Goldenwattle

I can only remember finding one nano cache in bushland in Australia.(Possibly I have found more, but they would be very rare and they were obviously unmemorable.) And the one I do remember, I thought how very, very silly is that. So many places to hide a decent sized cache and they attach a nano to a metal fence. The log was also full, wet, unreadable, and unwriteable on by many pens. A real rubbish cache. But thankfully NOT a "classic cache" here in bushland.

I also have never heard of a Heras block, and don't get ‘Yo, Adriaaan”. I hate those non-hints that presume too much.

I am more used to if the cache is a small or larger, most will be small or larger inside. The log will be in a plastic bag. A few might be more elaborate designs, but not most. I have a couple of those myself of externally small size, but internally micro. However, I list those as 'Other' sized, as they aren't a small, as they don't have the expected internal size to hold TBs and trinkets, and they aren't a micro either, as the object is much bigger. But in a normal small, regular or large, if the log was inside a micro cache inside the larger cache what does it matter, as basically the cache will still fit TBs and trinkets. It's not a micro.

Example: "Red" After searching around and not seeing anything red as per the hint, I open up an access hole in the ground and find a..."red" box and it's obvious it's a cache. Useless hint.

Agreed. Why oh why would someone hide a micro even (let alone a nano) in the woods? Fortunately nanos in the woods are rare here, so we haven't got the "classic nano in the woods." Thank goodness!

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Are there any bans on using (or possessing) a GPS in China, as there is in Cuba?

Is there any problem with using a GPS in China? I don't use the phone to cache.

I wouldn't find that at all. I would laugh it off and likely discuss the cache. No, not creepy at all. In fact at times it would be sweet for the CO to know I was taking an interest in their cache. And the same with the reverse. I must admit though I didn't check it that often.

I tried that too. Only non Premium caches apparently.

I look at the map on the computer to see the sad blue faces and know if there is a DNF in the area I'm in. That's easier to view than the app, giving a larger view. This doesn't give numbers though.

One of your past local geocachers (I seem to remember you mentioning) that puts out LOTS of caches moved to Canberra. There are other people placing caches too.

I've said this before, but certainly not decreasing in the Canberra region.

Not creepy at all. Just inquisitive. Besides, most people here don't use real names and many wouldn't know who another cacher actually is......although, there are exceptions. I do think that Golden goes so well with my surname Wattle .

One of the few times (I can think of three) that I forgot a pen, I also signed in charcoal. Plenty of charcoal around often in the Australian bush with all the bushfires. I took a photograph of my signature on the log, as charcoal tends to rub off, and included the photograph with my online log.

They should have checked, but as a person who carries pens (plural in case I lose one or one runs out of ink) I rarely consider that there might be a writing tool in the cache (and in most caches there isn't, or the pen long ago ceased to write), so I can sort of imagine a person arriving at a cache, realising they don't have a pen, and then writing they need to return to sign the log. After all, as I mentioned, most caches don't having a writing tool. None of my caches do, and I don't plan to start leaving pens in them either. I have no trouble carrying pens, so others shouldn't either. I knew to carry a pen to the very first caches I found. How else did I expect to sign the log. Common sense.

It is much simpler, but the phone can be used.

I have found this only once. Annoying. I dumped the TB in the next cache that I could. If I had known this I wouldn't have picked it up, or discovered it, but ignored it. There was no way to know this until I took it home and logged onto the computer. Similar was with a game piece which was a TB which wasn't supposed to move, but I only discovered this after I grabbed it and later logged onto my computer. They are nuisances.

It was. I agree.

Added Norfolk Island, and cleaned out all the caches there, and then claimed the challenge cache for finding all the caches on Norfolk Island. A CITO event was held for my visit. Only two of us attended. A keen local geocacher (who published the CITO event knowing I was visiting) and myself. Norfolk Island 56

I was on Norfolk Island a few days ago and a cruise ship arrived. Not a huge one by cruise ship standards. The locals appeared excited by it and the island has purchased small boats to bring the passengers ashore on. I was told it was the first cruise ship to call there for about two years. The local tourist businesses were down at the wharf that day. No tours for other tourists that day, as the tours were booked out with cruise passengers. The car rental dealer I know there was also down at the wharf all day renting out cars. The island was more crowded that day, but not overly. But as I mentioned, it wasn't one of the biggest cruise ships, and only one ship. It advantaged me too, as it was a Sunday and businesses that might have been closed otherwise, were open that day. Once I was staying on Ile de Pins and a cruise ship pulled in. I found out when I wandered down to 'my' beach. Normally empty it was packed with people. I stood there amazed, wondering where all these people had come from. Then I looked out to sea and spotted the cruise ship. Some places like cruise ships calling, and some don't. I was on a cruise that called at an island in Vanuatu, and the Captain and his first officers went ashore to be welcomed in a ceremony by the locals, as apparently that was the first time that ship had called there. I missed the ceremony, which I didn't know was happening, as I was off walking several kms to find caches.

Of course you can. I do this all the time on my computer. If I don't get to log that day I change the date to the actual date I found the cache, rather than the date that is now showing. Just go to 'Date Logged:' above the comment area and change the date.

All I can say is that the maps are there when I have visited and travelled in those countries. They weren't missing. The latest one I loaded I am using now, and it works. I didn't remove any others to fit it.

Actually, I think message has worked all the time for me too.

Easy. On the computer open up the cache that you want to visit the TB to. On the right underneath what you wrote click 'Edit Log'. Then click on the pencil icon. After which, all you need to do is make a 'visited' next to the TB. This is found underneath the bottom of your log. Then go 'Submit Log Entry."

I have loaded the whole of Australia, large parts of the south Pacific and parts of Asia. Plus some of American and Canada and several countries in Europe. I don't think they would fit without a chip.