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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2014, 09:36:38 pm »
Gower it is.

Some good looking caches there and it looks like one will be the 5,000 8)

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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2014, 09:04:34 am »
Ahh, it does look like a nice area  :)

I'm guessing walk tall's will be the 5000th  ;)

Also, WT, what is the End of Europe event   ???
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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2014, 09:25:02 am »
Mainland Europe Ends... HERE!



I've already got the T-shirt ;D
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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2014, 09:28:19 am »
Gower it is.

I'll be there at the start of July :)
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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2014, 08:30:02 am »
How was the Mega in Ayr?

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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2014, 02:34:33 pm »
Like last time for the Perth Mega, I did a tour before getting to the Mega location.

This time I went via: Lancaster, Edinburgh, Ullapool, Stornoway on Lewis, Thurso, Dunnet Head, John O' Groats, St Margaret's Hope on Orkney and finally getting to the Ayr area. Afterwards went home via: west coast road down to Mull of Galloway, Kirkcowan to see an old friend staying over night and a couple of Sidetracks off the M6 to break the journey home :)


The Mega itself was a very wet day which was a real shame after the good weather before. Nothing particularly stood out, it was easy to get to and plenty of parking. Had two chats with a Lackely from HQ and wonder what his job was, as he didn't seem to know anything about Lab caches - where is GS going with them, Wherigos - are GS going to fix, Waymark site - are GS going to make it usable. I know there were some people I missed there :( - too busy chatting  ::)

The evening after the Mega, it was lovely and I had a good walk round Ayr caching, bumping into many cachers :)

The camp site I wasn't impressed with, (this was the fourth on my trip,) as it wasn't a fully fledged camp site, so they had added temporary facilities, all, for me, at the far end of the site next to the permanent buildings.

Did I enjoy my tour - YES

some great scenery ;D
visited some of the islands, which I would like to return to and to include Shetland ;D
I completed my goals I had set myself for the tour ;D

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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2014, 08:00:53 pm »
Had two chats with a Lackely from HQ and wonder what his job was, as he didn't seem to know anything about Lab caches - where is GS going with them, Wherigos - are GS going to fix, Waymark site - are GS going to make it usable.

Really does make you wonder if:

1 - Do Lackeys actually cache? (Really cache, not just a couple of easy caches and a Mega/Giga Event attended...)
2 - Do Lackeys talk to proper/real cachers (not just those they meet at Mega/Giga Events)?

OK, website management/app design writing etc., need people that know how to do such...
But when the free/trial/basic app has a lot of terminology - that doesn't match that of the web site -how do they expect new cachers to understand things?

Or, do they know what is going on (as in 'dump them!') but are under orders to say nothing.
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Re: 2014 Mega - Ayr
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2014, 08:14:48 pm »
I think this justifies what Deci was saying in that people are being hired to join GS, prior to becoming cachers, whilst the company grew from cachers joining GS to help their hobby grow.

Did anyone question the Lackeys with regards to Deci's resignation? Or his comments?

Glad to see the event was good though  :)

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