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  1. Over the last couple of months the roos and wallabys have been encroaching into the urban backyards that ajoin the bush. Our home is one of those. The drought has made them look for feed and water so backyard grass is very tasty to them. When the fires come if they don't get out then they perish but they are a hardy lot. Koalas seem to suffer the most. Our bushland relies on the fires for the germination of our native flora and also for the natural culling of prolific breeding animals.
  2. The 2 Dogs have placed well over 70 caches. These are located in 3 states. We have only had 3 stolen but we have had a few burnt in the bushfires. We have had 2 partially nibbled ones as well.
  3. It takes about 4 to 5 days for the trip and this is the third year they have done it.They have about 6 weeks vacation and 10 days of it are spent travelling. They have had one break down since they left here yesterday. Their trailer wheel bearings seized up. Mum and Dad to the rescue.There are parts of the trip where they won't see anyone for hours on end. Such is the outback of Australia.
  4. My family, also known as SNAFUADV Team, are passing through all of those places during the next week on their way back to Darwin from Sydney. This is a trek of over 4500 kms. They have a printout of this letter and the instructions on what to do so lets hope that they can help you out.
  5. Go Lo and Clints as well as Woolworths and Coles sell good caching containers. I find the ones with lock down bits on the lid are great. They do not pop open from too much being stuffed into it. Also the round cylinder type with screw on lid are very good.Just make sure that whatever you get is waterproof if possible.My least favoured ones are the ones that look like an ice cream container. They seem to get a lot of condensation in them.
  6. Have you any idea what part of Sydney you are staying in. What transport will you have? There are many caches on train line access but a lot need a car. Let us know what place you will be staying and for how long and I am sure we can work some out for you.
  7. How about telling us what state and nearest suburb you found the cache. Closest railway station or bridge. I am sure that one of us can recognise it. What writing was on the first page of the log book.Did it give you a name of the cache setter. Some people have changed their names over the last 12 months.If it was placed by SNIFTER or Hounddog then nowdays they are called the 2 Dogs. Give us some clues so we can help.
  8. Well it seems that for once Australia is way ahead of the Americans. We can buy or hire Epirbs at most camping shops and have been able to for quite a while. If you intend to go hiking in our Snowy Mountains and get lost and you don't have an emergency beacon you get fined. The National Parks and Wildlife service hire them out and also have a log book for you to log your intended path. I haven't heard of any false alarms to date so I take it that either there hasn't been any or they are too few to mention. They are also not cheap so it is the serious hiker that owns one and they aren't the ones to cry wolf.
  9. Time to jump to the top again
  10. The Opera House (007) went missing last June. There are plenty within the Sydney metro train service to keep you going for weeks.
  11. OK to explain my last cache. My husband is Hounddog and I am SNIFTER and together we are the 2 Dogs. When we first started caching we thought that doing it seperate was the way to go but after a year of placing and finding we wondered why we were doing it seperately. Every one here knows us and they also know that I am the driver and Hounddog is the navigator and GPSr holder. We have no idea how to transfer all the caches that I have put down as well as logs etc so now we are only placing caches under the 2 Dogs name. That should clear that up. Placing food in our caches is one of the joys we have left here in Australia. We don't have to worry about people putting poison into our chocolate bars etc. We use our common sense here and if we come across some food that has gone passed it use by date or has melted we take it out of the cache and in our logs we let the cachers know.We have many candy only caches here and chocolte biscuits are a big thing here, Yes I have send many a packet to "wondering Americans" as to what our Tim Tams are. Our weather can be hot and in the summer we don't usually leave chocolate, instead Jillas are a good substitute.Our caches are usually found pretty quick so first finders turn into chocaholics real quick. We also try to place our caches in cool spots and certainly not out in the full sun. My easter egg cache was in a lovely cool cave.Yes real easter eggs and the weather was still warm then. When you have the time take a look at some of the NSW Australia caches and look at the photos. Lots of pics with chocolate.Kinda Eggchange is a good example. Yes it is me eating the chocolate. I wish you people in the US could be more trusting but that is the way society goes sometimes and when the sorts of things that happen over there happen here then we will be worried. I hope that that has settled some of the dust for you One more thing. Most of the NSW caching fraterity know each other and if you think that I need to shake my head it is only to you guys as I feel very sorry that you can't live as free as us.
  12. OK to explain my last cache. My husband is Hounddog and I am SNIFTER and together we are the 2 Dogs. When we first started caching we thought that doing it seperate was the way to go but after a year of placing and finding we wondered why we were doing it seperately. Every one here knows us and they also know that I am the driver and Hounddog is the navigator and GPSr holder. We have no idea how to transfer all the caches that I have put down as well as logs etc so now we are only placing caches under the 2 Dogs name. That should clear that up. Placing food in our caches is one of the joys we have left here in Australia. We don't have to worry about people putting poison into our chocolate bars etc. We use our common sense here and if we come across some food that has gone passed it use by date or has melted we take it out of the cache and in our logs we let the cachers know.We have many candy only caches here and chocolte biscuits are a big thing here, Yes I have send many a packet to "wondering Americans" as to what our Tim Tams are. Our weather can be hot and in the summer we don't usually leave chocolate, instead Jillas are a good substitute.Our caches are usually found pretty quick so first finders turn into chocaholics real quick. We also try to place our caches in cool spots and certainly not out in the full sun. My easter egg cache was in a lovely cool cave.Yes real easter eggs and the weather was still warm then. When you have the time take a look at some of the NSW Australia caches and look at the photos. Lots of pics with chocolate.Kinda Eggchange is a good example. Yes it is me eating the chocolate. I wish you people in the US could be more trusting but that is the way society goes sometimes and when the sorts of things that happen over there happen here then we will be worried. I hope that that has settled some of the dust for you One more thing. Most of the NSW caching fraterity know each other and if you think that I need to shake my head it is only to you guys as I feel very sorry that you can't live as free as us.
  13. Placed a cache"Jock and Sox" last week and every item in the cache has a chocolate bar attached. Sorry guys but at least over here we CAN and DO leave food.
  14. Placed a cache"Jock and Sox" last week and every item in the cache has a chocolate bar attached. Sorry guys but at least over here we CAN and DO leave food.
  15. Sorry we didn't get back to you but we were both working(Hounddog and I) The nearest cache to the cbd is Don't wake the neighbours. This is a short walk near the harbour bridge. Good luck. The other way to do it would to be to leave it at the hotel help desk and one of us could get it from there.Address it to "geocacher" Hope this helps
  16. Hounddog and I have placed 62 caches. Of those 10 have been archived. One was and event cache. Five were only short term caches (Mothers day, Christmas, Easter, Fathers day, Halloween) Two were burnt Two are missing presumed stolen. Thats not a bad average. I have lost 2 TB's as well.
  17. The coolest item would be a geocaching.com T-shirt. The lamest would have to be a cache container that once had baby bum wipes in it but now contained a very well used mac toy and something else that I can't remember. It was so lame even a pair of cruthes wouldn't help that one.No log book just an A4 with a few lines printed on it. Not even folded neatly. Needless to say we didn't write much on the cache site. The funniest one is a snow ball(the shake snow sort) with the pics of Ideology geocaching team in it.
  18. Makes it easier for all.
  19. Sorry but I wouldn't let it go through. Hounddog and I have had to draw the line on some of ours. Rules are rules and the pic with a GPS is necessary.
  20. We have had a few of these in Australia and it is amazing to see what can be put into very small containers. There have been swap pins dice gem stones stamps tapestry needles brooches bead bracelets Hope these give you something to go on.
  21. Yes we did that here in Australia as well. We usually incorperated a picnic at the end location. My husband (Hounddog) and I met over the CB and we have now been married 18 years. Geocaching has taken us back to the good ol' days and guess what? Yes we have just bought a pair of hand held CBs to complement our GPSr's. After listening to the hand helds over the past school vacations it seems nothing has changed.
  22. Sure we have animals here but not the same as you guys in US. I have had 2 caches nibbled by animals and all they ate were candle wax in one and took off with $10 in gold coins(we are sure it was a marsupial of some sort that likes pretty things). The containers were plastic and both had nibble marks on them. When we put food in caches and I mean good food like regular size packets of cookies(Timtams) and boxes of chocolates we hide our caches very well and also usually put it in a sturdy container(air tight). I think the only animals that would go for sweet things are the possums and bush rats. We don't have to worry about bears and other nasties that would destroy a cache. The snakes like our caches but only to curl up on and go to sleep. We are very lucky really as we are able to put whatever we like into a cache as far as food goes. I could list all the things I have placed and found but it would go on forever. The Easter cache I put down had chocolate easter eggs and no they didn't melt as the cache was located in a cave on the south side of an opening. Absolutely the best place for a cellar as well. I think the main thing we look at here is if we think that a cache will not be found easily(very long and difficult terrain etc) we would not put food in it. We wouldn't want it to go off. We also do leave dog food as one of our most celebrated cachers is called Geopup and he likes his biscuits. We leave banana shaped candy for the GeoMonkey Team as well. The more chocolate frogs the better as all our cachers love them. We really are very lucky down here.
  23. I have no problem with eating food found in caches. I also leave food in caches. Thank goodness in Australia we can trust our fellow cachers. It will be a sad day when we have to stop and think if the food has been 'Got at".
  24. I have no problem taking bath salts, soap, beer,water, or for that matter any eadible thing. I just guess I live in a lucky country where we don't have to worry that someone has put something nasty in a cache. Australians all let us rejoice.
  25. I have no problem taking bath salts, soap, beer,water, or for that matter any eadible thing. I just guess I live in a lucky country where we don't have to worry that someone has put something nasty in a cache. Australians all let us rejoice.
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