+arcticcatmatt Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I got an awesome idea. I like the old message in a bottle thing. Make a waterproof cache and put a tb in it. Then toss it in a river. Label it geocache. And maybe muggles way down streem that find it will get on the website and log it! Chances are it will be lost I bet though.. or maybe this is considered littering Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I think you'd have better luck place the cache down by the river, preferrely tied off to something large and heavy that wouldn't move easy. Then take a coordinate and report it back here Quote Link to comment
Charles Iverson Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 and how will you track the miles of it??? Quote Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I got an awesome idea. I like the old message in a bottle thing. Make a waterproof cache and put a tb in it. Then toss it in a river. Label it geocache. And maybe muggles way down streem that find it will get on the website and log it! Chances are it will be lost I bet though.. or maybe this is considered littering If you have 5 bucks to blow on a TB tag and $$ for the container you never will see again. Knock yourself out Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 ...If you have 5 bucks to blow on a TB tag and $$ for the container you never will see again. Knock yourself out That's pretty close to how TB's work right now. Quote Link to comment
+KC0GRN Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 neat idea, but I'm unsure if it would work. You would have to research the river you loose the container on. If it was a lock or a dam or anything manmade that changes or impedes the flow of water, either for navigation or making power, a container probably will get stuck there. I suppose that's better than it ending up out in the ocean though... then again, perhaps it would make it someplace really interesting then! Quote Link to comment
+Team Rock-it Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Pretty cool idea but I agree you are going to want a wild river. This could be an interesting TB type idea. but logging the coordinates would be a problem. Quote Link to comment
+Pork King Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Dumbest...idea...ever Quote Link to comment
Jake - Team A.I. Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Here in Arizona, just mark the coordinates where you dropped it. Chances are it will be there for a few months for everyone to to get a chance at it. Signs to tell you've been in Arizona too long.... 5. You no longer associate "bridges" and the word "river" with running water. Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I'll stick to business cards in a bottle... Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Dumbest...idea...ever Ditto Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I can appreciate the spirit of the idea, but you'll be spending five bucks unnecessarily. By all means send out a bottle, but just put in geocaching propaganda and get a bug for caches. Quote Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I got an awesome idea. I like the old message in a bottle thing. Make a waterproof cache and put a tb in it. Then toss it in a river. Label it geocache. And maybe muggles way down streem that find it will get on the website and log it! You might actually get a kick out of this neat little project: Bandy Cams. Take a disposible camera, register in at the site, and release it to the wild. Some have attached TB tags to it and move them from cache to cache, but others are just passed around. It's just starting up in the past few months, but looks like a fun project. Everytime I see disposable on the rack at a store I'm reminded of this, but I forget which camera they recommend so I don't purchase. Anyway, like I said, this might be a project that might have a bit of better return than just tossing a TB away. Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Litterbug! If it's glass, it's a horrible idea. If it's plastic, it's going to snag in a tree and stay there. With all the work we do performing CITO and trying to put a good light on geocaching, I find this a bad idea. Quote Link to comment
+felix80 Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 CoyoteRed, Thanks for mentioning Bandycams here. While this project is still an infant, there are more cameras being released all the time, both with and without TBs attached. You asked about cameras. Just about any disposable camera will work. I just buy the cheapest I can find. There's a fairly complete explanation on how to setup a camera on this page. Cheers, Ed Quote Link to comment
+arcticcatmatt Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 thanks for the replies all.. I guess what I wanted was to try to do was track a bottles travels from a small river to the ocean. Bad idea.. But I like the camara idea, thats cool! Quote Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 The cam idea is neat but as the "owner" I would be worried what I would be taking in to get processed. I already had to explain to a HS at CVS that Monkey Puzzle 2 down in Jax Fl was NOT a bomb and the people who were in the pictures with me were not evil people. I used big words she seemed to just nod and lookd confused. I did my job, got my pictures and RAN lol Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 HS at CVS ? the what at who? Quote Link to comment
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