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- 06 May 19 12:26 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: Report Site Issues Here
- Replies: 631
- Views: 696568
Preparing to go overseas
Hi, I'm not privy to how GA manages to display GC caches, but I have found a few that mysteriously return a "Unknown/unlisted cache" result, despite definitely existing. They're overseas caches so I totally understand if it's to maintain the database at a reasonable size But on the off chance that i...
- 15 June 17 3:59 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: GA10000 now active.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6485
Seeking advice on public transporting away from this cache
Congrats on the win! I'm plotting an assault on this for a Sunday (huzzah cheap travel!) and could do with some advice. The 4 waypoint caches are close enough to a bus stop that I can public transport my way to the start (train to Penrith/Emu Plains, 691 to a bus stop, ~20min walk to GA9996). Gettin...
- 15 June 17 1:44 am
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Geocaching Australia Weekly Trivia Competition
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17293
Re: Geocaching Australia Weekly Trivia Competition
Thanks for running this, Richary. Out of curiosity, how did you pick winners? I simply entered the names (of those who had answered correctly) into a Google Sheets spreadsheet (if you haven't used it think of it as a free but annoying version of Excel - we use it at work). If there were 9 correct e...
- 14 June 17 5:39 am
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Stickers/stamps for signing logs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7404
Re: Stickers/stamps for signing logs
I have no objection to anyone using them, but I do wish that some people would take more care with how they place their stickers. I've seen many instances where the sticker is slapped on the outside of a book, or across other people's names. Likewise. I generally don't mind either, but when someone...
- 14 June 17 5:19 am
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Geocaching Australia Weekly Trivia Competition
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17293
Re: Geocaching Australia Weekly Trivia Competition
Thanks for running this, Richary.
Out of curiosity, how did you pick winners?
Out of curiosity, how did you pick winners?
- 09 December 16 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: What to use for a logbook for a waterbottle cache container?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7087
Re: What to use for a logbook for a waterbottle cache container?
24 pill containers, with the log in only one. I have this image in my head of those little flat cylindrical containers typically used to hold lip balm And a cacher shaking the bottle at night while it's raining, making the most awful racket, muttering to themselves, "What is all this, why are there...
- 08 December 16 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: What to use for a logbook for a waterbottle cache container?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7087
What to use for a logbook for a waterbottle cache container?
I have a bunch of metal water bottles. Being a water bottle, it is inherently watertight. I'm thinking it'd make a pretty decent cache container. However, it's ~220mm tall, and the opening is pretty small - 27mm. So, I can roll up some A4 pieces of paper, and they'll fit just fine. However, I am for...
- 01 November 16 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Ammo can thief - a geocacher?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11580
Re: Ammo can thief - a geocacher?
My thought is that while the game wasn't so well known, the majority sort of people that played would respect each others geocaches. Now there are a lot more people playing, increasing the number of "entitlement mentality" players who just don't care about others. Have you noticed how many under 30...
- 30 August 16 1:02 am
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hunting Time
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8126
Re: Hunting Time
tl;dr: urban - 10-60min depending on size. bush - ages! For me, it depends highly on the cache size. I'm a city/urban cacher, so terrain is less of a factor. I have done it for a few years now. For sizes Small and upwards, it takes 10-15min. There's only so many places to look. (Honestly, it's a mir...
- 03 January 16 12:46 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: GeGnome ][ Electric Boogaloo
- Replies: 244
- Views: 119681
Re: GeGnome ][ Electric Boogaloo
Haha there is an absolute glut of gnomes in Sutherland NSW at the moment. I'm hoping to go pick up a few tomorrow/next week - how do I figure out where the active GA cachers in Sydney are though? While there are plenty of GC cachers around, there's not a lot of GA caches within 10km of Sydney, and I...
- 04 November 15 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: Where are we all from??? (introduce yourself) parts 1&2
- Replies: 542
- Views: 425972
Hi! Welcome!
Hi GCA people! I'm very new here but I signed up at That Other Site just on 3 months ago. It feels like I've been aware of geocaching forever but, although intrigued by the idea, I never found myself investing in the requisite gadgetry. Things changed when I finally swapped my dumbphone for a very ...
- 23 October 15 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: CCCC: Cache Construction Centre of Competence
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24767
Hand-cranked power and free wifi
Someone mentioned hand-cranked power. Darling Harbour has these ... bike pedal things that you can use to charge your phone. You need to bring your own USB cable for your phone, but basically you plug it into the USB slot on the bike thing, and exercise until your phone has charge again. Not sure if...
- 23 October 15 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Chit-Chat
- Topic: So where/how do you draw the line re safety?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 25339
Re: So where/how do you draw the line re safety?
I draw the hard safety line by going with instinct. For me, instinct is that small voice that goes 'bring a jacket' despite it being a sunny day. Sometimes I'll reason with myself, but if it all comes up clean and small!voice is still saying 'no, leave', I'll leave. I consider myself extremely lucky...
- 11 December 10 9:01 pm
- Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
- Topic: Have GPSr. Need software.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2028
Have GPSr. Need software.
I have a device that communicates with the satellites. It gives me my current coordinates. Sadly I am not l33t enough to understand what direction I need to walk in just by knowing my current coordinates. So at the least, I need software that will talk to the GPSr (it talks in NMEA 0183) and also gi...
- 29 May 10 4:26 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: The 10 Year Anniversary Official Pathtags Rewards List
- Replies: 77
- Views: 24574
Re: The 10 Year Anniversary Official Pathtags Rewards List
Hurrah shinies soon to be received! And two of them! Email address has been checked and confirmed to be correct!
I was so confused the first time I found a pathtag.
Ever since I looked up what they were, I've been hoping to collect a whole bunch of different ones, but they are still kind of rare.
I was so confused the first time I found a pathtag.
Ever since I looked up what they were, I've been hoping to collect a whole bunch of different ones, but they are still kind of rare.