A Day at the Seaside Port Elliot, South Australia, Australia
By Allchin on 18-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1JXWR

By all accounts the event was quite successful. Thanks to all those who helped.

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So sorry we didn't make it. We had last minute visitors turn up. We were really looking forward to the event too! Sounds like everyone had fun. Hopefully if it happens again next year we will be able to get there.

Great day got to put some faces to names, learnt some new stuff too Thanks alot to Ken, Margaret & Josie for organisesing today.

[This entry was edited by ajax101 on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3:24:45 AM.]

Thanks Ken, Margaret, Josie (and Ali) for organising a lovely day. It was Great to meet the Victor/Goolwa crown, I'll have to get down there now and find all their caches. Thanks from Alex & Noleen.

S and J went along and we had a great time. We enjoyed the treasure hunt, it was cool and the cricket and when we went hunting for the caches. We did lots of swimming. We had a good time. We hope there is another one here again.

Attended with Polkys Quest!!! Thanks for such a fun day

18/1/2009 10.15am - 5pm Team:A
" A Day at the Seaside"
We had a great day chatting to everyone old hands and new cachers, and new event go'ers, it was also cool to have visitors from "the bay area" in the USA visiting our little part of the world, and trading path tags with them. We'll collect our coins from the event page tomorrow, the bed is calling
Thanks Ken, Margaret & Josie for a great day out.
L: Pathtag FTF , 222, 888
TFTC

[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

With perfect weather, a terrific seaside spot and better-than-expected turnout, this turned out to be event not be missed. There was even time to get a nearby cache and have a swim! And afterwards, we capped off an excellent afternoon with two FTFs. Thanks allchin for a terrific event - very well hosted and catered for. Good effort

What a fantastic day!!!
Thanks to all teams and people that attended making the event so interesting and fun. We loved hosting the event and meeting you all. Known and new cachers alike. A special mention to Alene and Carl for being our international guests, It was a pleasure to meet you and have you visit our favourite holiday destination.
I hope you all enjoyed, we may just have to make this an annual event.
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thanks again
Josie, Ken, Margaret and Ally

Made it a day trip to Victor (well Pt Elliott actually) and a Day at the seaside. Perfect weather and lots of good company, including the visitors from the US who we picked up from their hotel in the city and showed them some good old Australian hospitality. Great to meet you guys.

Met lots of other teams that were new to us and caught up with some old friends. From some of the discussions its seems like it might be time to have some Tips and tricks sessions again - one about GSAK and another about getting the most of of your GPSr!

Picked up some caches on the way home, two that have given us some trouble in the past so it was a great day.

Thank you to Ken, Margaret and Josie. You made everyone feel very welcome and set a great atmosphere for cachers to swap stories and hints. It certainly is a lovely part of the world, thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks Allchin for a wonderful day. We really enjoyed meeting the other cachers. Weather was perfect to match your organisation.

A great day and great to catch up with newer cachers.

a great day to be near the sea and meet some new goecaching friends. Hope to do it again.
Thanks Ken, Margaret & Josie
The kids loved the treasure hunt.

Thanks Guys for a fantastic event down by the sea

Perfect weather, fantastic location and excellant caching company

Many a discussion was held, put many faces to names we have seen on logs, enjoyed the day very much and looking forward to further events

Hope to see you there

Thanks Allchin, Schatzsuche1 and Team Unicycle for the organisation of the event

Attended with Racing Stripes, Maelgwn, MayGrape and K8eus. Thanks for the event, it was great to talk to some like-minded cachers and put names to faces

Sorry to have missed this event. Various circumstances contributed to this, including being rostered on-call this week and not being able to get too far from the city.
My name is shown as an organiser, but my contribution was limited to offering to help. Maybe we can try again next year, though I think my Summer Holiday http://tinyurl.com/7bu6g2 may be over.

Thanks for a wonderfull day out with the kids meeting alot of the faces behind the names we see so often! This was our first event cache and we can't believe how well organised it was! Thanks to allchin for this great event!

From craig polkys quest
Sarah angel_bubi
Hayden Darth polky
Samantha little sammy
& Melissa the grumpy muggle!

It was a bit of a drive down here from the North Eastern suburbs but all I can say is that it was well worth the effort. Both kids loved the day at the beach and both adults enjoyed catching up with old and new friends.

Bring on next years Seaside event.

TFTC

A wonderful day at the seaside. Thanks for a great day out. Great weather and scenery. I got a few caches on the way. Hence the late arrival. Picked up a couple of bronze finds on the wandering way home. Way to go.

Lovely to meet you all. People I know I know. People I don't know I know. People I know I don't know. People I don't know I don't know.



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The weather was perfect and the company was GREAT. It was good to meet some of the 'names' I see on the logs and thank those who gave mini GPS lessons. I thank Ken, Margaret and Josie for a great time and especially organising the childrens event, my grand-children really enjoyed the hunt. Had a great day and stayed a lot longer than I thought I would. I had a laugh when I heard my name mentioned after lunch as those with email on their phones got the just published caches through and 2 of mine were published and they were talking about who hid them. Dilemma for some, do you leave the event and go for FTF and come back or stay. We all had a laugh. I hope this sort of event happens again.

Thanks to Margaret, Josie and Ali who helped to setup the event site and lent a hand during the day.
But in the final reckoning it was all those who attended and in particular, those who shared their knowledge and experience that made the day the undoubted success that it was.
Thanks again to one and all.

Thanks for everyone that organised a great day. It was good to put names to faces and discuss caching with others.

Aleene and I had just arrived in Adelaide the day before and early Sunday the Stanley's stopped by to drive us to the event (They were one of two to offer a lift to the event, Thanks, to Flipper&Co for the other offer).
After stopping for a cache and a visit to a stage of a multi they were working on we made the event.

Thanks to the stanley's for hosting us for the day. Besides the ride they brought enough chairs to include us. Plus extra food so we didn't go hungry. Not that we would in any case since may others offered food and drink. And then there was the caching down and back. Ten caches for the day when we would had been happy with 1.

Allchin and gang for putting this together. There was enough shelter for all. Mrs. Allchin had brought some magazines on SA and a book about Port Elliot for us (haven't checked out the magazines yet, but the book on Port Elliot is interesting) and helped us with a local multi-cache.

Many stories were exchanged, Aleene and I grabbed some of the local caches, and had a very good time.

Thanks, everyone, for the welcome we received and Allchin for putting on the event.

The Flipper's will have their bunch of usual trackable's along for the ride, plus some new ones picked up in our travels, only just activated.

Coin & tb drop!

Will be attending along with Racing Stripes, MayGrape and K8eus. 4 adults - maybe more.

dropping off TB

geocions to visit.

Zytheran and the MiniZyths should be there.

Drat & Double Drat. [:(!][:(!][:(!]
Geokids have a Surf Carnival at North Haven (couldn't get further away hey!)
Well done to Ken, Margaret, Josie & Steve for getting this Event up, have a great day, sorry we wont be there.

Unable to attend I will be Elsewhere

J and S are coming with our grandmother. We are staying in Port Elliot for the school holidays.
2 kids

Dropping off some travellers

The Barra's will be in the area, going to the Murray Mouth with the High Range 4WD club, in the New Barra Caching Truck .

So not sure about a time but will mostly be a drop in around lunch time. There could be about 20 cars with us.

Cheers from Barra

We are currently holidaying south of Adelaide so we will do our best to get there although it may not be until the afternoon.
2 adults 4 boys

Autumleaves wiill try to attend. Live close by and it sounds like a great day. Cheers .

1 or 2 adults and 1 teen

Looking forward to catching up with you again 2 Adults

Stanleys will be there. That's 2 adults.

Two adults for Team Alex

Possible 2 adults.
Aleene and I arrive in Adelaide Saturday afternoon from San Francisco. If we can drag ourselves to the bus terminal in time Sunday morning we will be there.

UPDATE: Thanks to the friendly geocachers down under we now have a ride to the event. No long bus ride for us. Thanks to all that offered up a ride.



[This entry was edited by cer on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 7:02:35 AM.]

Adrian Mc and family will attend and I will also bring along some trackables I picked up from an evvnt in Melton Viccytoria.

Oops, thats 2 x adults and 1 x kid and 1 x baby.

Ramp100 will be there, 2 x adults, 2 x Kids.
Cheers

Polkysquest will attend 1x adult plus kids 19,15,13 & 8. Great spot for an event.....looking forward to meeting a few more cachers!

We will be there also- 2 adults. Bringing moveable cache Australian Geocacher Omnibus that we pickd up in Melton, Victoria during the Christmas Holidays. We would like this to next go to the Riverland Event if possible, anyone planning to attend?

I will be there, just dropping off a few bugs.

The O'Cholio team will be in attendance for this.

I would have loved to attend this one but have a Wedding and a 50th Birthday that weekend !

What a great idea, but unfortunately we will be somewhere between the Riverland and Mt Gambier.

If I can travel to Keith for an event then travelling 2 towns away is a walk in the park.

I will be there. I may have the geo-gkids with me.

I will be in Renmark Water Skiing on that day

Sounds like a brilliant event planned however we wont be able to attend, look forward to your next event though.
Cheers Pamir (Rob)

The "A" team of the [purple] FLIPPERS[/purple]
will be more than happy to attend this event

Cheers from the [purple] FLIPPERS[/purple]

[red] GAYLE[/red]/[red]MARK[/red]

too full to cache at the moment. sounds like a nice day out.

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