The Miner Key Howrah, Tasmania, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA7881

Back out with mates. Added a new bison and log as only lid of original bison on key chain.

The Miner has had a makeover courtesy of the grandson. Looks like new. Will rehide again soon.

grabbed while playing the geosportz olympics, will move on soon. TFTM

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One of many. Left him here.

back out

Grabbed, will move on soon. TFTM

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Handed to whitewebbs whilst caching in the area.

collected

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Have placed this one off the path along the turtle trail at Mon Repos.

No longer at these coordinates.

With RoddyC checking on one of the QOGM2021 hides and grabbed this fellow. will place out again soon. TFTC

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with YOF to take on our journey.

In the vehicle when YOF picked it up. No longer gnome alone.

Seen this moveable as wazza9 placed it in a new hiding spot.

Had this for a while, time to leave.

With wazza9 when he placed the old gnome. Thanks to CO.

picked up from GC9QA5D

Found, picked up and travelling

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A review of this moveable has shown that the cache may still be in location, just sitting there waiting to be found. So, if you're in the area, or simply passing through, why not stop and help it on its way again.....

I went looking for 3 gnomes today. I struggled to get to them but laid eyes on at least 2.

I first came in from above, parking near a park, and very nearly slipped right down on top of the gnomes. I then found a way, down but not over. I couldn't write in the log books. I also wasn't going to collect them as I was on my way to the airport.

Found at the Goulburn Geocahers Get Together CITO #04. Thanks for sharing.

Found at CITO in Goulburn

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Found during the CITO event in Goulburn and moved to the Illawarra.
Wilbert67

Spotted at the CITO event

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Spotted at a CITO event. Went home with a local. TFTM

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Moved on for more cachers to discover.

No longer at The Rock. Cache has been picked up.

Watch out for the Cassowary

Now at The rock NSW

Let's take you for a drive north.

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Moved this cache along and it's now ready to be found. Thanks for attending the Meet the Moveable event and hope your travels are safe and far.

Luckily I didn’t lose my key in a Miner yesterday at the Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park.
That is one cool dude.
Thanks for sharing him Caughtatwork

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Meet the movables event Brimbank park

So many moveable at 'Meet the Moveables' event.

Thanks

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Meet the moovables event Brimbank park

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

I've come to Meet the other Moveables....

spotted it but left for next cacher.

Ready to go

Grab it

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In Mt Barker today with a few minutes to spare, so went for a short walk in Totness and came across this little fellow an his hoard of keys!
will move him along soon, hopefully I don't need to go through any metal detectors before then
Cheers & TFTC C@W

I added 10 old, odd keys to the Miner this morning, then took him for a drive through the Adelaide Hills. We stopped at two locations that the Miner snubbed his nose at, but luckily the third location met his demanding standards.

He's now hidden just inside the Totness Recreation Park, which is a hidden reserve just outside of Littlehampton.

This gnome has parted company with his left arm! That'll make it a bit tricky to pick locks, but luckily he's carrying quite a few keys with him to make life a bit easier.

I have some odd keys in the shed, so I'll add one or two to him before re-hiding. He's currently relaxing at J & J Central, pottering about the garden, and keeping an eye out for the koala that visits the gum tree that overhangs our yard.

We'll get him back on the move in a week or two when we find a nice place to hide him.

Thanks caughtatwork.

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No, he hasn't been locked up, nor suffered a drive collapse or other subterranean disaster. We were just particular about his next stop.

After much journeying trying to satisfy this bloke with a new location, I've found one that we are both happy with.

Discovered it today.

His last home in Goulburn NSW gave a view on the Hume Highway, and may well have been quite damp at times. Now he's in the Driest State, South Australia, and really quite close to the big smoke of Adelaide, and with a view on the railway yards associated with the interstate train station. He can hear trains like The Ghan and The Overland being assembled, and the local trains hurrying by moving commuters. He's got a lovely spot behind a tree, under a nice blanket with a comfy leaf litter and bark mattress and doona.

He seemed pretty happy when I left him earlier today.

GZ is easy to access on foot, and you can get pretty close by bike, and a bit less pretty close with a car. Access does require being able to walk, so probably T/D of 2/1.5.

Last log indicates it was found, but no new location listed. On the off chance it was still at logged location on the top of Mt Gray in Goulburn, I headed up there for a look. Nothing found so seems it has moved on.

Found in the excellent company of GA6104.

I was after this gnome for States of the Nation 2017-18. Got lucky and scored double gnomes!

Ready for the road again

We have moved The Miner Key and his travel companion to the above coordinates. They are spending time looking out over the Goulburn Valley. TFTC

Found it. Will post new coordinates at it's new resting place. TFTC

The Miner Key Gnome is resting in the Arthur Gurney VC rest area in a flowering bush with a gnome friend.

Spotted with Goldenwattle. TFTC caughtatwork.

Goldenwattle and I did our best, but now just needs two more points to turn it back to beautiful yellow .

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This just appeared in the drop off stump. Picked up tonight. TFTC caughtatwork.

Photograph: The Miner Key Gnome posed in my garden for a photograph.

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time to meet someone new

wow great idea and i have a few keys to offload so perfect timing mister.

Noddy the Dwarf Gnome (GA6104) and Jangles the Key-Collecting Gnome (GA7881)
visit Canberra.
On a walk to the Pinnacle, I came across these two Gegnomes snuggling together under a log. Jangles had a log around his neck but Noddy did not seem to have his. I looked around and thought I had found it lying in the grass. But it turned out to be Scotty Dog (GA4747), a completely separate cache. I re-tagged Scotty and moved him to a dog park in Tuggeranong.
Noddy and Jangles wanted to see Canberra. I took them to Mt Ainslie lookout. See photos. At the lookout, Noddy looked over the edge and saw the Australian War Memorial below. He was very pleased because he had heard that it was honouring the brave diggers.
Being diggers themselves, they then wanted to visit a quarry. So it was into my backpack for the 250m climb down to the Mt Ainslie quarry. At the quarry, they stood around a campfire while I collected a GA and a GC cache.
We also visited Black Mountain. Jangles thought the tower on top looked like it was wearing a gnome hat.
As both garden and mining gnomes, a particularly favourite place for them was the National Rock Garden where they befriended a local magpie.
They spent the night at my place. Then it was up early for a walk up the hill over the back fence. We found another memorial to the diggers. The local school children had created a memorial to the nurses who cared for our wounded. Jangles told a touching story of how the nurses had lovingly cared for him after the accident which broke his left arm. Noddy decided that he would like to spend time at this lovely place. We climbed to the top of the hill and found a cosy gum tree. After a tearful goodbye, we left Noddy snuggled under a bark blanket at the base of his tree.
“Where would you like to go?” I asked Jangles.
Jangles replied, ”Gum trees are fine for Noddy, but I have Scandinavian origins and a longing in my gegnome genomes for pine trees.” We looked down from the hilltop and saw Fadden Forest. We were soon there wandering through the pines. We found a lovely little pine tree where I left Jangles reading a collection of Roald Dahl books. I’m sure he would like to pass them on to a young geocacher.

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Dropped off and waiting for the next finder...

Found this one in the hands of fitzy ! Cute Miner !

TFTF

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GCA 1512. Headed out to a nearby reserve and grabbed this guy.

Seems very familiar from our around Australia journey !

I'll release asap.

TFTC !!

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Grabbed from Albida to move on. Now down and ready to be found again.....

Arrived in Alice Springs for the Red Centre Experience. Now in the hands of albida33.

Met whitewebbs at a cache in Coober Pedy with a stash of moveables in their car. This was one that was travelling with them.
TFTC caughtatwork

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Gnabbed. We bought you to Tasmania and now as we head to the Mega we will take you back to the big isle.

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Hoping to catch a lift while waiting on a corner of the West Tamar Highway at Legana.. thanks..!!

Second time I have crossed paths with this gnomic miner, plucked from amongst the flowers in Princes Square.. thanks..!!

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Dropped off to keep William Pugh company.

PICKED UP.

We went looking for GA8021 near Beaconsfield but found this gnome instead. Looks like there's been a bit of gnome shuffling going on so we'll continue the shuffle and shuffle this one closer to Devonport.

Back on the road again, lazing away at Harford, just waiting for the next big adventure.. thanks..!!

In the area chasing a couple of local GA caches and found this bloke in Trevallyn. Should have him back out a gnoming soon.. thanks..!!

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Back Out

Nabbed while in the area
25/1/17 3:46 pm

The Miner Key is back out again ready to meet his next team

A quick find while in the area to find Cherry Picker. We needed a regular find for the new scavenge so glad he hadn't been picked up before we got him! TFTC

Dropped off while searching for "Cherry Picker" nearby. Will be an easy find compared to "Cherry picker".

Found while in the area collecting other caches for the Scavenger Hunt, unfortunately missed getting "I am not a Frog" which was close by as it had been picked up already. Oh well- on to the next one.

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Picked up this hitch hiker will move on shortly

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Unfortunately there was not enough room in the gingerbread house so went for a walk. Hoping for a lift.

Okay met Tim the tidy gnome at lunch. Hic! Oops did we drink all that wine? Might need to bunk down in that gingerbread house for the night after a great feast at whitewebbs' rellies.

Getting strapped in ready for my Christmas Day road trip to visit whitewebbs' relatives. In and ready to go two days early as I don't want to get left behind.

gnabbed, we meet again

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On the way back from the mountain's rain, hail and snow we were pleased to be back in the sun for this one.
We parked up not far from GZ and in no time at all we had the cache in hand and were adding our names to the log.
Didnt move this one either as GCA was having its server dry cleaned or something

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After a bit of scavenging on the mountain stainless-steel-rat and I came to find this little man. We parked nice and close and soon found him and signed out names. Now a dilemma, with the important server upgrade still happening we couldn't log. That means we couldn't advise that we had taken the Miner Key to rehide him, so we left him there so as not to disappoint others who came looking for him. Not long after we left and were heading home we noted that the good news that GCA was back online. We could have relocated him and advised after all.

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Awaiting a finder on the Domain

Hi caughtatwork
A trip up the NW Coast of 1038km netted me 16 caches on day one; having an unexpected stop over at the Seabrook Motel (Somerset) on Saturday Night (was going back in one day but changed our minds); and 7 caches on the second day - total 23 finds.
Visited Wesley Vale, Devonport, Turners Beach, Forth, Ulverstone, Heybridge and Burnie on the first day. Second day; Natone, Penguin, Launceston, Grindelwald, Rosevears and Notleys gorge before driving back to the Huon.

This cache was the 6th and was found quickly under litter near wood blocks at the side of Lobster Creek Road, Forth, Tasmania.
Cache and log were Sainted at 1320hrs.
Loved it when I retrieved this cache and its baggage just kept coming and coming!
Driving to the cache along the road, the damage by recent floods was still very evident. River banks were washed away, logs piled on the river banks and sand still over the road.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

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The Miner Key is back out ready to play. He's hidden near a friend, they're near a bridge across the Leven River to a golf club. TFTC

A quick find in a spot that was probably very damp a few weeks ago. Love the variety of gnomes we've had the opportunity to move around the countryside. TFTC

Ready to roll again.

This was the last cache for the day after a short trip to Table Cape and return.
Coords were good making for an easy find...though a bit tangled in all the keys.
will get back out as soon as possible.
Thanks for the cache....cheers sirius.

Out and ready to go again.

Heard a rattling sound as we approached and found this little man sorting his keys in a nearby log.

Back out

Trekkered

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A group of three moveables survived the wild seas better than Mrs W and arrived feeling fit after their cruise on the Spirit of Tasmania today. Hidden together for warmth as a bit wet and cold. Come on Tasmanian cachers let's get these moveables moving around Tassie.

The Miner is heading to Tasmania with the permission of the CO. He is taking the slow boat so will arrive early June. It is a pity he has lost one arm, however he is happily dragging lots of keys.

gnabbed

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Dropped in Ulladulla today. Cache on...

Drove to Redwood Park today to get a couple of gnomes while putting down some more moveables. Very cool gnome! Will move to the coast in a couple of week. TFTC C@W!

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ready to go

Out for a last minute dash with Just a cacher to grab a few moveables.

A quick find here tonight.

Thanks for the moveable caughtatwork

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The Mad Bunnies, having driven all the way from Adelaide to Canberra, decided that nothing could be better than an evening drive to find a few more movables.

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