Géographe Ship 1815 Broadwater, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 04-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20398

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.316' E115° 18.138' (WGS 84)
	50H 342581E 6274773N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 37.171' E115° 18.208' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	4 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit State

Description

Le Geographe Ship 1815

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

29-May-24

geono.

Sadly another DNF... even after it's been found recently! Confused

Thanks anyway.

21-May-24

ChrisWhite62

Found cache but had to put in new log as old log had disintegrated. Quiet evening so I might have luck finding some others close by.

22-Oct-21

2y'stassies

This was another cache we found buried in leaf litter. We hunted for a few minutes before we located it The container and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for another cache in this series POOD.

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 as we arrived as it was out in the open. We put it back where we thought it had come from.

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.