Geocaching Skills and Knowledge for Beginners Motueka, South Island, New Zealand
By Stretch0 on 23-Aug-15. Waypoint GC60B3Z

Plenty of time for all to have logged so will now archive. Thanks for all those who attended and also those who assisted without them i would have not managed.

Thanks so much for an interesting afternoon - learnt so much , nice to meet other like minded folk
Hi Hopes

Most helpful. Thanks to all the experienced members who shared their knowledge so freely.

Well thanks to all those that attended.
I hope we managed to answer a few questions and supplied some of the answers to your questions. Please feel free to email and i will try and assist further .
Also a big thank you to some of the other cachers who gave assistance, it is only through these people made the event more successful.


This entry was edited by Stretch0 on Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 04:54:24 UTC.

Nice to catch up with some familiar faces and also to meet and greet some people who are more recent starters with geocaching. A great idea to bring experience and enthusiasm together. I hope I was able to help in some way. TFTE, Biggles.

Great to see a good turn out with lots of old friends coming along and helping newer members of the caching fraternity I think everyone came away having learnt something new whilst still being very social - thanks to everyone for coming

Thank you Stretch0 for organising this event it was great.
A special thank you to Aaron (KE) for all his help and patience, it was much appreciated. Thank you
Thank you Biggles for helping me with my phone

A great idea for an event and good to see it well supported by new and old geocachers alike. It was just my luck to have the challenge of helping someone who owns an Apple Mac! But I think I managed to teach them something and I learned a thing or two as well. (On top of already knowing that I should never buy an Apple product.) All good fun and a nice social outing. I think it's now up to the new players to host the next session. Thanks Stretch and Niteowlz for hosting the event.

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Thanks for the event. Glad to help new cachers also great to catch up other cachers

This entry was edited by bullertrout on Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 08:53:21 UTC.

We were so keen to learn about this that we turned up yesterday, nearly got ourselves enrolled in senior net. We had to do a wee bit of a juggle with our day as we had promised the grandkids a trip to Haulashore Island for a picnic today (and so we could get a T5 to complete the road trip challenge). So an early picnic it was and then back to Motueka for a very worthwhile afternoon. Thank you so much for willingly sharing your skills and knowledge, I feel as though I have enough knowledge to give it a go (or at least be dangerous). It was also great to put some faces to the names that have become familiar. Thanks to everyone who supported those of us who are new to this, we really appreciate your time and effort.

MAC users

done a bit of research after event and an alternative program to GSAK found
http://icaching.eu/

also a way of using GSAK on your Mac
http://www.frso.se/index.php/geocaching/how-to-get-gsak8-running-on-os-x

Hope this is of help would also be interested in any feedback on either of them. I have no experience of them but it appears icaching very popular.
At this stage i take a disclaimer on either The MAc is out of my range of knowledge

Great to catch up plus to see so many new faces what a great group I remember we where all new bees once too. I'm sure we all learned from the day thanks guys well done see you in ChCh for the Mega

Of course I will be there - who else will make the coffee !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you all; we found it extremely helpful and can continue on our way with plenty of new skills.

Great to get together and gain so much more geo info , Thank-you StretchO and all the other tutors who were so helpful . Looking forward to the next one.

Great to meet everyone and learn more about the mechanics of geocaching. Thanks

I'm on Night shift and should be sleeping but will try to make it if only for a short time, be great to have another catch up..

Sorry Stretch0 we are going to be away. I really really wanted to attend too because my IT knowlege and capability is very basic. Have a great time everyone.

A great idea but we will be busy Sunday refilling the kitchen with the stuff we spent last Sunday taking out so sadly cant attend. All the best for a fun and informative event. Nice to have met some of the new cachers at the previous event.

Hi StretchO
Have to put in apology as I can't attend due to my wife having a bad accident. I have been wanting so much to be there but Mrs G is first importance..

looking forward to learn new skills, thank you

It is my intention to be there
I'm so new not even sure how to register my interest

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it as I'll have family visiting . Have fun . - - - Hey do make sure everyone knows about the souvenirs that are currently up for grabs.

Hope To be there

Yes, we plan to be there as there's so much still to learn - and its fun to meet other fanatics!

Hopefully will be able to attend. Was going to be away but now due to work will be around.

Rather new keen to learn more

Really looking forward to learning the 'inner' skills of geocaching from the Masters !

We are not so new to geocaching but we have never used GSAK so we would love to attend as there is a lot we could learn

Hi there, myself and two children aged 5 and 8 hope to be there!

Nice one! It's been a while since there's been an event like this in our region. I'd be happy to share some experience with newer cachers.

I need this. Thanks!

Well if im running this i'd better attend .
Thank you Aaron for the intention of joining in to give me some much needed assistance for this event.

We need this it will be most helpful. Thanks StretchO.

There seem to be lots of new local cachers starting out who would likely benefit from this sort of get together. Hopefully we see them attending this event you have created. It's on my calendar so I'll see you there.

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