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A pocos días del abordaje navideño !!! #steamwintersale #assassinscreedfranchise #ubisoftgames #blackflagcrew (en Arequipa) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrplQZKg_w5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hot5hy3ekrcy

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Bella manera d ocultar una cicatriz y transformarla en geometria sagrada "la evolucion d la belleza femenina" gracias @xochtattoo q talento y buena disposicion 🙏🏻🙏🏻✨✨✨#blackflagcrew

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEc-fVxLNmQ)

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Well after the fact that the 7th Star Wars film is out this just seems appropriate, lol. 

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Finding Hides

One thing I do find greater than finding caches is hiding them. So far at this point I have hidden 7 caches and plan to hide more. The types of caches that I like the most are large ones as they are easy to find and normally not a lot of them exist around where I live. Most of the ones that we get around here are either nano or micro caches. There are some of course that are big enough for swag and travel bugs but in my opinion not enough of them. Hopefully a few will crop up soon enough that will change that a little and give other cachers more variety, anyway enough on that.

One thing I do so far when planning a hide is scouting out areas that appear to not get a lot of traffic from muggles, can be easily accessed and that hopefully others will enjoy. 5 out of 7 of mine are clip lock containers that are classed as small by geocache guidelines but know some people have labelled the same size containers in their cache hides as medium. The other 2 that I have out there are eclipse tins, one magnetic and the other in a tree. I hid mine based on what I had enjoyed finding when I went caching with my family and the types of caches I hid excluding the micros made it fun for everyone. 

My next location I actually want to put a cache in the middle of a roundabout which has plenty of tree coverage around it to protect it from being seen by cars or muggles passing by. Its a big roundabout and is in a place that doesn't get a lot of traffic so hopefully it will hang around for a long time. One of the other reasons for choosing this spot is that I can then hide a large cache that people will hopefully enjoy and spread the word of its existence. I have already built something for a container to be put in there but need to make a few changes to make it vandal proof just in case. 

How do you plan for a hide? Do you deliberately seek out spots for a hide or come back to spots you have seen while already out caching? I would love to get some feedback on how others are doing it.

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How We Got Into Geocaching

Ever since we started Geocaching we have met other cachers, attend monthly meetings and go to events to meet others who are more experienced and also cache with them. Most people we have met discovered Geocaching through friends or family. We on the other hand discovered it a completely different way.

A few years ago my Wife and I were bored and as you do decided to hire a movie. The name of the movie was called. “Splinterheads”. The movie was released in 2009 and is about a carnival that comes to this town and Galaxy who is played by Rachael Taylor is one of the carnival folks who pretty much makes jabs at people to suck them into playing the carnival games. She ends up getting Justin played by Thomas Middleditch sucked in to having a crack at one of the games and then not long later they form a friendship. During one of their outings she introduces him to Geocaching and during the movie they go out and find caches together. Galaxy even explains some of the basic rules for playing Geocaching. When we saw this movie we decided to look it up online to find out whether this was a real thing that people did and of course soon discovered that it was. I did a little bit of research from what I had found at the time but obviously not good enough as at the time I only found an Australian site where the caches were a bit of a drive away and at the time weren't very many on the site. We of course discovered ages later that there was another site that if I had visited earlier could have got us started but I guess we just didn't realise what to look for at that point. 

Fast forward to last year when I saw something somewhere about it and thought I check it out again. This time I found all the right things and before you know it I had signed up with the site, downloaded the app and was off finding my very first cache with the rest of my family. By the next few days we all signed up for Premium accounts and over the past 4 months have found over 300 caches, hidden 7 and met other like minded cachers. This has been one of the best things I have done so far, I'm enjoying my caching journey and enjoy how the geocaching community are so welcoming and happy to share their experiences and help others as much as they can.  

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Thought this was one of the most creative caches I have seen online so far.

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A Video of the Black Flag Crew assisting Black Flag Angel with a cache that Black Flag 78 + 001 had already found. Was great to get out as a family caching.