Nocturnal caching
Nocturnal caching
How often do you go night caching?
I took Wing Nut out on Friday night for his first go at it and it was a top night, well, ok, I never got to bed til 3am the next day.
It certainly presents a new set of problems, but also has it's advantages.
Less snakes.
Lower visibility.
More mosquitos.
sometimes harder to see a cache
sometimes easier to see a cache
harder to find tracks on the side of playing fields
But, loads of fun!!
I took Wing Nut out on Friday night for his first go at it and it was a top night, well, ok, I never got to bed til 3am the next day.
It certainly presents a new set of problems, but also has it's advantages.
Less snakes.
Lower visibility.
More mosquitos.
sometimes harder to see a cache
sometimes easier to see a cache
harder to find tracks on the side of playing fields
But, loads of fun!!
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80% of caching we do is at night.
Pros:
* Work and study occupies my friends and myself during the day, the only time we left to cache is during the night.
* Less heat, here in QLD its GOOD to go night caching.
* Just take it easy and enjoy the chilled out nightime experience.
Cons:
* Walking into a big hairy spider in his 1 x 1 meter web, AHHHHHHHH!
Its all good fun!
Pros:
* Work and study occupies my friends and myself during the day, the only time we left to cache is during the night.
* Less heat, here in QLD its GOOD to go night caching.
* Just take it easy and enjoy the chilled out nightime experience.
Cons:
* Walking into a big hairy spider in his 1 x 1 meter web, AHHHHHHHH!
Its all good fun!
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Not to mention how good it can be on a warm clear night, just chillin out signing the log and looking at the night sky.
You see and hear so many other types of night life too, like the kangaroos, possums, rabits, beasts of two backs that make cars squeek.
Disturbed a pair of those on friday night, did not seem to put them off their game though.
Up in the mountains here, looking back down towards the city is pretty darn nice too.
You see and hear so many other types of night life too, like the kangaroos, possums, rabits, beasts of two backs that make cars squeek.
Disturbed a pair of those on friday night, did not seem to put them off their game though.
Up in the mountains here, looking back down towards the city is pretty darn nice too.
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Re: Nocturnal caching
We've never deliberately done it, but have had to get out the torch on the odd occasion when we run overtime.Webguy wrote:How often do you go night caching?
I took Wing Nut out on Friday night for his first go at it and it was a top night, well, ok, I never got to bed til 3am the next day.
It certainly presents a new set of problems, but also has it's advantages.
Less snakes.
Lower visibility.
More mosquitos.
sometimes harder to see a cache
sometimes easier to see a cache
harder to find tracks on the side of playing fields
But, loads of fun!!
Daytime is better for us, we like to enjoy the views. MrsEco also has this silly idea about actually getting X amount of sleep per day. Don't actually understand the concept myself but I've been told that I must learn...
Night canyoning this season anyone?
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<p>Lt. Sniper wrote: Cons:
* Walking into a big hairy spider in his 1 x 1 meter web, AHHHHHHHH!
That's why you take someone like CraigRat along - makes for an excellent big hairy spider/web remover. Just pretend you are tired, out of breath and simply can't go on any longer, he takes the lead with his fancy torch - job done
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Hey where did my post go?
Testing 1,2,3.
I said...Hmmm mabey it was too scary and the mods canned it.
Let me try again.
I said that we don't do that much night caching here in Dubbo. In winter and some of the hotter nights in summer it is the best way to get some caching in and make it just that little more difficult.
Here is not the safest place to cache at night so I take along my own Big, scary (sometimes hairy) and ugly companion...
Redneck wonderland - Were goin cache huntin.
The Bronze.
Testing 1,2,3.
I said...Hmmm mabey it was too scary and the mods canned it.
Let me try again.
I said that we don't do that much night caching here in Dubbo. In winter and some of the hotter nights in summer it is the best way to get some caching in and make it just that little more difficult.
Here is not the safest place to cache at night so I take along my own Big, scary (sometimes hairy) and ugly companion...
Redneck wonderland - Were goin cache huntin.
The Bronze.
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A goodly number of my caches have been done during a frenzy of night caching. The last case of which was with TGL when we bagged 5/6 caches. The prior night cache feeding frenzy I was part of was an inpromptude night with riblit, webguy and webguy jnr. I forget how many caches we ended up with, but I left home at 8 pm with plans of being home at around 11pm, I crawled into bed at around 5am..... and we had criss-crossed Sydney... the best cache of the night was in Chinatown, West of the summit, I was looking for a park when it came up on the GPS units, since I had done it perviously I gave the trio a rough verbal description and they bailed out of the car, whilst I was locked in a traffic jam. I told them to phone me so I could let them know where to find me.... well the phone rang, they ask"where are you?" "50ft from where you bailed out from me, still stuck in the traffic....." three door slams later and the traffic snarl cleared itself....
And when I was working nights for the governemnt I use to after work drive in from Richmond, to attempt those caches that had defeated me previous, like i!8 Get Smart and other brain numbing caches...
And when I was working nights for the governemnt I use to after work drive in from Richmond, to attempt those caches that had defeated me previous, like i!8 Get Smart and other brain numbing caches...