Winter must slow us down!

April 1, 2002

Interesting to note that there are a few relatively new caches around here that haven't been pounced on yet. Previously I would rush off to get them first if I could, but MinuteWar has curtailed a lot of my Geocaching time. I wonder what's happened to others! Could it just be winter? I hope they haven't fallen off. One of the locals up here e-mailed me a bit over a month ago keen to organise a Geocachers barbeque, but I heard nothing further despite being keen on the idea. As we are going into my first winter of geocaching, is this normal? It is pleasing to see we passed 150 active geocaches this weekend. Interestingly, my attempts in the past to get media coverage have failed due to DOC not being aware of us, the local paper etc is reluctant to publish stories which might impact on our enviroment and are not officially recognised. I suppose it's a good thing they check it out before publishing. Perhaps we should consider addressing this again? Food for thought everyone, any comments?

April 1, 2002

My wife and I visited your country a week ago on a tour and I didn't think we would get a chance to do any caching so I didn't pack our GPS. Just wanted you to know what a lovely country you have. It was a joy to drive, boat, and fly over.

April 1, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Interesting to note that there are a few relatively new caches around here that haven't been pounced on yet. Previously I would rush off to get them first if I could, but http://www.minutewar.org/ has curtailed a lot of my Geocaching time.

I must admit that MinuteWar has been eating alot of my time (go team W!) but I did take a couple of days off over easter and baged 10 caches down south (cheers Donovan and Gavin) - made a change to go somewhere and find a physical something, rather than virtual something The loss of daylight savings has prevented finding and placing caches after work, so that may account for some of the drop off...

Cheers

Nick.

April 1, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Interesting to note that there are a few relatively new caches around here that haven't been pounced on yet. Previously I would rush off to get them first if I could, but http://www.minutewar.org/ has curtailed a lot of my Geocaching time.

I must admit that MinuteWar has been eating alot of my time (go team W!) but I did take a couple of days off over easter and baged 10 caches down south (cheers Donovan and Gavin) - made a change to go somewhere and find a physical something, rather than virtual something The loss of daylight savings has prevented finding and placing caches after work, so that may account for some of the drop off...

Cheers

Nick.

April 4, 2002

Yeah i think it must slow us down, i would like to go and find a few more, but work is really busy at the mo, and i have some sort of allergic reaction to something at the mo, so that sucks.

April 5, 2002

Since the pay to cache days started we have lost some of the interest we had for Geocaching. We have not found or hidden a cache since then but have told others about the sport. We are not happy about getting others hooked like us if it means at some stage they feel they have to pay to cache. We will not pay to cache but feel others that have paid will not take to us still caching in on them.

[This message was edited by klaymen on April 05, 2002 at 05:22 PM.]

April 5, 2002

Since the pay to cache days started we have lost some of the interest we had for Geocaching. We have not found or hidden a cache since then but have told others about the sport. We are not happy about getting others hooked like us if it means at some stage they feel they have to pay to cache. We will not pay to cache but feel others that have paid will not take to us still caching in on them.

[This message was edited by klaymen on April 05, 2002 at 05:22 PM.]

April 5, 2002

Well this is a difficult subject. I would like you to think of the Charter Membership as Jeremy likes to call it as a donation or club subscription, It is not compulsory. You can still go geocaching, a number of players have already stated they will not place any members only caches, that is because like yourselves they think Geocaching should be free. In fact I personally beleive that a fee of some kind is neccessary for the continuation of the Geocaching website, the costs involved in running it must be huge. If a geocacher doesn't want people who aren't members to go finding his geocache, then he has the ability to make it a members only cache, I doubt anyone has done that, I would be surprised to say the least if anyone in New Zealand would. Please continue Geocaching, Our sport will miss you otherwise! (Must actually meet you guys too). Most people who have paid hide the fact by changing the name associated with their login to Geocacher instead of Charter Member because they don't want to cause the them and us situation, They think of it as a donation to cover the costs only. Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.

[This message was edited by tgsnoopy on June 05, 2002 at 11:55 AM.]

April 5, 2002

Well this is a difficult subject. I would like you to think of the Charter Membership as Jeremy likes to call it as a donation or club subscription, It is not compulsory. You can still go geocaching, a number of players have already stated they will not place any members only caches, that is because like yourselves they think Geocaching should be free. In fact I personally beleive that a fee of some kind is neccessary for the continuation of the Geocaching website, the costs involved in running it must be huge. If a geocacher doesn't want people who aren't members to go finding his geocache, then he has the ability to make it a members only cache, I doubt anyone has done that, I would be surprised to say the least if anyone in New Zealand would. Please continue Geocaching, Our sport will miss you otherwise! (Must actually meet you guys too). Most people who have paid hide the fact by changing the name associated with their login to Geocacher instead of Charter Member because they don't want to cause the them and us situation, They think of it as a donation to cover the costs only. Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.

[This message was edited by tgsnoopy on June 05, 2002 at 11:55 AM.]

April 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.

I agree with you tgsnoopy, and I am sure that if geocaching.com was ever made pay-for-play that we have enough tech savy players in NZ to setup geocaching.co.nz (Gavin/Rediguana has already registered the domain) for just us NZ players. (But domain registrations and bandwidth do cost money, so someone will have to shell out...)

Nick.

April 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.

I agree with you tgsnoopy, and I am sure that if geocaching.com was ever made pay-for-play that we have enough tech savy players in NZ to setup geocaching.co.nz (Gavin/Rediguana has already registered the domain) for just us NZ players. (But domain registrations and bandwidth do cost money, so someone will have to shell out...)

Nick.

April 8, 2002

It is a tricky subject and there is no right answer. I don't agree with the commercialisation of geocaching.com - I believe it should be run as any other sports club. Cover the overheads, and pay people who do the work. But most importantly, there should be open accounting, the books have to be open for memebers. I have no hesitation in saying that I haven't paid yet primarily because of the lack of openness. I fully support Jeremy (and others) to get paid for his time, and not to be out of pocket for the running of geocaching.com. But it must be open for members to view the accounts.

But I don't think giving up on geocaching is the answer. Heck, going out and finding a box with radio signals is just too much dadgum fun, and is a great talking point. I'm going to keep doing it, and you guys should too. You may find, that like me, you start to temper you geocaching because of other activities (namely minutewar, but also geodashing). Oh yeah, and life

Do keep playing, do stay involved. You don't have to pay if you don't want to. And if worst comes to worst, there are other options available.

Cheers Gav aka rediguana

April 8, 2002

It is a tricky subject and there is no right answer. I don't agree with the commercialisation of geocaching.com - I believe it should be run as any other sports club. Cover the overheads, and pay people who do the work. But most importantly, there should be open accounting, the books have to be open for memebers. I have no hesitation in saying that I haven't paid yet primarily because of the lack of openness. I fully support Jeremy (and others) to get paid for his time, and not to be out of pocket for the running of geocaching.com. But it must be open for members to view the accounts.

But I don't think giving up on geocaching is the answer. Heck, going out and finding a box with radio signals is just too much dadgum fun, and is a great talking point. I'm going to keep doing it, and you guys should too. You may find, that like me, you start to temper you geocaching because of other activities (namely minutewar, but also geodashing). Oh yeah, and life

Do keep playing, do stay involved. You don't have to pay if you don't want to. And if worst comes to worst, there are other options available.

Cheers Gav aka rediguana

June 5, 2002

I'm very pleased to see the Klaymen place a new cache on Mount Maunganui (Mauao), I was concerned we had lost their participation.

Incidently, I would personally be foolish to place a cache there, after in 1999 I installed a low power FM radio station translator for Blowhole FM into the Surf Clubs repeater enclosure. I thought nothing of it, they asked me to do it whilst performing the usual maintenance (which I did on a volunteer basis). Turns out, the power is paid for by Airways corporation for running the lights on the pole it's all mounted on, they didn't consent, No licence had been obtained and one was neccessary, and a bylaw had been created preventing any new equipment being installed.

I turned off the equipment a week after it was commissioned and removed it. I learnt a valuable lesson, and was darn lucky not to have been prosecuted, if I hadn't previously worked with the technician who actually held the licence for the output frequency (that was illegally used), I could have been liable for a fine for up to $250,000.00 Ouch!

Subsequently I am well aware of the bylaw, and a certain council official would love to rub my nose in it if he got the chance (by me putting a cache there), he'd fine me, whereas a normal member of the public would most likely be ignored or warned at worst.

Now if I can just find the time to go look for Klaymens new cache.

June 5, 2002

I'm very pleased to see the Klaymen place a new cache on Mount Maunganui (Mauao), I was concerned we had lost their participation.

Incidently, I would personally be foolish to place a cache there, after in 1999 I installed a low power FM radio station translator for Blowhole FM into the Surf Clubs repeater enclosure. I thought nothing of it, they asked me to do it whilst performing the usual maintenance (which I did on a volunteer basis). Turns out, the power is paid for by Airways corporation for running the lights on the pole it's all mounted on, they didn't consent, No licence had been obtained and one was neccessary, and a bylaw had been created preventing any new equipment being installed.

I turned off the equipment a week after it was commissioned and removed it. I learnt a valuable lesson, and was darn lucky not to have been prosecuted, if I hadn't previously worked with the technician who actually held the licence for the output frequency (that was illegally used), I could have been liable for a fine for up to $250,000.00 Ouch!

Subsequently I am well aware of the bylaw, and a certain council official would love to rub my nose in it if he got the chance (by me putting a cache there), he'd fine me, whereas a normal member of the public would most likely be ignored or warned at worst.

Now if I can just find the time to go look for Klaymens new cache.

October 6, 2002

Yeah, Daylight saving is finally here, so we can go caching in the evenings after work

I see tgsnoopy has been busy - congratulations on your half century

Looking forward to finding lots more caches over the comming months.

Cheers

Nick.

October 6, 2002

Yeah, Daylight saving is finally here, so we can go caching in the evenings after work

I see tgsnoopy has been busy - congratulations on your half century

Looking forward to finding lots more caches over the comming months.

Cheers

Nick.

October 6, 2002

Thanks Nick. In true form, it's time to start putting more caches in. Watch out for Christophers wet feet, more to follow

October 6, 2002

Thanks Nick. In true form, it's time to start putting more caches in. Watch out for Christophers wet feet, more to follow

October 6, 2002

Hey THG - Make that 6 finds.. or is it 7? I'm losing count.

My eTrex was being a ***** yesterday. I was looking for a cache and it kept swaying really bad. I assumed to begin with that it might have something to do with daylight savings - but AFAIK GPSr's have no concept of local time..? I would have thought they'd go with GMT or something and the output can be set as an offset for local time?

Besides.. I haven't adjusted the time in it for ages.. which I should probably do come to think of it :-)

Paying for Geocaching - get real. I can't see the costs of hosting geocaching.com being THAT high. I dunno what his traffic stats are, nor do I know how much he's paying for data (doesn't Jeremy run it from his employer's site?) but I can't see why he can't get by with donations or something.

If it were to go any more commercial than it is now I'd be happy to donate my time to help get www.geocaching.co.nz running (along with extra functionality such as regional drill downs and stuff that Geocaching.com just doesn't have). I'm not a web design guru by any means but I know PHP and MySQL and Apache reasonably well!

October 6, 2002

Hey THG - Make that 6 finds.. or is it 7? I'm losing count.

My eTrex was being a ***** yesterday. I was looking for a cache and it kept swaying really bad. I assumed to begin with that it might have something to do with daylight savings - but AFAIK GPSr's have no concept of local time..? I would have thought they'd go with GMT or something and the output can be set as an offset for local time?

Besides.. I haven't adjusted the time in it for ages.. which I should probably do come to think of it :-)

Paying for Geocaching - get real. I can't see the costs of hosting geocaching.com being THAT high. I dunno what his traffic stats are, nor do I know how much he's paying for data (doesn't Jeremy run it from his employer's site?) but I can't see why he can't get by with donations or something.

If it were to go any more commercial than it is now I'd be happy to donate my time to help get www.geocaching.co.nz running (along with extra functionality such as regional drill downs and stuff that Geocaching.com just doesn't have). I'm not a web design guru by any means but I know PHP and MySQL and Apache reasonably well!

October 7, 2002

As far as I know Jeremy has resigned from the position he held when he started Geocaching.com and is now doing the geocaching website full time. He said very little when he changed to the charter membership system, but I'm fairly certain he is now only doing geocaching support full time. He had tried to run geocaching.com on a donation basis but it wasn't working.

For some reason when I was looking breifly a few minutes ago I was unable to find a lot of the postings about the changes to a charter membership system, it's almost like they were deleted! I hope not!

The servers hosting the geocaching site must be fairly large, with a rather quick connection into the web, after all, there are now a huge number of members. I imagine his costs for the web hosting alone would be more than an average mans salary these days.

I don't think it's going to be neccessary for anyone to start up our own site just yet (and hopefully it never will), but it is reassuring to know that we have the domain name secured and people prepared to help. I'm fairly confident between Gav, Nick & Steve that if worse comes to worse our sport can continue. Thanks guys

October 7, 2002

As far as I know Jeremy has resigned from the position he held when he started Geocaching.com and is now doing the geocaching website full time. He said very little when he changed to the charter membership system, but I'm fairly certain he is now only doing geocaching support full time. He had tried to run geocaching.com on a donation basis but it wasn't working.

For some reason when I was looking breifly a few minutes ago I was unable to find a lot of the postings about the changes to a charter membership system, it's almost like they were deleted! I hope not!

The servers hosting the geocaching site must be fairly large, with a rather quick connection into the web, after all, there are now a huge number of members. I imagine his costs for the web hosting alone would be more than an average mans salary these days.

I don't think it's going to be neccessary for anyone to start up our own site just yet (and hopefully it never will), but it is reassuring to know that we have the domain name secured and people prepared to help. I'm fairly confident between Gav, Nick & Steve that if worse comes to worse our sport can continue. Thanks guys

October 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
For some reason when I was looking breifly a few minutes ago I was unable to find a lot of the postings about the changes to a charter membership system, it's almost like they were deleted! I hope not!

Here is our discussion with links to the US discussions.

quote:
The servers hosting the geocaching site must be fairly large, with a rather quick connection into the web, after all, there are now a huge number of members. I imagine his costs for the web hosting alone would be more than an average mans salary these days.

Even the forum software that we are using now is not cheap - have a look.

God only knows how much traffic people looking at GC.com use, being as there are over 38000 cache pages! By the time you include all the photos there must be multi-gigabytes worth of information (in another thread Jeremy was talking about needing a US$10K rack mount server for an upgrade!) not something I would like to run as a hobby

Cheers

Nick

October 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
For some reason when I was looking breifly a few minutes ago I was unable to find a lot of the postings about the changes to a charter membership system, it's almost like they were deleted! I hope not!

Here is our discussion with links to the US discussions.

quote:
The servers hosting the geocaching site must be fairly large, with a rather quick connection into the web, after all, there are now a huge number of members. I imagine his costs for the web hosting alone would be more than an average mans salary these days.

Even the forum software that we are using now is not cheap - have a look.

God only knows how much traffic people looking at GC.com use, being as there are over 38000 cache pages! By the time you include all the photos there must be multi-gigabytes worth of information (in another thread Jeremy was talking about needing a US$10K rack mount server for an upgrade!) not something I would like to run as a hobby

Cheers

Nick

October 7, 2002

Thanks Nick, once again I used to much haste in one of my "quick looks" and don't find what I'm looking for. Mind you, I could just be lazy relying on someone like you to do the hard work for me .

I feel validated now that my comments were justified, I'm sure glad I'm not paying for that kind of hardware, let alone the other costs involved, all so we can enjoy our hobby. I personally feel the US$30.00 per annum is a very reasonable fee.

In any case, at this point in time you can enjoy this sport without paying any fee's and it appears this will remain the case for the immediate future at least. However, people do have the option when placing caches to restrict access to members only. I'm not aware of any such caches in NZ yet, but you just don't know what the future will bring. I personally won't place any member only caches, and I suspect most NZ Geocachers will feel the same way, but I might change my opinion if I get a few plundered (I have one to check on at this stage). For those of you who have paid your Charter Membership subscription, I thank you for your contribution towards our sport, you are helping make this sport accessable for everyone, and that is why I'm more than happy to pay it myself

October 7, 2002

Thanks Nick, once again I used to much haste in one of my "quick looks" and don't find what I'm looking for. Mind you, I could just be lazy relying on someone like you to do the hard work for me .

I feel validated now that my comments were justified, I'm sure glad I'm not paying for that kind of hardware, let alone the other costs involved, all so we can enjoy our hobby. I personally feel the US$30.00 per annum is a very reasonable fee.

In any case, at this point in time you can enjoy this sport without paying any fee's and it appears this will remain the case for the immediate future at least. However, people do have the option when placing caches to restrict access to members only. I'm not aware of any such caches in NZ yet, but you just don't know what the future will bring. I personally won't place any member only caches, and I suspect most NZ Geocachers will feel the same way, but I might change my opinion if I get a few plundered (I have one to check on at this stage). For those of you who have paid your Charter Membership subscription, I thank you for your contribution towards our sport, you are helping make this sport accessable for everyone, and that is why I'm more than happy to pay it myself

October 8, 2002

Good to see some healthy rivalry from TeamHunterGatherer and Ariwa. Don't forget guys, you could always have a contest to see who can put in the most caches too

October 8, 2002

Good to see some healthy rivalry from TeamHunterGatherer and Ariwa. Don't forget guys, you could always have a contest to see who can put in the most caches too

October 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by TeamHunterGatherer:
yeah but then that will give him more caches to find and he'll get ahead of me

LOL - I decided that placing caches was the only stat of Gavs that I had any hope of getting higher than him in - only another 16 to go (dadgum it, I just noticed he has placed another 2 since leaving NZ - I am never going to catch up!)

Cheers

Nick.

October 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by TeamHunterGatherer:
yeah but then that will give him more caches to find and he'll get ahead of me

LOL - I decided that placing caches was the only stat of Gavs that I had any hope of getting higher than him in - only another 16 to go (dadgum it, I just noticed he has placed another 2 since leaving NZ - I am never going to catch up!)

Cheers

Nick.

October 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Good to see some healthy rivalry from TeamHunterGatherer and Ariwa. Don't forget guys, you could always have a contest to see who can put in the most caches too

Well, for a short sweet while there I was ahead of both of them , but it seems they've caught up already . Some of their finds no longer exist so it'll be hard keeping ahead of them

M@

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

October 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Good to see some healthy rivalry from TeamHunterGatherer and Ariwa. Don't forget guys, you could always have a contest to see who can put in the most caches too

Well, for a short sweet while there I was ahead of both of them , but it seems they've caught up already . Some of their finds no longer exist so it'll be hard keeping ahead of them

M@

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

October 8, 2002

That's not so bad if you're going to visit my poor lonely cache

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

October 8, 2002

That's not so bad if you're going to visit my poor lonely cache

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

October 8, 2002

Hmm, I've just printed out Island rock in the last couple of days and been considering doing that one. I suppose I should look at the fullers timetable and work out how I can fit that in. It would be good to be able to acheive it in a daytrip. Even better if I could find the Coastal cache on the same day. Might have to go visit a friend in Whangarei for a couple of days too, oh and maybe have a catchup visit with another mate in Kaikohe Mind you it sounds like my workload is about to pick up again. Introducing a friend to geocaching tommorrow all going well, I need to do a maintenance visit to Vanishing River, so will let him hunt it, and then possibly Kiwi Xmas Tree and Braemar Springs as well. In any case, the additional activity is all good

October 8, 2002

Hmm, I've just printed out Island rock in the last couple of days and been considering doing that one. I suppose I should look at the fullers timetable and work out how I can fit that in. It would be good to be able to acheive it in a daytrip. Even better if I could find the Coastal cache on the same day. Might have to go visit a friend in Whangarei for a couple of days too, oh and maybe have a catchup visit with another mate in Kaikohe Mind you it sounds like my workload is about to pick up again. Introducing a friend to geocaching tommorrow all going well, I need to do a maintenance visit to Vanishing River, so will let him hunt it, and then possibly Kiwi Xmas Tree and Braemar Springs as well. In any case, the additional activity is all good

October 9, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tgsnoopy:
Hmm, I've just printed out Island rock in the last couple of days and been considering doing that one. I suppose I should look at the fullers timetable and work out how I can fit that in. It would be good to be able to acheive it in a daytrip. Even better if I could find the Coastal cache on the same day.

You could take the 11am ferry from Auckland and get the cache in time for the 2.20pm sailing from Rangitoto. Also the 1pm from Auckland and 4.20pm return would work. That should give you time to find another cache afterwards.

I'm looking at doing a northern reccy myself.

M@

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

October 11, 2002

Thanks for that. Doesn't look like I'll get the chance this weekend, another challenge is more likely. I'm sure that will be helpfull when I find the time

October 12, 2002

quote:
i figured it would be very important for the GPSr to have an idea of the time. It needs to know what the correct GMT offset would be so it could match that to the almanac. For your unit to know how far it is from a satelite it would need to know exactly what time that signal was sent... wouldn't it? it's a GPSr not a GPS_transmitter... so it doesn't bounce a signal there and back.

I don't disagree - it is vital for a GPSr to know the time. But it does not need to know the GMT offset (ie the country that you're in) as all the satellites transmit a common time.. Without any research on the matter, AFAIK, the almanac is only really used to speed up a fix after power-on - which is why it takes an eTrex about 10 seconds or so to get its first fix, but when it comes new out of its box it has to build an almanac from scratch of the satelites overhead.

October 12, 2002

Might play some catchup tommorow, unless it rains again!

October 30, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by BigNick:
LOL - I decided that placing caches was the only stat of Gavs that I had any hope of getting higher than him in

Ok, I know that numbers don't really mean anything, and this stat is only going to last another week or so (until Gav gets back from the US) but currently according to Dan's Stat Site we have 1 more physical find in New Zealand than Gav (but he beats our pants off in total finds)

Of course when Gav gets back from the US he has 30+ local caches to find,so we are going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Cheers

Nick (and Bernadette)

October 30, 2002

These stat sites seem to be inaccurate, I know for mine I have hidden 6 or 7 caches but it says I have hidden none.

Perhaps that could be a new webpage to be created by one of New Zealands computer skill-blessed cachers!!!

Your'e right Nick about stats not being important, but theres nothing like a bit of good natured competition

October 31, 2002

Yes, well hopefully it's back for good this time. I now know not to use back when deleting, so hopefully there won't be a repeat of it. I've also passed my learning curve on to Gavin, so he hopefully won't make the same mistake I did. Sorry about that

October 31, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Steve & Ruth:
These stat sites seem to be inaccurate, I know for mine I have hidden 6 or 7 caches but it says I have hidden none.

Yeah Dan had a problem for a while with the 'hidden' caches - you can check what he has on file from you (using 'User' page) and update it using the 'Missing Logs' page.

quote:
Perhaps that could be a new webpage to be created by one of New Zealands computer skill-blessed cachers!!!

Jeremy is having a crack down on programs that slurp data from the GC.com website, so this would probably not be a good idea

(see here and here) Though I do have the scripts that geocacheuk.com use for the UK stats, so it would not take too much work to implement.

Cheers

Nick.

November 4, 2002

quote:
Yeah Dan had a problem for a while with the 'hidden' caches - you can check what he has on file from you (using 'User' page) and update it using the 'Missing Logs' page.

The counts given in the summary don't seem to add up to what's in the log list for me. I've tried to add a missing log but it doesn't seem to take it.

M@

Auckland Kayakers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auckland-kayakers

December 17, 2002

By the looks of the forum pages and cache lists it appears that everyone is too busy with xmas to be doing any caching

Merry xmas everyone, I'll look forward to the caching scene picking up soon.

I have xmas day off work for a change

December 17, 2002

Just think of all those unwanted pressies being jammed into caches !

I foresee a surge of caches containing pairs of socks and ugly mantlepiece ornaments.

Must go and start getting ready for Hogmanay!

Hairy Little McDwarf

A friend helps you move house. A REAL friend helps you move a body!

December 17, 2002

Well I don't know about everyone else, but it truely seems to be a silly season this year .

Tauranga Grid locked over the harbour bridge this afternoon after a minor accident on the causeway. Yay 1 hour 15 minutes to travel from the Mount to Tauranga, normally a 5 minute trip. I actually wish they'd put the toll back on it so it wouldn't grid lock anymore .

I had hoped to get a few more caches in by now, but alas other things keep cropping up. Yesterday morning my sister appeared back from the UK for Christmas, also with friends and relatives paying spontaneous visits I don't know if I'm going to get any more in before Christmas but I'm not complaining . (Mental note, Must take sister geocaching)

Now as for the prospect of unwanted presents appearing in caches, that is something I hadn't thought of, but hey, why not? One mans junk is another mans treasure after all. Gee, will we see a cache armed with 2 pairs of Y fronts, 3 pairs of socks etc? Will anyone ever take them? On another note, whilst working for Telecom some 10 to 15 years ago, I remember unpacking the NEC NEAX61E exchange equipment (from Japan), on the inventory lists was packets of lint free cloth. Well these packets of lint free cloth never got used, in fact they were incinerated at the hospital in there plastic bags, the bags contained used cotton underwear, complete with skid marks . These Neax exchanges were the downfall of most Telecom technicians as they required practially no maintenance and replaced mechanical exchanges which required lots. Tauranga went from nearly 100 technicians to about 5.

But I digress. I'm considering creating a temporary cache, a multi-virtual cache, one others could do in their city. What I'm thinking of doing is creating a list of waypoints, complete with instructions to visit the best illuminated houses, a Christmas lights trail. The BOP Times actually publishes one, and I'm thinking about creating a cache theme. What do others think? Would it be worth the effort?

Oh, and by the way, in case I don't catch your attention again before the big day... Merry Christmas!

I can't beleive that Christmas is becoming such a sensitive word in our society. Unbeleivable, I thought the idea of our society was to be tolerant of other beleifs, so why can't they tolerate our Christmas? Gee, I'm going off on a tangent again. Enjoy the "Summer Season" everyone .

Winter must slow us down!

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