Clams And Geocaching.

[+CluelessTwo]

If this thread is going to be back, can it be thrown into Off Topic?

No, it's grandfathered in. Make that great grandfathered.

That would be Clamfathered in.

 

to put this back on topic... yeah right... What I'm trying to figure out is how the clams will be able to download waypoints, let alone use a GPS.

 

Fry-fi?

 

I assumed that they would be his caching friends. He would take them to the location and then the clams would look.

 

Claire xx

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

While it may be expensive to fly your clams to Australia it may be well worth it. Not only will you have a peck of trained clams you will be recognized as one of an outstanding cadre of trained Clam People.

http://www.anuenterprise.com.au/projects/C...LAM_people.html

 

Training is provided by ANU Enterprises, which is evidently the new name since ANU Systems produced an unfortunate acronym.

 

Geoducks above all clams are trainable for geocaching, but since they bury themselves three feet under sand and stay there for 100 years you have to be really really patient (and lucky) to see them make a find.

 

You could save the training money, I suppose, and just say that your geoduck can find caches... whose gonna sit and watch it for 100 years to prove you wrong?

Edited July 17, 2009 by TheAlabamaRambler

[knowschad]

While it may be expensive to fly your clams to Australia it may be well worth it. Not only will you have a peck of trained clams you will be recognized as one of an outstanding cadre of trained Clam People.

http://www.anuenterprise.com.au/projects/C...LAM_people.html

 

Training is provided by ANU Enterprises, which is evidently the new name since ANU Systems produced an unfortunate acronym.

 

Geoducks above all clams are trainable for geocaching, but since they bury themselves three feet under sand and stay there for 100 years you have to be really really patient (and lucky) to see them make a find.

 

No need to send them all the way to Australia for schooling when they can get almost as good training right here in the good old U.S.

[4wheelin_fool]

He had to think about his answer for four YEARS.

 

So?

[+flask]

What I'm trying to figure out is how the clams will be able to download waypoints, let alone use a GPS.

 

 

nobody can figure out how they reproduce without hurting their little selves either, and yet they do.

[+Scubasonic]

Has anybody had success training clams to find geocaches? And if so, are littlenecks, cherrystones, or quahogs better at it? I spent all yesterday afternoon trying to train a dozen littlenecks to hunt down caches, but all they would do was sit there and sometimes little bubbles would come from their shell. Am I wasting my time?

 

Well I do have a comment but since you are a moderator on the foum I better not I might get banned.

 

ScubaSonic

[knowschad]

Has anybody had success training clams to find geocaches? And if so, are littlenecks, cherrystones, or quahogs better at it? I spent all yesterday afternoon trying to train a dozen littlenecks to hunt down caches, but all they would do was sit there and sometimes little bubbles would come from their shell. Am I wasting my time?

Well I do have a comment but since you are a moderator on the foum I better not I might get banned.

ScubaSonic

Yeah, you'd best clam up, I think.

[+edscott]

Shame on you all..... Three pages and over four years and still no one has given Brian a serious answer. The time between the bubbles is the key. Long pause = dash, short pause = dot. It's morse code and they're giving you the coordinates.

Edited November 25, 2009 by edscott

[+Chrysalides]

Shame on you all..... Three pages and over four years and still no one has given Brian a serious answer.

That's because being shellfish we don't want to share the answer.

 

(knowschad started it)

[+GeoGeeBee]

Clams are no good for geocaching... the hamsters eat them.

[knowschad]

Clams are no good for geocaching... the hamsters eat them.

 

I predict that the hottest toy, Christmas 2010 will be Zhu Zhu clams!

 

 

(see Zhu Zhu Hamster, hottest toy Christmas 2009)

 

[+wimseyguy]

This whole thread is very OT for this week! Who ever heard of clam stuffing for a turkey?? Oyster stuffing yes, certainly, but clams?

[knowschad]

This whole thread is very OT for this week! Who ever heard of clam stuffing for a turkey?? Oyster stuffing yes, certainly, but clams?

I know what you mean. Seems like everyone is trying to mussel in on this thread, doesn't it?

[+Okiebryan]

I hereby nominate this thread for "Most Useless Necro'd Thread of the Year"

[4wheelin_fool]

Shame on you all..... Three pages and over four years and still no one has given Brian a serious answer. The time between the bubbles is the key. Long pause = dash, short pause = dot. It's morse code and they're giving you the coordinates.

Sheesh, and Iv'e been counting the bubbles this whole time.

[knowschad]

Shame on you all..... Three pages and over four years and still no one has given Brian a serious answer. The time between the bubbles is the key. Long pause = dash, short pause = dot. It's morse code and they're giving you the coordinates.

Abalone!!

 

 

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

So who will be the first to get their picture posted holding a GPS with Speedy?

 

Here is a photo of Speedy Geoduck, mascot of Washington’s official hippie college, The Evergreen State College

 

The Geoduck Fight Song

by Malcolm Stilson, 1971

Go, Geoducks go,

Through the mud and the sand, let’s go.

Siphon high, squirt it out,

Swivel all about,

Let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,

Stretch your necks when the tide is low

Siphon high, squirt it out,

Swivel all about,

Let it all hang out.

 

Edited December 3, 2009 by TheAlabamaRambler

[+wimseyguy]

I'd love to see a steel cage match between the the ESC Geoduck and the UCSC Banana Slug.

[+Isonzo Karst]

I'd love to see a steel cage match between the the ESC Geoduck and the UCSC Banana Slug, equally armed with a couple of Etrex. Hunting a well camo'ed magneto. On the steel cage, of course.

[4wheelin_fool]

Has anybody had success training clams to find geocaches? And if so, are littlenecks, cherrystones, or quahogs better at it? I spent all yesterday afternoon trying to train a dozen littlenecks to hunt down caches, but all they would do was sit there and sometimes little bubbles would come from their shell. Am I wasting my time?

 

I see that he has figured it out.

 

The Clam that Knew Too Much

 

The Clam with the Broken Arm

[+Qbar]

I, for one, am greatful for the revival of this thread - not once, but twice. It was a wonderful start to my day!

 

Thanks everyone..

[+Arse&Hemi]

We're trying to train our dog by saying, "DIG," at Ground Zero, but then, no cache can be buried so that's useless training! We've never tried clams before and since we live right on the coast, and when it's clam season, we'll have to give it a go.

[+Pork King]

I find dead frogs are great cache retrieval tools.  Squish them in the middle and their toungues plop out.  The tongues are sticky and can grab the cache in those hard to reach places.  Live frogs are much less usefull for caching.

Little known fact:

 

If you took a live healthy frog and threw him into a pot of boiling water it would immediately jump out to save himself from sure death. If however, you took that same live, healthy frog and placed it in a large cool pot of water it would probably be quite content there.

 

If you then put the pot on top of your stove and put the burner on very low, the frog would still be quite happy, never feeling the very low heat ever so slightly rising from the bottom. As the water slowly rises in temperature the frog hardly notices. It simply becomes accustomed to the very gradual rise in temperature. By the time the frog notices that it has no strength left, and is becoming increasingly more lethargic as the heat rises. . . .It is too late to do anything about it. It's dead.

 

I prefer to use dead frogs AS caches.

 

Even MORE FUN with dead frogs.

 

Something tells me that if you threw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it would die pretty instantly. Hopping out probably wouldn't be an option...

[knowschad]

I find dead frogs are great cache retrieval tools. Squish them in the middle and their toungues plop out. The tongues are sticky and can grab the cache in those hard to reach places. Live frogs are much less usefull for caching.

Little known fact:

 

If you took a live healthy frog and threw him into a pot of boiling water it would immediately jump out to save himself from sure death. If however, you took that same live, healthy frog and placed it in a large cool pot of water it would probably be quite content there.

 

If you then put the pot on top of your stove and put the burner on very low, the frog would still be quite happy, never feeling the very low heat ever so slightly rising from the bottom. As the water slowly rises in temperature the frog hardly notices. It simply becomes accustomed to the very gradual rise in temperature. By the time the frog notices that it has no strength left, and is becoming increasingly more lethargic as the heat rises. . . .It is too late to do anything about it. It's dead.

 

I prefer to use dead frogs AS caches.

 

Even MORE FUN with dead frogs.

 

Something tells me that if you threw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it would die pretty instantly. Hopping out probably wouldn't be an option...

Naww... didn't you ever hear this story?

 

Two little frogs fell in a bucket of boiling cream. The first frog quickly gave up and drowned. The second frog, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that boiling cream into melted butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second frog.

 

 

 

...or something like that.

[+briansnat]

Two little frogs fell in a bucket of boiling cream. The first frog quickly gave up and drowned. The second frog, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that boiling cream into melted butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second frog.

 

I'd think that having a body covered with 2nd degree burns would not be very comfortable.