Géographe Ship 1802 West Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 03-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20375

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.032' E115° 19.776' (WGS 84)
	50H 345104E 6275339N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 35.359' E115° 20.019' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	6 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

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Description

Le Geographe Ship 1802

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 continue...

The ships initially selected by the French Ministry of Marine were two corvettes and a third vessel as a store ship. However, these were rejected by Baudin as being in poor condition, and were replaced. The vessels Baudin chose were the corvette Galatee -renamed Le Geographe - and a storeship Menacarte - Le Naturaliste.

To be continued...

Hints

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ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
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Decode

Logs

14-Sep-23

Lazarus_68

Found between bursts of rain, disturbed a tiny gecko. Log paper damp. TFTC

23-Oct-21

2y'stassies

We were pleased to make a quick find of this cache however we found water in the container and a wet, moldy log sheet which we just managed to sign.

Thanks for this cache POOD. This one is in need of maintenance.

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.