Great Southern Tinman Royalla, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Rathome on 28-Feb-06. Waypoint GCTN3P

9 months is a long holiday

Such is life?

Hi Rathome,

Just wondering if you had simply forgotten to re-enable the cache now that the icon is back.

This is such a great cache - wouldn't want to lose it..

The Tin-Man IS BACK in ALL his GLORY, See picture.

Thanks mtbikeroz, I am on holidays at the moment but when I return I will re-enable the cache. I cant put 2008 as the date for this log yet so I will edit it later.

It appears the Tin Man has gone walkabout, so no point in anyone stopping here to admire him anymore.

We're off to see the wizard...
Look.. there's the scarecrow!
...and Toto! I see Toto!!!

But hey, look over there next to the lion.. isn't that.. nope, nope.. I don't see anything!!! What Tin Man???!

The Tin Man is obviously off on his own yellow brick road quest, because he sure as heck wasn't here! - I found some debris that might be part of his suit, cast off as the shackles from a freed slave to the tourists, but no sign of the Tin Man.. not even an oil can.

Can I take this not-so-metaphore too far? Probably.

So we (allrounder and I) found this cache, found no metal, and went along on our not-so-yellow and not-so-brick road.

But thanks for the stop along the way. The wicked witch must have been through here before us.

TFTC

Took - memo stand (to put a memo in... probably about my red shoes or something.)
Left - turtle keyring (he got swept up in that tornado that swept the land...)

*there's no place like home, there's no place like home*

Found @ 4:31pm with Fore!

On the way home from "The wind and the willows", this was much easier to get to (and without the worry!).

But where is the Tin Man??

A horse watched us from across the way as we searched for the Tin Man after finding the cache. We think we saw bits and pieces of him but that was it.

Took nothing, left water pistol.

TFTC!

Site of the great invisible Southern Tinman. We found the cache but no-one was home, the Tinman must have gone walk-about. He may have shed a bit of clothing, bits of metal and mesh were lying nearby, but no sign of his footprints. Where has he gone?

Thanks for the cache and the fun we had trying to find the Tinman.

#220 @noon with Captain Tomato
*Overall Experience: 3*
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

What a curious sculpture - I have never noticed it before.
Geocaching has been great to get me to pay more attention to the journey.

TNLN - Thanks very much for the cache bringing my attention to this

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found @ 12:00 noon with SecretSquirrel-BJC. An interesting feature and a nice easy find. TFTC. TNLN

The first of three caches with the kids this afternoon. We all enjoyed the sculpture (although it was a little weird) and had no problems finding the cache.

T: Plush Bert, keyring
L: Lion, torch keyring.

TFTC!

Up the hill we went in the early hours of the morning. Just a word of advice that if you happen to be a King Charles Cavalier with long fluffy ears like me, be careful that you don't get burrs in your fur as it really hurts when you have to get them brushed out. We all still had lots of fun anyway. Thanks Rathome for giving my family a reason to stop here and let me out of the car for a run.

Love this Tinman. I knew exactly where this would be when I saw the name. Other members of the Winglen team have never noticed him, despite driving past dozens of times!Found easily, although a fair amount of traffic today. L GC, TNSL. Nice cache, thanks.

Knew where this guy was and only had to wait for the gps to finish counting down so that we could stop in the best place. Cache was a quick find and even I have no answers about the tin man.

As I have done probably many times before I drove right past the tin man without noticing it. After coming back to the cache location I kept wondering what was the relevance of the the name. Then after re-hiding the cache and turning around to return to my car I noticed it. A bit bigger than I had thought.t

Luckily we were travelling in the right direction to be able to stop and not have to cross the traffic, nice easy find. TNLN Thanks Rathome

Ah McDonald's toys, the bain of the geocache. This one is full of 'em! And really... who's ever going to use a bandaid that they retrieved from a cache on an open wound? [xx(]

Anyway, this is another cache that took a while to get a break in the passing traffic to grab but at least a much easier ascent from the road than "Southern Gates"!

TNLNSL Thanks Rathome!

Found by Mary & David at 0805. He is certainly intriguing, yet more understandable than some of the other (high-priced) artwork around Canberra. Wonder how long he has been here? TNLN. Our thanks to Rathome.

We found this nice cache on our way from Canberra back to the Ocean! TFTC!

I did visit this on the way to the South coast way back in Jan 07, I must have forgot to log online, I also traded but its been a few months and I can't remember, anyway TFTC

Got it nice and quickly on the way back from Cooma. Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks very much for the cache.

Cache Sixty-One in the company of Rallywrxwagon and Team Rubik, on our 31.5 hour none stop caching spree and Sixty-One of Eighty-One for the trip to Canberra and then Wagga Wagga. The cache was found at 13:35. After our previous hill climb this cache was a walk in the par. I loved the tin man. Thanks for the cache.

A simple find at an impressive monument. Henty have a poor man's version!

Thanks,

R - B

Cache 62 of 97 for me on this massive trip North. Found in the company of Team Rubik and Acts2youthgroup. This cache marked a couple of significant things for our trip;

* We cached "gate to gate" non stop within 24 hours.

* I set a new personal milestone of 62 caches in 24 hours, set over two states and a territory VIC/NSW/ACT. 2.30pm 4/1/07 to 1.40pm 5/1/07.

Thanks for a nice hide.

Our first for 2007.

Toddler C got more joy out of the local horses then trying to claim the cache.

Great location

T - Bracelet and a cat
L - Bert Toy

Found it with Wasptor, great hide, TFTC

Always driven past and never stopped to have a really good look. Great pit stop on the way to Victoria and the geopup loved the quick break.

T - Superball
L - Keyring clip

Stopped off on my way home from another nearby cache. TNLN TFTC

I parked on the wrong side of the road for this one but found it easily.

Someone really put some effort into that Tinman...

TNLN

Shell and Matt

Love the Tinman, always drove by, but never stopped before.. Someone should have a nice meal on me with the Sub Club card that we left at the cache..

Found with McPhan CoolAid and Oldest

First find on another trip through Victoria. Never had the time before to admire him. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another good spot for a stop, easy find again after southern gates. T: Nothing L: Nothing.

Thanks to rathome for the cache.

... quite dangerous to pass the road ...

Thanks for the cache; kind regards 2cachefix

In: Bobby pin Out: key ring

Find this with The Roger Ramjet.

the tin man look great went to it on the way back from 3 day in the bush at blue water hole seen the travel bug but left it for a friend comming soon

Second of seven for the day and nice find on our way back from 'Southern Gates'.

TNLN

No sign of '21 Red Racer' TB but there was a log entry from Kaffrey on the 29th. May have just not had time to log entry over the long weekend.

Managed to find this one quite easily. Saw the big TinMan as we were driving along the road so we knew we were on the right track. Its a bit hard to miss!
Thanks for stopping us along the way to Canberra its always great to stop and stretch your legs.
Took: Red Heart Pin
Left: Orange Pig Ball, Smily Yo Yo and the 21 RedRacer TB.
Thanks for the cache!

HEY G1 FOUND IT

hi, G1 we found your cache it was nice and easy. Riahma found it,Riahma's first find without help.

i didnt see any tinman??

nice easy find on the way home from the snow

10:45 Hrs
This is an unexpected sight by the side of the road. It would certainly make your property easy to find for visitors.

TNLN.

Thanks Rathome.

Found the cache at 12.00. Nice area. TNLNSL. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

called in at 9 pm on way to eucumbene for a fishing trip took palk tb to go fishing. and no i wont use it as a lure.
thanks rathome

Fifth of eight finds with geo-wal and atificus on our trip to the snow.

A nice easy one, again turning off our torches whenever a car was approaching so as to eliminate unwanted attention. Found at 5:00am.

TNLNSL.

TFTC!

Fifth of eight finds with geo-wal and zebrafive on our trip to the snow.

Found at 5:00am. Overshot the approach and took a difficult path to the top...

TNLNSL.

TFTC!

Fifth of eight finds with Atificus and zebrafive on our trip to the snow.

Found at 5:00am. Took Polynesia TB.

TFTC!

Stopped by to pick up the GC & drop off TB (Polynesia) - after reading Gigglygecko's comment I was feeling a little uncomfortable with all of the passing motorists! TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Final for the day. Quick drive by TN left TB. Thanks for the cache!

Dropping off TB. Hopefully a sking cacher will take you to sydney and on to great adventure!

Geoteen did this one on dusk and was SO paranoid about passing cars spotting him (was worried they'd think he was having a toilet-stop, ah the peculiarities of youth!). Anyway, a quick easy find and no sign of the farmer

T: puppy keyring
L: San Diego geocoin

A quick and easy find on the way south. Nice house nearby. Took Crash game. Left keyring/soft toy. TFTC.

Nice easy find.
T - motorcycle, tennis ball and $2.50.
L - glow duck, bracelet, myer bear and love heart badge.

Southern Tin Man a piece of art you don’t see everywhere good hide Thanx

For some reason Tin Man always makes me think of Doctor Who or to be more precise one of his companions, Leela. You know the one who ran around in a very tiny outfit wanting to kill people. She encountered a Tin Man as she called it in the episode called the Time Warrior but it was just a crude robot made by a Sontaran.

Grabbed this one as a quickie break on the way past. Why does the tinman only have eye? TNLNSL

Always thought this place would be a great place for a cache. Glad it was not as obviouse as I thought.

T: Cecil B Der Celery TB
L: Electronic Game

Quick find this one, though I must say the tin man is not much for conversation.
Left: Tiger Ball
Took: Boomerang

Dropped Cecil off today - hope someone can get him to the snow



GeoDrifters

Nice cache
T Kering and green frog
L Toy motorbike and a silver portrait of the queen
Went on a wild goose chase due to a busted GPS. Had a nice walk around a paddock 'tho
SL
GeoDrifters

Found with Frogdude.

Found this one way back, but it looks like I forgot to log it at the time.

Thanks to big_matt for letting me know the date I was there. I'll learn to log stuff on time one of these days...

[This entry was edited by frogdude on Thursday, November 02, 2006 at 2:58:23 PM.]

Just managed to fit this cache in as the sun was going down.
Left plastic Australian boomerang. Took nothing.

On our way to Pambula for the Easter break nice little hide and picked up TB Money accumulator to move it on its way. Left TB Parts is Parts and plane Took keyring Thanks for the cache.

I had to skip this last time I was down this way as it was too late and I was already exhausted. I am glad it was not difficult. The traffic never seems to stop.

Took: TB Parts & Parts
Left Koala, Geocoin Cache Hunters Albida 07
Visiting: World Traveller Gold A#6 Odometer

Albida

Nice easy find on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Took party popper and ball, left $5 note keyring and TB "Money Accumulator".

I'm supposed to be recovering from pneumonia but there's only so much sitting around that you can do...so I took the dog for a drive and a walk and found it nice and easy.

SL TN LN

who the hell gets pneumonia in March anyway.....

...funny little tinman...

Went out to the tinman this morning before work..

Sooooo very peaceful. Well nearly was sitting in the grass out of view when I heard a car stopping (loud music) thought I was finally going to meet a fellow geocacher, but in the end they drove on.

Took the Whiskey Dogs TB to find some more whiskey and left a Aussie Insect card pack. One of these day I'll get a Travel Bug of my own to track around the place!

Nice early morning cache, there was actually a little bit of fog rolling around in the fields nearby.
No farmers this time, they must have still been asleep.
Thanks for the cache

Ah yes, I know where the Tinman is, I ride my bikes past him quite often, and he is only 4.8km from home.
So, off I go, a FTF, left a green ball, took a keyring. Took TB also. Got there at a beautiful sunset & took photo of sunset rather than the man. Thanks Rathome.

Hmmmm, thought I was quick, but obviously not quite quick enough! Was quite dark when I arrived at GZ. Parked opposite. Then, just as I found the cache the farmer across the road came out in his car. He drove slowly around, probably wondering what that car was doing there, and then went back home. Almost when I was brave enough to turn my torch on again, he came out again. Drove around slowly, and then drove away. After all that, I decided to fill out the log quickly, and get out of there! (Waved at the tinman who was shining eerily in the dark. Took gel (wouldn’t want any geokiddies to find that…) left a cat, and Whisky dogs TB. Thanks for the excitement Rathome!

Dropped Miss Truffle TB here.

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