GPS Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By murphley on 04-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5A811

Logging with CO's permission and even though it's archived, I'm giving GPS its last favourite point.
On three occasions I visited WP1, but iPhone crashed on the first two occasions as on separate times either to answer a phone call or chase another nearby cache.
This wherigo was appealing to tourists with landmarks and appealing locations, walking marathon boot camp style route that gave you jelly legs once completed and a huge sense of achievement at completion, thanks murphey for letting me to log the find.

martin cousins you can grab a complimentary smiley if you like.

Too many issues, too much of a hassle to update.

Nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo, sad face

Cache was at location but has rusted together. Have taken it with me and will either fix or replace.

Always remember in the Sydney 2000 Olympics when a judge ran onto the track with the red disqualification card to Jane Saville when the gold medal was a gimme.
Well probably 8 or more km's and 3.5hrs I came up blank. The path/stairs is immaculately cleaned after all the rains and couldn't locate anything cache like. I used a small reo bar as a hoe as I thought that it may be buried after weather, or either maybe muggled from council clean up. I don't expect someone has taken it but buried, maybe yes, but now after three and a half hours for a massive walk, all for a DNF. All in all, it can do with a cache check.
Thanks for a great whereigo Murphey

After a long, long walk and many restarts due to random closures, sound disappearing and no moving on, we finally made the end almost three hours later.

It was a lovely tour with fun thrown in and a truly great history lesson. But, unfortunately the fact that WhereIGo cartridge are clunky and prone to random stuff is as always my lasting memory.

But a truly favourite worthy effort

TFTC.

When I woke up this morning my computer was flashing a message. It said I had to consult my phone. There, it told me, I would find a message from Canary.

I checked the phone. Canary too had received a message from his computer. It had scheduled an outing for us after it had received a message from my computer that this is what we wanted, if we only knew. Naturally, Canary was perturbed, but he decided that an outing would be pleasant after all, and besides, he couldn’t get any breakfast from his fridge, which was refusing to open. It has an internet connection and it was insisting that he bought it a fancy new light globe only sold in Sydney. Apparently the fridge had read an automated email advertisement sent from a distant server.

To Sydney we were to go.

After overcoming some problems at the ticketing office (apparently we were behind the times since we have each failed to purchase an Opal card and the ticketing machine was in a sulk and refusing to cooperate – even with our phones!) we were on the train and on our way to Sydney.

But our problems didn’t stop there. My iPad had decided that it was time for an iOS8 update, and was taking a luxurious few hours to complete that task. Meanwhile the phone downloaded the Whereigo Cartridge, but would only display an input screen for the first question at random moments when we were looking the other way, and the walk signals to take us across the road would only turn green when we went back to check the number on the pole. We eventually stood, one of us at the lights, the other at the pole and NickoHeap jumped up and down on a spot in between, just in case there was a movement sensor somewhere on a building that we needed to keep happy.

“Can you remind me why we’re doing this?” I asked Canary about five kilometres into the walk.
“It gets the kids away from technology,” he suggested, but I could tell he felt like a liar as Glados’ voice monotoned from his phone, sending us on yet another tangent.

When we finally found the cache there was a moment when Canary and I both hesitated, as though a thought had entered our heads at the exact same instant.

“If you were to walk into a hardware store right now,” I said, “What would you buy?”

Canary answered without hesitation. “A crowbar.” The man did look hungry. “And you?”

I was picturing a sledge hammer; blunt, heavy, simple.

Cache needs CO attention

Since this cache was published, I was doing it in bits and pieces with a muggle friend on evening walks... Took us quite a bit to finish! But Finally we did! *phew*
Rachel did bug around in the middle... but she caught up with us... or may be we caught up with her! (later i found out that it was a red herring!)
I'm not so much of a history person, but my muggle friend is...and she really liked it!
At the cache, we found it hard to open coz the cache had given way to nature (will email CO about it)... somehow we managed to do it and logged a find under my name!
TFTC and TFTHistoryLesson

Wow - this was a fantastic walking adventure.

I was a little unsure about how successful it would the given the previous logs and also the CO hinting that there would be bugs. The hardest part fur me was downloading the cartridge !

I set off at lunchtime today and really enjoyed the leisurely stroll and the history lesson.

Rachel, my guide was fun, informative, gave very clear instructions but she does like Sydney's hidden stairs !

I only lost the audio once but I followed the instructions- pressed quit, then resume. She repeated WP1 spiel then caught up with me and we had no more trouble.

I used her hint at GZ to make a quick grab and signed the log

Definitely worth a fav point and I highly recommend giving this a go.

Tftc

This entry was edited by The Bebes on Friday, 12 September 2014 at 04:51:30 UTC.

Finally managed to complete this epic wherigo cache on the third attempt! When it was first published, I was pretty quick to action but didn't realise the cartridge file was so large, ended up downloading it multiple times wasting quite a bit of mobile data (good tip from the CO to use wireless!)

I got a fair way through the cartridge on that first attempt but it was late afternoon so I had to abandon the search. Second attempt I was able to resume from where I left off and continued on further until at a certain point in the journey where the WhereYouGo app managed to freeze and stop working, again forcing me to abandon the search.

The third attempt required a bit of back-tracking to a point in the journey where the audio navigation started working again. After much trudging and following instructions, I finally managed to arrive at GZ. Took a while and a helpful hint to find the cache but I found it eventually and made my mark in the log.

Would definitely recommend this wherigo experience but make sure you leave yourself plenty of time to complete (take some water with you!) and be patient since the player app is a little flaky, nothing that the CO can really do about that. Another favourite from me. TFTC murphley!

If you are looking to attempt this, as I explained to KRS in a personal email, the audio loss is unfortunately not something that can be fixed easily because it's a problem with the iPhone Wherigo player. The easiest way to resolve it is to simply Quit and Resume the cartridge. Some previous zones will activate again, but once their audio finishes within a minute or two, you will be able to continue as normal. If you attempt the cartridge without audio, you will run into an invisible zone or two and won't know how to proceed. Hope that helps.

This entry was edited by murphley on Saturday, 09 August 2014 at 01:12:57 UTC.

8/08/14. 11:10 AM. Cache #1757. Whew! The epic walk is finally over! I had to practically do it twice and threw away my shot at FTF. Here's how...

Yesterday, I started at the provided coordinates at around 10:30AM and had a little trouble with the first bit of information that I needed to enter but after that I was soon off. Everything was working well until around Waypoint 8, when my vocal guide left me (must have been something I said?). Still, the Whereigo app worked fine albeit silently, until I got to about Waypoint 19. Here I was getting no further information until the CO suggested I quit and resume the cartridge. All the voice tracks came back at once and it was hard to understand them talking over one another, but I was able to continue with the app, once again silent, to Waypoint 28. My iPhone battery had by then packed it in. I got a taxi to my car - several kilometres away - and used the return journey to charge my phone up a little bit further. In this way, I was able to extend my journey to about Waypoint 36. By this point the phone was getting flat again, I couldn't find the next waypoint and I was running out of time. I needed to run some errands before picking my daughter up from school by 3:00, quite a long drive away. By now it was about 1:30PM, still an hour and a half before pk1965 claimed the FTF, but I had to pack it in. Little did I know how close I was to the finish line.


Today, I loaded the cartridge and set it to resume. I sat through the same spiel about Waypoint 1 as I drove along the Cahill Expressway. At this point, only Waypoint 1 was visible. I drove to Waypoint 36, hoping that it would become visible, but it didn't - all I could still see was Waypoint 1. I backtracked a little to get some petrol, then parked near Waypoint 32. Some of the Waypoints came back; the nearest one was Waypoint 23. I walked all the way back to that one and then all of a sudden, the cartridge started working properly again. From waypoint 23, I now had my vocal sidekick guiding me back on most of the course again, which by now had become very familiar. Back up another big hill I had to go, and many staircases. Past the car and more staircases. Back to waypoint 36, where I'd left it yesterday. And now it continued to work, but I only had a handful of additional waypoints until I got to the final destination and the cache. I now see from the theme why it had to be so long, but man, what an epic!

It was with relief that I finally got to put my name to the log, and I then had a bit of a walk back to the car. Thanks for the big walk. A bit too long for my liking, but a good Whereigo all the same. TFTC }:)

Unable to download cartridge. Mobile data or wifi...nothing is helping !

Published

Wellyst be almost at the end, when the little voice said malfunction sorry about that and no further waypoints.... Arggggg

Yeah FTF... Wow now that's a walk. I must be an alpha versions of the GPS software as I went back a forwards a couple of times.. And another hint make sure you to the audio on in the app. Cheers murphley at the end. FP from me