Logs for Pwhdavey

06-Oct-08

Found it! As below. GPS (Magellan Pioneer) actually did start working today, but never locked onto its satellites the whole trip so it was a waste. Used some initiative and guessed the missing number from Stead Street question because it fit when I compared the end result with other coordinates from around the area. Then I tapped these into Google Maps and saw a promising overview of the cache area. Grabbed the clue, as I'd need it without a GPS. Biked down to old wharf and confirmed the answer to the question ... had a glance around, saw a probable hiding place and found cache at 6pm. Phew. Thanks for the geocache! Hope my methods explained don't sound too shortcut-ty though. Wink

03-Oct-08

Detention (Southland)

My first independent cache find! The deceptively frail 10+ year old 'Magellan Pioneer' I had recently been given finally found its satellites and led me to the coordinates I'd given up on and started on my way back when the screen flashed "TRACKING". Good hiding spot, and interesting about the airport. Very very windy out there and had to push bike all the way back to Gladstone, took ages. Thanks! It was pretty exciting... Big Grin

Estuary Walkway (Southland)

Got as far as answering all questions except the Stead Street bride one. Being pressed for time (it was night and I had a 50 min bike ride ahead of me) I thought I could find this info on the Internet: I was wrong. Was going to guess possible numbers and make their corresponding waypoints, then try convert them into UTM (the GPS does not allow modern measurements of lat and longitude). This is because it would save making two cycle trips to the area. But things got worse. Only in Southland for a few days and didn't expect to go geocaching but was given an old GPS by my uncle, which only just worked to find 'Detention' but failed the next day. And the next day. It must have finally died as it won't find any satellite activity whatsoever. Twisted