Fish Below The Ice

It's going to attack you from above. I.e., look up. dave

"Ab Uvagf Ninvynoyr sbe Guvf Pnpur..." You have to do your own rot-13 decoding out in the field, just to be told that there are "No hints provided for this cache..." dave

That really makes no sense at all. Here's a list of the areas included in the Toronto CMA: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/d...;O=A&RPP=25. Bradford and West Gwillimbury are over 55km from downtown Toronto, but their populations are counted in the 5.1million total. On the other hand, 10km from city hall won't even get you as far as the 401, and will include roughly 1/4 of the actual area of Toronto. So with the numerator grossly inflated and the denominator grossly deflated, I guess it's not surprising that Toronto has the lowest cache density in the country. dave

That's awesome. You can almost use that map to track the US-Mexico border. It's also interesting how Northern Europe, specifically Germany and Netherlands, are painted green, but Belgium, France, and Spain aren't, but then Portugal is. I wouldn't have expected national boundaries to be quite that distinct. dave

And that Purple Loosestrife you brought back to plant in your garden... also a bad idea. dave

Depending on where your ship docks (Dockyards, Hamilton, St George) you will have a few cache choices that you can walk to. Otherwise, for most of the caches on Bermuda you will have to get hold of some means of transportation. My advice is to rent a scooter for a couple of days (~$40/day). This will get you to where the caches are and potentially to visit some areas that aren't part of the guided tours. Be sure to print out the cache pages for the virtuals you're planning on visiting so you know what information you need to collect. And be aware that cache maintenance on Bermuda is sometimes a bit slack -- so read previous logs to see what caches are missing or in rough shape. Bring lots of sunscreen and water. Bermuda is hot hot hot and humid this time of year. dave

I like that idea. Base the additional awards on the different Earthcache classifications. So you'll get a "Cave Feature Specialist" pin once you find, say, three Cave Feature earthcaches and another for "River Feature Specialist" and "Fault Feature Specialist" and so on. Maybe make it three finds + one hide or something to keep a balance between the creators and the finders. dave

Mine comes through ok, and it's full of lots of useful information such as I get five PQs a day, which means I must have the platinum membership. dave

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If you're directly north of the magnetic pole, your compass will point south, but I like your answer better. You're up next. dave

Maybe the question should have been "What do one mean when one says that the magnetic declination in Toronto is 11° east?" [] The "north" reported to me by my magnetic compass is approximately 11° west of true north, so if I want to find true north I need to adjust my reading by 11° to the east. What is the maximum such adjustment that has to be made somewhere in Canada? (This is not intended to be a tricky question.) dave

Here in Toronto we experience a magnetic declination of approximately 11° East. What is the maximum declination that you can experience in Canada? dave

That's why that American tv network made the puck glow blue for their telecasts. I always thought that Peter Puck was pretty camp, but maybe that's not what you mean. dave

You can also move it to a TB graveyard. There's one in at GC72A8, for example. dave

- Rub it on your shirt to build up static electricity, then set it down. The hour hand will point towards the north - Throw it high enough in the air that it breaks free of earth's gravitational field. The earth will be rotating under it towards the east, so the watch's apparent direction is west. North is 90 degrees to the right. - Set the watch to Standard Time and point the hour hand towards the sun. South is halfway between the hour hand and the 12. (Disclaimer: works only if you're on a meridian that's a multiple of 15.) - Flush it down a toilet and measure the speed at which the water circles down the drain. Do this again with another watch at a different location. If the water is circling faster the second location is farther north than the first one. dave

Good news. Thanks. Is there any chance that you could remove the random offset that's applied to the results in GE while you're at it? The Google Maps interface returns accurate results so there's really no reason that I can think of for the Google Earth results to be deliberately wrong.

That looks like it has a regular TB tag on it rather than the Jeep-branded tags that I've seen on Jeep TBs. Does it have a tracking code that starts with "JP"? dave

I'll second (third?) that. No hint is better than a bad hint. I'll also second the comments about giving you parking suggestions in the hint, or telling you that general vicinity that you're already standing in. Another thing to remember is that Magellan GPSs will truncate the hint at 50 characters. So long detailed hints won't be of any use because the meaty bits will be chopped off. Even worse than "You don't need a hint" is something like "To find the cache you must carefully search in the". So if you're going to write a long hint, please put the most detailed part at the *front*. Similarly, for puzzle caches the hint for the cache should come first, so it's the hint for the puzzle that gets truncated. I've run into too many cases with hints in the field that look like "[PUZZLE] Vigenere cipher [CACHE] Hidden inside the". dave

Memorial to Keith Richards letterbox: http://www.atlasquest.com/boxes/showinfo.html?gBoxId=52460 dave

The majority of the lamp posts here in Toronto have had enough snow melt that you'll be able to grab plenty of those urban micros that everyone over in the main forum loves so much. dave

These ones are the first six heading west from Portage la Prairie, but that's close enough. Next question is yours. dave

I don't see how that is fundamentally different from what I answered. Anyway, here's the next question. There is a sequence of people, places, or things that begins Arona Bloom Caye Deer Exira Firdale Who, what, or where is this? dave

You have to set your watch forward an hour. dave

Yes. Even though people who live outside the lower-48 states can't enter the contest, we still like finding jeeps in caches and getting the icons on our profiles. dave

Thanks to kewfriend and his army of Tinkerbells around the world for setting up this excellent series of interlocking caches. For those who haven't checked them out yet, they are a series of seven caches that are hidden in the vicinities of the seven castings of a statue of Peter Pan designed by Sir George Frampton back in the 1920s. Each of the caches is a multi -- the first stage contains partial coords for the final stages of two of the other seven caches. So in order to find the cache, you have to join a team consisting of people who are local to the other statues and then swap the coordinates among yourselves. It's a great concept, and a great way to "meet" cachers from around the world. One of the statues is in Sefton Park in Liverpool, so there is a great clamour from cachers around the world for local Liverpool cachers to join their teams. Unfortunately, demand seems to be outstripping supply for the time being, so I would strongly encourage any local cachers to check out the cache (GC18GZC) and to join one of the teams. (And better yet -- join my team! Contact me via my gc.com profile for more info.) Thanks to all who are taking part, and to those who will be. dave