Graeme the Gnome Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
By
Black Bunny on 01-Dec-10. Waypoint GA1671
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Small |
Coordinates: | S33° 35.980' E150° 15.460' (WGS 84) |
56H 245531E 6278859N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 1072 m |
Local Government Area: | Blue Mountains City |
Description
GeGnome Recruit GA1671
This cache is a member of the Gnome Army doing battle in GeGnomic War of December 2010 to January 2011.
To log this cache find Graeme and move him to a new location then post his co-ordinates for the next finder.
Rules (not guidelines)
· Your cache must be a genuine, bone fide garden gnome. It may be store bought or hand crafted.
· Caches for the competition must be published on 1 December 2010 Australian Eastern Time (GCA Time).
Geocaching Australia has the facility to automatically publish your cache on 1 December 2010.
Please contact an administrator if you would like to know how to accomplish this.
· The game commences at 00:00:00 1 December 2010 AEST and concludes 23:59:59 31 January 2011 AEST.
· The game administrators decision is final.
· You can not find and move your own cache during the game period
· Caches must be found and hidden by the same cacher (i.e. no mailing the cache to another cacher to hide)
· There is no limit to the number of times other cachers can find / move the cache provided there are at least two other finds / moves in between
· If a cacher moves your cache overseas and it remains unfound overseas for 1 week or more, the cache mover may move your cache back to the country of origin without breaking the "2 moves" rule
· There is no limit to the distance other cachers can move the cache
· Other cachers in the game may find / move your cache, but they must move it on within 2 days
Logs
Logged him at the GLF/GFF Gnome event in Mt. Victoria, on One Tree Hill, and left him in the care of rogerw3.
If the owner can confirm it is in place or decides to replace the cache, this listing can be reactived by placing an "unarchived" log against it.
He thanks all he ran into while on his travels.
TY to the organizers of High Tea for Gnomes & Cachers!
TFTG and the GG.
Was going to take him, but then got a "I dont trust you with my gnome" lecture from BB..uh..
(not my fault it's now beating my poor pirate for first place. hmmph)
TFT
A great time had by all....including the gnomes.
(So this is what it looks like in here )
(I joke, i joke!)
After a long walk of the dog we found this gnome hide.
The resident possum sacred the gnome out of me but it was safely placed.
Grrreat.
The owner of Matt Patt Gnome wants to send this one to deepest darkest gnomeless Namadgi (because he is running third to this gnome on the ladder). The temptation is hard to resist.
. . . . .
This should have been a simple find, but I tried to follow the tracks to the cache as indicated on my Garmin by City Navigator map, but I didn't seem able to get near the cache. Would you believe it has the lake about 50-100 metres from it's true position, with the result that the cache was on the other side of lake than you would suppose looking at the map on the gps.
Anwyay, found the cute little gnome once I gave up on the map.
Thanks Black Bunny - Well find a suitable place to move it to.
After dining at the Grand-Facits we all set out for a post-dinner walk through Blackburn Lake reserve, surprisingly Graeme asked if he could join us and we all enjoyed a pleasant dusk stroll finishing up next to the lake, just in time for a quick photo of e-facit and M.S.N. by the lake. It seemed that Graeme is a bit of a tricker... he photobombed the young couple but e-facit got her own back.
Graeme was pretty happy with this location so settled down behind a fallen tree and now waits for the next finder
Thanks Black Bunny, a very impressive gnome indeed
Was feeling quite Gnomish at work today so checked out if any were within grasp and quickly realised this one was just up the road (ok, 5km up the road)
Left work with time to spare and soon was parked within a few metres of GZ. As with many gnomes I've been finding I checked the listing and logs in detail so I knew what size gnome I was searching for, the formal size have often misdirected me. It was clear that this was no micro gnome so I was not surprised when I saw this fellow immediately, what a monster!
Thanks Black Bunny
We even escorted him to our south-eastern facility where he is awaiting pickup near a major busy carriageway.
His apparent military record and garb will not do him any favours with the pacifists he's currently residing with though!!
Thanks for the gnomey fun!
Thanks for the gnomey fun!
I caught a Gnome, I caught a Gnome
Norkmeister and Winglen must have had their hands full with all the other gnomes that were lurking in Braddon today, so thanks for leaving me one to find
Impressed with the size, so now to find somewhere to hide him....
School holidays are fun when you can do a bit of gnome chasing.
Wendy
Wendy
Will drop him off somewhere on the Hume - how does Gundagai sound?
I know they'll be well supervised there.
Graeme seems exceptionally happy to have some female gnome company.
In fact, I think his initial shock has turned into considerable enthusiasm.
Maybe it's situations like this that led to rogerw3's diminutive gnome gnarmy . . .
We can only wait and see!
Merry Christmas, Graeme!
I wondered if the locals might think I was moving a body . . .
But it wasn't far to the GeoBuru, parked out on the street, and I soon had giant Graeme safely out of sight.
I think his 'container' is the largest one I've seen so far, on nearly 20 gnomes in the race.
Will take him back up towards Dural and see if he can find a nice place to celebrate the Christmas season.
Thanks BB!
And thanks Tealby for the surprise! Now I don't feel so bad that I failed to retrieve one of those from Wiotlu Wertyu
They just keep getting bigger...
Love the size of Graeme's cache - so I left a surprise for the next finder. Will move on shortly...
NOTE - there are 3 gnomes there