Geocaching Australia

Don't forget about the time difference! I am not sure what time you would be running the event, but remember there is 8 hours time difference between Germany and the East coast of Australia. It could be a good opportunity though for Aussie night owls to do some caching after the sun has left their p...

Reminds me of the story of NASA spending millions of dollars develpoing a pen the writes in zero-gravity. The Russians solved the problem by using pencils.

Over here, I think the negative temperatures could be a problem for pens in caches. It got down to -17 last week. Brrrrhh.

bmac.

Cacher Name: Brendano alias: bmac (as in forums) Parent: Non-cacher - Electronics Australia Article Birthdate: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 (i.e. gc.com acount created, with first attempt shortly after, sans GPS) First cache found (Christening?): May 4, 2001 Birthplace: Brisbane, Queensland Gender:...

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Small treasures like these are the goal of the geocacher. Sometimes you also find a single-use camera. The picture of the treasure-seekers, together with their trophies, will be placed on the internet.

<p>This article appeared in the local free Sunday paper a while back, but I have only just got around to getting it scanned and posted. <p>If you are interested in the geocaching scene overseas and can read German check it out. <p><a href="http://www.brendio.com/blog/archives/SontagBlitz.jpg"> <img ...

I'm already abroad, but apart from a couple of caches, and an event cache, have been pretty slack with the geocaching side of things. The cache difficaulty ratings go up a star for me when they are multi/puzzle caches in German. Also, I on fahrrad (bike), which limits my range, and most caches now a...

I was just thinking it would be nice to still have the cache details displayed on both sites, for those using it here. Perhaps those listed in this way could have a note explaining that they should be logged at gc.com. Or would the gc.com defectors be against this on principle, and hence would only ...

What happens if you skip step 1 - effectively listing the cache details on both sites? Does it put Gremlins in the system? You can already log find on gca, even for caches hosted by gc, can't you?

bmac.

Mix wrote:Well, we (Bronze and I) got 6 Etrex ...

Bronze wrote:Our 6 Etrex's ...

Hmm, just wondering, what is the correct plural term for etrex? Is it etrex, etrexes, etrexi?

(2) http://www.geographyolympics.com/challenge.php - My worst score 10%, best was %60.

Did it twice and 60% both times. Too bad I can't tell the difference between Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Can't I at least get half a mark?

bmac.

I hereby report that my "Angus from the Highlands of Scotland" has gone missing in action en route to Singapore. After being advised of his imminant travel some time ago, and then hearing nothing further for a couple of months, I contacted the last finder and received this reply: Please accept my ap...

Hello, I will be returning to Oz for a brief visit in December to, among others things, put on a funny hat and get a piece of paper. I already have a couple of TBs hitching the ride with me, so I am putting out a call incase any others want a lift in either direction of my journey. Any TBs already i...

craigrat, the system knows who you are by looking up the forum cookies. if you are in the forum or have it set to automatically log in to the forum, the system can read the cookie and determine which forum username you are or would be if you logged on. that gives us the person's forum name. getting...

Many of the caches around Brisbane with the name "Spider" as one of the hiders are believed to be hidden by QUT surveying students. Many of them are in disrepair, and I do not know of any QUT students still active in geocaching (correct me if I am wrong). I most of the students set up their geocache...

I love the cacher stats. You can get a complete recent history of a cachers whereabouts. Not being in Oz any more, I was not on the stats page anymore, but I worked out the link to my page. http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/Brendano One thing I noticed: On top of the list of my hidden caches, is an ar...