+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 post 2 Well.... my paretns, sister and my brother in law... took the car and went a little further to find more koumara, while I was visiting the cache... a big part of the area was and still is beeing used by the military, for training in weapons...and they are firing for real... of course this is only for some days in the winter and the area is closed... anyway.... I came down from the hill the cache was and I had to go at the area the rest of the family was... on my way... I needed to pee... and since nobody was there... I went very close to the asphalt road... behind a bush... I am talking about 2 or less metres away from the road ok?? what I saw there socked me.... but I was so stupid... let's take things straight... I saw that because of the rains, the land was open... it looked like a stream of water was passing from there.. during the rain.... but... now the whole area was full of... mortar shells!!!! most of them were half burried in mud... others were out and others were completely covered!! I was extremelly stupid and went down lift 2 and cleaned them... huh!!! I saw dates like 1944 and 1953! the top was missing in some... but I could see that they were not empty!!! a mortar when it is thrown... it explodes when it hits the ground... so it is becoming tiny pieces who kill you even if you have a distance of 50 metres for example... These were completelly... so they were still active!!!! they could explode anytime... and.... I was down in the hole with more than 50 and I was holding 2 too!!!! huh! How stupid I was??? I left them down and left the area immediatelly... to be honest... I even forgot to pee.... see here what did I find... this is only a few... not all!!! in the last photo you can see the 2 on the rocks... they are after I left them down.... huh! so... please... when you see a military area... be careful and do not lift up anything...... I was just lucky!!! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 new world order coin.... what a beauty.... The scorpons are real...but stuffed.... everything except the coin and the papercuter sword, are old.... Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 a couple of years ago... sorry I do not remember when exactly.... a great cacher, Ambrosia honored me so much!!! She sent 3 amazing and rare coins for me to have.... the Lackeys 2007, the Volunteer 2005 and the volunteer 2008!!! WOW!!!! I will alsway thank her for that!!! Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Those do not look like our strawberries.... I would like a taste test. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Those do not look like our strawberries.... I would like a taste test. I am not sure if they are really wild strawberries... here is a name I found about them.... Arbutus unedo! You have to eat it when it is soft and deep red! otherwise it is not good at all!! you have to know about it... Many do not know and... they say it tastes bad.... well.... It is difficult to collect them and take them with you... they are very sensitive.. so.. the best is to eat them from the tree... take them from there and eat there immediatelly... but be careful!!! do not eat many!! there is lots of alcohol in them and you will be drunk or get poisoned! I am sure you will find more info in the net... Link to comment
CW88 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Crake's Time Tracking Geocoin was the first coin I bought, and still one of my favourites. Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Here's a tidbit nikos....when I was a kid, I lived on Rhodes Avenue Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Here's a tidbit nikos....when I was a kid, I lived on Rhodes Avenue I hope EyeD will forgive me for posting more than 4 times today but this post doesn't count in the cointest.. ok? Rhodes Avenue??? In the States?? Rhodes... from Rhodes in Greece or for Rhode island in the States?? WOW!!! I knew only Rhode island.... and an ancient city that nowdays is a small town... I think... in Spain with the name Rodas... which was actually build by ancient Rhodians! Now there is an avenue with the name of Rhodes?? amazing!! Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Lol... It really wasn't that great of a neighborhood.... Just a little street in a little in town call new Boston, Ohio, Usa Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Lol... It really wasn't that great of a neighborhood.... Just a little street in a little in town call new Boston, Ohio, Usa Well.... For some years... we were living in a house in a street with the name...... hmm.... I will say that tomorrow! Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Some awesome swag i discovered, I love to leave them in my own caches as well as others that are missing something to sign the log with! Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Day 492, Post 1 Seeing Chris' post about Crake's Tracking Time reminded me about how I only recently acquired one for myself. I've long been a fan of Chris Rake's geocoins and I had all but a couple. With getting the Tracking Time I am now one away from having a coin from each set he has put out, and I am working on that last one at the moment. YAY! Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) Day 492, Post #2 I like GeoTag geocoins! Mine Edited April 26, 2011 by keewee Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Day 492, Post #3 I also like Geo-Jellies Geocoins! v1 v2 and v3. I also have a personal Big Bean series Geo-Jellie. Mine, again Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I've decided to archive my cache Kimi's Secret Tree, and relocate it to another park/area. It only lasted 3 months. Link to comment
+sheltiedogshowlover Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Post 1 for today. I plan on going out caching today. It's a beautiful sunny day and there's none of the rain they threatend us with. Wohoo!! Charging the phone and loading up the bag. Will be heading out shortly after I decide which direction to head today! Link to comment
+sheltiedogshowlover Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) Post 2 Our first non-urban geocaching adventure was to a local park called mendon ponds where there are an insane amount of caches. We searched for 9 and found 8 that day. We took our aussie kaylee and our friend brought along his dog Emmie. Much to our relief the dogs got along great and it made for an amazing day of hiking with the geodogs! Sadly we will not be able to replicate that adventure as Emmie went to the rainbow bridge yesterday. RIP Emmie. **EDITED TO ADD THAT I'M LOOKING FOR THE Dorkfish Rainbow Bridge Geocoin Dog/Pet Memorial COIN IF ANYONE HAS ONE TO GIVE THEM** Edited April 26, 2011 by sheltiedogshowlover Link to comment
+sheltiedogshowlover Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Post 3 for today. One of my favorite coins that I've gotten so far is the geopuppy coin. It amuses me because it looks like the old school fisher price little people. They don't make them like that anymore.. apperantly they were choking hazards. I somehow made it out alive playing with them..lol. Link to comment
+sheltiedogshowlover Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Last post for today. I just realized that the Laval K9 coin that I have has a glow in the dark moon on it. Very amusing.. but then again I am easily amused.. Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I am almost completely beside myself excited to receive the Dawning Hope coin in the mail! I ordered the Midgard through the forums and got the Sea of Nectar version off ebay - Uber excited! I might tackle the mailman once he gets close enough to my mailbox. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) Post 1 for today!! sow... after I read that goosefraba used to live in a street with the name Rhodes..... I will say... I used to live in a street with the name...... President Kennedy! we moved only one street now so I am very close to that street.... Ok.. what to post... what to post.... except from geocaching, I am a crazy collector! I collect banknotes and coins, medals, militaria things, phonecards, tokens, coupons, wooden nickels (still none that are not from geocaching), local money and anything that you can buy things , food coupons........ old stuff... see... I told you I am a crazy collector! so... if you have anything that you do not need.. I will adopt it for sure... :laughing: the info here is that because of my coin and banknote collection, when I get a new geocoin I am trying to fin all info I can about the coin.... This may sound strange to some but... I am keeping everything I find about the coin! Edited April 26, 2011 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 post 2 I am not invited in the British Royal wedding! Ok... back to reality... one of the best caching days was when I went in an afternoon to find a cache with my sister and my brother in law... and then we had a night swimming in the beautiful but empty beach!!! Ok... the poor fish probably died becasue of our smelling feet, after so much walk and climb but... it was so nice... cool water relaxed us!!! Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 big news for me - I have a new mailman now! No more sloth for me!!! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) post 3 I love error coins!!! an error in a geocoin makes it unique and has a different story to tell from all the others that have the same design... so I am counting them as my little special coins! I think I have 3 so far and I adore them!!! I also love sample coins!!!! Oh samples!!!! I have...3 sample coins too! none was minted in this metal finish or exactly the same! the 1st is trackable... and one of a kind.. the second has 2 other brothers and the 3rd is one of a kind too!!! WOW!! Edited April 26, 2011 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 This is one of my first coins, I got it through the Pay it forward Adoptions. It was passed off to a cacher who has yet to place it.. hopefully it'll start to move again sometime.. Link to comment
+DavetecsGirl Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 My first experience with Coins was, back when i first starting caching and saw a coin in a cache and was excited to see that the coin had the Spirit Catcher on it...(from my city) That got me into coins, and had to look around to find out where i could buy my own Spirit Catcher coin.... http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z48/darlene4343/sppiritcatcher.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z48/darlene4343/014.jpg Link to comment
+farrtom Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 When will spring finaly get here to the northwest? Woke up this morning to snow! Not very good caching weather. Link to comment
+farrtom Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I feel like a kid at christmas time.. just payed the deposit for samples of our first coin. Now just waiting.................. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 ok... time for my last post here... and probably my last post before the cointest ends... I have lost many travellers... many are in the hands of cachers for a long long time... some didn't even respond to my emails... some are not cachers anymore.... I haven't even seen some of my travellers because they were adopted to me or I won them in cointests! I also lost coins in letters that were coning to me! one of them was... a great mystery coin.... poor little ones.. bonus fact... this post shows my age... and now... I am not 7325 years old!!! Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) big news for me - I have a new mailman now! No more sloth for me!!! RIP Sloth Postie Woman... hope you buried her body really well, somewhere where it won't be easily found! ok... time for my last post here... and probably my last post before the cointest ends... I have lost many travellers... many are in the hands of cachers for a long long time... some didn't even respond to my emails... some are not cachers anymore.... I haven't even seen some of my travellers because they were adopted to me or I won them in cointests! I also lost coins in letters that were coning to me! one of them was... a great mystery coin.... poor little ones.. bonus fact... this post shows my age... and now... I am not 7325 years old!!! You're 179! WOW - you look so good for your age!!! Day 493. Post #1, Have been adrift on this raft for so many weeks now... each day is just a blur, each rolling into the next. Saw lots more blue sky today, getting really sick of the colour blue - oh what I would give for some earthy brown or some green. It doesn't even need to be a lot, just enough to remind me of what earth and grass look like once more. Actually saw a cloud shaped like a geocoin yesterday... Oh how I miss my geocoins... Now to stop telling stories One of the earlier geocoins I purchased, something I just don't see around anywhere! Never see them being offered for trade or for sale - it's almost as though they have dropped off the face of the earth! Fluttershy 2007, teal Edited April 27, 2011 by keewee Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Day 493, Post #2 Sister to the teal version of the Futtershy geocoin Fluttershy 2007, pink Edited April 27, 2011 by keewee Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Day 493, Post #3 The awesomely huge New World Order geocoin so generously sent to me recently by Crowesfeat30 Link to comment
+EyeD10T Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 I enjoyed reading the stories and seeing the pictures that were posted. Thank you to everyone for participating in the cointest. Using an online random number generator, I have picked the winners. Here are the results: Congratulations to GATOULIS and MoonCat & KDT. I will be shipping your coins out this week! Thanks again everyone - Have a great day! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 good morning to all! WOW! I am one of the winners?? Excellent news!! congrats to MoonCat & KDT too!!! Hmm... Gatoulis (male kitten) and MoonCat are the winners??? So 2 cats won?? Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Congrats Gatoulis and Mooncat! Link to comment
+mamoreb Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Congratulations to the cats! Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Cats rule! Congrats Gatoulis! Thanks for the cointest, I had a ton of fun! Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Well done guys - excellent - and thanks for the cointest. Link to comment
+keewee Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 A big congratulations to the winners! I guess MoonCat & KDT won't need to win my cointest now On a side note - I just picked up the final coin to complete my Crake Collection!!! YAY Just won the Rhode Island geocoin on eBay. Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 A big congratulations to the winners! I guess MoonCat & KDT won't need to win my cointest now On a side note - I just picked up the final coin to complete my Crake Collection!!! YAY Just won the Rhode Island geocoin on eBay. LOL HEY! i've never been a lucky person until these cointests - it's so weird. You can ask KDT- if i pick the scratch ticket or even touched it guaranteed it's not a winner. Any other contest I've entered i've never won - so winning some of these cointests is the coolest thing ever to me! It's given me hope that i'm not completely cursed, just partially. Link to comment
+aka Momster Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Congratulations, GATOULIS and MoonCat, on your cointest win! MoonCat, at least you chose to get your contest luck for something that you want. Although those scratchers and lotto wins wouldn't be too shabby. For a many decade stretch, the only thing I had won was from a Grand Opening raffle at a store. It was a plastic wine rack. I was twelve at the time. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 My coin arrived today!!! WOW!!! it is so pretty!!!! Thnak you so much Jim!!! Link to comment
+EyeD10T Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 My coin arrived today!!! WOW!!! it is so pretty!!!! Thnak you so much Jim!!! You are very welcome. Congrats again! Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 My coin made it today, thanks again! It's gorgeous!! Link to comment
+EyeD10T Posted May 4, 2011 Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 My coin made it today, thanks again! It's gorgeous!! Good to hear. Congrats again! Link to comment
+Eartha Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Cointest ended, thank you for playing. Closing thread at OPs request (thank you!). Link to comment
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