Tealby's GeGnome Project Mirrabooka, Western Australia, Australia
By Tealby on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA7771

Despite this cache originally having D=1.0 appears new normal is hiding cache so well in bush it'll take ages to attempt find. Otherwise perhaps someone else picked it up and forgot to log find?
Thank you for the cache.

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Reason for long log: attempting to earn trophy: "An essay, just a plain old essay" by averaging 75 or more words per valid dragonZone geocache find log or did not find log; excluding geocaches that I own.

Was out doing some caching in the area on a nice sunny day and traveled around dropping off lots of moveables. I collected lots of other caches whilst out and about. It was an interesting morning and took me around many suburbs and into the hills. I ended up travelling about 200km when i only intended to do a short drive. I saw lots of interesting sights whilst out and about as some of the moveables were in great locations whilst others were in areas requiring lots of walking. After heading back to the northern suburbs and down the coast i found a few moveables that were hiding and did not realize were still in my car. So i dropped them off in a convenient spot on my home which was an easy spot to get to without detouring around. Tealby's gegnome is resting in the bush with some friends close by and i hope that tealbys gegnome travels far and wide in his travels.

Reading previous logs, this moveable may still be in location OR may have been found, removed and not relocated yet. We know moveables can sometimes be forgotten / missed / left in the bottom of a caching bag, so a check has been undertaken on this one.

An update will be posted within 28 days….

found him hiding in the bush

out in the wild again.

Found hanging with friends on our front deck. Thanks for sharing.

In the hands of home owners; awaiting next adventure, possibly south.

Found on our first trip to Perth. Lazarus68 had it

Found on our first day in Perth!

After a 4 hour flight from Sydney, arrived to swap movables with Lazarus68. Thanx for the trade.

Discovered in the hands of Lazarus_68

Rated: for Overall Experience

Handed to me prior to attending WestOz AGM & subsequent GC event BBQ.
Will move along as soon as practical.

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—Geocaching games and competitions
—Prizes!
—Dinner on Saturday night
—Geocaching information sessions
—Beginner FAQ’s and question sessions
—Time to chat and catch up with Geo-Friends
—Puzzle solving techniques/tips
—Things for the Geo-Juniors to do

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Dropped off at West Oz AGM

Found this cache when helping Gwiber and Chwiliwr remove it from his car after his trip out east with the better half collecting them all. Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found this cache when helping Chwiliwr remove it from his car after his trip out east with the better half collecting them all. Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

The better half and I went out for a drive in the country picking up some traditional caches and a whole load of moveable ones. The sealed roads that we went on were obviously OK but according to the better half not the gravel and 4wd ones which only confirmed her aversion to going down them in any vehicle.

Picked up these ones on the way to one we had never found.

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Chwiliwr and I went out for a drive in the country picking up some traditional caches and a whole load of moveable ones. The sealed roads that we went on were obviously OK but not the gravel and 4wd ones which only confirmed my aversion to going down them in any vehicle.

Picked up these ones on the way to one we had never found.

Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Time to catch up and log all the moves made for the large number of moveable caches that we have accumulated over the last months.

On the trip out into the Wandoo forrest area with the better half doing some maintenance of my caches after a fire and we dropped off a number of moveable caches along the way.

Mum brought me to my grandparents place for a sleepover so whilst here I found this cache.

Thanks Tealby for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Was visiting Chwiliwr and the better half to drop off Gwawr for a sleepover and found this cache whilst I was there.

Thanks Tealby for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Chwiliwr went out for a walk to do the new caches nearby to where this one has been stuck since January and whilst nearby picked this one up so I have found it in his hands once he arrived back home.

Thanks Tealby for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Pickup up this cache whilst doing the new GC caches around the area. Will move on soon.

Thanks Tealby for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

moved

Quick find while out hunting nearby puzzles

found wit spatialriq

Moved up towards the city for more caching

In my safe hands

On the move again to the country.

I have the gnome

Found at Whiteman Park event.

Found today at the Moveable and Mystery Madness event.
Thanks to all the cachers who gathered up all these moveables.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with Chwiliwr and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with Chwiliwr and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with tbh and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Discovered 'Tealby's GeGnome Project' at the Moveable & Mystery Madness Event held in Whiteman Park. The forecast was for rain but we were blessed with good weather for the day. A small but dedicated group of geocachers and a couple of new faces attended and exchanged stories of caches found and missed. Many thanks Tealby for the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at Whiteman Park event.

Discovered at event GA10647.

NOT at above coordinates
Attending "Moveable & Mystery Madness" event GA10647

In my hands and happy to report is in good condition.
Preparing to attend "Moveable & Mystery Madness" event GA10647
Thank you for the cache Tealby

According to Wikipedia...
A gnome / noʊm is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story tellers, but it is typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground.
The word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the Liber de Nymphis, Sylvanis, Pygmaeis, Salamandris, et Gigantibus etc. by Paracelsus, published posthumously in Nysa in 1566 (and again in the Johannes Huser edition of 1589–1591 from an autograph by Paracelsus).
The term may be an original invention of Paracelsus, possibly deriving the term from Latin gēnomos (itself representing a Greek γη-νομος, literally "earth-dweller"). In this case, the omission of the ē is, as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls it, a blunder. Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi and classifies them as earth elementals. He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.
The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.
The English word is attested from the early 18th century. Gnomes are used in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". The creatures from this mock-epic are small, celestial creatures which were prudish women in their past-lives, and now spend all of eternity looking out for prudish women (in parallel to the guardian angels in Catholic belief). Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.
Pope's stated source, the French satire Comte de Gabalis (1670), used the term gnomide to refer to female gnomes (often "gnomid" in English translations).
In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy. Nathaniel Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales (1837) contrasts the two in "Small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes" (cited after OED). Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED).
One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named "Gnomus" (Latin for "The Gnome"), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.
Franz Hartmann in 1895 satirized materialism in an allegorical tale entitled Unter den Gnomen im Untersberg. The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg. In this story, the Gnomes are still clearly subterranean creatures, guarding treasures of gold within the Untersberg mountain.
As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome became largely synonymous with other terms for "little people" by the 20th century, such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the "domestic spirit" type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.
The name gnome has been used in the Fantasy genre, typically in a cunning role, e.g. as an inventor.
In L. Frank Baum's Oz series, the Nomes (so spelled), especially their king, are the chief adversaries of the Oz people. They are ugly, hot-tempered, immortal, round-bodied with spindly legs and arms, have long beards and wild hair, live underground, and are the militant protectors/ hoarders of jewels and precious metals; Baum does not depict any female gnomes. Ruth Plumly Thompson, who continued the series after Baum's death, reverted to the traditional spelling.
In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, gnomes, or "Earthmen" as they are sometimes called, live in the Underland, a series of subterranean caverns. Unlike the traditional, more humanlike gnomes, they can have a wide variety of physical features and skin colours. They are used as slaves by the Lady of the Green Kirtle.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves, uses "Gnomes" as the initial and later dropped name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races, in conscious exploitation of the similarity with the word gnomic. Gnome is thus Tolkien's English loan-translation of the Quenya word Noldo (plural Noldor), "those with knowledge". Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones. Many of them live in cities below ground (Nargothrond) or in secluded mountain fortresses (Gondolin). He uses "Gnomes" to refer to both males and females. In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are presented as helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.
The Dutch books Gnomes and The Secret Book of Gnomes, written by Wil Huygen, deal with gnomes living together in harmony. These same books are the basis for a made-for-TV animated film and the Spanish-animated series The World of David the Gnome (as well as the spin-off Wisdom of the Gnomes).
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, gnomes are pests that inhabit the gardens of witches and wizards. They are small creatures with heads that look like potatoes on small stubby bodies. Gnomes are generally considered harmless but mischievous and may bite with sharp teeth. In the books it is stated that the Weasleys are lenient to gnomes, and tolerate their presence, preferring to throw them out of the garden, rather than more extreme measures.
In Terry Brooks' Shannara Series gnomes are an offshoot race created after the Great Wars. There are several distinctive classes of gnomes. Gnomes are the smallest race. In The Sword of Shannara they are considered to be tribal and warlike, the one race that can be the most easily subverted to an evil cause. This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.
In the Warcraft franchise, particularly as featured in the MMORPG World of Warcraft, gnomes are a race of beings separate from but allied to dwarves and humans, with whom they share the lands of the Eastern Kingdoms. Crafty, intelligent, and smaller than their dwarven brethren, gnomes are one of two races in Azeroth regarded as technologically savvy. It is suggested in lore that the gnomes originally were mechanical creations that at some point became organic lifeforms. In World of Warcraft, gnomes are an exile race, having irradiated their home city of Gnomeregan in an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to drive out marauding foes.
BB's The Little Grey Men (1942) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.
After World War II (with early references, in ironic use, from the late 1930s) the diminutive figurines introduced as lawn ornaments during the 19th century came to be known as garden gnomes. The image of the gnome changed further during the 1960s to 1970s, when the first plastic garden gnomes were manufactured. These gnomes followed the style of the 1937 depiction of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Disney. This "Disneyfied" image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes (1976), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter. Garden gnomes share a resemblance to the Scandinavian tomte and nisse, and the Swedish term "tomte" can be translated as "gnome" in English.

I was out walking around the lake with my daughter today and she was very keen to find a good hiding place for the gnome. Ready to find again!

In my hands, will move along to another interesting location soon.

Out for a short walk in the park on a lovely sunny afternoon, I dropped off this gnome to a new hiding spot. Safe travels!

Woohoo!! Picked up this fellow and will move him on to a new location very soon. Thanks for the cache Tealby!

Back out in the wild

Found this when dad brought home a heap of moveables.

Found this when dad brought home a heap of moveables.

Found this when dad brought home a heap of moveables.

Found along with a hoard of other GCA moveables. Will get this back out into the wild soon. TFTC.

Enjoying the sunny weather in Perth.

found tealbys gnome and time for a holiday and scenery change

Moved down to the suburbs

Picked up on the way to a birthday party in Mt Barker

This gnome is now hiding in the hollow base of a gum tree, right next to a nice road.

A nice easy find in a dodgy back-road carpark.

We'll bring this gnome back to our house for a while before re-hiding somewhere nice soon.

Thanks Tealby.

Rated: for Overall Experience

moved along to the lookout over the plains

we were getting worried about the abandoned cars!

Now resting on the banks of the Murray just south of Mannum. The best place to park is about 300m to the north.

Found It!
I was handed this gnome to take home from the nearby event. It is a big gnome. I'll try and add some points for the orange dragons to it...
TFTC

dropped at event

found it! will move asap

Sorry for the delay. GeGnome is now hidden in Stockade Park, under a tree near the back entrance to the SES, which is rarely used. When I was a child this whole area was the local rubbish dump, not the pretty park and garden it is now. Since placing the Gnome, I have found out that the park gates close at night, so he will only be accessible during daylight hours, my apologies.

Side Gate: S 34 50.529 E138 37.518 (It's a shorter walk via this gate.)
Main Gate: S 34 50.364 E138 37.533

PS: Hey Tealby, heard your email to Podcacher!

Picked up both this and Black Bunny's GeGnome from near the Yamba Roadhouse at the SA/Vic border today. I knew they were at the same location, but was surprised to find *three* Gnomes not two, so one of them must be a duo act?! Will inspect them a bit closer tomorrow. Had to leave them outside for now as were covered in ants. I am heading to the Barossa on the weekend, so will move on then.

Now resting in SA and ready to be found.

Headed a little further west

Dropped off close to the Newell Highway.

Found it in a "boot" with a few mates.
Will take it for a drive out west.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Move to this location. Took advantage of another situation.

Grabbed this and will move on shortly.

Rated: for Overall Experience

back out again and ready to go

Out on a gnome Grabbed with Just a cacher while out and about today.

Thanks for the gnome Tealby

Rated: for Overall Experience

Picked up with Black Bunny while out and about.

Thanks for the gnome Tealby

Rated: for Overall Experience

This gnome is out and ready to be collected.

Thanks
Albida

I was happy to be able to collect a series of the new gnomes today, I hope they all do well in the competition.

Thanks
Albida

Now with a brother for company.....

#GA731 - 22:35; I was a bit slack myself in organising some gnomes for the race, but hey, that doesn't mean I can't collect them and move them while I get myself organised. I'd heard on the grapevine that there were a few on the move, but when they lobbed virtually in the back yard, well the opportunity to make a find was too good to resist. I'd picked up some others which had started appearing around Gungahlin, when this one appeared as well. The only decent thing to do seemed to be to keep going and collect it!. TFTC Tealby

And down it goes...

First move for this one and it's on it's way....

Saw this guy was still unfound as I headed out to work, so headed around the area and soon spotted him sitting watching the world go by....and made the grabbed at 4.40pm. Neighbours might have been wondering what I was doing walking around picking up gnomes in a suit and tie. The things we do...

Thanks Tealby, will move him on shortly :Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

Let the project begin...