Great Sushi Race Update
Both Futo-maki and Ebi Travel Bugs have started their homeward journeys. Futo-maki (orange) has only moved about 22 miles, but into Tokyo and close to the Narita airport. Ebi (yellow) has moved 245 miles-directly away from California! I guess it’s still too close to call!
Earlier I loaded (with a lot of manual work) the movements of the Hufi Travel Bug into Google Earth to view them. Now there’s a "View in Google Earth" link which gets the raw data into KML format - though the formatting has lots to be desired. Some improvements I’d like to see:
- Name each step the name of the cache, instead of the unfriendly code of the cache.
- Don’t do two points for each cache (drop-off, pick-up), instead merge the log messages into a single point. It’s especially disconcerting since one of the points is at a (random?) offset from the other so they don’t visually overlap - but tweaking nice clean coordinates in this fashion isn’t likely to be viewed very positively by geocachers (who by definition value precision measurements).
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Nice one! Actually I noticed that the starting point cache appears to have been trashed, so both bugs appear to have had a lucky escape.
Go futu-maki!
Yes, a lucky escape, though I suspect a few finders are just slow to log. Nice that we found a cache that is so active - a visit every other day since we found it! Back of Beyond isn’t nearly so well frequented. Only two visits all year! Maybe I should but $20 in it when Ebi gets close!