Géographe Ship 1801 West Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
By
pood on 03-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20374
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | GeoArt |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S33° 38.999' E115° 19.854' (WGS 84) |
| 50H 345224E 6275402N (UTM) | |
| GeoArt Coordinates: | S33° 35.359' E115° 19.656' (WGS 84) |
| 31N 166021E 0N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 5 m |
| Local Government Area: | Busselton |
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Description
Le Geographe 1801
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 begin...
Baudin and his large group of scientists left Le Havre in 1800 in two ships, Le Geographe and Le Naturaliste, names which indicated the intent of the voyage.
To be continued...
Hints
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Logs
Couldn’t spend too long here due to impending rain clouds; but checked a few possible locations nearby.
Our GPS took us to a tree in the lawn section. We searched but with few spot to hide even one of these tiny caches we came up empty handed. We moved to the trees in the reedy area behind the toilet block but again found nothing. A sad end for this series which we had looked forward to finding. We are unlikely to be back this way in the near future so the 10 DNFs will remain that way.
We feel the difficulty rating should be 1.5 - 2.5 to reflect the difficulty of finding these micro caches, many of which are buried. Most the finds were not straight forward.
We appreciate the effort it took to do the geoart, find hides and publish the caches. The path along Geographe Bay is a great place for this series of caches. Thanks for show casing this beautiful part of your town. We were disappointed by our 10DNFs but so glad we walked the path from No35 to No1, even if it was over 3 days.
We feel the difficulty rating should be 1.5 - 2.5 to reflect the difficulty of finding these micro caches, many of which are buried. Most the finds were not straight forward.
We appreciate the effort it took to do the geoart, find hides and publish the caches. The path along Geographe Bay is a great place for this series of caches. Thanks for show casing this beautiful part of your town. We were disappointed by our 10DNFs but so glad we walked the path from No35 to No1, even if it was over 3 days.
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.
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
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.
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
