Locationless Memories Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By OldSaint on 12-Apr-20. Waypoint GA14728
Cache Details
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Type: | Locationless |
Container: | Other |
Proximity: | 161m |
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Description
Covid 19 has been having cachers go back in their caching history:
Some have been making jigsaws from past caching photographs
Some caches have required us to look for groups of caches found on the same day reminding us of great caching trips
First Finds and First Hides of caching types have also been other memory boosters
And so the caching memes go on
I'd like to take you back as far as your caching memory will take you and how good/proud you felt after your first find
To log this cache, please go back to your very first cache find; give the GCA or GC number, the cache name and paste your log here; to claim a smilie
(It would also be interesting to know where and what date the find was made, whether or not you made a swap - any photo[s] gets you extra points)
Bet ya, that your face beams as you remember your first cache find
Cheers OldSaint
Congrats to whitewebbs for getting the FTF - Well done.
Hints
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Logs
https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Locationless_cache
Armchair style Locationless caches where the finder is not required to explore the real world, identify a location and accompany the "Find" with photographic evidence are no longer accepted.
A Locationless cache listing must require the finder to locate an object or perform a task in the real world, collect the co-ordinates and log the find with accompanying photographic evidence.
The geocaching community would like to thank you for listing this Locationess geocache and congratulations to all that found this locationless geocache.
As the geocache no longer meets the requirements we will archive the cache listing.
Sat 19th Sep 2009 to be precise.
There was an article on a movie that had just been released that spoek about 'geocaching'.
So I was intrigued and went to the website and signed up.
Well well well there is one under a km from home.
So I grabbed the kids and we headed out.
On the approach to GZ I could see the cache sticking out.
So it was not to hard a search.
The rest is history.
GCYW8T - PTPP 1 Tunnel Wall was the cache long since archived.
TFTL
Only found out about geocaching yesterday from friends from New Zealand. Downloaded the application and this is my first find.
Thank you Wagga Tails.
I went home, had lunch and went back into Launceston to sign the log of the cache my friends had shown me. GC70681 Galvanized Gender also hidden by Dankpig on 08/02/2017 and also now archived. This cache took its name from the building to which it was attached. Genders being a business which many years previously had occupied the building and the lane where the cache was was Genders Lane.
Thank you for bringing these memories back.
And as I have just worked out how to do screenshots I add the screenshot of my log.
It was close to home around to find other caches in the area. What an introduction. Thanks for the memories here OLDSAINT
I was finishing initial treatment for breast cancer and was looking for an activity that would encourage me to keep fit. A friend who lived in Ballarat told me about taking her children geocaching and it sounded like something that would give me a reason to go out walking in my local area and further afield. I signed up on 29 Jan 2015 and found this cache, near my holiday house, two days later.
The log I wrote was "The first cache that I have searched for and I found it without too much trouble. I left a small toy. TFTC
Now I am addicted to this hobby/game."
A few days later I tried geocaching near my home and learned about DNFs.
From Gisborne with Love...
by Spruce Mooses | GCT7YP | Victoria, Australia
I saw geocaching mentioned in a magazine and thought that sounded fun. Joined up, looked at teh nearest cache to home and this was it. I had no GPS so it was a matter of scouring the area. A nice big regular container with swaps as well. I was stoked and 26000+ finds later look back nostalgically to that day still. Cheers
our first log read Yeah first find now were hooked, located at 18:45 T.Glitter L.Shark, great container
I have attached a screen shot as proof
We were up there near the towers and we're just about to leave when Mr Beetle leant down and put his hand in to a cement pipe. As it was summer I was a bit concerned there might be a nasty in there but he had spotted something and when he pulled it out it was one of those great containers made out of PVC pipe.
We opened it and wondered what it was all about. We returned to the caravan which was parked at Rosebery and that night googled this 'geocaching' thing.
That was the start of our obsession.
Unfortunately that first find was never registered on any site. We did eventually track down the owner of that cache who had young children and had given up geocaching. Pity he didn't ever get around to registering this cache as it is a quality container in a terrific place with 360degree views.
When we returned home we joined up and the closest cache to our home was Don't Be The Seventh. So that was our first official find. The cache was placed at a weir across the Forth river, a place where 6 people had drowned.
The cache is now archived.
We found it on 26.12.2008 and our first log was:
Found first cache by accident. Read up on game on internet. This one close to home so went looking and found. We are hooked and looking forward to finding more.
Thanks for the memories and I'll bet that first cache is still on top of Mt Cleveland.
Oops, forgot the GC number which is GCP8GB.
"An interesting location for a cache. Being a public holiday with the public facility closed, muggles were not a problem. However it took a little while for our GPS to settle down. Once we had identified the general area, the likely hiding spot was soon identified and the cache retrieved. TFTC forthferalz. "
being a micro, there were no swaps.
TFTC Oldsaint.
My first GC was on 10/10/2012 and was GC3WBM7 called Eelup by baffle (no longer caches)
My first GA cache was on 24/11/2012 and was GA4238 called Whomping Willow by Rach2 (my now caching partner in crime )
Thanks for the cache
We stumbled across a container at Gnomesville, just out of Bunbury WA, opened it up and found some odd information in it.
Well that was it!!
We ended up quietly creating an account, researching handheld GPSs, quite expensive back then, (our second gps was ovver $1200) loaded half a dozen waypoints in it and headed to New Zealand where we didn't know anyone, therefore we weren't going to bump into any one we knew asking us what were we doing??
Out first cache to actually, really search and find was:
1 2006-07-10 /nz.png GC33D Traditional Cache Sharks Tooth Kaikoura
Our excitement was rather short lived as we only had a few caches printed out - yes those where the days when you had to print everything out if you wanted to take the information with you :-//
We found all the ones that we took information for,I must admit, there were't too many to choose from back in those days, and then have been back to NZ twice since, finding plenty more:-)))Thanks for the memories Old Saint
Although that one was a failure the next one we tried was a find! The rest is history. I still prefer the outback caching as can be seen by the numerous caches I have never attempted around home.
So to the actual cache.
It was White Cross, GC151CQ , a traditional, size small, 2/2, and my log reads
"Just learning. (Ha ha, I still am.) Found this my very first on 4 September . Very exciting."
And yes I still get excited thinking about it. Not many people can claim their first find out in the desert of WA. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, OldSaint.
rubymoon05 found Traditional Cache Pipes to talk through?
Monday, 27 January 2014 New South Wales, Australia SE SE 4.1 km from your home location
First find yay
we drove out to it after coming back from Tamworth and some friends telling me about Geocaching
"Decided at the last minute to try for our first cache. Pleasant walk in the park with the filtered light of sunset. Said hi to the Boogie man.
Great location, well done Wyoming Wombats.
I can see a lot more caching adventures in our future."
We had purchased a GPSr earlier in the day for marine navigation and Mr Shifter mentioned geocaching so we looked it up and decided to try to find the closest cache. When we arrived and had to sign the log book we didn't know what our team name was going to be so we decided to use the family trivia team name.
We have since adopted this cache when the owner moved overseas for a while.
Fifteen years later we are still caching, and still loving it.
I had come from Canberra to visit Berlin seeing some good friends they took us to a walk and were keen to show us something cool new. They knew that I would like this they had been holding off for a long time to do (almost one year since shortly after our last visit when they learned about this - man I am still upset that I could have known and caches one whole more year if they had just told me ) Anyhow little did they know how much I would like this and take to it. Now over 5000 finds and 9 years later (they are still in the 3 digits) I am keen as ever to cache.
I had bought a handheld GPS and it finally arrived in the mail so I could go looking for a cache. Wink
And it was just what I expected, a nice long walk up a slight incline hill and a good search for a small cache.
That was enough to tell me I wanted more of this and so I'm still doing it 15 years and 27,000 caches later. Wink
My log said -
"What a great place to break my GC virginity.(First find that is...)
Had a great walk, and got the lungs working.
I had no idea this & the other one was up there, and I've lived here all my life.
Easy to get to GZ, but took a little time to find the cache( I did have my L plates on, if that counts).
And by coincidence the name on the rock is the same as mine. It was like it was a pointer for me. A bonus.
I added some GC.com stickers & took the torch to revive its batteries in another site later."
Thanks for the memory and the cache OldSaint,
Roostaman.
My first find was on 27/12/2003
My log read:- 11.00am. Found it easily and quickly. TNLN. This is my first cache after being introduced by my friend Varuna.
Thanks OldSaint
My first find was on 09/Jul/2012. I didn't have a GPS then or a smart phone (in fact I found my first 180 caches without either), so I picked a first cache with a good hint:
Additional Hints (Encrypt)
1. Pick a poplar!
2. About 1.5mtr from the ground.
3. [Dead Give-away] Sixth big tree from the left.
I also checked the cache on Google maps.
My log read, "I found this easily; my first Geocache. I joined yesterday. A nice easy one to start with. A couple walked by and another person was exercising her dog on the oval, but I was ignored at the tree."
I found it alone...and yes it was obvious I needed to bring a pen . (A couple of beginners didn't bring a pen to one of my caches today.)
TFTC OldSaint.
Find date: 29 July 2016
GC4QG32 - The Checkered Flag - Take 2
TFTLC
GC119M2 Traditional Cache Identity Tube at Redland.
Thanks
Paint, tools & BBQs GC3W6AF found 26 Feb 2014
My log: "Yay! My first cache! Not keen on spiders though."
Thanks, OldSaint for the memories
After I had signed up, my first logged and official find was 'Quinn's Ghost' (GC1RC4M). I found it on 25/01/2016 and now has since been archived. I really enjoyed my drive and my stop off to find this cache. TFTLC
GC2730E
Attended
05/05/2010
Good to meet with others who have similar interests to you
After this I was totally hooked and still love it 10 years on.
GC1VB3N "(ADV AUST) Hopefully this has you stumped"
I was lucky enough to be FTF on my first cache find.Here is my log entry.
"FTF. Thanks for the introduction to the world of geocaching. I am hooked."
How right that turned out to be. Twelve years later and I'm keener than ever.
Thanks for the chance to reminisce, Old Saint.
My log on 27/03/2011:
TFTC ... it was my first find. Yay! Had no trouble finding it ... pencil still needs sharpening.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC454W2
Finding Raymond by KTCVic
Although I started my account in 2012 it wasn't until my eldest son called to tell me that he had proposed to his long time girlfriend by hiding an engagement ring in a geocache.
After the call I opened the app and walked across the road to find my first cache.
This was Cameron of KTCVic's first hide. A rubber lizard with a bison tube cabletied to it's neck, hidden in the armco railing in Raymond McMahon Blvd, Endeavor Hills.
It put a smile on my face.
GC255F Riding the rails, going nowhere by embi (now The Englands).
My log from that find...
Our 1st find. Not too far from home and of special interest to us because of my employment. Easy to find.
Took small car
Left Toyworld key ring.
GC2GT0P
Budzilla's Mini Fine Art Cache
Log: Found easily just go in the right direction and tho shall find treasure
Unofficially i had been caching with a friend months earlier but never signed up until the 18th Dec and slowly got into it and then 2 years later i started streaking and still streaking 2,466 days later
"My son, a geo-tragic, took my daughter (who has since become a geo-tragic herself) and me on a search for this one to show us what geocaching was all about, while we were on a family get together in Darling Harbour in Nov 2013. Since the two of us didn't have a clue what we were doing or looking for, it took us a little while to find the cache ... funnily, daughter and I actually saw it pretty early in the piece but we didn't recognise it as a cache until we pointed it out, after much more searching, to geo-son. Now that I have signed up to geocaching.com, I'm logging this as my very first find."
Funny memories... Our first cache, or in this case cashe, was a traditional. Our daughter signed us up as RIX1 and we went out and found 3 that day. We even replaced the third cache with a genuine tupperware container. Some time later when we were getting the gist of things we went back into these 3 cache listings and gave them all a favourite point. As the log states, we found 2 the previous day but weren't signed up. At some stage we went back to refind them to sign the logs. The log for our first was as follows.
My first official cashe, I went with my geodaughter yesterday and found 2 and decided to join for myself. So off we set today to find some more.
TFTC
The cache was published on 31-8-05 and is still going strong though it doesn't appear the owner or maintenance team live even remotely close any more.
The cache was a GC hide by Team Horizons GCP0MJ Chinese Foundations now archived.The location was
on the hill in the Botanic gardens in Wagga Wagga. This being our first we had no idea what geocaching
was about and Bob made the comment we would enjoy the finding of containers around the district. We have
now cached every state of this country and made so many friends who enjoy the game as well.
Tnx OldSaint
Our daughter and her then partner (now husband) were visiting us in the nearby caravan park and suggested that caching might add to our love of hiking and touring this beautiful country. We walked the 159 metres from the park and found the cache.
Our log is as follows :
‘Enjoyed finding our 1st geocache in one of our favourite spots in Australia. Our daughter and her partner wanted to get us involved....maybe we'll get as hooked as they are. ’
The cache was originally published on 21/1/08 by ‘The Silver Snitch’ and is now maintained by ‘Reverb’.
Unlike our daughter and her hubby who no longer cache we still enjoy this great pastime while touring the country. Currently hunkered down in a caravan park in Millicent SA for as long as it takes and then we’ll be on our way again.
Many thanks OldSaint for the memories and allowing us to log another locationless cache
View Geocache Log
"GL9VCEPK ▼
Found it Nana Nel found Traditional Cache Hidden Pathways #12
Sunday, 25 November 2012 New South Wales, Australia SE SE 2.3 km from your home location
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TFTC This is my 1st find in my caching name, nice walk between the 2 towns, we caught the bus over then walked back and caught the ferry home.
Nana Nel"
Thanks to OldSaint for this cache.
and the log read
"Our very first find on day one of geocahing. At very late afternoon find"
The log was one of those ones that we all get frustrated with when we receive them on our own hides but we didn't even know that is went off to someone to read!
it simple stated: Our first cache!
thanks OldSaint
If it is it will open up a Pandora's Box of possibilities for me.
When I first looked at this group I saw there was only one cache in my neighbourhood, and was no longer interested. Last weekend I was able to attend four geocaching events in Geelong, and had the opportunity of speaking with n0w0rries who explained a lot more about the game, and especially about Locationless caches. This aspect of it really appealed to the photographer within me.
I started reading the list before we headed out to Stamp Club tonight, and this was the last one I'd noticed before the meeting. It must have been an omen, for one of the books tabled tonight was the Phoenix Stamp Catalogue. As soon as the meeting was over, I photographed this. Hoping it meets with approval.
Yes it did open a Pandora’s Box and I’m loving it, especially during this time of isolation, I cannot keep up with all the jigsaws, if we are in isolation for another couple of months I might.
Thanks for the memories Old Saint.
My log on 27/03/2011:
TFTC ... it was my first find. Yay! Had no trouble finding it ... pencil still needs sharpening.
It is located in Yarraman forestry of which the Power Station and col mine now have a lease. Still accessable.
The noise is the noise of the working machinery at the Coal Mine behind the 2 Meter chain wire fence. takes about 20 minurtes to walk in.
My Log:
youngoldfella
Found it Found it
09/09/2007
I found that walking along this now closed to public vehicles road the cache was only approximately 500meters away and the terrain was challenging but not all too difficult. Good shoes and water would be helpful. Found the cache at about 4pm and this side of the hill was in deep shadow.
TFTC OLDSAINT
Our log read: Thanks. My first geocache find. Not as easy as it looks. Great bit of history. Looks like I will combine my love of history and caching.
To this day we enjoy the history that abounds in this country, that is never taught in school.
This was my log....which didn't say that much at all in those days:
Found it
27 Oct 07
Woo-hoo, our first 'cache' find......ever!!
(found another one later in the day and logged it 1st, hence the '2 found')
Went for it as it seemed fairly easy to find for a first attempt, so thanks for that. Now to buy a GPS!!!!!!!
Some interesting items in the cache so swapped a little item for $1 AUD.
Now almost 13 years later I'm into GCA a bit more than GC, but still happy to do the occasional GC run.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane Old Saint....and yep, there was a smile.
The log read "1st find ever! Thanks, introduced to cache hunting by Tassie Trekkers."
The cache was found on the 13 April 2009
The log read:
"Found it
13/04/2009
My first cache find Thank You Old Saint"
I took an OAK Coin Flower and replaced it with a St Kilda Football Card
Happy Memories