Purple & Yellow Micro Frog Cable Beach, Western Australia, Australia
By
pjmpjm on 01-Dec-11. Waypoint GA4004
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Micro |
Coordinates: | S17° 57.820' E122° 12.252' (WGS 84) |
51K 415735E 8013653N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 20 m |
Local Government Area: | Broome |
Description
Purple & Silver Micro Frog
Leap Frog' -- the Moving Cache Race -- December 2011 until January 2012
Please don't hang on to a the Green Bison Frog for very long. If possible, hide your Frog on the same day you find it. At most, please find a new hiding place within 48 hours.
Remember that 'moveables' are meant to be found! Don't choose a difficult hiding place, or one that's far off the beaten path. Pick a place that completely out of sight of muggles, but which can be reached easily by frog hunters. And give a good clue!
This way, Leap Frogs will move on their way quickly and safely!
Enjoy!
Hints
onfr bs gerr |
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Decode |
Logs
I flew from Broome to Perth for a work trip which will also take me to Derby. I arrived around lunch time and eventually when my luggage arrived i headed over to grab a hire car. I then headed off to the resort and got settled in here. I decided to do some sightseeing and some caching for GA and GC caches. The closest one was a trig about 200 metres away so around the corner and parked up and trekked up the sandy hill and soon had the trig at my foot. What an outstanding view over Broome and surrounds. I trekked back down the hill and headed over to Cable Beach after stopping for a train - Camel train that is. Grabbed a few caches here then headed off out to Ganthaeume Point for some sightseeing and grabbed the LIghthouse here as well. Eventually i made it back into town all be it getting dark and grabbed the last remaining caches both GA and GC.
I dropped off purple and yellow frog with a friend enjoying the great views over Broome and surrounds.
I dropped off purple and yellow frog with a friend enjoying the great views over Broome and surrounds.
I decided to head up to Northam to attend the WA Goes Big event and ended up spending 3 days out there doing doing lots of caching and meeting up with lots of fellow cachers. It was a great weekend and lots of fun. I was also able to grab a few GA moveables. A There were so many caches and moveables around northam but the moveables were gathered up and brought into the evening dinner. I attended the great dinner in the evening and caught up with some fellow GA cachers from over east. Was great to meet up with them again having previously met them at the Mega event at Parkeville in Victoria last november. This cache was dropped off at the event and i was able to retrieve it and help it continue on its travels around Australia. Thanks for the frog PJMPJM. It will see some great sights and attractions while on its journey around Western Australia.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found with 60+ other moveables at the Clear Waters Event in Queanbeyan. That was the easy part, now comes the logging. TFTM pjmpjm.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Seen on the Movables table at the Clear Waters Mega Event. The race may be over but I'm interested to see how far he can jump.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted on the table at the Mega Event.
My trip to the Mega was great, found lab caches which while like gadgets are new icons to me. Found some great caches and brought back some neat ideas for new caches in Tasmania.
Join a clan and enter the dragon zone. Clan Phoenix welcomes all new members
TFTC
My trip to the Mega was great, found lab caches which while like gadgets are new icons to me. Found some great caches and brought back some neat ideas for new caches in Tasmania.
Join a clan and enter the dragon zone. Clan Phoenix welcomes all new members
TFTC
So many moveables in one location at the Clear Waters Mega event in Queanbeyan. I'm not sure whether I have seen some of these before, but GCA says no, so I'd better find them officially now. TFTC & safe travels.
Found amidst an incredible collection of weird and wonderful objects on the Moveable table at the Clear Waters Event during Easter at Queanbeyan. Thanks for sharing
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found on the moveables table at the Clear Waters Mega Event. Thanks PJMPJM
Rated: for Overall Experience
Day 9 Mega trip
Spotted on the table at the Mega. TFTM
Spotted on the table at the Mega. TFTM
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found at the movables table at the Clear Waters mega event. Thanks for sharing.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found and logged in Clear Waters Mega in Queanbeyan, NSW. TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
waiting to be discovered and moved I after the Clear Waters Event
Picked up while passing through the area.
Many thanks pjmpjm for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a
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Rated: for Overall Experience
Out in the heat checking co-ordinates after yesterday's dnf. This was a bit out so I'm adjusting.
Hopefully this will help.
Hopefully this will help.
Went for a walk along here but had no luck with five out of the six moveables.
Finally moved on in a bit of a moveable trail. Thanks for the cache.
Found at 16:16
Picked up this afternoon on the way home from work. I'll try to spread these around soon.
Thanks pjmpjm for the cache.
Picked up this afternoon on the way home from work. I'll try to spread these around soon.
Thanks pjmpjm for the cache.
Off to Sydney for a work Christmas party day-trip and I arrived near Melbourne Airport with a whole hour to spare. Happy to geocache my way around Keilor, this was a moveable I came across. TFTF Pjmpjm!
Headed down to Melbourne for the Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park, where this moveable, along with about 120 other were found. A good turn out at the event and everyone seem to have a lot fun talking about all things caching while finding the moveables and getting a start on the Journey or Destination summer game. A good couple of hours were spent in the area before witching hour rolled around and it was time to head back up the highway towards home. T'was an uneventful trip and with the number of moveable on offer, was certainly worth the drive.
Thanks for the moveable.....
Thanks for the moveable.....
Had the pleasure of meeting this cute little fellow at Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park.
Thanks for sending him out into the big wide world for our entertainment PJMPJM
Thanks for sending him out into the big wide world for our entertainment PJMPJM
Rated: for Overall Experience
So many moveable at 'Meet the Moveables' event.
Thanks
Rated: for Overall Experience
So many moveable at 'Meet the Moveables' event.
Leave it there.
Thanks
Rated: for Overall Experience
So many moveable. I hate copy paste logs but today I'll will fall. I'll make a separate note on caches I do anything extra with
The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. https://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga13115
A quick pickup of moveables today for a secret meeting to take place in just a little while. Your geocache would like to join the secret activities so it may not move for a little while but it will be safe and sound and will be moved along (and hopefully logged quite a bit) in the not too distant future.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Rated: for Overall Experience
Our travels have bought us to Melbourne and we collected this moveable whilst in the area.
Many thanks for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a
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Rated: for Overall Experience
A muster of old moveables in Canberra was called for, so a heap were collected and they have now made their home in and around Melbourne......hope they enjoy their new surroundings.
Spotted this moveable in the hands of Sol de Lune prior to its trip south.
Thank you for the cache !
Thank you for the cache !
Rated: for Overall Experience
GCA 2,133. Found this one in the hands of Sol de Lune.
Good luck in your journey south !
TFTC !!
Good luck in your journey south !
TFTC !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Time for a muster of some of the (older) moveables in Canberra. This one is now in my hands and heading off to Melbourne to find a new home and hopefully found a few more times.
Found with Joolay after attending the International Geocaching Day event. We headed out in the storm to pick up a bunch of moveables - haha lots of fun. TFTC
Found with Kittykatch after a GC event. Will move this on when I have a spot to leave it. Tonight when picking them up it went from no rain to a raging wind/rain storm but we still got them
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted this cache as well as many other moveables in the hands of albida33 at the International Geocaching Day event in Belconnen today.
Signed all the logs for those that had them
Thanks for creating this cache!
Signed all the logs for those that had them
Thanks for creating this cache!
After taking the bucket of caches to the International Caching day Event in Belconnen, I found a spot to drop them all off than most GCA cachers will know.
Ready to be found !
Thanks
Albida
Ready to be found !
Thanks
Albida
It was great to be able to collect this cache. I will move it on tomorrow.
Thanks
Albida
Thanks
Albida
Grabbed on an excellent footy trip to Melbourne with Sol de lune and LuckyL10n. Nice and easy - TFTC!
Hanging around with a couple of mates off the highway on the way to Wang.....
Discovered in the hands of Whitewebbs at the Oz Geo Muster mega event. Thanks for sharing.
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA2724 - 09:37; Day five of the 2018 Oz GeoMuster mission with Sol de lune. After a night in Ballina, the plan for today was to cache northward through Ballina to Byron Bay and then on to Kingscliff before turning south for home through Bangalow, Evans Head, New Italy, Yamba, Maclean and on to Kempsey for another overnight stay. After an early start, we hadn't gone far up the road when we saw evidence of a heavy shower not too long before we got there, so we seem to have dodged a bullet and got packed up with fairly dry gear. Following a successful run through to Cape Byron, we continued our journey along some interesting and at times rather rough roads before getting to the highway and on to Brunswick Heads. After our visit there, it was back down to the highway and on to Kingscliff so I could grab this testline (yes, another one!), which Sdl had picked up on a previous visit. I took detour from the testline to grab a GC cache and picked up a bag of moveables which were sitting nearby. I suspect they will find their way much further south in coming weeks! TFTC pjmpjm
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted this moveable in the hands of whitewebbs with Luckyl10n and Sol de Lune at the Mega Event in Morisset. It will no doubt be used to change the colour of NSW to an ugly hue of blue. haha
The Oz Geo Muster Mega Event. What a blast. This was my first mega event and I loved it. I traveled up and around with ziggiau. Ziggiau drove while I tried to navigate and research our next location at the same time. haha. It was great meeting GCA and GC cachers. I just wish I could have got to know you all more, but hopefully time and more events will do that.
Thanks for the moveable.
The Oz Geo Muster Mega Event. What a blast. This was my first mega event and I loved it. I traveled up and around with ziggiau. Ziggiau drove while I tried to navigate and research our next location at the same time. haha. It was great meeting GCA and GC cachers. I just wish I could have got to know you all more, but hopefully time and more events will do that.
Thanks for the moveable.
Grabbed from the Morisset event. Will be moving somewhere up the coast towards Tweed Heads in the next few days.
Thanks PJMPJM......good to see and older moveable still doing the rounds.
Thanks PJMPJM......good to see and older moveable still doing the rounds.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted in the hands of whitewebbs whilst attending the OZGeo Muster.
Many thanks PJMPJM for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience.
Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a We were one of the lucky teams to receive a pathtag from Geocaching Australia for publishing a "Geocacher Cache" - thanks Geocaching Australia.
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Collected from the event. Will return purple and yellow frog to the mainland in a few weeks.
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Found on the table at the event along with 2 other movable caches.
Thanks for the find!
Thanks for the find!
Found this today while at the event, left for someone else to move on.
Rated: for Overall Experience
We meet again. Will take to an event to meet some more local cachers. TFTM
Rated: for Overall Experience
Sorry for keeping it so long but found it hiding in my caching bag today
Out and hidden with some mates
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Out and hidden with some mates
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Hi pjmpjm
Had to go to Hobart today for business so decided to stop at the Springs on Mt Wellington to find a cache or two for the “State of the Nation” Scavenger Hunt; as it was time to use my day for hunting plastic to gain a few more points while Mum was at dialysis.
Weather:
A beautiful day at Huonville but warm at the start of the day – sixteen degrees here. There were few clouds in the sky.
Temperature was hot: it got up to twenty-two degrees Celsius while searching for the caches.
No rain at all but plenty of sweat as I searched for GA11189; GA11190 and this cache.
Travel:
Drove from Huonville to Mt Wellington, then to Mornington to complete some business and returned to Huonville.
For the day, it took 5436 steps burning 1476 calories to cover a total of 4.27 kilometres and find two caches on foot. I drove 111.8 kilometres for the day; a total of 116.07 kilometres for the whole caching day.
GA4004 “Purple and Yellow Micro Frog”
Having found the other two caches and heading back to Huonville; I was going to hide a cache (GA11175 "Saxy Gnome) I had found a few days before and found this one lying on the ground some 11.18 kilometres from its given co-ordinates. Couldn't believe my eyes!!
However, I couldn't leave it lying there - had to retrieve it and will hide as soon as possible in a new location
The cache was Sainted unexpectantly at 1558 hours in a place it should not have been.
This cache will be used as part of the States of the Nation games currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018. As the new caches have so many options, a decision will be made as to which scavenge to use it against. It is nice to have a choice. Thanks.
States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.
There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.
Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.
If you’re not participating, get into the game and help Tassie come first please.
These caches will also help collect points for the Dragonzone Game.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Had to go to Hobart today for business so decided to stop at the Springs on Mt Wellington to find a cache or two for the “State of the Nation” Scavenger Hunt; as it was time to use my day for hunting plastic to gain a few more points while Mum was at dialysis.
Weather:
A beautiful day at Huonville but warm at the start of the day – sixteen degrees here. There were few clouds in the sky.
Temperature was hot: it got up to twenty-two degrees Celsius while searching for the caches.
No rain at all but plenty of sweat as I searched for GA11189; GA11190 and this cache.
Travel:
Drove from Huonville to Mt Wellington, then to Mornington to complete some business and returned to Huonville.
For the day, it took 5436 steps burning 1476 calories to cover a total of 4.27 kilometres and find two caches on foot. I drove 111.8 kilometres for the day; a total of 116.07 kilometres for the whole caching day.
GA4004 “Purple and Yellow Micro Frog”
Having found the other two caches and heading back to Huonville; I was going to hide a cache (GA11175 "Saxy Gnome) I had found a few days before and found this one lying on the ground some 11.18 kilometres from its given co-ordinates. Couldn't believe my eyes!!
However, I couldn't leave it lying there - had to retrieve it and will hide as soon as possible in a new location
The cache was Sainted unexpectantly at 1558 hours in a place it should not have been.
This cache will be used as part of the States of the Nation games currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018. As the new caches have so many options, a decision will be made as to which scavenge to use it against. It is nice to have a choice. Thanks.
States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.
There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.
Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.
If you’re not participating, get into the game and help Tassie come first please.
These caches will also help collect points for the Dragonzone Game.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
After some caching with a mate I went for a wander in the reserve.
Found 3 moveables while I was there
Found 3 moveables while I was there
Found by Mr T and Mr T jr while MTBing around Peter Morrell Reserve for a couple of hours. Left in place. TFTC
Back out again and ready to be found .
After collecting a heap of moveables in the Northwest a few weeks ago this has been the first chance I have had to drop them off anywhere interesting.
Today myself and Goose of GooseandEgg were walking round Peter Murrell reserve cleaning up some Gc caches we had failed to find yet and along the way we kept our eyes out for good locations to hide these moveables.
I have done my best to spread them out a little bit so if you want to collect more than a couple it could take a few hours, we got here about 11 and left about 3.
It was a nice spring day with us both enjoying the day no end.
After collecting a heap of moveables in the Northwest a few weeks ago this has been the first chance I have had to drop them off anywhere interesting.
Today myself and Goose of GooseandEgg were walking round Peter Murrell reserve cleaning up some Gc caches we had failed to find yet and along the way we kept our eyes out for good locations to hide these moveables.
I have done my best to spread them out a little bit so if you want to collect more than a couple it could take a few hours, we got here about 11 and left about 3.
It was a nice spring day with us both enjoying the day no end.
Myself and Goose of GooseandEgg have had a big weekend, starting out before 6am on Saturday we have covered some miles, heading North from Hobart we called at a couple of Southern caches near Melton Mowbray before making our way past Mole Creek to Flumming Hell and then on to Devonport and Ulverstone collecting many GC and GCA caches as we went.
Sunday morning was started with a FTF on a reverse cache and then a great little gadget cache as we headed West.
GooseandEgg dropped off this moveable and now i'm picking it up so I can move it on in the next week.
Later in the day we went to a CITO event and cleaned up the area and then cleaned up some caches, after a few stops along the way we made it back to Hobart by about 6pm, not a bad weekend at all
This movable will be back out soon.
Sunday morning was started with a FTF on a reverse cache and then a great little gadget cache as we headed West.
GooseandEgg dropped off this moveable and now i'm picking it up so I can move it on in the next week.
Later in the day we went to a CITO event and cleaned up the area and then cleaned up some caches, after a few stops along the way we made it back to Hobart by about 6pm, not a bad weekend at all
This movable will be back out soon.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I arrived home from work to find Neville (my old gnome) having a party in the front garden with a bunch of other movables. Neville gets bored on his retirement so I can't blame him for having the occasional get together but it was time for the 'riffraff' to move on so I made sure they went a good distance so they would not be back in a hurry. Enjoy the Northwest coast you mad partygoer, enjoy playing bridge
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Found loitering around a dirty old gnome quite close to home. I was surprised to interrupt such a big gathering. The retired gnome is staying put but the rest of the party goers are being moved along swiftly. So glad they didn't leave a mess. Thanks for the movable.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A lovely spring day to be out and about. We heard a retired gnome was feeling a bit lonely in his garden bed so have dropped by for a visit with quite a few friends. Bring on the party!
While finding the nearby GC cache with OldSaint on a glorious spring day, I thought I had better bring this frog back with me to civilisation! Not much of a party to be had here today at the stump. There were plenty of mates, but no internet and a kick out time of 4.00 pm. Plus the thermal pool was only 24 degrees but warmer here than sitting in the snow on the nearby hills. Hitching a ride to whitewebbs house before moving on. TFTM
Rated: for Overall Experience
This cache has been hidden with some of its travelling companions under the big log
Enjoy the rest of your journey
Cheers OldSaint.
Enjoy the rest of your journey
Cheers OldSaint.
Hi PJMPJM
Left home, Huonville, this morning in the dark; travelled as far as Ulverstone and returned in the dark - left at 0530hrs and returned home at 2200hrs. A round trip comprising 772 kilometres including visits to Kindred, Turners Beach, West Ulverstone and Spreyton.
Weather: Wet at Huonville at 0530hrs, raining to Oatlands and then fine weather on the North West Coast for the day until I left and got back to Oatlands where it was humming down. Rained on and off from there to Huonville.
Having found one cache on Don Heads, my plan was to find as many as possible of the TasStats series as possible.
The puzzles had been solved some time ago, but this was virtually the first chance I have had to come North West in a similar period of time. So far in that series, I've found six with just one to find - so on the way to look for it, I thought I might as well try to find some caches along the way. This was the fourth on the way through the beautiful farming land from TasStats 6. So far today, I've found eleven including this one - All GCA; not one GC amongst them yet: 1 Trig, 6 Puzzles, three traditionals and now one moveable.
Attempts to get to the right side of the Bass Highway to get close to TasStats 7 failed; so I settled down; whilst stopped; I took a look for closer caches to be found on the GPS. A moveable nearby; off in search; not there - second time today; Sirius you .....
Phone call to sirius Tas and we make plans to say hello; visit it home; spend time and collect fourteen more moveables of which, this is one. Now you know the story behind my collecting your cache:
My tally for the day jumped from eleven to twenty-five comprising 1 Trig, 6 Puzzles, three traditionals and now fifteen moveables.
I Sainted the cache at 1400hrs.
After putting the caches in the car, I took some pics of my mates house. Back in the car myself and continued on the way to look for TasStats 7 again.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Left home, Huonville, this morning in the dark; travelled as far as Ulverstone and returned in the dark - left at 0530hrs and returned home at 2200hrs. A round trip comprising 772 kilometres including visits to Kindred, Turners Beach, West Ulverstone and Spreyton.
Weather: Wet at Huonville at 0530hrs, raining to Oatlands and then fine weather on the North West Coast for the day until I left and got back to Oatlands where it was humming down. Rained on and off from there to Huonville.
Having found one cache on Don Heads, my plan was to find as many as possible of the TasStats series as possible.
The puzzles had been solved some time ago, but this was virtually the first chance I have had to come North West in a similar period of time. So far in that series, I've found six with just one to find - so on the way to look for it, I thought I might as well try to find some caches along the way. This was the fourth on the way through the beautiful farming land from TasStats 6. So far today, I've found eleven including this one - All GCA; not one GC amongst them yet: 1 Trig, 6 Puzzles, three traditionals and now one moveable.
Attempts to get to the right side of the Bass Highway to get close to TasStats 7 failed; so I settled down; whilst stopped; I took a look for closer caches to be found on the GPS. A moveable nearby; off in search; not there - second time today; Sirius you .....
Phone call to sirius Tas and we make plans to say hello; visit it home; spend time and collect fourteen more moveables of which, this is one. Now you know the story behind my collecting your cache:
My tally for the day jumped from eleven to twenty-five comprising 1 Trig, 6 Puzzles, three traditionals and now fifteen moveables.
I Sainted the cache at 1400hrs.
After putting the caches in the car, I took some pics of my mates house. Back in the car myself and continued on the way to look for TasStats 7 again.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Rated: for Overall Experience
All go...now in the hands of Old Saint...cheers ST.
With such cold and inclement weather this past few weeks here in north west Tassie, going any where geocaching for me seemed to be out of the question. A good time to plan the various trips required in order to satisfy the various conflicting elements of the current DZ trophy points system. One trophy requirement is to find 100 moveable caches of which I need to find a further 26. So last night to my surprise, I saw 10 moveable caches had popped up on the radar and all with in a 10 km radius of home. I had thought of going caching last night but it was quite cold and even with a superb torch....power torch from Kleva Range.....with out doubt the best torch I have ever had.....it would be difficult finding all of the 10 moveable caches, so decided to head off early today...Friday morning....plus it was a better fit for some of the other dz trophy requirements..e.g. number of dz caches per day of the week, also for each day of the month plus the winter solstice trophy.Thankfully the weather was reasonably fine this morning, although quite over cast so the hunt was on. As soon as I had put my hat and boots on, Murder(the younger of the two canine family....4 yo) started to get pretty excited as he just loves both bush walking and travelling around in the geo fourby. My eldest canine...Sirius...is now too old(16.5 yo) to leave the comfort of his bed in front of the wood heater...which has an electric blanket of course(which he just loves and is great for his arthritis). Having walked 100's of km's with me geocaching over the years up numerous mountains, bush walking along many trails plus along vast stretches of beaches etc while geocaching, he has certainly earned his rest..an amazing companion who never gave up no matter how hard it was for him...a truly remarkeable effort.Looking at the various cache locations I had planned a clockwise route which would take me from home(Ulverstone) along South Road near the pet abbatoirs, on up to the Dial Range Reserve at Penguin, then back along the old coast road back to Ulverstone. Looking at the first moveable cache on my list....Purple and Yellow micro Frog.... in it's posted location I had a pretty good idea on where it would be as I had found other moveables quite near here in the past. Once at gz...a short amount of searching among the many rocks...the little yellow frog cache was soon in hand and the log signed.The cache and contents are in great condition too.This cache will be set free again in a couple of days time to continue its long journey around the state...will most likely take it further east to enjoy the scenery around Low Head on the eastern side of the Tamar River.A huge thank you to 2y'stassies for giving this cache a ride over on the Spirit of Tasmania so it can begin it's scenic tour of our wonderful state of Tasmania and to Sharnie's Tribe for placing all of the 10 caches so close to home.Let's hope this little frog finds many new great locations on his/her travels around Tassie.Many thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us all to share and enjoy pjmpjm....very much appreciated.Having secured the first of 10 finds on the list it is now off to find the second moveable cache...cheers ST
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A quick visit to a popular spot in the central north west coast led to several much needed finds. Caching activity has been a little slow lately so loved it. TFTC and to 2y'stassies for bringing these within range
Planning for this trip began in June - we knew we would be heading to Adelaide but which way would we go? This depended on our targets. We looked at our list of unclaimed Dragon Zone trophies and picked out several that we could feasibly collect the required number of finds to qualify for the trophy. We then had to identify caches that would meet our targets and from here it was time to plan a route that would take us past the caches we had identified. Any caches too far off our route were discarded and replaced by suitable alternatives.
All was running smoothly until the Christmas in July game was announced. We would be travelling in the latter part of the game. It was difficult to include this in our target caches as we did not know what was required. Once the game began and we understood what we needed to do we could then add other caches to the target list.
We were just getting our heads, yes all four of them, around this when more Dragon Zone trophies were added. Which ones could we meet and which should we ignore? Do we need to add more GA caches and/or do we need to change our route and our targets? We decided on our target list and then our route and timeline. We had just drawn a line under everything and were about to begin printing our caching booklets, route maps and target lists when caught@work published 23 new caches on the Western Ring Path. Earlier we had decided on the caches in the Edgewater Walk series. If we added the new ones on the Western Ring Path and as many of the CCC series as possible, we could probably reach the required number of caches to qualify for the Dragon Zone trophies “Restraining Order Stalker” (Find 100 DZ caches hidden by the same cacher) and “Obsession!=Insanity” (find 50 DZ caches in a day). As the latter would give us our first Blaze Trophy, it was decided to alter everything to include the CCC series.Four Fun, in South Australia published five puzzle caches that would bring good points in the Christmas in July game. Can we solve the puzzles? A few more adjustments to the route and the caches to find list and we would be off.
Having successfully completed our Melbourne challenges and gained our first Blaze Dragon Zone trophy it was time to focus on the Christmas in July game. We started on the Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park puzzle caches recently published by Four-Fun. With Four-Fun's puzzles found it was time to concentrate on several other GCA caches nearby.
As we had a break from grand parent duties today we looked for some caches to fill requirements for the Christmas in July game as well as contribute to Dragon Zone trophy challenges. We had noticed several new publications and three moveables that were reasonably close to one another. After backtracking to Scown's Views we headed out to look for two small moveables. This one was the second moveable find.
We parked near the entrance to the trail where accurate coordinates and a good hint soon had a frog in hand, the hide was most suitable for this little amphibian. Cache was in good order.
We'll take this little cache on a trip before releasing it again.
Thanks for a well presented moveable cache PJMPJM
All was running smoothly until the Christmas in July game was announced. We would be travelling in the latter part of the game. It was difficult to include this in our target caches as we did not know what was required. Once the game began and we understood what we needed to do we could then add other caches to the target list.
We were just getting our heads, yes all four of them, around this when more Dragon Zone trophies were added. Which ones could we meet and which should we ignore? Do we need to add more GA caches and/or do we need to change our route and our targets? We decided on our target list and then our route and timeline. We had just drawn a line under everything and were about to begin printing our caching booklets, route maps and target lists when caught@work published 23 new caches on the Western Ring Path. Earlier we had decided on the caches in the Edgewater Walk series. If we added the new ones on the Western Ring Path and as many of the CCC series as possible, we could probably reach the required number of caches to qualify for the Dragon Zone trophies “Restraining Order Stalker” (Find 100 DZ caches hidden by the same cacher) and “Obsession!=Insanity” (find 50 DZ caches in a day). As the latter would give us our first Blaze Trophy, it was decided to alter everything to include the CCC series.Four Fun, in South Australia published five puzzle caches that would bring good points in the Christmas in July game. Can we solve the puzzles? A few more adjustments to the route and the caches to find list and we would be off.
Having successfully completed our Melbourne challenges and gained our first Blaze Dragon Zone trophy it was time to focus on the Christmas in July game. We started on the Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park puzzle caches recently published by Four-Fun. With Four-Fun's puzzles found it was time to concentrate on several other GCA caches nearby.
As we had a break from grand parent duties today we looked for some caches to fill requirements for the Christmas in July game as well as contribute to Dragon Zone trophy challenges. We had noticed several new publications and three moveables that were reasonably close to one another. After backtracking to Scown's Views we headed out to look for two small moveables. This one was the second moveable find.
We parked near the entrance to the trail where accurate coordinates and a good hint soon had a frog in hand, the hide was most suitable for this little amphibian. Cache was in good order.
We'll take this little cache on a trip before releasing it again.
Thanks for a well presented moveable cache PJMPJM
This little frog is now hiding in part of Kuitpo Forest.
I found this frog lurking near Third Creek, which had a bit of water flowing through it today.
We'll bring him back to J & J HQ for a few nights before letting him hop away somewhere new soon.
Thanks pjmpjm.
We'll bring him back to J & J HQ for a few nights before letting him hop away somewhere new soon.
Thanks pjmpjm.
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I have this cache, have bought it back with me to Adelaide, will move it along in the next few days.
I'm so sorry, pjmpjm... three and a half years' worth of sorry.
We (my younger daughter and I) picked this up with the intent of re-hiding it as a joint effort). Moving house meant the cache got lost in the shuffle. Imagine my embarrassment when I rediscovered it.
Anyway... I had the cache on my person at this Australia Day event, and released it to the wild. I believe it is on its way west.
Again, my humblest apologies.
We (my younger daughter and I) picked this up with the intent of re-hiding it as a joint effort). Moving house meant the cache got lost in the shuffle. Imagine my embarrassment when I rediscovered it.
Anyway... I had the cache on my person at this Australia Day event, and released it to the wild. I believe it is on its way west.
Again, my humblest apologies.
Spotted this one (again) at the Victorian Australia day event.
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Cache appears to be MIA, so we'll archive this one to stop it showing up in the lists.
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I needed somewhere to walk out some of the stiffness from yesterday's hike in the Dandenongs, and a circuit of Ruffey Lake fit the bill... and of course contains enough caches to keep my mind occupied.
The traffic was horrendous on the way across, so it was later than I had expected when I parked close to the start of Spladem's fun night cache. I took the walk in a clockwise direction, finishing up with ten more finds to my name, half of which were grabs in the dark, yet again.
This and another moveable were sitting together as I passed on the home stretch of my five kilometre circuit. With limited pocket space, the log was signed and the other one tucked back into its comfy hiding place. This one, though, can go home to be shown to the kids, and we'll find somewhere to release it together.
Thanks pjmpjm.
GCA#103
I needed somewhere to walk out some of the stiffness from yesterday's hike in the Dandenongs, and a circuit of Ruffey Lake fit the bill... and of course contains enough caches to keep my mind occupied.
The traffic was horrendous on the way across, so it was later than I had expected when I parked close to the start of Spladem's fun night cache. I took the walk in a clockwise direction, finishing up with ten more finds to my name, half of which were grabs in the dark, yet again.
This and another moveable were sitting together as I passed on the home stretch of my five kilometre circuit. With limited pocket space, the log was signed and the other one tucked back into its comfy hiding place. This one, though, can go home to be shown to the kids, and we'll find somewhere to release it together.
Thanks pjmpjm.
GCA#103
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