Not a gnome home Howrah, Tasmania, Australia
By gooseandegg on 23-Dec-17. Waypoint GA11198

Caching in the area we found your cache along the way.

Many thanks gooseandegg for placing and maintaining this cache and adding to our geocaching experience today.

Quick find. Cache and contents in excellent condition.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After finding the nearby GCA cache I debated whether to continue on to this cache or call it quits for the day. The thought of another GCA find spurred me on though and so I plodded a bit further to GZ.
After another quick find it was getting quite late so I headed back to the van but wasn't real sure of which way I had got here.
Didn't take long to get back to the row of houses though and once they were in sight it was a quick, downhill walk to Mr Beetle who was waiting in the van.
Thanks, a nice way to end a long caching day!!!!

out and about with 1 Rafa caching for the GCA summer game and this was on the list, TFTC TNLN log dry, a warm cloudy day good for watching tennis.

Hello gooseandegg thanks for the cache

Another cache off the list.
No one home today.
There are some great views as you walk up the hill.

Found on Friday 26 2018 at 1126

TFTC

TFTC
TNLNSL
Audrey left a drawing of Mrs Rock

Thanks for placing this cache here. It is nice to find another good sized cache in this area. TFTC

After finding GA11197 we made our way carefully up hill towards this cache. There was plenty of wild life around this morning but fortunately the ground was a little wet for the wriggly variety to be about just yet. We had to take care as we moved upward as the sheoak leaves on the wet tracks were slippery.

Accurate coordinates enabled us to make a quick find of a well hidden container. We agree that this would probably not suit gnomes looking for a home. Container and contents were in good condition. Now time to head back down and off to the next set of SSR and Goose caches.

Thanks GooseandEgg for another well hidden cache that will give us some useful points for the State of the Nations summer game.

Out for a walk with the GeoGSP tonight doing some scavenging for the States of the Nation game. Not sure why it's taken the GeoGSP and I so long to get to this area, but anyway tonight was the night.

Did my usual trick of parking about 10 minutes walk away, to increase the distance the GeoGSP gets walked so enjoyed the views on our approach.

Found the home not for gnomes and was busy signing the log when all of a sudden the GeoGSP started hopping around with one foot in the air. I looked down on the ground to see we had disturbed some big ugly ants and they showed their displeasure by biting the GeoGSP. He had no idea what was going on but everytime he put his foot down he'd hop around again. So here we go with more mayhem.... I quickly finished signing the log, got the cache packed up and returned to its spot - avoiding any ants and got out of there remembering to grab my GPS and my GeoGSP!

Thanks for the cache gooseandegg.

Found while out and about doing the odd cache

TFTC

Walked up to this one after parking on the nearby road, it was an easy find since I was here when Goose hid it, shame it's so small mind you

Thanks for the cache and the walk.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Hi Goose
A caching day instead of boredom and waiting:

Mum had to go to dialysis today instead of tomorrow as it is Christmas Day and the centre is not open. With the “State of the Nation” in motion; it was time to use my day for hunting plastic to overcome the feelings described above.

Weather:
Overcast and windy at Huonville but warm at the start of the day – sixteen degrees here. Clouds stayed all day and threatened rain
Temperature was cool: At Hobart while doing the first cache it was fourteen degrees Celsius; Mornington and Tranmere saw the temperature decrease to twelve degrees Celsius; at New Town it was about twelve degrees Celsius and back in Huonville it rose to sixteen again.
It had threatened to rain for most of the morning and only got a little at GA11197 and GA11198.

Travel:
Drove from Huonville to Hobart, then to New Town, over to Mornington to look for GA11195 “Knopwood Hill State Recreation Area Bush View” and GA11196 “Knopwood Hill State Recreation Area Water View”; to Tranmere to look for and find GA11197 “Under Rock” and GA11198 ‘Not A Gnome Home”; to Bellerive to hide one cache and over to the Domain to hide another; the to New Town to collect Mum covering a total distance of 145.5 kilometres in the car by the time we returned to Huonville.
For the day, it took 5869 steps burning 1355 calories to cover a total of 4.58 kilometres and find four caches on foot. A total of 150.08 kilometres for the whole caching day.

GA11198 “Not a gnome home”
Drove some 4.5 kilometres to arrive at a unknown car parking spot. I had 152 metres as the crow flies to trek to the first cache. I followed tracks and also did some scrambling through the bush to get to this cache. The first cache done and dusted, it was time to go in search of this one. A short walk and search soon had me find the hide.
The cache was Sainted at 1012 hours.
All the protocols were completed and it was time to head to the car.
Really enjoyed the exercise and being back in the scrub - THANK YOU.

This cache will be used as part of the States of the Nation games currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018. As the new caches have so many options, a decision will be made as to which scavenge to use it against. It is nice to have a choice. Thanks.

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.

If you’re not participating, get into the game and help Tassie come first please.
These caches will also help collect points for the Dragonzone Game.

MERRY CHRISTMAS
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

Rated: for Overall Experience

There we were just at home when notification came through that six new caches had just been published . We threw on the walking shoes and headed out the door. We drove along Oceana Drive looking for a way through to the Rokeby Hills Reserve behind the houses. We went up Coventry Rise and into a brand new suburb still under construction. What a lovely view from here. We parked the car and headed bush. Not sure about tracks to follow as we only found tracks that animals had used! This was the first cache we found. Nice to see some new caches published that fit well with the scavenges published for the States of the Nation games. A well stocked cache as well but TN. Claiming FTF at 4.55 pm. Now off to number two on our list. After finding Under a Rock, we bush bashed back to the car and went past a track that came up between two houses that would have been closer than where we parked.

I will use this find as part of the States of the Nation games currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018. Which scavenge will I use it for as the six new caches give you lots of choice?
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!!!!!! Go Tassie!!!!!!!

Rated: for Overall Experience

Published for the States of the Nation game