Cape Cod Cacher
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Here on the lovely shores of Cape Cod, we get stranded critters after the weather changes. Whether it is a cold snap or a moon shift, these brilliant creatures of the sea get lost and wash upon the beach. I am partly to blame, they are trying to get to my Bass Hole cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=1636
or this other cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=1969
OK it's a difficult place to be in the water, just watch 'Perfect Storm' and cry about the fish and lobster we get that are murdered for us humans. Remember that next time you go to Red Lobster. I couldn't get near the recent landing of 'brilliant' swimmers that beached this summer because of the 'Save the Friggin World' gang that got there first. http://www.capecodonline.com/special/pilotwhales/46pilot30.htm
missed out on some good dog/cat food and a bit of ivory that Americans want, nevermind the food/oil market that the Japaneese market wants has dried up. "humanitarians euthanized" the lost souls, At $100 a shot, a 12 guage slug is still less than that. Wash-ashores aren't food any more, just people that build big houses and get suckered into paying for the idiots that decided not to get a REAL job and ask for donations to fund their world-wide trips. Like Greenpeace that was docked next to me in Ft Lauderdale in 1987, drank imported beer all day and couldn't even manage to stay on the boat at night because Bahia Mar was so much better!!! At the cost of some dumb-*** hippies going 'green' and begging for money at less than minimum wage ! Nevermind the 'International Fund for Animal Welfare' (IFAW) that is going to mow down woods for their new office park. (type Yamouth Port MA into your GPS and it's their backdoor, and go there, get kicked out and see all the new cars). Do a search on real estate prices in the area (02675) and get ready for a blast.
Am I a turtle ? You bet my sweet *** I am !
Rant ? ayup...
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Spend the $20 and buy a GPS bag, they float in either 1 foot or 100... just trust me on this.
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Mental note to self :
buy a glass cutter for girlfriends....
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Have to agree with Mopar... That's a TOUGH bit of water for a tiny 18' boat... I just went by in a 65'sport fisher, and it's not a real fun place. It ain't called "Hell Gate" for nothing. The Eldred's Tide and Current book shows how nasty it can get. If Mopar wants to cruise with a waterbike gang, more power to him. Just shows how soft in the melon a hard-core boatie can get
"We're gonna need a bigger boat": Chief Brodie, 'Jaws'
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A&E had a docu-drama about him not too long ago. Buy the tape, watch it, then give to your local library. Makes an OK movie into a 'feel good'. Or send a few $ to PBS and get a program guide every month.
Proud Supporter of WGBH, Boston, flagship station of PBS.
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10 points to Deanster...
I ran across that site later but was is no mood to play with computer any more than I had to at that point.
I used to hide bottles of rum in the Bahamas for other boaties in the late '80s using Loran. Anchor at X-Y, go D on a heading of Mº... Amazing the lengths we went to keep entertained and find a free bottle.
Thank the electronic Gods for GPS, 'jumps' with Loran were a nightmare and Sat-Nav was even worse.
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There is a cache nearby that was left by people that moved. It's a dadgum fine location. Love to keep it alive, not been abandonded... yet.
I had a cache deleted because a few people couldn't find it. (#3511, Silver Beach Cache) It was there, a couple of us knew where it was , even a 5th grade class cleaning the beach found it. But deleted after I had proof it was still there, so I went and picked up the physical unit. Pissed me off as it was a low number.
If I were to move from my area, I'd love for someone to keep up the caches I've placed. They might be easy, but not just 'roadside drops'. They are places most people wouln't see on the 'average' tourist routine.
'nuff said
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I thought the basic thought was to send people to meaningful places. Theme parks are as interesting as a mall. Only reason I went to Orlando parks was to see the castings I helped produce while I lived in south FL. Left with a bad taste in my mouth... I live in a tourist based economy, but I put my caches off the beaten track so cachers can see why people live, and have lived on this sandbar.
Wonder what 'Uncle Walt' would think...
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I'll second "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
I even have a cache called 'The Big W'
"We need a plan" ... Jonathan Winters
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It's out there someplace... like on my old computer.
I had a shareware version that I used to mediate some 'differences of opinion' a few years ago when I was running a lobster boat. Some of the charter boats gave me a couple 'secret' fishing spots in the bargain. I posted the site here over a year ago, but seems to have vanished. A call to a marine electronics dealer might prove fruitfull. Best of luck,
CCC
found this:
http://www.intercom.net/user/shaffer/fishing.html
it's a link on the page. ( I got bored )
[This message was edited by Cape Cod Cacher on October 25, 2002 at 08:50 AM.]
[This message was edited by Cape Cod Cacher on October 25, 2002 at 08:53 AM.]
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I set up a cache thats off the 'normal' tourist places nearby. VERY small beach, and I've been amazed at how many people that have been vacationing here for years have never been to there. Gets quite busy in the summer, so it takes a bit of sneakiness. Only plundered once in 18 months.
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I've been watching this thread for a while with a bit of interest... I passed by the island (well, the whole area) last weekend delivering a boat to Cape May. Boat was a little large to make an amphibious landing though.
I had 2 thoughts running through my head. First was years ago, fogged in by Sandy Hook light, lots of little Wrent-a-Wreck boats comming over to ask directions. We asked for bait in trade, if they said no we sent them out to open water, a 'yes' got them home. I hope with 12 GPS' on board, that won't happen. Second was the 'fishing scene' from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". THAT MIGHT HAPPEN!
Get a local chart, pretty easy to find, Waterproof Charts has a few for $20 or so. And they're in WGS-84 too boot... Dying to see pix from this, err, voyage/expedition/landing/quest...
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From one boater to another.
Cough up the $20 and buy a GPS bag at West...
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You sound like a live-aboard....And a cold area too!
Been there done it, 5 years in cold water, 3 years in brutal heat, never realized what a masochist I was !
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Snowplow targets... lets you know you are on the road when you scrape them off the street
Fire plugs are adorned with a red and white reflective steel bar about 3' tall with a spring on the bottom, kinda like a CB antenna around here. So they can be found after they get burried in slush... It NEVER snows on Cape Cod
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Originally posted by Brown Dwarf:
sailors tend to use use magnetic headings.
Nope, compass points to magnetic N, but charts are printed to True N... However on nautical charts there are compass roses all over the place showing the local deviation. A local chart reads: var 15D 45' W (1995) annual increase 2' ... and it's a 4 minutes different 20 miles away, so we (boaty-types) use charts and tables. USGS maps have a little bit of magnetic info at the bottom of the sheet. No idea what pilots do, hence, I'm a white-knuckle flyer in little planes
.But I use true north all the time on my gps and keep the ring on my compass to 16d W . Just my $.02
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Beat me to the posting, saw it this morning in the paper. This topic came up about a year or so ago. Good to see they (FCC) finally came through. I just hope the system doesn't get screwed up by a couple idiots with 'stubbed toes'
. I wonder what the power output is for the proposed units. A quick look at a marine cattle-og shows 75 mW (class B/II) in the $300 range. Catagory II with 5W output are appx. $1000, but they are more suited to offshore use.'Don't leave shore without it'
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said it before... use Lat & Lon instead of that STUPID arrow.
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Last Saturday Night Live introduced "Anna-Nicole Smuf........
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Last Saturday Night Live introduced "Anna-Nicole Smuf........
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Just like baseball, football, hockey, soccer etc...That said, go nuts with whatever you think is OK. I'll make a Cape thingy, but I don't want to tread on any toes. I think that we've all spent time on the "J-man's" space enough so a logo of his at the bottom of personal sites is due. At least...
ie; baseball on Cape Cod: not a problem, Cape Cod Baseball League: BIG problem... Football on a national league: OK, NFL: not OK...
You get the picture.
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I leave handmade bluefish jigs in a couple of my caches near saltwater. I staple a bit of thin cardboard over the hook (in the middle of the'J') to keep them safe. They're also bagged. Sounds like someone just wasn't thinking with the one you found.
Put a bit of wood, like a twig, over the hook in the future. -
I leave handmade bluefish jigs in a couple of my caches near saltwater. I staple a bit of thin cardboard over the hook (in the middle of the'J') to keep them safe. They're also bagged. Sounds like someone just wasn't thinking with the one you found.
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This is the best (biggest) time-waster I've seen in a while. I've been falling asleep during lunch at work, today I also fell asleep after fueling up a boat and was running the blower.
Fortunately, it started to rain so I woke up in time to clock out and come home to play around more...zzzzzzzz.......
@#$$@! damn webpage!
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Keep plugging away, just like anything else it takes time to learn... I'm just starting Frontpage too, I've been using Design Shop by Boomerang for a while, and got comfortable with THAT after a year. Some times I think that I should put bars on the window next to my bolted down computer so I don't make it 'crash'... On the driveway below
FTP is my current speedbump, but learning by making silly pages and up/downloading and editing. Not a bad first attempt, and you had the balls to put it up infront of some major techno-dweebs. You have some GREAT woods in your area and seem to know about digi-pix. Like the diamond plate background too, I have that in my 'page-stuff' folder.
Bookmarked it and will check back on occaision. Don't sweat the critics and good luck.