Desert Dweller wrote:

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orienteering.asn.au/index.php/get-involved/

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

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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.

No code breakers here.

It did say "Oh for one nought tee" - 0410E

Desert Dweller wrote:

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orienteering.asn.au/index.php/get-involved/

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

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 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 wrote:

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Welllll YOUNG Blokes like me DON'T have that sort of problem.

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 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. 

 

 

Thanks heaps for all the info, will read up on the geocaching, sounds fascinating.
You lucky buggers Radar!

Fine Elsewhere wrote:

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Thanks heaps for all the info, will read up on the geocaching, sounds fascinating.
You lucky buggers Radar!

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 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.

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.

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. .

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. .