Can you see your cache from your house

[+TheOfford4]

The other week we found a cache in a place which was overlooked by someones bedroom window and the ones either side of them as well and the thought crossed my mind. What if the person who hid this lives in that house?

 

Can anyone see their cache from their house? do you find yourself watching it sometimes to see who finds it?

 

Tracy

[+HazelS]

Yep.... and Yep.....

 

I frequently get cachers popping in for a brew while doing the cache, especially as I sit facing the window when working from home.... and I see them lurking suspiciously!!!

[team tisri]

The other week we found a cache in a place which was overlooked by someones bedroom window and the ones either side of them as well and the thought crossed my mind. What if the person who hid this lives in that house?

 

Can anyone see their cache from their house? do you find yourself watching it sometimes to see who finds it?

 

Tracy

 

I heard an interesting tale about a cache in the US. The owner had set up a multi that had a web cam overlooking one of the stages. Apparently he'd set up a process to take pictures of any movement around the stage, and if it was clearly a geocacher he printed a picture of them and put it in the final stage which was at the end of his garden. Then he not only got to meet other cachers, he also got to see the looks of confusion as they found pictures of themselves waiting in the cache they'd just found.

[+L8HNB]

We can with binoculars! Our first cache was set with that in mind - see the last posting in this thread:

 

Linky

 

Not so easy at present because the tress and hedge have grown up quite a lot over the years....

[+currykev]

The other week we found a cache in a place which was overlooked by someones bedroom window and the ones either side of them as well and the thought crossed my mind. What if the person who hid this lives in that house?

 

Can anyone see their cache from their house? do you find yourself watching it sometimes to see who finds it?

 

Tracy

 

I would think...."what if that person peering at me is NOT the cache owner"?

I dislike such caches.

[+Grizzly Pair]

We have GC1XZ4X which has been referred to as the talking cache as Mrs G has been known to greet cachers out-of-sight from the bottom of the garden. We can't see the exact spot with the current foliage but during the winter it is visible.

[+milvus-milvus]

I used to have one in MK that I could watch from my office window...

[+madrab]

You can see my house roof from the cache but I can not see my cache due to it being across a field and past some trees.

[+Ant89]

from house, no, could not find anywhere within view that would be muggle-proof. Got one nearby though.

[+Teacosies]

No, but we can see a trackable out side the front door.

[+cindypenney]

Ours is walking distance. Putting one we could see might be fun. Might improve the neighbourhood with a load of glamourous geocahers.

[+Jacaru & Wemnog]

Yep, right on the doorstep. First we know is either when the dogs bark or we hear the ammo can rattling.

[+Stuey]

I would think...."what if that person peering at me is NOT the cache owner"?

I dislike such caches.

 

Me too. In fact I aborted an attempt on one that was overlooked a few weekends ago as I just didn't want to get into an "Oi, what are you doing!?" conversation with a local. It's only a smiley, and I'd prefer them not overlooked, so onwards I went.

[+Amberel]

I would think...."what if that person peering at me is NOT the cache owner"?

I dislike such caches.

Me too.

Thirded.

 

Caches that are overlooked by people who don't know about the cache are not being fair on those other people - they might easily become concerned about why people are hanging round their property.

 

If a cache is placed where it is overlooked only by the cache owner and others who know about the cache, I believe this should be clearly stated on the cache page. In that case I might do the cache.

 

If it's not clear on the cache page, the cache searcher has no way of knowing whether or not he is causing distress by looking close to someone else's property.

 

Rgds, Andy

[+cooper troopers]

just setting a cache in our trees at the back of our garden which backs onto a public footpath

[+Jonovich]

Nope, I hide my caches way too well to be able to see them at distance - but you can see my house from one of the caches

 

Found a cache at the bottom of someones driveway the other night - I wondered if it was the cache owner who came out their house to watch me, but it wasn't

 

Jon.

Edited September 3, 2010 by Dakar4x4

[+Team Sieni]

Thirded.

Fourthed. If GZ is overlooked by a property we just walk on by.

[+linedancers]

The other week we found a cache in a place which was overlooked by someones bedroom window and the ones either side of them as well and the thought crossed my mind. What if the person who hid this lives in that house?

 

Can anyone see their cache from their house? do you find yourself watching it sometimes to see who finds it?

 

Tracy

 

Yep, we did originally have a cache at the very edge of our front garden called Bite the Bullet GC19X88. Some cachers actually rang the doorbell when they had found it. This had to be archived when we set the village circular as it was too close to Farriers Workplace GC1KNjZ. We also have Phone a Friend! which is outside my (Clare's) place of work, although I can't actually see it from my desk GC1GM46

 

Clare (one half of the Linedancers)

[+aliandtone]

I used to have one in MK that I could watch from my office window...

 

Snap.

 

I too work in Milton Keynes but it looks as if we swapped sides as I now work closer to yours!!!

Edited September 3, 2010 by aliandtone

[+milvus-milvus]

it looks as if we swapped sides as I now work closer to yours!!!

Very close... I could almost have seen yours across the lake from where I moved to!

 

However, since then I've moved to Northampton - so much less caching in MK these days.