Cleanup Australia (cache sites) Weekend Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
By
Mix76 on 07-Mar-04. Waypoint GCHQ54
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Logs
Top afternoon had by the Red Ochre Teams of Dubbo.
To the background music of Pink Floyd and Midnight Oil we worked in pairs starting at different locations and working our way from The Councils Water Wise garden in Eastridge to Mugga hill which is the enterance hill into Dubbo.
Nads and I started at Water Wise and had a quick half hour collecting bottles, cans, cardboard and chip packets and checked on a couple of waypoints and a cache of Mix's. Then we meet the other two teams, Mix76 and Team '80' on the Northern side of Mugga Hill. We cleaned up around one of our most dangerious waypoints as this has become a recent dumping ground for glass, needles and scrap steel.
From here we moved onto the southern side of the Hill to a little know carpark frequented by the towns drug population. There is a cache nearby and this is not a nice enterance to it. Nads and '80' did a top job collecting the needles while Mix and I scored most of the glass and papers around the area. Mix did a follow up searching for needles and we checked a nearby cache. Photo opportunities allowed us cake, cold water and a good laugh.
With the Cleean Up Australia day each caching team of the Red Ochre Cache Region was able to show we are not only good at leaving rubbish in the bush (i.e. our caches) but were pretty good at collecting it as well.
Special thanks to the council for supplying the gloves, sharps disposal equipment, bags and rubbish pickup.
Thanks also must go to Mix76 for his organisation and good CITO idea. Thanks to '80' for the top tunes as well mate!
The Bronze.
To the background music of Pink Floyd and Midnight Oil we worked in pairs starting at different locations and working our way from The Councils Water Wise garden in Eastridge to Mugga hill which is the enterance hill into Dubbo.
Nads and I started at Water Wise and had a quick half hour collecting bottles, cans, cardboard and chip packets and checked on a couple of waypoints and a cache of Mix's. Then we meet the other two teams, Mix76 and Team '80' on the Northern side of Mugga Hill. We cleaned up around one of our most dangerious waypoints as this has become a recent dumping ground for glass, needles and scrap steel.
From here we moved onto the southern side of the Hill to a little know carpark frequented by the towns drug population. There is a cache nearby and this is not a nice enterance to it. Nads and '80' did a top job collecting the needles while Mix and I scored most of the glass and papers around the area. Mix did a follow up searching for needles and we checked a nearby cache. Photo opportunities allowed us cake, cold water and a good laugh.
With the Cleean Up Australia day each caching team of the Red Ochre Cache Region was able to show we are not only good at leaving rubbish in the bush (i.e. our caches) but were pretty good at collecting it as well.
Special thanks to the council for supplying the gloves, sharps disposal equipment, bags and rubbish pickup.
Thanks also must go to Mix76 for his organisation and good CITO idea. Thanks to '80' for the top tunes as well mate!
The Bronze.
Clean up Australia Day, well not exactly Australia but we did clean up a couple of our popular local spots. Between the 4 teams of nads, mixma,bronze & 80 we got quite a few bags of rubbish. All in all we had a good time and was a good chance to have a bit of a pow wow. Thanx Mix for a great afternoon.
Team'80'
Team'80'
Thanks for coming guys lets just hope the sites stay clean for more than a week. Next year maybe cito events could be held in all areas on C.U.A.D.
We were amazed how much junk and rubbish can be around one cache. At least now you can see the caches for the rubbish. Good to be part of the clean up.
Thanx Mix
Thanx Mix
Looks like its 6pm sunday guys @ the first waypoint of "the back ine reloaded"
see you then
see you then
Chalk up another one for the Red Ochre Cachers. Good idea Mix76.
You say the time and I'll be at the place. I'll supply the bags and gloves. Just be sure to remind me a couple of days before hand please Mix.
I challenge other regions to host their own CITO day on this weekend. It's relatively cheap and easy opportunity to meet and catch up with other cachers. When push come to shove about the environmental aspects of caching there will be this page as evidence that we don't just hide rubbish in the bush.
The Bronze.
You say the time and I'll be at the place. I'll supply the bags and gloves. Just be sure to remind me a couple of days before hand please Mix.
I challenge other regions to host their own CITO day on this weekend. It's relatively cheap and easy opportunity to meet and catch up with other cachers. When push come to shove about the environmental aspects of caching there will be this page as evidence that we don't just hide rubbish in the bush.
The Bronze.
Whylandra Waste Tip has free drop off on the Sunday so we can use it for what we collect, however DCC just Agent Oranged the area I picked for the event so we will meet there and go to a secondary site nearby.
