The man in Red! Brunswick Heads, New South Wales, Australia
By ParisLaura on 07-Dec-17. Waypoint GA11115

The Man in Red has found the perfect place to relax after a busy festive season. A walk along the beach and the sound of the ocean is just the thing to rest and recharge. Santa is having a well-earned holiday on Christmas Beach. The head elf is in charge of the workshop while he is away making sure production is on track for the coming year. This is the life thought Santa and closed his eyes for a nap in the warming sun.

This moveable cache has been with the previous finder for almost 4 months and has not been relocated. To avoid cachers searching for a cache that is not at the posted co-ords, we will archive it.

If the cache appears again, the listing can simply be reinstated...

I quickly found Santa's hiding spot in a hollow log covered with twigs. The hard part was trying to excavate the man in Red from a well-established ant nest. I was not keen on getting bitten. Poor Santa has seen better days. He was filled with ant eggs and has lost the top of his head. I will give the little man a good clean before finding a new home.

Moved along down the highway to a sweet place to stop

Thanks for the cache.. a bit early for this guy.
Cheers

Ho Ho hold on just a minute. It's way too early for you to be getting around Me Clause!

Well I hope you noticed that there were a few "good" geocachers at the GIFF event and afterparty, not saw who was "naughty". I expect a certain "Cache Poli should be getting coal in his stockings this Christmas.

TFTC

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Only 8 more weeks till Christmas, so I imagine the Man in Red is cruising around the area, seeing who has been naughty or nice. One for the naughty list is SeeMyShell, who has no respect for moveable geocaches. I'd like to order a lump of coal for his Christmas present thanks!

Great to see another moveable make it up this way! I didn't take him tonight - just signed the log. Someone else will move him on.

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Well, The Man in Red heard that we were attending the Geocaching International Film Festival at Murwillumbah tonight. Since the Northern Rivers geocaching krew have a film in the line up TMinR thought he might like to come too, to see the film and meet the stars. Maybe one of them might take him home and hide him elsewhere,

Goodbye TMinR, I hope you have enjoyed your rest.

Note To Finders: We will be bringing a bunch of moveables to the event, you can find them there.

This moveable certainly made me smile - it makes number 100 GCA finds - so I am very happy. It like an early Christmas present.

We were out and about for Gold Coast Open House and since we were in the area called past to give this guy a lift. He said he was feeling someone hot with all his winter gear but since our next stop was the Kurrawa Surf Club I offered to buy him (and all my new friends) a cold one after the tour -ice-cream of course.

I've invited the Man in Red to come and stay with me and my Krew for a while until he decides on his next move. There is a great tree in a nearby park which dinosaurs and others have liked to hide in, or if he wants to wait a little longer there is a gathering of geocachers next month where he might find a lift.

Thanks for the cache.

moved to sunny qld

Another one of my GCA moveables have come home, just in time for Christmas in July!

He is still looking good and spreading some cheer, Ill hold on to him for a little bit then ill find him a new home soon.

Down and collected.

Out with Just a cacher and dropped in to grab this one as we passed.

Thanks for the cache.

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Lovely movables picked up and will be moved along soon.

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Cache has now been found and handed off to another local cacher who will move it on shortly...probably closer to it's home.

As usual, GCA moveables left at a GC Mega can sit around for a while...look at the number of trackables still listed at any Mega.

Any moveables still listed at the Queanbeyan Mega are currently being rounded up and will be moved on as soon as possible.

3 months since last seen, needs archiving

Anything and everything was on the moveables table at the Clear Waters Event. Happy to log The Man in Red! TFTM ParisLaura.

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Found on the mega in queanbeyan
TFTC Wilbert67

Spotted on the table at the Mega. TFTC.

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

Spotted at the event in Queanbeyan

Found this one during the Clear Waters Mega Event.

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Discovered on the ephemeral Movable Table of Moveables at the GCA Clans Catchup at Clear Waters Event held during Easter in Queanbeyan.
Thanks for sharing this with us.

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GCA 2,334. Found this one during the Clear Waters Mega Event.

Good luck on your journey !

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Discovered at the Clear Waters Catchup with a large bunch of other moveables. It was great to see such support for the Geocaching Australia site and it's caches. TFTC

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

So many moveables in one location at the Clear Waters Mega event in Queanbeyan. I'm not sure whether I have seen some of these before, but GCA says no, so I'd better find them officially now. TFTC & safe travels.

Discovered this little fellow on the Movables table at the Clear Waters Mega Event.

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Found at Clear water Mega. TFTC!

at the QBN mega Event Clearwater
Thank u

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Discovered at the Clearwaters Mega Queanbeyan.

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Found and logged in Clear Waters Mega in Queanbeyan, NSW. TFTC.

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Found at the mega

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Spotted when I dropped off some friends for a chat.

Waiting to be found at the moveable table in the pavilion at the Mega

Spotted in the hands of Tassie Trekkers at the Mega. TFTM 

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Found in the hands of Tassie Trekkers.

One of the moveables we collected whilst on a tour of the area.

Many thanks ParisLaura for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

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Tha man in red is out and about again.....!

Picked up and headed out of town with some mates!!!!!

Out and about grabbing a few GCA caches. This was one in my sights and was quickly found and left here for the next seeker.
TFTC

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I headed out after work to target two clusters of GA moveables. The first spot seemed to be in the beer garden of the Old Canberra Inn. This one was in a much more familiar location and all listed caches were here. I left them here for a future finder.

Thanks
Albida

down and ready to go

A quick find today while out on some errands.

Thanks for the cache ParisLaura

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Out grabbing some supplies today and dropped in to grab this one while we were in the area.

Thanks for the cache ParisLaura

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Out for another move. Although not an entrant this year, who knows, might get another one in before the race is over!

#GA3201 - 16:30; Saw a couple of new moveables had hit town after a visit to the Snowies, so I dutifully headed out to collect them. This was one of the posse! TFTC ParisLaura

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Down and ready to go

Headed down to Jindabyne for a drive and managed to find four or five of the ones along the trail.

Thanks ParisLaura….will move on very shortly.

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nice views

Found and taking to Jindy.

Found a quiet spot for the red guy in the park of long sleepers.

I'd been dropping dinosaurs all around the park so it could be a bit dangerous for this little red guy. I'm giving him a ride to safer parts. Thanks ParisLaura.

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Found while out with Team MavEtJu. Glad he was focused on these moveables as I would have overlooked them.

Visited with ziggiau. It’s still at the same location as we already got another movable from this park. TFTC!

Found in the company of rogerw3!

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Moved down to the big smoke, hopefully to be picked up soon.

Got you,now what to do with you.

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Dropped ready to be found.

Picked up from the event at Tizzana's

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Spotted it in the hands of lucky1955 when attending a CITO event.

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In the area caching this morning. Quickly found and retrieved. Taken for a joyride in my geo-mobile to the next hide-out

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Waiting at the station for a lift.

One more for the morning. This one came with another in the bag

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Found and fought over with geodad!

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Found and picked up. We did a bit of fighting over this one for the Geosports points...hence the silly photos.

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Moved down the mountains for a quick pick up (I hope!).

Here we are again, must take you further away next week.

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I decided to take advantage of a couple flexdays to come up the mountains and stay with my favorite old man
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

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The Man in Red has moved to Lithgow!

Logged while in the hands of a local cacher

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Found! Very near my house! Will be moving it along soon!

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Moved up the mountains to visit the local Geocacher.
Don't bother looking, already picked up.

Got you, now what to do with you?

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powertrail

Picked up and moving north.

Ready to travel.

Quick find...tftc...cheers ST.

The little man in red is waiting along the Leven river. Happy travels small santa.

Arrived home late last night after a family gathering in the north so was surprised to noticed this morning that a visitor had left a few little moveables close by. Little Man in Red was a little late for the Christmas delivery run but was happy to come inside and join a small group of resident santas for a short time. A nice little santa with an unusual sack on his back.

We will move him along soon.

Dropped this appropriately festive gentleman off with a friend and grabbed a bag of other moveable caches to move along, happy travels

Found this cache on a trip through Wynyard picking up moveable caches in the area. Will move this one towards the north of the state. TFTC

The man in red! is back out with a mate and ready to be found

Out and about caching with Tassie Trekkers in the North West and The Man in Red was spotted in the hands of Tassie Trekkers before being hidden for the next part of his journey. TFTM

We are participating in the States of the Nation games which are currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018.

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.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a virtual verbosity trophy.

Go Tassie! Go Tassie!! Go Tassie!!! Go Tassie!!!! Go Tassie!!!!! Go Tassie!!!!!! Go Tassie!!!!!!!

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Three new moveables in our neck of the woods - Santa has arrived early Ho Ho Ho!!!

Many thanks Parislaura for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience.

Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a We were one of the lucky teams to receive a pathtag from Geocaching Australia for publishing a "Geocacher Cache" - thanks Geocaching Australia.

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Found in Nutwood's possession. Thanks for the Christmas cache ParisLaura!

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The Man in Red has landed in Launceston. He had a flying visit to Sydney today but no promising hiding places offered. His owner would like him to get some exercise before Christmas so I'm hoping our local cachers will oblige...

Poor old Santa. Sitting all neglected at this time of the year. Nearly two weeks in a guard rail!
I had a bit of a drive to retrieve this one. My own fault as I'd been in the right area during the day but didn't check for caches till I was in the city. Never mind, it was the right time of the evening and there was hardly a car on the road so it was a quick 50km round trip. Quite pleasant to cruise along roads that you normally can't see for vehicles.
The next question is where to take him? I think this is an owners call. I can hide him tomorrow (Thursday) close to Adelaide CBD. I can hide him in Sydney on Friday, or Launceston on Saturday. My recommendation would be Launceston, as I suspect that's his best chance of an energetic Christmas and if it turns out a bit quiet, I can bring him back to SA sometime in the New Year. Sydney would be a gamble as I won't have time to pick and choose an area. It'd likely be out to the SW. Alternatively, he can have Christmas at home?
Pop a note in or send me a PM and I'll see what I can do.

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So I was going to leave this in the city today but forgot to take it to work with me. Therefore I have placed it in a familiar GCA spot to begin its journey.

Given the Christmas theme if you find it before Christmas (Dec 17) please move it as quickly as you can to help spread the Christmas cheer and maybe for just a little while keep it suburban so it can be found frequently.