BIG Little Event Nelson, Victoria, Australia
By jgc3 on 18-Jan-13. Waypoint GC3JC6J

See you at BLE II

Details are live on www.BIGLittleEvent.com regarding BLE II..

Hope to see you there at Naracoorte SA 2014.. with World Heritage Naracoorte Caves.. Bool Lagoon.. and more.. there's plenty to see and do..

This is the final announcement we'll make on here.. all information is now available on the website..

The first BLE will be getting archived soon.. so thanks again to all those teams that made the event such a success..

Thanks..

Regards
James

Hi all,

You might want to keep the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Oct 2014 free... WINK WINK

I've booked it for BIG Little Event II - official announcement and the website will be
showing updated information on location etc NEXT Wednesday 13th Feb. 2013

In the tradition of the first event we've already got some of the things you liked about the first locked in..

Free Face painting
Free Bouncy Castle
Free Entertainment / Concert

And this time...

You can bring your PETS..
Lots of level powered campsites
And you are welcome to enjoy a quiet drink at the event site..

We have a surprise or two in store.....

And for those of you that might like to attend..

We have some exclusive PT's that you can only get if you attended BLE number one.. We will not be making these available to anyone else...

Plus for those that come and register early (once new website is live after next Wednesday 13th Feb 2013..) an "Early Bird" PT being designed now and will be sent out in coming months... also only available to people whom get registered and paid early.. you'll still receive all the regular goodies in your event bag..

We'll also have a few PT swap meets organised for the event with TWO more unique BLE designs ONLY
available at the Event during those meetings..

And if you CAN'T get enough BLE goodness?! We're also offering a LIFETIME BLE PASS.. no more
registration FEES EVER.. just a once only discounted payment... and YES we're already organising BLE III...

More to come... the clock is ticking.. hope to see you all again for BLE II...

You're welcome to drop me an email if you have any questions.. but I can't tell you everything yet.

Regards
James

A great event to reach my 600th find. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this.

LOST PROPERTY:

Hi,

It's come to my attention some items were found and probably left by the same person.

If you've misplaced something let me know what it is and if I have it, I'll be happy to post it to you.

Thanks
James

Thank you for a wonderful weekend. Rubber Soul were a great choice for entertainment. Sunny days, lots of caches & great company. What more could one want!

Wow, Wow, Wow, what an awesome event.
As soon as the word got out that there was going to be an a event in Nelson, GeoMum was hooked and wanting to attend The Big Little Event after attending the Oz Mega in 2012. It was only days after knowing about the event, that we had organised time off work and booked our accommodation, and we were gearing up to attend. With every post that jgc3 had posted the excitement grew and the days felt like forever before the event was here.
The day finally arrived, we packed the car a 3am and had began our journey towards Nelson. No fire threats were going to hold us back. We traveled and collected some caches on the way and we were mystified by the collections of shoe hanging off a farm fence just out of Portland and of course grabbed a cache while we were here. We were sadden by the burnt trees on the Nelson-Portland road from the bush fires here only two weeks earlier. We were so glad the this didn't effect the 'Big Little Event' that we were attending.
We arrived at the event and were greeted by the welcoming committee' and then settled into our comfortable and clean dormitory style accommodation. (A flash back of school camps.)
The event was a people friendly event and all cachers were easily approachable as we laughed and swapped stories of our finds and DNF's. Each cacher on the road was easily identified by flying Australian flags on their cars as we waved to each other in passing, and saying "There goes another cacher!"
We met new cachers from Toy Hunters on the Bingo night and on the boat trip with Bon and Ben, and the Encouragables and Scullracers on random hunts for caches, to meeting Quasar at the night cache and then again while canoeing over to the island for the 'Australia Felix August 20 Flour bags' cache (Thanks to Snap happy for the loan of his canoe.) and finally meeting Parallel Sticks at the 'Angry Birds Nest' tree cache in Portland. It was great meeting them all while we were all on our own caching missions. It was also great catching up with Happy Snap once again during the Sunday night entertainment performance.
The weather was fantastic as we spent most of the weekend casually searching for caches in the Nelson and Mt Gambier areas and exploring the local tourist spots. The beautiful coast of Nelson and the amazing Blue Lake, Umpherston Sinkhole and the Cave Gardens in Mt Gambier. We even enjoyed fish n chips on the grass by the mouth of the Glenelg River.
Many caches to find and equally as many Munzees. It was a fantastic weekend had by all.
Thanks to James and Charmaine and thanks to their supporting team Tanya and Wayne and other family members, friends and volunteers who all chipped in to help run the Big Little Event. It all ran smoothly thanks to the effortless work of these people.
We enjoyed the the bingo night and the performances from Rubber Soul and Mahalia and Beau. We enjoyed the boat trip and canoe cache. We e enjoyed sightseeing and all the local and BLE caches. We had a ball.
Groundspeak have their definition for a Mega Event all wrong. This Big Little Event was a MEGA in itself.
* MEGA Fun,
* MEGA Caches,
* MEGA Munzees,
* MEGA Laughter,
* MEGA Kilometers,
* MEGA Entertainment,
* MEGA Beauty,
* MEGA Friendly People,
* MEGA Effort from James and Charmaine.
Thanks for all the organisation and hard efforts for this Event. It gives other events a run for their money.
To top it off we collected a Geocoin.
We concluded our trip with an overnight stay in Warrnambool and a drive along the Great Ocean Road onto the 12 Apostles completing a number of Earth Caches.
Once again thanks for bringing us to Nelson and thanks for an awesome event.

Attended the Big little event as Captian Tanya. The event was great. I had great Big fun. Thanks James and Charmainne for all your efforts.

Had an excellent weekend catching up with some friends traveling down together, enjoyed some time with some friends at the event new to geocaching & had a great time making new friends & catching up with cachers, wether it be out on the field near a cache, listening to music, or playing a game of cards. In all an enjoyable weekend & turned out to be fantastic weather for camping. Oh, we also grabbed a few caches as we explored the area, setting a new record for the number of caches in a month. Thanks JGC3

Well what a great weekend, our 1st event
The weather was top stuff, we meet some wonderful fellow geoer's who some had heap finds some had less and were new to caching, and there stories was very entertaining.
the whole weekend was very relaxing.
The boat ride was so relaxing brilliant idea

Many many thanks to James and Charmaine,Captain Tanya for your 1st event, will be back for any more in the future you hold.

To both the bands awesome, entertainment was great thoroughly enjoying.

Many stories will be told to others about there time at The BIG Little event for many years to come..

*** For an event that was organized and ran the entire weekend with only 3people, as the main organizers CONGRATS ...

WELL DONE


** ** ** ** **
Team WMF138

Thanks for a great weekend, even though I spent way too much time caching to enjoy the activities put on by the organisers. Was very glad to receive a cold drink from James while packing the camper trailer, with assistance from locus cache. Guess she felt she had to help after a couple of us had to sort her tent out for her!. Thanks again.

Hello

Thank you to all the officially registered teams that attended our event. I appreciate the support and hope you have some great stories and memories to take with you caching for a long time to come.

I'd also like to thank the great help of volunteers Cabbos, GoShaz, Nicko57, Wmf138 and also Welshy22.

To all the teams that visited the event area and especially those that stayed onsite, you did us all proud and I have been getting great feedback from a large number of locals in the Nelson area. I left the campsite just after 3pm this afternoon (Mon) after packing and cleaning the event area and rooms and you made the job much easier. Well done.

To the 11 teams that approched me looking to buy gear from Alan @ 101 please remember you can buy your BIG Little and geocaching items online. (if you haven't done so already!)

http://www.101geo.com.au/SearchResults.asp?Cat=88&utm_source=BigLittleEvent&utm_medium=merchandise-page&utm_campaign=BigLittleEvent

If you'd like to send some stories / photo's to by published in the next magazine.. please do.. it's going to be wall to wall BIG Little Event...

And don't be a stranger.. drop me an email and say hi once in a while..

Have a safe trip home and wishing you all the best.. Hope to see you at the next BIG Little Event..

The clock is ticking....

Regards
James

JGC3

Travelled down on Fri caching as we went.
Continued the journey on Saturday, caching as I went. Arrived about midday to register and sign the logbook.
Since there was hardly anyone around at the site, I headed off to find some more cache. Optus reception is next to zero in Nelson, so communication with other teams was a bit haphazard, so cached most of the rest of the day on my own. Missed the boat cruise, bugger.
All in all, it was a great spot for an event, apart from no rewarding little tipple at the end of the day.
Managed over 200 finds during the event and had a great time catching up with other cachers and putting faces to names I have seen in logbooks!
Well organised, and look forward to the next one. Will it be a mega next time?
Thanks James and crew.

Thanks to the organisers for a great big event and the (not-so-little) work that went into setting it up. Traveled from Melbourne and was not disappointed.

Dropped off a swag of TB's.

Suscoe and two attended this fantastic Big Little Event this weekend.
We had a wonderful time here since Thursday.
James and his team are to be commended for the fabulous work done, so many caches, great people attending and perfect weather.
We will be back next year and are looking forward to seeing whatJames will have in store for us all!
Thanks and safe travelling to everyone!

Our first weekend event, didn't really know what to expect. Cracka1 logged his 500th, woohoo
Thanks jgc3 for the event, maybe see you at Oz Mega.

09:00
Received trackable "Sol de Lune's Blue Lake Keyring" from Scody as they departed for Melbourne.

Find #1 for today at 1000 Hrs

Thanks for ALL your efforts guys... Everybit as good as the Oz Mega...

Looking forward to next year...

Thanks jgc3 for the cache & bringing me here...

Thanks for the weekend guys, had a great time with my first event, look forward to next years as well. Well done with all the work, organising, caches and running about. A BIG thankyou!!

Well what can I say that has not already been said, ....already...lol..??

It was a very well organized, well thought out event, a true credit to James and all involved.
We arrived late on Friday night, To late to get to GZ & sign in, but first thing Saturday we were off too GZ to sign our name's in the log book.
It was nice to you meet James, after all the E-Mails to and fro.
The weather was Great, The location was Sensational, (we really love the area you live in).The weekend was AWESOME, we had a blast.
Thanks to all the local's that placed new hides for the event
We met a heap of new cacher's, , we even bumped into a few locals from back home..
A big thanks to James & Charmaine, if you ever put on another event, we will again be there, Thanks for the effort you all put into make this a really memorable weekend. A Good Job Well Done......Cheers From Lostmonster & Co ....(aka:)..Matt & Kerrie.

Great day....and met some new people. Well done

Attended with Team Pedal Pushers, Whites on Windsor and lol frog. Having a very enjoyable time.

Found on our trip to the Little Big Event with Firesafe always nice to come to events and meet with friends from all over

GoShaz and I have been looking forward to this event ever since it was announced...Our dorm booked.. We have been planning....counting down the days..!!! Our first event..... so didnt know what to expect..???? WOW....! 4 days of caching..!!!!!

Friday 18th... car loaded... time to go pick up Shaz... Nelson here we come...!

What can i say..? other than....! Fantastic weekend.....Great to meet so many new teams and to see 'little geos' attending with families.....Beautiful weather....Friendly campsite....Good entertainment....Nice food.....Enjoyed the boat ride.. Thank u Tanya for your informitive cruise

Had a great time....enjoyed helping Greg and Charmainne and the other volunteers... A BIG THANK U TO GREG AND CHARMAINNE FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN RUNNING THIS EVENT..

4 days went so quickly...lotsa hiking...caching...munzeeing....cant wait till the next one

Thank u everyone for making my weekend one to remember

Cheers..! cabbos



This entry was edited by cabbos on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 11:52:45 UTC.

AWESOME DAY

Attended with Mrs. Frog making it a joint effort for the flippen'frogs, loved the rubber soul concert, Mookie & Henrietta had a blast , for travel bugs they too got their groove on.
Nice event, great caches, and cool munzees.
Thanks for the event.
Oh... and some path tags too.
Gayle

attended, it was awesome for our 1st event and we only had joined 2 days before..
So got our 1st cache

very addictive, meet some lovely people

thanks to jgc3 (James) Charmaine and Capitan Tanya for the lovely boat cruise

see you at your next event

Join up with friends J+J.au...Caching along the way here to attend the "Big Little Event", really enjoying the trip, company and the great locations the caching is showing us. It turned out to be a very big caching week for us. Thanks for holding this event and all your obvious work such as the large number of additional caches you have placed for us. Much apreciated SL..TFTC

Made the trek down from Adelaide. Met up with some familiar faces as well as meeting some new ones.

It is always good to meet up with others at Events.

A bonus was the extra caches and munzees around the area. We think we got all of them.

Thanks for the event.

Attended this event with Mrs Flipper. We got hooked on Munzees and enjoyed the Rubber sole show where the frog was jumping the flipper was flipping and got ftf on the multi. thanks for putting on this event and showcasing Nelson.

Woohoo attending this awesome weekend & logging our 100 th cache at the event.

Thankyou to James & Charmaine for all their hard work, had a ball!

This entry was edited by TwelveFeet! on Sunday, 20 January 2013 at 06:33:53 UTC.

Great weekend I think this is 600

Thankyou to the organisers. Sadly I could only attend on the Sunday afternoon but was warmly welcomed.

THANK YOU, GREAT W/E.

Had a great day catching up with friends, being introduced to munzees, grabbing a long sought cache and restocking my supply of magnetic nanos
Thanks jgc3!!

The Quasars are having a great time at the event. Kids loving the activities and the new friends. Dad getting out to a stack of caches and mystery munzees as well as introducing a whole bunch of people to munzeeing with our kids each having their own for others to scan! Looking forward to the boat trip tomorrow. Will log all the cache finds when we get home. Thanks to the organisers.

Arrived yesterday. Thoroughly enjoying first Event so far! Special thanks to my friendly onsite camping neighbours who invited me along last night to my first ever Night Cache hunt. Amazing experience not to be forgotten.

We're enjoying our selves, finding some very different types of hide, experiencing all seasons of weather from raining trenching on the beach to sweltering high 30s, great meeting up with fellow catchers and hope to meet many more this evening, Thanks for organising the Event and placing many more new caches in some fabulous locations. Good job.

I was on my way to the Big Little Event and just happened to have to wait for twenty minutes for one group and then two hours for the really late latecomer to get to Tailem Bend Considering that I had the greatest distance to travel, that was interesting

So, I stopped and did one cache all on my own. Then when Honeysucker and firesafe arrived, we headed out and got a few more together.

When Huurtle finally arrived, we headed off in convoy to some very interesting caches and by the end of the day, I had locus cache'd on 24 and only had 1 DNF. [^]

This was such an awesome day as it included my getting the Corolla bogged in sand, firesafe getting bogged in mud (however he got himself out where as I had required his help to get out of my spot of bother), my first visit to the sea side of the Coorong, some great fun driving on dirt roads (anyone want to clean the inside of my car?) and some great company from Suzi Quatro on the CD.... all in all a fantastic way to get to an event!! [^] [^]

We parted company at Kingston SE and I cruised on my own to the Big Little Event at Nelson, getting only a few more caches on the way as by then, I was kind of tired [|)]

I finally arrived here at about 9.30pm and after a huge day of caching, I was so tired that I gratefully accepted Dennisc52's offer of putting my mattress on his campervan floor for the night so that I did not have to put up my tent in the dark (which in hindsight turned out to be a good thing as I had forgotten how it went together and that made for some very amused on lookers in the morning ).

Now that I am safely home and logging caches, I can only say how much I enjoyed this event. Loved the boat ride (appreciated immensely that Tanya waited for us to get there since we were still on SA time ), loved meeting other teams and especially taz-bud/inkle who had the disadvantage of being camped next to me when I arrived late at night and still buzzing after a geeat drive over...(I get louder the more excited I get ).

I also really enjoyed bumping into scody again, having originally met them in Adelaide last year.

Also MoorooducRobbos and Debs22 who I met and cached with at Oz Mega Albury/Wodonga last year and I met MurchUnearthers too .

Even met skullracing, another team who I initially met at Oz Mega Albury/Wodonga, too. (Even scored a wild PT of theirs from a cache by the end of the weekend.)

Loved the striped green and brown tree frog in the shower, mere centimetres from my face on the wall , loved the beautiful area of Nelson and surrounds, loved the 4WD tracks and caches and most of all, hugely appreciated the massive effort put into making this event happen!! [^] [^]

Many, many thanks for such a fun reason to have a workout.. oh, was this meant to be a holiday? I think I now need to go back to work for a rest after the huge days of caching

SL. TFTC jgc3

Well, it was true - BIG on fun, little on boring bits. Loved this event. Got most of the BLE caches and munzees; plus many more around the area. Met some friendly familiar and new faces, with some great caching and conversations. Got a few pathtags and TBs along the way. Loved the Rubber Soul concert, it was enjoyed by all. The bingo game on the Friday night was also a good time to chat with cachers and have a good time. Thanks jgc3, enjoyed this SO much and well done on organising such a successful event!

What a fantastic event! Bon and Ben would like to thank all of the people who assisted in organising the event and hid so many new caches and munzees for us all to find! It was so great to catch up with some of our old caching buddies and make lots of new friends! Sadly we said goodbye to our most faithful and long time geocaching friend, our gps, but feel incredibly lucky to have been awarded with a brand new gps from magellan and the crew who organised the event! Long live caching! We have many a story and pictures to send into the magazine and look forward to getting our subscription soon! Signal the Frog is now a travel bug and will be travelling us all around Europe next year, counting both our kilometres and finds! Thank you again to all those who helped organise the event and we will see you all at the next one! xo Bon and Ben (and Signal!)

#3500 We're logging this as a mini milestone. We arrived in convoy with our travelling companions 3InOne on the Thursday who made a long driving day so much more bearable, fortunately they were also kept abreast of the local fire situation by Mishion - a huge thanks to both. After a late start on the Friday we arrived at the event site which was a venue well suited to the BLE. We were concerned about the fires and how they may have affected the local community but thankfully the beautiful town of Nelson remained unscathed - we did see the effects on local forests and pine plantations though. Regardless of the extent of the fire there were a huge number of caches to be found, more than we anticipated and we were kept quite busy as such. We had some specific night caches that we had prioritised which took us from Portland to beyond Mt Gambier - unfortunately we missed the entertainment and from all accounts it was our great loss. We also missed the boat ride but arranged one of our own which was an experience in itself . Nevertheless we met so many cachers during the course of the weekend both those that we were well acquainted with and many new faces. Such a friendly bunch and this mix of people made for a sensational weekend - that coupled with the enormous effort of the organisers who made the event the success it was. jgc3 need to be also commended for their efforts in the number and variety of caches laid out for the entertainment of the BLE participants and anyone fortunate enough to visit the Nelson area. The weather.....well that was a blessing too. Caches took us to so many wonderful places of interest and on some lovely walks, exactly what we love about the caching experience. Our thanks to jgc3, the other locals and all the attendees - we had a blast [^]

A BIG thanks to jgc3 and all who helped with this event
I had a ball chasing caches by foot, bike and car over the three days and got to really see the area
TFTC !!

Attended the whole weekend, got to meet with geocachers that were only names on logs till now. Very enjoyable weekend.

We attended the event from 11.00am on Friday 18 Jan. and left at 10.00 am on Monday 21 Jan. In between we had a lovely time meeting new teams catching up with teams that we knew very well and enjoying the Nelson area. The entertainment that was organised was outstanding with the Rubber Soul band on the Saturday and Mahlia on the Sunday - admittedly it was a small group that enjoyed the Sunday concert, but it made it feel like a private little party.
Thanks jgc3 and helpers for putting on a good event.

The Parrots arrived on Thursday morning ready for a fun weekend at Nelson that certainly delivered for us.
Straight up I got 3 FTF while waiting for the house we had rented to be ready.
Then in the afternoon I went for a paddle down the Nelson River from Simpson Landing over to the Bird Hide cache.
Then back to cook dinner served out in the garden in the company of parrots. The yard was alive with birds, Blue wrens, Parrots, Galahs, Sulphurs Crested to name a few.
Next day up and registered at the event and then we had a great time going out with a geocaching team we had not met before.
I love that events allow you to meet new people and have wonderful experiences like we did. They were so enthusiastic racing from cache to cache and the parrots had a ball sharing a day with them.
We even got to play vehicle recovery later in the day down on the beach by the ponds.
What a hoot.
Then in the evening I went kayaking again but this time up the river. I even got to within 17 metres of a cache but the slope was too steep to get it.
Saturday we went out on the river cruise then back out for some more caching before coming back for a great concert experience and lots of Ginger Beer.
We danced the night away with Froggy, Flipper and Crane such fun.
Loved the band loved the band loved the band
By the way did I mention we loved the band.
We had to leave Sunday as Mrs Parrot started a new job on Monday morning and not arriving at work on your first day might have been bad form.

Lovely location. We had a great weekend.

Thanks jgc3 for a wonderful event. We actually enjoyed this event more than the three megas we have attended. Firstly, the town of Nelson was a excellent spot for it and the venue was really good. The entertainment was fabulous - we haven't danced like that for years. The food was good too, and we couldn't get over the number of caches, and of munzees, that you put out. Quite an achievement, thank you very much for all your hard work. We hope this will be a regular event.

Thanks to James and Charmaine and all the other geocachers, who made us so welcome at the BLE. It was a long way to come from England, but we are glad that we could fit the event into our tour around Australia. We are only sorry that we will not be able to attend the next one. Nelson is a beautiful location, the number of caches available kept us busy all weekend (and on the previous Thursday too) and the additional evening entertainment by Rubber Soul and Mahalia were brilliant. We thoroughly enjoyed the boat trip too.

Many thanks for a great BIG Little Event.

A huge thank you to SA Parrot Heads for their help. It's fantastic that people are willing to give their time and knowledge to teach others. We really appreciate it. ?? And thanks for getting me out of a tight spot.

This entry was edited by Guz's Travellers on Friday, 18 January 2013 at 06:28:17 UTC.

It is great to have an event like this on my brithday, there has been alot of work getting it up and going and it will be a great weekend. Thanks jgc3 and all the volunteers

Very friendly reception on arrival at the grounds! Pretty quiet at that time, but I'm sure there'll be lots happening over the next few days. It was nice to meet other catchers whilst out and about doing a few of the BLE caches. Cache #1,4445.

This is my first event attending. I hope to do many more to meet more of my fellow cachers.

Easy find
Tftc

2253 Atteneded by baby&Mrs gopher at 1030.Yes we made it to the event after caching all the way from The Rock NSW.Tnx to James and all the folk that have helped to get this get together up and running.A great way to interact with geocachers from far and wide,to make new friends and to catch up with friends from around the country. baby& the Mrs say job well done.

This is my second interstate event. It is great to put faces to team names

Thanks to everyone I met today. Much appreciated the help of the volunteers wmf138, Cabbos, GoShaz and Nicko57. You are like gold to us. THANK YOU. I hope.you all are enjoying the event and have lots of enjoyable finds. Cheers...

11:20
Arrived and set up camp, looking forward to a BIG dose of fun and geocaching.
Thanks to James and crew for making the Event a reality.

5014

Well a last minute change around while holding my head just the right way & we are here ready for an awesome weekend, & if todays action is anything to go by YeeeHaa, great effort jgc3 on making this happen

Thanks jgc3 for putting on this great event. It's awesome to meet new cachers. Having loads of fun getting caches with Cabbos and others along the way.

TheChops and 101geo are here!

Drop tb

1910th cache found by WazzaAndWenches. Log signed at 12:00Hrs.

Although we've been to Nelson a couple of times we've not been here specifically for caching. With such an abundance of caches around the area and a great event organised we just had to make time for a few days away from home. With any luck we'll find around 200 caches for the 5 days away.

Thank you James and your helpers for the huge amount of work that has gone into organising the event and all the activities. Hopefully we'll see a lot more teams show up over the weekend to enjoy all your new caches.

Great event

happy pants will be there be for sure. 1 x adult for sat 1/2 and Sunday. Accommodation off site. Representing Yarra Glen Cachers assoc. Lookin forward to it!!

Sadly our plans have had to change and we cannot attend. We are planning on attending Oz Mega 2014
Have fun to all going and happy hunting

Crane2's nest has been set up at the lovely Kywong caravan park. Now to check out the event site!

All the way from Brisbane... Ben, Jacqui and Amilia are very excited to be able to attend this event. We used to live in the Mount, so its great to come back.
This log is our 200th. Hope to swell that number considerably by the end of the weekend. Attending with the moorooducrobbos and debs22.

Hey I heard I was in town.
The Parrots are at the Mount.
Came down from Adelaide yesterday and doing some work in our office down here.
All ready to head over to the event tomorrow morning.
Yipeeeeeeeeee

I have rearranged as best I can, and nick and I hopefully will be there from Sunday afternoon. Will be staying at home

Packing to attend our first event today. Having a leisurely trip on the way. 2 adults and 2 teen geocachers.

Arriving Friday, 2 adults from Newbury England.

We will be there with bells on 2 adults & 2 kids arriving Saturday am from Portland!

Boating part of event; to answer some FAQ's

This is included in the registration fee.. no extra charge.

Because of safety we can only take a limited number of people at one time.
So it would help us if you book a time at the registration table as we'll attempt
to run a cruise on the hour from 11am to 4pm Sat / Sun.

If you can try to book at early as possible so we can keep on time.

Also bring a drink / snacks / hat / sunscreen on board.

Please be at the docks about 10 mins early to allow for people to board etc.

You need to wear a supplied life jacket...

Thanks.. enjoy your trip and see you all at the event..

Looking forward to attending our first event. Myself, Poppet11 and 2 children

1 Adult from Adelaide.
cheers
Gayle

Staying offsite with Mrs. Frog
Registration Finalised & paid today, looking forward to some geo fun.

This entry was edited by FLIPPER&CO on Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 07:54:53 UTC.

Will be attending with Team Pedal Pushers and Whites on Windsor. Looking forward to the event. (2 Adults and 2 children).

Keep updated of CFA details regarding the nearby areas.

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/?gclid=CMzI5eGs17QCFQkcpQodoUwAEg

According to latest infomation we still have the go ahead for the Nelson event.

Any concerns questions etc. happy to help.

Thanks
James

A couple of maps of the fire to the East.

Will be attending. 1 Adult and 2 kids.

Enjoy your trip over here and stay safe.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As listed on the event website NO PETS ALLOWED or ALCOHOL at the event.

Also Please remember these important steps;

1.) Log a WILL ATTEND here on the event listing.

2.) Use the REGISTRATION form link here
http://www.biglittleevent.com/registration.html

If you haven't done the registration form we DON'T have your names for the event tags. You MUST have completed these steps asap please.

3.) Pay at registration using paypal. If you wish to pay via other method please email us for details.

OFFICIAL BIG Little Event gear here.

http://www.101geo.com.au/SearchResults.asp?Cat=88&utm_source=BigLittleEvent&utm_medium=merchandise-page&utm_campaign=BigLittleEvent

MUST HAVE LIST.. as we've seen from recent days the weather could be VERY hot.. so be prepared.

1.) Hat
2.) Sunscreen
3.) Plenty of water
4.) A fan perhaps for your accommodation.
5.) Old set of clothes for the kids for kids activities.
6.) A sense of adventure!
7.) Small amount of cash if you wish to purchase from onsite event kiosk.
8.) Chairs for using outdoors at entertainment.

REMEMBER: Good telstra phone coverage in area.. low to no signal in some areas for Optus.. other
carriers have not been checked. Check with your service provider.

If you're going to dress up your campsite you will be in with a good chance to grab a prize.. applies only to onsite at event or in Nelson area only.

There's two small free BBQ's at event site for people camping at event, as well as washing machine and dryer for onsite campers.

Enjoy the journey and look forward to seeing you at the event. Thanks.

Our first big event. Attending with 'Jeffeddy' and 'whites on Windsor' . Should be fun.

Mrs frog will be attending with Mrs flipper as the other half of the teams have work committments sounds like lots of fun

Got really excited about this event being in Nelson as it is not far from my parents who are just east of Mount Richmond. But... only found this event this weekend...and have 5 booking fo my business over the weekend. Have a great time everyone...try to plan 2014 on Easter at Nelson...that would be awesome.

I have changed to a note as I am doubtful now due to work

This entry was edited by ahomburg on Tuesday, 01 January 2013 at 12:36:52 UTC.

scody + jcody. Paid up and ready to rock.

To good an opportunity NOT to attend... Looking forward to it...

1x Adult

Accommodation Booked nearby...

Merry Christmas and wishing you all a safe new year and a great trip to our event.

http://www.101geo.com.au/SearchResults.asp?Cat=88&utm_source=BigLittleEvent&utm_medium=merchandise-page&utm_campaign=BigLittleEvent

Check out some great gear for our event. The link will be on the official website soon.

will attend. rego paid see you there

Definately 1 adult, maybe with two kids also.

Hi all,

Entertainment update:

I'm pleased to announce that the local artist Mahalia Fox is playing for us on our Sunday
show.

http://youtu.be/AizD8bmddsU

Kiosk / Food Update:

We thank a local business for doing our catering for the weekend.
We'll have Pies, Pasties, Hot chips, Hot dogs, Ice cream, soft drink
and more available for purchase during most of the event. Please support
these sponsors if possible by buying your needs locally at the event.

PLEASE NOTE: if you have special dietary needs please bring your own foods
as it is difficult for us to cater for special needs.

Kids prizes:

We'll be giving out prizes to all kids during the childrens times
between 11 am - 4 pm on Fri, Sat and Sun. These may include some
lollies, ice creams or drinks, as well as toys. If your child is NOT able
to have these foods you MUST let me know ASAP and BEFORE the event.

Kids Activities:

PLEASE NOTE: some of the activities such as painting, you may wish to
bring a set of clothes that are ok to get "messy" so they can have a bit of
fun without worrying..

Bouncy Castle: This is booked for SAT 11am - 4pm ONLY if your child wishes to play. Cost
included in your registration. No extra charge. Subject to good weather conditions for
safe usage. If necessary and it is cancelled we will try again Sunday but only if cancelled Saturday.

MUST HAVES:

Remember you will require your own pillows / linen if camping onsite and in most other caravan parks etc. Please check where you're staying.

Water bottles / Sun Screen / Hat - it is likely to be hot weather, be prepared.

Condition of entry to event grounds:

SORRY NO PETS.

SORRY NO ALCOHOL.

If staying offsite please park in marked areas outside event grounds.

If staying onsite, walking pace only. You will have allocated sites, rooms etc.
All the information you need will be available right near front gate at registration area.

Are you coming to the event? You must do ALL these steps please.

1.) Log WILL ATTEND here at event listing.

2.) Fill out REGISTRATION FORM HERE
http://www.biglittleevent.com/registration.html

3.) PAY your registration fees.

If not sure, please ask. [email protected]

Thanks..

Cracka1 & I will be there, provided we can get a camp site.

Mrs and baby have paid the fees and will be there from sometime Friday until Monday.We thought we had already placed a will attend.
BTW there are 2 of us baby& the Mrs and we will be there on Friday morning

This entry was edited by baby&Mrs gopher on Saturday, 15 December 2012 at 01:19:53 UTC.

Yah!! Seems I can get time off of work to attend this event.
Should be fun
Staying on site with DennisC52.
Hoping to be there Friday morning to Monday night.

Despite my previous "will attend", circumstance now means we are unable to attend.

Hope the event goes off with a bang and all have a wonderful time.

GazMag

Suscoe will be there,
Registration done.
No accommodation required for us.
4 adults in our team.
Looking forward to a great four days of caching and company.

Bon and Ben will be attending! 2x adults (apparently! ) camping onsite. Just paid our rego and camp fees and are counting down the sleeps! See you all there!

getting keen for this in our 10 day caching holiday

We are pleased to announce the kiosk will be open all day Fri / Sat / Sun for meals, drinks, coffee. ice cream and snacks.

A menu will be listed soon.

Please remember to do all three steps, a WILL ATTEND here on this listing,
fill out the Event registration here

http://www.biglittleevent.com/registration.html

And pay the registration fee so your team can enter the event.

Questions? Just email and I'll be happy to help.

Thanks

3 of us have been looking forward to coming for the past few months. Have been finalizing plans & finally booked in today after securing a site at Kywong cp. Hope to see you all there.