Goldenwattle

If it's been in your possession for five years, delete the log.

I started geocaching without a hand held GPS, and no phone then. My car GPS got me to the area, but was unsuitable for looking for the cache. I was selective in the caches I would find, and also printed many of them out on (waste) paper. Some the hints were good enough to use to find the cache, while others, when I got to the place I would search suitable hides, or sometimes basically track previous finders to the hide. Footprints were the best, but mostly there weren't any of them, so grass leaning over showing the direction someone had walked, or a moved pebble; that sort of thing. Unfortunately though, I often couldn't tell the difference between where a kangaroo travelled or a human travelled. (Except for different footprints naturally ). I found 180 caches before I bought a GPS.

I can only go on what I read. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=Lu_wXfC7N4L_9QOjpaHIAQ&q=do+GPS+transmit&oq=do+GPS+transmit&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i7i30l4j0i8i67l2j0i30j0i7i5i30l2.31558.31558..31916...0.2..0.203.203.2-1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.qCIvpgmQxY0&ved=0ahUKEwjwipbt2a3mAhWCf30KHaNSCBkQ4dUDCAo&uact=5 Yes, my Garmin can transmit to another Garmin, but not just by turning it on.

I always carry my GPS in my hand luggage. If you get a window seat you can turn it on and see where you are. It probably wouldn't be real accurate I imagine, as only a small section of the sky can be seen. Most GPSs don't transmit, so not a problem.

I checked two caches recently and between them found about eight missing signatures. I messaged all of those involved. Only two have replied. I accepted one log (photographic evidence...of sorts...I was generous), but not the other, and I have not yet had replies from any others. The one I didn't accept, said they didn't know a signature was necessary . They have found 26 caches and they haven't yet figured out they need to sign all those strange logs...... I told them I knew from the first cache I found I had to sign the log. After Christmas, I am deleting them all, unless I hear from them with proof of find. They should know after this what the log is there for.

The chance that a geocacher will move to the area I mentioned is very unlikely, so if I were able to place a Virtual there I don't expect it to be suddenly crowded around with caches. If that ever happened in years to come, well the Virtual is there and why archive it?

I use that for my logs. I have bought an A4 book of it and I cut the logs to size. So much better than that waterproof stiff paper that's hard to get out of bison tubes, and that is almost impossible to write on. Stone paper is very easy to write on and not stiff.

LFL stands for Little Free Library. It's another organisation. You can check it out on the net. The library is for anyone to take and leave books. I leave a lot of Bookcrossing books in it. Bookcrossing can also be found on the net.

I also have a cache in the attic of a LFL.

Great looking caches. It's nice seeing other people's thought out caches. Although I have shown some of my caches before, here are some again. The train coming out of a tunnel is next to a real railway line. (Sadly the rail line has gone missing/been stolen .) The log is in a bison tube in the chimney. The garbage bin was put in a waste disposal area among big bins. The treasure chest is in a road guard. There are also spiders hanging on thread here and stuck to the sides. A guard cache doesn't need to be boring. The large spider is attached under that boulder. I did not put the cross there; it was there already. (X marks the spot!)

Does one reach into that to find the cache? I once came upon a cache which was a jar full of slime, and the finder needed to reach into that and feel around for the cache .

Shhh...!

Yes seeing that too, and also when I opened up the pages of several TBs, the pages appeared without their photographs. Then when I refreshed the pages, some then displayed the photographs; others showed that Error 404.

I don't know about the "wow factor", but just put them where physical caches can't be placed. Whether that's a National Park that bans physical caches, or a remote place with no or very few caches where a physical cache is very unlikely to be placed, as no geocachers (or many other people either often), live there.

Unfortunately, most Virtuals that I have noticed appear to be used in ordinary places where an ordinary cache can go, and often there is an ordinary cache nearby too, and many more caches about too. I have never applied for one, but now I wish I had, because next year I might visit a town up on the Gulf of Carpentaria which has NO caches, but has an historic train; now only run for tourists. I would LOVE to be able to place a Virtual cache there for the SideTracked series. Okay, there are a couple of caches fairly close, at least for that part of the world, at about 70kms away. Another direction 157Kms, and another at 336kms. But it would be nice for Normanton to have a cache. If Virtuals are going to really come into their own, maybe when people apply for them they should need to say where they are going to put them, and then those who will put them in places without caches get the preference. Anyone reading this who can issue virtuals, if I travel to Normanton next year I could put a Virtual cache there, where there are no caches. It would be nice for travellers to find one. Virtuals are often being wasted now by being put where any cache can go and where there are many caches already. It's a shame they are not issued only for remote places, and true places that can only have virtuals, because it seems an opportunity is being wasted. Rather than issue them as has been done, maybe it would be better if people could apply and make the argument, such as I just made for a Virtual at Normanton, why they should be issued one. Rather than bulk issues of Virtuals, maybe individual virtual caches being issued on application with good reasons given.

If I found an electricity box with a faulty lock, I would report it to the authorities. Otherwise, the boxes here are well locked up, and not easy to open without the key.

I remember them from my visits to the USA. But there's no wiring under there is there? I don't remember if there was. More boring than dangerous I would have thought. Also noisy to lift.

There's a set of challenges I am doing and one of them requires a logged webcam. It's over 600km to the nearest one.

Sorry, but just for you, another example of an 'Other' rated cache, that is nothing like the previous unmentionable. A bison tube for the funnel. Is this better ?

Those caches that I have and have rated 'Other' is because although they might be small (or larger) on the outside, they only have micro internal space, such as a bison tube inserted. They are NOT small because TBs and trinkets won't fit. I didn't want to disappoint anyone turning up with a TB to leave because I had marked it small, but they find only the internal dimensions of a bison tube. So I mark that sort of cache 'Other', as the internal space is too little for a 'small', but I also don't want to mark this 'micro' and have someone looking for a micro, and I being told off by someone who DNFed it, that it was ridiculous looking for a micro in that place. They were absolutely right I had to concede, so I changed it from micro to 'other'. Below is an example of 'other'. A bison tube stuck in a 'small' sized object, but not a small because there is not the internal space of a small.

I don't see the problem of sticking a magnetic cache, such as a false sign of the outside of an electrical box either. Maybe an imagine to blend in with artwork. https://www.pinterest.com.au/psj67/painted-electrical-boxes/

These are light/lamp posts I am more familiar with, and I don't see the problem of someone sticking a cache on them. https://www.google.com/search?q=bikes+tied+to+lamp+posts&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrwMXXu53mAhXWILcAHR_1Cb4Q_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1728&bih=1003#imgrc=lkEkYln0OuPQNM:

I don't see the problem of a cache being placed on the outside of an electrical box, but they shouldn't be placed inside a real one. However, the real ones are locked here, so caches can't be placed inside. Electrical boxes (locked) are designed to be safe and placed in public areas, beside public paths, on some people's front verges where they would have lawn mowers going around them, children playing by them, in parks, etc. Artists decorate them. (Wet brush on box.) I can't see that placing a cache on the outside of a locked electrical box would be any more dangerous then other activities that happen around these boxes. The same with light posts. People chain and lean bikes against them, they lean on them, so what is the problem of sticking a cache to to a light post? I have seen many a nano stuck in full view on a light post. If light posts weren't safe to do this with, they shouldn't be placed where people can touch them, which people do all the time. What is more dangerous with a nano on a light post, than someone tying their bike to them?

I have three multis. They don't get nearly as many finds as the traditionals. One, two stager, published 08/Mar/2017, has 63 finds only because it is on a popular cycle/walking power trail. The other two have less finds, because they are not on a popular trail and also have 11 & 12 stages. One, published 17/Aug/2015, has 32 finds, and the other, published 13/Aug/2017, has 18 finds. About eight finds each a year. The positive thing about a multi, is potentially less work maintaining them.

My reason for preferring a GPS is that it is more user friendly. I wouldn't log on the phone even if I used one, as it's a lot easier to log on a computer and write nice logs. All those TFTC, etc logs are mainly because of phones and that it is tedious to log on them.