I've heard about it Ditty but have never partisipated in it....

Can I do this with my Iphone Ditty?

I don't want a travel bug though

I reckon Baz....   I have the Nokia touchscreen (poor mans iphone)... and it has GPS on it... so iPhones must have GPS on them.   And.... what you betting there is a special Geocaching app for it!

ello Stonks...  I'd never even heard of it til hubby started bringing stuff home.

Toid.... you'd be dead disappointed with the travel bug I have next to me at the moment.. its just a metal key fob.   Hubby has got to log it and then put it somewhere else.... he plans to put it in a cache in London in the hope it will get jetted off somewhere international.

Hubby was telling me this morning about a couple that put a bug in a cache and decided that wherever it ended up on a certain date that would be the destination for their honeymoon.   A couple of weeks before the date they had a look online and it was logged in New York... so they got all excited..   but days before the date it moved... to twenty miles down the road from their home in Kent!

Dunno if they stuck to the plan and honeymooned there or not!

LOL..... well it defo has GPS.... *runs off to check for geocache app* If there is one then I reckon Master Ducky had better hang on tight to his Iphone, knowing waht Ducky is like with treasure hunting....

I love the idea of this in terms of getting my boy out and about.   He'd be alot more inclined to walk if there were a purpose to it.....  

Hubby has said you get the odd box that someones totally emptied out... which I suppose is bound to happen... but he has only seen one empty cache.. the rest have been full to the brim with all sorts of bits n bobs.

I know!!    I have been giggling to myself all morning... 

Duds had just started to refuse to walk with Ducky...  but given a choice between accompanying her or letting her have his iPhone....   I reckon she can get another couple of years of Duds company out of this!

PMSL...... there sure are geocahing apps

hahaha!   spoiled for choice then!!

Hubby works for the council... and they equip them all with handheld GPS devices, mobile phones, digital camera's and possibly satnavs soon...

I cannot beleive they just don't get them all an iPhone (they must be able to get a decent corporate contract deal) and just have all the stuff on one gadget!

Yep.... but only the intro and some *tools* are free.... the others you have to pay for, so that might just save Ducky

Would seem to make sense to me, but then we are talking councils here....

oh god... you're not wrong there...  I am surprised I have a bottom lip left.. the amount of biting it I have to do!

Hubby has totally bought into it all... its "we" this, and "us" that...   I have to fight to stop myself from constantly moaning from a council tax payer perspective!  

The work they do is fab... its just some of the blindingly obvious things that waste money!

I agree... it's just that when they go into bureaucratic mode all common sense seems to go out of the window

Because as actual phones they are shit in areas where mobile signal strength is a bit touch and go.. like out in the countryside .. FACT!


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I thought it sounded like a new sexually transmitted disease of some kind

okay....  I am up to speed on the Zaph verdict on iPhones....  what about Geocaching?
*whispers to Rufus* Some caches have been known to have dog biscuits in them as well!

Do you need fruit to do it??

Geocaching sounds fun... I could use Rufus in bloodhound mode.... if there are dog biscuits involved

And you just know I have all the necessary gadgets


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nope.... if random digging is your preferred method you can just dig, dig, & dig away!

I have a vision of Rufus all decked out in chest rig, utility belt... looking a bit batman like!

da da da da da da da da .. da da da da da da da da ... R u f u s ... hmmm might need some work


Z.

I know I have seen a pic of a dog in a batman costume somewhere... 

*runs to find it*

arghhh!  there's a pic of a Cairn in a batcostume! 

Good job you didn't find the Golden Retriever in a tutu picture


Z.

That is one cross looking Cairn.. I think human body parts were lost soon after that photo was taken!!


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I'd like to think so!

ok... so I hadn't realised how far into all this hubby had got.... he is telling me that non-cachers are referred to as geomuggles!   And when you have found where a cache is you are supposed to not let the geomuggles know what you are up to!

Gawd... I thought grown ups did this


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there is a forum.... I just went for a look and its all looking a bit technical again... 

we have a DrDick&Vick geocache card...  so I looked at one of their posts...  and its gobbledegook....  look 

I think I am still a geomuggle!

No.. I think you re what is commonly called... Normal


Z.

So... is geocaching nerdy then?  

or... are there just peeps out there that have got carried away

I need to pull hubby back a bit from this... he is currently on google street map... he's found two caches on there already!

Find him another hobby


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its all my fault!   I made him sell his bike!   he's gone from biker to ... rambler!

Not still in the leathers? People will talk!


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