17. SPOT Lost and Found

Saturday, 27 OCT 2012 in Cairns

SPOT is the brand name of a GPS Personal Locator Beacon and route logger that I have been using both to record some of the positions of our travels and to share with friends and family where we are. When it is turned on it beams our GPS coordinates up to a satellite every 10 minutes, from which they are then automatically downloaded to a web server. You can see the results at



http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=06Zs9aknPRupnm05cUUS576ZMvYGKCUVk

See SPOT.

See SPOT on a pole.

 

See Paula on the train.

See Paula by the open window on the train.

Paula held SPOT out the open window.

See SPOT jump off of his leash.

SPOT jumped out the open window of the train.

Now SPOT lies on the ground next to the train track.

SPOT waves bye bye to the train.

Hear Tyler gasp.


See Tyler treat Paula kindly with sympathy when he really would like to throw Paula out the open window of the train.


SPOT misses Paula.

SPOT talks to his satellite up in the sky.

SPOT tells his satellite where he is.

Hours later Tyler uses his iPad to find SPOT.Tyler takes a taxi back to the railroad track and traipses through a kind family's back yard. Enlisting the help of the kind family's young son, they climb down an embankment, and find SPOT lying right next to the rail, right where the iPad map showed SPOT to be. The boy retrieves SPOT and gives him to Tyler. Grateful Tyler gives the boy a modest reward. What a fine adventure this was! Tyler's only regret is that he neglected to take a photo of SPOT lying on the ground next to the railroad track, faithfully beaming his location up to the satellite every ten minutes.

 

Posted from Tyler's iPad