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"It's quite the opposite here. What I find a bit depressing about geocaching is that, locally, hardly any new caches are being published now, and those that are published get few finds. While we get a good variety of cache styles and they're mostly of good quality, both new hides and finds on those hides are rare treats now. These are all the new caches published around here this year, with their publication month and number of finds:\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\t \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tCaching for me has changed a lot since I started in 2013. Back then there were lots of local caches to find, along with well over a hundred new ones appearing each year, but now nearly all my caching involves day trips away to Sydney, Newcastle or even further afield. This year, group outings have accounted for almost half my 104 finds, so that's become a big part of the enjoyment I get from the game.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tCache ownership has become an increasingly large proportion of my caching time, both in checking on my existing hides and in planning and executing new ones. My multi published in January has left something of a bitter taste, though, as a lot of work went into putting it all together with what I thought was a good theme in pretty awesome location but, apart from the two Sydney cachers vying for FTF the day after publication, it's only had one other find since then and that was in March. My only other hide this year is the traditional near Patonga that was published a week and a half ago, but that's a redeployment of a novelty container from one I had to archive recently so I'm not overly fussed about whether it gets much interest. Better it be out there in its cave with water views than sitting on the shelf at home.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tI have another cache in the planning phase, this being along a section of the Great North Walk near a vantage point with awesome river views, but it's inside a national park and the ranger isn't too happy with the proximity to those \"unofficial\" views and the fifty metre vertical drop below them, even though my proposed cache location is well away from any edges. I'm meeting with her at GZ on Saturday to see if we can reach a compromise, but if I do put a cache along there I want it to be somewhere interesting and not just at some random spot along the track for the sake of a smiley.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tSo while I haven't lost my caching mojo, it's on a fairly low simmer now.\n \n"
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