Geogaine 2010 Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia
By Zytheran and Team Wibble on 27-Feb-10. Waypoint GC23AWE

Next one is Saturday March 5th 2011

I think I can say the concept was a great success. Thanks to everyone who came along and played and a big thanks to Team Wibble for the Geocoins for prizes.

So when's the next one?...................

Now we are even more sorry we missed this, sounds like you all had a ball.
Bring on the next one.

Starting off the prize winning coin ...

That was so much fun! Cheers Nige for the adventure, it was a good evening walk. I'm definitely up for another.

Thanks Z and Wibbles.
We planned to tackle the hards first but changed our mind when there was talk of underwater and falling off cliffs.
But obviously the Island was the way to go.
Also found GPS without maps somewhat more difficult especially with such an ordinary paper map.
And so added a little extra on to our day with no reward.
Great fun though glad I ordered a medium map for sunday!!

Firstly, I'd like to say thanks to Zytheran and the Wibbles for organising a great evening out.

We entered three teams into the Geogaine - with 11 Fullarton Scouts, myself, Adeguy and one other leader. I still haven't heard all the stories, but we are all keen to do it again

My team went for the mediums without much issue and plenty of fun. We walked most of the way and picked up two 'very easy's before running the last 500m back to sign in with 30 seconds left on the clock.

Newbie's team were our superstars, going for all the 'hard' caches on granite island. They tell me the 'very easy's were harder than the hards. Go figure

And picking up the wooden spoon of the evening was Rod's team. I'm not actually sure which ones they went for, because they were drowned out by Newbie's team asking what prize they were going to get for being the best Fullarton team

Thanks again, we had a great time and came home with lots of exciting stories to tell our families
TFTC, Bek-theraccoon

Ps. Distances travelled
Team Bek - 14.5km
Team Newbie - 17.7km
Team Rod - 8.4km

What Bek said Thanks!

Congratulations Zytheran and Wibble. We think you pulled this off very well. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and would be keen to do this again. A little more focus on strategy might have served our group well, but we were too busy enjoying the company of our companions. We got a smiley - we are geocachers first of all and have our priorities in order. And we came second, which is good. Well, they called our name out second anyway!

I was surprised at how well I pulled up this morning, but I think tomorrow's story might be different.

Thank you for the effort you put in to provide us with this opportunity for a different experience.

Thoroughly enjoyed this event. In great company with Matmob we headed over to the island to do the so called hardest first. We had a lot more trouble with the Easy ones, mainly trying to get through all the streets around there. The Rogaining looked fun as well. Very well organised (thanks wibbles and Zytheran). Would definitely be interested in doing it again. The only disappointing thing is not being able to find more.
Wonder how it might have went if all the waypoints were given initially as it may have prevented the teams all bunching up on top of each other at the first waypoints.

TFTG(eogaine)

We had a blast - Cached and I dragged the oldest brat boy and his mate along, don't think Roy has ever done so much physical exercise in a single year, and we were certainly feeling it by the end too - great idea to combine the two!

We had a blast. We've not done so much exercise in a while, and we certainly did last night. A real physical challenge for us. Enjoyed being pushed to walk what we would normally have driven if caching.

As a suggestion, felt there wasn't enough of a points difference between the difficulty levels.

Also, cannot recommend the Port Elliott YHA highly enough. A 5 star backpackers if ever there was one.

Thanks

Cached

Well that was fun! 2 and 3/4 hours doing a brisk 13.3 km walk around Victor Harbour and collecting 11 finds - Competitive geocaching at its best!

Nomad Penguin & Stealth Ninja Penguin's logs really cover it all - the mysterious stalking by the Zytheran paparazzi as we made our way around the course, the friendly(ish) rivalry with Alex and Sushilord who seemed to be pacing us, and the surprisingly easy find at control point 80.

Control point 61 was probably the highlight, with over a dozen cachers arriving just after us to help scour the area. Had to keep a straight face when Skippy managed to find the submerged cache, spirit the stamp back to our logsheet, and get it back in the water before anyone realised what was happening. Then at control point 43, we discovered that kangaroos can climb trees. Kind of.

It's a shame we had to walk past all those normal caches on the way , but we had to stay focussed. Looks like I'll be back to revisit some of those spots we went zipping past.

Thanks to Nomad Penguin, Stealth Ninja (pacesetter) Penguin & Skippy, for teaming up as the awesome Skipping Flippering Fire Breathing Cachers (or whatever it was we were called ).

Thanks to Zytheran and Team Wibble for organising the event - it was a blast!

One of the things we like about geocaching, is the new and interesting experiences we get to have, and this event was one of them. What a lot of fun we had!

The Kettle boys think that maximum fun comes from maximum challenge so, for them, there was no other option than to head straight to the hard controls first. Having found all of those in the first hour we headed to the easy ones next (thinking that we would complete them in a similar time), before going back to do some of the mediums. However, we underestimated the distance we would have to cover to find those easy controls, and only managed to find nine controls all together.

Total distance covered: 15.8km

The legs were a bit sore after that, but we would certainly do it again, and might try one of the normal rogaine events. (The cycling rogaine sounds like it would be interesting).

Thanks Zytheran and Wibbles for great organisation and a great concept. Hopefully, this was only the first and there will be more to come!

That's what I'm talking about ,
After attending the Mexican's City Scramble event last year I prefer this type of activity.
The last time we had something like this was back in 2003,
"Cache-opoly" 2003 An Event cache by Slider & Smurf and Maccamob

My legs were sore that night and the next day but it didn't stop me from finding another 46 caches the next day, some were up to a Km walk too

I was looking at holding one similar to this in Adelaide soon and this just gave me some more ideas, even doing one that involves bikes

Thanks Mr Z and Wibbles and I'm glad the weather was cooler then the previous weeks

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Zytheran and Wibbles for a fantastic event. I had so much fun and would love to do another one. You've started something now. Will use a little more strategy next time and a little less walking/running. 17 kms in the 3 hours was a long way. Thanks again for a fun, well organised event.

Really enjoyed the event went with froghoppin. I hope their will be a similar event so I can leave froghoppin behind, thanks for hosting this event it was great fun

A great concept, thanks Z & TW for your organising efforts.

Being a rogainer I found this event a bit intimidating by having the flight plan sorted after 5 minutes, I'm used to the hours of looking, planning, calculation, relooking, replanning, recalculation required for a rogaine.

Any wait for a bush geogaine is going to be too long.

We were looking for something special for our 1000 milestone. This was a perfect choice. Being interested in rogaining, but not feeling that our fitness level would be up to the long rogaines, this was a great chance to try something similar but without the long distances and times. We teamed up with TiedyeSmileys for this event, and our first task was to decide which areas to tackle first. We agreed to begin with the hard ones, then try for the medium, then if we had time to do some others. So off we strode to Granite Island (where is that tram when you need it? ) Found the first cache quite quickly - all the muggles must have wondered why the heck all these people suddenly felt the need to go under the jetty! Completed the other 2, nearly getting blown off the edge! Now for Control 80 - as we approached we were advised by another team that the stamp had gone missing out of the cache, and that we should take a photo to verify that we had visited. So we did that, only to turn around and discover an intoxicated fisherman with the stamp in his hand [:(!] So we asked him to stamp our card, for which he tried to wheedle $20 out of us! We then convinced him to put the stamp back where he found it - it's lucky that cache even survived the day! Now with the hard ones out of the way we headed to the Medium area. That looked simple, but we wasted quite a bit of time (not to mention effort!) walking uphill only to discover a no-through road. The next problem was a fence around the school - this made quite a bit of extra walking. 60 was the last point we had time for, sorry we missed 61 - that would have been fun. Staggered back to the HH with about 5 mins to spare. We walked 11kms in total, found 8 caches, and managed to finish in 7th place. The massive amount of pizzas was very welcome! A big thank you to TiedyeSmileys for graciously allowing us to accompany them, even though they could have gone a lot faster without us! And of course a huge thank you to Zytheran and Wibbles for organinsing this - it was absolutely fantastic and we can't wait until the next one.

Great event! Thanks and congratulations to Zytheran and the Wibbles for creating the concept and putting in the set-up effort. This should now be incorporated into the SA Geocachers annual calendar.
Thanks to Sushilord for driving me on, next time I'll be fitter and we can run the course.

What else can you say, but a great event.
We arrived early, but there wasn't much need to, as it doesn't take 2 hours to put 4 sets of co-ords into the Oregon!
So instead we went and warmed up by climbing the bluff, via the goat track. It was windy enough up there that we nearly saw penguins fly

On the way back from our warm up we decided on our plan of attack, this was maybe our only downfall, as we could have done one thing better, but none the less we were happy with our efforts.
A quick run around the island, and all the points were ours. Being first back off the island (it sounds like an episode of survivor!) we knew that we would be doing well. After covering a few more km's we found ourselves passing the HH. Nevermind still 35 mins to go, so time for 2 more finds.
As we made our way back to GZ the Oregon ticked over to 100m to go and cramp set in, but with only so little to go the only option was to push through, besides A's body had given up 30 minutes earlier.
A bit of fruit, some pizza, and some nice new folding chairs that we got for xmas, and the night was set. All up we walked exactly 14km, plus the warm up event.

We were very happy with our 4th placing, and the owl will take pride of place in our new house.

Well done to Z for pulling it off, and the (missing) Wibbles for their assistance.
The event fitted in well with the rogaine, and everyone got a good chance to learn what the other event was about. It's only good for each sport. Perhaps it would have been good to get some geogainer's to stay around for the orienteering the next morning, as I'm sure some would enjoy it as well.
The stamp cards were great being waterproof, but the stamps didn't survive too well. I'd keep the cards, and change the stamps, only because our map sheets came off much worse for wear.
Might need to get Alex on board to sell a few Oregon's the next time it's run, as some people need to upgrade and have maps rather than just an arrow.

Great event, and congrats have to go to the roadkill, the out of season dragon, the wandering penguin, and the MIP (Missing In Photo) penguin.

Took stiff & sore legs, left foot prints.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Well now... where to start... at the begining of course. We enlisted a couple of other geoching teams to team up with us, and we thought we knew what we were doing, after all we were there for the smilie and getting lost in style was the name of the game. We calcuated we covered 11.6km on our walk, Mark has 4 [red]BLOOD[/red] blisters on his feet to proove it. This also prooved the A team of the Flipper's ARE NOT fit.... need to work on that. We covered the Very Easy & Easy courses, not sure if the terminology would be correct, nor were we thinking we'd cover as much territory in the time frame. we were late getting back as we just could not walk/crawl any faster. As the sun arose on Sunday the moans and groans were evident, so only 1 quick cache before we departed back to the city to rest the weary bones, otherwise neither of us will make it to work this week.
Thanks for the event and we'll have to give it another go, next time... maybe....
cheers
[green]Gayle & Mark[/green]

What a night, teamed up with some fellow cachers to pound the pavement around Victor, formulated plans of attack only to throw them out once we discovered the positions of the other caches . We covered more kilometers than any of us expected and will realise this when we get up in the morning. Thanks for a very well organised event [^] of which we enjoyed very much as well as the catch up over pizza's at the presentations of which we narrowly fended off the wooden spoon.

Thanks again

Froghoppin

After sleeping in this morning, I'm surprised to find I'm the first to log! .

We met up with the rest of the gang to register and collect our maps. Some high-powered strategising ensued (we agreed to walk and find caches) before we quickly turned to more serious matters and headed up the bluff for a spot of light caching to fill in the time.

In the last five seconds before the event began, we realised that we hadn't chosen our first destination . With that determined, we proceeded at a leisurely pace. Arrived at the first control point to find that the party had relocated from the hash house. We soon got into the swing of things.

The scene at control point 61 was highly amusing. The party had shifted here and there were people looking in all manner of places, many of which could not possibly have fit a sistema of that size . After much frivolity (accompanied with Z laughter) we had our card stamped and we were off to continue our adventures. Z was waiting for us at 43---how does he do that?

I was worried that we'd left our dash Granite Island a little late and we hotfooted it into the headwind. After some payback at 62 , we proceeded to find Z waiting (of course) at 80---that's the easiest 4.5 Z terrain I've ever done. 90 was a breeze although I washed off the evidence at home. Even managed to sneak in another very easy control point on the way back to the hash house.

Everywhere I looked, there was Alex and Sushilord. I was astounded to find that the Skipping Flippering Fire Breathing Cachers (or something like that) had pipped them at the post.

Great concept and I had a lot of fun. There was quite a lot of buzz as people darted over Victor Harbor. The locals were either bemused or very helpful although I felt rather sorry for the confused young boy who proudly led us to a rogaining control point, only to be told that we were looking for something else.

Thanks Z, Wibbles and all other organisers to planning and executing a great event.

Our story started in the afternoon when we picked up our Japanese homestay student from the High School around 2:30 pm. Out of the 20 students thee was one that had been sick from the airport to the school and yes it was ours.

We got him home and settled briefly, then it was time to load everyone in the car to go to Victor. It wasnt long and our Japanese friend was ill again. Turn around and drop him and Jenny at home and we were on our way again. The team had now dropped from 5 to 3 and it was now 4:30 pm. We were going to be late.

The drive was going well until about 5km out of Victor when someone decided it was fun to drive at 60kph in a 100 km zone all the way to Victor with the biggest train of cars behind him and no opportunities to pass.

We arrived at the scout hall just in time to hear 5-4-3-2-1 and this crowd of Geogainers heading out the gate. Headed in and grabbed the maps and stuff and headed out still not knowing the rules of engagement.

We decided to grab the very easy ones close then the kids wanted to go to Granite Island so it was then off to do the hard ones. On the southern side of the island, the wind was so strong it was difficult to keep your feet. After picking up all the hard ones we headed south along the coast to make a start on the next series.

Of course in all this the 13 year old daughter was properly kitted up with thongs even though she was told to wear sneakers. But you cant tell a teenager.

It was getting close to 8:00 pm so it was time to grab what we could and head back to the scout hall. It was getting dark and the GPS was telling us that it would take 18 minutes to get back and we had 15 minutes left so time to pick up the pace.

With a little gallop at the end, we made it with 10 seconds to spare to the 8:30 deadline.

With all the dramas of the day we still managed a 5th overall so we are happy. Thanks Z and Wibbles for organising the day and looking forward to the next one.

What do you get when a marsupial, a dragon and a couple of penguins go for a walk? 'Skipping Flippering Fire Breathing Cachers' or 'Surreal Circus'? Not sure, we never worked out our team name.
Feeling tired Nomad and I left the igloo and headed down south. We got there early and tried for a quick kip in the car before meeting the rest of our team. After meeting up we went for a couple of caches before the event.
Leaving HH I wasn't sure what to expect but just hoped to keep up with the others pace and enthusiasm. I saw Firesafe arrive just as we were leaving. He must have come straight from work as he still had ash in his hair We eerily encountered Zyth at several locations and I wasn't too sure if this was sheer coincidence or sadism with a personalised touch (hey, the man was smiling and seemed very pleased to see confused, puffing victims of his game).
After heading uphill, sliding downhill, climbing uphill and walking downhill again we headed off to the island. No time to check on the androids today. The wind blew us back to shore and we made it back to HH. Not sure why it's called a Hash House but someone figured that others would have a serious case of the munchies and hence all the pizzas.
The scores were tallied and the placings declared. On the way home, afterwards, I was thinking of the songs 'playing to win', 'the winner takes it all' and (my favourite of them) 'everyone's a winner'. Of course it's not winning or losing but how you play the game.
We headed back to the igloo and decided to skip the tea and go straight to the nest (after washing off the 'tan' I gained during the day) for a nice rest.
Not too sure about this gaine stuff; geogaine/ rogaine. I'm more into static pursuits i.e. no gaine = no pain. But that would be kind of boring wouldn't it?
Anyway, cool idea and congrats to the organisers for pulling off a neat event straight out of the bag. Thanks to Skip and WD40 for being our friends too. Nice work guys.
Thanks for the event

Dropping in some TB's

Dropping in some geocoins to visit.

Weather Forecast:

TOWNS AND CITIES for Saturday:
Victor Harbor 16 to 23 Fine. Windy.

Remember to bring sunscreen as you'll be walking for 3 hours, plenty to drink and a torch/headset for when it gets darker.

Now that we are commitment free we are having a go and teaming up with a couple of other teams, sounds like fun and looking forward to Saturday, payment has been made and form submitted

Attending with froghoppin, entry has been submitted on their form see you all there

Hamishgrovers would have loved to attend but have to attend an engagement party. Hope you all have a great time!

Due to work commitments, which I haven't been able to get out of, we are withdrawing our 'will attend' for this event.
Unless of course someone else wants to volunteer to teach map and compass stuff to 40 army recruits up at Murray Bridge army range???

Hope you all have fun and if you hold another event like this in the future I will just have to chuck a sickie if it clashes with work.

We've decided to not do the orienteering on the Sunday morning, but we will come down for this.

Entry form being sent today!

I will be there (it's only a short waddle over from the island ). Entry form for the team has been submitted---the penguins are teaming up with some other animals (oops, cachers ).

Looking forward to the event.

We will be there.
Looking forward to trying something different.
Entry form submitted.

We would like to have a go. I've just emailed our entry form to SARA.

Just a reminder that entries are due this friday (19th Feb) for those participating in the geogaine, later entries will attract a late fee.

Remember that you need to fill out an entry form at http://sa.rogaine.asn.au to participate - a "will attend" log on this page is not enough.

So far we only have one team registered on the rogaining site.

I'll be there

Looking forward to something a bit different. Not in it to win it, but interested to find out a little more about rogaining. Just noticed that although quite a few have logged their attendance on this site, there is only one team listed on the rogaining site. Do you want trackables at this event?

Mr and Mrs TiedyeSmileys will be there with hiking shoes on only, just power walking for us.

I can't go. Wrong weekend for me

I was planning on doing the rogaine, but I will give this concept a go. Thanks Z and Team W for putting something different together.

I will now have to find a partner to make up a team (Veteran age group - any takers?).

Freddo and a tadpole will be there.

Will post closer to the time if we will be able to make it or not, as it's the weekend before we move house, so there could be some very frantic packing of boxes happening that weekend!

Now to build a super-veteran team....

there is a 90% chance i will be there
looking forward to it

Looks like we might have the whole team here for this one - two which will be coming from softball

I'll be there with K8eus and maybe a group of kids from Fullarton Scouts.

Will not come to this one because I've got a surflife saving carnival on so Thanks anyway

Alas, the 27th is the day our French exchange student returns home. I doubt if the clan would let me skip that. Thanks anyway.

I will be there.
The missus and kids will be along aswell.

Bugger - Junior Surf Life Saving Titles that weekend. TWDG would love to have gone to this 'world first' event. Oh well, next time. Have fun you guys.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 35° 32.796 E 138° 37.503
Distance From Old: 173.6 feet or 52.9 meters
Woohoo, HashHouse guess was pretty damn close.

team "A"

This sounds like a great day to get some well needed excercise..... 2 from team A will attend ( hopefully not made idiots of themselves.

Mark/Gayle

Normally this sort of thing is right up my alley, but with Mrs O due to drop her bundle at about this time I highly doubt I'll be there.

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