Geocaching is something I have been intrigued with for some time (as I like electronic gadgets & geography & bushwalking), so I finally got around to getting myself a handheld GPS & taking the plunge.
Yesterday I tried about 4 local caches & found none of them, today I found 4 out of 5! (BTW I am in Newcastle). A bit of a buzz finding something that 99.99% of the populace doesn't realise is right under their noses!
Now for some questions:
- I have logged today's results in geocaching.com (where the caches are listed) - will those logs automatically show up on Geocaching Australia?
- I already know that I want to be placing some caches because I can guess it's just as much of a buzz for somebody else to find something that I have hidden, as it is for me to find something that somebody else has hidden. So should I register the caches at geocaching.com or Geocaching Australia? (And if I register them at geocaching.com, will they automatically show up in a search done on Geocaching Australia?)
- Have you ever been bailed up by cops wondering at your suspicious activity? One of today's caches was right next to where the bulk carriers load up with coal and the port security did do a driveby scoping me out......
Another thing that gets me thinking, is whether nearby residents / shop owners / etc get really puzzled as to why just about every weekend people keep wandering over to the same spot with an mp3 player in their hand, as if they are searching for something.....- Have you ever bumped into somebody else looking for the same cache as you at the same time?
Enough for now, I'm sure I'll have more to say later on.
. We have been caching since the beginning of March and have come across one caching family in that time . We both rocked up at a roadside cache on the way to toowoomba. Since the shop behind it closed there was not alot of reason to stop there anymore except to cache.