Geocaching Australia

snip If you think Groundspeak are anything more than a revenue generating machine off the works of others then you, my dear friend, are seriously wrong. The Free and Open way of geocaching has well and truly got traction brother, and you’ll be the one missing out. more snip I don't really care for ...

A quick query regarding GSAK which I'm hoping someone can resolve. Maybe a wrong setting or something. Our GSAK is set up like many peoples to interrogate a dedicated gmail account which has pocket queries of the entire state, sent weekly. It's been working pretty well, but we're noticing that it se...

Well done for obviously a lot of background work and planning/plotting :wink: - but we probably won't be attending. Easter is a time we usually stick close to base, often to avoid the holiday roads, as well as our usual church commitments and the whole Easter weekend is a bit too much of a commitmen...

Hey, we can use this to our advantage.... Go to #1. Sign. Leave. Then other cachers will move your log for you so you can claim a visit on the entire powertrail without the effort (After all, sooner or later your name will be in the log of every cachein the trail) :twisted: So iamapom, congrats on y...

So i assume each team then has to turn around and put the last cache back in the spot they started?? And hope that nobody visited that one in that time?? (Assume a lot of DNFs on cache #1) What a strange approach - Clever re time saving, but I can't help feel it's bending the rules a bit too much......

Playing around with uploading mine just for chuckles - but am unsure about how it'll go long-term. I can see sense for an open site if its a local community with fairly strong connections - and GCA is a great example of that. The peer support (and correction!) keeps it ticking along nicely. But I do...

Melbourne's reputation as a dangerous place for gnomes continues:



http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2884

I use that one too, and have since we started geocaching.... As others have said, it does the basic things very well, and is pretty tough and robust into the bargain. I really do miss mapping abilities on mine, but if you're running it in conjunction with an iphone then that's less of a problem. It ...

Thanks to those who replied - and big thanks to Trigg-A-Nomics who gave me exactly the info required to keep the cache-dreams alive

Odd question - but as part of a cache I'm trying to put together I need some expertise around electro-magnetic fields/radiation.... anyone got a bit more than google-knowledge about it? If you do, PM me (Can't let the cache ideas become public knowledge before it's released! )

Ta!

I am still a paper cacher, and what bugs me is I can't see any way to remove lengthy descriptions and meaningless photos that are embedded in the descriptions, when I do a printout. Is there a way to remove them? Or am I doomed to pages of (to me) useless field notes? If you're printing from the 'p...

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Out of curiosity went to have a look at the series, and looked at the first:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... c3ce5e9905

Attributes - dangerous animals, thorns, requires scuba gear (!!!)

http://blog.geocaching.com/2010/11/24-hour-epic-adventure-nets-more-than-a-1100-geocaches/ *Insert necessary words about "each to their own", "different things to different people", blah blah here* Did some rough calculations on the alien highway part of their trip. 18 hours - 40minutes refuelling =...

I'd agree with all of those above comments - Location, surprises and so on... Sharing what we've discovered with others, and hiding what you like to find - either in cache terms or location I think for me it's also about trying to do something a bit new and interesting. That little chuckle I get whe...

Hi, and welcome! All the information you need on how to hide are here: http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Hiding_a_cache Having said that (and assuming that you're new to the game - correct me if you're not) it's also a really good idea to go out and do plenty of caches of different types and in dif...