Master Index    Nearest Caches Newport Pier View by BuzzKill (1.5/1) N33° 36.405  W117° 55.468 (WGS84) UTM  11S   E 414235  N 3718938 Use waypoint: GCQ5YC Size: Not chosen    Hidden on 8/16/2005 In California, United States Difficulty:     Terrain:

I rated this as a 1.5 difficulty since cell phone reception and parking may present a problem when trying to do this one. Don't forget your sunglasses and sunscreen!

Click here to go directly to the webcam page.
A new image is uploaded about every 2 minutes.
(clicking anywhere on the webcam page will refresh the image)

If you miss saving an image, you can view the last 10 images taken by the cam and save it from there as well.

This webcam can be found on the www.walknet.net web site, whose owner has been gracious enough to grant us permission to use. His webcams have been going for over 8 years now, which is remarkably stable for a webcam.

What you will need:

• A GPS receiver (duh)
• A friend at his/her computer with an internet connection.
• A mobile phone or set time when you will be at the cache site.

How to find and claim this webcam virtual cache:

• Go to the coordinates of this cache.
• The coordinates get you to the area of the cache. They are not exact coordinates telling you where to stand. You, with the help of your friend, need to "hunt" for the cache.
• Call a friend and have your friend go to this cache page or the webcam page.
• Let them guide you on where to stand for the best picture then...
• Wave to the camera and wait for an update! I want to see your hands up in the air! (this webcam updates approximately every 2 minutes).
• When your friend sees a good webcam picture, have them right click on the webcam picture and select "Save Picture As...". Then have them send you the picture so that...
• When you make your Webcam Photo Taken log entry you can upload image with the log.
• Webcam Photo Taken logs without proper pictures will be deleted (no night shots - you must be visible in the picture). Alternate forms of photos will not be accepted. Please don't log it until you have your picture ready for upload.

Please note that the camera position might be very different from the listed coordinates, so you'll need to work with the person saving the photo for you to get the best possible position.

Additional Hints (There are no hints for this cache)

5/19/2008 by mmarmont
I was down in the area to check on my Crab Cooker cache so I decided to hit the the webcam caches here and at the Balboa ferry. The picture is a bit back-lit and dark, but you can make me out in the bottom left holding out my GPS. TFTC!

4/29/2008 by Sulbęk
Nice place and view! I love webcam-caches
Many greetings from Denmark.

3/23/2008 by bajatym
Found it with In-MotionPhoto today on a warm late Easter Sunday afternoon. We called my brother at home to grab the webcam photo of us, the setting sun made it dark, but can make us out I think still. This was fun, no off to walk the Wedge jetty cache.

3/9/2008 by Abedunk34
Great day to be at the beach! My first webcam cache. Thanks.

3/2/2008 by 007.1
Found today with geo-family. Nice day on the beach.

2/29/2008 by Smilin' Dawg
Had Wifedawg take the photo while I walked from the condo to the volleyball game in the background.

10/3/2007 by rc goat
Found this with the help of my good friend Jerry he captured the photo. I am the one standing next to the life guard tower.

8/16/2007 by cooperphoto
super hard time of day, with the sun shining right into the webcam, but here we are, you can compare them to the other shots we got at the nearby web cams, thanks

7/19/2007 by jcatuara
Used the web to determine the viewing angle, then captured a picture of ourselves on my Blackberry in real time!

7/17/2007 by dweissx2
found it on vacation this is our first web cam cache