Geocaching Australia

My etrex I took my etrex out to Ozone - about a 50 m swim, and survived on the day, so I thought nothing of it. The unit didn't start a week later, so when I opened the battery compartment, it was full of rust. The connection through the case had gone. Fixed with a wire and some solder, but it is de...

If you treat the earth as a sphere, lat. is always the same distance - i.e 111km. The distance of 1 degree of longitude is 111 times the cosine of the longitude - i.e. 111 at the equator, 0 at the poles where the lines meet.

The nautical mile is defined this way - 1 degree is 60 nm at the equator.

I reckon it's for 100 GCA finds

Geez - I thought I was being really original! Idea is 7 years old.

I recently saw on ABC a short article on "Chess Boxing" where the competition involves a 4 minute chess session followed by a 3 minute boxing round. Goes until checkmate or TKO. It must have sat in the back of my mind when I was reading the Manly hobbies thread, and saw that paintballing was in ther...

Went caching on Xmas day this year, but didn't actually find anything. Big fat guts must have got in the way.

You have a parchment on your desk covered by symbols that you pore over during your lunch hour. Your work colleagues think you are truely dilligent learning some new programming language in your break, although they cannot understand the level of swearing that this exercise generates. Feeling sorry ...

I (D) was pretty much over coins and bugs from the start. Too much hassle for something that's likely to go mising straight away. Path tags re my preference - the may or may not be logged, and there's no big deal if someone holds on to them.

That's actually a game we play... You get points for pointing out a place on the news or in a show where you know there's a cache.

Fantastic Congratulations

Our Garmins are certainly bigger and heavier than the iPhone or n95, but have you seen me go after a cache? Usually crawling under, climbing over etc etc, and there's no way the iPhone or n95 would last 5 minutes! Anyone taken their iPhone out to Ozone?

Wow! I'm not too sure who deserves more credit - Garmin or Google!

Captain Terror wrote:Chuck Norris.

No, no, no..... It's "Steven Seagal!!! Pressure point, Pressure point!!!"

Scary stuff Wazza, sorry you had a bad end to what was a fun day.

Ran into Landsergruppe whilst going for a FTF. We had both had a little trouble with it, but together we found the elusive item .