Why not do some Orienteering, that'll get you off your backside?
It sure beats wasting fuel looking for useless objects.
Great for your fitness & navigation skills.
-- Edited by Desert Dweller on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 05:17:49 AM
DD, not all geocaching is "looking for useless objects" If you read up a bit more, you might find information about earth caches, where you go (more than often than not, hike) to a spectacular location, answer some geological questions to gain your brownie points. Others are puzzles, where you have to answer a cryptic puzzles to get adjusted coordinates. Not everyone is fit enough, or has the health to do orienteering, For us, geocaching gets us of our backside - also good for our fitness and navigation skills, and helps keep the grey matter alive.
Radar said
08:16 PM May 31, 2017
For a couple of months each year this is what we do, the rest of the year we are in trainning at being lazy.
We go for drives up though the Alps.
Dine in the open air.
Have lunch in the alps.
Have a bbq in the back yard.
Walk in the alps
Best of all take time to smell the roses.
Ride a bike, oops thats a lie.
-- Edited by Radar on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 08:17:42 PM
Why not do some Orienteering, that'll get you off your backside?
It sure beats wasting fuel looking for useless objects.
Great for your fitness & navigation skills.
-- Edited by Desert Dweller on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 05:17:49 AM
What ever floats your boat Desert Dweller, obviously some of us are not in the same class of fitness or ability as you. I wonder if you could consider this in future posts before making asinine comments such as you made here and consider other peoples abilities before posting. I actually spend a lot of time on a pushbike looking for what you consider to be useless objects and I enjoy doing it! And as I ride the pushbike, use a GPS and Map to do what I do, makes your comment about fitness and navigation skills rather nugatory as I am already doing that! Also, if you had researched further, rather than shot from the hip, you may have found that many of the so called useless objects are found in very rugged areas only accessible by foot!
Fringe Dweller said
06:21 AM Jun 1, 2017
Sum nought tees add up too.
For physical fitness . I go to the gym.
the rocket said
08:39 AM Jun 1, 2017
Fringe Dweller wrote:
Welllll YOUNG Blokes like me DON'T have that sort of problem.
Hello fringedweller, that yellow rose looks like it has a beautiful perfume. We have always had beautiful gardens before we hit the road n had roses in it.
Also, i enjoy finding prizes for the grandies. When we visit them We play hoy n they cannot wait to play it. i got ruler from that place that made the movie "the dish", pencil case with melbourne on it, pencils with echuca, colourful stones from a creek, pens with kangaroos on them, writing pads, rubbers, a couple of stuffed australian animals. Went to melbourne flower show n got a sample bag from stihl power tools n inside was a hat n a keyring n is a man worker holding a power tool. Kids love that for the zip of there backpack. Never know what we will bring back. Once found metal cars in a plastic case at op shop for $1 n found out they were collectables selling on ebay for 35 pound each in england. Also, i get orders to knit dolls outfits. Lots to do.
jules47 said
09:07 PM Jun 1, 2017
Desert Dweller wrote:
The main thing is to have an interest. We do nature photography but also enjoy many other facets of the places we travel to. We do lots of research before we go. We're interested in Australian history & early exploration on land & by sea. We bushwalk a lot & enjoy the scenery. Everyone's different. If people enjoy following music festivals around, good on 'em. We love a wide range of music too but avoid crowded situations. Please yourselves.
Hi - as I see you have an interest in Australian history - tell me have you ever heard the story of the Batavia? It was grounded off the coast of WA, near Geraldton from memory - fascinating story about the survivors. Saw a movie on it a museum in Geraldton, back in 2005. Just as a matter of interest.
Fine Elsewhere said
09:08 PM Jun 1, 2017
Thanks heaps for all the info, will read up on the geocaching, sounds fascinating.
You lucky buggers Radar!
Dunmowin said
09:41 PM Jun 1, 2017
jules47 wrote:
Desert Dweller wrote:
The main thing is to have an interest. We do nature photography but also enjoy many other facets of the places we travel to. We do lots of research before we go. We're interested in Australian history & early exploration on land & by sea. We bushwalk a lot & enjoy the scenery. Everyone's different. If people enjoy following music festivals around, good on 'em. We love a wide range of music too but avoid crowded situations. Please yourselves.
Hi - as I see you have an interest in Australian history - tell me have you ever heard the story of the Batavia? It was grounded off the coast of WA, near Geraldton from memory - fascinating story about the survivors. Saw a movie on it a museum in Geraldton, back in 2005. Just as a matter of interest.
Jules, a great read is "Batavia" by Peter Fitzsimons. Bought it new at the Ocean Park Aquarium in Shark Bay, but if you ask around at book exchange shops, you might get a better price.
Radar said
10:11 PM Jun 1, 2017
Fine Elsewhere wrote:
Thanks heaps for all the info, will read up on the geocaching, sounds fascinating. You lucky buggers Radar!
Hi Fine Elsewhere.
Yes! A little bit luck went into it, e encouraged our son to enjoy his school work, then uni from that he headed overseas encouraging us to come and spend time with them.
And yes we do feel lucky having the ability to come and join them making our oversea junkies very economical, the longer the cheaper.
Radar said
10:13 PM Jun 1, 2017
Just exercising
-- Edited by Radar on Thursday 1st of June 2017 10:13:44 PM
RosieW said
03:31 PM Jun 2, 2017
We research if we are passing through an area on our way somewhere, or are doing a 'tourist run'. Once we pull up, we do a bit more online research, and talk to the locals.
We have to get out; we have two dogs who need to exercise, and we can't always let them off to run. So we see a lot of the local area. We both like to get out and about, although we do have slightly different interests. F'rinstance, here in the Barossa, I want to see vineyards, even though I don't drink. He doesn't drink wine, but will come along.
Fine Elsewhere said
08:07 PM Jun 2, 2017
To the lovely people who suggested I check out geocaching, thank you! I have just has a look at the site, joined up and looked at the ones near me and lost ages reading all the comments! It sounds like great fun and would be completely addictive I think.
Now, neither of us have ever used a gps in our lives ( other half is a bloody good tracker though ) so some questions.
Do you download a gps app to your phone? Does it work when you have no phone connection? Does TFTC mean thanks for the cache? Is a muggle a non cacher? I ask this because one comment said something to the effect of.....Person walking around looking at phone, may have been a muggle, bided our time and then went in for the pounce....
Thinking now that when we learn more, we could hide some interesting ones out in the desert
Thanks again.
Grubbygypsy said
09:06 PM Jun 2, 2017
Another geocacher here!!
I've sure been getting some exercise in this town. I'm down to the last stragglers (out of probably 500 of them), and these are now mostly hard out, climbing mountains etc lol.
GPS will come later, I rarely use mine as I get enough on the phone, yes, you download the app.
Depending on where you are they can still work without phone reception, however you can create offline lists etc. There is also a paid app called 'Cachly' that I find very helpful for that kind of thing (I'm often remote).
Yes TFTC means thanks for the cache.
Yes, muggle is someone that is not a cacher.
No, you may not be able to hide them in the desert - they require maintenance and most of the reviewers are really harsh on that rule and won't allow them to be published unless you have a maintenance plan. There are earthcaches that can be 'placed' though......they don't require a physical container.
Lacncelot - did I meet you at the recent Red Centre Event we had in Alice? I feel I may have. .
Fine Elsewhere said
09:16 PM Jun 2, 2017
Thanks for that info Grubby. All very interesting.
I dont mean way out in the unchartered desert, I mean ones I can maintain in areas that may be of interest in the country north east of Alice where we will be living. Do you think that would be ok?
Grubbygypsy said
10:03 PM Jun 2, 2017
Heya
Yes....if you live somewhere and are able to maintain its fine. When the 'needs maintenance' call goes out, they expect it to be attended to promptly, which is fair enough as it's irritating to go to the trouble of getting to one to find it wet or lost or log full or whatever else is needed for it to be operational. There are travellers that do have them all around the place. To be honest, in my experience, there are one lot of rules for some and another set for others, but don't let that put you off. I'll just keep finding and never bother with setting anymore. There are 500 odd in the Alice area roughly, haha, you might find yourself taking on maintenance duties of other people's as I believe most of the people that set them around Alice have now moved on. I've done a bit of maintenance around Alice, as we had the mega event here, so the caches were getting pummelled by around 500 cachers for a week or so. Most serious catchers will do maintenance on the fly. Replace them or logs or something. It's good, it's a kinda karma thing. I got a cache today actually that someone had resurrected, so I was happy with that. Another smiley face for the map. .
Dick0 said
04:40 PM Jun 3, 2017
macka17 wrote:
Enjoy your early morn's. I'll enjoy missing my brekky. We'll both be happy.
Good on you Macka...your last line sums it up well!
DD, not all geocaching is "looking for useless objects" If you read up a bit more, you might find information about earth caches, where you go (more than often than not, hike) to a spectacular location, answer some geological questions to gain your brownie points. Others are puzzles, where you have to answer a cryptic puzzles to get adjusted coordinates. Not everyone is fit enough, or has the health to do orienteering, For us, geocaching gets us of our backside - also good for our fitness and navigation skills, and helps keep the grey matter alive.
For a couple of months each year this is what we do, the rest of the year we are in trainning at being lazy.
We go for drives up though the Alps.
Dine in the open air.
Have lunch in the alps.
Have a bbq in the back yard.
Walk in the alps
Best of all take time to smell the roses.
Ride a bike, oops thats a lie.
-- Edited by Radar on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 08:17:42 PM
No code breakers here.
It did say "Oh for one nought tee" - 0410E
And Yes I Grow GREAT roses 3 dozen of em on 3 sides of my house.
Ya gotta stop & smell th roses especially Good ones.
What ever floats your boat Desert Dweller, obviously some of us are not in the same class of fitness or ability as you. I wonder if you could consider this in future posts before making asinine comments such as you made here and consider other peoples abilities before posting. I actually spend a lot of time on a pushbike looking for what you consider to be useless objects and I enjoy doing it! And as I ride the pushbike, use a GPS and Map to do what I do, makes your comment about fitness and navigation skills rather nugatory as I am already doing that! Also, if you had researched further, rather than shot from the hip, you may have found that many of the so called useless objects are found in very rugged areas only accessible by foot!
Sum nought tees add up too.
For physical fitness . I go to the gym.
Hello fringedweller, that yellow rose looks like it has a beautiful perfume. We have always had beautiful gardens before we hit the road n had roses in it.
Also, i enjoy finding prizes for the grandies. When we visit them We play hoy n they cannot wait to play it. i got ruler from that place that made the movie "the dish", pencil case with melbourne on it, pencils with echuca, colourful stones from a creek, pens with kangaroos on them, writing pads, rubbers, a couple of stuffed australian animals. Went to melbourne flower show n got a sample bag from stihl power tools n inside was a hat n a keyring n is a man worker holding a power tool. Kids love that for the zip of there backpack. Never know what we will bring back. Once found metal cars in a plastic case at op shop for $1 n found out they were collectables selling on ebay for 35 pound each in england. Also, i get orders to knit dolls outfits. Lots to do.
Hi - as I see you have an interest in Australian history - tell me have you ever heard the story of the Batavia? It was grounded off the coast of WA, near Geraldton from memory - fascinating story about the survivors. Saw a movie on it a museum in Geraldton, back in 2005. Just as a matter of interest.
You lucky buggers Radar!
Jules, a great read is "Batavia" by Peter Fitzsimons. Bought it new at the Ocean Park Aquarium in Shark Bay, but if you ask around at book exchange shops, you might get a better price.
Hi Fine Elsewhere.
Yes! A little bit luck went into it, e encouraged our son to enjoy his school work, then uni from that he headed overseas encouraging us to come and spend time with them.
And yes we do feel lucky having the ability to come and join them making our oversea junkies very economical, the longer the cheaper.
Just exercising
-- Edited by Radar on Thursday 1st of June 2017 10:13:44 PM
We have to get out; we have two dogs who need to exercise, and we can't always let them off to run. So we see a lot of the local area. We both like to get out and about, although we do have slightly different interests. F'rinstance, here in the Barossa, I want to see vineyards, even though I don't drink. He doesn't drink wine, but will come along.
To the lovely people who suggested I check out geocaching, thank you! I have just has a look at the site, joined up and looked at the ones near me and lost ages reading all the comments! It sounds like great fun and would be completely addictive I think.
) so some questions.
Now, neither of us have ever used a gps in our lives ( other half is a bloody good tracker though
Do you download a gps app to your phone? Does it work when you have no phone connection? Does TFTC mean thanks for the cache? Is a muggle a non cacher? I ask this because one comment said something to the effect of.....Person walking around looking at phone, may have been a muggle, bided our time and then went in for the pounce....
Thinking now that when we learn more, we could hide some interesting ones out in the desert
Thanks again.
I've sure been getting some exercise in this town. I'm down to the last stragglers (out of probably 500 of them), and these are now mostly hard out, climbing mountains etc lol.
GPS will come later, I rarely use mine as I get enough on the phone, yes, you download the app.
Depending on where you are they can still work without phone reception, however you can create offline lists etc. There is also a paid app called 'Cachly' that I find very helpful for that kind of thing (I'm often remote).
Yes TFTC means thanks for the cache.
Yes, muggle is someone that is not a cacher.
No, you may not be able to hide them in the desert - they require maintenance and most of the reviewers are really harsh on that rule and won't allow them to be published unless you have a maintenance plan. There are earthcaches that can be 'placed' though......they don't require a physical container.
Lacncelot - did I meet you at the recent Red Centre Event we had in Alice? I feel I may have. .
I dont mean way out in the unchartered desert, I mean ones I can maintain in areas that may be of interest in the country north east of Alice where we will be living. Do you think that would be ok?
Yes....if you live somewhere and are able to maintain its fine. When the 'needs maintenance' call goes out, they expect it to be attended to promptly, which is fair enough as it's irritating to go to the trouble of getting to one to find it wet or lost or log full or whatever else is needed for it to be operational. There are travellers that do have them all around the place. To be honest, in my experience, there are one lot of rules for some and another set for others, but don't let that put you off. I'll just keep finding and never bother with setting anymore. There are 500 odd in the Alice area roughly, haha, you might find yourself taking on maintenance duties of other people's as I believe most of the people that set them around Alice have now moved on. I've done a bit of maintenance around Alice, as we had the mega event here, so the caches were getting pummelled by around 500 cachers for a week or so. Most serious catchers will do maintenance on the fly. Replace them or logs or something. It's good, it's a kinda karma thing. I got a cache today actually that someone had resurrected, so I was happy with that. Another smiley face for the map. .
Good on you Macka...your last line sums it up well!
"Each his own".