The Americans strike back and is GC.com too expensive in the UK? - OBGCP37

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Last Week..

No time for Geocaching, but we may be able to get these caches in before the end of the weekend.

Church Micro 6093 ... Castle Donington - St Edward - A cache by GeoSandJLeo - GC58DW3

Church Micro 6094 ... Castle Donington - Methodist - A cache by GeoSandJLeo - GC58DXJ

Smell the Juice - A cache by stuarthowe11 - GC58E0H

Born to be Wild - A cache by stuarthowe11 - GC58E0M

Doctor D broke the Americans

Dress like a podcaster...

Harlequin chef's trousers as per Collin from The UK Geocaching Podcast

Tie dye like HeadHardHat, from geosnippits.com as modelled by Doctor D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or rock a moustache, like Walt Grogan from chicagogeocacher.com and The Bad Cop from cachinginthenorthwest.com

Because of Geocaching..

LanMonkey

YouTube channel

Caching In The NorthWest podcast

Feedback..

The Monkey King

G'day Guys,
Just finished listening to the latest show, and I enjoyed it very much.

Dr D needs to do better Google searches on the States of Australia. The State of Victoria was established in 1851, so maybe Dr D was looking at Australian Colonial when looking up where Victoria is... as it hasn't been part of New South Wales since that date.

Also, Victoria is almost as big as the United Kingdom, so my 'Part of NSW' as Dr D put it, would fit every thing except Northern Island with in it's boarders.

I loved the interview with Geocass, and I hope the 2015 Mega Event will be great fun for all involved.

Cheers,

ps - look forward to seeing photos of Dr D's Dalek costume mentioned in the show.

Dumb Things Geocachers Do..

Forget to re-new their Premium membership to GC.com

Travelbug Race..

Ours is currently bouncing around South Wales...with 258 miles under its belt.

The Monkey Kings is on 139 miles and hasn't moved since 6th July.

Ask Doctor D..

DarrylW4 asks about podcasters who don't geocache much.

News & Events..

HELP ITS HALF TERM!!!! An event cache by moan-a-lot & Trevorsilk - GC586G6

Bucket and spade time Again!! 
by Norfolk12 | GC57A6V | Eastern England, United Kingdom 16/8/2014

Breakfast 
by Sir-Lancelot | GC59420 | South East England, United Kingdom 15/8/2014

Team O's next big adventure... 
by silly_one_75 | GC57JQX | California 16/8/2014

A Behind the Mask Event 
by OregonThree | GC59GY9 | Illinois 16/8/2014

"Not At The Block Party... AGAIN!" Event 
by The GO! Team | GC58ZK6 | British Columbia, Canada 16/8/2014

Sunset Geo Party 2014 
by Amigos_do_Geocaching | GC58PK5 | Arquipélago da Madeira, Portugal 16/8/2014

Mingel Event 4 
by TeamToZ | GC597Y3 | Denmark 16/8/2014

Kräftskiva @ Casa del Myrslok, tredje sommaren. 
by Yngve Myrslok & Holm:) | GC573ZV | Västra Götaland, Sweden 23/8/2014

Other News..

Diversified Cacher Contest - August 2014

To celebrate our 4th anniversary (Aug. 18) and the month of International Geocaching Day (Aug. 23), OpenCaching North America will be running a contest for the entire month of August, which encourages people to use alternative geocaching websites (Us and the OpenCaching Network, Terracaching.com,GPSgames.org, Geocaching Australia and Navicache.com), as well as the smartphone based GPS games Munzee, Sighter and Monster Cache. This contest is inspired by two similar “non-official” contests run in the past by one of our admins, NativTxn, as well as a local “Alternative to the Frog” contest run by Termite Hunter during May and June 2014 at the Greater Charlotte Geocaching Club website. PRIZES include a brand new in the box GPS unit from Terracaching, multiple premium memberships and multiple “virtual packages” from Munzee, a Sighter T-Shirt, Cache Me If You Can Geocaching board game, Monster coins from Monster Cache, swag from Geocaching Australia and much, much more!

Need details? Have questions?

Read on at http://blog.opencaching.us/2014/07/opencaching-na-diversifed-cacher-contest.html.

OpenCaching North America Admin Team

Dave / DudleyGrunt, Jim / Mr.Yuck, Denise / NativTxn

Geocaching isn't for everyone - as this article on www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk testifies

Geocaching can help you lose weight - www.geekwire.com

GPS Fail: Driving Across The Oceon - gpstracklog.com

GeoPaul's Video of the Week..

Starting soon GeoPaul will be taking over video of the week.  This week we have his introduction video:

http://youtu.be/PHJoAIW5a_U

Check out GeoPaul's Youtube channel HERE

For the Tight Fisted Barstools..

Just renewed our membership - at a cost which is about £7 or £8 more than it would cost in the US.  For us in the UK it is about £25.

Compare that to other hobbies...

Football (Notts County) about £23 per game.

Golf Green Fees - between £14 to £29 per game.

We could have moved off GC.com and gone with one of the free listing sites.  They have great caches, but they can be miles apart.  But you'd soon burn that £7 you saved - considering fuel is about £1.31a litre (£6 per gallon).

We could have gone for the free option on GC.com.  Two reasons we like the Premium - Pocket Queries and Notifications.  The time saved equals more time for caching.

Doctor D doesn't agree and thinks Geocaching should be free for all.

Doctor D's Useless Fact..

Man digs tunnel in India www.theguardian.com

Check out this episode!

UK Mega Essex 2015 (Geocass Interview) - OBGCP36

As the arrangements for the UK Mega Essex 2015 gain momentum, we catch up with the chairman of the committee Geocass to find out what plans are already in place.

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Last Week..

Trip to the Peak District.

Barclays Hope 1 by The Barclay Howlers GC4WDTH

Barclays Hope 2 GC4WDV4

Barclays Hope 3 GC4WDW2

Barclays Hope 4 GC4WDWY

Barclays Hope 5 GC4WDXH

Because of Geocaching..

Geocass tells her because of geocaching story.

Feedback..

Japanese Doctor Who:

http://youtu.be/eak26ohx1Y8

Jim Bay: I challenge Dr D to make a Dalek suit like the one in this vid. You can make the sonic screw sword to attack him with

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Nature comfort breaks...

Nemesis Cache..

Walk on the Winged Side #6 A cache by Four Hills - GC38N4N

Ask Doctor D..

Daniel Bull What does dr d think about 7 souvenirs of August?

Travelbug Race..

Ours has travelled 235 miles - has been to the Tour De France and is now residing in South Wales.

The Monkey King's Southern S@m trackable has done 138.6 miles and is currently in Vicoria, Australia.

News & Events..

Cache On Wheels: Our 11 yr old son Geo oly is hosting his 2nd event, on Sunday 3rd August 1-4pm at Dorchester Borough Gardens: a Picnic in the Park  we are so proud of him - we look forward to seeing some of you there, it's great to encourage our Geokids. Picnic In The Park GC58D9G

A Splish Splash Souvenir Flash 
by mattd2k | GC58GKV | South East England, United Kingdom 6/8/2014

BOAT ONLY paddle to nowhere (EVENING EVENT) 
by thepanteras | GC58XMG | Eastern England, United Kingdom 31/7/2014

London Event @ Doggett’s on the Thames 
by Rowpot | GC58CDH | London, United Kingdom 30/7/2014

Valley Park CITO Event (August 2) 
by beezers958 and Blue Crow Expedition | GC5914K | Wisconsin 2/8/2014

Peace River Meet & Greet 
by rzrpretty | GC58FQQ | Alberta, Canada 3/8/2014

" BALI " Caching Catch Up With " OOH YEH " 
by OOH YEH | GC521TM | Indonesia 24/7/2014

The Socializer 
by Rapidlywild & FurfacesLL & specimenX | GC58GAZ | Australian Capital Territory, Australia 3/8/2014

Have you ever seen a Russian cacher? 
by nahodka | GC58RWN | Vietnam 27/7/2014

Other News..

Found property, Seminary Street: A man reported at 8:04 p.m. July 12 that he'd found a bag containing marijuana, three syringes and a spoon while geocaching with his family at the Victims of Crime Memorial Garden at Coe Lake. Police took possession of the items. www.cleveland.com

Terracaching - www.terracaching.com has had a massive facelift

Chicago Geocacher - Best news EVER Scott and Walt are back chicagogeocacher.com

GAGB Magazine Seeker released last week

Video of the Week..

Geocaching - Very Clever Snail Cache! by Geocaching Adventura

http://youtu.be/0pFCJznCzCg

Geocass Interview..

UK Mega Essex 2015 website: www.mega2015.org.uk

Geocaching Association of Great Britain: gagb.org.uk

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Geocaching Travellers/Geocoins - What do you do with yours?

There are many different travellers/geocoins/trackables out there, but what kinds of creative things can you do with them?

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Last Week..

Signing the log - this is inspired by the conversation between Collin and LJ, from The UK Geocaching Podcast on episode 32 -No signee no smilee.  What the geocaching.com  rules say:

we have a few rules we encourage everyone to follow:

1. Sign both the logbook and log your find online to get your smiley

Encourage - I don't take that as this is what you MUST do.

So, if you don't log the find online you're not doing it by the rules?  Does that mean the signature you put in the log should be deleted - just like some CO's delete online logs when it is obvious the "finder" hasn't found the cache?

Short term changes to the show - at least for the month of July we will be going bi-weekly.

If We Won audio....oh and the legal separation from Great Britain was on July 2nd.

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Take insufficient lighting on a night find.  The cache in question has now been archived.  But Doctor D and BananaSource aren't afraid to own up to this one.

Feedback..

From StuCUK

Hi guys,

Been listening to your podcast for a few months now and do enjoy the humorous banter between you all!

Anyway, not wishing to put your recent fantastic achievement down in any way, but Stucuk (that’s Stu – C – UK by the way J ) and TT reached 4000 finds last week and we are pretty happy with ourselves!  So I thought I’d be bold and ask for a shout out?!

Many thanks, keep it up and happy caching!

Regards, Stu ...

Following our discussion, or rather BananaSource's rant about Whereigo's we received this message:

Tim Hewison

Setting up WhereIgo caches is a lot less painful now if you install the WhereYouGo and c:geo apps on your Android device. c:geo will download the cartridge for you when you click on the relevant link in the geocache detail page. Then you open the WhereYouGo app, and can start to play the cartridge. Still not perfect - but a lot better than anything else I tried.

Ask Doctor D..

DarrylW4

Is it ok to take a photo of the container?

Doctor D has the voice of podcast, but DarrylW4 have the voice of lurve...

Nemesis Geocaches..

Mark Pickard sent in his nemesis cache

Shipley wood 5 B.E.N.D A cache by plantsman - GC3V43H

Doctor D has been talking about this one for a while, so here is his nemesis Geocache

Walk on the Winged Side #8 - A cache by Four Hills, Hidden : 24/02/2011. GC38N4N

We've been naughty on this one and haven't logged a DNF, apologies to the cache owner.

Travelbug Race..

The Monkey King wrote

G'day Mark,
The race is on, or if you like Sherlock Holmes - the game is afoot!

My travel bug: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=d966d942-431c-4795-912e-25c834f4f5ab

I am wiling to make a sportsman bet that mine goes missing. I figure a harry potter would be popular enough for someone to keep, so hopefully the missing wand and the hole drilled in to it will give it a better chance of keeping it moving.

Feed back on the latest show:

You were discussing bombs/UXBs - and mentioned artillery rounds.  As one of my jobs is actually an artilleryman, I feel the need to let you know that artillery shells are fired from guns (howitzers) and not dropped by planes ;-)

As always I enjoy listening to the show, and look forward to updates on our travel bug race in the show.

cheers,
Ian

News & Events..

The Great Norfolk to Norfolk TB Race

Brent Smith The Race has started, 13 TB's started at the Canadian Launch event, only 12 are entered in the race site though, hopefully we will get the 13 registered soon, So far only 1 racer in the UK to Canada race, Even though the race has started you can still enter your TB in the race.

Mega 2014 - Another Taste of Arran 
by UK Mega Event Committee | GC4KTF4 | Southern Scotland, United Kingdom 26/07/2014

The Hairyfairies event 
by hairyfairies | GC56YJ7 | Yorkshire, United Kingdom 19/07/2014

Monthly Mid-Week Meet in Sussex #76 
by Sussex Cachers | GC572FE | South East England, United Kingdom 17/07/2014

Ice Cream and Mini Golf 
by WN1E | GC53AMQ | New York 16/07/2014

Abilene CITO Event (A.C.E. #03) 
by Love Cachers | GC57GFR | Texas 19/07/2014

Go East TBs - Meet and Greet 
by forestfauna | GC57MMT | Alberta, Canada 13/07/2014

Cuppa and cake, meet & greet 
by gwd.aussie | GC567HN | Victoria, Australia 27/07/2014

Na RoTa dAs TaScAs 
by Os Tasqueiros | GC575EQ | Porto, Portugal 18/07/2014

Stamm-Fiets-Event 
by geo4bikers | GC549EF | Drenthe, Netherlands 21/07/2014

Meet And Greet Geocaching Talk With Respect 
by stefanvanbael | GC577N2 | Antwerpen, Belgium 19/07/2014

Other News..

Striza Dgs

We are helping to promote this on facebook. ..Can you help?

geocachingchallenge.weebly.com

Group GPS Helps You Locate Friends During Outings from gpstracklog.com

Congratulations to sadexploration for becoming Geocaching.com Geocacher of the month.

Video of the Week..

ANGRY GOOSE GEOCACHING! [MICRO VLOG] by The Geocaching Vlogger

http://youtu.be/cpa5eXmBLpM

Travellers & Geocoins..

1 - Photo stories/Blogs - like the one DarrylW4 has done with his Minicacher Companion.  In this instance, Darryl took a lego man and found interesting locations near the cache to photograph him.  Then he added a line of text in the log telling a little story/scenario explaining the scene.  Simple to set up and uses the travellers page on geocaching.com to record the story.

Dave DeBaeremaeker has some great stories involving Lego characters on his Only Googlebot Reads This Blog site.  He has a cool Indiana Jones story Indiana Jones and the Avian Abode Adventure.  This is more of a beginning to end story, illustrated with photos taken at different locations along the route. 

2 - Books - We saw a book at an event, which was trackable. People at the event were encouraged to write a message to the owner in the book.

3 - Vehicle travel bug decals - As simple as they sound.  Put it on your car, so people can discover it while you're out and about.  It doesn't stop with the car:

Dave DeBaeremaeker

I have many TBs, including several personal ones:

My van is trackable. I use it to mark significant caches I have driven to. The trackable code is a window decal from+Cache Advance

My mountain bike is trackable, and used to track significant caches I have biked to. The code is on a dogtag attached to one of the rack mounts on the seat stay.

I also have two t-shirts with the same trackable code I wear to events.

So that adds clothing to the list.

Dave Self

My CR-V is my Cache Retrieval Vehicle 2 TB.  I also have a name tag I only log thru events and I have a trackable patch on my caching vest.

4 - Personal Geocoins/Travelbugs - Rather than send them out in to the wild, to make their own way in the world, some owners prefer to keep their Geocoins/Travelbugs close to them. As the owner goes about their own journey in Geocaching they will dip the coins/bugs in to caches a long the way.  Or even allow others to discover them - this can be at events or even when they meet on the trail.  We've seen these attached to dog collars or carabina's on ruck sacks.

StridentUK has one that has travelled an amazing distance since October 2013.

I just have one, a dragon trackable tag on my caching bag. Logged 3,000 miles between caches so far.http://t.co/G6t26jeeOZ

5 - Tattoos - Now this is serious commitment to the game - its also a sure fire way to ensure you don't lose the travel bug.  The Amasons, from The Podcache Show, each have a trackable tattoo.   So does Adam from UKCacheMag.com Of course these are age restricted.  This is a good way to make the trackable very personalised to you, in its design.

6 - Implants - If the tattoo isn't personal enough, how about implanting your trackable? Check out www.notaboutthenumbers.com for their article on this.

7 - Race Them - Challenge someone on the other side of the world, or the other side of the street.  The race is as grand or as limited as you want it to be.  Some can get elaborate; such as The Bank Job

The aim is for your trackable item to travel to The Bank and ‘steal’ a gold coin. Then return to the same cache it started from. The winner will be the first to do this.

This is the simplified description.  But AGAIN you're sending out trackable Lego characters (seems to be a Geocaching theme).

Where to get trackable Lego characters - the shop at Geocaching.com

Coming Up..

Interview with Geo Cass, Chairman of the Essex Mega 2015 committee.

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