Géographe Ship 1803 West Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 03-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20376

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.076' E115° 19.750' (WGS 84)
	50H 345065E 6275257N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 35.661' E115° 19.656' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	4 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit Difficulty

Description

Le Geographe Ship 1803

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...

Both ships were about 350 tons, similar to the Investigator, but considerably longer: Le Geographe was 124 feet [37.8 metres] and Le Naturaliste was 127 feet [38.75 metres] compared to the Investigator's length of 100 feet [30.5 metres].

To be continued...

Hints

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Decode

Logs

23-Oct-21

2y'stassies

There had been a group of small children playing in this tree when we made our inspection trip this morning but fortunately later this afternoon there were no muggles, little or big in sight and we were able to search uninterrupted. We soon located the tiny container and were surprised to find a bottle firmly wedged into the same hollow below the cache container. We replaced the container as found after signing the log.

Thanks for another cache in this series POOD. The container and contents were in good condition.

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. (I found this one.)

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.