Sport's tragic hero East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Yota on 29-Jan-06. Waypoint GA0347

we are on our way home from the mega in Canberra and stopped here for the cache TFTC

Doing a nearby AL and stopped here while in the area. A pretty cool sculpture. Thanks for the cache

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Exploring around Maitland for the day and grabbing some caches as we go. Nice easy find and a good spot for a rest after our drive. The eldest son decided to square up to the fighter. We saw a council worker driving the mower back and forth over grass that was already freshly cut. Not sure what was going on there.

Large statue, easy to find!. It's in a nice little park too.

Staying at the showgrounds for a caravan rally.
Out again this morning to find some caches.
Also got a GC cache here.
Thanks

Found this on an overcast but warm Saturday morning with my Geo-daughters

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First for the day as we leave the Maitland area and head to Newcastle.
Had heard of Les Darcy but wasn't aware of his impressive accomplishments until we visited this memorial today.
Such a short life and we must google and see why he died so young.
But being a boxer it may have been too many punches to the head. Really don't understand the attraction of this sport but I suspect it was a way of earning money back in the days of Les Darcy.
Thanks.

Stopped by on our way out to Martins Creek caching today.... area seems to be under renovations....

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GCA 1030 - 10220. Found this very nice Virtual while caching around Maitland.

Impressive Statue, Record and Man !! Found in the pouring rain !

TFTC !! Been a while since finds !

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Spent a day around Maitland for work, and stopped in this park on the way back to the F3 to grab this one and the GC. Just a selfie with the iPhone. Thanks for the virtual cache.

Les had on his grumpy today and was spoiling for a fight, but I refused to be drawn. Thanks for the cache

Stopped here to read about Darcy.
Amazing guy!
Thanks for bring me here

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We were in this park for the GC Les Darcy cache and noticed this one on my GPSr only. My companions don't normally do GCA caches, so it's absence from their GPSrs made us suspect a GCA cache in the area. Then when the coordinates led us straight to the statue, we made a guess that it was a virtual & took what we guessed (correctly it turned out) would be the required photo.

Got the pic while going for round two.

Went caching with Les

Went there took some photos but dont know how to put then up here? Just found out how too

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Done a pic for this one after we grabben the nearby cache GC2DDYM.
Have driven past here MANY time before-what a legend that could go 20 rounds and still win by points!

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Found whilst doing the nearby GC cache.
Had no-one with me, so just had to take a photo of Les and my Geo-bag and GPS.

Found while we were doing a nearby GC cache. Thanks

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Wow, big dude! Passing through Maitland up to Singo today I spotted this Virtual and had to stop for a photo. I must admit not being a boxing fan I hadnt heard of Les but he seems like a pretty amazing fellow. Cheers from Sydney!

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good ol' Les.
always wanted a photo with him, and I'll have to come back with something better than my phone camera.

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I took this photo as part of the Port Stephens Invasion weekend. Albida.

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hay you got to watch out for that left hook.

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Found it. Decided to call into the park whilst at Maitland Steamfest. A true legend of the sport. A shame he died at such a young age.

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While in Maitland finding a series of Les Darcy caches by MADSTARS I thought I'd grab this one as well! Well, here I am at 186cm; so Les must have been quite tall!

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Will upload the photos in a few days, as we took a couple of geokid with SpongeBobwa, before taking SpongeBobwa to another location.

Found by night after the trying drive north at the start of the long weekend. Photo will follow when we have the camera cable.

My first Geocaching Oz find, and not too far home either. Got the missus to take this photo with my trusty phone camera. TFTC.

Noticed this hasn't been logged for a while, but technically I just logged it as another cache here: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0996

Peter Fitzsimmons has not long ago released another book about Les which makes a good quick read. Worth a look. His grave site is not too far from here as well and apparently there may be plans afoot to spruce it up. RIP Les, you 'da man.

Finally found the time to do this cache - grew up local so knew where to go. Then had to work out who was going to go in the photo decided we would let Les do all the work - just have to work how to load the pic next - lol.

Thanks for the fun

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nice drive by TFTC

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The family loved looking for this. The statue is more than life size. TNLN

Fun cache

TNLN DSL LOL

I think this was more than life size.

Interesting story behind this hero well worth looking into. mrs cruzzzinaround with her new hero

Great bit of history, young girl I work with is a boxer so can't wait to show her the photos

logged on way to maitland cache event

We were out and about before the Hunter Picnic event, so a cache or two was order to pass the time. Found without any problems.






Sorry about the image quality, only so much you can do with a 1.5mp PDA camera.

Got photo, have found it before but didn't have camera handy. Apologies for the poor lighting.

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Found Les Darcy (Handsome one) Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Now that I have my own account I going to log this cache the proof is the log from my dad Postman Pat I'm the Short one

Now that I have my own account I going to log this cache the proof is the log from my dad Postman Pat I'm the tall one

On the way home from mums did this virt as the kids begged me to do one one the way home only 2 kids in photo as the smallest was to scared to get up as there was a thick film of water on the platform here is a photo

I couldn't have beaten this bloke with a lump of 4 x 2.

The photo is at:

http://gallery.geocaching.com.au/sportshero

(How to fight in Gosford)

Easy find.

Easy to find and photograph.

http://users.tpg.com.au/sbss/Small.JPG

Thanks for the cache TEAM YOTA

Too easy really, but a bit of fun anyway...







http://gallery.geocaching.com.au/sportshero/DSCF5186?full=1

The Photo!

No GPS required... if you know where Easts club is.
Sorry Les, i had to do it!

http://filepimp.meshteam.com/fp1/fp_pic_bp-statue.JPG
found this one with Roanish and tailander. An easy find no GPSr required. 3rd for the day

Is this a cache that requires us to be photographed with the statue of Les in the park at Maitland, or is ther something more to this?