Geocaching

shazartist · Senior Member

RE: Geocaching

Jayco Gypsy · Senior Member

Sharon I can recommend having the paperless GPS. Thanks to Neil (Delta 18) I'm now the proud owner of a Garmin eTrex 20.
I joined the Premium Membership, it gives you all the notes downloaded with hints on the eTrex. No paper needed.
Had lots of fun looking for caches around Dwellingup on the weekend and a couple round home today. Couldn't search for one to many muggles around.

shazartist · Senior Member

Thanks everyone,

We have been on six hunts and found four, we need to get out there and do some more..Our "old never used" hand held Garmen works well....but it does not down load geo into, so I think that would be so much easier than printing out. We are so over loaded with GPS's I really loath buying another...but we most likely will..and no iphone as yet.

Like you said pricey it allows for the unexpected bit of free time.

Cheers

shazartist · Senior Member

Thanks JG, for the information...

I was wondering about the premium membership, we are muddling or muggling along on our own and the web site is a bit over welming with info andI am not too sure of all the lingo..

An experienced Geo in my area who's cache we did find offered some training and help, I think that will be wonderful. AND a new GPS would help especially for the unexpected chances to Geocache...printing out is a real pain.

We will do a PMembership too

cheers Sharon

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

a small collection of some of my geocoins, the one on the bottom left is a GPS and has batteries as it lights up, the one next to it is a laptop, all are not activated, and are not for sale.

-- Edited by _wombat_ on Sunday 16th of October 2011 09:53:00 AM

Delta18 · Guru

Are you attending the Geo-Get-together in Armadale in November Wombie?

There is a Coin being struck for the event and lunch at the Pioneer Pub.

Jayco Gypsy and I will be going.

Cheers Neil

-- Edited by Delta18 on Sunday 16th of October 2011 11:03:37 AM

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Did not know about the get together, we used to do a lot of cacheing but these days not often, also used to be a prem memeber now have dropped that, still have some caches out there and still get reports of finders.

will have a look at the site you sent.

Oz Gypsy · Veteran Member

I realise this is an old thread, but - are there many GNs geocaching now?

We just started in January because friends had a really special geocoin commemorating the lost lives in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and the owner (from Brazil) had asked them to get it to NZ. We were going to NZ for a 5 week trip, so we registered with geocaching.com and carried the geocoin with us until we found a special cache site near Christchurch.

Once we got back to Australia we realised we had been bitten by the geocaching bug and now spend time looking for caches wherever we happen to travel. It's fun, takes us to places we would never normally see and keeps the old brain working as well. Looking for caches in some beautiful surroundings, trying to avoid the muggles, learning to recognise the various types of cache and the thrill of finding the hard-to-spot ones is just great.

We picked up a trackable travel bug from a cache in Redcliffe (Brisbane), strangely enough from NZ. It is a penguin and its goal is to find some real penguins in Australia before it finds its way home to NZ. We are on our way south so will try and find some penguins on the south coast somewhere to photograph with this travel bug.

It's one big treasure hunt for big kids!

Cheers, Bev

shazartist · Senior Member

Hi Bev,

Yes we still are Geocaching, but we tend to do it only when we are traveling and Mr RVgoes has just taken on a real job :) in the last 10 months so we haven't done too much lately unfortunately. There is an excellent Geocaching community in Brisbane and the gold coast a great fun group of people. PM me if you are interesting in more info. :) welcome aboard to the wild treasure hunts.

Cheers Sharon

Jayco Gypsy · Senior Member

Hi Bev

Yes still Geocaching. Had lots of adventures with it. Actually off to a get together tonight. Perth Maker Madness Event.

Not technically a GN. Work restricted but get out and away when possible.

I was lucky to meet another lady at an event several years back and we quite often have caching days and get into all sorts of trouble wink confuse biggrin biggrin . Even managed to hide a couple of my own caches and have 3 Travel bugs out. One in NZ.

-- Edited by Jayco Gypsy on Thursday 3rd of April 2014 04:13:18 PM

Oz Gypsy · Veteran Member

Hi Sharon & Cathy

Great to know there are some fellow caching members here. We are on the road full time so can't really get involved with a particular group, but hopefully we will be able to get to some Events along the way.

We are finding that we can only stop for a few caches as we travel because quite often there is nowhere to pull up and park with a big rig. We will be doing some hunts when we are staying in an area for a few days though. We managed 4 today between Kalbar QLD and Tenterfield NSW and had to bypass at least 10 others.

It is amazing the new interests you can find when you are retired and travelling biggrin

shazartist · Senior Member

Hi Bev, There are some good caches around the Tenterfield area. I think the cache is Tenterfield saddler, it is behind the building. We just missed being hit with a bucket of water with that one. Our handel is RVgeos what is yours ?
cheers Sharon

Oz Gypsy · Veteran Member

Hi Sharon, ours is Stopalot - the name of our rig and our web-blog. We did not do the Tenterfield Saddler as we were running out of time, but we did the one in Tenterfield at the RSL - War Guns.

We found 6 more today from Deepwater to Warialda, and are now overnighting at Moree so will do some here before we leave in the morning.

We are on a bit of a timeline at the moment but have decided that when we can slow down again we will just have to do shorter distances when travelling so we can pick up more caches! It is becoming very addictive.

I hope we can meet up with you sometime along the way and maybe do some cache hunts together.

Cheers, Bev

Dunmowin · Guru

Thanks to Jaco Gypsy, we have been caching since August 2013, and logged up 216 todate. Our handle is the same as this site "Dunmowin". I think the most fun was in Mount Isa, where we chase Kendon1 around town trying to get all the FTFs that cruzycoop had place a week or so earlier. (I got one, he got the other 7) Best caches were in WA around Geraldton (WAs biggest cache) and York (triantiwontigongalope) and around Darwin in the national parks by Tiedyesmilies. Most remote would be the one on the Gibb river Road, hidden by our wombat, and the one at Wolfe Creek Crater.

I have the laptop geocoin that is in the photo from Wombat (entry on 16/11/2011) - he gave it to me last year when we met, and since then it has travelled 9476.8km

-- Edited by Dunmowin on Friday 24th of October 2014 11:13:54 PM

Jayco Gypsy · Senior Member

That coin is clocking up the klm's Dunmowin. We've been out today. Have expanded to kayak caching along the Serpentine River.
Even had a fish jump in and out of the Kayak on my legs. I think the only thing that stopped from from tipping over was the Tiger Snake who had just swum past. Happy caching & travels.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

wow DM that laptop coin is sure doing the rounds, when will it be back in WA? biggrin

shazartist · Senior Member

Nice to see a lot of us are still out there looking for treasures ;) we don't do as much when we are home and we haven't been traveling much distance the last year ;)

Dunmowin · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
wow DM that laptop coin is sure doing the rounds, when will it be back in WA?

As you can see Wombat, "Wombat the Anthrus Laptop Geocoin" has not yet done a lap (even though we now have), he has a long way to go in NSW, VIC, Tas (by October 15) then back into SA and up the middle. Hope we are still "young" enough to get back to WA sometime this decade.