just hilarious and not a little tragic. You would be surprised how many have.

There is a way round the 30 mile search results on a map. Maybe an easier way but Go to one of those caches. Find all nearby caches. Map this location. All caches on map again including those over 30 miles. And as for membership as a taster - well that's just business. It's the peanuts on the bar, the tasters in the supermarket and 30 day free trial on downloadeds. If anything it was a good deal for free a while ago and it got better when they upped the free caches amount per day. Yet still they left a back door way to log premium caches as well if you're a member. And you can still see ALL caches on the map, premium or otherwise, at certain magnifications. You could certainly blag quite a few. They need to balance what would interest people, profits, gains for premium membership, value for money for the customer. I would say that many people cache and have caches for years because the old system works just fine. If it's changing it is because numbers are down, profits are down, interest is down or all of the above. That could be caused by many things: Generation age flux Cost Landowner rules introduced and enforced. This increases roadside caches for certain. Who can be bothered to pay £30.00 for land registry searches per area to find out who the land owner is. Or traipse door to door and have to front up to people who have nothing to gain by it. Footpath rules do not include caching as an occupation though it's implied it isn't good enough. So it's approach land owner or pay. Well regardless of what anyone says on here, the majority will just not have the confidence to do that. Falling foul of the local geocaching community because they have breached some rule they never knew existed. They never knew it existed because they are not forced to read the rules. Even if they do they still ignore them - TB hotels. Lack of control we as end users have to force our wants and needs. You CANNOT have the tail wagging the dog but the farce over grounspeak dictating that a reviewer instruct a cache owner to order finders to NOT use a certain footpath to a cache. That they must use the other footpath to reach the cache on the landowners property who HAD agreed to have it there. The next door neighbour complained to grounspeak about people reaching it across his land via a footpath. The cache was archived. This is UK law but despite this becoming quite high profile it was pushed aside. Problem goes away. Reviewer goes away. Bad feeling perpetuates and people like me think pffffff it's just not worth it. The three DNF's and its disabled rule. This is no good. It does not matter who looks for it even if they say 16 pairs of eyes looked. In reality it was 2 at most. You couldn't fit that many into a gateway. But all those that were present hit the DNF button. Cache disabled. Spend your fuel going to find it's still there. Newbie cachers - rules say find 200 caches before setting your own. Whatever. How many times have you seen 30 finds 40 caches owned or some such. These problems add to decline in interest. I'm not complaining. I'm stating what happens. It does not effect me. It does those I speak to. But if you start to erode what we already have as premium members you change things. If you change things people have to get used to new things. And inherently people do not like doing that really. Unless you give them something for free lol. So members should be given a good taster - I agree with the more caches per day rule. Which imo should cut off after 30 days. That's usually enough to weed out the dross. But make premium membership cheaper. This would encourage more users. More user paying less is better than less users paying more and a load of freeloaders who find various ways to get more out of their free access. Sorry but that's just business. Same as using the bus, buying a Berger, riding a rollercoaster, parking a car. Some can use the service and some cannot. Unfortunately someone has to pay for its upkeep and the people who run it.

Yep checked both caches. In one you have dropped off two TB's. As stated this has had one visit since. They didn't appear to have taken any but may have and yet to log it out. The other has a TB in it but you have had no visits since you did that. Just the way it goes dude. See you in a month when your here saying they have been taken and the taker won't respond to emails and won't put them out.

Wow - according to the cache page - ... have to try that in morrisons.

I just pinched it off a page that had it already and copied across all ours lol.

Having now looked I think you mean like we have done here - http://coord.info/GC5FCZ5 If that is the case this is a bit harder. You need to instead image into the html of the cache description. We inserted ours into the short description to keep it separate - here is the code and what you need to use and do. Take your picture and upload it to cache page. This is the "add image" button on the right. Once that has been uploaded it will now be in the cache pages gallery. Go to it and open image in new window. This give the pictures web address. Leave that open for a second. Edit cache page Go to short description box Paste this code in <center><span><span><span><img src="http://imgcdn.geocaching.com/cache/638767bf-99eb-48f6-a0d2-6989cbadee29.jpg?rnd=0.301871" /><br /></span></span></span></center> You will see in the code that after the first centre span span Img src = there is some speach marks. And the address of the picture we have used. Follow that along and you see the numbers 0.301871 and the next set of Speach marks. Delete our pictures address leaving the curser flashing between the two speechmarks. Then go back to your pictures page. Highlight and cooy its web address and go back to the cache edit page and paste it between the speechmarks. Tic the two boxes and hit save. And you're done.

You have the photo. So it's easy ... Write your log for the cache. Once you have written and submitted the log go to the cache page. Find your log. You will see the option to edit the log and also a symbol which looks like a mountain in a picture frame. Click on that. Then it was open a window asking where the picture is. Click on that and find the photo. If you're doing it from a smartphone this will be found in the gallery. If a computer it will be wherever you have stored the picture. Select it. After a short time the picture file will be shown next to the box. Under that is a short description box. Whatever you write there will be what others see u see the picture symbol. There is another box after that you can write more detail about the picture. After that scroll to the bottom and hit upload and you're done.

It has gone in waves since we started ... Used hair bands - clumps of hair in it - that was quite popular A handful of dog buscuits was often found - mouldy of course - idiots. A tampon a couple of times In Scotland on the banks of Loch lomand - a box full of lube and condoms Visitor cards and business cards so many the box wouldn't shut. I always bin them. A handful of casette tape tape. Stuffed in. Plasters Ketchup sachets Salt as well though this may be to reduce dampness. Urine a couple of times - obviously THAT co had upset someone. Bones. Stones. Leaves. Old coins is a favourite by some. One particular cacher had a brilliant reason for this sadly they moved away. Used dog poo bag. Better than hanging it in trees I suppose. Motherboard Football cards Things we have left as swag in our caches or others Loombands popular here apparently New sealed alcohol gel hand dispenser DVDs Geocon Unactivated Tb Unactivated Fake turf for cache making. Film pot for the same New waterproof log sheet Crystals Figurines Marbles We dare not speak their names [] leave a lot of those - just sayin Cups Books Coffee grinder Unused headphones Geolympics coins And one great experience that's worth mentioning - our lighters Flint had fired out on a long walk. No lighter. Quite gutted. No walking back to the car. Happened across a cache and in it - a lighter empty of fuel but able to light. I could have kissed that cacher whoever you were lol.

Im dreading Christmas. Sitting there merrily searching for caches while everything I have looked at for presents is ruddy paraded on the right hand side and I didn't even notice till it was too late. Tried to get rid of it ... ohhh don't worry you can download a blocking cookie. Until you sign out and as soon as you sign in its gone. And now you have another time consuming procedure to follow where the onus to opt out is now placed on the user.

With the greatest of respect you have to look at this objectively. While cache find count does not mean you are an idiot if you have a few and a genius if you have thousands ... It certainly does speak to the level of exposure you have had to the things you may encounter within the geocaching community. As you find more you begin to realise who has good coordinates. Who is nice. Who does not maintain their caches etc ... so what I would say is, you have not found that many. In all probability your geocaching community will have a much better idea of who is who and what is what. If this cacher is as you complain an "issue" they will surely be aware of it. But you have answered your own question here You have done your bit as per how Groundspeak works. You have brought the situation to the attention of your local reviewer. You have no idea if what the city says is true that the cacher has no permissions. You have no idea if permissions were required. You know so little about it you risk alienating yourself from your local caching community by publicly outing them on here and circumnavigating your reveiwers decision. We are a community and as such we work together. Leave it to your reveiwers and those in your community who will have dealt with any local authority, years before you brought this here.

..... is it worth a week in the cooler I ask myself.

Jibe? What on earth at you on about. To harmonise and agree? Anyway .. If you meant he is a kid cut him some slack because he does not have enough money because he is a kid ... you should have jumped in to save the kid who had 11,000 finds but placed a vacation cache ... the forum tore him a new one. Just because someone is a kid it does not detract from the need for rules of use to be followed. Apply this to any walk of life where you pay for services rendered and you get sorry no money no service. Does he get his karate belts for free because he is a kid or like everyone else does he have to buy them. Sweets? Bus rides? Computer game. Anything at all that relies upon an organisation to survive through business means. No. They don't. They have to save or get it as a gift or work doing errands chores call it what you will. But at the end of the day it teaches that need, reauires some form of sacrifice. Has to be earnt. Be that by waiting. Or by asking for it as a gift for a birthday. He may be a kid but the action would apply to ALL members. So the point stands kid or no. This isn't a jibe it's a fact of life.

Well like all things ... if it ain't broke don't try and fix it. The OP thinks he should be able to have something for free. He already has geocaching access. Why offer anything else. He wants it he contributes to its upkeep. Costs usually only go up. As something grows it will cost more. You want it you help pay for it. Then you get that awe inspiring message "we think you're a real geocaching hero in our eyes your the tops"! Be a hero and join the real cachers gang.

Taken this from cache - X Marks the Spot, last weekend. Was hoping for a chance to see the green flash but the sea mist rolled in from the horizon. But we were treated to this sunset instead. With Godrevy Lighthouse centre stage.

When your phone goes off and a livid cacher cannot find after an hour of looking a cache you found previously, begs for your help so they can leave with inner peace.

In theory even its not a great idea. The online coordinates show you were it should be. Mathematically. The GPS unit however will behave totally differently onsite. It will behave differently depending on time of day, battery power, environmental issues such as granite, your best bet it as good as possible coordinates via waypoint averaging and tweeking those if possible. Then along comes someone with the same GPS/different GPS/smartphone and says they are way off. So best possible accuracy is all you can hope for. This is unlikely to be the online coordinates. What I would say is that we have found a few caches by looking at the cache placement on zoom and the map and ignored the advice of the arrow on the GPS. Most of us have had the case where we stop to take stock and the cache is supposed to be 80 feet away and suddenly it appears to bring itself to you lol. Or it points at a sheep and starts to move off. One hell of a container that. Your last idea was a good one I thought. This one ... not so much lol.

Can I add what a wonderful response by you to our suggestions. So many come here to ask "for help", "for an opinion" and when they get it, if it does not concur with whatever action they had already intended to take, it ends in aggressive posts by them angrily defending their right to "take action", instead of what it should be ... an informed situation which leads to a resolution. So thank you. It does not happen anywhere near as much as you would hope but when it does it really sticks out.

You have accidentally drifted from someone who goes caching and can highlight a potential problem to someone who is saying "Call me pedantic but that greyed-out cache right near my home base has been bugging me" It should not really bug you at all. It comes across that because they do not seem to be following the rules, this is something you find wrong and so you have decided to do something about it. Hence you are here asking what you can do about it. You have even begun to invade the CO's territory of responsibility by emailing them about it. Expecting something to be done about it. But, and this is your answer, it is your reviewers job to do something about it not yours. Thats what they do. If you log a needs archived it will bring it to you reviewers attention. And I am sure things will move forward from there as you wish. But you will also highlight that it was you that caused it. To the CO. And in my experience you may burn bridges. You dont want to impact on another cacher who you may have to face later at an event etc. The friendly way to deal with it, is to leave it alone and enjoy the caches you can do. You will find that at some point the reviewer will notice it all on their own. Or despite your certainty that the CO is perfectly able to maintain the cache there may be factors you are not aware of. Maybe getting landowner permissions, a new container, may be a couple. One is caching and has some of the caches, the other is not and owns that cache. Whatever you decide to do, it may well be that it "bugging you", and you forcing the issue, will bring you unwanted attention.

Knitting lentils I suppose? I like the slight irishsims ... ye ... fe*k, jaysus, etc but you've dropped those now .... shame it was a nice touch if a little cliche and a little hard to maintain on the hop. Of course the idea that you could get anywhere near the minister for tourism was too much. Machine gunned off the doorstep is the likely outcome there if indeed you made it to the doorstep. Well it's supposed to be warmer today but a colder night so make sure you keep the flap shut on your yurt yeah.

This thread is dead, died, deteriorated rather rapidly in fact ... It stuttered into life but should have been aborted at the "hope this isn't a bot reading this" and the "*cringe*" refrence in the first post. Clearly no internet newbie there ... "Can barely keep up with who I have replied to" should have been a further clue especially as to insert a link you have to understand the cut and paste system which via certsin browsers won't permit a straight paste and has to be done by side links on the browser. But what really killed it was in order to create the account you have to have some idea behind email accounts to register even if it's a duff email, then find the forum and surely a poster from Ireland would choose the UK forum, but nope. And not only that - despite the fragile grasp of the whole posting thingy with the flashy lights etc ... managed to create a new thread right off the bat. Multy quote and various other newbie phobic tasks. Dead thread. Time of death .... as soon a the mod hits the kills switch. Any time ...