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Sorry, Nancy, didn't mean to sound rude or anything like it, just felt surprised people would go all the way to the cache and then not sign it. Learning new things everyday! Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, I will make a note as soon as I get to my laptop (the phone is too small for me, I've been struggling to write this reply!).

Thanks, everybody. I e-mailed the CO yesterday and he was great, and is happy to have the container fixed/replaced. Now I know what to do in similar situations. Nancycle, do you mean people will look for it and not even sign the internal log? Good to know about the maintenance note, I will do that.

We found a cache today that had not been found since 2011. Usually, this kind of search ends up being a DNF for us, but we still try to check them, as there aren't that many caches available in Trinidad anyway. This one was exactly where it had been left, a 4 inch tube covered in camo tape. When we retrieved it, however, a lot of ants started crawling out of it (good thing we had gloves on). On closer inspection (once we'd dropped it on the grass), we realised the ants had nested on parts of the camo tape that had become loose, and they were trying to recover their eggs from it. So, we had to remove the camo tape and let them have their eggs and let us keep the cache, or we wouldn't even have been able to pick it up and put it back on the tree if we hadn't. Now, we didn't have any camo tape with us, so we brought the cache home to repair it. Also, the container seemed to have leaked and it was filled with water, so I have contacted the owner to see if he would like us to replace it before we put it back. My question is: did we do the right thing removing the cache? Nobody had been to look for it since 2011, so I don't think a week will make a big difference, but maybe we went again the rules, and if so, I'd like to know it so we don't do it again. Also, when I filled the log I explained we have removed the cache, but should I do something else in order to avoid anybody going there to look for a cache that is not in its place? Thanks for your help!

Geocaching in Trinidad and Tobago. Hope your video turns out great!

I tried downloading them individually using Magellan communicator with both Chrome and Safari in my Mac, but had very few results, most of the time it didn't load. In the end, considering the whole country has only 44 caches hidden, I just ran a pocket query for Trinidad and Tobago, and loaded all of them. Unfortunately, I also lost all my data a week later for no reason we can see just at the beginning of a geocaching trip, couldn't look of anything the rest of the day and the trip was sort of ruined. We are going on a trip to the other coast of the island tomorrow and I have printed the cache pages I want to look for and taking my smart phone GPS just in case it happens again! A bit disappointed I can't trust my Explorist!

Hi. We recently bought a Magellan Explorist GC and used a pocket query to load all the caches in Trinidad and Tobago (44 in all). We set out on a journey to the south of the island intending to look for several of them on the way. When we got to the first one, we stopped for lunch, but when we turned the gps back on, all the data was deleted. It shows 0 caches. Is there anything we could have inadvertently done to have erased everything? Or is it just some kind of malfunction with the unit? Has anybody had a similar experience? We are newbies, so all advice welcome. Will re-upload everything and give it a new try this weekend!