Catherine was interviewed by Krissy Dwyer about Geocaching. this interview has now been published and makes a great read. Well done Krissy

Pop over to the Te Waha Nui post and show your support.

Just a quick blog entry to ask everyone to go and subscribe to all the great Geocaching podcasts that help sell over 250 appeal geocoins.

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Podcacher or as I call them The Sunny & Sandy show

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Its Not About The Numbers blog

Kev

The Guys & Girls over at notaboutthenumbers.com are giving away a Garman Chirp & $10 voucher for our shop geocachers.co.nz 

I jumped at the chance to put together a quick photo montage.

So pop on over to there great website and enter the draw.

May be you might beat my entry

Kev

Being a Geocaching.com or Groundspeak distributor we are able to purchase genuine travel bugs.

Groundspeak have just released there new Travel Marble which we hope to have in stock come the new year, but in the mean time you can pre-order yours to make sure you are the 1st in New Zealand get your grubby hands on one

Pre order yours now !!!

Ok so I thought we should give opencaching.com a try and put out 4 caches that have been rejected by our good friends the reviews for being to close to a multi stage. These 4 caches have NOT been published before and are not on any other site, so go get those FTF’s boys and girls !!!

2 of the caches OXZTY1E and OXZTY1G we put out on a nice walk around North Head in Auckland last May. They are both in a great location’s and kids will love the walk. Bring your camera as there are some great views while doing these caches !

OXZTY1D was placed in Nov and over looks the “Battle of the bridge” where war broke out in 2009. For all those confused about this note see some of the caches like GC1T03H and all the other caches around it

My Last cache OXZTY1C was put out some months ago and is one of my nasty black Nano’s hidden in a big tree and its name is correct Nano Hell ! I placed it there because good friend’s of ours Kiwifamily (read there great blog) where getting complaints about a hanging Nano he had in a tree GC29BKP, and this was in plain sight, I know we got FTF on it.  I though bugger all of you I will make this very hard and put a smaller Nano in a tree not in plain sight like my fiends did.   Am I bad he he he heeee

I must admit I hardly ever put contact details in my caches however today I was contact via our shop site by a work man putting up a new comms tower in Whakatane with a cache name and I was able to contact the owner of the cache to inform him that his cache was RIP and he could collect the box from the work men.

I would suggest always putting a card or sticker on the cache with the GC number and website details.

This goes to show there are still nice helpful people out there in New Zealand !

Kev

And the 1st Auckland cache published on opencaching.com goes to my good friends Kiwifamily

Well done guys !

There cache is Awareness and raises awareness about cancer so go and do this great cache !

You all should check out there blog its a great read !

Kev

It looks like opencaching.com is up and running

so far there are no geocaches in New Zealand but I am sure that will change soon

You are allowed 3 cache types Traditional, Multi & Puzzle I was hoping that the missing cache types would come back like Virtuals, Web Cam etc.…

I don’t know if this site will take off but if I was you I would get in quick and register your nick name before some bright spark steals your name from under you

Kev

I was thinking today (Yes I do sometimes use my brain) the amount of items that we use on a regular bases to Geocache is just amazing this is just a list of items that comes to mind while writing the blog entry I am sure there are many more that Catherine caries in her caching bag

IPhone because we love the maps and the ability to search local caches live. and those FTF’s just show up without having to sync the GPSR, The Iphone is also very good at logging the cache and travel bug logging. We also use the in built camera for most of our caching pictures, we take a picture at all caches we do and some of these end up on this blog

IPad because i love the big screen and I normally have it with me. We used the Ipad exclusively while in Australia and it works great plus we had TOMTOM loaded on it for route planning etc..

Garmin Oregon 450 GPSR this is our latest baby and is very accurate but we prefer the Iphone for maps and logging the cache.

Canon 500D DSLR I love to take pictures and I am learning to use the real camera, while on the longer caches in nice locations we take our time and take lots of pictures

Tweezers to get those nano logs out

Dental mirror from the two dollar shop

Replacement log books also ways a good idea to help out other cachers and replace full log books. We also ways keep the old one and contact the cache owner just in case they want it back.

Mosquito repellent for my English blood.

Pen & Pencil

Caching bag to hold all the above plus lots more items that Catherine just pulls out

As you can tell from the 1st 3 items I love the latest and greatest gadget

Would love to know what you carry with you so leave a comment for everyone else to read !

Kev

geocaching.com twitter integration working again !

After several months of downtime for the iPhone app – Geocaching.com – Twitter connection that posts tweets to your twitter feed every time you log a find via the app

you need to update your twitter a/c for it to work

Kev