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As a suggested antidote to the pet peeves what do you really like about cachin!

 

For us its

 

New places

Gadgets!!

Good swaps

Inventive cache placements that turn a cache in the woods into a memorable experience

Drive by caches on the way home

A good walk

Research trips to place more caches

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Finding something cool/attractive/interesting just nearby, that you were completely oblivious to.

Finding a new location to go and take photographs.

Particularly inventive caches ("The Cat's Whiskers" anyone?)

Returning home, wearing shorts, completely free of stings, bites and scratches (not happened yet, but I can still dream can't I?!)

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My wife and I are relatively new, but we like:

 

1) Time together (caching 1 or 2x per week ensures we hang out doing something constructive).

2) Finding things "off the beaten path"

3) The hunt itself

4) Learning all kinds of new stuff about geography, nature, history, etc)

5) Keeping up with technological advances on web, GPS, etc.

 

The people are great too. We hope to make some new friends at events, etc.

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Well... for a start it gives Phill and I time together - something which is quite rare these days!

 

It's a day out without trawling the shops, arcades, or going to the pictures!

 

We've found some wonderful places (and some we now know to avoid!)

 

We've both lost one and a half stone since we've been caching!

 

A weekend of caching in a new place is a great excuse to go camping (like we need an excuse)

 

Fresh air and a great picnic

 

Phill loves the hunt of a cache, I like the find.

 

TB's always make me smile

 

Reading hillarious logs!

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I'm another who enjoys being taken to places I otherwise would not have bothered going to.

This is it in spades for us.

 

Bernie travels with the RAF and get to see secluded corners all over the world.

 

Back home, geo-geeking gets us into all the little corners that we would miss - it's brill! It takes our families to cracking locations in their own backyards of which they were oblivious (and dittoo us up here in East Anglia).

 

Geo-geeking has opened our eyes to the little wonders on our own doorsteps (and those of our families). When we've suggested geo-geeking as a team, family effort, it has always been accepted by the whole group. It has pulled generations of my lot together in a way we never expected.

 

Without a doubt, we have all collectively benefited from the eye-opening experience of geo-geeking...

 

...and we can now justify forking out for an Ipag!

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As before,

 

The hunt

The excercise

Discovering gems in an area near you you've never visited before

Enjoying 'us time' time with my young son who loves walking everywhere

And countless other things! :D

 

Have yet to meet other cachers [Alibags doesnt count! I see her a lot :D ]

Have yet to find funny log entries

 

Scariest cache to date; opening the container and finding a large wolf spider 'surprise' sprinting up my arm *shudder*...how my son laughed at my reaction.... :unsure:

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Our list in no particular order:

 

1) Going to places we never knew existed.

2) Reading funny logs.

3) Meeting like minded people.

4) The satisfaction of finding a cache.

5) Puzzle caches - get us using our brains and learning something we didn't know before.

6) TB's - they all have great stories and we like to add our bit to the story.

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I had always fancied a GPS but could not justify buying one. Then the price of GPS units drops significantly and somebody tells me about geocaching... a monster is created! :lol:

 

I too think it's the combination of the great outdoors and geekery that I enjoy most. I like seeing all the various animals, birds and plantlife that I encounter when out and about.

 

Meeting people and making new friends came later... but of course I enjoy that too.

 

I especially enjoy caches which are mentally challenging and/or humourous.

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..all of the above..

 

PLUS: for me one of the greatest pleasures of caching is the immense satisfaction of solving a really tricky puzzle cache without any clues or help from other cachers. Unfortunately, I often then don't get the chance to actually locate the container for many months!

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Ah - puzzle caches . . . I reserve judgement on that. I have to 5 stars that have been sitting on my desk for months . . . at the moment, they'd have to go in the other list!

Oh yeah.. they're definately part of the 'other' list until you solve them!! :lol::lol:

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Hi,

 

Geocaching: I dont know how I existed without it lol.

 

I love the wildlife, Herons which I now see almost on a daily basis and the other day a Kingfisher and loads of other stuff. Not keen on the cows and bugs though lol.

 

New places, I have been on some lovely walks with great scenery.

 

My hormone levels after a walk, I get all tingly better than s** oohh :anibad:

 

I have Diabetes and the walking keeps my blood sugar levels down, I feel much healthier and I know I am only going to get even better. I am overweight but I have lost 18lbs so far which will help my Diabetes loads.

 

Meeting new people, mainly at the cache bashes all very freindly nice that.

 

I love the puzzles/quizzes gets the brain working and mine mainly at night when I am asleep lol.

 

Goecaching is great and good for me so thanks who ever brought it here.

 

Oh and I am a bit browner than usual, and my hairs gone white nearly lol. Lovely being out in the fresh air and sunshine and I also love it when it rains.

 

Yorkypudding.

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:laughing:

Oh the joys of -:

nettles

ants

thistles

falling on ones butt

the thud of a head on the nearest branch ( ouch!! )

the endless miles of trying to find somewhere to park.

dodgy co-ords.

tree cover.

:laughing: let me see what have I forgot? Oh Yeah,

flat batteries, ( who forgot to pick up his spares? )

YEAH!! WE LOVE IT, COME ON GIVE US MORE!!!!.

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