Géographe Ship 1835 Broadwater, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 03-Feb-21. Waypoint GA19765

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.382' E115° 17.042' (WGS 84)
	50H 340889E 6274623N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 38.075' E115° 20.383' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	8 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit State

Description

Le Geographe 1835

Hidden as Part of the GeoArt games.

This Series of GeoArt Caches are in the shape of the Ship, they will tell you the story of Baudin as he leaves his Homeland.

There is a lot of local history as you meander around the Lower South West of WA, shipwrecks, stories, artifacts, and several original homesteads to pursue.

As History goes, this story started in the early 1800's.

It is a series of caches which traverse along the Busselton Bike Path, showcasing the wonderful Geographe Bay.

Let the Historical Journey be continued...

By July 1803 Baudin and many of the crew were ill; Baudin abandoned the survey to return home to France. In September 1803 Baudin died at Ile de France [Mauritius] and the Casuarina was abandoned there.

Three months later, Le Geographe sailed for France under the command of Pierre Milius, arriving home on 23 March 1804 with a cargo of live animals and birds, and collected specimens.

I hope you enjoyed the journey through history.

Hints

Qbja ybj

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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Decode

Logs

01-Jun-24

geono.

No luck here.

21-Oct-21

2y'stassies

This was another cache where Our GPS took us straight to the cache site and we were able to make a quick find. The cache and log were in good condition.

Thanks for this cache in the series POOD. We headed off to the next one.

05-Mar-21

Chwiliwr

The Better Half and I were going to Bridgetown for the weekend but wasn't expected there before late afternoon so decided to come to Busselton to do the newer Adventure Labs before heading onto to Bridgetown.

After doing some of the Lab caches we started down the coast to do as many of the ship caches as we could before we had to leave for Nannup. In the end we 25 of them all with blank logs so joint *FTF* with The Better Half on them. Some caches were harder to find than others as they seem to have ended up quite buried. All were signed and returned as we found them.

Thanks Pood for placing these geoart caches for us to find. We will have to come back some other time to finish them all.

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Mar-21

tbh

Chwiliwr and I were going to Bridgetown for the weekend but wasn't expected there before late afternoon so decided to come to Busselton to do the newer Adventure Labs before heading onto to Bridgetown.

After doing some of the Lab caches we started down the coast to do as many of the ship caches as we could before we had to leave for Nannup. In the end we 25 of them all with blank logs so joint *FTF* with Chwiliwr on them. Some caches were harder to find than others as they seem to have ended up quite buried. All were signed and returned as we found them.

Thanks Pood for placing these geoart caches for us to find. We will have to come back some other time to finish them all.

Rated: for Overall Experience

09-Feb-21

pood

Enjoy the stroll down the discovery of the Geographe Bay.