Geocaching Australia

We had a Garmin 450. Loved it ... easy to use and great that we could download caches directly to it. =; However, during our last holiday. The Garmin which was in my handbag on the front floor of the car broke. My husband had to stop fairly quickly to not hit a roam dog crossing the street. He wasn'...

Thanks everyone for your help. =D> I've learnt a few things from this exercise. I've been playing with it this morning. I left the GPS our in the backyard for a good half hour (I forgot about it) and when I checked the co-ords with GE, it was on the money. So, later we will take it back to the PO an...

Thanks so much for your reply MM and the welcome. I just checked the co-ords by viewing the co-ords on the gps and then manually lining those numbers up with Google Earth (down the bottom of the map screen). Ok, showing my total newbie status here. How do I do the Datum thing for WGS84? I think we w...

Hi :-" Very new to this forum and geocaching. We purchased an Oregon 550 which we received during the week. We took a way point at the post office in town here today and when I looked up the co-ordinates on Google Earth it has us about half a km away (as the crow flies). Any ideas on what might be w...