P&O cruise cache....good luck

[Hobes1]

hi all.

 

 

 

im off on a cruise tomorrow, P&O cruise ship departing sydney sailing to qld.

 

im planting a small cache, with notes etc etc, first to find, CASH AUD...

 

happy hunting, when i get the right spot ill drop hints and clues upon my return.

 

dont think anyone has ever done this one?

 

against the rules?  ok, but whomever likes to cruise, good luck...

 

 

[geoawareUSA9]

7 hours ago, Hobes1 said:

against the rules?

 

Yes, it is. This is a vacation cache, which will not likely be published.

 

Edited to add link

Edited November 10 by geoawareUSA9

[Keystone]

I took the OP's idea to involve hiding a cache ON the cruise ship, for "whomever likes to cruise."  This idea wouldn't work for a second reason - the guideline prohibiting commercial caches.  Such a cache could not be found without buying a ticket, and the cruise ship could be considered "entering a business."

[+niraD]

1 hour ago, Keystone said:

I took the OP's idea to involve hiding a cache ON the cruise ship, for "whomever likes to cruise."  This idea wouldn't work for a second reason - the guideline prohibiting commercial caches.  Such a cache could not be found without buying a ticket, and the cruise ship could be considered "entering a business."

And then there are the guidelines prohibiting temporary caches and caches "intended to move" (e.g., because they're on a ship that moves).

[Hobes1]

oh well, maybe not then, ill save my money..

[+TriciaG]

Also, I can imagine a cruise ship employee finding a "suspicious package" hidden on the ship.

[+JL_HSTRE]

On 11/10/2024 at 2:20 AM, Hobes1 said:

dont think anyone has ever done this one?

 

against the rules?  ok, but whomever likes to cruise, good luck...

 

That should have been your first question, not an afterthought. 

 

How exactly did you propose giving static GPS coordinates to a moving ship?

 

Edited November 11 by JL_HSTRE

[+GeoElmo6000]

3 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said:

 

How exactly did you propose giving static GPS coordinates to a moving ship?

 

 

Well they managed to do so on a moving international space station /s

[+thebruce0]

Now you could of course hold your own scavenger hunt on the ship; assuming of course you have permission. A better implementation would be find someone on the ship, staff or not (or at a protected known location), and have them be the target, so the package is 'guarded' (won't be come across randomly and cause a freakout), and release hints as you wish. But it can't be listed as a geocache here.

[Hobes1]

hi all. after coming back from the cruise, it would have been a fun find to anyone who is on this group who does cruise. i spoke with a few people on the cruise who just happen to be cachers and they thought the idea was good. and they would have been up for a new idea. name the ship and give the clues. but given the rules here, it didnt go ahead.

so ill come up with another cache for locals in my area, so hopefully it will be accepted .. 

[+colleda]

On 11/15/2024 at 5:59 PM, Hobes1 said:

hi all. after coming back from the cruise, it would have been a fun find to anyone who is on this group who does cruise. i spoke with a few people on the cruise who just happen to be cachers and they thought the idea was good. and they would have been up for a new idea. name the ship and give the clues. but given the rules here, it didnt go ahead.

so ill come up with another cache for locals in my area, so hopefully it will be accepted .. 

The only thing I have heard of being hidden on cruise ships are rubber duckies but you would never locate one using a GPS, just your eyes.

I cruise and geocache. I have not yet been on a cruise where there has been another geocacher on board. Occacionally I have been in a port where there has been a cacher from another ship and have actually met a couple of them. I usually find out later, when I log my finds online, and see logs for the same caches on the same day where the log mentions they were from a ship that day.

Edited November 21 by colleda