Géographe Ship 1812 West Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 03-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20385

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.191' E115° 19.112' (WGS 84)
	50H 344083E 6275029N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 36.869' E115° 18.570' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	9 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit Container

Description

Le Geographe Ship 1812

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...

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.

A journey back to the Homeland.

Hints

Qbja Ybj

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

22-Oct-21

2y'stassies

The GPS took a little while to settled at this hide so we weren't sure which side of the fence we needed to be on. When it did settle we went through the gate and spent time searching the object at the published coordinates. Having come up empty handed we moved on to another similar object where, after an intensive search we found the container under a thick layer of composted leaves. On checking our GPS we noticed we had found the container 8m N of the published coordinates.

Thanks for another cache in this GeoArt series POOD. The log sheet was damp but usable.

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.

This was the hardest of those we did today.

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.