Why am I so shit at geocaching?

[VivaLeBeaver]

OK, trying to get back into it.

I've been to look for 3 caches in my village today and haven't found any of them. I've got a proper GPS which takes me to them, I look at the clue and the logs.

First one today clue is "green bag in the ivy at the corner of the path in graveyard". Only one graveyard, only one path, only one corner though I guess it could be inside or outside of corner/bend. But only ivy on one side, not a lot of ivy at this time of year. I searched both corners, in ivy, under stones, under sticks. Nothing. I looked thinking where would I hide something, etc. All the logs are like "easy find, found straight away, etc".

Next one - clue is - bottom of the post in the ivy. Only one bloody post. Searched all round it nothing.

Its me, I'm shit.

why is geocaching under Worldcup 2010...? I just noticed that.

Good thinking Strawbezza. The fishing line reminds me of one we found in Chicago. That cache was hanging from a pulley system inside a hollow tree.

The other one can be inside the graveyard with permission of the council, church, landowner.

Other cunning hides:
Fake dog turds
Fake cow pats (made out of a huge piece of expanded polystyrene)
Fake signs
Fake reflectors
Fake footpath arrows - or even real footpath arrows that are hinged and swing outwards revealing a cache hidey-hole
Fake bolts
Fake birdboxes

Very true about the graveyard Crunchbag.

Fake electric box
Bottle top with the cache in a tube attached pushed into the ground
Metal screw attached magnetically

Oh yes the magnetic screws/bolts, pain to find, pain to get off the metal.

We found a bottle top one recently, looked completely out of place in a nice tidy bit of forest.

I was looking for a fishing line operating a pulley system for the desperate one. I saw the comment to the caches owner about do you go fishing! There were so many trees though! I'm going to o back when I have more time.

Nightsky, yes in Lincs? Have you just started caching?

I'm amazed by stuff like plastic turds, wouldn't have thought of stuff like that.
I poke about in bushes, logs, under stones and the give up.

Are nano caches normally camera film cases, the old 35mm ones or are they smaller?

much smaller!

nanos can be tiny! magnetic ones we've seen have been maybe 1cm across and 1.5cm tall (maybe less)

we've not found any bolts, but DH did find a magnetic plate attached to a phone box, if you took it off the cache log was behind the plate

Ok.

Are micros bigger than nanos? Or are they the same thing?

The biggest challenge with nano's is getting the log back in!

Viva if you look at the shop on the geocaching site you can find a few examples of camouflage boxes, just to give you an idea.

Micros are film pot-sized.

Nanos are much smaller, thumbnail-sized at most.