Recycle Yore Eclipse Tins Cairns, Queensland, Australia
By The Shady Southern Syzygists on 12-Nov-12. Waypoint GC3Y3Q0

The Sun has set on this one. Clear skies to everyone at the event!

Fun was there late log

There was a few shadows about. Great to see everyone recycling! Clear skies

Found this as part of team "Superjos11"
Due to circumstances had to make my own account.

Too cloudy, but of course we took some stuff with us...

Attended with Uncopyrighted

Dipping a TB for the event.

All trash removed when hiking? Check.
Empty bottles collected? Check.
Hugging Biting Midges? Check.
Removed the clouds from the eclipse sky? Well...

Thanks for your call for CITO.

9416 kms travelled in 21 days, one awesome eclipse observed near Mt Carbine in Northern Queensland and 712 cache finds, including a small handle of FTF's.

This was a trip I'd been planning for over 12 months with the main reason being to observe the solar eclipse on the morning of the 14th of November. I had decided to drive to Palm Cove and back, where my penthouse accommodation was located, while the rest of the family flew up and back. I love the drive and the unknown adventures that lay ahead; and I even think the last time I did one this big may have been for the previous eclipse in Australia which occurred over SA.

Apart from the great experiences, awesome scenery, and the characters met, the other reason to drive was to also do some serious caching, with the plan to stop at some power trails along the way including the Fruit Run and A.S. series near Stanthorpe on the way up and the Mid North Coast Wander series, just out of Port Macquarie, on the way back.

I had five days to travel each way with ten days in between spent in Palm Cove holidaying with my family. My route up took me from Melbourne to Tocumwal and up to Glenn Innes, through Toowoomba, Rockhampton and the coast road to Cairns while my route back was a bit more erratic. Heading from Cairns to Townsville then via Charters Towers to Rockhampton. From here it was through the amazing mining region to Roma then across to Dalby down through Stanthorpe (again) to Armidale, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga, Tocumwal and then home - phew.

It was great to meet and greet everyone at the event held on the Cairns foreshore today and chat to each person about their plans for the eclipse. We eventually drove out past Mt Carbine where we had a spectacular view of the whole event. Thanks.

Thanks for a great event, Searchwise015.

Of course we took all our stuff with us...

WOW! What a week. It was fantastic meeting fellow geocacher from all over the globe in such a beautiful spot. Thanks to the tips from the locals we saw the eclipse from the perfect spot at Trinity Beach. How magical it was to witness such an event while in the presence of new geo-friends and a croud of like-minded syzygists and even to grab some caches before and after
Thanks

Thanks Team Astro and Freddo for organising this CITO Event.
While there wasn't much rubbish around, the conversation was excellent.
We hope that the weather is fine for Wednesday mornings Solar Eclipse.

Thanks for organising this event

Thanks for organising the event.. Did my part for the environment and placed my Freddo wrapper in the bin. Cheers

Paper disposed off thanks for the event.

18.45 - Missed the first bit, mingling @ GZ due to commitments to keep our 'Eclipse guests' happy and entertained ... and making sure no rubbish is left unattended.

Caught up @ Rattle-n-Hum, the important bit anyway. Enjoyed a beer (or two) and a fantastic pizza amongst friends in the domestic, national and international Geocaching fraternity. Mad sure again that all was disposed of as intended.

Thank you Astro and Freddo for putting together this event in a most beautiful location, combined with a unique event coming up on Wednesday. As a local I wish all the visiting GC friends fair weather and an ecliptic experience on Wednesday. No matter what will happen, we can guarantee it will be a warm morning to enjoy amongst like-minded people up and down the coast.

Thanks TeamAstro for this CITO event, we enjoyed the evening very much as well as meeting many new friends and re-aquainting with others.

Found on the 2012 Tour de Eclipse. All frog skins were collected and binned.

you have to clean after making a mess, that's what my mum taught me.

Thanks for this event. Loved meeting cachers from around the world.
We left the area clean

Well, we didn't find and tins... but we found some paper. And freed the world from it
Thanks again for arranging this gathering.

#1423
Cache of the Day: 2nd
Posted Coordinate Accuracy: Good
Parking Distance to Cache: Short Walk
Weather: Rain
Muggle Traffic: None
Goals, Milestones, or Achievements Completed With This Find: None

Found this cache while out Geocaching with BlondeAtTheRoots. We had a blast meeting everyone. Thanks for hosting!

Cache container and log book were in good shape.

Took nothing, left nothing, and signed the log book.
Brought 2007 Canby Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2011 Canby Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2011 Estacada Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2011 Mt. Hood Village Geocoin, 2011 North Clackamas County Geocoin, 2011 West Linn Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2011 Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2012 Clackamas County Heritage Geocoin, 2012 Government Camp Geocoin, 2012 Island Spirit Charm Bracelet, 2012 Island Spirit Mega Event Geocoin, 2012 Lackey Coin Nickel, 2012 Mega Event Tour Geocoin, 2012 Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Geocoin, 2012 North Clackamas County Geocoin, 2012 Sandy Chamber of Commerce Geocoin, 2012 Villages of Mt. Hood Geocoin, Block Party 2012 Geocoin, Block Party 2012 Keychain, First to Find Micro Geo-Award, (2) Founder's Pirate Tags, GeoJacket Patch, GEOregon 10th Anniversary Geocoin, HQ Signal Coin, Lackey Crossing Tag, Piggy Bank Geocoin, Subaru WRX Travel Mobile, Tiki Stick, 100 Finds Geoachievement Coin, 250 Finds Geoachievement Coin, 500 Finds Geoachievement Coin, 1000 Find Geoachievement Coin, and several other travellers to the cache for a visit.

Happy Caching and good luck out there!
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This cache was found using a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, a Garmin Nuvi 1690, and a Garmin eTrex Summit. Waypoints downloaded via Geocaching Swiss Army Knife. Paperless Caching support from iPhone 5 running the Geocaching App and an Asus Eee PC Android Slider running cGEO and Locus Maps.

Not sure if we will make it as we are going to the other geo-event LOL just kidding. Two events for the price of one, sounds like a good deal c u there

getting away from work early so will attend

After making the trip by road from Melbourne to Palm Cove for both the eclipse and some caching along the way, I look forward to meeting others who've made the trip.

Plan on attending as we will be viewing the eclipse from there! Very excited!

Visiting from Canada for the eclipse. We plan on attending! See ya there, eh!

Mr & Mrs Searchwise015 will attend.

The Geomrs and I will be there

Two events - same place, same time... See ya there.

Greetings from the United States. BlondeAtTheRoots are planning to attend this event. Can you tell me if it will be Monday or Tuesday evening? The time zones are throwing me off... thanks!

Dont finish work until 1800 hrs but will try to attend

Coming to see the eclipse - England to Melbourne the previous week and to Cairns on 12th, so hope to be there,

Brahms6 will attend and looks forward to a group clean up.

Travel bug drop for the event.

I will do my bit to Ceep Cairns Clean. No frog wrappers discarded.

Published

We have been practicing CITO very consequently year in year out for a long time. We would love to introduce all the other Cachers to this fine art of Caching. However, we are busy with overseas visitors. Thus we sadly cannot catch up with Geocaching friends for this very [^]useful[^] event.
Best regards to all.
Walter and Ingrid
walterhellmut

Well, it only seems fair that we should clean up after ourselves. We look forward to meet you all!

Recycled Eclipse mint tins seem to be a common caching container in North Queensland. This has got to be good????!!!!
Will see you all there on the 12th. Thanks for the invite TeamAstro.