Geocaching Australia

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Mix76 wrote:I was doing an I.Q test and personality test

It wasn't one of those silly tests that'll give you more indepth results for just $14.95, was it? "Only 6 out of 1,000 people have this rare combination of abilities"?

May I suggest a visit to Canberra? It's just 3 hours from Sydney by bus. We have a disproportionately large number of excellent caches. Visit Parliament House, the War Memorial, Telstra Tower, the National Gallery, the Kamberra Wine Centre and the like and wrap up the day with dinner at one of our a...

Probably one day some moron will look them up on the net and plunder them en masse. Already happened. Cache pirates were all the rage back in '03. Some of them moved the cache or kidnapped travel bugs, then left maps or ransom notes with clues on where they could be found. When it was done well and...

Pac Manhattan.

The Ginger Loon wrote:I had the idea of an extended multi cache between Sydney and Melbourne once, going down the Hume Hwy.

I had an idea for a 'learn as you go' type multicache that'd require cachers to visit the various rest stops between Canberra and Sydney. They're all memorials to decorated veterans.

I have a SporTrak Pro and highly recommend it. I use Mapsend S&D Australia for uploading maps, and I find them to be very useful for caching. Happy to answer any specific questions you have about the unit.

Dingbats wrote:How old do the little 'uns get before you either cannot carry them or they don't want to be carried any longer? Are they worth while or are they too much bother?

They're too much bother - I'd get rid of 'em and buy a cat.

I need a cold shower.

jazzman wrote:I am excited!

Geez, 'e's not even 'ere yet and 'e's awreddy tawkin' loik Big Kev.

We've used our SporTrak Pro in the US and Mexico with no problems. <FNORD>I have Magellan Euro and US basemaps if you want 'em.</FNORD>

Incidentally, if anybody wants to see my - ahem - highly artistic map, you can get a zip with the map image (in .bmp format), the OziExplorer .map file to go with it and a collection of waypoints for Canberra metro caches here. It's about 1.3mb. As I mentioned earlier, it's just a splice of a two ma...

Accidents? You mean like exporting Canberra v1.0.1 to an OziExplorer map and then watching smoke pour out of your boxen while it tries to open a 285mb bitmap?

Anyways, really nice job. Much prettier than the two '50km/h streets' maps I spliced together!

Slightly OT - I've seen Spindoc Bob (and now Magneto) post references to freely available topo data at GA, but I can't seem to find it. Anybody got a link to the relevant bit on their site?

Sorry, I could've been a little more clear about that. I also have a 'no muggles' rule. It just doesn't matter if they're kids or adults, and I'm no more (or less) cautious around kids than I am around adults. Seriously, if anybody's hurting kids, it's almost certainly going to be a family member or...