SHOVELLING SIMON Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
By ROSS1957 on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA7788

Enjoying some fresh country air.
Come find me before a muggle does.

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

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In my safe hands!
Toodyay (Nyunga: Duidgee), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 85 kilometres north-east of Perth on Ballardong Nyoongar land. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836. After flooding in the 1850s, the townsite was moved to its current location in the 1860s. It is connected by railway and road to Perth. During the 1860s, it was home to bushranger Moondyne Joe.

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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 wheatbelt the better half and I dropped off a number of moveable caches along the way in between finding both GC and GCA caches.

I was being looked after by Chwiliwr and the better half for the day at their place and whilst there saw a whole big group of moveable caches that were being organised for a move somewhere by my grandparents so played with them for a bit before they were packed up. (Those that were not too fragile to be played with.)

Thanks for the cache.

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Chwiliwr, Gwiber and I went on a trip south to collect some moveables and move some other around a bit.

This was one of the ones that were just moved around. Now in my hands.

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Moved to an end of a log for tbh to pick up.

Found in the hands of Chwiliwr after their trip up north.

Thanks for the cache.

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Found in the hands of Chwiliwr after their trip up north.

Thanks for the cache.

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Picked up after it was dropped off on a trip up north.

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Dropped off on a trip.

Was visiting my sister nearby at Wellington Mill and made the trip up the road to Gnomesville to find this moveable. Was only able to find it by referencing the information and image in the last log as the coordinates were not accurate.

Thanks for the cache.

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Simon is back in action

This one is still in place, may be un-archived. Refer photo.
Standing in front four tall white posts.

Wow, Google Street View shows what a finder is up against here. With threats by the local land owner and the task involved in finding this one, best that we let this one go.

So, as the geocache appears to be MIA we'll archive it to stop it clogging the search lists. If the owner can confirm it is in place, the listing can be resurrected by placing an "unarchived" log against it.

Really a strange place to put a moveable gnome as literally hundreds of gnomes get added to the collection, get moved around or get broken each week which making looking for it problematic after so much time.

As a result I doubt that anyone but the last mover could tell if it is still there or not as I certainly couldn't find it.

BTW If this moveable happens to be one of the ones over the fence then it is probably been destroyed by the owner of the land. They are threatening legal action against anyone that crosses the fence. I didn't cross the fence but at the closest points to their respective GZ's I couldn't see any gnomes over the fence.

Gnomesville

Discovered when Lazzarus dropped by to share some moveables.

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Discovered in the hands of Lazarus

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Found with Lazarus_68

Found in the hands of Lazarus_68

In my hands

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moved

Due to a serious accident near airport traffic was gridlocked so went to garvey park for a walk, to kill time and grab shovelling simon. I noticed he had not been found and likewise i could not find him. I went off for my walk around the river and park and while out in the open grassed area near a tree i found shovelling simon. He was about 150m from where he was hidden. So i wandered around hoping to find the frog as well but no joy. So shovelling simon is now with me and i definately will not be hiding caches in this park anymore.

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This park has some bad juju lately. Another did not find. Knowing the size of the gnome I can't see where else he could be hidden. Maybe someone has already found and not logged. Here is hoping.

Sleeping like a log

In my hands

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A short but enjoyable drive with his friends and now it is time for him to visit some other friends.

while out collecting gca caches found shovelling simon trying to bury himself in sand so i rescued him and he is enjoying the drive with all his friends. thanks for the cache ross1957

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Digging deep in quiet rural area

In my hands

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Sleeping like a log.

Found with shaydex.. lucky he was an easy find.. the rain was on us

With me

Digging in deep until next picked up

In my hands

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Cuddling another gnome in a regular gnome hotel

seen with shaydex

Spotted in the back of shaydex car who had just grabbed them before I arrived. Nice to have a chat about all things gca!

With me

Resting in the shade

In my hands

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Dropped in new home.

Dropped in new home.

Out and about on a beautiful day in Margs and did some gnome hunting.
Will drop off soon.

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Visiting a GCA cache

Found in the hands of Lazerous68

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In my hands

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resting at the base of a tree in a nice park

found him with several other gnomes

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There is a party happening at Dream Cache for kids .. Byo balloons

We came to the party

Busy little bee I am today

In my hands

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Back out in a familiar spot

In my hands

dropped by the river

in my hands

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Having a sleep in the park

Found at flash mob

Tftc

Discovered the cache at home in the hands of Lazarus_68

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In my hands

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A quick grab and move. Good luck gnome with a shovel.

In my hands

Dropped near the river

in my hands

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Charlotte's Web. Laying low, shovelling the dirt. Watch for the 'big' spider web pulling the grass trees together.

In my hands

Enjoying a break from shovelling

Discovered Shovelling Simon in Lazarus_68 hands

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In my hands

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Dropped off at a car park at a football club.

in my hands

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dropped off

Grabbed Simon whilst heading to visit family in the hills. Will move him on soon.

Back in the bush

In my hands

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Hiding in rocks with some other gnomes and a frog. Follow the track from Thompson Road to within a few a metres of GZ. There's a nice spot to cool off not far from GZ.

in my hands

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Digging a tree

In my hands

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Back out after the event

I spotted this one today at The Great Gnome Grouping event, a really fun event with a lot of different types of games going on. The gnomes were all hanging out on a table inside and I tried to remember to sign the log for the ones that had them. Thanks for the cache Ross1957!

Found at the Great Gnome Grouping

Discovered this one at the Gnome event this morning.

Found at the event and left with me

Discovered Shoveling Simon the Gnome at a local gegnome event in Como.

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found at the great gnome event

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Moving to the event location - won't be there until about 9am

in my hands on a gnight caching run

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Dropped off with another gnome

Found it in hands of Dad.

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Out for a drive with the family.

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Out with my grandparents on a drive.

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Out with the family doing some GCA caches.

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