Geocaching Australia

EcoTeam wrote: Isn't the census this week or something
I heard you can fill it out online this year

EcoDave

Tuesday 8th August

And thanks for making me find out about eCensus.

:? I should start speading the word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to help keep things in balance. Get Touched his noodly appengage! Thanks so much for this link! It's superb material :) For once lol really applies :lol: I assume FSM is the same person as the moderator with that name on the US Gro...

Personally, I'm an athiest, so at least you know that I'll have no denominational bias. (Let the excommunications and fatwas begin!) While you may indeed be unbiased, I don't think being an athiest automatically precludes you from bias. LetÂ’s be clear about this: Bear_Left did not claim to be a...

Bear_Left wrote: I'm keen to protect the light, fun, non-commercial, non-agenda nature of caches, and overtly religious caches fall well outside the guidelines.

Rgds,
Ian, aka PBL, aka theUMP.

Thanks for that reassurance.

Our reviewing is obviously in good hands

How did this sort of thing ever get off the ground?

In the “Guidelines for Cache ListingsÂâ€

I agree that the log book is the heart of the cache, and should be preserved for posterity's sake. One thing that bugs me a bit is reading online that a logbook has been disposed of because it is waterlogged and unuseable. I think that disposal of a log book is up to the cache owner, but at least a...

I figure if it's not your own cache then leave the old log book there. If it is your own cache then you may wish to remove the old log book, or not, but if the cache is big enough then it's more interesting for subsequent finders if they can read the old log entries. What he said. 1st lady What the...

pprass wrote:

Biggles Bear wrote:What I can't understand is why any one would want to adopt a TB that has gone MIA...

He's a TB ghoul - deserves to be buried with all pesky TB's

And he's done at least one exhumation already!

What about a registery of stolen or missing coins so as legitmate coin collectors can check they are not buying stolen goods. After all coin stealing is "theft". There is in effect such a registry as a coin in a cache (unless left as a swap or prize) will have been activated. Hence any purchaser ca...

It's been interesting reading the answers to my initial query, even if some have been decidedly OT :? Thanks for the helpful advice :) I have a general aversion to caches which require the searcher to bring special equipment to retrieve and/or open it, so I may try Snuva's suggestion to make the nan...

Have you tried ordinary double clip containers with a sealed rim which you can usually get for $2-3 from Cheap as Chips or whatever your local equivalent is? I have bought and successfully used ones as small as 100 x 150 x 50mm. If you use a screw on lid donÂ’t you risk finders not putting it on ...

On the other hand there may also be a visiting overseas cacher who has decided to take up collecting geocoins, might pay to keep an eye on ebay for a while and see if they appear there as well. Unlikely, I think. The coin will still be registered on gc.com as 'belonging' to the original owner. If t...

The problem with Geocoins seems to be that they are very susceptible to Geotheft. <p> I bought five trackable ones via ADAcache but they are so nice and there are getting so many instances of them getting stolen, I have not yet set them free. The longer time goes on, the worse it seems to get and t...

Black BEADED?

And why has the big chappie got a patch on his left eye while the little chappie has one on his right (and no black bead )

Or have I just logged a spoiler?

This really gives me the sh*ts if i hide a cache i expect to return and find it hidden in exactly the same way as i left it, my caches aren't often hidden hard as the whole point is to take the cacher to the area and i don't want them to walk away with a DNF and when i place a cache in a way that i...