Santagnome Green Hills Range, South Australia, Australia
By Dezzabills on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA8017

We've had a few attempts to get out and re-hide this moveable over the last two months, today it finally happened.

Santagnome is waiting for Christmas to arrive, and he'll be having a 'wheely' good time at this location. The next finder will understand that last sentence.

A nice quick find in an area we've visited several times before in the name of geocaching.

Santagnome is having a short stay at J & J HQ before setting off on his next adventure soon.

Thanks dezzabills.

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NOT ACCESSIBLE FROM FREEWAY

Out this way today moving furniture for a family member. With a couple of hours to spare I went on a mini cache run and this was one of the moveables I picked up along the way
Will get it out and about again soon
Cheers

moved on

'Just a Cacher' was in town and met me in the city for a bit of a moveable swap. This one is therefore in Adelaide and now in my possession and will be moved asap. TFTC

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down and gone

Out for a late night run with Just a cacher.
We will put these out again soon to continue their journey.
Log for this one has been lost.

Saw this heap of movables come up and headed out for an evening drive with Black Bunny.
Log sheet missing.

In the Wingello SF which is well known for mountain bike riders, sled dogging, 4 wheel driving & camping. Visitors to the Forest are advised that there will be a recreational event in the forest on 4-5 May 2019 with a dog club event in the main campground.

Prisoners exchanged - thanks Roger.

Moving down the coast for a prisoner exchange, don't go looking it will be gone already.

Picked up, so don't go looking this one is now home!

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Dropped off but already picked up

Found in the hands of thomo31

Grabbed some movables as they came through The Rock in the capable hands of thomo31.

Heading to the Blue Mountains this week

Found in the hands of Thomo31.

Picked up from Bendigo and having a rest in Geelong before heading to the Blue Mountains in 2 weeks.

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Now living in Bendigo

Gotcha

Picked up along with quite a few others and they are now all on their way to Bendigo via Echuca over the next couple of days.

Having had a smooth trip on the Spirit of Tasmania, and an equally smooth trip by vehicle northwards, this moveable is now comfortably residing at Shepparton until it is collected to continue its journey

And so we meet again, this time on the other side of the ditch
We collected this one last night in Devonport, after a lovely farewell dinner with 2y’stassies
Today he is waiting to board the Spirit of Tasmania to start a new adventure back on the mainland again
Thanks for the opportunity of moving him
And hopefully another footstep towards my destination
Currently in transit

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On our recent trip to the south of the state we collected up a few moveable caches, today they were passed on to another team who will help them continue their journeys, thanks for travelling with us for a bit

Found by mr sharnie's tribe flying solo on a work day. Had to creep around the motorhomes camping in the area but got a few, will move on asap. TFTC

Penguin trail

Found at meet the movable event in nsw.

Thank you for the movable

Another movable found!

Headed up to attend the Meet the Moveables (NSW) event and this was one of the many many moveables in attendance. Great time was had by all and it was good to put faces to the names of those cachers I'd only seen in logs before.

Thanks for sharing this one....(and apologies for the late log)

Found at 'Meet the movables'event

Discovered at the Meet the Moveables event in Ebenezer on New Year's Day 2019.

Found at the moveables event at Ebenezer. Thanks for the moveable it was found during the summer games

The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST

For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. 

A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache. 

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Saw it at the New Years Day event at Tizzana. TFTC

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Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event. Thanks for sharing.

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Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event held at Tizzana Winery in Ebenezer. A fantastic turnout at the event run for the current 2018/19 Journey or Destination game being run on Geocaching Australia which saw a total of 75 moveables come together. Thanks for sharing.

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Now down at the Meet the Moveables event....NSW Edition

Spotted at Tizanna's Winery.

What a great way to start the new year with a meet the movables event that saw 75 moveable caches and 10 geocacher caches in attendance. All was laid out so one could walk around the tables to sign each and every log before a swap occured to send them away again in a new direction.

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cute

I was happy to have a visit from a pile of movavebles accompanied by SDL before he takes them further north.

Thanks
Albida

Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.

Heading North soon I was told.

TFTC !

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GCA 2,219. Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.

I hear these are heading north soon.

TFTC !!

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found in the hands of a cacher with a sack full of movables. TFTC!

#GA3340 - 15:00; After a few days on the road with Sol de lune we have now completed our journey through the mid west of New South Wales and returned home to our final destination. This moveable was one of many awaiting our return and was spotted in the hands of Sdl as it tours the National Capital. TFTC dezzabills

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Found this one, and a pile of others, at the Journey or Destination event in Canberra
TFTC - another smiley, and another square I can choose in the game

After a failed mission to join the crew doing the ‘BLACK OPs - Carpe Noctem’ (GC32WN6) cache this weekend due to being unable to get time off work (on Friday and Saturday) and other commitments arising, I did however sweet talk my way into having Sunday off. This then lead me to take a look around and see what was available within my free day to make it a day out. After taking a look around the GC and GCA caches, I found 2 events on the same day close to each other and I decided on attending them both. After this I took a look at what caches I could find along the way and made my trail to make it an enjoyable day out. Something I didn’t expect was, a FTF which was on cache GA13305. This added to the fun. I would like to thank all the CO’s of the caches I found and for the fun and enjoyment I had while finding them.
Today’s Totals: 44 Finds
2 Events
9 GC (GroundSpeak)
33 GCA

This was one of the 29 moveable caches I found and signed today. TFTC

I spent the morning in the company of some incedible cachers from Canberra and Temora at an Event organised by Sol de Lune to enlighten us on the new GCA Game. I for one understand the game better now so thanks to SDL and Black Bunny for enlightening us. The weather was hot and sunny so at times chairs were moved around to stay in the shade. Masses of Movables appeared and were eagerly found but not moved by all present.

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Discovered this moveable at the Journey or Destination event held in Canberra today. Thanks for the cache

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Discovered at the GA talk about the new GA game at John Knight Park, Belconnen

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Playing Journey or Destination? Come and find out a bit more, and maybe grab a moveable or two at the same time.

great to find this one with many others at the meet the movables event.

Found during the meet the movables event

Found during the meet the movables event

Found at the Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park
Thanks for making it available for our entertainment at the event

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Found (but not moved) during the Meet The Trackables event in Brimbank Park.

Headed down to Melbourne for the 'Meet the Moveables' event at Brimbank Park. Lots of moveables in attendance and this was one of them. Managed to sign a lot of logs, along with all the other cachers doing the same thing. A few laughs and a good time was had by all.

A good day to be out and a great event. Also great to see so any older moveables. Thanks for this one, which is now with me in Canberra and will be moved on shortly.

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Found with a pile of moveables at the Meet the Moveables at Brimbank Park today

So many moveable at 'Meet the Moveables' event.

Thanks

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

The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. https://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga13115

A quick pickup of moveables today for a secret meeting to take place in just a little while. Your geocache would like to join the secret activities so it may not move for a little while but it will be safe and sound and will be moved along (and hopefully logged quite a bit) in the not too distant future.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
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GAFF 1

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Travel far

Passed on to Team Ladava in Victoria by baby&Mrs gopher.
Will place it in a new location soon
Thanks for the cache
Team Ladava

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Time to head to the eastern states. At Norseman and about to start the journey across the big plain.

Seen with the Laz

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Attending WA Goes Big 2018

Discovered the cache in the hands of Lazarus

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in my safe hands, to be moved soon

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Recording a zero move to show moveable is still in place.

Out with Chwiliwr researching some more trig locations this time from the Perth 25K map as well as doing some other caches around the area as well as here in the eastern part of Whiteman Park.

Parked near the roadworks at the eastern entrance and then went for a longish walk along the paths and then through the bush.

We got to this cache along the way and made a quick find but did not pick it up as we already have too many to relocate now.

Thanks dezzabills for the cache.

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Out with the better half researching some more trig locations this time from the Perth 25K map as well as doing some other caches around the area as well as here in the eastern part of Whiteman Park.

Parked near the roadworks at the eastern entrance and then went for a longish walk along the paths and then through the bush.

We got to this cache along the way and made a quick find but did not pick it up as we already have too many to relocate now.

Thanks dezzabills for the cache.

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Moved to a shady spot in Whiteman.

Came to check on this chap after a DNF. Found him safe and sound where I'd left him. Doesn't seem to be getting much action here though, so will take him home and find another spot for him.

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no luck here either

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Dropped this chappie off near a lake to check out the long neck tortoises that are out for a wander.

After the event, this motley crew followed me home. As you can see, they are deep in discussion about the next great hiding place and will be out in the wild again soon.

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

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Found at Whiteman Park event.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Discovered 'Santagnome' 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 Dezzabills for the cache.

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Found at Whiteman Park event.

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Discovered at event GA10647.

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NOT at above coordinates.
Awaiting "Moveable & Mystery Madness" event GA10647

In my hands and happy to report is in good condition.
Thank you for the cache dezzabills

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.

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getting ready for event NOT at the coordinates

found

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catching up with lots of friends that he has not seen in months

amazing he was still there after the flood woohoo

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He called out as I left, "Olive my new spot, thanks!".

Found this little guy today. Out for a walk on a lovely track. Hadn't been out this side of Whiteman before. Thanks for a great hide!

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resting with the kangaroos

foud him after all this time away and he is on the move again.

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Back out in the wilds, just off Mundaring Rd.

Grabbed this moveable while wandering past. Will move along soon.

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Visiting a GCA traditional

Back in my hands

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