Burke & Wills Project

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by caughtatwork » 22 August 10 10:18 pm

http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/images/1/1c/Bwnight.pdf

Burke & Wills night at Baynton, 27-Aug-2010.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by The Morris » 22 August 10 11:45 pm

Phetlern, Princess Diala and I had a day in the city yesterday and completed all the B&W virtuals and traditionals there.

6 of our 8 have now been found and the Central Victorian ones have all been hit a few times so it seems the series has generated quite a bit of interest. Apparently the 4x4 trip that is currently following the route had intended to place some caches along the way as well - fortunately they ran into a cache finder who informed them iof the series.

We have been approached to contribute to an article for the Bendigo magazine and I intend to focus on the B&W series (it might encourage the Bendigo trust to give us free trams for a Bendigo City Circle event)

Well done to all involved - the physical containers were a delight to find and congrats to C@W and the State Library for pulling it all together and giving us a chance to participate.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by pprass » 23 August 10 1:28 pm

The Morris wrote:....Apparently the 4x4 trip that is currently following the route had intended to place some caches along the way as well - fortunately they ran into a cache finder who informed them iof the series.
We are planning to do a trip next year from Coopers Creek onwards.

Who is doingthe trip now?

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by Snuva » 23 August 10 3:33 pm

Anyone who can get to Tassie should REALLY do the B&W cache here! SG-3's caches are always awesome, and this one was no exception. The only problem was that as it's a puzzle I can't post photos of the awesomest bits of it. Just take my word for it - it's well worth doing!

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by CraigRat » 23 August 10 8:48 pm

I'm sad the real-time trackable cache didn't get legs.

Was a terrifically cool idea :cry:

Such is life.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by g_ordo » 23 August 10 9:40 pm

I am sure it will see the light of day, in another form, on a different occasion.

Now we have proved it works, will be easy to get out there. Perhaps an event where it will update every 10 mins, and call it a fox hunt across the city???

Any other ideas?

Cheers gordo

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by caughtatwork » 23 August 10 9:48 pm

g_ordo wrote:I am sure it will see the light of day, in another form, on a different occasion.

Now we have proved it works, will be easy to get out there. Perhaps an event where it will update every 10 mins, and call it a fox hunt across the city???

Any other ideas?

Cheers gordo
Ooooooh. I like that idea. Need to make sure people can get to the site via mobile etc, but this sounds intriguing.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by g_ordo » 23 August 10 11:27 pm

Quick note about the movable cache, which never managed to leave as expected :cry: :cry:

It is now out there, waiting to be found.

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2486

I understand some may perhaps see my conditions on moving it on a bit draconian, I havn't gone as far as getting any opinion as to whether this will fit in with peoples views on waht is "fair or acceptable" for conditions to "move" a cache. I am a fairly new cacher, havn't been to any events etc, or really met or spoken with others more experienced than me, so am still feeling my way. Am happy to take advice on this.

Please feel free to simply log it as a find if you dont agree with this, and leave it for the next person to decide if they want to stick with the conditions.

I hope you all will enjoy this cache, and for the first to find, sorry :twisted: , nah not really, its a great hike :^o .

Cheers Gordo

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by Richary » 24 August 10 10:13 pm

g_ordo wrote:Quick note about the movable cache, which never managed to leave as expected :cry: :cry:

It is now out there, waiting to be found.

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2486
That's a good concept g_ordo, and hopefully I can find it one day. It seems a lot of moveables end up in spots that actually deserve a real cache placed there.

Just one thing I would change in the description.
When logging the new cache, give co-hiding recognition to the last person who hid the movable cache
Change logging to listing as logging is what you do when you find one, and listing is what you do when you place it. Other than that, fantastic concept.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by Sunshine Toledo » 06 September 10 6:39 pm

I found one of the B&W series caches today GA2264 but can't find the Log In on the right hand side of its web page. Any ideas??

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by caughtatwork » 06 September 10 6:59 pm

Really? That's kind of strange. Stupid question, are you logged in?

If you go to the cache page does it say at the top right (ish)
Logged in as Sunshine Toledo- Logout

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/GA2264

If the answer is yes, then over on the right hand side do you see a list starting with Actions?
It should be the first link under than called Log this cache

This is a direct link to the log page.
Does that work for you?
http://geocaching.com.au/my/log/new/ga2264

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by Sunshine Toledo » 06 September 10 7:02 pm

I probably wasn't logged in Thanks C@W

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by PrincessDiala » 16 September 10 7:38 pm

OOhhh, SLV have finally advertised the geocaches!

Quoted from Burke and Wills 150th FB page:
Burke and Wills 150th wrote: Find out about the State Library of Victoria's geocaching project
Burke & Wills Geocaches | Dig - The Burke & Wills Research Gateway
burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au
Geocaching AustraliaThis Burke and Wills themed geocaching project is a collaboration between the State Library of Victoria and Geocaching Australia.
http://burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au/geocache

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by caughtatwork » 16 September 10 7:46 pm

From the morning of the 20-Aug-2010, that page was there and loaded with all the caches.
We worked extensively with the developers of the SLV site to provide them a real time feed of caches and logs.

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Re: Burke & Wills Project

Post by PrincessDiala » 16 September 10 7:58 pm

Ok, but I haven't seen it advertised anywhere yet... This is the first time from the Burke&Wills 150th fanpage thingy.....

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