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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => Pictures & Video's and Games => Topic started by: Abe on October 19, 2012, 10:00:09 AM
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Some of you MAY like to do this when traveling. Geocaching is looking for a cache of hidden goodies using your Smartphone or GPS, basically. We do this when going on holidays mainly. The main rule is the cache's must be in a public areas (no commercial or private properties). Once you have done one or two you get the bug, and the cache's can take you to places that you near thought existed.
You can set up your own hidden cache, SO, question, should Ozstoc members set up their hidden cache's for other Ozstoc members, other riders or public to find??. These cache's can contain Ozstoc business cards/stickers etc. as well as a notepad to write comments in. Once you have picked your hiding place for the cache you post the GPS co-ordinations on the web page below and monitor.
Read the website below for further details.
http://www.geocaching.com/ (http://www.geocaching.com/)
These are one's at Middleton, that I will find in March.
http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=-34.8453&lng=138.62305 (http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=-34.8453&lng=138.62305)
Cheers
Dave
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G'day Dave - seems like a lot of fun. :thumbs
Can OzSTOC set up an account to show OUR caches only or something like that?
A few members once had a game of 'photo tag' going, where someone photographed their bike in front of a public location, then the first different member to photo their bike at the same location, got to move the tag to where they wanted, by doing the same thing - quite entertaining, and a great reason for a ride.
:popcorn
Cheers, Diesel
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Hi Diesel,
It seems on a cursory view that Ozstoc members would need to join individually. Once a location is loaded onto the "Geocaching" website it is open for all to use. However, we could mark them like "Ozstoc - Sydney", Ozstoc - Queensland" etc for members (including public so to speak) to find easier when using the search function.
Also, Geocaching is worldwide, so if you want something to be sent to ST riders somewhere else in the world, you attach a "travel bug" which is like an army dog tag to the object you wish to send and post it's location on the Geocaching website, and then just monitor, as it moves around the world.
You will find lots of cache's around airports awaiting their trip somewhere in the world.
It is free to join and it is worth joining and go through the "FAQ" and "Geocaching 101".
Cheers
Dave
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"Just sounds too hard"
From memory and at a time when I was really bored and thought it fun to see how long I could sit on a motorcycle????????????????
Me thinks that the Fariders had a similar thing going where as a Farider sticker or something was hidden and then found by someone who hid it again and then posted its co-ordinates.
Now that seems heaps easier than registering, having to do it through a third party website?? and, and, and, and???????
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Its not too hard, to ride to a start point, grab your GPS and walk off into the bush to find hidden treasure. I did a couple with my son some years ago, with a borrowed GPS.
The Geocaching site is just a convenient place to store a cache site for others in the area to find. The only problem with an OzSTOC cache is that, some one not ST interested is likely to trash the cache, it happens.
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Couldn't we start our own and call it "STaching" ? Just post the co-ordinates etc on the OZSTOC members forum.
Just a thought.
Dave :wht13
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Of course we could
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Hey Brock, this could become a pinned thread and people who are interested in that sort of thing could do their thing there! Sorry I can't see me getting into this as a pastime, but hey different strokes for different folks, eh?
:runyay
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:wht11 py
Sounds good
but co-ordinates ..... I have trouble just coordinating myself most of the time Wot thuh Wot thuh Wot thuh
Tipsy
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We dappled in geocaching for a while with the kids when on holidays.....found about 20 or so up the eastcoast.....some of the trinkets left behind had travelled more of the world than any 10 people I know.
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This has caught my attention and will have a play with it on my way to and back from the :eat at hay...
I was hard this morning so this should be easy. :rofl
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I was hard this morning...
...dare one say "lucky chap"! :rofl :crackup
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Ah come on, this is a family site..... :nahnah :rofl
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Okay, so after 3 distance rides I have stopped at a few places and used the free time off the bike doing a bit of this geo thingy.
It is certainly interesting and a good way to pass some time, what amuses me the most would be what other people write and leave behind like trinkets etc...
Thanks for the new hobby. :thumb
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Went for a run to Ebor over the weekend.....whilst in that vicinity went to a cache that i found a few years ago for a look....left a OzSToc card with a "speacial" message upon it :wink1......lets see if one of you guys attending the Ebor RTE on the 6th July and into caching finds it :whistle
A beer on the bar for the winner who presents the card !!!
cheers
Chris
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Love the Incentive.....
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Abe is turning himself inside out in search of this cache, as he knows what's on the card !! :thumb
:rofl
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Oh, stop it girl friend.
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Shouldn't even be a challenge for you mate.....although I haven't checked the cache since it was planted, that "special" Ozstoc card may well be in brazil now :crazy
:thumbs
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A beer on the bar for the winner who presents the card !!!
You guys play for high stakes.....
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Not one off those little things you call a pot Sabie.....at Ebor a middy comes in a 9 ltr bucket, a schooner is a kerosine drum....... :thumb
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I've been meaning to check this out some more.
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Not one off those little things you call a pot Sabie.....at Ebor a middy comes in a 9 ltr bucket, a schooner is a kerosine drum....... :thumb
See... That's why you guys can't play football... You have an over inflated sense of size.......either that or your pissed all the time drinking beer from a bucket.... :rofl
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FYI
What is Geocaching? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTqitVK-Ts#ws)
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Good find Dave, explains it in simple terms :thumbsup
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Got this message from a Geo Caching chap from (I think) the UK....
Hi Dave, I'm Keith Clough from the Pan European site.
I was just wondering if you could help with a none bike dilemma I have... I do "Geocaching" for fun, it's a cross between global orienteering and treasure hunting.
I need to find someone in Australia that I can chat with.
Could you ask your Facebook friends if anyone knows anything about geocaching for me please? Thanks
If anyone can help - pls answer here or PM me to get Keith a resolution....
He also added this after I told him I'd post it up here.....
That's fantastic Dave, if you can tell them that I have a "travel bug" that I need to mail to them and have placed in a cache in Aus, that would help.
Really appreciate it lots...
Cheers, Diesel
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Danny's (sulkybear's) wife Gemma is a MAAAADDDDD geocacher. I'm sure she will be more then happy to help.
I'll text her.
Edit: message sent
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Diesel PM sent to you
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I know what geocaching is, and know what a travel bug is, but have done any for years...
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I once had a passing interest in geocaching when it was just lat/long info, and bought a rather bulky hand-held Garmin GPS.
But looking at the site now, it's evolved into a complex puzzle game with "premium membership". Someone has worked out how to make money out of that corner of the internet. I think I'll stick with FarGames etc.