Goldenwattle

Little difference between a single traveller who holds an event and is the only once to turn up, and a wife and husband who hold an event and they are the only ones to turn up, but they get to keep their logs, while the single traveller gets theirs deleted. It can be hard enough already for single travellers. Just another difficulty added.

I got one request asking when I was going to move a TB on. I had only had it for a few days (three comes to mind, but it was some time ago, so not sure). That annoyed me and I dumped it in the next cache that was big enough to hold it, whether I thought the cache was suitable or not. Someone else picked it , but I think it went missing after that. I wonder if that TO pestered the next person too. VAVAPAM, by this comment, I am NOT suggesting you pestered the holder of your TB. What you described that you did, sounds very reasonable to me.

Get a spell checker and that would solve many problems. I can't understand why someone would not have something as basic as that. My spelling has improved since I got a spell checker. In the past my spelling was so bad, I often didn't know a word was spelled wrongly.

You are doing nothing wrong and they are polite enquiries. There are also gaps between them, meaning you are not bombarding the person with requests. No one should get offended by them. I do fear though that this lack of response and the time means you won't hear from the coin again.

Owner Maintenance 03/Aug/2019 I’m flat out at the moment. Hoping to get up to replace this one soon Needs Maintenance 02/Aug/2019 There was a NM on 09/Jul/2019, but the cache is still in bad condition and no word from the CO. A new cache and log is needed, and the old cache needs to be taken away and disposed of and not left here to fall apart more. Either that, or the old cache should be removed and this archived.

Nor when I was a child, although where I lived then I was not worried by the prickles. But the prickles exist where I live now, and fortunately puncture resistant tyres are now available, and have been for years. I'm sure you can buy them in America too for your bicycles now.

I pulled more than 20 of them from my bicycle tyres recently. Puncture resistant tyres are well worth the money. No punctures and I cycled on.

I went into project-gc, but it didn't ask me to 'authenticate', so I guess I have been here recently enough I didn't need to. I checked a cache to see if I qualified and the system work for me. However, at the top the following is displaced, and it has been displaying that for awhile, because I remember it from previous visits. "We are currently experiencing issues with our database cluster. This could cause unexpected behaviours."

Yes, I drove over 8,000 kms return (about 12,000 km total for the whole trip) to log my first cache in Western Australia. In Europe you would drive through many countries in that distance. It's much more of an achievement to log states in Australia, than for those living in Europe to log the equivalent number of countries. Mind you, I would have only needed to drive about 5,000 if I had driven to the closest WA cache ?. On that thought, it would be nice to have the number of finds in each Australian state listed, as they are for the USA and Canada. And for countries much smaller than our states.

I have never done anything to make the maps visible on my Etrex 30. I just download the maps to the (added) chip and they instantly work.

I use Firefox for loading caches and maps.

That's true, as I live in a place with lots of power trails, a good proportion of which I have never bothered to do yet. I don't rush out to do power trails. So all I had to do was go and do a power trail; found the rest of what was needed in an afternoon and the vault opens. I wasn't planning to do this challenge, but then I saw I had found several just by normal caching, thought okay, what the heck, held off logging some and went out and completed it in an afternoon. Then logged them in the order necessary.

Yes, so much so I wonder if this is a child. With spelling, good grief, that's what spell checkers are for. Load one one and use it.

And then the cache is rated as a small ??

Extrex 30 skips the photographs too. So although they are no help, they are also no hindrance.

LOL, as I am not bending over backwards to support new hardware and the data problem, and then the so wonderful descriptive logs of TFTC or Thanks or :) I'm keeping my photographs. Sorry phone users.

I agree. I can't understand why the CO didn't think this was an obvious thing to do. I walked away from one such cache, because the coordinates took me to the fence between two properties. Later, when I attempted this again, I found the cache wasn't even near the fence. Also, let the neighbours know about the cache to save an interrogation.

I agree, parking and trailhead waypoints are handy. Images for some sorts of caches are actually one of the features, such as the railway station for the SideTracked series of caches. It doesn't matter if they can't be seen on a GPS (I use a GPS), but they can be seen on the computer when planning the caching trip, and some photographs help me decide if that's a cache I want to visit. I like the photographs.

Check souvenirs. You need numbers.

I had a cache near a recycling depot. My first cache there was a miniature garbage bin , in theme with the location. It lasted until its tree was chopped down, but I found the cache and log; some distance from each other but I was able to place it at a nearby tree and update the coordinates. Then that tree got cut down and the cache went with it. Sigh...I placed a new cache and log at the neighbouring tree and updated the coordinates. Eventually that tree became unsuitable because of muggles, so I moved it to the roots of a nearby bush and updated the coordinates again. Someone dumped a big heap of garbage on top of the cache and bush. Had it; archived the cache ?!

Maybe they don't use the app. However, fortunately for me my finds showed on the computer immediately.

Add another cache to this series: https://www.sidetrackedseries.info/ I think NZ only has two so far. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC827PD_sidetracked-pomare https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC25DG0_papakura-sidetracked-south-auckland I have two in this series: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7HMHC_sidetracked-canberra https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7K10Z_sidetracked-queanbeyan Most are traditional caches, but there are multicaches (it's a way to add a cache when the station already has a cache), puzzles and I know of a Wherigo, although not fond of the later as I use a GPS and I can't do wherigos with it. Whatever type of cache you choose, find many of that type first.

We have one made mostly by traditionals near Canberra. https://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=-35.331817&lng=149.152183#?ll=-35.2989,149.281272&z=14 Some might call that a power trail, but others wouldn't. They are physically hard caches to get to because of terrain.Up, down, bush bashing off track and the like. Not all spread along a trail. The puzzle caches complete the kangaroo.

I found 180 caches before I bought a GPS. My car Tom Tom would get me to the area, and then I pulled out the map I had printed on (waste) paper and also looked at the ground to check for signs of where others had walked and followed that. Most confusing though for that method is when you get to GZ and previous finders have walked all over the place looking for the cache; then I didn't know what track to follow. Often I just stood back and scanned the area for likely hides. My GPS made it soooooooo much easier.

My father was manager of a small bank in a village called Nimbin, and the day before the changeover he brought all the decimal coins into the residence, attached to the bank, to show us the new money. I did hear that for a number of years after, people could still exchange old pounds for dollars at the bank, but I didn't know what shops did. I guess if some shops continued to accept pounds, they could take them to the bank to exchange. Looking for coins, one local used to regularly come and buy bags of pennies to check for a 1930 one. We never heard if he found one. LOL ?, maybe that's what our cat was doing, when he used to sneak into the bank and jump in the piles of coins that were being counted ?. Look for 1930s pennies. The humans ? mightn't have thought so, but the cat thought that was great fun ? .