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Looks like the reviewer is on to it as its now disabled.

Yep, the Grand Western Canal in Devon has lots of caches along the towpath, some are part of a series but there are various others. If you look at 'Halberton UK' on the geocaching map then you will see them if you trace the canal. Have a look atGCXNDF as an example, as this is at the basin. Yep, the Grand Western Canal fits the bill Thanks. Will keep it in mind for next time.

A bit like this one. http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4P1QT_surfers-dream I was planning to do some caching in this area tomorrow and I had also noticed it when published. I posted an NM hoping that it may be fixed. I also PM'd the reviewer.

I get the thing about permissions. I was just curious as to whether we are being watched while trying to stealthily find caches and imagining someone sitting at a moniter saying to their supervisor; "Hey, have a butcher's at this geezer trying to look stealthy" LOL "Shall we call the met and take the mickey?" "Nah, looks like he'd have a heart attack. Leave 'im alone. Besides, the cache thingy that's 'sposed to be there's been missing for ages." "Yeh, OK, but if he starts digging anywhere let me know." On second thought they'd probably have more important things to watch for.

We recently had the pleasure of picking up a few caches in London. On our return home it occured to me that London, and other cities in the UK, are saturated with CCTV cameras. I wondered then, are these cameras constantly monitored? If so, can anyone tell me if the people that do the monitoring aware of our hobby and recognise what we are up to? Are COs in London required to seek permission or advise the authorities of a cache placement? Just curious.

We used a Garmin Nuvi for our first 6 months. It worked quite well except for battery life and trying to read the screen in daylight. We used a GSAK macro to download caches to it so that the caches appear in Extras. Using the normal download to Nuvi "Geocache Friendly" the caches load into "favorites" but you only get the GC number whereas using the macro you get the cache name and hint but not previous logs or cache description (that may be due to the maco we use).

Geocaching WIKIA Funny they are also here... in Grandfathered Cache Types! Not to rant about Geocaching wikia, but I have no idea who started that, and several years after cacheopedia was already out there, to boot. Here's a better article (in my opinion) straight from the horses mouth, i.e. written by someone who was asked to place one of the project ape caches: Project Ape? Thanks for that. No plans on visiting Brazil in the near future.

What is an APE cache? I don't see it in the glossary.

Yeah, you may call it whinging but it's what we found, it may or may not be representative as the number of caches we found was a miniscule proportion of UK caches available.

Nah, it was the other way 'round. The thought of logging a DNF was too much.

We are home and are only just getting over the 24hrs it takes to fly from London to Sydney. We had a great time on the canals, as usual. With geocaching thrown in it was even better. I really should have made notes as we went but canal cruising is so laid back it just never happend. So here are a few things I can recall to pass on. Canal caching is no fun in the wet. eg long wet grass, slippery slopes, mud and lots of it, hawthorn, ivy and nettles of which I copped a few stings especially when wearing shorts on the warmer days. There are generally few muggles to worry about. It helps if the towpath is on the right as boats are supposed to keep to the right when passing, but not too great a problem. We did part of the PT on the Macclsfield as far as time allowed us and we often stopped under bridges when grabbing caches several hunfred metres either side. This works well if there's very little boat traffic which was the case for us. This was in preference to trying to pull up alongside the tow path and finding it to be too shallow or to much overgrowth of vegetation, which seems to be the case with the Macclesfield at the moment. The free Wifi supplied with our boat from Black Prince was very handy for logging our caches each day and setting up pocket queries and downloading them to GSAK when needed. The wifes' Etyrex 20 was great as it could hold all the caches from the PQ we did, about 2000+. My Etrex 10 is limited to about 500/600 so some would slip out of range but it was easy enough to update each night. Most caches we found suffered from moisture ingress yet there seemed little attempt by many COs to protect the log with a container of its own, like a plastic baggie, but instead relied on the waterproof ability of the container. We did a lot of container drying out and evicting of slugs - how do they get in? Another trend, if one can call it that, is a seeming reluctance of cachers to post NMs when a cache obviosly needs help and has been in poor condition for some time. Yes, quite a few mention it in their logs but some COs don't bother reading them. One was so bad for so long I logged an NA on it. Another point was the lack of TBs, they seemd to be non existent. We logged almost 120 finds but no TBs, this applied to all caches we found not just canal caches. A classic examople was in a park in Southampton (Queen Victoria I think) where at least 2 of the caches we found were supposed to have 3 TBs each, we found none. BTW this was a lovely spot for caching, plenty of variety there. All in all, as I said before, we enjoyed ouselves immensely, even though we picked up a bad cold each in London before we started. We still have sore throats. We'll be back again in a year or two to continue. Thanks to all above offered their help and suggestions to make things a little easier for us.

That link didn't work for me.

Managed to figure it out. Was having a problem with removing the main board until I found one tiny screw that needed to come out, it was very tight. After that it was very straightforward to replace the rubber then reassemble.

Can someone point me to a HOW TO? I've done Google searches which seem to bring up repairs for earlier Etrexes but not the 10/20/30 series. Thanks

The count is now up to 101 and still no TBs. Sigh. Holiday over and back home. Final tally 118 caches found. TBs found = nil.

Well, our holiday is almost finished, one more sleep before we fly home. It has been fun. I'll do a final report when we get over our inevitable jet lag.

With me it depends on the "trek". If it was a nice hiking trail I'd enjoy it regardless of cache size. But if it was a fight through scrub, brambles etc then not so enjoyable if the result was a tiny micro. Unless there was something unique about the way it was hidden. It seems to me that some regard a big cache as a reward for their effort and that irks me.

The count is now up to 101 and still no TBs. Sigh.

I've never heard of these leader boards. What are they, for those of us in the dark?

MTT I've seen before but ICT - I can't fathom out what that might refer to - other than some other form of T? ICT is Ivy Covered Tree. A very common hide in the UK. In Oz we rarely come across ivy and never on trees (ICT). MTT, multi trunk tree, uncommon too. I may have to start abbreviating logs too; IHI-I hate ivy or MBH - more bloody hawthorn.

As we are now caching in UK some hints were baffling to us, therefore useless. It seemed to be a demographic thing. Two that come to mind are ICT and MTT. Had never seen this before coming here. We have now figured it out.

I think the worst we have found is the used business end of an electric toothbrush.

Then some people think your hint is useless because they don't understand it. With our caches, if we think it needs a hint, it is usually cryptic but not too hard. One that comes to mind is a cache (bison tube) we have on a large sign. The cacher found the cache but went away wondering what the hint meant. The sign was a very large yellow one warning of a submarine cable across a water channel. The hint? "We all live in one - Lennon McCartney" Perhaps its a generational thing like another we have "----- as a -----" Jethro Tull, a bison tube inside a house brick.

From Australia, we were looking forward to picking up some TBs to move around the world. So far, after about a week and a half and 40-50 finds, we've not come across one TB. A few of the found caches noted TB as being there but reading back through logs it seems most are long gone. Need to find a TB prison and release the inmates.

A quick update due to patchy internet connection. One week into our canal holiday. WE HATE IVY! and NETTLES and MUD. But otherwise all ok. Left Stoke on Trent Saturday morning, now waiting for weather to clear. Abandoned run to Chester due to a boat festival we didn't want to get caught up in. So will head back south to barbridge junction then to middlewich