SidAndBob

I'd like to point out that this can be pretty annoying for paper cachers as they are generally forced to print the image and often end up with an extra sheet of paper, not to mention it's environmentally unfriendly. I'm paperless, but I avoid doing it.

This seems near Nana's Place. I wonder if they can find that one too.

I visited a cache a couple of weeks ago which turned out to be created by a child. I have no problem at all with that, but the parents need to vet the cache responsibly. I ended up in what can best be described as a pretty unsavoury place and that was after counting graffiti on trees etc - not my idea of fun. The parents emailed me and took my comments on board. I find it frustrating that most cachers are happy to write TFTC even when it's clearly a very poor cache. Added to this the previous visitor had logged a find when they had not found the cache (it appears to have gone again) - so it was a right waste of time.

I've not done your cache, but it obviously can take a regular container, so good on you for changing it. Hurrah for real caches.

Contacted the eBay seller in the OP and he's sending me 10 for £16. Not bad from the States. It certainly beats the £92.37 it would cost from Global Positioning Systems (and they've only got one in stock).

Wow. The images in Google Earth were just blurs before the update out here in the sticks in west Gloucestershire. Now they're as good as Local Live at last. I do agree that the long shadows do detract badly from the image though.

I go through belt clips for my Garmin GPSmap60 CSx at a fair rate and they're a ridiculous price for what they are. That's around £9 each plus delivery. Today I took delivery of a car charger for my PDA, it also has a bunch of other bits like univeral mains charger, AA battery extender, USB hotsync cable etc etc AND a belt clip. It's not identical to the Garmin one but it's so close you wouldn't tell the difference unless you held them side by side. Now, here's the thing. The whole bundle cost £9 including post from the USA. These belt clips must cost pennies to make and it made me wonder if anyone knew of anywhere else where they were sold at reasonable prices, so I didn't have to get ripped off because it was being sold as a GPS accessory.

The BIG difference is that the CSx uses SiRF III technology, which means it streets ahead of the Legend and any of the eTrex range - even the older CS does not use this. In laymans terms, it will hold a signal under almost any conditions and it will give a more accurate reading. If you buy a legend you will only wish you bought a CSx at a later date and you will then only spend more cash upgrading again. I guarantee you. I tend to get to the cache location with compass off, then switch it on to get me that last few feet. It is useful, but certainly not essential. You want Topo Great Britain V2 for geocaching and walking as it shows tracks and paths as well as roads. It is also routeable on GPS (I know you said you may not need that, but it can't be a bad thing). Costs about £145. Be very wary of import duty. Some auctions guarantee paying import duty if / when you get collared. I don't know if / how this works though.

The guy holding it looks very happy anyway.

It's a shame that they couldn't have contacted you though. One of my favourite TBs is Smiley Miley the annoying noisy keyring. The idea is that it's so annoying, you have to keep it as long as you can until you can stand it no more.

That's right. But at the current exchange rate that equates to about 57 UK caches.

You can't compare the UK to the States (fight the urge to say "thank goodness"), but if you've never seen this guys profile it may make you realise you're not quite as obsessed as you thought you were.

Very funny.

If I'm out for a days walking I take a daysack, but that's mainly for food, drink, clothing etc. On a normal geocaching trip it's camera and GPSr on the belt (with lanyard) and the rest (PDA, laminated memory map, pencil, TB's, phone, batteries) in cargo pants (argh Americanism!) or coat pockets. Keys are normally in a zip up or buttoned pocket. Calling cards in camera case. PDA is in a wallet, so I don't need to carry a seperate one. I very rarely trade, so that makes it easier. Travel light, move fast.

After moving Boatman's Whistle TB I was contacted by it's German owner to thank me, so I took the opportunity to as why the TB had not been logged for nearly 18 months. This is her reply: It was found by a couple from England at Majorica. After finding the cache the couple divorced and the TB left at the wife. So I wrote more than one time to the name of the geocacher. After more than one year he answered me and he explained the situation. He promised me to get back the TB from his ex-wife. After that he asked a friend for hiding the TB in a new cache. The friend was not able to log the TB, so he asked me ... and at the end I loggend the TB in the new cache. I hope Boatman's Whistle will now survive for a long journey. It just shows that they can turn up eventually. I would look on their profile to see if they've been active and when they last logged on to GC.com You have been much more patient than I would have been.

Image Zoom is very cool, though I'm not sure yet if it's just a gimmick or not. It's a shame that GC.com don't add some of these enhancements to their pages. In some cases it would mean they would have less of a hit on their resources. Love the OS link script. Simple, but brilliant.

Are you an AOL customer by any chance? Maybe... who wants to know? And why? It's just that I've never heard the term "Screen name" used by anyone except AOL. That's all.

Are you an AOL customer by any chance?

It's one of those strange questions like why did/do people buy/use iPods, VHS tapes, MS-DOS and now IE 6, when there are far superior products around. The answer is marketing. Once you start using Firefox you'll wonder why you ever messed around with that clucky old IE 6 - and let's not even talk about IE 7. I uninstalled it pretty sharpish. It's simple things like the use of tabs, rather than opening a new window each time and being able to stick my very favourite bookmarks on toolbar buttons that are so user friendly. Looking foward to checking out some of the other bits. Great thread. Share the knowledge.

As you say, "different folks for different strokes". My least liked are well camoed, park and grabs. I enjoy a scenic walk / hike with a good size container, so it's easily findable. I'd far rather we walking than searching.

Mine fried instantly. I could no longer write to it. Sound like you should be OK.

Cachemate is compatible with Palm OS 3.0 and later, so it will run on pretty much any Palm device. You can check the OS at palminfocenter.

Although I have and Ultra II I certainly won't be trying to find out if it does work now.

There are quite a few Ferraris that have a wow factor.

Would I be able to log it twice if I saw two different red cars. If it were an approved cache, yes, I would log it! Oh dear. That's very sad.