Has anyone done any of the Degree Confluence project?
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Has anyone done any of the Degree Confluence project?
I only just found out about http://www.confluence.org/index.php
If I had of found this prject earlier, I would have taken all the Vic mainland photos within a day of the project starting!!
Now! I'm off to SA and WA
Has anyone here contibuted?
If I had of found this prject earlier, I would have taken all the Vic mainland photos within a day of the project starting!!
Now! I'm off to SA and WA
Has anyone here contibuted?
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Yes.
http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=6662
There are a few caches on confluences. Remote ones may have the caches right smack bang on them but easier to get to ones (like : Port Germein by Team Piggy
S33° 00.000 E138° 00.005 (WGS84)
Use waypoint: GC178 )
have their lat and long slightly off set to prevent accidental finds of the cache by a confluencer. Rare I suggest but....
clear skies, Astro.
http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=6662
There are a few caches on confluences. Remote ones may have the caches right smack bang on them but easier to get to ones (like : Port Germein by Team Piggy
S33° 00.000 E138° 00.005 (WGS84)
Use waypoint: GC178 )
have their lat and long slightly off set to prevent accidental finds of the cache by a confluencer. Rare I suggest but....
clear skies, Astro.
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I have done a few, and a couple have caches close by as Atsro stated.
Yarrabee Park: http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-34&lon=138
Is another with a close cache.
Just remember that, if the confluences lay on private land (Especially in crop fields) you should seek permission before attempting them.
Yarrabee Park: http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-34&lon=138
Is another with a close cache.
Just remember that, if the confluences lay on private land (Especially in crop fields) you should seek permission before attempting them.
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*_It's just weird that after nearly 10 years with a GPSr (got my first in '97), we went on a trip 'up the guts' to Darwin (from Melb).
In the process of heading towards Wolf Creek, using waypoints to find the track, etc, I thought about how much fun it would be to do a treasure hunt with the GPS!
*_Not having heard of geo-caching then, and having no experience with PC's, I never though there would be a community of geocachers out there.
*_The thought of visiting a confluence never occured to me, even though we passed many parallels and a few longitudes along the way, I got a kick out of seeing the GPS register 140.00.00, or whatever. Never thought to see if we could get to 37.00-140.00
*_Myself being a gadget mad freak, especially GPSr's, I feel I've missed the boat!
And only now, I find the site after all the Vic confluences are visited!
*_I'm yet to go caching(even after 5 or so years of knowledge of the sport, but one day I'll get out there and try one.
*_But this confluence thing is now bugging me
In the process of heading towards Wolf Creek, using waypoints to find the track, etc, I thought about how much fun it would be to do a treasure hunt with the GPS!
*_Not having heard of geo-caching then, and having no experience with PC's, I never though there would be a community of geocachers out there.
*_The thought of visiting a confluence never occured to me, even though we passed many parallels and a few longitudes along the way, I got a kick out of seeing the GPS register 140.00.00, or whatever. Never thought to see if we could get to 37.00-140.00
*_Myself being a gadget mad freak, especially GPSr's, I feel I've missed the boat!
And only now, I find the site after all the Vic confluences are visited!
*_I'm yet to go caching(even after 5 or so years of knowledge of the sport, but one day I'll get out there and try one.
*_But this confluence thing is now bugging me
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I think there was one in SA (?) like that and the person went to the range and explained what they wanted to do and why and they got a military escort to the confluence, so they're not impossible to get.
Better to get an official "no" than to get a leg blown off by jumping the fence, and it can't hurt to ask.
Better to get an official "no" than to get a leg blown off by jumping the fence, and it can't hurt to ask.