Géographe Ship 1818 Broadwater, Western Australia, Australia
By pood on 04-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20401

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Micro
Coordinates:	S33° 39.349' E115° 17.743' (WGS 84)
	50H 341972E 6274702N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S33° 37.473' E115° 17.845' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	4 m
Local Government Area:	Busselton

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit State

Description

Le Geographe Ship 1818

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...

As a pair the French ships were badly mismatched, with Le Naturaliste a slower sailor than Le Geographe, a fact supported by the number of times she fell behind the pace set by Le Geographe.

To be continued...

Hints

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ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

29-May-24

geono.

No luck for us either.

23-May-24

ChrisWhite62

Found a deep hollow but too deep for me to get to the bottom of. Dug around under leaf litter but not successful

22-Oct-21

2y'stassies

After excavating all the hollows around the base of the tree we moved our search to the next level and, after more digging managed to find the little container buried under leaf compost in a deep hollow. Container and log sheet were in good condition.

Thanks for this cache POOD. While she was searching Mrs Y'stassie was approached by a native pigeon that was being harassed by a magpie. It seemed to know that if it was close to a human the magpie would leave it alone and move away.

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.