Anyone here go Geocaching?

[FullCircle]

What about laying some up and down our coastline?

 

[Laurin]

Great idea... have done a few, would be great for those with kids (and big kids). Could be a new twist to the treasure hunt at Stone Point next year

 

[tillergirl]

If I understood I might. Is this another example of the world spinning faster than I can keep up with?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Agree with Vreny.... would be fun at Stone Point!

 

[D3B]

Just the coastline /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I found an interesting one here Just up my street

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We could include the posh frocks and penguins with it /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[pyrojames]

I am glad I am not the only one.

 

[CPD]

http://www.geocaching.com/faq/

"Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards."

Such as ????

 

[MoodySabre]

Muddy feet /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I knew nothing about all this but now I have an account and still know nothing /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif You are never too old (apparently) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Laurin]

For those of you still in the dark... the general idea is that there are thousands of caches hidden all over the world by geocachers. These can be absolutely anywhere with public access. The caches are usually boxes (tupperware boxes are populare) with a notepad and pen in, plus a few other "prizes". The co-ordinates of this are then posted on the website and people are invited to go and hunt for the cache. The idea is when you find it you put your name in the log, take something out of the box, and have taken something with you to leave in the box. You can record your find on the website.

There are then various variations on the theme...
Sometimes the co-ordinate just takes you to a clue to where the actual cache is, this is an offset cache
Sometimes there is a series of clues and this is a multi cache
you can have a virtual cache where there is no box but you are lead to a monument or something.

In addition to this there are other little games, sometimes in a cache you will find a travel bug... this will often be a small stuffed toy which is trying to get somewhere, and you need to help it on its way. So there might be a small mickey mouse trying to get to disney land. So if you picked it up you might then choose to leave it at a travel bug hotel close to an airport, or another cache a little bit closer to an airport. when you move a travel bug you log it on the website so the owner can see how far it has got.

Once I saw a cops and robbers travel bug game where the idea was the toy policeman had to catch up with the toy theif!!!

Any questions???

 

[MoodySabre]

Any questions???

Where do I find the time do this, have a life and have a boat?

Thanks for explaining /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Perhaps we could hunt for a bottle of malt on Full Circle just to get off to any easy start /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[CPD]

No point methinks, Jim'll be emptying it as we speak /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Can you get that many geocaches on one boat?

 

[ex-Gladys]

Ah Dartmoor post boxing... with afancy name

 

[CPD]

Just the name, sounds remarkably like geocottaging. Or is that just my warped mind.

 

[tillergirl]

What's a GPS?

 

[Koeketiene]

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What's a GPS?

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Some kind of electronic sextant gizmo

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Its the numbers written on the back of a ferry isn't it Will?

 

[Koeketiene]

Ferry Nav

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Don't knock it till you've tried it.
If it seems stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

God only knows where I might have ended up if it wasn't for Ferryways and TEF /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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[tillergirl]

Re: Ferry Nav

All of which leads us to that old East Coast tale of the yachtsman in his resplendent AWB (couldn't be a MAB) who didn't know his way into an Estuary and had no charts. So he decided to follow a Thames Barge on the grounds that that was big enough to follow. He followed it for a couple of nm's on a gentle zephyr of a breeze when sure enough the barge seemed to slow. Indeed it stopped but the AWB skipper didn't notice. Sure enough, the AWB went aground with a bump within earshot of the barge which clearly now was also aground.

The barge skipper with pipe in mouth - for it was always there - made his way aft and called to the skipper of the AWB "I cam here to load sand. Wot you come here for?"

 

[MoodySabre]

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sounds remarkably like geocottaging

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/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Paleeese. It's not 9 o'clock yet /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

No I don't want your lat and long thanks /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif