hey guys ... been one crazy week in this house and today just before Rhonda left for school she called over to her sister sue to see how she is this am -- well they were all asleep and my niece needed to go to school so Unkie gets dressed to go drive her to Horton ,,, after I drop her off look at my phone and 2 new caches nearby -- 1st is a cemetery --only have nuvi --set coords and of we go --- 10 minutes later way up the mountain we arrive --- so I just walk from tree to tree till I find the cache hahhahahha ...
2nd cache coods in and takes to land of Evangeline but no way do I have any idea where the cache is so home I go because I needed to cook for sue -- we had eggs and did all the things she needed done till 2 pm and then she said she wanted to sleep so home I went --- then Mark my #2 son who came home from Quebec yesterday texed and said he was coming over -- I grabbed the GPS and when he drove in we went for the cache --
2nd FTF of the day ...amazing -- this one was a good cache -- well done -- You guys will like it --then one more quick cache and then Wolfville for groceries for supper then home -- by the old road BUT going over the railway tracks we hit a bump and then -- back tire flat --- they pulled out a 3 inch bolt 0000 man -- called rick but had it changed before he arrived .... new tire on now --- home had a great supper with Rhonda and mark -- Mark now gone to Nick's place ( #3 son in falmouth ) .. rhonda gone to see sue and I am about ready for bed ,,,,
But 2 ftf ..... a cahe and a couple of good deeds -- supper and 3 loads of laundry ----
Not a bad day Nova Man !!!!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Smilies on Google Maps
I'm sure you have noticed that the smilies indicating our finds still aren't back on the Geocaching.com Google Maps. Here is the post from the feedback forum explaining why:
The addition of many new major features plus the record traffic levels we're experiencing has caused some serious performance issues for the site. Some features like the personalization of the maps have been disabled temporarily just to allow the site to function. Fixing these and other performance issues is a top priority.
In the meantime, you can access the beta map (http://www.geocaching.com/map/beta) and still have personalization. (However, keep in mind that display of PMO caches has not yet been implemented on the beta map.)
So it was a conscious decision by Groundspeak to disable them. That really sucks.
Ken
The addition of many new major features plus the record traffic levels we're experiencing has caused some serious performance issues for the site. Some features like the personalization of the maps have been disabled temporarily just to allow the site to function. Fixing these and other performance issues is a top priority.
In the meantime, you can access the beta map (http://www.geocaching.com/map/beta) and still have personalization. (However, keep in mind that display of PMO caches has not yet been implemented on the beta map.)
So it was a conscious decision by Groundspeak to disable them. That really sucks.
Ken
Saturday, April 23, 2011
GC2NG62 - R0AR!!! Sue the T-Rex
GC2NG62 - R0AR!!! Sue the T-Rex is a puzzle cache, probably one of the most difficult geocaching puzzles I have ever solved. I had to have a little help from a friend to get the job done. I then set the result aside because it was just too far to go. And I knew that at some point I would be in the neighbourhood. Today was that day.
I was invited to a 40th anniversary celebration for a former colleague and his wife in Timberlea today so I loaded up the waypoint in both my Oregon and Nuvi. After the party I headed out on the hunt, complete with dress shoes and a tie! I soon realized that I had loaded both GPSr's directly from the cache page instead of GSAK, which had the corrected coordinates. In other words I was navigating to the wrong location. I did have the corrected coordinates in my iPod, though, so I pulled over and edited the numbers in both receivers. After that it was a quick find!
One other thing happened today. I had loaded all Nova Scotia waypoints to my Nuvi as points of interest. When you make the load, you have the option to set an alarm as you arrive at a given distance from a POI. I could see problems with that, so to be safe I set a rather conservative (so I thought) distance of 200 meters.
Wrong move!
That frickin' Nuvi alarmed quite regularly all the way in on the 101. And when I got to the St. Margarets Bay Road it beeped almost constantly. At one point I counted 23 alarms in a row - bing bing bing 23 times. I thought I was going to go nuts. I couldn't shut the Nuvi off because I needed it to direct me to my destination. So I had to put up with it.
I swear, I am going to hear that alarm in my sleep tonight.
Needless to say, the Nuvi got reloaded tonight with no alarm set. Not going to fool me twice.... I hope.
I was invited to a 40th anniversary celebration for a former colleague and his wife in Timberlea today so I loaded up the waypoint in both my Oregon and Nuvi. After the party I headed out on the hunt, complete with dress shoes and a tie! I soon realized that I had loaded both GPSr's directly from the cache page instead of GSAK, which had the corrected coordinates. In other words I was navigating to the wrong location. I did have the corrected coordinates in my iPod, though, so I pulled over and edited the numbers in both receivers. After that it was a quick find!
One other thing happened today. I had loaded all Nova Scotia waypoints to my Nuvi as points of interest. When you make the load, you have the option to set an alarm as you arrive at a given distance from a POI. I could see problems with that, so to be safe I set a rather conservative (so I thought) distance of 200 meters.
Wrong move!
That frickin' Nuvi alarmed quite regularly all the way in on the 101. And when I got to the St. Margarets Bay Road it beeped almost constantly. At one point I counted 23 alarms in a row - bing bing bing 23 times. I thought I was going to go nuts. I couldn't shut the Nuvi off because I needed it to direct me to my destination. So I had to put up with it.
I swear, I am going to hear that alarm in my sleep tonight.
Needless to say, the Nuvi got reloaded tonight with no alarm set. Not going to fool me twice.... I hope.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Saturday Afternoon Caching
Well, Claire got off work at 1:00 PM today so I went to their place shortly before then and she, Barry and I spent the afternoon caching together. We grabbed a total of 15 with no DNF's mostly in the Kingston area. Nice afternoon, but wow am I tired tonight!
Off to Truro tomorrow where I will spend the day taking a course as an adult advisor of the local chapter of DeMolay. I hope they serve coffee, I may need it.
But now for some NHL Stanley Cup Playoff action!
Off to Truro tomorrow where I will spend the day taking a course as an adult advisor of the local chapter of DeMolay. I hope they serve coffee, I may need it.
But now for some NHL Stanley Cup Playoff action!
saturday
today was Rhonda last saturday at her course so we left a bit early as I wanted to stop at my cache at exit 10 to replace the cache holder that is MIA -- well the one I brought was too small and fell all the way in and when i was going back to car my feet got caught in reeds and I feel right in front of car -- ripped my new jeans --- just skinned my knee but I feel pretty hard and of course Rhonda was worried I hurt my self -- I told her just my pride -- a man getting coffee at just us came right over to see if I was ok ... anyway on we went I dropped R at her course and had an hour so went after Valley View -- I had the right co-ords last saturday but did not want to park my car on the exit ramp and did not like the hill so did not do it last week but today I parked right in the field by the exit 11 and walked 150 m to cache and it was all flat --- so got that one off my list ...
Cya Monday weather looks great --- have a good night -- Chris
Cya Monday weather looks great --- have a good night -- Chris
Caching with non cachers.
I had been working everyday all week for 1 person or another trying to tie up all the loose ends before th 21st. Since it was nice and sunny yesterday decided to take the day off to enjoy the fine day. Made arrangements to meet non caching friends (Yvonne & Danny Hennigar) at Swiss Chalet in Bridgewater and then planned for Vic & me to do a little caching. Our friends had no plans for the afternoon so it was decided they would go with us. We headed to the Riverport area to do a few easy caches as Vic can't walk on uneven ground yet. It was beautiful in that area with the sun shining off the water, the wind was a little cool though. Danny got out first at every cache and found a few of them. Yvonne even made the find on one that was giving us trouble. We got 8 finds with 1 DNF. I don't think i made cachers out of them but they enjoyed the outing and said we should try to get together once a month to do things together.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Two Days in a Row!
Well, I got out caching again today for a short time all by my lonesome. I was 3 for 3 when I headed home, and those were the only caches on my list today. I picked up both Treasure in the Trees Eh? 2 and 3 as well as Hugh's new one that Chris got the FTF on yesterday.
I was a little nervous when I got to Hugh's - it was in the pile of rocks that forms part of the dike, and you know me and piles of rocks. I almost walked away, but then I spent a couple of minutes studying the site. I decided that if I sat down on one large flat rock and swung my legs around its edge my feet would then be on another large rock below. So that is exactly what I did. Both rocks were large enough to be safe and steady. I grabbed the cache which was under the rock I sat on (right where I expected it to be), signed up the log, sat back down and swung my legs back up to the top. Too easy and perfectly safe!
I was a little nervous when I got to Hugh's - it was in the pile of rocks that forms part of the dike, and you know me and piles of rocks. I almost walked away, but then I spent a couple of minutes studying the site. I decided that if I sat down on one large flat rock and swung my legs around its edge my feet would then be on another large rock below. So that is exactly what I did. Both rocks were large enough to be safe and steady. I grabbed the cache which was under the rock I sat on (right where I expected it to be), signed up the log, sat back down and swung my legs back up to the top. Too easy and perfectly safe!
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