Author Archives: philatsea

Site Moved

Posted on March 24, 2020 by philatsea

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North to Alaska

Posted on November 25, 2019 by philatsea

Celebrity Millennium NOTE: Click on any photo to see a larger version My  friend Harald recently booked a 7 Day Alaska  cruise  from Seward Alaska to Vancouver for August 23 – 30 on the GTS Celebrity Millennium. At the time … Continue reading →

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Garmin FREE Routable Maps – May 2018 Update

Posted on May 12, 2018 by philatsea

I have been lucky to travel the world Geocaching along the way. The problem was maps were a big problem. I remember going to Europe in 2009 and buying Garmin maps that took forever to draw/move. Then there were free … Continue reading →

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Garmin Communicator Plug-in Fix – Updated – July 4 2018

Posted on April 7, 2017 by philatsea

It would appear that Firefox has killed my previous fix to the Garmin Communicator Plug-in fix dated November 5 2016. I ask you to read this whole page BEFORE you attempt this. Make sure you feel comfortable doing this. I … Continue reading →

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Garmin Communicator Plug-in Fix

Posted on November 5, 2016 by philatsea

This post has been superseded by this post due to Firefox has closed this fix with their latest update. Many of us that have a Garmin GPS for Geocaching have run into the dreaded FireFox no Longer supports Garmin Communicator … Continue reading →

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Cruising and Geocaching, what is in a Name?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by philatsea

As you may have noticed that my caching name is Philatsea. I chose this because I started cruising back in 1983, long before what it is today. When I started Geocaching the two appeared to be a great fit. Geocaching … Continue reading →

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Publishing an Event – not so fast

Posted on December 4, 2015 by philatsea

One would think that getting an Event cache published would not be that hard. It should be as easy as filling in the blanks and hitting submit. Not so quick I have found out. Back in September I tried to … Continue reading →

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The Road to Jasmer

Posted on November 30, 2015 by philatsea

In caching there is a Jasmer Challenge where one is to find a geocache placed in every month since May 2000. The Jasmer Challenge gets it’s name after a cacher by the name of jasmerb. He came up with the … Continue reading →

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TFTC, TFTH – Really?

Posted on September 13, 2015 by philatsea

Ahh yes Found Logs with just this in them. For those that have no idea these means it means: TFTC – Thanks for the Cache TFTH – Thanks for the Hide These are common when one writes a Found log … Continue reading →

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The Road to Potters Pond – GC3B

Posted on July 14, 2015 by philatsea

I have been looking at travelling to this cache for some time now. I do believe there are only 3 caches left in the USA/Canada that were placed in August 2000. Two of these caches are in Eastern USA and … Continue reading →

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