http://www.geocaching.hu/caches.geo?id=3863
As I have placed the cache up in the hills about 5 miles from here last Wednesday with Roy and Andor and have been working steadily ever since on the web page, finally I submitted the page on Monday morning. Immediately the system told me that quite a few of my coded links were not working. Then started a slow and occasionally painful process of learning how to do it. Sometimes Andris (my nephew) helped, occasionally I re-read the stuff on the site and worked it out for myself. Finally, the moderators pitched in, sometimes really nicely, now and again not so nicely. I accepted practically every suggestion they made and now I am the proud owner of a cache. When I last checked (about 10 minutes ago) nobody has found it yet, but as it is a weekday that is not surprising. On the other hand Easter is coming, so hopefully there should be some keen buggers who will get out there and bag it. Apparently, there is quite a fierce competition amongst cachers for collecting as many first finds as you can. I wonder if the first one will be a walker, cyclist or (much more likely) a lazy sod who will drive within 500 metres of it. We'll see, said the blind man, but I will report back to you on its progress no doubt in the future.
In the meantime I started the second cache's web page, which was a lot easier than the first. Partly because I learnt a lot in the struggles to get the first one right, partly because the moderators have now realised that I am quite intelligent and that I would not argue the toss, but accept their suggestions. The second cache is just outside the village, so it was easy from that respect as well. I have already had 9 moderators accept it so that will go live soon too. There is a rule that from submission the moderators have 48 hours to yay or nay it, after which if it has 4 more yays than nays then the system itself makes it available for publication. The 48 hours are not up until tomorrow evening, so even though it is now totally accepted by the moderators we have to wait until then.
Doing these two caches was extremely time consuming, so I don't think I will do another one for a while. I think I will go back to just finding them, not placing them in the next few weeks. In fact, I fancy finding some in town soon, as I am not so experienced in how to do that. More of them are virtual there for obvious reasons, but traditionals are also available, so I'm told. I will have to wait for this, though, as we are here for another week or so, but after that I'll have a go.
Just to make sure that you have some pretty pictures to look at, like you always do in my posts, please find below a few interesting piccies (taken this morning) that will probably make the web page of the second cache, but you would have had a preview here:
Postscript:
It's Thursday now and my cache went live at 11.41 yesterday. I was watching it all day and there were no finds. I was told that the competition for finding new caches first was fierce and would have expected someone to find it by the time it got dark. Nobody did, so we went to bed hoping somebody will find it the following day, ie. today. You can imagine my amazement when in the early hours of the morning I found that some crazy headbanging cacher logged the first find and thus earned himself a red 1 by visiting it at 1.55am. He is very lucky that the loose and fierce dogs of the area did not tear his butt to pieces. Or perhaps they did, but he has not admitted it in his log. Talking of which, I am really disappointed in him, as in his log he did not write a single thing. No mention of what he thought of the cache or whether he found the present I have hidden nearby. I am sure he did, he is just a rude, ill mannered cacher, of which there are plenty in these parts.
Oh well. Today I carried on working on the next one which now has enough approvals from the moderators to go live any time I like. I could have already put it on the net, but I have decided, that just in case the same person would go and get this one in the middle of the night too, I'll publish it tomorrow morning. I hope someone much nicer finds this one first.
The other event of the day was the installation of the mill wheel and mechanism in the village which Roy and I visited and took copious photographs of, as you can see. I don't think the shaft was long enough, or if it was, then they built the wall on the outside a bit too far. Never mind, I'm sure they will solve the problem, but I enjoyed watching them struggle!!
Tomorrow is Good Friday and on Saturday we are going orienteering. On the way home we are planning to go food shopping at Tesco and that's it.
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