Bundyrumandcoke

And which 3 caches are these???? They may be on my list of finds, in which case, if you really want one, I may supply you with a hint, if your really nice. I like Eclipse tin hides, I have a number myself. Cheers Bundy

I am currently on 1050+ finds, and had my 63rd hide published last night, with only 4 archived.

They will be mystery/puzzle caches, not multis. I have 15 caches, each with 2 clues, one at each end of the trip that the 15 caches are on. The 2 end caches were only published as puzzle caches, even though I wanted them as multis. The Australian reviewers will help you out with your efforts.

I saw your original post in the travel bug forum, and the redirection to here. An even better place to go is the Australian Geocaching site www.geocaching.com.au and post there. As it is, I can take that travel bug off your hands if you wish. While not near any of the places you mention you are heading to- I am on the Central Queensland coast. Cheers Bundy

I have a series, 17 caches, the 2 end ones are puzzles (only because the silly rules say they have to be) and the intermediate 15 hold clues to the 2 end ones. To get all 17 caches involves a drive of 600km- 360 miles. Cheers Bundy

A few months ago, a sort of local cache was archived, after a string of DNF's due to the clues (it was a multi) going out of date. With the owners having moved out of the area, they archived the cache. Unfortunately, it contained 2 TB's when archived. Fortunately, the cache was on my watchlist, and I saw the subsequent cry of horror from one of the TB owners. A rescue mission was launched, but unfortunately, it had been a good year and a half since I had found the cache, and I could not locate it. I enlisted the help of the last finder, who is a other local cacher, and a mate of mine, and his memory proved better than mine, the cache was found, the TBs were rescued and released again, after being captive for about a year or so. Cheers Bundy

When you end up buying a RAM mount for your CSx, trim the button on the back, or the little tab up the top of the hole on the cradle, so there is less of a pronounced "snap" when you put the CSx into the cradle. Otherwise you will end up breaking the spine of the cradle from repeated removal of the GPS from the cradle. And get an external power cable for it. Cheers Bundy

All GPS's regardless of type or age do the one same basic function- read a set of coordinates- longtitude and latitude. With this basic function, you can find caches. The newer the GPS, the more features it will have, or the faster it will do the searching for satellites, or the faster it will process the information, but in the end it still does the same thing as older GPSs, search for a set of coordinates.

My missus and I recently did a 8200km caching trip. We used Caching along a route PQ's, and GSAK to progressively upload the caches we sought. With Caching along a route, you can choose previously published routes, or custom design your own route if it doesnt exist. The whole PQ process makes premium membership well worth the money. Cheers Bundy

A Nuvi 500 is the latest in my line of GPS's. Very good to use, apart from the final few metres. Thats when I change to my 60CSx. I dont bother using the found/unfound feature, as I reckon the time taken punching in notes via the touchscreen is longer than doing them for real online.

Better the GPS than you! But I'm glad it's okay. You should have checked the max speed on it to see how fast it fell... that would have been interesting, too! After a few conversions and some barley remembered physic lessons from high school, I think I have a number for you. If the unit free fell down to a depth of 119ft, then using the negitive acceleration of -9.8m/s or for us confusing yanks -32f/s, the unit would of fallen for 2.727178sec and reached a terminal velocity of 87.2696969f/s or once again to better us confusing yanks...just under 60mph before slamming into the ground....Thats quite a fall. just imagine if you would of slammed into the rock bed at that speed...Im thinkful it was the GPS and I think u should be too! My original GPS60 survived a flight off my motorbike at 70kph onto a bitumen road. It still works fine, just a couple of grazes on the rubber surround. But the reason I clicked onto this thread is an interesting emerging story over here. The Central eastern Australian coast around the South East Queensland/ Northern New South Wales area, including Brisbane and the Gold Coast has over the last couple of weeks had some disasterous weather. Rainfalls of 18-20 inches of rain in a week in some parts, with extreme surf, dangerous flooding, and some big property and infrastructure damage. Some parts of the area around the Sunshine Coast and northern suburbs of Brisbane also had more localised flooding a month or so ago. At that time, a number of caches were lost to the flooding. Even more so this time, which prompted this thread of mine. This morning it got an interesting post. http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=132767#132767 Cheers Bundy

8200km, by motorbike, over 29 days, in March and April this year. My missus and I on the bike, with trailer in tow. Yes, it was a geocaching trip, the sightseeing was a byproduct. The target was 333 caches, we got 338. Cheers Bundy

Tell me about it, trying to be stealthy on a bike towing a trailer. Everyone looks at you when you pull up either with envy or with a degree of apparent distrust. And Gryffyth, its an 07 1600 FI. Cheers Bundy

If the owner didnt know it was missing, then how did the police know who to go to take with them to get it, unless it had a big "This belongs to" sticker on it. Unless the owner like to follow the police around to see what they happen to be doing.

I suppose I should show the rest, what we spent 4 weeks caching on recently, although the trailer was loaded a bit more than it is in the pic. Cheers Bundy

Packer Pm sent Cheers Bundy

I have found 3 caches within about 10 metres of each other. One was an earthcache, the second was a normal cache, and the third was the second caches original container that was lost about 2 years ago. I signed 2 logs, but only got 2 finds out of the 3 finds.

Coincidentally, here is my Nuvi and CSx mounted on my bike. Cheers Bundy

Evil, where to start. I have been called evil by more than one person when out finding some of mine. Is there a vehicle or wheel on a rim on public display somewhere. I have a cache that is on a vehicle on display at the entrance to a speedway. I removed the core from a wheel valve stem, drilled it out a bit more, and this became a micro ccahe container, with a valve cap to provide protection. I have a micro container about the size of a cigarette filter hanging by a fishing trace in a mangrove swamp tree in the middle of nowhere. I had a waypoint hanging underwater by a stainless steel thread about the thickness of a human hair. It hung from a galvanised grill, which allowed the thread to blend in perfectly, and be almost impossible to see. I have found a few caches that are a sheet of magnetic sign material, painted to blend into whatever it was stuck to, and covering a sheet of waterproof paper that was the logbook. I have a small cache, about an inch diameter and about 12 inches long, with a rock stuck to it, in this wall. Cheers Bundy

The battery in the 500 is removeable, and could be replaced with another battery of the correct specifications at any time. As for the mount, its a RAM handlebar mount, arm, and cradle used for both the Nuvi and the CSx. Power for the Nuvi comes from the ciggy lighter socket to the right of the CSx while power for the CSx comes from a hard wired plug. If you go the RAM mount route for the Nuvi, make sure you DO NOT attempt to remove the Nuvi from the RAM cradle without pulling the power lead first. You will bend the plug, as I did first time I tried to do it.

I own a Nuvi 500, a GPS60 CSX and a GPS60. We recently did a 8200+km caching trip by motorbike using the 500 and CSX. The Nuvi is great, up to a point. That last 5 or so metres is where I find it falls down, even when in walking mode. Thats where I use to CSX, for that final close in search. I just find it more accurate. The only other issue is the CPU speed of the Nuvi. I found it locked up a few times on the trip. Cheers Bundy

My Nuvi 500 has the same sort of feature, being able to type in field notes but it turned out to be way to laborous for me when out and about. I have previously used the recording function of my PDA to verbally record notes for later translation to logs. You could use some sort of MP3 recorder for the same purpose. In the end, we have found the humble notebook and pen to be the easiest. Cheers Bundy

Blatantly copied my post about blogging from another section of the forum. QUOTE(moparots @ May 6 2009, 05:35 PM) QUOTE(Bundyrumandcoke @ May 6 2009, 04:13 PM) My missus and I recently did a 29 day, close to 9000km caching trip by motorbike, with 372 finds and god only knows how many DNF's on the trip. We also carried a travel bug with us for the entire trip that is owned by a group of school kids from Pennsylvania, which we dropped and retrieved into caches along the way, so they could follow our trip- it was, and is a geography lesson on Australia. We also maintained a blog during the trip. We carried a laptop and mobile broadband modem, and logged caches each night, sometimes up to 30 in a go. I admit a lot were cut and paste entries with the generic info, but then each entry was edited to suit the find or DNF. This was heaps better than in the past, where logging a couple of hundred finds took days and days. Even so, very late nights became common. Cheers Bundy That is SO cool! I bet those kids loved it. If anyone is interested, TB2J6NF is the travel bug mentioned. The cache locations visited were plotted on a map of Australia. The blog is http://www.expeditionaustralia.com.au/4weeksonabike/ The production of the CD's are still in progress, to send over to the kids. Cheers Bundy

That is SO cool! I bet those kids loved it. If anyone is interested, TB2J6NF is the travel bug mentioned. The cache locations visited were plotted on a map of Australia. The blog is http://www.expeditionaustralia.com.au/4weeksonabike/ The production of the CD's are still in progress, to send over to the kids. Cheers Bundy

Zoom out on your map page, and see if they are there. I am betting, as already noted, they are caches a fair distance from your location.