Geocaching

[puppieeyes223]

This guy is a ass licker

[Arthur40TwoDent]

Cool, I'm came across Geocaching a few years ago, no GPS unit. I know your friend does it with out a GPS, however what GPS unit do you use.

[megaleach]

I use a Garmin eTrex Venture (the green one with the higher resolution). Sometimes I wish I'd shelled out for the Legend with the maps but it was the best I could afford at the time. :)

[GoddessofBarefeet]

Wow It is beautiful there. Some day I would love to go to your part of the world. I never heard of what you are doing. But, it is very interesting.

Looks like you & your family Have lots of fun together. Millia

[megaleach]

I would highly recommend visiting Tasmania to anyone. :)

Cheers,

Megaleach

[AtheistCitizen]

thanks for the views.

[megaleach]

There's plenty more around here. ;)

[FrogsRFriendsNotFood]

that is so cool. i've acually never heard of that.. but i love the location!

[megaleach]

Well, I'm glad that I was able to show you something new. :)

It's a great place, Tasmania.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[RandomnessAzn]

Hmm. Treasure hunting for nerds. Hook me up! lol

[megaleach]

Check out the links I just posted in the video description. :)

[Zatiria]

Great views...

We also have geocaching in Poland and it first appeared back in 2002 although it isn't very popular.

Sorry to hear your video got stolen by Velmaev3.

Zatiria.

[megaleach]

Hey, if my videos are being stolen, then it must mean I'm doing something right. ;)

Geocaching has been happening worldwide since Selective Availability was removed from the GPS satellite network back in 2000. I've been on and off geocaching since 2005.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[T4799]

Why would someone steal someone's video and then put no effort into covering the fact that it was stolen

[megaleach]

As far as I can tell, they rip videos that are doing well in the stats and put them on their page so people will go there and click on their spyware download link. I'm guessing it's a bot or something. Just a theory.

[Zatiria]

That's a positive way to look at it. :)

Yeah I know it started back in 2000 after US president Bill Clinton on the 1st of May decided to turn off the Selective Availability and therefore allowed civil GPS units to be accurate at range lower than 10 m. The idea for geocaching was first presented by Dave Ulmer on the 3rd of May.

[Zatiria]

Although it started back in 2000 you must understand that in 2000 Poland has just rebuild itself after years of communism and therefore such expensive (back then) sports weren't practiced on a larger scale like they were in the North America, Austrialia and Western Europe. Of course now we're a fast developing country and such things are pretty normal.

But let's change the topic. How is the secret project going?

[megaleach]

Ahh the secret project, well it's about 2/3's done now. I'm planning on sitting down today and attempting to finish most of it while the kids are at school. My plans are usually foiled my TasChic though. :)

[Zatiria]

Well, there's no harm in trying.

At this rate we will be able to see it soon, unlike the DNF (although there are rumors that the work on it picked up again).

[megaleach]

Here's hoping. :)

Duke Nukem Forever had better be friggen good, evil bastards making us wait over 10 years. :D

[megaleach]

I think I've finished the project, it just needs to be looked over by the other guy. Yay. :D

[megaleach]

Well, it looks like Velmaev3 has been suspended. :)

[Zatiria]

Yes, serves him/her/it (well if it's a bot it doesn't have a gender, does it? :P) right. >:-]

[shannister]

.. i wanna play. (and i am a grown up as well...though my children question that, i am going strictly by age :D)

[megaleach]

I highly recommend it for both the young and the young at heart. ;)

[shannister]

young at heart..that's a kind way to put it lol..*stops transforming bumblebee and tries to be serious* my kids and I need to try this..the maps are so lame ..hehheh

[megaleach]

The friend I went with in this video doesn't have a GPSr yet, he manages to find them with google earth and a printer. ;)

[shannister]

i use a faux leather patch and tell them it is from a dead pirates back...hmmm starting to feel evil...but it is usually a naughty pirate lol

[megaleach]

That's funny, it reminds me of a pirate themed geocaching event we attended once. Good times. ;)

[shannister]

yar..pirates..they be fair game

[rnb8220]

hmmm....GPS treasure hunting over the internet

Sounds like the perfect union of old school & now. Nice hobby you got there. I wanna try. It would be too wet where I am most of the time for this sort of thing except for summer.

[megaleach]

Surprisingly you can do this activity year round as there are plenty of caches that are well suited to wet days.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[rnb8220]

really...Interesting.

Is there some way to combine this with murderball and snowboarding...just joking

[megaleach]

Well... with regards to murderball, if the reference is to the 2005 movie of the same name, there are wheelchair accessible caches and there are caches placed near snowslopes/alpine areas. ;)

[rnb8220]

cool, you got the wheelchair rugby reference. There are caches placed near alpine areas. Geocaching really has it all.

[TheWellKnownNobody]

awsome vid, now i want to do it lol

the freeze frame at 2:58 was postcard perfect lol

[megaleach]

Thanks, I took that photo myself back in 2005. :)

If you're interested sign up, it's free and you can check by postcode to see if there's any geocaches in your area.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[TheWellKnownNobody]

wow you took that photo!? have you thought of photogophy as a job?

thanks, lol i thikn i']ll go look for stuff right now, thanks.

[megaleach]

Nah, I'm purely an amateur when it comes to photography. Let me know how you go finding stuff. :)

[ShadyZX]

Wow that sounds very interesting. Is it Geocaching very big in australia?

[megaleach]

Geocaching is very big worldwide, but yes, Australia has thousands upon thousands of caches. There are over 700 caches just in Tasmania, which is the smallest state in Australia.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[lazymornings]

looks like a great place to go.

[megaleach]

It is, one of the last photos shows "Paradise Cove", it's a great spot to have a picnic or go skinny dipping with your partner. ;)

Cheers,

Megaleach

[GreenFox59]

sounds cool.

[megaleach]

It is, there's caches for everybody, from easy urban caches to extreme hikes up mountains with camping overnight required. It's great fun for the whole family. ;)

[GreenFox59]

Sweet, sounds like something I would like to go on.

[megaleach]

I highly recommend it. :)

[Antman0123456789]

cool!

[megaleach]

I like it. :)

[cmcc212]

You can take whats in the container as long as you replace it with something else but don't take the logbook.

[megaleach]

Yep, "Trade up or trade even". In other words trade something of equal or greater value. There are exceptions like "Travel bugs" and "Geocoins" you can take them without swapping but once you've logged them online you should put them in another cache for somebody else to find.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[evilbrainproductions]

cool day out by the look of it..

[megaleach]

It was tons of fun. :)

But I'm so unfit, I hurt this morning.

Cheers,

Megaleach

[T4799]

Kind of like Orienteering. What was in it? I assume you had to record a number or something and put it all back.

[megaleach]

It was large McCormicks spice container with log-scroll, pens, a purple frog and a pull back red motorcycle. I signed the log-scroll, made our swaps and when I got home logged the cache on the australian geocaching website (GA0916).

[AngryAussie]

I've always thought geocaching sounds like fun but I've never actually done it.

[TimberGeek]

Same here, I've never had a GPS so I haven't taken the time.

[megaleach]

The friend that I went with doesn't own a GPSr yet but he's found several just using google earth and printing maps. He actually found one of the caches on this trip without the use of a GPS.

[megaleach]

If you find yourself in Tasmania I'll take you geocaching if you like.