glyn(the only one)

November 11, 2007 by glyn(the only one) (519 found) Decided to take JDNZ's German Shepherd (Lexie) for a walk planting a cache & then trying to find this one in the dark, in between the 2 we travelled down Hinemoa St to come across a bad crash that had blocked off the road. It took some time to clear all the glass etc off the road & get thru. When we arrived at the park I noticed a helicopter circling the area at some height above us, I presumed it was interested in the crash site & assumed it was the press taking photos maybe. We parked across the road from the park, walked over the field to the trail & proceeded towards GZ in what was now pitch black. As we went on I saw what appeared to be a black object on the trail ahead about 100 metres away which I couldnt make out, it wasnt moving so I thought maybe its a tree. As we approached GZ the Gps indicated it was time to get off the trail, so we did & proceeded to rummage about looking for the missing cache in the dark by the light of a small torch. Can you imagine what it was like, trying to hold back a frisky big dog on the slippery slope, the other hand on the GPS with the torch clenced between my teeth,while the lead caught around the undergrowth & my legs,all the while my backpack joining in the fun by getting stuck in unseen snags! Fun! After a few minutes of this I heard the sound of someone approaching along the trail, I shut down the torch, tried to keep the dog quiet, then realised that was going to be a hopeless task as the person was accompanied by a rather large dog & Lexie goes bananas at anyone anyway, especially at night! A voice called out from the dark "Why are you hiding from us? Its the police, we saw you dive off the trail when you saw us, what are you up to?" Sprung!!! Hauled the now highly vocal Lexie back on the trail to meet PC Plod, now positively drooling at the prospect of an early arrest & a dinner date for PC K9 (who,amazingly was the most quiet of all of us!) After a hurried explanation of what geocaching was all about,PC Plod became very dissapointed & angry that he'd been fooled & the real perpetrators had probably slipped away. Without another word ( apart from a few "F" words,) he turned on his heel & stormed off into the dark. I then resumed my search, but by this time Lexie only had eyes for the departing PC K9, so I gave up. I also realised what had happened was the chopper overhead was the Eagle Police Bird & it had directed the Dog Squad to us & it became very suss when they saw us exit the trail.They would have been trying to find the person who had done a runner from the crash site earlier. As I was pondering this, away in the distance I could hear shouting, barking & then screams as Pc Plod & K9 closed in on the perp.All well that ends well, & now Im glad to report the cache is there after all!-- ---Glyn.

Went caching in OZ recently & the guy who took me out on the road had an Ipaq with a GPSr with Bluetooth & Tomtom mapping, it was similar to Navman I guess, any way I was really impressed by the system he had, in fact it seemed more accurate than the Gps (garmin 60cxs) that I have. Do we have anything like this mapping in NZ? I already have Brents maps, but its rather crude in comparison.

Ta-G

Dissapointed to miss the event in hamilton on 12th nov. any other evnts planned around New Zealland ?,love to be able to put faces to the wierd names I see on the net----Glyn

Have GSAK, Sonar for paperless caching,but now I want to be able to take the maps with the caches on them ( Google maps) to my ipaq. how do I do it, where do I store it & can i place them in my cache logs?--Glyn