Geocaching Australia

I've had success with a flint and paperbark, and a magnesium/flint starter with egg cartons. <br><br> Method 1: Strip a thick sheet of bark off a paperbark tree and peel the paperbark into thin layers. Pile up the thin sheets of paperbark under some bundled twigs and strike the flint into the paperb...

I did try an early beta. It worked but had a range of problems that really needed to be ironed out. Haven't tried it lately so don't know what it is like now.
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Mike.

Works a treat. Thanks for your efforts in getting this sorted.

Mike (Pi).

you go to the forum on this site www.gpsaustralia.net you will be able to get for free topo maps of NSW at 25k and 100k.<br> Dooghan <br><br> You can also get these maps using bittorrent. Go here and you can get both sets as seperate torrents. <br><br> If you need a bittorrent client I use this one...

zactyl wrote:Most of them you can do the walk nude too!

If you are not sure about nude bushwalking you should get in contact with these guys: Bare Bushwalking Australia. I am sure they would be keen to help.

Mike.

Hi Shaggy,

If you read my log I took XU9J4 with me and he is not a premium member. So I wouldn't worry about it. Only issue is that the non-premium members don't get a find added as they can't log the cache.

Mike.

P.S. Who ever you take just make sure they have thin arms.

It's on page 57. Quite a good article.
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Mike.

Hi Andrew, <p> I have a Zire 72, which I use for paperless caching. Overall the unit is great to use for paperless. My only complaint is the USB port can only be used for syncing and charging not for connecting other devices i.e. GPSr. Some people use the Zire's builtin bluetooth capability (of cour...

I said in my log that people need to be careful as the nest was in a position that was all to easy to knock. Particularly if you were backing out of the lair. <p> It could have been kids as I did notice the remanents of a rock cairn on the fire trail in spot that was an obvious exit to the cache are...

I found one of these containers at the start of Tangles MTB cache. Scary thing is this is just 1km from home and there were other disused needles in the area. That was a while ago and recent visits to this location have not revealed anything. It is still a worry though as lots of kids ride their bik...

If you are looking for an on-line version Festy (geocacher from NSW) and the guys at GPS Australia have created this conversion tool:
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http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/view.php?pg=convert
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It runs GPSBabel to do the conversion.
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Mike.

Insight is repeated on Friday at 1:00pm. I will have to tape it and have a look.

Thanks Ecodave for the info.

You may find this site useful.
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Mike

I'm going to get one of these babies.
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Mike.

I turned WAAS off on my meridian ages ago and it boomerangs just as effectively as it ever did.
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Mike.