Geocaching Australia

The sartorially splendid Passion for Fashion (GA2882) came with me today to the surf carnival at Ocean Grove. It was a pretty showery cold and windy day, but that didn't slow the carnival much http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2426/fashionfollower2050.jpg The little guy really wanted a go in the su...

You fly all the way from Melbourne to New Orleans without any sleep at all. When you arrive, having been awake for 36 plus hours, you leave your HTC Hero phone on the Aiport Shuttle and your first thought is not "Oh no, how will I contact my family", not "Oh god, I hope no-one uses that to hack my e...

I had some visitors at work today... I want My Gnomey: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2880 , Flower Power: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2878 and Capt Whitebeard: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2877 came along for a look-see. Since this is a GeGnome project, it's only fitting they get themsel...

Ripper...thanks heaps...going over to the gnome photos thread now....

Help....OT for this thread, but lots are watching...where can I find info on uploading photos to put in logs and in forum posts ?

Question about "ethics" for this race. Is it OK to have a "hide" where the finder has to ask a receptionist for the "cache" ? In other words, would it be within the spirit for me to have the gnome at work and have the receptionist worded up to hand him over ?

I haven't got that many out there, but most of the ones I do have are a way of sharing a place with others who would normally whizz straight past on their way to somewhere else. There might be a view, a story or a bit of history. I do have one drive-by that if I'm honest, is probably just there for ...

Apart from the fact that they're currently grandfathered, virtual caches seem to be a reasonable compromise in that you can take people to the place you want them to see without potientially disrespectful hides, or people scrambling around on graves searching. I did a virtual in a cemetry in New Or...

Apart from the fact that they're currently grandfathered, virtual caches seem to be a reasonable compromise in that you can take people to the place you want them to see without potientially disrespectful hides, or people scrambling around on graves searching. I did a virtual in a cemetry in New Orl...

pwags wrote:

juc_cacher wrote:Certainly is, but I don't spend *all* my time there....

Just the odd gnome rescue mission?

(Good to hear the gnomes are ok!)

Yep, rescuing stranded gnomes and scribbling stuff in cut-down notebooks hidden in tupperware boxes under piles of twigs.

pwags wrote:

PrincessDiala wrote:

juc_cacher wrote:

Yurt wrote:How many people without gnomes are getting involved?

We have no gnomes, but will be moving some on.

Thank you

Hey - Jan Juc is very close to Anglesea, isnt it?

Certainly is, but I don't spend *all* my time there....

Yurt wrote:How many people without gnomes are getting involved?

We have no gnomes, but will be moving some on.