Has anyone else had the Trig bug bite? I’ve been having a ball stopping at all the trigs I pass of late. I even listed a few new ones over the past week or so.
I suppose this comes from my Canberra background. When we were bushwalking we used to try and find new trigs and get our photo taken next to them. If only Trigs were on GCA then…
I intend to plan a camping weekend in the Barrington Tops sometime in November.
My thoughts were for an overnight stay at Frying Pan Camping Area.
There are a couple of caches nearby that you could do over the weekend.
Any thoughts from those interested would be appreciated.
I have recently come across a couple of musicans writing songs specifically about geocaching.
The first of these is The Travel Bugs who have released an album called “Found it“.
The second is Rob Pearce who has released a number of songs called “The Bomb Squad Nuked My Geocache“, “When the Geocache Cannot be found“ and “Don’t tell my Wife (I’m Out Geocaching)“.
Well worth a listen. The Travels Bugs are serious musicans while Rob Pearce is more of comedian.
You can check them out on itunes.
Congratulations to Darth Trader on reaching 300 finds. He has achieved this 4 days before his first anniversary of geocaching. Well done mate.
I was shocked that Mix as archived so many of his caches including his new ones. These will be missed as he has put a lot of effort into placing them and I have learnt a lot from his puzzle caches. There is so much more satisfaction in solving a puzzle and finding a hard cache
I am also upset as I was partway through several of the puzzle caches and “did you do that” is one that I have looked for several times with no luck and now it is no more it has beaten me.
I have found a number of geocaching related webpages since I started caching and wanted to share some that I have found interesting, and am hoping to generate a bit of a list of favourite websites.
these don’t have to be in any order, just a list of shared links:
podcasts:
http://www.geotalkpodcast.com/
http://www.podcacher.com/
blogs / forums:
http://itsnotaboutthenumbers.wordpress.com/
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/
shops:
http://www.coinsandpins.com/
http://www.mygeocoin.de/
http://www.geocoinshop.de/
http://www.ja-gps.com.au/
and no list is complete without my wife’s online shop:
http://www.brigitashandbagsandaccessories.com.au/
so what is your favourite geocaching website?
Every so often the geocaching.com.au runs a moving cache race. I missed it last year.
This year we are racing Garden gnomes.
you can read and apply at this website:
http://www.cachinggames.com/gegnomeproject/index.php
You better be quick though, it starts on December 1st.
gnomes are coming
Garmin have recently released Chirps which can be used for some Garmin model GPSr units.
I am also told that the iPhone has the capability to be able to receive information from Chirps but at this time there is no app to do this.
To find out if it would be worthwhile to place one in the Hunter it would be good to know what GPSr units local geocachers are using.
Please leave a comment with the units you are using.
