Bundyrumandcoke

I have caches that suit both catagories you mention. I have a series of 17 caches over a distance of 600km. Each of the 15 intermediate caches gives you one part of the final cache at each end of the trip. Do the whole trip, and you get 17 smileys. Check my profile, and you will see my Bundys Commute series. I also have 2 puzzle caches, which have the logbook locked inside, and you have to get the key out to open the cache to sign the log. Both are basically monkey caches, except one is expotentially much larger and infinately more difficult than the other. The easy one, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f3-f09838ad4afc The not so easy one, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f7-5fc875c7aeb5 Cheers Bundy

Yeah, I dont mind a bit of caching. This years holidays were Mrs Bundy and I caching for 29 days, by motorbike, travelling 8200km (about 5000 miles) with 335 finds. Next years holidays are 5 weeks, roughly 5-7000km, with a mega event attendance in there. That will be March/April. I cant wait. Unfortunately, my work doesnt allow me to cache anywhere near as much as I would like to. Cheers Bundy

Who said its at ground level?? Look at the cache page, terrain and difficulty levels, and the clue. That should give you a bit of an idea. The Wailing Wall has been called the hardest easily accessible cache in town by more than one person. Cheers Bundy

All those PVC fittings in my pic went into one cache, along with a heap of others. Total cost was about $200 for the parts. The cache is here, deliberately made difficult, a 5/5. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f7-5fc875c7aeb5 Now, in reference to agricultural poly fittings, here is another of my caches, The Wailing Wall. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a7-12e86d9eb6ec Poly riser, 25mm (1 inch) diameter, and 200mm (8 inches) long. The hex head cap, with the rock glued on it, has a rubber seal inside, so its completely waterproof. The cap is designed to stop water leaking out of a fitting, so its not going to let any water in. And here is where its placed, well somewhere in there, with the front of my 4wd to show the scale. They do work, PVC caches, yes we do get rain, and sometimes heaps of it here, 18 inches in 3 days in one rain event a couple of years ago. Preparation is the key. And location helps. Cheers Bundy

This or our GU Nissan Patrol Cheers Bundy

I find the easiest way is to do a master reset. I think its press and hold the lower right hand corner while pressing the On button. Sure, you do lose basic settings, but its easy to reenter them. This does a bulk delete of all caches and its then easy to reload them from GSAK.

Of course, the other alternative is black irrigation poly. Look at my first pic of all the fittings, and you will see 2 black fittings. Both are end caps, one internal, and one external. They fit onto 1 inch irrigation risers (they elevate a sprinkler head above the ground) and the external cap has an O ring inside. The risers have trheads at each end, and come in various lengths from roughly 4 to 36 inches, so long thin waterproof caches are possible. Custom log books are required, a book about 1/2 inch wide, and as long as the riser is possible. I wouldnt hesitate to use these for an underwater cache. Cheers Bundy

Here is one of my PVC pipe caches, a TB motel. Its actually a 100mm pipe, with the rubber O ring. It lays out in the open, exposed to the weather, camoflaged only by the rocks. And I am so confident of its waterproofness, thats an occasionally used water dump pipe you can see in the pic. Never ever had water inside, from any means. Cheers Bundy

This discussion has been interesting, and more than a little disturbing. Lets hope its not a sign of the future. I recently noted some caches on my watchlist recieving reviewer notes requesting the owners check on them, as they had been disabled for quite a while (more than a month) This has happened a couple of times in the last year or so. It was done by an unknown to us, overseas reviewer. Australia only had 3 reviewers, and I am pretty sure one recently retired. I had a cache that for reasons that were unavoidable, I couldnt get replaced for a while. It had been disabled for about 2 months, but I had every intention of getting it back up and running. I got in first, placing a "Yes, it will be replaced" log before any reviewer note was posted. But what concerns me is, I have a 5/5 cache I co-own with another cacher. It has been found, but not successfully opened or logged. I hope it doesnt get archived because of all the DNFs, because I have a lot of time, and money, invested in the cache container.

An evil micro of mine- http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e7-11246b8e5756. Its about 10mm long, and about 5mm is diameter, hanging in a mangrove swamp. An evil not so micro of mine- http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f7-5fc875c7aeb5 Cheers Bundy

How small can a micro be? Have a look at one of the wheels on your car. Take the valve cap off as if you were going to pump more air in. Look inside the valve stem. If you took the inner valve core out, it leaves a hole less than 1/4 inch diameter, and less than 1/2 inch long. I have a cache that is in exactly that location, on a wheel, on a vehicle on permenant display. The only size description I could give was Micro, even though its much much smaller than what is generally accepted as a micro. And it gets some excellent logs too. And I feel reasonably comfortable giving out this info, as not many of you will ever cache in Australia. Cheers Bundy

Nearly any container will work well as long as it is protected from the elements. Too often with geocaches , that isn't possible. In those instances cache owners need to select a water resistant container and PVC pipe doesn't make the grade in most instances. Having said that, I do have 90mm PVC caches out there, some for over a year, without any water ingress, and they are not under cover. I use a push on end cap, and a screw cap adaptor, that are both glued with PVC adhesive. The screw cap is then put in place. Usually, I then place the cache with the screw cap end down, so it any water does get near it, it cant enter the cache. PVC caches stand up to the climate over here extremely well. And as previously stated,e are not as paranoid about pipe bombs as you people are. Oh, and speaking of PVC caches, here is a pic of SOME of the parts that went into one of my PVC caches. It hasnt yet been opened. Cheers Bundy

If you pay for magnets, your nuts. Make friends with your nearest computer shop manager. Ask him to keep any dead computer hard drives for you. When you get them, disassemble them for the magnets inside. Super strong, and thin as, can be used for almost any cache container. The biggest issue is finding an adhesive strong enough to hold the magnet to the container. After a few retrievals, the adhesive usually lets go, and the magnet stays put on the structure. These days, I usually put the magnet inside the container. At an event I went to a few months ago, I took about 50 dead hard drives with me, and ran a bit of a demo as to how to pull them apart, and gave them all away to anyone who wanted them. They went down a treat. Cheers Bundy

And I am also going to buck the trend here. I have a number of PVC pipe caches, and water ingress isnt an issue. We are also not as paranoid over here about things looking like bombs. Over here, 90mm PVC doesnt make a completely waterproof cache. Neither the push on, or screw on caps are entirely weatherproof. But the 100mm screw on caps do have a rubber O ring inside the lid, which seals perfectly. Otherwise, be selective with where you place the cache. Some sort of protection from the elements aids in protecting the contents. You could use some silicone grease on the thread, but just make a note on the cache page to make finders aware of this, and to take care not to get it on clothes. Cheers Bundy

If your cache isn't published you can move it anywhere. After publication you are limited to about 500 feet. As others mentioned here if the move is over 500 feet your reviewer will need to change it and he will probably tell you to submit a new cache because a move of over 500 ft makes it a substantially different cache. No necessarily so. I once had a cache move by roughly 2 miles. The cache container was on an object, advertising a location. A new road in to the location was built, and the old one closed. The object doing the advertising was moved, and of course, took the cache along for the ride. And as has been already noted, the Updated Coordinates did require a reviewer to make the change. Cheers Bundy

Not quite the same, but I co-own a 5/5 that a 5000+ find cacher spent a whole day trying to crack, and it beat him.

Anyone from over there is known to us as a Yank, not a Yankee. Your also known as Septics.

Bugger, double post Cheers Bundy

Appropriate subject for today. An extremely well known, tenacious, and experienced Australian cacher spent a whole day trying to log an FTF on a 5/5 that I created, and a caching mate placed. He spent most of the day attempting to open the cache. He failed. The cache, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f7-5fc875c7aeb5 The thread on the Geocaching Australia forums about the cache, http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11819 Cheers Bundy

I wont mention my missus's and my 29 day, 8200km+, 335 find, caching adventure, by motorbike.

Us cachers in Australia have been dealing with a similar issue for months and months. A postcode search for an australian postcode gets us random USA listings. We have 4 numbers in our postcodes, verses the US 5 numbers, so perhaps the system is randomly adding a number in just for the hell of it. Its been reported many times to Groundspeak, and as far as I know, still nothing has been done about it. I use a state abbreviation after the postcode, and this seems to work, most of the time.

Good God, the number of times I have travelled and stayed overnight on a caching trip is pretty much uncountable. There is an event about 500km away I will be heading to in a month or so. My missus and I did 8200km by motorbike over 29 days in March/April this year, and it was all about caching. I did 900km in a day to grab 9 caches last year. Next year, a round trip of about 3000km will be done to attend Australia's first mega event. Dont know as yet if it will be by bike or 4wd.

I co-own a 5/5 cache, GC1N6N4 placed January this year. Its been found, but not cracked. 40 people watching it, FTF prize still awaits collection. Cheers Bundy

It would be better if you went to www.geocaching.com.au and head to the Victorian forums. Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, and someone there will be able to help you out. Cheers Bundy

Just spent the last 15 minutes or so checking maps around the coathanger for you. The closest 4 virtuals to the bridge are GCD97 GCH7J5 GCJ5E5 and GCJFY5 none of which set requirements such as you write. I cant even find a traditional or another catagory of cache that requires a bridge climb---unless it is a Geocaching Australia cache. Cheers Bundy