What to do for the cacher that has everything ..
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What to do for the cacher that has everything ..
Just thought I'd share with everyone a most interesting experience I had on my birthday recently ...
First of all, some background ... My brother (gc alias: Barnesy) recently started geocaching and subsequently put out his first cache (which I've yet to visit, sorry bro! ). Inside were textas and instructions relating to them. A geocacher with sandy feet mistook them for swaps and took them on his virgin find, to the dismay of the 2 Dogs who were next there.
The situation was rectified and I came to acquire the textas from Sandy Feet. On my next visit to Barnesy's place, I hid the textas in 4 bundles around the yard, and proceeded to anonymously SMS him coordinates. It is from this, I am sure, that the following return gesture ensued.
On the eve of my birthday, just before going to bed, I received SMS coordinates from my brother. Hastily plotting them using cheatisearch, I saw that they were somewhere in the vicinity of my workplace. So, the next day, upon arrival, I proceeded to sheepishly chase my GPS arrow around the carpark at work for these mysterious coordinates. If you thought urban geocaching could be uncomfortable, try it in front of your coworkers! I gave up quickly, and after a brief ICQ exchange with Barnesy to confirm there was something to be found, I revisited the carpark, now distinctly less populated with people arriving. Once I'd narrowed down on GZ, I discovered ... a geobirthday site! ...
Inside a tupperware container was a clever message based on the standard gc.com note, a crunchie bar and a brand new car/serial adapter for my GPS! As the note said, and I paraphrase since I don't have the note on me, "Geobirthday is a great way for anyone with a GPS and a sense of adventure to have a birthday".
Fortunately, being a geobirthday and not a geocache, the private property and food in cache rules were waived.
Thanks Barnesy!
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First of all, some background ... My brother (gc alias: Barnesy) recently started geocaching and subsequently put out his first cache (which I've yet to visit, sorry bro! ). Inside were textas and instructions relating to them. A geocacher with sandy feet mistook them for swaps and took them on his virgin find, to the dismay of the 2 Dogs who were next there.
The situation was rectified and I came to acquire the textas from Sandy Feet. On my next visit to Barnesy's place, I hid the textas in 4 bundles around the yard, and proceeded to anonymously SMS him coordinates. It is from this, I am sure, that the following return gesture ensued.
On the eve of my birthday, just before going to bed, I received SMS coordinates from my brother. Hastily plotting them using cheatisearch, I saw that they were somewhere in the vicinity of my workplace. So, the next day, upon arrival, I proceeded to sheepishly chase my GPS arrow around the carpark at work for these mysterious coordinates. If you thought urban geocaching could be uncomfortable, try it in front of your coworkers! I gave up quickly, and after a brief ICQ exchange with Barnesy to confirm there was something to be found, I revisited the carpark, now distinctly less populated with people arriving. Once I'd narrowed down on GZ, I discovered ... a geobirthday site! ...
Inside a tupperware container was a clever message based on the standard gc.com note, a crunchie bar and a brand new car/serial adapter for my GPS! As the note said, and I paraphrase since I don't have the note on me, "Geobirthday is a great way for anyone with a GPS and a sense of adventure to have a birthday".
Fortunately, being a geobirthday and not a geocache, the private property and food in cache rules were waived.
Thanks Barnesy!
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Not just for birthdays ...
The MaccaKids did something similar for Maccamob's 30th wedding anniversary last year - with four out of five in the family (plus the son-in-law!) all keen cachers, would you expect anything else?! <br>
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GeoJo set up the multicache and SMS'ed the initial coords, with the final destination a pub in Geelong for a family dinner - the surprise was Slider & I had taken a couple of days off work and stealthed over the border from Adelaide the day before ... couldn't log any of the caches we did that day, as it would have given the game away we were in town!<br>
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Needless to say the evening was a huge hit as it had been a couple of years since the whole family was in the same spot at once. The looks of surprise on Mary & David's faces were priceless.<br>
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GeoJo set up the multicache and SMS'ed the initial coords, with the final destination a pub in Geelong for a family dinner - the surprise was Slider & I had taken a couple of days off work and stealthed over the border from Adelaide the day before ... couldn't log any of the caches we did that day, as it would have given the game away we were in town!<br>
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Needless to say the evening was a huge hit as it had been a couple of years since the whole family was in the same spot at once. The looks of surprise on Mary & David's faces were priceless.<br>