Armless Santa Uralla, New South Wales, Australia
By cathlud on 22-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10576

After a bit of a roadtrip Armless Santa has been set free. Happy travels Santa!

After nearly two years near Port Dennison Santa had almost become a resident. I didn't know if he'd still be there but he was, along with his spidery mates. He had to be dewebbed to be allowed in the car. We've picked him up to move along. TFTM cathlud.

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Good bye Santa. Travelled south. The cooler weather should suit you better. Still near the beach though.

Santa was hiding under the sand for over three years. Today I retrieved him, as I descended from the nearby trig. I've given him a wash, and left him dripping dry in my hotel room here in Broome. The photograph is the view he has been enjoying. TFTC cathlud.

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I flew from Broome to Perth for a work trip which will also take me to Derby. I arrived around lunch time and eventually when my luggage arrived i headed over to grab a hire car. I then headed off to the resort and got settled in here. I decided to do some sightseeing and some caching for GA and GC caches. The closest one was a trig about 200 metres away so around the corner and parked up and trekked up the sandy hill and soon had the trig at my foot. What an outstanding view over Broome and surrounds. I trekked back down the hill and headed over to Cable Beach after stopping for a train - Camel train that is. Grabbed a few caches here then headed off out to Ganthaeume Point for some sightseeing and grabbed the LIghthouse here as well. Eventually i made it back into town all be it getting dark and grabbed the last remaining caches both GA and GC.

I dropped off armless santa with a friend enjoying the great views over Broome and surrounds.

I decided to head up to Northam to attend the WA Goes Big event and ended up spending 3 days out there doing doing lots of caching and meeting up with lots of fellow cachers. It was a great weekend and lots of fun. I was also able to grab a few GA moveables. A There were so many caches and moveables around northam but the moveables were gathered up and brought into the evening dinner. I attended the great dinner in the evening and caught up with some fellow GA cachers from over east. Was great to meet up with them again having previously met them at the Mega event at Parkeville in Victoria last november. This cache was dropped off at the event and i was able to retrieve it and help it continue on its travels around Australia. Thanks for the frog PJMPJM. It will see some great sights and attractions while on its journey around Western Australia.

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Found whilst attending WA Goes BIG event in Northam. TFTC!!

Found Armless Santa on the moveables table at the Clear Waters event.... at least he has one hand to eat a candy cane with. Signed the log and left for others to find. TFTC cathlud.

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Seen on the Movables table at the Clear Waters Mega Event and am taking him on a sleigh ride.

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Found on the mega in queanbeyan
TFTC Wilbert67

Seen on the table of GCA movables at the Clear Waters Mega event.

Spotted at the event in Queanbeyan

Found on the movables tables at the Clear Waters mega event.

What a surprise to see my darling "Armless Santa" at Queanbeyan. Enjoy your future travels and may we meet again soon.

Spotted on the table at the Mega TFTM

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Spotted on the table at the Mega Event.

My trip to the Mega was great, found lab caches which while like gadgets are new icons to me. Found some great caches and brought back some neat ideas for new caches in Tasmania.

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TFTC

Found on the moveables table at the Clear Waters Mega Event. Thanks Cathlud

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Found at the Mega. TFTC.

Found on the movabes table at the Clear Waters mega event in Queanbeyan. Thank you for sharing.

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One of the MANY moveables found at the Clear Waters Mega. TFTC.

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at the QBN mega Event Clearwater
Thank u

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Found at the mega!

Discovered at the Clearwaters Mega Queanbeyan.

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Now living in Bendigo

Gotcha

Picked up along with quite a few others and they are now all on their way to Bendigo via Echuca over the next couple of days.

Having had a smooth trip on the Spirit of Tasmania, and an equally smooth trip by vehicle northwards, this moveable is now comfortably residing at Shepparton until it is collected to continue its journey

So we meet again!
We collected this one last night in Devonport, after a lovely farewell dinner with 2y’stassies
Today he is waiting to board the Spirit of Tasmania to start a new adventure on the mainland
Thanks for the opportunity of moving him
And hopefully another footstep towards my destination
Currently in transit

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On our recent trip to the south of the state we collected up a few moveable caches, today they were passed on to another team who will help them continue their journeys, thanks for travelling with us for a bit

Found by mr sharnie's tribe flying solo on a work day. Had to creep around the motorhomes camping in the area but got a few, will move on asap after some running repairs. TFTC

Penguin trail

Found at meet the movable event in nsw.

Thank you for the movable

Another movable found!

Headed up to attend the Meet the Moveables (NSW) event and this was one of the many many moveables in attendance. Great time was had by all....

Thanks for sharing this one....

Found at 'Meet the movables'event

Discovered at the Meet the Moveables event in Ebenezer on New Year's Day 2019.

Found at the moveables event at Ebenezer. Thanks for the moveable it was found during the summer games

The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST

For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. 

A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache. 

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Saw it at the New Years Day event at Tizzana. TFTC

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Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event. Thanks for sharing.

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Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event held at Tizzana Winery in Ebenezer. A fantastic turnout at the event run for the current 2018/19 Journey or Destination game being run on Geocaching Australia which saw a total of 75 moveables come together. Thanks for sharing.

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Now down at the Meet the Moveables event....NSW Edition

Spotted at Tizanna's Winery.

What a great way to start the new year with a meet the movables event that saw 75 moveable caches and 10 geocacher caches in attendance. All was laid out so one could walk around the tables to sign each and every log before a swap occured to send them away again in a new direction.

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Thanks great Santa

I was happy to have a visit from a pile of movavebles accompanied by SDL before he takes them further north.

Thanks
Albida

Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.

Heading North soon I was told.

TFTC !

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GCA 2,206. Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.

I hear these are heading north soon.

TFTC !!

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found in the hands of a cacher with a sack full of movables. TFTC!

#GA3329 - 15:00; After a few days on the road with Sol de lune we have now completed our journey through the mid west of New South Wales and returned home to our final destination. This little Santa was one of many awaiting our return and was spotted in the hands of Sdl as he ho ho ho's around the National Capital. TFTC cathlud

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Grabbed from my event and will move on again shortly. A great little turn for any early-ish event. Good to see those who turned up, and thanks for coming along.

Thanks for the cache, and apologies for the late log.

Found this one, and a pile of others, at the Journey or Destination event in Canberra
TFTC - another smiley, and another square I can choose in the game

After a failed mission to join the crew doing the ‘BLACK OPs - Carpe Noctem’ (GC32WN6) cache this weekend due to being unable to get time off work (on Friday and Saturday) and other commitments arising, I did however sweet talk my way into having Sunday off. This then lead me to take a look around and see what was available within my free day to make it a day out. After taking a look around the GC and GCA caches, I found 2 events on the same day close to each other and I decided on attending them both. After this I took a look at what caches I could find along the way and made my trail to make it an enjoyable day out. Something I didn’t expect was, a FTF which was on cache GA13305. This added to the fun. I would like to thank all the CO’s of the caches I found and for the fun and enjoyment I had while finding them.
Today’s Totals: 44 Finds
2 Events
9 GC (GroundSpeak)
33 GCA

This was one of the 29 moveable caches I found and signed today. TFTC

I spent the morning in the company of some incedible cachers from Canberra and Temora at an Event organised by Sol de Lune to enlighten us on the new GCA Game. I for one understand the game better now so thanks to SDL and Black Bunny for enlightening us. The weather was hot and sunny so at times chairs were moved around to stay in the shade. Masses of Movables appeared and were eagerly found but not moved by all present.

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I spent the morning in the company of some incedible cachers from Canberra and Temora at an Event organised by Sol de Lune to enlighten us on the new GCA Game. I for one understand the game better now so thanks to SDL and Black Bunny for enlightening us. The weather was hot and sunny so at times chairs were moved around to stay in the shade. Masses of Movables appeared and were eagerly found but not moved by all present.

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Discovered this moveable at the Journey or Destination event held in Canberra today. Thanks for the cache

Discovered at the GA talk about the new GA game at John Knight Park, Belconnen

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Playing Journey or Destination? Come and find out a bit more, and maybe grab a moveable or two at the same time.

Found during the meet the movables event

great to find this one with many others at the meet the movables event.

Found at the Meet The Movables event in Brimbank Park.
Thanks for the cache and Merry Christmas Santa.

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Found at the Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park
Thanks for making it available for our entertainment at the event, it is a you couldn’t have been there too.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year

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Log it at Movable Event
Thanks

Headed down to Melbourne for the 'Meet the Moveables' event at Brimbank Park. Lots of moveables in attendance and this was one of them. Managed to sign a lot of logs, along with all the other cachers doing the same thing. A few laughs and a good time was had by all.

A good day to be out and a great event. Also great to see so any older moveables. Thanks for this one, which is now with me in Canberra and will be moved on shortly.

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Found at the Meet the Moveables event today

So many moveable. I hate copy paste logs but today I'll will fall. I'll make a separate note on caches I do anything extra with

The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. https://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga13115

Picked this one up for the meet the moveables event.

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I was in the area so stopped in for a look. The hint has fallen off but I couldn't find Santa in the spot I think I hid him.
Sorry cathlud. Doesn't look good.

Periodically the Geocaching Australia review team checks moveable caches that haven’t been found or moved in over 90 days.

This moveable fits that brief, however reading previous logs it seems to still be at the posted co-ords and is just sitting there waiting for the next finder to give it a go.

So, if you’re in area why not stop by and help it on its way.

Moved along.

Found by caughtatwork at 18:07 on 21/01/2018
The last day of States of the Nation and my first opportunity to get some caches. Let's see what we found and what we can claim.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this cache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

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We packed up the Christmas decorations today and that reminded me to go rehide Armless Santa. I was in the area for a new cache and found a nice spot. Hopefully he'll move on soon.
Thanks cathlud for the moveable.

Armless Santa is in his element.

cathlud

Santa shouldn't be alone on Christmas so he's coming home with me for a few days.
Thanks cathlud for the gnome.
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Out to start his adventures again. Looking forward to a busy month collecting points for Victoria.

I found this Santa sitting under my auntie 'cathlud' front steps. He is waiting for some summer games to start.

I have picked up Santa and brought him home while the workmen are doing maintenance where Santa was hiding. I will put him out again closer to Christmas and Summer.
(The hint is currently incorrect)

took me a while trying not to look suspicious in the middle of traffic. good little guy.

As I'm not playing the game, I left Santa where I found him for those who follow to grab and move.

Popped out this way on a lunchtime excursion today - the first in a long, long time . Parking nearby, I mosied on over to GZ for a nice, quick find at 13:35 for an FTS ('first-to-sign' )

As I'm not part of the game, I left Santa where I found him for those who follow to grab.

TNLNSL. Thanks cathlud.

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I visited Santa this afternoon, on my way to work. He is waiting patiently.

'Armless Santa' is ready to start travelling.