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Goldenwattle

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  1. That's an argument to make the find VERY easy. A very detailed hint for example. A spoiler photograph with arrow maybe. The visit being the important thing here, not the challenge of the find. Caches that are hard to find, can cause more damage, so a good point you made. As an aside from that, caches in muggle busy places can cause attraction to them, if people spend too long looking for them. Unless hiders want attention drawn to their cache in such places, and then more likely have the attention to attract muggles to it, don't make the cache need a long time searching for it. I have one such cache. Initially it was okay for people to spend time searching, but 'my' grungy back lane became gentrified with cafes opening. Therefore I added a detailed hint with a spoiler photograph, as I didn't want finders to spend ages searching for the cache, and attract muggle attention.
  2. That's happened after one of my logs too. Later I went and picked the plastic waste up myself after and mentioned it in a log. On a later outing I found another cache in bad condition by the same CO, so took the waste with me, and mentioned as this will likely be archived and just left here to rot, I have removed the waste to avoid this. It was archived, and the CO couldn't be bothered with the waste.
  3. That is a problem. 9000 piles of rotting plastic (I'm guessing) litter left behind. It would be better if the next finder could be asked to please pick up all the litter, then make a NA and explain the cache remains have been removed, rather than archive and leave litter behind (unless it's known that each and every one to be archived is no longer there. Burnt away in a bushfire, etc). The last finder and litter remover can log, even if nothing to sign. That would make geocaching a more responsible game.
  4. Be interesting to know if you need a boarding pass, because I didn't need a boarding pass to enter the Canberra airport and go though security. It's rated as an international airport, although for an international airport it's small.
  5. Next time I go to Singapore I must remember that. We have a virtual cache inside the airport past security here in Canberra, but anyone can go in. I found the cache and I wasn't travelling. You just need to go through security; have you bag x-rayed, go through the metal detector, run the risk of an explosive check, etc. So don't bring your tweezers. Maybe it's the same in Singapore. I had a few hours wait once between planes in Copenhagen, Denmark, so I left the airport building and found three caches, and then went back in through security, and still had an hour's wait for my plane. Ticked off Denmark.
  6. Don't just contact the owner, but mention the problem in a log as well. Some COs are inactive and the cache is being maintained by volunteers, who won't see any message to the CO. They will though see logs. Likewise, the volunteers can't do maintenance logs and remove any NMs. Hence I don't make NMs on old caches, or possibly on rare, remote caches either.
  7. Depends. A drive by; likely just a pen. A hike in the bush. Water is a given, and enough; especially in summer. Maybe long gaiters for thorns, prickles and snakes. Hat and block out of course. In summer, a long sleeved white shirt to keep sun off arms. Maybe something to eat, and insect repellant. Water proof hiking boots. Torch. For urban caching; good walking shoes, at least a small amount of water. How much water depends on temperature, and how many cafes and shops will be passed and visited. A geo-mirror and a torch. Me😄!
  8. Hello and welcome to geocaching. You shouldn't remove a log. Instead make an 'Owner Attention Requested' log and describe the problem. If nothing happens after at least a month, a "Reviewer Attention Requested' log might be apt. It depends. As you are new to the game, maybe just do the 'Owner Attention Requested' log and leave the other log for someone else. Again depends on the circumstance.
  9. My furthest east in the USA is GC2EDBP - End of the Tour (now archived) However, on the Continent of North America my furthest east appears to be: GC55BXV, in Canada. However, my furthest proper east cache, and with an east longitude, is: GC22PA5 - Ka Awatea Hou (Te Tairawhiti) (North Island, New Zealand) S 37° 41.344 E 178° 32.898 There are further east caches though. I think Fiji might be further east.
  10. Thank you. First time I have heard it called that. Added: I realised the title of this thread. So, this is an example of Geocaching Culture in Different Areas of the World. The wording used.
  11. Check the signatures and what date they found this, and then which caches they found that day. Do the same for others. Eliminate caches that they all didn't find. Cross referencing should give you the cache name. I photograph the log and do this checking at home.
  12. Hate that when I go travelling, especially when there's nothing else and I don't speak the language to even attempt to solve them. Struck that on a trip to Europe last year.
  13. I wish people wouldn't put icons above others already there. A bug bear of mine.
  14. I had one of those too. A pain! Especially as the layers I had to draw were unclear. It was a long cutting, so I walked along and took lots of photographs to cover the length and then stitched them together. After which I traced what I guessed (had to and even them I wasn't sure) were the layers. NOT one of my favourite Earthcaches. My favourite Earthcaches are those that take me to something unique (not just another granite monument) and with clear easy questions. Then I can enjoy the fascinating feature, get up close, take photographs from different angles and study the interesting feature. Some Earthcaches appear designed to turn you off what you have been brought to see.
  15. Same problem today for me.
  16. Yesterday this was fine. Today it looks like this. Anyone else having a problem?
  17. Agreed. I wouldn't want them taken to my caches either.
  18. Teens! Be careful who you show caches to. This is from having experience with scouts finding caches and things going missing, such as trackables. Never to be heard of again.
  19. I write notes in the field on paper. Then log when I get back. A few times I haven't had internet for several days, so I will type my logs into a word document while the cache is still fresh in my mind. Also put any photographs through Photoshop to prepare them. Then when days later I get sufficient internet, logging is simply copy and paste. Quick. I log for the day I found the cache.
  20. And write the wrong numbers. Then you can't log it. No comparison to writing down the wrong number.
  21. You needed to mention the state of the log, and possible make an Owner Attention log. As your log stands now, the log seems okay to those reading that. How will the CO know the log needs attention if people don't mention this in their log? You are new to the game, so understandable you didn't know this, but next time you will know to do this.
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