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Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by roob » 24 Jan 2014, 11:02 am

G'day guys,

Has anyone got one of the Garmin handheld GPS?

These ones?

I'm interested in one for state forests and finding bodies of water for camping/hunting.

Can someone tell me how detailed the maps are though? How small of a stream, creek or lake will it show?

If anyone can tell me if would be much appreciated.

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Re: Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by Chronos » 26 Jan 2014, 8:56 pm

Yes Roob,

I have a Garmin 62S and it shows detailed water courses, streams etc.

How small? Put it this way, last year we visited Ben Bullen State Forest NSW and the GPS was showing every water course we crossed and some that were dry.

We used it to cross several small valleys and locate a large creek/pond we thought may attract pigs (of course we were wrong :()

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Re: Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by Aster » 27 Jan 2014, 9:30 am

I've used the yellow Garmin 62 and it showed a couple of little "lakes" as small as 10-12m.
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Re: Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by roob » 28 Jan 2014, 10:35 am

Thanks guys. That sounds like the level of detail I was hoping for.
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Re: Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by keg » 09 Feb 2014, 11:09 am

I have an older Etrex and its great.

A dedicated GPS can do things a phone can't.I have thousands of way points set in mine and when ever I'm on an adventure to a place that I've been to before I've got all kinds of locations of POIs, hazards, lucky fishing spots, and etc.

We fish the walleye run every spring and have a path plotted through all the boat motor destroying rocks in a river that's pretty shallow.

The nice thing is the mapsets for Garmin have guys making free maps all the time, this site is the best place I've found to get free maps. I looked and they have a few Australia mapsets.

My buddy borrows it every year when we go to a Military base hunt and has killed a buck at the same way point he set 4 years ago every year. It's my GPS and I don't get borrowing rights to it at that hunt.
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Re: Garmin handheld GPS detail of bodies of water

Post by Khan » 09 Feb 2014, 8:16 pm

keg wrote:A dedicated GPS can do things a phone can't.


My phone's useless. For some stupid reason it has to have internet access/service to look up the maps.

It can't just use map data on the phone itself apparently... :roll:
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Post by Grated » 09 Feb 2014, 8:24 pm

keg wrote:My buddy borrows it every year when we go to a Military base hunt and has killed a buck at the same way point he set 4 years ago every year. It's my GPS and I don't get borrowing rights to it at that hunt.


Get him to bookmark his spot when he borrows the GPS then you can sneak off without him ;)
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