Goldenwattle

Maybe I should check the 'cheap shop' next time I am in it. You never know; maybe they might have something suitable in. I bought cheap stainless steel cake and baking dishes from them. Good quality too; not thin rubbish.

Well done. Is the 3km hike return or one way? That might make a difference for finds.

The most visited cache of mine, is one on a bike path around Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Lots of tourists bring their bikes to cycle around the lake. Published in 2013; it has had 230 visitors. (Now, my most popular cache; published this year, by favourites is running at 61%, but it's only had 31 visitors. That was a little aside, but I only just realised how well it is being received and I was well pleased to discover that ?.)

Longer than 24 hours for me to London from where I live in Canberra. I have to get to Sydney first. I only gave the time for the main part of the journey. At last another other five hours for me with booking in and flight and transferring from domestic to international terminals in Sydney, then going through security, etc.

You do realise that's a shorter time than a flight from Sydney to London. Hardly any time. Hate someone to delete a log because I couldn't access my computer, and therefore wasn't receiving emails. Give them at least a week. They might be travelling somewhere without any internet, or away from their computer. Not everyone gets messages on their phone, or even if they do, lives with their phone in their hand.

If you don't mind micro caches, how about a cache like this to resist fires.

I've found ammo cans which have survived a fire, while the nearby plastic one didn't. It depends on the speed of the fire and intensity. Many (not all) fires in the NT are 'light' grass fires'. Plastic doesn't survive, but metal does.

That's brilliant, although, not a cheap option for the 'cheap among us.

I now have my own TB hotel (locked - the combination number is given in the hint), so lately I have been leaving TBs there. However, otherwise I tend to place TBs in caches away from muggles. I don't look if it's a Premium Cache. Just big enough to hold a TB, dry, gets visited enough (at least once a month), and preferably in a country area or a nature park. This increases a TBs survival, but doesn't guarantee it.

Don't completely hide though that it is glass, or it might be smashed. In a remote area I found a cache and couldn't get the lid off. So I banged the edge of the lid on a rock. Only when I got the rusted on lid off, did I see most of the container was glass. Oops! Luckily it didn't break. So, I guess the tape did work, but maybe leave a bit free of tape as a warning it's glass.

In the Northern Territory in Australia there are many fires, and metal tins are used there because of that. When I have visited there, away from urban areas, that's what I mostly found. Ammunition cans would be good in areas like this, but there are also cheaper options, although these days with the advent of plastic lids on metal cans, maybe harder to find. Metal biscuit (cookie for Americans) tins are one option. The old fashioned style chocolate can, with its metal can and lid is another option. Of course, the NT has a lot of very dry areas, so steel cans don't rust so quickly there. Where you live these steel cans might rust too quickly. I would suggest aluminium, except I have seen what fires do to aluminium.

Maybe consider where the glass container is to be hidden. Likely okay where if someone drops it, it falls on grass or sand, but likely not a good idea among rocks. If it's to avoid plastic waste, metal containers are another idea.

Thanks, I didn't know the public view and private were different. It would still be good to be able to sort them.

I would like two folders for souvenirs. One to put souvenirs you are interested in (for me, only the country and state ones) and another for those you aren't interested in (for me, the rest). I would also like to be able to sort them, so country followed by its 'states'. My country at top of list followed by its states, and then other countries in alphabetical order with their 'states' after each country.

I once had a CO write my name on a log after I alerted them to a problem too, and had visited GZ twice. I agree, if the finder can't sign, they should provide information to the hider; not just say forgot their pen and log a find. They should contact the CO, explain the situation, with good descriptions of the cache and log, and wait for permission, (or refusal, although that would be mean), before logging. I have done that a couple of times and both times got permission to log. If the CO ignored my message after I sent good information, I might eventually log (after a couple of weeks or so), but I give the CO a chance to reply first. It's polite.

Binocular find I reckon.

Me, absolutely don't log from a phone, as I like to write decent logs, not just TFTC/Thanks/Good, as many phone users do. Also I often include photographs for the TBs travelling with me, after I have fixed up the photographs in PhotoShop. Can't do that with a phone. Also, I don't live for my phone, and only about a year or two ago bothered to get data, as before that I couldn't justify the expense of data, which wasn't cheap. (Several times the cost of phone and text messages only.) Only when the price of data came down did I bother to turn on data. I use a GPS, which over the years I used it, has been MUCH cheaper than using data on a phone, despite the initial high cost. Also, the GPS is quicker and easier to use. I log on a home computer.

I usually give a week, or maybe even a fortnight. Although saying that, I once gave someone three months (because I went on holidays) to change their find to a DNF, a note, or delete. After three months and I returned from holidays, I deleted the find. Did I get a rude email telling me how impatient I was! They reckoned they planned to return and sign the log. Of course they had to find the cache first, which they hadn't in the first place; mistaking a dropped lunch box for my cache. Easy thing would have been for them to change it to DNF/note/delete the log, and log a find when they did return, find the actual cache and a sign the log. Anyway, their rude message made it so much easier for me to delete their log. After their rudeness I didn't feel any remorse doing so. Their rude message saw to that.

There were four in Australia that are gone now. I don't know what happened to them. Maybe still in their last hide, rotting; forgotten.

Lately I have been leaving jewellery and small plastic dolls house furniture. As I mentioned on another log, I received my first thank you for some jewellery I left in a cache; a pair of 'diamond' dangling earrings. " Hi my girls love the diamond earrings thankyou they wanted their ears pierced so this is perfect. Thank you. We left a cute little purse in exchange. " I don't expect someone to trade for it (although that's nice); just appreciate it. I rarely take anything, but on the very rare occasion I have seen something I want, I take it.

My guard rail cache has 40% Favourites

I heard some TB owners deleted all the 'discovers' from the event. This list appeared to be very unpopular with some geocachers. Except for the fact I had allowed my TB to go on the list (VERY naively), I would have been very tempted to do the same.

I recently had hundreds of discoveries of each of about 15 TBs. Although a nuisance, they were quick to delete. Every email with discover I grabbed as a group and deleted. One thing though I learnt from this; I will never allow my own TBs to be discovered this way again. They are NOT going on any list again.

I too would like to be able to eliminate caches by certain individuals. Hundreds of power trail caches that clog my load and reduce my load area radius by a 100kms or more.

Not being in the UK, I can't make suggestions, but cycle caching is one of my favourites. It's one place I appreciate power trails; along cycle paths.