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    Geocaching huge dissapointment!

    in South Africa

    Posted · Edited by SaxonMP

    This is a learning experience for you.

     

    You should pick lower difficulty caches that have recent finds. You should also read through the description, hints, and logs to determine before hitting the spot where the cache is most likely to be found. You will get better at finding these.

     

    Lastly, you shouldn't need to spend that sort of time finding the larger caches. Micros and Nanos maybe... but you should not start off trying to find those, IMO.

     

    Try not to be too disruptive to the area you are searching. Imagine what the area would look like if 100 people moved stones for an hour. It would look like an excavation site! :)

     

    Remember to have fun, and try to pick the easier large caches first.

     

    Shaun

    @ Shaun,how can you take it for granted that we are being disruptive at a site, we repacked every single stone! I live and farm not more then 5km away from these two sites and have been in the nature conservation industry for over twenty years.

     

    @Gitchee-Gummee thanks point taken, if you know the area it is flat grass land with very few stones so to find something that looks like stone henge is not very difficult. A wild fire has passed through the area and the cache was left in a 1lt plastic yoghurt container, I assumed it was burnt. I will now know in future to just log a no find.

    O and a last point, I did not replace the cache, I have mailed the owner asking if he would like me to do so as I saw he lives more then a 3 hour drive from the site and says in his bio he only get to our area once a year.

    Geocaching huge dissapointment!

    in South Africa

    Posted · Edited by SaxonMP

    Well I must say we got very excited about the whole geocaching concept, bought all the kit and a gps. We spent the past 2 days searching invain for two caches that I believe are not in-place anymore. @Thunder Dragon we spent just more then a hour unpacking a stone Kern to find nothing, then @Royal Sport we found the old gate and the rocks that look like Stone Henge and again nothing. We are fine with it but the 3 little ones, very disappointed. Is there not some sort of rule that if a cache is not maintained or logged for say 6 months then it is taken off the map? We are now in two minds if we are going to be wasting our time spending the summer trying to find the ones in and around Sabie. <_<

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