Conversation With CacheZilla - OBGCP84

CacheZilla returns for our Christmas special. She helps BananaSource with accents and answers WashKnights 20 Geocaching Questions - check out his blog at washknight.wordpress.com.

Below are the questions:

1) When and how did you get into Geocaching?

2) Do you remember your first find?

GC17AGB CW #2 Calverton/Woodborough circular by ken.brown66

3) What device(s) do you use for locating caches?

4)  Where do you live and what is your local area like for geocaching? (Density/quality/setting etc)

5)   What has been your most memorable geocache to date, and why?

6) List 3 essential things you take on a geocaching adventure excluding GPS, pen and swaps

7) Other than geocaches and their contents, what is the weirdest thing you have discovered whilst out caching?

8) On a scale of 1 – 10 where 1 is I am obsessed by numbers and 10 is I am all about the experience and the quality of each individual cache.  Where do you put yourself?

9) Describe one incident that best demonstrates the level of your geocaching obsession

10) Have you picked up any caching injuries along the way?

11) What annoys you most about other geocachers?

12) What is the dumbest thing you have done whilst out caching?

13) What do your non-caching family and friends think of your hobby?

14) What is your default excuse you give to Muggles who ask what you are up to or if you need help

15) What is your current Geocaching goal, if you have one?

16) Do you have a nemesis cache that despite multiple attempts you have been unable to find?

17) What 3 words or phrases best sum up what Geocaching means to you

18) What prompted you to start blogging about Geocaching?

19)  Which of your own blog entries are you most proud of?

20) Which other Geocaching blogs do you enjoy reading?

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Muggles Galore - OBGCP83

This Week..

Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge

Muggled while NOT Geocaching

A Moan-A-Lot exclusive

Climb a mountain from your armchair

Last Week..

GC5YEGQ - KIKUCHIS KASTLE KACHE by Kikuchis. Periscope video: http://www.ohbeep.com/kastle (Doctor D manages to insult ‘muricans)

GC3H3TD - Phooning in Derby by Grant & LisaX

GC5DR7B - Off Beam by TeamSummers1. Periscope video: http://www.ohbeep.com/derbymicro (More offensiving)

https://youtu.be/K9iR6sLwDKY

Discussion about How To Fix Geocaching blog post on www.ohbeep.com - go to www.ohbeep.com/fixgeocaching to read the full post. Main complaints we’ve noticed from Geocachers:

• Traditionals aren’t what they used to be
• New geocachers are to blame for the poor quality of caches hidden
• New cachers don’t know what they’re doing
• New cachers ask stupid questions
• Established cachers are cliquey and unwelcoming

Ask Dr D..

From Brilang

Dear Dr. D. Is Wales a separate country from England? Why/why not? Are there border guards & crossings?

From StridentUK

You’re going for a “troll” cache under a footbridge. You touch the container just as you lose your footing and... plop… the cache falls straight in to the fast moving stream and starts bobbing down the river.

What could you do? (What “should” you do?)

Dumb Stuff Geocachers Do..

Get muggled during a Periscope recording showing a cool #sightsofgeocaching.

GC43CQN Hard Boiled Egg for Tea by cerises and Team-Triplet

Periscope videos:

http://www.ohbeep.com/muggle1

http://www.ohbeep.com/muggle2

Also going out Geocaching, at night, without a torch whilst also Periscoping for all to see the dumbness.

GeoPauls Video Of The Week..

#blamemoanalot..

A rare moment caught on film. Moan-A-Lot smiling. Even rarer, Moan-A-Lot dancing. Thanks to Kathryn Trevor for sharing this with the whole of Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.trevor/posts/10156316023295331

GGH Tips..

Want to watch the journey of a #Geocaching.com trackable? You can click on the the "View in Google Earth" link from the trackable's page to download a KML file which opens in Google Earth allowing you to fly along the stops. That was just one of the many fun topics in "GGH 162: Randomize XXXI."

http://cacheamaniacs.com/ggh-162-randomize-xxxi

Ey Up Me Duck Challenge/

Our attempt at the November Challenge failed miserably.

www.ohbeep.com/meetingplace

 

GC5M9RH - Memories Series – Our Meeting Place (re-sited) by Ey up me duck

 

Decembers Challenge

For those in Notts, they have to find 2 of the new Christmas caches that are going out daily. For others, 2 caches with Christmas related words in title.

From Lucie Meelen

Hello lovely lads. Here is my entry for the Christmas-related Cache Challenge. Someone has to go for the religious side of Christmas, and it might as well be me.

So my two are "Christchurch" (how much more Christmas-related can you get?) and "Father, Son and Holey Post". And just in case you're not at all religious and/or a Life of Brian fan, I realised when doing the screen shot that my next cache could also be construed as Christmas-related! "Brian Revisited".

Thank you and a very happy Christmas to you both and the rest of the family. smile emoticon xxx

Patreon..

Thank you DarryW4 and Gary Robbins for their support of the show

News..

Reported bomb found outside Rohnert Park gym turns out to be geocaching stash (From pressdemocrat.com)

Mountain Day marked with release of Google Street View images of Snowdon (From grough.co.uk)

Armchair mountaineers can now make the journey to the top of Wales’s highest peak from the comfort and warmth of their homes.

Snowdon’s main paths are among those that can now be seen on Google’s Street View service.

Geocaching on Emmerdale (BananaSource actually had to scrub his ears and eyes with bleach after watching this)

Feedback..

From Tony Liddell

 

Dr D’s Facts of the Uselessness..

New York build on Bristol

Nylon named after New York and London

Channel tunnel could have been built 100 years ago

The Obligatory Doctor Who Bit..

14 brilliant Easter eggs you might have missed in Doctor Who series 9 (From radiotimes.com)

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Conversation with StaticJay

Geocache in Croatia Jamie mentioned:

GC322MF - Zadar Sea Organ

https://youtu.be/myV3E9uREuI

Jamie is falling our with Ingress, we also have a discussion about its future.

Sarah Murphy has arranged an event for our visit to Ireland in January GC67PPQ Oh Beep! & StaticJay Come to Bray

Who will we eat first in Ireland in a survival situation?

Pinhole cameras

https://youtu.be/wtZOWEB_wcI

GoPro cameras

Osmo cameras - my mistake, during the recording I called it an Osme camera

Geocaching.com intro app - they've taken a previously buried feature from the paid app and put it front screen on their intro app. This is the ability to drop in to your devices navigation app and have turn by turn guidance to the cache ground zero.

UK Geocaching Podcast - episode mentioned Pod 49.5 – The Rock Chalk Chat!

Discussion about new geocachers and people blaming them for everything.

James first cache GC11XQQ - Lurgan Park No.1 - Squirrels Hideout

Beer mentioned in the podcast Old Golden Hen

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