4th Annual Illawarra/South Coast Get-together Barrack Point, New South Wales, Australia
By The Rats on 20-Feb-10. Waypoint GC222ZY

Its time to put this one to bed, till next year.

Having read everyone's comments it sounds as though a great time was had by all, I know all the Rats did. The change in venue worked well and I think it'll be the new home for this event.
I must apologise for not announcing the winner of the time trial on the day, time certainly got away from me.
It was great to meet so many new faces and as always its good to catch up with all our old friends. Our game has certainly grown alot over the years.

We look forward to seeing you all there next and thanks for making the picnic such a great day.

For anyone who is interested in discovering the TB's & coins that made it to the event please send me an email and I'll send out the spreadsheet.

Sadly we could not make it (again!!!!) this year! It is great to read that everyone had a good time though. I hope that those who collected their shirts are happy with them

See you all at Wagga!

Another great event by The Rats, so many familiar faces these days, but still managed to chat with some new faces as well, all in all a great day! Thanks for having us all along I guesss we'll see you next year....now to log some trackables!

Sorry we could not make it. We just got our permanent residence granted and we just had to arrange a big party for last night. Hope you all had a good day.

Thanks for the event, it was great to meet a few more people. Not much caching done as we spent too mush of the efternoon enjoying the beaches!

New to the game and my first meet but nice to recognise familiar names and give them faces. Extra exciting to come third in the time trial. Finished off the day with another four caches logged in the area.

My first appearance at an Illawarra South Coast event and a very enjoyable day. Had fun eating lunch under the shade of a tree with fellow cachers while the kids lapped it up on the nearby play equipment. The kids even made it down to the beach for a swim.

Took 3 x GCs, discovered 1 x GC and thanks to The Rats for a well organised and enjoyable event.

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Like a fine wine these things just get better with age. This event is always a favourite of ours as it's another chance to catch up with some of those familiar faces and also to meet the new ones. I just can't believe this is the forth one. We liked the change of location, no more battling with that "other" group for the picnic area. It was such a relaxing day sitting under the tree in a large group we almost didn't want to leave but with caching time a-wasting we headed off in search of more local gold!

Thanks to The Rats for another well planned event, great work! I wonder what happened to those Poms that normally join us though? Perhaps they turned up a week early, nope that was two years ago! It would have been good to see more of the locals get there as well!

T: GeoMum's Soccer Cow, GeoKid4 Micro - Boy Geocoin, gd___'s Geocaching NSW 2009 Geocoin, JRR's Traveling Hibiscus, Hgomsk Dutch Geocoin 2008.
L: A few other coins!

Well our day started off good. Crashed the gps uploading gsak files and had to redo. Crashed both iPhones due to a softwear update.
After a reboot of the iphones at mcdonalds it was off too the event. On the way we got a thinking that this event last year was the first event we had attended and didn't know anyone. This then got us thinking of all those we now do know and have got to meet throughput the year and what it was.
On arrival several teams were in the process of completing the time trials and the kids tagged along before we could stop them. Due to this we were unable to do the time trial this year as they already found all the waypoints and could just fill in answers without leaving the start line, we could have won lol.
We enjoyed the day sitting around and talking.

Thanks Dave for putting on another top event and thaks too all who attended from near and far.

Hope to see you all at Wagga in a few weeks time. It's coming up quick.

Well it was certainly nice to catch up with some known seldom seen faces and put faces to other names. Thanks Rats for putting on the show. I will try to make your next one.

A perfect day for caching, with an event in the middle! I left it a bit late, but most of the usual suspects as well as a few new ones were still around, and it was great to to catch up with everyone, and I still had time left over for a few more caches in the afternoon.Thanks to the Rats for organinsing this ever expanding event.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Great event again Mr Rat & The Rat Family. We haven't missed one yet, and have enjoyed every one of the events. Looks like we will be coming back again next year! LOL
Great to catch up with familiar faces & meet some new ones as well, and as always cacth up on some info about some of those mysterious caches.
Pity we had to leave early, but we had a pretty busy day all round - from home to The Event, then to Ashfield & the Woronora Twice) then home again - not all for caching , but we made the most of what we could.
See ya all next year!
Cheers.

Had a nice time at picnic, thank you to the Rats for organising.

Great day,
Thanks for organizing the event.

My apologises, with all the going on's of today I forgot to announce the winner of the time trial. I did however catch up with the winner before they left. They got a few unactivated coins as a prize.

1st place = Steeba 7min
2nd place = Katey Bears 10min
3rd place = Ozvixen & MizMaz 13min

Thanks to Big Matt & Shell who assisted with the prizes.

Arrived a bit late to this one but still had plenty of time for a chat so much so forgot to cook lunch on the bbq.
Good to catch up with Mr Krafty Charlie and meet Mrs KC,Team Cranky Geckos,Rags,Gribbly,and of course
The Host the Rats thanks for a great day......

Thanks for another great event, Rats. Didn't stay long, but had fun and then went off for an afternoon of caching Woot! Just realised MizMaz & I came 3rd in the time trial. Yay!

that was a very fun day. it was nice to meet other geo cachers. me and my fellow companions had a very fun day thanks for the nice day

Thanks for organising this event, Rats, it was a perfect day, and lovely to put faces to some of the geocachers around here. Got some great GCA tips from Tuena and others (nice to see a familiar face! ) then I left early to go and see "Pennies from Kevin" at the IPAC - wickedly irreverant - and managed to pick up a few more caches on the way home. As I said, a pretty perfect day!

Thanks for a great event. I got to meet a whole bunch of new cachers from the South Coast. And of course its always nice to see familiar faces as well.

See you all there!

TheHunterGatherers had to wait till the last minute before knowing if we could make it. Unfortunately events have conspired against us and we can't make it today. Have a great day, and see you in Wagga. THG.

Great event! Well done Rats for organising it. Tbone enjoyed the GPS game. Bubba Bear and Care Bear also came and had fun. Nice to put faces to those caching names. Really enjoyed the new spot. Nice to be close to a playground for those with geo kids.
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Well another great day for an event with plenty of people. I believe this may be the 4th I've attended too!

After ripping around the time trial I managed to come first (with the assistance of Connor from Team Casho- thanks!) and got some great prizes.

Little geo toddler also had plenty of fun in the playground.

A nice day out with fellow geocachers. TFTC!

It was very nice to see you all again! Unforetunately I had to leave early because I have to prepare for travelling to Melbourne tomorrow. I will defenitely be there again next year. Thanks Rats for organizing and for the beautiful T-shirts we now have!!

Had a good time. Thanks all for making it a great day again.
Looking forward to next year.

Thanks to The Rats for organizing the event, I have a perfect attendance rate so far. Good to meet a few more of the regulars & those new to the activity. Also to discover that I have known Rock-hopper for decades!

Had a great time, swapped and saw some impressive travellers, was competitive in the time trial, and sat around chatting until 3pm. Thanks Rats and all the Cachers in attendance.

It was great to see and catch up with a lot of friendly faces as well as meet some new ones. Bessie came along for the day as well. She slept for two hours after so she must have really enjoyed the event. Thanks again to The Rats for all their tremendous effort and hard work which went toward making it such a great day for all who attended.

Thanks to the Rats for organising a great event. Picked up some good hints and cleaned up some dnfs on the way home. We'd be keen to know how we went in the time trial if anyone knows.

Missed out on last year, was not going to miss out on this year. Been too long since we have caught up with some of the people we know from down this way. Excellent location for the event!! great turnout, heaps of people, some travelling from afar.

Grabbed a few coins from the Geo-Sack (tm)

Cheers

Dropping off Ainslie's coin for a visit.

I'll be there.

Looking forward to it! HOpe it's not too late to drop off a TB or 2?

Bug Drop - Sorry about the lateness!

Well we had everything on our side today...great location, great weather, great time will all we met up with...had a great time doing the time trial with the "Gribblets" in tow....Many thanks once again go out to "The Rats" for all their efforts..Krafty Charlie

had fun at the event

Thanks again to The Rats

MizMaz & I should both be there. Looking forward to it.

Bug and coin drop

I'm a probably, most likely, really want to attend.
Homedg

Bug drops

Bug Drop - 3 Travellers in.
See you all tomorrow.
Cheers

got some tb sent to me from Foinavon at would like to go down under

they are

Tiger on the run

Sydney Harbour

The Flying Doctor

Kangaroo

paegle boy

Theres only a few days to go. So far the weather is looking good and the "will attends" is at 25+ so another good turn-out is expected. If your keen, bring your swimmers as the beach isn't too far away.
If you've got some trackables to log into the event can you please do it before Friday night so I can track them on spreadsheet.

Those of you who have ordered ICC shirts, they'll be available for pickup on the day.
See you all there.

Drat! Not gonna be able to make it this year due to family visiting from the UK and wanting to do other things for some strange reason. Hope you all have a good one.

A day at the beach would be nice after all the rain in the mtns lately. Assuming the weather holds we will be there.

Just a few more travellers

Dropping off coins and TB.

Dropping in our current TB.

We can catch up with Tbone's coins on the day!

powerplayX2 will be there minus Geo wife who has to work looking forward to it.

Dropping some travellers.

A few coins to get going again.

we will be going. it will be fun to see everyone their.

tag in

just adding a tb or 2

We should be there - planning to stay at Shellharbour Caravan Site again for the weekend.

We should be there - planning to stay at Shellharbour Caravan Site again for the weekend.

Just dropping off another traveller

Its time to add a few travellers

Hopefully will get all the goonieroos to come to this one.

I'll be there - it will be great to meet some locals!

The CrankyGekkos will be there.

I'll be there too. This was fun last year.

Tbone and I hoping to be there! I will come a looking for hints for some of those caches we can't find. Plus a swim too....

Should be able to come.
Thanks

The KateyBears will be there, thanks for organising.

We should be able to make it .

I hope to be able to attend this

We better attend this one as we live opposite

The Bad man will be in attendance on the day.

We've got non-geocaching family (weirdos!) from the UK visiting that weekend but Mr H will still be there all being well. Surprised to see another Sydney area event recently listed for the same day?
Hopefully see you there...

At least Mr Us should be there, if not the full crew.
Pity a 2nd event has been now listed in Sydney - hope it doesn't effect your numbers Rats.
Cheers

FarmerFrentzen and family will be there.

Early days but I'll attend & try to get the others members of the family to join in as well.
Andrew

i shall be there with my friend seedy stuart

Just spotted this one, doesn't time fly!

We'll be there as usual!

Chip and I will be in the Blue Mountains deep inside Claustral Canyon. This event always seems to coincide with a long planned canyon trip for us!

Oh well, maybe Ding will find his way down to say g'day, he does love playing with the young Cashos!

i will try to get there

do my best to get here

i love events

Just can't wait to get together with a few freinds again. This event has always been fun and we are looking forward to this one.

Shall be there. Maybe late as the kids have tennis on Sat morning.

Had this one already planned in my agenda, so I will be there with the complete family this time!

Team Casho will be there.

Checked the diary and it Mr KC's weekend off. Loooking forward to another great event. Roll on Wagga.

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