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has anyone won this yet?

Any trade offers being taken for the LE yet?

This just takes way too much effort and I don't even have that many coins!

Cool idea!

Thorne says Where the Wild Things Are. King of the monsters? Who wouldn't want to be?

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46 And Merry Christmas!

Never even heard of or seen this coin before, love the detail and the colours. Anyone got one for trade? This was my second favorite event coin. It's a real beauty.

The Pirstes of Harriman Kraken Geocoin is one of my favorite coins for the year. Really impressive! Anybody got a pic they can post?

I don't think it has much to do with who has been around longer or who has more experience but to how this was a secret to the majority and the way it appears to be set up. Having coin vendors, designers and producers judge the best coins for the year or who will be added to the list to be judged just doesn't sound impartial. I'm not saying that any one involved was trying to promote their own cause but when something like this is proposed and then kept secret and exclusive it doesn't exactly promote trust. The Academy comes off as very much a clique to me. Especially considering the way you are selected to be a member. No offense meant to you. It is always nice to be invited and made to feel like you belong but sometimes being a part of a group, well, it just isn't what you thought it was going to be.

stupid computer

I believe in the desert they love in a little hollow Barrel Cactus, with a little door cut into it. I always wondered how they reproduced!

stupid computer

Thank you for putting it out there, Steph... I didn't know it existed, either, and it seems like just another clique, if you ask me... I guess I just dashed my chances of being nominated, lol! Naomi I was thinking the same thing but was holding my tongue. I never heard ot this "Academy". I never saw a thread about it. I never received an e-mail about it. The idea of "hey send us one of your coins and we'll consider putting you in for a prize. Of course you don't know who we are as we hide behind "The Academy" and promise we are not keeping the coins sent to us or using them for our gain." (Yes, I am aware that you don't have to send a coin.) Whatever. I don't trust half the people I know so I definately don't trust a group of people I don't know under a group name. Just my opinion. PLnauta... I like your idea. You have plenty of categories for different kinds of geocoins and ANYBODY can vote. Run with it.

Geocaching Jedi= from a cache Christmas stocking=mail GSA=cache creepy Crawly Cachers=mail from CCC That's all of 'em! Mike said something about being contacted by the Goofy cacher while I was on deployment, but we never got it. Oh well. Not the first coin to disappear in the mail.

Reservations work.

There were probably more than that all trying to get their orders in at the same time. Quite a few more. Exactly my point. Most likely 200 people on that site trying to get an order in. So, the first people to checkout get their orders filled. It's just like any other geocoinstore. You have to checkout. I **think** that her site holds your coins for 60 seconds. That's it. If you haven't checked out, and the coins are gone, well, they get pulled from your cart. There will always be next time TMA We've been down this road before. (Taking things from a person's shopping cart.) Let's not visit again.

There were probably more than that all trying to get their orders in at the same time. Quite a few more.

me too! i mean how can you have coins in your cart, be in the checkout process and have the coins disappear out of your cart? i was dead on the time and like you, there were 75 and 50 available? lara I'm right there with you. My two Jonny Cash coins disappeared upon check out.

Had them all in my basket but the Johnny Cash disappeared at check out.

My most recent run in with the local police was too funny considering the parallels. I won't name the cache to protect its' owner but here goes: My husband and I and our six year old son were out on a caching spree in the Williamsburg area and decided to hit one more before stopping for a bite to eat. The last cache was to be a small in a grocery store parking lot. The clue seemed pretty straight forward until we got there. Coordinates were wierd/bouncy/off. We still found the cache after rambling around the parking lot for about 15 minutes, GPS in hand. The container was disappointing, a pill bottle. The outside had been written on in magic marker but had faded to where it was illegible. At first I was in doubt that it was the cache but who puts a pill bottle under a rock other than a geocacher? The inside was in pretty good shape. We got back in our truck and headed out only to detour back for lunch in the pizza place across the lot. About five minutes after we go into the restaurant, two police vehicles tear into the parking lot. One circles around the building, the other heads to the grocery store parking lot where a guy with a cell phone points out our vehicle to the policeman. My husband took his GPS and went over to talk to them. He came back in a fit of laughter. Seems this place is a known drug area. Dope heads regularly drop off suspicious packages in the bushes and then other dope heads come and retrieve them. My husband showed them the cache and the police enjoyed a good laugh after checking out the container. The cell phone guy sheepishly disappeared about this time. The policemen stuck around for a brief tutorial on geocaching and to write down the website. The one was very interested in trying it out as soon as possible.

More than one of my caches have been called evil. They weren't meant to be evil, just fun. The coordinates are dead-on except for two cachers in our area. They both complain that the coordinates are off and that is why they can not find the cache! Some people walk straight up to the cache and find it. Others have to make many trips before getting the cache. We've done "evil" micros, smalls and even ammo cans. Other than the occassional cacher who just can't find it people seem to like our caches for being different, not evil.

Double post.

Try caching in a cemetery in Virginia, you'll get more than a visit from the local boys in blue. It is illegal to be in the cemetery after dark in Virginia. Parks are the same way. I enjoy night caching too, for caches that are designed to be night caches and are not in off limits area.