Understandblue

Left nothing, took the bunneh

We have a lot of pet themed caches here and I've seen a lot of fun dog toys. One of those collapsible water bowls for pets might be fun swag - especially here where it's 3,000 degrees in the greenbelts

I guess I'm in the minority - I love puzzles. To me it's like a multi, with the first stage in my brain.

The rat corpse I found under a LP skirt ended those for me forever. Gross.

Garbage in caches - sticks, rocks, trash. Oh and food, aka - coyote bait.

Amazing!!

Our public art is maintained by the city as well.

As an artist, I have to say I would love it if a cache brought attention to a piece of public art and the ones I've done, I've loved. There's a really fun one in Santa Fe. I would hope everyone would ask permission first - some of our park art here in Austin is definitely a little too delicate for geocaches, but for statues, etc. if it brings more people to an appreciation of the artwork, I say yes .

HA!! It's so annoying when people die in the cars near GZ, I agree.

HAHAHA! That's what my caching partner thinks too

Yes. And he was huge. I took a picture and video of him and when I put them on FB, people said "well coral snakes really have to gnaw on you to get the venom in you." Yay. Here's Mr. Snakey: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=a4f452f5-5c02-4127-bc62-d3927033cdd3

A rat skull. And while reaching for a decoy on a cache I still haven't found, I stepped on a coral snake. Good times.

I'm getting the same thing. I think Anonymous stole all our caches!

"Real life" and "I wish I had time to do that" are just signs of envy. We all make time for what we love to do. People with hobbies they are passionate about are infinitely more interesting than people who don't "have time" for hobbies/passions. Some of my most interesting finds were one cache days that I wouldn't trade for anything. Some days where I had more per day were less interesting, but still fun hikes that made the day fly by. I think you just make it fit your style and personality. I've learned more about my city in less than a year of geocaching than I did in the previous 23 years living here. That's a super stat to me

Well I came over to congratulate you and found all this super cool info! Love the map! Thanks for the great Q&A

I've got a cache that takes some method of getting a bit off the ground to retrieve. You can easily see it from the ground. I had a "finder" log a find and then in the notes said she could see it but couldn't reach it and that she would return sometime when she had figured out how to get to the cache. I sent her a note requesting she change her log from a 'find' to a 'note'. She sent me a reply off list that is best described on a family list as 'snotty'. She then changed her 'find' to a 'DNF' and posted a log saying how it wasn't fair because she wasn't able to retrieve the cache but she thought she should be allowed to claim a 'find' because she could see it. She later changed that log to saying she wouldn't be back. Breaks my heart (not really). Well since my first cache this morning was a lot like this, and two of us climbed a tree two different ways (an important large muscle still hurts a lot, might I add) to finagle that sucker down to sign the log, I say HMPH!!! Also we dropped the contents of the cache on our head twice before getting it back in position. It was a very satisfying signature!

AAH - that makes more sense!

It's not misleading at all - I'm just puzzled about why knowing who is watching a cache is either intriguing or helpful to a cache owner. The reasons to watch seem so .... not intriguing and no more helpful than knowing a total number of watchers. To you perhaps. To the majority of people using a GPS to find a film pot behind a sign or a sandwich box under a dead tree is so .... not interesting. So illuminate me. What is intriguing or helpful as a cache owner about knowing the identity of watchers?

It's not misleading at all - I'm just puzzled about why knowing who is watching a cache is either intriguing or helpful to a cache owner. The reasons to watch seem so .... not intriguing and no more helpful than knowing a total number of watchers.

This is the thing I use watch for the most. And I also watch the ones that need maintenance - when everything is good again, I'll go for it. For me, it saves me trips to missing caches. I didn't know it was so intriguing or I'd have made up a more nefarious watch reason! I also watch event caches that I'm not sure if I can go to. When people post to them it is a great reminder to me to commit one way or the other.

I do the fake call a lot. But the strangest muggle experience I ever had was when I was looking for a cache that was apparently attached to a beautiful sculpture in Santa Fe. I was just walking around the statue, looking at it - as one normally does with big outdoor art, and a guy was totally giving me the hairy eyeball the whole time. He even came up pretty close to me and sort of stared. It was odd. I ended up leaving without getting to really do a proper search because he was just so weird about it. Sometimes I pretend I'm a photographer. Other than that, I just don't worry about people looking at me .

I walk about 7 miles a day, so I'd say that's my limit. I'd also love it if there were additional caches on the way, but that's how far I'd go for one.

Awesome

My favorite one so far was a tiny blank book that they asked people to draw in - specifically draw a picture of something they could see when they found the TB. There was the coolest stuff in there.

Oh my gosh - I cannot believe that! Well at least now you know it wasn't a geocacher