+WarNinjas Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) So my daughter came up with this crazy idea she wants to make as a cache. She wants to call it earth sandwich. We would hide a cache here that the container is in the shape of a slice of bread. Then have a cacher on the other side of the world hide one the same and it would be a earth sandwich. We would be willing to ship the container out to them so they would be the same. One problem is the other side of the earth is a ocean but we were thinking maybe Australia or china as everyone thinks of that as the other side of the world so maybe more of a sub type of sandwich. We were hoping to find a active cacher who would maintain it as well. Then put a link to the GC code of the other cache. Maybe someday someone would find both slices or at least dream of it and want to find it. I have looked up a couple of active cachers in those country's and asked but guess the idea is to crazy as they have not responded. This has been a idea of hers for a while and she brings it up sometimes. Wondering if anyone here knew someone who would think this was a good idea and place one for us? Any good containers that might look like bread or maybe a Lock n Lock with a pic of a slice of bread showing threw the lid. Is this Idea just to crazy to work? Don't know but she thinks it would be cool so I thought I would ask. -WarNinjas Edited October 22, 2012 by WarNinjas Quote Link to comment
+simpler1773 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I think it's a great idea. Very creative! I don't know any cachers in either location but I do know someone here who recently moved from Australia. I will ask that person if they know any geocachers from there. Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Fun idea! You could go with fake bread (like what you'd find in a plastic grocery store toy set - which you even be able to find in a second hand store) like this: You'd probably have to insert a bison or something in order to have a remotely water-resistant cache. Or you could go with a Wonder Bread container (which again won't be remotely water-tight) If you google "fake slice bread" some other (more expensive) options show up. If you could make one yourself out of fiberglass or something, you could create an oversized slice of bread, which I think would be pretty sweet. (Although shipping to Australia might be prohibitive.) I bought some fiberglass and was going to try my hand at making a fake rock, but I haven't delved in to that one yet - no idea how hard it might be. Quote Link to comment
+Sat down Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) Sorry I did offer to help but on 2nd thoughts it would not be very practical. May i suggest that you post in the geocaching Australia forums... link http://forum.geocaching.com.au/ make sure you make it clear it is a geocaching.com cache and not a geocaching Australia cache that you want. 2 different sites but most Aussie cachers use both. Edited October 22, 2012 by Sat down Quote Link to comment
+Singletree Expedition Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I can't offer any help, but I just wanted to say that this is an absolutely outstanding idea. Love it! Earth Sandwich? That's great. What a creative idea! That is hilarious on so many levels. ...and it should be appreciated by map enthusiasts everywhere. Please follow-through with this. If not for your daughter, do it for me. Quote Link to comment
+Two_Drews Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Hi WarNinjas. I live in Australia (Melbourne, Victoria to be specific) and I'd like to help with your Earth Sandwich, I think it's a neat idea! PM me and we'll discuss it. Quote Link to comment
+Kryten Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Two points on opposite points on the earth's surface are called antipodes but since most of the earths surface is covered with water there are very few places where there is land on both sides. South America and Alaska are the only major land areas where the earth sandwich is possible. Quote Link to comment
+Singletree Expedition Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Two points on opposite points on the earth's surface are called antipodes but since most of the earths surface is covered with water there are very few places where there is land on both sides. South America and Alaska are the only major land areas where the earth sandwich is possible. ...because nobody wants a soggy Earth sandwich. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment
+PseudoHybrid Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Great idea... congrats to her for coming up with something so creative. Good luck with impelementaiton. Quote Link to comment
+Understandblue Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 WOW - that is incredibly creative! Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Try tunnelling through the earth with this tool and see where you end up: http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm Quote Link to comment
+Understandblue Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Try tunnelling through the earth with this tool and see where you end up: http://www.freemapto...f-the-earth.htm eek - This is great! Now I need to find reasons to tunnel through the earth! Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Earth Sandwich. Not crazy at all. Clever and unique. Smart kid. - Hope you get it worked out. Quote Link to comment
+Mitragorz Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Yes, please keep us posted on this! If you get them up, I'd like to bookmark them. Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 She will be glad to hear people like the idea! I will send a PM later after work and see if we can get it going. Thanks again. Also her idea to post here. Smart kid. Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 We tried a site like that and know exact is not possible but close is still cool! Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 There are other similar 'cooperation required' multicaches out there that require a partner in another state/country to help you find the coords to the final stage. Perhaps you can arrange something along these lines. It can be fun to work with a geopal who lives somewhere else. I enjoyed the two listed below. Kudos to your daughter for coloring outside the lines. Peace Arch Interstate Commerce Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I've heard about caches like that. I believe it has to be a multi because a puzzle is restricted to distance. But a multi can go further. Correct me if I am wrong. Quote Link to comment
+Rainbow Spirit Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 North west Spain is the antipodes to the south island of New Zealand according to the tunnel tool, so it would work there as both points are in areas that cachers use. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 North west Spain is the antipodes to the south island of New Zealand according to the tunnel tool, so it would work there as both points are in areas that cachers use. It would work if you lived in Spain or New Zealand but the OP is from California. While playing with an antipode tunnel tool it looks like the only place in the U.S. where there is an antipode on land is in Hawaii (with an antiode in Botswana). Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Great idea! I would just get a square lock n lock and glue a slice of fake bread to the outside. Ebay is a good place to get stuff like this. Quote Link to comment
kanchan Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I've heard about caches like that. I believe it has to be a multi because a puzzle is restricted to distance. But a multi can go further. Correct me if I am wrong. I thought it's going to be two distinct (traditional) caches? Then put a link to the GC code of the other cache. P.S. I liked the idea, WarNinjas. I'm looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment
+Silver Horde Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Great idea. Here in San Diego there is a cache that is paired with one on the Isle of Man. http://coord.info/GC3H1G2 and http://coord.info/GC3F9HT they were fun to do! Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 It would work if you lived in Spain or New Zealand but the OP is from California. While playing with an antipode tunnel tool it looks like the only place in the U.S. where there is an antipode on land is in Hawaii (with an antiode in Botswana).Northern Central Montana and Northern Alaska would work, too. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Fun idea! Is your daughter a fan of ze Frank? Earth Sandwich Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 Not sure one of her friends went to another country and told her if she put a piece of bread on the kitchen floor and my daughter did at the same time they would make a earth sandwich. Of course the first thing she thought of was a geocache! I know it will be a little off but if you stuff a sandwich that full of stuff (like earth) I imagine it would be hard to get the bread flat on. -WarNinjas Quote Link to comment
+Rainbow Spirit Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 (edited) Of cause any spot on the globe will have an antipodean point, with NW Spain and the south island of New Zealand I was looking for the two spots that already had caching activity. Hong Kong is at an antipodean point to northern Argentina, so that would work as well. If you are not fussed about antipodean points, then I guess Australia would do for an opposite site to California. I know Sat Down, they are great local cachers, and if they can't help, I know I could help. Edited October 23, 2012 by Rainbow Spirit Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 We get visitors to our Pier 39 cache from Australia so it wouldn't be out of the question for someone to find both if it was in a area that travelers visit. Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 (edited) Of cause any spot on the globe will have an antipodean point, with NW Spain and the south island of New Zealand I was looking for the two spots that already had caching activity. Hong Kong is at an antipodean point to northern Argentina, so that would work as well. If you are not fussed about antipodean points, then I guess Australia would do for an opposite site to California. I know Sat Down, they are great local cachers, and if they can't help, I know I could help. I just sent a message to Two_Drews but if for some reason it don't work out I will let you know! Thanks for the great offer. We might be able to get this going afterall! -WarNinjas Edited October 23, 2012 by WarNinjas Quote Link to comment
7rxc Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Good Idea for a cache pair! Tell her not to worry about the exactness of the positions for sure! Any time I make a big sandwich the filling always seems to spill out to one side or the other, so that isn't exactly centered either. Doug 7rxc Good luck! Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 So my daughter came up with this crazy idea she wants to make as a cache. She wants to call it earth sandwich. We would hide a cache here that the container is in the shape of a slice of bread. Then have a cacher on the other side of the world hide one the same and it would be a earth sandwich. We would be willing to ship the container out to them so they would be the same. One problem is the other side of the earth is a ocean but we were thinking maybe Australia or china as everyone thinks of that as the other side of the world so maybe more of a sub type of sandwich. We were hoping to find a active cacher who would maintain it as well. Then put a link to the GC code of the other cache. Maybe someday someone would find both slices or at least dream of it and want to find it. I have looked up a couple of active cachers in those country's and asked but guess the idea is to crazy as they have not responded. This has been a idea of hers for a while and she brings it up sometimes. Wondering if anyone here knew someone who would think this was a good idea and place one for us? Any good containers that might look like bread or maybe a Lock n Lock with a pic of a slice of bread showing threw the lid. Is this Idea just to crazy to work? Don't know but she thinks it would be cool so I thought I would ask. -WarNinjas Yes I saw the sandwich tool and where we are it doesn't work. But I have an idea. Oh BTW nice Watermelon! Is that why you didn't use the Pier? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Good Idea for a cache pair! Tell her not to worry about the exactness of the positions for sure! Any time I make a big sandwich the filling always seems to spill out to one side or the other, so that isn't exactly centered either. Doug 7rxc Good luck! Another idea that wouldn't require antipodes on dry land would be to find a city of the same name or a "sister city". Often sister cities are on "the other side of the world". Maybe it would be a perfect sandwich but the spirit is the same. Quote Link to comment
+doug_hollyNKC Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 If you took your home coordinates and changed the west to east, that would put you half way around the world and put you on land. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 If you took your home coordinates and changed the west to east, that would put you half way around the world and put you on land. I tried that with my local coordinates and it put me in a large lake in Kyrgyzstan. Does anyone know of a pair of caches which, except for the East/West designator have the same coordinates? Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Does anyone know of a pair of caches which, except for the East/West designator have the same coordinates?I bet if one were patient enough, such a pair could be found. Looking at the GC Map centered at zero, you could probably find a couple within driving distance of each other... Map Link Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 Oh BTW nice Watermelon! Is that why you didn't use the Pier? We have decided to set this up with the great help of Two_Drews! Thanks to them for offering to help and even create there own cache container over there! We will post up the GC codes of them when we get them going. And yes we thought the Watermelon was cooler then the Pier. Actually all of our pier series are several feet from the actual pier just gets you to the area. Thanks jellis and everyone for the great help with this and all of our caching adventures! -WarNinjas Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 If you took your home coordinates and changed the west to east, that would put you half way around the world and put you on land. The OP sandwich would fall into the Indian Ocean just about 900 miles south east of Madagascar Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 If you took your home coordinates and changed the west to east, that would put you half way around the world and put you on land. The OP sandwich would fall into the Indian Ocean just about 900 miles south east of Madagascar It might get a bit soggy but I would put it there if I lived near there! We love the water caches! Probibly wouldn't get found to often though. Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 If you took your home coordinates and changed the west to east, that would put you half way around the world and put you on land. The OP sandwich would fall into the Indian Ocean just about 900 miles south east of Madagascar It might get a bit soggy but I would put it there if I lived near there! We love the water caches! Probibly wouldn't get found to often though. You could try just the West coords as opposed to the real sandwich. Still will get pretty far. Quote Link to comment
+pixeltash Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Try tunnelling through the earth with this tool and see where you end up: http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm That is such a cool thing, I have just spent about half an hour fiddling with it :-) Quote Link to comment
+Brother Colin Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I Live in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. I'd be super happy to maintain this half of the your crazy cache idea. Quote Link to comment
+DeepButi Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Wow ... just playing with the Spanish antipodes I found this one Eart Sandwich ... with a free spot in "our" side of the Earth and three caches less than 400m away. Time to put one there! Quote Link to comment
+wvmarle Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Lovely. Would be happy to help out with a slice of bread somewhere in Hong Kong. Quote Link to comment
+DeepButi Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 (edited) Ladies & Gentelmen ... just come on and check the (I guess) first Earth Sandwich Geocache : GC1ZY9Y Earth Sandwich (Manawatu) -How long will it take before there is a cache at 40.4083 -3.6796?, the answer: 3 years, 2 months, 14 days GC43NAF Earth Sandwich (Madrid) Who will be the first geocacher to find both and get the First Earth Sandwich Find in the world? ... (to be continued) Edited: correct link Edited January 3, 2013 by DeepButi Quote Link to comment
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