Sunday, October 16, 2005
Hobbies for the modern man
Yeah, yeah I know - it's been freakin' ages since I've posted anything. Well, that's all going to change. Now.
I have recently been investigating the 21st century, very geeky hobby of GeoCaching. This is a hobby where you use a GPS to find caches of stuff that other people have left in various places and then posted those locations on the interweb. Sad thing is, I haven't had the opportunity to go out with my GPS yet to find any caches, but I will. [Edit 27/10/05 - Here's the Wiki]
And yes, it's kinda geeky just to have a GPS.
Related to this is the concept of the Urban Adventure. One of the caches I was looking at involved going into a storm drain and following a tunnel or two, eventually seeing some bats that have made the tunnel their home. Kinda funky. I have been reading a little more about the Urban Adventure thing too (mainly from the site link, above) and these folks have done some way cool stuff. Reminds me of some of the stupid things I've done in the past, such as:
I have recently been investigating the 21st century, very geeky hobby of GeoCaching. This is a hobby where you use a GPS to find caches of stuff that other people have left in various places and then posted those locations on the interweb. Sad thing is, I haven't had the opportunity to go out with my GPS yet to find any caches, but I will. [Edit 27/10/05 - Here's the Wiki]
And yes, it's kinda geeky just to have a GPS.
Related to this is the concept of the Urban Adventure. One of the caches I was looking at involved going into a storm drain and following a tunnel or two, eventually seeing some bats that have made the tunnel their home. Kinda funky. I have been reading a little more about the Urban Adventure thing too (mainly from the site link, above) and these folks have done some way cool stuff. Reminds me of some of the stupid things I've done in the past, such as:
- Exploring the abandoned tunnels of St James station in Sydney
- Exploring the abandoned Space Tracking Stations at Honeysuckle Creek and Ororral Valley before the buildings were torn down
- Crawling along a host of storm drains in Tuggeranong and Weston Creek
All good fun and about the only chance us urban dwellers have these days to truly experience adventure.
Oh, and it looked so cool I have to include the link here - one of the folks that gets talked about on the Urban Adventure website went crawling in an abandoned nuclear missile bunker. Wow.
# posted by Cthu1hu @ 9:23 pm 
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It's been ages alright- as soon as I started reading your blog you stopped posting! :P Anyway, that GeoCaching thing sounds like fun; a chance for nerds to leave the house?
Awww shucks - it's nice to be missed, at least...
I was spoiled for the first six weeks after the sprog was born, no work etc, so I had a bit of time to post stuff. Now I'm back earning the dollar and slack when it comes to posting.
I'll try to do better - I promise! (That's for you too, Mikey).
We'll be off for our first GeoCache experience this weekend, so I'll *definitely* post about my experiences with that.
Honest!
I was spoiled for the first six weeks after the sprog was born, no work etc, so I had a bit of time to post stuff. Now I'm back earning the dollar and slack when it comes to posting.
I'll try to do better - I promise! (That's for you too, Mikey).
We'll be off for our first GeoCache experience this weekend, so I'll *definitely* post about my experiences with that.
Honest!
We used to crawl around in storm water drains when I was a kid, but I was never brave enough to go very far. It was too scary - I had visions of a flash flood killing us all.
I've spent the weekend undoing all of Bicycle Victoria's good work with the roadies Around the Bay in a Day by Hucking (read as anti social aerial mountain bike behaviour) myself into a frenzy along Southbank Promanade (read as tourist trap). Must do this more often. MTB in storm water drains ++ Good
Sounds pretty kewl. Like your harbour bridge raid.
Of course if you did that now you'd likely spend 2 weeks in preventative detention - assuming they didn't just shoot you...
Of course if you did that now you'd likely spend 2 weeks in preventative detention - assuming they didn't just shoot you...
Alas, I was never a part of the Harbour Bridge thing. Of course now they've commercialised the whole thing, so naturally you would get arrested for doing it - after all you're depriving a business of income!
That's a good point. And the security guards presumably could deprive you of your life.
Imagine what would happen to the No War Opera House lads under the new system. Blam, Blam, stop or I'll fire.
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Imagine what would happen to the No War Opera House lads under the new system. Blam, Blam, stop or I'll fire.
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