1st VIC Cache Event Picnic Victoria, Australia
By embi on 26-May-02. Waypoint GC5C5D

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Its over so I'll archive it. Thanks all who participated and help with oprganising

We are overwhelmed by the response to our event. I mean our, as it was everyone who turned up that made it a great day.
We thank everybody and we will definately have to do it again.

Cheers.

[last edit: 6/24/2002 12:43:30 AM PST]

I'm really sorry we couldn't make it. It looks like a great time was had by all. Congratulations to Dashing Dog Mac, the inaugural Victorian Geocaching champs. Well done to embi and wanderers.

gmj3191

Ditto to the Wanderer's comment. We put the nuts and bolts together. You guys made it run as well as it did. And didn't it run. I'm looking forward to participating in the 2nd Cache picnic....

Maybe this should be a twice a year event. Then its not always in winter?? I'll start a post on the Aussie Forums.

You cachehounds look like you all had a great time down there in Vic. Sorry the tyranny of distance prevented us from going, but who knows for the next one. Onya guys.

What a brilliant day! Superb work by Embi & Wanderers in organising this event. Fabulous location, great company and a fun couple of hours wandering around in the bush... what more could you ask for? OK, so the Magellans were trounced by Garmins... looking forward to the rematch!

[last edit: 2/28/2003 4:34:24 AM PST]

We all had a terrific day, thanks to a great location and brilliant organisation by Mark, Darren, Mike and Betty. The hard work and meticulous planning certainly paid off, and the presentation ceremony and the awards donated by Garmin and Magellan were the icing on the cake. Let us hope that this event can become an annual blockbuster fixture on the Victorian GeoCaching calendar.
Thanks for the great day out,
Dashing Dog Mac, Wonder Dog Rex, Ian, Patrizia, Gerry and Carol.

[last edit: 6/23/2002 3:49:50 PM PST]

Thanks all for a great time. I'd only ever met one geocacher before, so it was great to put a face to so many names! Thanks to the organisers - we had a great time. Also many thanks to Darren who lent me his GPS while mine was playing up!

[last edit: 6/25/2002 3:12:35 AM PST]

Congratulations to Embi & Wanders for a well organized day, You've certainly set the standard for future events . It was great to meet some of the people whos log entry's we have been following. once again thanks for a Grand day out.

[last edit: 6/23/2002 8:18:08 AM PST]

Kevin & Meredith would like to thank both Embi and Wanderers for the excellent day out.
It was great to meet and talk to other geocachers

Hope this becomes an annual event
K&M

A Thank You to everyone for making it a fun day, it was great to put faces to the names we have become so familiar with, and we will be there for the next one too.

Team Frogger

A wonderful day indeed. Fabulous to finally meet all those other teams and chat about common interests. Even though the satellite gremlins struck us with a vengeance, we still enjoyed ourselves immensely and really look forward to the next get-together. Congratulations to Dashing Dog Mac for winning the trophy, and to runners up Quasar and Team Frogger. Finally, sincere thanks to Mark, Darren, Mike and Betty for having the idea and for taking the time and effort to set things up.

Biggles Bear will be there!

Dashing Dog Mac will be coming (at about 11.30am), along with Wonder Dog Rex and four adults - Ian, Patrizia, Gerry and Carol. No children (all grown up). Looking forward to meeting all the other GeoCachers.

Kevin & Meredith will be coming too
K&M

Mary & I are back from the deep north, and will definitely be there!

Sounds great, we have always thought it would be fun to catch up with fellow cachers, so we'll make our way there too.

Team Frogger

I will be there, along with Skyfox and Paul (age 10)

Looking forward to being there.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.
It will be a great day.
Cheers Darryn and the gang.

[last edit: 5/30/2002 6:12:56 AM PST]

I was there..

[last edit: 6/23/2002 1:24:11 AM PST]

Well, I'll see how things are going, I might just manage to find this event too!.
I'll try a nd drag the rest of the GeoMonkeys along too.