Cache items

[Guest M]

This is being discussed in the general forum (which seems to be mainly Americans), so I'm wondering what the take over here is.

As a real newbie, I'd rather get it right, rather than peeve some of you more experienced geocachers off.

We've been leaving things which do have a meaning to us, but not really worth anything monetarily. We're busy trying to organise our first cache, but after finding a few bits & pieces, worked out it's a lot harder than we thought (some of the $10+ items look like they should be $1- lol).

H&M (M's the talkative one who's still on holiday)

[Guest Adman]

I wouldn't worry about what you put in the cache to much, most geocachers are in the sport for the hunt rather than than the prize at the end of it.

[Guest M]

Don't get me wrong, for me it's definitely the hunt that's the fun part. It's also fun trying to work out where to place our first cache - which one place would everyone enjoying going to and possibly never been before.

I'm definitely not wanting to make it like the Americans where $$$ is the almighty.

We've had fun finding the caches we have & have a few more lined up that we want to do, time permitting.

M

[Guest tgsnoopy]

I agree, the hunt is more important! I like to try and take a small inexpensive trophy from caches I find if practical. What it is, isn't important nor is it's value. A lot of the time I might add something, or more than one thing, and not take anything. Most of my cache items are only worth a couple of dollars, I think the most expensive thing I left was worth about $18.00

 

It's quite good for me down here now, I have two other active geocachers nearby, so I am getting to enjoy chasing their caches, and no doubt they are enjoying chasing mine. I will be concentrating on putting some trophies into the next generation of caches I plant, not sure how I'll do that, or what I'll use, ideas appreciated. I still have two caches from my first batch I made to plant (I made 15, and have planted 13 so far, I think 8 have been found).