GPS Upgrade

My Oregon 450 GPS was about 10 years old, and starting to look it's age. A shame as it had OS maps for GB, and still worked pretty well. The battery life wasn't too good though, and I was having difficulty seeing the screen as my eyesight isn't as good as it was 10 years ago.

I was contemplating replacing with the Montana, which is a huge GPS, and expensive too, but fortunately settled on an Oregon 700, with decent battery life, and a very sharp clear screen.

This model came without maps, (apart from the basemap which is not very good at all). But I am downloading compatible Open Street maps free from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/, which are absolutely fine, and the reason I insist on Garmin devices. most other brands charge a lot of money for detailed maps.

All works fine. a very accurate GPS, weather info, Barometer, and custom profiles for different activities, which is handy. Birding, Bat surveys and Snake surveys all need different data, and this can be customised quite well.

Had a few bugs early on, but all seems to have been resolved, as I get used to it.