Lights, Camera, Action West Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 25-Jul-20. Waypoint GA16645

Event over and needs archiving.

Well this is something new. Luckily I have been working hard outside today but did collect what is required to log this one. My geomobile/camper has been off the road for a while now and with the pandemic taking away the option to travel overseas or even interstate, I thought it was time to give her some TLC. Thanks for this one pood

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We went bush walking yesterday and took a few (lots actually) photos. The photo we’re attaching is of a stunning wattle in flower. It just stood out like a beacon of light.


Hope it’s okay to log this today.

Thanks Pood.

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I may be too late, but this is my photo from yesterday. My backyard getting ready for the warmer months and some longer days.

Out at night snapping a picture for a cache

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We are travelling in Qld while it is safe to do so.
And we spotted Mary Poppins statue while driving around.
So we mix our caching with touristy visits as well.
This one is a memorial to the author of the Mary Poppins story.
Thanks for the virtual event.

In the eyes of a Geocacher... I think after a massive day my dinner looks good on my eyes. Thanks for another great event. TFTE

Thanks to Cybergran for the heads up.
Marvelous idea.
We are sitting in a pub in Bendigo here, with the footy entertainment on the Telly, in a room out the back, with gas heaters blasting our heads with heat.
Just finished stuffing our faces with some massive country Parma’s.
Thanks for the virtual event Dude!

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At 10.29am I was finishing a handicapped race with Launceston Running Club In Evandale, Tasmania. Attached is a photo of me running today.

#GA4632 - 19:20; Thanks again to Cybergran V for alerting me to this one! Took this snap because I was curious about the gear on top of the car parked next to me at the lights. Google earth perhaps? TFTC pood

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The first photo is what I would like the start of my day to look like - planning caches to be done, however, the second photo is what the day did look like - planning for work.
Thanks for the event pood.

It's rare that I have a day off but I do love my job and the places it takes me.
When I have a day off I'm usually to be found snoozing on a lounge chair or talking crap over a can of rum at my favorite watering hole. However, I can also be seen cooking up a storm (usually containing chilli and spices).
Tonight's culinary delight is a two-pronged attack... Mexican crispy fajitas and satay vegies with roti.

If Val had told me about this event earlier in the day I wold have taken a photo of me spraying a couple of new cache containers.

My thanks to pood for this novel event.

After doing the scrubbing, dusting, vacuuming and mopping I needed to get out of the house before tackling more chores so I thought looking at bush was a nice distraction.
It's looking lovely and green after the rains we've had so far this winter but still at least a month before the orchids are out.
It may look lovely and tranquil but come summer and to the eyes of a geocacher it's snake heaven . Thankfully it also has both ringtail and brushtail possums hiding in there somewhere .
There is also a GC cache in there too.

TFTE

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A few days ago we were at Carnarvon Gorge so I've picked that day to be The Day in the Life of a Geocacher because it certainly delivered for Earthcaches. This photo was taken leaving the Amphitheatre near the entrance. TFTE pood.

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This photo is a snapshot of a regular caching evening for me atm.. curled up on the couch with my nana rug solving GCA jigsaws on my computer lol. Who knew i would become so addicted!

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I enclose a picture of me in beautiful warrnambool. I am at the old aquarium on the seashore proving that geocaching is our ultimate travel guide taken today at 4pm.

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This photo was taken some time ago as we Victorians are in lock down & haven't been able (Allowed to)go out caching lately there is a cache about 100 metres to the north of this Kookaburra.

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We have downsized into a fantastic 2 bedroom apartment which has turned into a great way of life. Across the road from us is the Stromlo Forest Park which as a World Class mountain bike course, a 1.2 klms cycling track and a 2.5 grass running track. Of course with a grass running track there are kangaroos, and we walk around the track, we actually scattered them....if they can be bothered even moving for us. Attached are a couple of photos from a walk a week or so ago.

This certainly is Australian...and we enjoy the walks around the area.

Thanks for the cool event POOD....

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I left MrT at home this morning and went out caching with WaywardWoman. I frequently get distracted while out caching, as I love birdwatching. Today a cache had to wait while I photographed a nearby Honeyeater. We were out on a track off the Putty Road near Blaxlands Ridge.

I love that my 3 hobbies all blend together - birding, bird photography and Geocaching. WaywardWoman is very patient when I stop to birdwatch!

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This photo was taken at Lockhart NSW while on a geocaching journey. We choose this photo to show that if you get off the main highway and travel the back roads of wonderful country.

This photo is in Rendelsham SA. We chose this photo as it is a cache that we had to visit several times and when we finally were able to claim it, we were in company of 3 teams from Millicent SA who we have made friends with thanks to Geocaching. The cache is approx 8mt up the tree then out on a limb.

TFTC

This is a photo of a black gloved wallaby. I spotted it in Manea Park while on a maintenance run with Dimor. The last time one was seen in the park was 2015!

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So grateful to be a membership with GCA since 2007.
Heaps of logged it in GCA during covid-19.
Log it here at 5.45pm.
Thanks POOD for the virtual cache.
And thank you Cybergran

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Well I am not in one of Sydney's hotspots, but still the most exciting thing that happened today was going shopping earlier. However one thing that happens every so often is my cat catches a mouse. Though she generally just plays with them until they are paralysed with fear and doesn't cause any lasting damage. So when looking for something to photo I spotted her on the back lawn with another one. As is usually the case I managed to catch it and release in the thick undergrowth where it ran off unharmed. No mouse was harmed in the taking of this photo Thanks pood.

Relax and doing with jigsaw puzzles while I am watching AFL Sydney Swans v Hawthorn but this is not my team. Melbourne Demons is my team. Stay home thanks to Cybergran V letting me know about this. Thanks POOD for virtual .

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I often start the day with a walk along the foreshore checking out what birds are there. This blue faced honey eater is a regular there. A coffee on the way home helps the rest of the day go well. Thanks Cybergran V for letting me know this was on.

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Today I took a walk along the Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas ... and looked for a couple of caches as well but unfortunately, both of them have gone AWOL.

When our first attempt to come up here for a bit of a holiday was curtailed back at the end of March, we rebooked our accommodation and flights for this week hoping for the best, and luckily the Queensland Premier reopened the border just in time for us to fly up. Thank you Premier Palucheck.

It is so nice to be up here where the minimum temperature each morning is higher than the maximum it will reach at home in NSW ... and to be able to go for a walk along the beach in shorts and a t-shirt.

Evening everyone from over the other side in Melbourne.
It’s 5:20pm and the sun’s just going down. Pretty nice sort of a day today, and as I took this shot out the back door looking back at you in the west I could hear magpies and butcher birds caroling and fluting.

Thanks for the virtual event pood

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It's been raining here. So today I decided to learn more about a particular trig point nearby using maps.six.nsw.gov.au and six.nsw.gov.au/survey-mark-sketches .
Why? I love finding trig points and logging and listing them with GCA. And...

I live on a Macadamia farm, or did. The trees weren't producing well so the property was sold. The new owners have started pulling out all the Macadamia trees on the property to give their cows more pasture. A couple of days ago after removing the trees that border the driveway, I went for a walk to see what it was like... and saw a trig point on a hill to the South West!!! I hadn't noticed it on six maps before because you had to zoom in quite close before it revealed itself from among the other survey marker types. There is a very obvious cleared lane of view to the North East of the trig, but I didn't have time to see what other trig point it may have been open toward. Today, thanks to the rain, I do have time.

Using the Survey Mark Sketches, I have just found out that in 1976 the hill used to have 360 degrees cleared view, with only a water tank in the way. Now about half of that is blocked by large trees. The earliest record on 17th September 1976 states the original trig and cairn (sketch in photo) were dismantled and that the regular concrete pillar variety was to be placed there instead, which is what I can now see in the distance from my driveway.

Thanks for the opportunity to share and see what geocachers are up to today.

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Our photo is a scene taken at Mt Mee in November 2013. We spent all day caching in the area and surrounded by showers and storms like this all day, and never got wet once! (Makes up for all the days where the opposite was the case!) To this day a close up of this is the background on my phone.

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15:15 EST (05:15 UTC)

As I live in Melbourne and I didn't have a valid reason to leave my home this afternoon I continued on with my usual Saturday chores.
My photo shows the washing on my clothes line and highlights some of my son's collection of football shirts. We are missing going to live sport but are making the best of watching numerous games on the television.
Behind the clothes line is a pile of garden clippings which are waiting to be placed in our curbside green bin.

Thank you pood for organising this event, which I discovered due to the log on another cache.

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Well my day started at 05.00am this morning and started on the second day of preparations for a Colonoscopy at 9.00am.Those cachers who have had one would remember the taste of the two sachets yesterday and today the final litre of Glycoprep take some getting down but that is all finished so back home but not permitted to drive or do anything much for the rest of the day.
I guess the good news is that I have the all clear and can now get on with living even though we have some bigger problems in Victoria with Covid-19 spreading across the state.
I envy the cachers who can enjoy the events and getting out as some states can but we all have to be careful.
So my image is one of my court as I am restricted but I did manage to leave a finger in the photo.
Thanks POOD for placing this cache and to Val for highlighting your event, so big thanks to you both.

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A huge thank you to Cybergran V for helping getting the word out about WA caches
A beautiful start to the morning here in the West, it’s amazing seeing Australia through the Eyes of Geocachers.
Here is our campground this morning and I will put another photo of our Community Celebrations Event that’s happening tonight, on tomorrow when we get phone signal (as there isn’t any signal at camp ).
Thank you for everyone for joining in with our Locationless Cache

I like this photo because it worked for Great Balls of Fire. It reminded me of cooking on a trangia when bush walking and overnight camping especially raser island.

A great day in Western Australia will attach photo later

visited Manjimup events and stayed for weekend. should be good weekend - Thanks Pood


Manjimup

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Good morning Australia (and anyone from elsewhere on the planet).

Usually I'm out the door and long gone before the girls get up.

Most days +Wife has the honours of opening the gates of Chris' Hen House.

Since it is Saturday it's my turn to greet the girls and collect the eggs.

A scattering of Wild Bird Seed on the lawn as a special treat for them today.

It should be fairly easy to put the correct name to each hen, they're colour coded.


Let me introduce you to Betty, Dusty, Lilly and Honey.

Thanks for the virtual event pood. I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

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Good morning pood and all other attendees who may drop in today to say g’day.
Life is very different in Covid land and I now participate in events virtually by Zoom, so my photo shows me in the recliner with my headphones on.
Usually the events are held in various states but every Saturday morning at eleven I attend one in America and it is very interesting to listen to geocachers from other countries discussing different aspects of geocaching.
In these very different times it is great that we can still communicate with each other and share jigsaws, puzzles, challenges and especially events.
Thanks pood, I hope you all have a wonderful day.
Today I am going to be launching my new Moveable with a difference, be ready to move it along.
Looking forward to welcoming every other attendee to your event.
Thanks for running it Pood.

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The attached photo is taken in our front garden in the early morning sunlight. The photo was chosen because when we moved into our home in 1977, there were few houses around and we had wonderful views all around. Over time, houses have been built but the key elements of the views we appreciate remain. Thanks pood for the cache.

Thank you for this virtual. I liked the idea and I loved the way CybergranV brought to those of us unaware of your GA16645.

My photo is of one very happy kookaburra we encountered this morning.

2. The second part of the challenge is to explain the reason you chose your snapshot, and the location of the snapshot.

On our 6klm walk this morning as we meandered our way along the walking track that runs along the coast from our home we usually see wildlife. Kangaroos early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Sometimes we have the kookaburras and this morning we were able to take a photo of one. On this walk if we do the complete circuit we walk past 16 geocache hides both GC and GCA and as most of them are mine it give me the opportunity of checking on them with out having to make a special trip to maintain them after a DNF log. the walking/bicycle track goes from the end of Woongarra Scenic drive at Bargara South to Burnett Heads a distance of over 10 Kilometers. there are a couple of missing links but between Kelly's Beach and Bargara there are good wide footpaths. There will soon be a link between Bargara South and Innes park and eventually South to Elliott Heads.
TFTL

Morning Song

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So this is the usual start to my day at thew moment.

Morning caffeine and completing some GCA caches.

Most of these seem to be jigsaws at the moment.

So just taking it easy at home getting my day underway.

Hope to see more at the event today!

TFTE

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Hi pood
Glad to attend this event
My photo shows me using the lap-top
First thing this cacher does in the morning is to publish caches for others to use
Then check for new caches to do myself
All very important in the day of a cacher
Thanks for organising this event
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Looking forward to seeing a great photographic album of 'A Day in Australia' through the Eyes of a Geocacher.

See you there.

I will be virtually in attendance.Thanks.

Great idea. I better put this in my calendar so I don't forget.

Oooh a Saturday event. We should be able to manage that, from home...

A busy day this one looks like being so hoping I remember