Experiences With a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS

Around the time of my birthday (March), I usually buy some nice bit of gadgetry. This year I had set my heart on a GPS, and it took me ages to actually decide which GPS to buy. Finally I went for the Garmin eTrex Legend, partly because it had the ability to store maps and partly because it had 8 Mb’s of memory.

Having decided that, I started shopping around on the net for a good deal. I was tempted to buy one from America, as I would save $70 - $80 that way. The idea of buying from America went in the bin, however, as I found out that American units couldn’t have an Aussie basemap installed on them. After trashing the previous idea, I started looking around on eBay for units from Australian sellers. That’s how I ended up buying the unit that I now have. I do have to tell you that after I had clicked the ‘are you sure’ button, I found another unit that was exactly the same except with a saving of about $20. Such is life.

Actually I had bought a R/C boat previously on Ebay, but the sale fell through because the seller didn’t collect the money that I deposited to him through Paypal. That’s another story, though.

After I bought the unit, we had to go down to Sydney for a wedding. I was hoping the gps would arrive before we departed, but it didn’t. As you may guess, I was very excited when we got back from the trip. From this part of the story onwards, I’m not sure what details to put in. The gps is working fine, I’m happy with it, and I’m glad that I bought it. I am mainly using it for finding geocaches, which I am finding to be a very fun hobby.

[tags]Garmin, eTrex, Legend, GPS, eBay, Sydney, geocaching[/tags]