Gary Wynn Vale, South Australia, Australia
By firnsy on 18-Jul-15. Waypoint GA7330

Poked around in the obvious spot that the hint led us to, but didn't find a gecko

I have Gary, he's coming for a trip with me to hopefully scare someone else
Cheers

moved on

Hey there Gary, I love how you might give someone a fright!

Will move along again soon.

TFTC

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Down and gone

A quick find with Just a cacher while catching up with Sol de lune today.

Thanks for the cache.

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Lovely movables picked up and will be moved along soon.

Down and off with another cacher....

Found this little in the hands of another cacher and will move him on shortly.

Great to see lots of moveables still doing the rounds.

Thanks for this one Firnsy….

#GA3669 - 14:35; After a few days in Sydney with the geohoney, we were headed back to our hotel to collect the geomobile and head for home when we were passing by the posted coords for this moveable. I was undeterred by the December DNF as I had a rough idea about the possible hide. The first area inspected left me empty handed, but after passing through the tunnel, my efforts were rewarded with a find on Gary and his mate. Now headed off to tour the National Capital for a bit. TFTC firnsy

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Since the maps showed this to be on the roof of a carpark, I took myself there and spent some 30min baking under the sun. No luck though, nor on any of the other 5 levels of parking, and I'm not climbing that 2.5m high fence.
-edit- for anyone looking at ground level - beware the sharps box hidden behind the barrier. Still no cache though.

As Gary strongly leans to being a Minotaur pawn at this time, I wanted him out of my region. So I took him out of the state. One small step for Phoenix, one short plane ride for Gary.

I had a single hour to find 12 moveable caches to both my East and West and somehow, in my madness, I managed it. This moveable has come home with me to be relocated soon. Golly, that's quite a roar! TFTC

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Gary is out and about again waiting for his next move. Happy travels Garry.

On our arrival home from a trip south we were greeted by a delegation of moveable caches wishing to be picked up. This was one of them. We will move it on soon

We picked up some moveable caches in Hobart last weekend and they're hoping to do some travelling so dropped them off with a team who are about to depart for the big island. Happy travels

A quick find on a weekend in the south for a unicorn themed birthday party. Managed to sneak away for a few minutes to do some caching but the real focus of the weekend was on the grandkids, gotta love 'em! TFTC

Back out with a couple of mates

grabbed will move on soon TFTM

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Had to drop into the vet after the work today, and decided to take the GeoGSP for a walk around nearby Rosny Hill afterwards. Remembered to grab a few moveables from home before we left so I could drop a couple off on the drive home. This one is back out with a mate.

Thanks for the moveable. The GeoGSP and I went out for a walk after work tonight and found this guy out with some mates. He came along for the walk with us and will be back out again soon.

Back Out

Nabbed during a driving lesson

Back out with a mate

A very quick find since I spotted this and a few others in the hands of WhiteWebbs, since they are happy to move them i'll just find this one.

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spotted in the hands of whitewebbs over a drink.

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We meet again. Will move on soon. TFTM

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Ready to be found

Found with Oldsaint

Hi firnsy
A quick find in Huonville
Sainted at 0915 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Sorry for the long delay in moving...but taken to the deep south  near a good mate...cheers ST.

Hi Fernsy,
Found Gary clinging to a small branch at Trevallyn Reserve Launceston.
He'll head to the south of Tas soon...TFTC...cheers ST.

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We decided to do a quick trip to the Trevallyn reserve to check on a couple of moveable caches we hid last weekend and hid this one in the same general area

A quick detour on our way to a family get together in the Launceston area. This little guy will make the trip with us and we'll see if we can hide him up that way while we're there. TFTC

Back out on the way home.

Found easily this time around...cache blindness first time here. It was well buried as per hint..tftc Firnsy...cheers ST.

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If you read hint, you find very easy. Not hydro poles!

There are a heap of hydro poles over the rail area...though one rail closest to the sign is visible...but couldn't see a cache. Needs checking by hider...cheers ST.

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It is back.

It is time to move on. It start at 9:15am.

dropped off with a view

ended up with this one at the event so will move this weekend

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dropped at Waratah event

Discovered at Australia day event
left for someone else to move on
Caches found 10 - inc 1 x FTF, DNF 2, Left alone due to muggles 2

I picked up Gary at the event today and brought back south. I am heading west on Thursday so might Gary

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Found following the Goat Island events, quite a collection of moveable caches in attendance having their logbooks signed before they headed off with various teams to continue their journeys. Thanks for the cache

Hello Firnsy thanks for the cache.


I spotted this one at an event at Goat Island today.

TFTC

Taken to an event at Goat Island where several other moveables were gathering with some geocachers. We were all eager to climb like goats up a steep hill and stand on the rocks at the top in order to have an event and gain points for the States of the Nation game on the last day of the competition. Photos were taken to prove the degree of difficulty of the terrain. Just as well I have been in training at the gym to strengthen my leg!

Found in Hobart when I was down there for an event. I picked up some other moveables and when I got back to the car I realise that there were some other moveables very close by. So out of the car and down the hill for another two moveables. I will take them on a journey north TFTC

Back out with a matr

It is hard to believe it is nearly summer in Tasmania with the weather we are experiencing. Headed out with snow on the mountain to hunt down a few moveables travelling to South Hobart, Fern Tree, Kingston and then on to Howden. It certainly was cold here in the Peter Murrell Reserve at Howden, below snow capped Mount Wellington. Parked off on the side of the road dodging rain and hail to find two moveables near the car and then decided to grab three more moveable about 300 m into the reserve, as the weather seemed to be clearing. Had a pleasant stroll to retrieve Sheer (Shear) Delight and Gary who were residing in the same hidey hole. Apparently there should have been another moveable according to the hint but had a good look but could not see Sonic. On the way back to the car, the rain appeared again. At least it was not too hot as snakes have been spotted near moveable hides in this reserve this month. Will move on soon. Please to meet you again. TFTM

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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 gecko 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

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This cache has been hidden with some of its travelling companions under the big log
Enjoy the rest of your journey
Cheers OldSaint.

Hi firnsy
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.

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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 5th moveable cache on my list....'Gary'.... 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 found the little yellow lizard hiding behind a large rock...rather apt hiding spot...the little lizard 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 moveable caches so close to home.Let's hope this little cache finds many new great locations on it's travels around Tassie.Many thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us all to share and enjoy 'firnsy'....very much appreciated.Having secured the 5th of 10 finds on the list it is now off to find the 6th moveable cache...cheers ST

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Back out ready to play

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

After a very short stop Gary was ready to continue his travels in a warm car.

While Mrs y'stassie went to her Monday embroidery group Mr y'stassie took a little trip east to collect a few moveables to meet a few requirements for some of the GCA challenges. As it was a little frosty this morning he headed to Squeaking Point first. The sun was out and there was no sign of ice on this section of road. There was quite a lot of traffic on the road, most heading into Devonport. After finding A Good Walk Spoiled Mr Y'stassie headed off towards the Exeter Highway in the hope of finding I Love to Fly. He drove with care as many of the puddles, some of which were quite deep, on the shaded side of the highway still had a thickish cover of ice and there was frost on the vegetation on each side of the road.

After locating the I Love to Fly he continued along the highway to Glengarry where he turned onto C718. This cut 26km from the trip the driving Garmin thought he should take. Local knowledge is useful. After negotiating his way passed several pieces of farm machinery and a school bus he pulled up at the little historic Supply River Church on the Winkleigh road. He was sure that we had visited this quaint little church early in our caching career and found a very wet cache at the rear of the building, not sure that one is still active.

On approaching the stump mentioned in the hint he noticed a pile of soft bark and sure enough Gary was warming himself under the bark.
Thanks for this well constructed little cache Firnsy and thanks nutwood for bringing it to the little island. We will move Gary on soon.

Gary, scuttling around near the Supply River Church out on Winkleigh Woad.. thanks..!!

Found Gary hiding in the base of a storm uprooted tree at Swan Point. Will have 'im back out scampering soon.. thanks..!!

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Gary is back out. Happily residing in a hollow log near the river.

I noted the previous DNF and wondered whether to investigate but the location looked secure and bases of trees are notorious for burying caches.
Sure enough, raking about with a stick produced a bison tube on the third tree investigated. Pulling on the bison tube unearthed a well buried gecko who's about to embark on a journey.
Didn't get to see much of SA so perhaps he'll be back.

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I poked around for a while, and searched around the base of a few trees in the area. I found the GCA traditional cache again, but could not find this moveable. Not knowing what it is I was looking for didn't help much.

resting next to the torrens

over for an inspection of the railway and only had enough time to grab 2 moveables. another new moveable to add to my list.

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Sleeping at Rotto

Found with shaydex

With me

Blue Gum Lake

In my hands

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Gary got itchy feet. Now he is moveable.

Out and about, looking for some GCA variety.
What a great little trail.
Pity the GC caches have been archived.
Found Gary safe and sound and snuggled away

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Was passing through the area on our way to pick up a few caches in the hills. Waited until there was a break in the rain before heading out, Unfortunately it poured down just as we arrived and parked the car. It took me a little while to find the cache as I was led astray by a fellow cacher who had found the cache before. I eventually came good and ended up with Gary in my hands.

Found him straight away today TFTC

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Found whilst dropping off some moveables.

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Found Gary with the help of the big hint. Nestled him back in his hidey hole before the rains came again

We found the while out gnome hinting

A quick find after parking nearby in Cliff St and walking the walk . I've been in this area previously for the small GC series - it is just as lovely now as it was then. Thanks for bringing me back here, and thanks for the cache.

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Thanks Hicksy. I've updated coordinates as suggested.

Dropped by to check on Gary, all good noisy as ever.

Try these coordinates S32 04.361 E116 00.469 maybe a little closer.

Seems there might be an issue with the coordinates for this one. I didn't mean for it to be hard, so here is an extended hint:
There is a fallen tree. The cache is hidden on the tree on the west side - about head high (unless you are Dimor in which case you might need a step ladder). Should be accessible without having having to take more than a step or two from the mown grass.

I will try to get there to check the coords ASAP - but it won't be in the next two weeks.

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I think this is my first *FTF*. I arrived home from a morning caching event to notice Gary had not been logged so after completing some jobs at home I headed out half expecting to find a signed log. So pleasantly surprised at 1650 to sign the blank log.

He is indeed a noisy little fellow and very colourful. I had the coordinates some distance out but the description put me on the right spot.

Thanks firnsy for the cache.

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