HAPPY BIRTHDAY Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By
OldSaint on 22-Nov-12. Waypoint GA5001
Cache Details
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| Type: | Locationless |
| Container: | Other |
| Proximity: | 0m |
| Maximum Finds: | 1 |
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Description
Each of us have a birthday, can you find your birthday location?
To log this cache, you need to get as close as possible to the co-ordinates that you work out based on the following criteria and post a photograph of that location:
(An extra smiley if you log this cache on your birthday)
Take your home co-ordinates and then substitute your birthday as follows;
Birthday DAY 29 (01-31)
Birth Month 06 (01-12)
Age 52 (Add a zero to your age)
Birth Year 1973 (Add a zero to the last two digits of your birth year)
HOME CO-ORDINATES:
S42 07.536 Hence the South co-ordinate you would use would be S42 [Birth Day] 29.[Age] 520 =S42 29.520
E147 09.356 Hence the East co-ordinate you would use would be E147 [Birth Month] 06.[Birth Year]730 = E147 06.730
For some this will be easier than for others; some may find that their Birthday Co-ordinates are out to sea, others on private property or in another type of hard to get to area.
In these cases, get as close as you can and still take your photograph and log the cache so long as you are "being honest" about your age etc. Just give it your best go!
Where you can get to the worked out co-ordinates, a photograph with you and your GPS would be great!
It is my opinion that in some circumstances, Locationless Caches are harder to log than are some of the more traditional caches. This may be one of them. Hopefully, using your home co-ordinates as the base for this cache, your birth co-ordinates will not be too far from your home and make it possible for you to get a smiley with this cache.
WHEN YOU LOG:
1. Give your birthday co-ordinates.
2. The photograph with your GPS and one without if it spoils the picture.
3. If you took the photograph on your birthday.
4. A short description of the area we will call "YOUR BIRTHDAY GZ."
Cheers OldSaint.
Hints
Znal Unccl Ergheaf naq gung vf fbzrguvat gur gnkzna jbhyq arire jvfu lbh, ohg V jvyy. |
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Logs
This geocache listing no longer follows the guidelines required for a Locationless cache. https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Locationless_cache As such we will archive it and encourage the CO to place a locationless cache that meets the new guidelines.
Log Encrypted by Geocache Owner or Geocaching Australia Administrator
Uryyb ByqFnvag gunax lbh sbe gur pnpur.
V unir orra tbvat gb qb guvf pnpur sbe fbb ybat abj, gbqnl V svanyl tbg nebhaq gb svaqvat vg.
Zl oveguqnl ybpngvba vf va Ybjre Znefurf ng F42 17.620 R147 09.600.
Ng gur raq bs Ebgurejbbq Ebnq jnf gur pybfrfg V pbhyq trg jvgubhg orra anhtugl.
Uryyb ByqFnvag gunax lbh sbe gur pnpur.
V unir orra tbvat gb qb guvf pnpur sbe fbb ybat abj, gbqnl V svanyl tbg nebhaq gb svaqvat vg.
Zl oveguqnl ybpngvba vf va Ybjre Znefurf ng F42 17.620 R147 09.600.
Ng gur raq bs Ebgurejbbq Ebnq jnf gur pybfrfg V pbhyq trg jvgubhg orra anhtugl.
Managed to do this and find myself in a place I have never been to before.
Firstly take my home co-ordinates:-
South: Degrees 41 add my birth day 04 plus age with a zero 710 so south becomes S41 04.710
East: Degrees 147 add my birth month 01 plus year with a zero 500 East becomes E147 01.500
This actually put me about 300 metres from the shore in Woods Lake so the photo is me at the closest point without getting wet.
Firstly take my home co-ordinates:-
South: Degrees 41 add my birth day 04 plus age with a zero 710 so south becomes S41 04.710
East: Degrees 147 add my birth month 01 plus year with a zero 500 East becomes E147 01.500
This actually put me about 300 metres from the shore in Woods Lake so the photo is me at the closest point without getting wet.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I finally get to log this one OldSaint, it’s been on my to do list for way too long.
Take your home co-ordinates S36°22.127 E145°24.675
and then substitute your birthday as follows;
Birthday DAY 13
Birth Month 01
Age 77 (Add a zero to your age) 770
Birth Year 1944 (Add a zero to the last two digits of your birth year) 440
HOME CO-ORDINATES:
S36°22.127 Hence the South co-ordinate you would use would be S42 [Birth Day] 13.[Age] 770 =S36°13.770
E145°24.675. Hence the East co-ordinate you would use would be E145 [Birth Month] 01. Birth Year]440 = E145° 01.440
Which puts me on S 036° 13.770' E 145° 01.440'
The north end of Palmer Road between Tongala and Wyuna which is where this photo was taken, yesterday
Take your home co-ordinates S36°22.127 E145°24.675
and then substitute your birthday as follows;
Birthday DAY 13
Birth Month 01
Age 77 (Add a zero to your age) 770
Birth Year 1944 (Add a zero to the last two digits of your birth year) 440
HOME CO-ORDINATES:
S36°22.127 Hence the South co-ordinate you would use would be S42 [Birth Day] 13.[Age] 770 =S36°13.770
E145°24.675. Hence the East co-ordinate you would use would be E145 [Birth Month] 01. Birth Year]440 = E145° 01.440
Which puts me on S 036° 13.770' E 145° 01.440'
The north end of Palmer Road between Tongala and Wyuna which is where this photo was taken, yesterday
Rated: for Overall Experience
S33 20.500 E151 01.710 - Deep in Dharug National Park. There's some form of road that passes about 1Km south, so should be possible to visit the co-ords if I could get my car near there. But such a visit isn't going to happen any time soon. Interesting cache all the same! Cheers
This Locationles cache is amazing, when I calculated and put the coordinates in, to see where they were situated - yep way out in the ocean 
S33 30.570 E115 10.630
But the best bit is, that we were out in the little tinny on Geographe Bay crabbing on my birthday, not far grom gz - a nice feed we got for my birthday.
I'll put a photo on of the beautiful dolphins we saw playing around the boat while we were fishing out there, waiting to pull the nets up.
Thanks for this Locationless Challenge OldSaint
S33 30.570 E115 10.630
But the best bit is, that we were out in the little tinny on Geographe Bay crabbing on my birthday, not far grom gz - a nice feed we got for my birthday.
I'll put a photo on of the beautiful dolphins we saw playing around the boat while we were fishing out there, waiting to pull the nets up.
Thanks for this Locationless Challenge OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
I wasn't sure I could do this cache, I thought it would be miles from me and I'd have no hope of coming close. However, when I got my head around the question and obtained some coordinates I discovered I was not too far away from a location. Unfortunately, these coordinates are in Kanangra Boyd National Park among wild country with little hope of getting there. I could venture to Porters Retreat and down the Colong Stock Route and then down some forsake goat track to within 1.5km of GZ, or paddle up the Wollondilly River for some 9km and then a small creek for some 4 km to GZ, but both would not be possible. The easiest thing would be to stand on Goodmans Ford on the Wollondilly River and capture the vast expanse of the wilderness to GZ. Goodmans Ford is a beautiful location, it's actually a bridge crossing the river, but it's smackers in the middle of Wollondilly River Station. The road running through here goes to Wombeyan Caves and onto Goulburn. I like this cache idea, thanks for creating it.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Hi Chriswhite
Congrats on first; your birthday and second,getting your 1000th find
Thanks for taking the time to do the cache
Cheers OldSaint
Congrats on first; your birthday and second,getting your 1000th find
Thanks for taking the time to do the cache
Cheers OldSaint
My 1000 GC cache! I kept this one to do on my birthday and then realised it could be my 1000th as well. Had a great day for my birthday but ate way too much - started with breakfast in bed, lunch at a winery with husband & mother, afternoon tea with birthday daughter as well and then out for a birthday dinner and finished the day with ice cream from the ice creamery. Birthday daughter & I found time to go caching together for our birthday as well. Unfortunately the co- ordinates for my birthday GZ was on private property so I got as close as I could and took picture. I took a screenshot of where GZ is and of the co-ordinates of where I got to and a picture of the area . 
Rated: for Overall Experience
My birthday cache position is in Bramble Bay off the coast of Sandgate and Woody Point near Brisbane.
s27 16.720 e153 06.420
s27 16.720 e153 06.420
GCA 969 - 8716. A fun locationless to be able to claim!
I did the required calculations and worked out my Happy Birthday GZ was S35 15.480 E149 10.650. I was very happy to see that not only was it accessable, it was near a cache that I've done before and there's one nearby that I didn't have ! So today I got to my Happy Birthday GZ and there was a convenient tree stump there - just like so many other caches !
TFTC !!
I did the required calculations and worked out my Happy Birthday GZ was S35 15.480 E149 10.650. I was very happy to see that not only was it accessable, it was near a cache that I've done before and there's one nearby that I didn't have ! So today I got to my Happy Birthday GZ and there was a convenient tree stump there - just like so many other caches !
TFTC !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
BUNDARRA NSW
What a great birthday location, it looks good enough to be a painting. The approximate spot would be in the valley before the hill but as this is private property we're only going off the GPS elevations. Unfortunately not found on my birthday. Now to find MrG's birthday location.
What a great birthday location, it looks good enough to be a painting. The approximate spot would be in the valley before the hill but as this is private property we're only going off the GPS elevations. Unfortunately not found on my birthday. Now to find MrG's birthday location.
Rated: for Overall Experience
My Birthday co ordinates are in the middle of a paddock, private property. From one road the closest I could get was 2.1 klm and from the road the photo was taken is 960meters from GZ.
I took the photo from S26 28.107 E151 07.530. At least I was on the Southerly co ordinate.
Birthday Co Ordinates S26 27.590 E151 07.530
Photo is taken across tall grass and then there is a paddock.
Not taken on my birthday.
The area is mainly roadside grass and tress and then agricultural land.
I drove 130Klm from home to be able to claim this one. Now for the drive home but at least I can get a few more locationless caches on the way. I already have all the GC Caches in the area. TFTC
I took the photo from S26 28.107 E151 07.530. At least I was on the Southerly co ordinate.
Birthday Co Ordinates S26 27.590 E151 07.530
Photo is taken across tall grass and then there is a paddock.
Not taken on my birthday.
The area is mainly roadside grass and tress and then agricultural land.
I drove 130Klm from home to be able to claim this one. Now for the drive home but at least I can get a few more locationless caches on the way. I already have all the GC Caches in the area. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Wolgan State Forest
Many thanks to the CO for offering me the opportunity to log this interesting Locationless from the roadside, instead of risking life and limb by plunging into the trailless wilderness that represents my birthday coordinates!
To repeat my earlier log . . . I found my personal 'birthday coordinates' situated in a very desolate section of Wolgan State Forest, just north of Ben Bullen State Forest, about 3 kilometres west of Wolgan Road, more or less north of Lithgow, NSW.
Looks like a really great and really wild place! I wonder if I'll ever penetrate there on foot. In the meantime, here's a shot looking in the right direction!
Many thanks to the CO for offering me the opportunity to log this interesting Locationless from the roadside, instead of risking life and limb by plunging into the trailless wilderness that represents my birthday coordinates!
To repeat my earlier log . . . I found my personal 'birthday coordinates' situated in a very desolate section of Wolgan State Forest, just north of Ben Bullen State Forest, about 3 kilometres west of Wolgan Road, more or less north of Lithgow, NSW.
Looks like a really great and really wild place! I wonder if I'll ever penetrate there on foot. In the meantime, here's a shot looking in the right direction!
Rated: for Overall Experience
My birthday co ords are way out in the ocean with the stingers and crocs - somewhere above where my finger is pointing in the photo... Thanks Old Saint for another fun locationless smiley
Rated: for Overall Experience
Both of these photos were captured recently, and I realised that they should satisfy the requirements for logging this cache. The coordinates that I calculated were S42 06.330 E147 11.790. This would put me just off a point on the Eastern side of Lake Sorell, which, as far as I can tell, is inaccessible. The closest I have been able to get to this point is Dago Point on the Southern side of Lake Sorell. I have attached two photos, the first being an aerial photo taken the other day on a flight I was lucky enough to be able to travel on. The second is of the sign leading into Dago Point (to which somebody has added their own humour). In in the aerial photo I have marked both points with a red dot.
Hope I have worked this out correctly. Won't be travelling there in the immediate future-ocean and crocs will keep me on the shore.I would be under the end of the cloud some where above the boat.
Rated: for Overall Experience
My "birthday co-ords" are some 45 to 50kms WNW of where the photo was taken, Two Rocks ( north of Perth ),
Logged with permission of the CO
Thanks OldSaint
Logged with permission of the CO
Thanks OldSaint
When I noticed this locationless cache, I was excited to find out where my birthday coords were, especially since my birthday was coming up very soon. So, I plugged them into Google maps and... well, they came up deep in the Tarkine wilderness on the wrong side of a heavily forested river gully, somewhere north of the Savage River mine. Oh dear...
So I decided to plug my partner’s coords in. He doesn’t actually live in Tassie but is part of Team Hookline and is living here at the moment for a few months, so it counts, right? His came up somewhere near Trowutta and looked definitely possible. Excellent!
So off we went to the far north-west, found our way along Reids Road and even found an old forestry track that seemed to lead in the right direction. Parked the car in a clearfelled patch and followed the track on foot, till about 400 metres when we were forced to bush-bash. Not too bad at first, but got steadily worse and worse, taking forever just to go a few metres, until at 360m from GZ we had to stop. The bush had become just too impenetrable. It was horrible regrowth forest, full of cutting grass, scrubby tea trees and dense prickly scrub, and it was really getting impossible to proceed. We were reluctant to stop, wanting to get exactly to GZ, but we didn’t have unlimited time... and GZ would just be a random bit of scrub exactly like the random bit of scrub we were already in anyway... so we took a waypoint and photo and grudgingly decided it was close enough, and headed back.
We were disappointed not to have made it all the way, but we certainly gave it our best shot! We even tried another forestry road on the way back along Reids Road, but it didn’t get us any closer so we didn’t go for another attempt. Oh, and all this was done on *my* birthday, even though it was my partner’s birthday coords. Um, hope that’s not too confusing, and I hope this log is acceptable to claim a find.
Thanks OldSaint for an excellent locationless cache that was fun and challenging (probably should have a higher difficulty rating!) It was a great crazy adventure and taught us something: that places that look easy peasy to get to on a map can turn out much harder than expected!!
So I decided to plug my partner’s coords in. He doesn’t actually live in Tassie but is part of Team Hookline and is living here at the moment for a few months, so it counts, right? His came up somewhere near Trowutta and looked definitely possible. Excellent!
So off we went to the far north-west, found our way along Reids Road and even found an old forestry track that seemed to lead in the right direction. Parked the car in a clearfelled patch and followed the track on foot, till about 400 metres when we were forced to bush-bash. Not too bad at first, but got steadily worse and worse, taking forever just to go a few metres, until at 360m from GZ we had to stop. The bush had become just too impenetrable. It was horrible regrowth forest, full of cutting grass, scrubby tea trees and dense prickly scrub, and it was really getting impossible to proceed. We were reluctant to stop, wanting to get exactly to GZ, but we didn’t have unlimited time... and GZ would just be a random bit of scrub exactly like the random bit of scrub we were already in anyway... so we took a waypoint and photo and grudgingly decided it was close enough, and headed back.
We were disappointed not to have made it all the way, but we certainly gave it our best shot! We even tried another forestry road on the way back along Reids Road, but it didn’t get us any closer so we didn’t go for another attempt. Oh, and all this was done on *my* birthday, even though it was my partner’s birthday coords. Um, hope that’s not too confusing, and I hope this log is acceptable to claim a find.
Thanks OldSaint for an excellent locationless cache that was fun and challenging (probably should have a higher difficulty rating!) It was a great crazy adventure and taught us something: that places that look easy peasy to get to on a map can turn out much harder than expected!!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Hi Oldsaint
Got as close to the coords this cache
Adrian
Got as close to the coords this cache
Adrian
I am wondering what interpretation is possible
S43 03.400 E147 11.720 is off Van moreys road at the snug tiers...
S42 03.400 E147 11.720 is near lake Sorell
S43 03.400 E147 11.720 is off Van moreys road at the snug tiers...
S42 03.400 E147 11.720 is near lake Sorell
Woo hoo. Mine are just off the midlands highway on the highland lakes road. I will grab next time I'm in the area.
Well, at least one of us has a birthday compatible with the requirements for this cache. The Birthday GZ for Mr y'stassie was 4km into the creek between Tassie and Victoria. Mrs y'stassie saved the day as her Birthday GZ was on terra firma at S41 07.610 E146 01.510 which is in the middle of a farm on Pine Road between Penguin and Riana. The closest we could get was Pine Road. The photo added to the Gallery shows Mrs y'stassie leaning on the boundary fence with her Birthday GZ approximately 390m due West. Oh, and today was not Mrs y'stassie's actual birthday. TFTC Old Saint
My Birthday 24/11/1961 makes me 51 today, lol
My coords put me in the middle of Geographe Bay off the coast of Dunsborough WA.
Got fairly close to that today when we went for a birtday lunch at Clancy's Fish Cafe in Dunsborough then we went to Xscape fun park as a treat for the kids.
Yes i know, most people have grandkids the same age as my kids are, lol. 7 & 10 yrs. Hard work being an old fart with kids. lol.
Not possible to do a photo for this as i dont have a boat.
My coords put me in the middle of Geographe Bay off the coast of Dunsborough WA.
Got fairly close to that today when we went for a birtday lunch at Clancy's Fish Cafe in Dunsborough then we went to Xscape fun park as a treat for the kids.
Yes i know, most people have grandkids the same age as my kids are, lol. 7 & 10 yrs. Hard work being an old fart with kids. lol.
Not possible to do a photo for this as i dont have a boat.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Not going to be able to take a photo of this cause it is in the middle of nowhere literally. But at least it is a nice middle of nowhere
That leaves all of us that live in the Hobart area with a rather limited box that covers a bit of the Southern Midlands and the Southern Lakes (Lake Crescent and Lake Sorell), unless of course you have a birthday in a month >12 or with a birthdate >31...
Logged with permission of the owner........
Saw this one last night and thought that as it was a birthday cache, I should check where my Birthday Co-ords' were.....and it turns out they are only 9.6ks from home.
My home co-ords are South 35 24.173 East 149 05.243.
My Birthday is......today.....24 November 1958. (Yep, I'm 54)
So my Birthday co-ords are South 35 24.540 and East 149 11.580.
Looking on google, the co-ords were just south of a street (She-Oak Place) a little over the border in Jerrabomberra NSW, and they looked very accessible. So I headed out this morning hoping to visit the area. Alas when I arrived in the general area there was a, somewhat faded, sign stating Private Property - Keep Out. So not wanting to get arrested (or anything worse) on my birthday, I headed back to car admitting defeat.......only 363 metres from my birthday co-ords.
Attached a couple of photo's of the Private Property sign with my GPS showing the distance to GZ, and other of the street sign closest to the co-ords....She-Oak Place Jerrabomberra. As you can see from the first photo, the actual GZ spot is over to the right of the sign, so unfortunately you can't see it.....but you can gauge what it would be like.
Although I didn't make it to the actually co-ords, I was only stopped by the fact it was private property. However, it was still a fun and interesting way to start what is my 55th year.
Thanks to Old Saint for the cache and the logging permission.
Good luck to other Birthday hunters.....
Saw this one last night and thought that as it was a birthday cache, I should check where my Birthday Co-ords' were.....and it turns out they are only 9.6ks from home.
My home co-ords are South 35 24.173 East 149 05.243.
My Birthday is......today.....24 November 1958. (Yep, I'm 54)
So my Birthday co-ords are South 35 24.540 and East 149 11.580.
Looking on google, the co-ords were just south of a street (She-Oak Place) a little over the border in Jerrabomberra NSW, and they looked very accessible. So I headed out this morning hoping to visit the area. Alas when I arrived in the general area there was a, somewhat faded, sign stating Private Property - Keep Out. So not wanting to get arrested (or anything worse) on my birthday, I headed back to car admitting defeat.......only 363 metres from my birthday co-ords.
Attached a couple of photo's of the Private Property sign with my GPS showing the distance to GZ, and other of the street sign closest to the co-ords....She-Oak Place Jerrabomberra. As you can see from the first photo, the actual GZ spot is over to the right of the sign, so unfortunately you can't see it.....but you can gauge what it would be like.
Although I didn't make it to the actually co-ords, I was only stopped by the fact it was private property. However, it was still a fun and interesting way to start what is my 55th year.
Thanks to Old Saint for the cache and the logging permission.
Good luck to other Birthday hunters.....
Rated: for Overall Experience
My birthday co-ords put me 45km WNW of Yanchep W.A in the Indian Ocean, I definitely will not be walking, driving or swimming there 
It appears one of the previous loggers either don't know how old they are or in which year they were born
It appears one of the previous loggers either don't know how old they are or in which year they were born
My details put me in rough country near the Wollondilly River in the Wombeyan Caves area. There is a track heading in the right direction but it passes through cleared country so may not be accessible. Will see next year. Alternatively, I could paddle downstream & struggle upstream.
This is not going to work for me about 50km north, way too far for me to walk there!
Wolgan State Forest
Darn! This sounded like a great idea for a Locationless, but I found my personal 'birthday coordinates' situated in a very desolate section of Wolgan State Forest, just north of Ben Bullen State Forest, about 3 kilometres west of Wolgan Road, more or less north of Lithgow, NSW.
Looks like a great wilderness place! However, I don't know if I could really make it in there on foot. Maybe I'll have a drive up Wolgan Road one day, and see if there's any access.
Darn! This sounded like a great idea for a Locationless, but I found my personal 'birthday coordinates' situated in a very desolate section of Wolgan State Forest, just north of Ben Bullen State Forest, about 3 kilometres west of Wolgan Road, more or less north of Lithgow, NSW.
Looks like a great wilderness place! However, I don't know if I could really make it in there on foot. Maybe I'll have a drive up Wolgan Road one day, and see if there's any access.
