WWFM VIII - Mandurah Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia
By WA K Team on 04-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2VX9J

Listing Archived now all event tasks are complete

All people who logged on the day have also logged an "attended" on line.
The souvenir has now been issued by Groundspeak so its time to archive this event. Thanks to all for making it a success.

So dissapointed we couldnt make this, as others put it life got in the way. Even though we are in Mandurah and after setting an alarm the day and then an hour before it. Maybe next time looks like it was fabby, well done WA K Team excellent turn out.

Really wanted to come to this but life got in the way... Maybe next time

We had massive intentions to come because we wanted to meet and greet with more fellow geocachers. However one team members knee reconstruction just a few days prior to the event prevented our attendance, maybe another time. I hope all of you had a fantastic time! will meet in the future

Awesome event well done to all involved

we will be leaving margaret river shortly, see you there

Attended with Wasers5. Lots of blue!!

This entry was edited by Teamtriplefive8 on Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 09:41:27 UTC.

O hai! Nyan!

Awesome, tftc! Picked up team firesafe trackable and swap snoopy for a step counter

We were very excited to reach the foreshore and soon see others start to remove jackets and start to move towards GZ. We hope everyone enjoyed the Jelly Belly beans. Left "In search of H", took "Blingg and Mud's Kookaburra" and "Amazing Racing Polar Bear". Also left and took swappables.
Thanks to all organisers and attendees, but particularly WA K Team & Paynetrain. Cache well done!

This entry was edited by capanira on Monday, 06 June 2011 at 00:01:46 UTC.

What a lot of inconspicuous people. Oh there was a lot!
I loved the ballons, great idea.
15mins later. Everyone had gone.
Thanks for my first event cache

Thanks for organizing this great event paynetrain and WA K Team. It was nice to meet some fellow cachers.

Thanks very much, it was good fun.

Edit: Wrong date

This entry was edited by aussie-O's on Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 02:38:34 UTC.

Great turn up. Thanks to everyone for coming along and making it all a success.

WA K Team - Mike & Sue
Paynetrain - Kate

My first geo-caching event. Dropped off Eureka Stockade Flag Mini Coin to start it on it's travels. Thanks to the organisers and volunteers. It was nice to meet some fellow cachers.

Thanks for the event AND the geo-coin!! Never had so much fun flashing.

This entry was edited by BlaKids on Saturday, 04 June 2011 at 10:31:03 UTC.

What a fun occasion and a chance to meet with some of those elusive Geocachers!! Thanks WA K Team for all your work in organising this event. We are also pleased that our 20 helium balloons were appreciated. We look forward to a next WA Geocaching gathering. TFTC

Thank you for this event. It was a great final of my visit here in Australia.
[green]Now I can travel back to Germany and I'm proud to say: 'I attended a WWFM event. And it was in Australia'[/green]

[blue]TFTE
jo_mu from Germany[/blue]
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Had an awesome time at the event! Loved watching everyone just zone in to the one spot like a group of zombies! This has gotta be one of the best kinds of events!
Thanks for the balloons too. We had people asking us as we walked away what they were for. "Uhhm... a game. "

Found it! Homed in on large mob of blue people surrounding an ammo box. Thanks for putting this event on. Met some great people. And thanks Jacaro44 for the blue balloons and thanks to whoever supplied the Jelly Bellies. My definite favourite was strawberry jam. Beware, the sizzling cinnamon has a bit of a kick.

What a great idea, met some fabulous people.
Was so happy that I won a geocoin
Thank-you

SL Swapped TB

Thanks to jacaro44 for balloons for the geograndkids to release at end of event

Had a great time. Good to put some faces to names.
Thanks WA K Team

A great Event! And I even won a GC in the raffle!
Loved the balloons. Thanks so much to WA K Team for their suburb organizational skills.

great event, awesome, hope something like this happens regularly in the Mandurah area. Geokids loved it.

SL Cheers

What a great first event, this is one to remember. I enjoyed meeting skulduggery, fairwaydrivers and ClydeE. I also enjoyed meeting other people. I look forward to the next event in WA. TFTE (Thanks for the Event)

What a great event this was, and very effective to watch as well put a lot of faces to a lot of names too, well done

Thanks for organising guys

Thanks for organising a great event. I saw many happy smiling faces. Nice to meet fellow cachers. Took 2 GCs

Yay! We won a travel tag!! thanks for organising this event, i found out about it while i was at work this morning, and quickly came straight down after i finished, so unfortunatley Oaks wasnt with me, But he loves his new travel tag, and is thinking up something to send it on its journey! I loved the idea of this, cant wait to attend the next one! Hope everyone had a safe drive home

Thanks WA K Team. Great time!

Great 15minutes! Our first geocaching event.

Something different!. Thanks for a great event. I was also lucky enough to win a GeoCoin

Good little catchup event
Was lucky to win TC Cat
Thanks and good work to WA K Team

Attended my first event with duncdonut73 and it was great to meet so many fellow cachers. Well done to the organisers!

Great Day, It was good to see all the people turn up... Ended up spending the whole day out caching adding another 7 in total around Mandurah & Waroona. Thank you very much for organising the event...

Great event!! it was good to meet up with so many cachers we knew and the many we hadn't met but seen their names on the logs
TFTE

Enjoyed our first caching event and meeting a number of fellow cachers during the afternoon at the various caches around the foreshore. Thank you and well done to the organisers.

Lovely to be a part of this today. Great planning and a really successful outcome.

I was flashing a smile to everyone after the event today who was wearing blue, but even if they weren't cachers, they say a smile can brighten anyone's day...

Our first event cache, and so far from home too. Thanks for the fun

Found it. There was the massive bunch of people!

This entry was edited by Devar on Saturday, 04 June 2011 at 09:19:32 UTC.

Great!! Our very first cache where we met old rogaining friends who are addicts

Great Event, well organised, and a pleasure to put some faces to the usernames you read in the logs. Thanks WA K Team, you did a fantastic job. Grabbed some trackables to move on soon.

What a great event, we LOVED IT !!!! great turn up and great to meet some other cachers. best of all was getting FTF! yahooooooo! thanks for a great day, see u all again soon.

update tbs

Wasn't sure what to expect but it was a great event. Thank you WA K Team for organizing it.

thanks K Team for a great event. was lots of fun, spent the rest of the day searching in Waroona area.

Dropping off some TB's for the Event..
These TB's were collected on my around Australia trip, Each has a story that goes along with it, If you want to know, Come talk to me about it..

Cheers
See you at the event..

Dropping off trackables. Anyone catching the train from perth?

will be dropping of a TB

TBs

Dropping off some TB's for this event.

We'll be tagging along to represent Welsh geocachers in WA =)

will be attending this event

Am adding a "dropped off" log for "In search of H" - since we are still holding it, it may as well attend the event. Am happy if someone else wants to move it on, but otherwise will take it with us again and place in an "H" cache soon.

Cookies and Pie will attend, unless the wind changes

Thanks for organising this bizarre event WA K Team and Paynetrain. The Skulduggeries intend to attend.

The Blinggs hope to attend

We're making a flying visit to family this weekend, just a few km from the event - how convienient! Our schedule will be pretty packed, but if we can get away for 15 minutes we might be able to attend this event.

Will be there.

I'll be there, should be good fun.

Looks like I will be attending since my previous appointment has been postponed, so will see you all down there...now to find something blue, borrowed...oops, wrong event...

The four of us will be there. Looking forward to it. Will bring a TB to swap.

Hopefully will be there!

Dropping off these two TBs which have come from Kalbarri

OK - some last minute instructions / updates for the event

Logging on the Day
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When you get to the cache location you will be given a log sheet please complete all information as follows
1) Your Geocaching log name
2) The number of people in your group
3) Any comments
4) Any Trackables you put (or will put) into the container
Fill the sheet in and put it in the ammo box. The log sheets will be used for
1) Drawing out the FTF and other prizes
2) Validating your on-line log
3) Reporting attendance numbers to the global organisers.

TBs and Geocoins
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We will have a container (not the ammo box) for you to drop and take TBs and geocoins. To make things easier on the day please log any trackables into the event cache prior to the event. This makes it easier for people to log a retrieve when they get home. Please share and show them around as we have some newbies on the day who who like to see the variety available. Also log a retrieve ASAP and move the trackable on.
I have logged in a number of TBs and geocoins already

Swaps
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There will be a second container with some swaps in it for the geokids (old and young ).
Normal rules apply - swap items of equal or greater value

Prize Draws
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The prize draws, using the log sheets in the ammo box will be as follows
1) Draw for FTF honors and Signal FTF mini geocoin to keep
2) Draw for 2 WWFM VIII geocoins to keep
3) Draw for 3 WWFM VIII event tags to keep

Geocaching.com Event Souvenir
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Not sure how this works yet but if you log your attendance on-line within 2 weeks of the event you will be eligible to get the WWFM VIII event souvenir from Geocaching.com

See you all there

Dropping in some TBs and Geocoins ready for the event

This entry was edited by WA K Team on Monday, 30 May 2011 at 10:54:00 UTC.

We will be there. Sounds like fun.

I have "dropped" 2 WWFM VIII geocoins into the cache. We will hold a draw of the logs in the cache after the photo for 2 lucky people to take them home.

I also have 2 more coins for anyone who wants to do a trade on the day.

I hope to add some of the WWFM VIII event tags to the cache later in the week and will include these in the draw as well.

See you all on the 4th.

Looking forward to it

We are hoping to be there. Geokid 1 has been wanting to do a flash mob for ages!

capanira family will attend (hopefully all 4 of us, but you never know when there is a teen involved!). Am trying to rope in the geo's who introduced us too.

I will certainly be there!

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this event due to the other arrangement that I have already booked on the same day. I'll be thinking of you all and have a great time. Cheers.

I'll try to come to this event. Hopefully I can finish my work here in Australia untill this day. Otherwise I will try to stop my work earlier on this day for attending.
This will be a great final for my visit in this country.

[blue]jo_mu from Germany[/blue]

not happy . would love to have been part of this one'
will be on the way back from bali that afternoon.
(anyone doing a video of the gathering?)

Sticking this in my calendar; will bring geo-buddies...

have always wanted to attend a flash mob, great idea will be there with the geo-kids

BlaKids and I should be able to attend this event (5 people in all). It looks good and it is a great excuse to go do some Mandurah caches. Just 3 Questions:
(i) How big is the cache (Micro, lunchbox, etc)?
(ii) Will it cost anything?
(iii) Will we be able to drop Travel Bugs in this cache?

Thanks, loubla

Thanks WanderingAus, I have changed yellow to blue in the offending text. I originally had for people to wear something yellow but Mrs K suggested that people, especially blokes, are more likely to have something blue than yellow, so I bowed to superior fashion knowledge.

Dropped in the Signal FTF Micro which will be allocated by draw from the cache.

In answer to Ioubla's questions

1) The cache will be an ammo box - it will be in plain view so you won't miss it

2) There is no cost involved.

3) You cannot drop TBs in the cache. It is effectively only active for the 15 minutes of the event, remains "open" on line so people can log their attendance and then gets archived. So if you put one in it will get trapped. There are a few caches within walking distance of the event that can accepted TB's - can even suggest GC2RAGX - PMC3 Mary McLarty which is a 700ml Sistema and can take some TBs.

grrrrrrrrr another missed opportunity.... sorry no go for me again, Perth Urban Max on that day so should be exhausted and suffering by then.............

Yippee, as it looks at the moment, I should be able to undertake a flash visit to Mandurah on this day, here is hoping

I would do a "needs Maintenance" log but thjat's not available.

Need a slight amendment to the phrase "uncovering their yellow clothing item".

Regrettably I expect to have already departed on an annual "Climatic Refugee" trip, first long stop Darwin.

Not sure whether we'll get there in time for GC2TKGK WWFM-VIII- DARWIN by dbanksy, but I'll be trying.

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