Geocaching Australia

Well, today at work I looked over my shoulder when using the theodolite and had a brown raised up about half a step behind me. Scared the hell out of me (but I didn't scream) and totally froze. It eventually went away, but came back 10 minutes later. We bailed at that point and found a new section o...

I usually just enter it without the symbols, ie. S35 26.287 E149 13.635. You can also leave off the letter and use -/+ to get the direction.

caughtatwork wrote:If you can get me a list, I can load them up for ACT.

I'll look into it. I've got a list, I just need to convert the coords to WSG (they are on ACT grid system).

Just got back onto the forums recently and was excited to see this up and running. Great work (even though there are a lot of trigs missing for the ACT).

This is an awesome addition!

One place to try is nurseries. They use them for labling plants and you can get packets of aluminium (spelling?) tags for a reasonable price.

Agent Basil, if you venture across to NSW and visit Queanbeyan the main nursery near the river sells them (at least last time I went there).

Calling all ACT cachers, who has something like that ? <br><br>Its really easy to do, and as previously stated punches are cheap at auto stores. <br><br>In terms of ACT, I recently used this for a multi for the second set of coords and it is seeming to work quite well. Water resistant and metal tag...

I have to say the one FTF I got was fun on the pure adrelalin scale. I was so hyped up that I ran up the hill just to get to the cache. Even if I was second, it still wouldn't have taken away that thrill of the chase. But I wouldn't be as excited afterwards. But I am not so hyped up about FTFs as so...

Merry Christmas to all!

And with no parents to celebrate with this year, its a great excuse to spend the day caching =P

ummm, errr...... :shock: Just to clarify: - GDA94 is close enough to WGS84 for all consumer GPSr purposes (less than 1m). - The achievable resolution on a 1:25000 topo is considered around 25m (ie. 1mm on the map), therefore it will not matter if you use WGS84 or GDA94 in any case. 8) - IF you real...

If you are using GDA94 you can use this website for conversions to WGS: <br><br> http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/datums/redfearn_grid_to_geo.jsp <br><br>There is also a link that converts WGS84 to GDA94. And there are is a speadsheet here that allows use of Redfearn's forumla offline. <br><br>By pullin...

Definately 1 adult.

However, I will try and drag Magpyre along and if that happens we will probably have a non-geocaching tagalong (hopefully by then we will have convinced him to get a registered name =P)

And most likely camping. The location looks great for this sort of thing.

Had to do this. Looks fun.

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7 people have voted they don't care. I'm really curious as to why you don't care if the quality of caching is going down. I suggest they may have just wanted to see the result of the survey, without registering either yes or no. The "I don't know option" may be needed. I voted 'dont care' because I...

This may have been covered before somewhere in the forums, but would it be reasonable to make it necessary for someone to have found a certain number of caches before having a hide published? Perhaps 10 or 20? It may sound a tad draconian, but could be way to prevent carppy hides such as the one me...

Have to agree with Mischief's Crew on this. <p>It can get a bit daunting when you are new to caching and everyone continiously rants about how caching is declining in standards and new cachers are guilty of contributing to this. Maybe the comments aren't that negative, but a lot of time the underton...