Geocaching Australia

In Kenya caches do sometimes survive if they're either very remote, or in a relatively secure area and the security staff have some incentive to keep them un-muggled. There are also virtuals and Earthcaches, which mostly can't be that easily muggled...

Steampunk Geocaching, anybody?

Folks in my local astronomical society's forum saw this story and decided there was at least one journalist in need of an education...

This was the US one I mentioned earlier. Don't want this to happen! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC171MH Hmmm... Over two years without a single find, ever? Plenty of cachers logging DNFs, and strong indications that plenty of others have hunted for it but not logged it? I'm...

Only one " :) Found it" log, but it sounds as if others have also found it... The trouble with good disguises is that they fool the eye, so you can't tell you've got a cache in hand until you pick it up. This tends to encourage "looking with your fingers". I remember finding one cache (GCKR5F, I thi...

Get away from the busy areas, and you'll find caches which maybe get a dozen visits a year if they're lucky, and you'll miss many of those if you filter on "not found in the last N days". Much better to filter on caches which have "Not Found" notes as a high proportion of their most recent logs (if ...

Strewth! I occasionally wondered how folks managed to build up four- and five-digit find counts. I figure I'm doing well if I find more than one in a day, and I think five in a day is the most I've ever managed...

Just because it has Identifying info means nothing to UXO techs. IEDS come in all shapes and sizes. Trust me I have made them :D . Only for work however. Sure, once the UXO lot have been called out, but that sort of exercise is expensive. Had there been identifying information on the bat monitor, a...

but that makes camo hard if it is required for the hide. You could argue that if the hide's in a place that might cause security concerns then an extreme camo makeover probably isn't appropriate. ;) And geocaching stickers mean nothing. A geocaching label with a cache reference might at least give ...

If the weather stays the way it's been recently, you'll need a brolly! Dunno where the summer went. It sure didn't come here! Yeah, brambles and nettles are something of a caching hazard, and at this time of year some places are a bit overgrown with bracken. There should be plenty of caches to hunt....

#666 When you most need a hint, you'll decode the hint and find it says something like "May add a hint sometime"...

Great shots, folks. Where were you when you took them? I sent my sister out with her kids to go look for it, and they eventually spotted it from the Zig Zag in Gooseberry Hill WA. Me? I'm stuck in cloud-bedraggled, wind-torn, cold, dark Blighty, and missed out. However someone at my local astronomic...

Yeah, there's always the possibility that whoever grabbed the bug hasn't yet logged it, but a note in the cache log is a good idea. After that it's up the the bug and cache owners to figure something...

Replacing missing caches is very commendable. I don't think people should then be claiming a find on it! Yeah, all sorts of scope for confusion there. I'd figure that replacing the container of a cache you've found but don't own is OK provided you're doing a more-or-less like-for-like swap, but if ...

Now that I have all these excuses for failed to find :twisted: , does anyone have the "Correct" reason :? Even looking at mapsource, the 00.000 line is not at the Greenwich observatory where the physical line is :?: The short answer is that WGS84 is based on approximations and best-effort measureme...