Okopipi Howrah, Tasmania, Australia
By gooseandegg on 12-Nov-17. Waypoint GA11071
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Micro |
Coordinates: | S42° 54.283' E147° 25.141' (WGS 84) |
55G 534206E 5249680N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 33 m |
Local Government Area: | Clarence |
Description
Okopipi is the native name for the Blue Poison Dart Frog. It is usually found in the forests surrounded by the Sipaliwini Savanna in southern Suriname (in South America).
This one has escaped.........
A moveable with a mission to get back to Tasmania. This moveable is in a race to get back to Southern Tasmania. Who or what is it racing against you may ask, well it’s in a race with GA11068 Stainless Steel Speedboat We will both place a moveable in Tasmania and then the other will move it to the same location in Alexandra Victoria, the goal is who’s moveable can get back to the location it was first hidden in shortest time. Please help our moveables make it back to the Apple Isle.
Mission aborted
Okopipi is now back in Tasmania and ready to be found and moved as normal. He will be hanging out with Neville while he is waiting for some love. Just a reminder that Neville is retired and lives at this location permanently.
Logs
Tftc.
Found and Sainted this cache at the Leap Year Event this morning
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
I spotted your cache on the table to the leap day event.
Found on Saturday 29 February 2020 at 1058
TFTC"
Will be coming back home with me
Had walked into and out of the Jurassic Park with Budge and stopped to get another on the way back to Hobart; then pulled up here to let Budgie get CHIRPED in Hobart!
Following these finds it was off to a mates place for a visit
Arrived and was invited for lunch and a FRANKS - sure tasted good after the hard morning I had put in
Mine host's hospitality was really appreciated - THANK YOU
This cache was Sainted at 1305 hours without mine host's knowledge as I left- Thanks again
Loved the cache hide; sorry I disturbed the caching party for Nev and his mate
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Found partying with my gnomes and a lot of other creatures! I keep telling them "no more parties", but do they listen?
Thanks for the frog.
Thanks for the moveable goosenandegg.
Also, today I wanted to find this cache for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
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. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the movable, I must say a very interesting movable it is.
Of course there was a price to pay and I was made to find a few caches to pay for my bread and board, nothing onerous this far but I fear he may have other plans for the next couple days.
Thanks for the cache
Found! Very near my house! Will be moving it along soon!
Don't bother looking, already picked up.
Happy travels Okopipi
Thanks for this little hopper GooseandEgg we are sure it will have many more adventures as it travels around. It might even make it to this years Parkville event. No poison darts today, maybe it was just too hot.
States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.
There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.
Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.
Go Tassie! Go Tassie!! Go Tassie !!! Go Tassie !!!!! Go Tassie !!!!!! Go Tassie !!!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a SAFE FESTIVE SEASON to all
Cheers OldSaint
Woke up this morning and it was seven days to Christmas.
With the “States of the Nation” in motion; it was time to go and hunt plastic to overcome the feeling of “caches” necessary.
Weather:
Overcast and windy at Huonville but warm at the start of the day
Clouds cleared to blue skies with a few clouds and the wind dropped away
Temperature was hot: At Sandford while doing the first cache it was twenty-one degrees Celsius; Rosny Hill saw the temperature increase to twenty-four degrees Celsius at Brighton it increased to twenty-six degrees Celsius and back in Huonville it dropped to twenty-four again.
Consequently, no rain.
Travel:
Drove from Huonville to Hobart, then to Sandford to look for GA11132 “Chirp on Sanford; to Rosny Hill for GA11071 “Okopipi”; then a drive to Otago for a trig TP7737 “Lower Direction ST783” and finally to Brighton to find TP7738 “Brighton Council Office” covering a total distance of 178 kilometres in the car by the time we returned to Huonville. It was very hot in the car, but the air conditioner gave relief to the heat.
For the day, it took 2947 steps burning 1314 calories to cover a total of 2.44 kilometres and find four caches on foot. A total of 180.44 kilometres for the whole caching day.
GA11071 Okopipi
Having found GA11132 “Chirp on Sandford” hidden by whitewebbs; we drove 18.7 kilometres to Rosny Hill from Sandford to look for the little “poisonous critter” hidden by yourself.
It was only a short walk of fifty to sixty metres from where I parked the car to ground zero. There was a muggle walking down the road toward me as I made the find, but because it was a moveable cache I went ahead with the find and taking the usual photographs. We passed greetings as she walked by with no harm done.
This was a quick find as I have found other such caches here before.
The cache was Sainted at 1144 hours.
Walking from the car to ground zero and back was enjoyable taking 157 steps, burning only 43 calories to cover the 140 metres that I walked.
Many memories of caches past hidden came flooding back as I did this cache
THANK YOU for the memories on such a nice day.
The little blue critter will be back out for others to find for "States of the Nation."
TFTC and a MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours
Stay safe over the festive season
Cheers OldSaint.