Barney the beach bum Springwood, New South Wales, Australia
By
Friesianess on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA8013
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Moveable |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S33° 41.899' E150° 33.831' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 274208E 6268629N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 372 m |
| Local Government Area: | Blue Mountains City |
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Description
Don't look too hard at this gnome, you might be frightened off!
Barney sees himself as a "not your average g-nome" and is determined to stay that way! A lover of seventies bathing fashion, this is one true beach gnome! Barney is looking forward to getting to visit some beaches during this gnome race, and he hopes the weather will be kind to him. Any offers of lifts to warmer climates would be gratefully accepted. His tan needs some work!
Hints
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Logs
If it reappears the cache owner can re enable it by logging an "unarchive" against it.
Thanks anyway....
Of course there was a price to pay and I was made to find a few caches to pay for my bread and board, nothing onerous this far but I fear he may have other plans for the next couple days.
Thanks for the cache
Found! Very near my house! Will be moving it along soon!
Don't bother looking, already picked up.
Spotted a few more GA caches that had popped up on the radar which were mainly moveables but in a good position to satisfy one of the dragon zone requirements.
Other dragon zone requirements had to be also met, which included the day of the week plus the day of the month. Sunday had the least dragon zone finds and the 19th of the month had only a couple of finds, so it looks like the dragon zone stars had aligned for today.
The only problem with the weather would be too warm, though all the caches were mostly drive bys, so no real problem there.
Once again, 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(16y 10m) to leave the comfort of his bed in front of the wood heater...which has an electric blanket( not needed today though) 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 got for him...a truly remarkeable and treasured companion.
The first moveable was "School" which was placed opposite the Burnie High School. Approaching gz and with very accurate coords, I soon spotted the little blighter hiding on the steel fence along side the now disused rail line. Many thanks 'Old Saint' for placing and maintaining the cache for us all to enjoy. Reckon this little cache will take a trek back down south to South Arm where it can travel the 250km dragon zone requirement...cheers ST.
The 2nd GA cache on my travels was 'Postman Pat'.On approaching gz all was quiet but my blind/dumb streak seemed to cut in as my initial search was on the wrong fence. Turned around and omg...how did I not see that?.. gees, even Murder would have done a better job of sniffing it out...lol. Great job with the cache too and this is one cache I can say is surely muggle proof.After manipulating the required part I soon had the log book signed.Many thanks Sharnies Tribe for an excellent gadget cache....cheers ST.
The 3rd cache....'y's Stay At Home'...a moveable...was out along the Bass Highway near Sisters Creek. Once nearing gz a familiar guard rail hide was soon spotted for a quick find. Thanks for the cache 2y'stassies...cheers ST.
The next moveable cache was 'Golden Weeper' further west along the highway past Sisters Creek. Nearing gz the guard rail hide was soon spotted and the cache was quickly found. Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches....cheers ST.
The next moveable cache...'Barney the beach bum'... was further west along the highway near Rocky Cape.Once again the familiar guard rail hide was soon spotted and the cache was soon in hand. Thanks for the cache Friesianess...cheers ST.
Attended the GC751DG "Christmas in July" organised by GoldJ event this evening at Goodwood
The company was great, the food delicious and many laughs were enjoyed by all.
The quiz consisted of twenty questions and eleven was the highest score achieved
Forty one attendees comprising Lions Club members and geocachers enjoyed the decorations, moveable caches and travel bugs tabled at the event.
It was here that I was able to make a find on this cache
Sainted it at 1900hrs
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Was going to grab this cache on the way to South Arm today but it had been nabbed.
Checked on it on the way through Hobart tonight after the trip to the Arm and it had been put back into circulation.
Sainted it at 1807hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
Back Out 
Breaking News! Barney the beach bum is alive and well. He came to the Red Centre Experience BBQ yesterday at Wentworth Park (not sure who with) S42° 52.865' E147° 23.892'.
Mrs Whitewebbs will give him a new temporary home.
Looked for this one today but not found
Bark etc were still where I think the cache should have been hidden but no sign of the cache
I think (as it is now 2 Dec 2016) it may have been muggled as there is no found log
That's three days without a found log
Cheers OldSaint.
TFTC
TFTC
Thanks for an interesting gnome Friesianess.
