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Travel Bug Race

Post by 68 GUNS » 17 April 05 6:23 am

There are a bunch of TB's being released in the Townsville, Queensland area which are racing back to the UK, you can see the details here
<A HREF="http://dontgohere.nu/caching/tb-race.htm"><font
color="red"><b>"It's Not An Anorak, It's a Travel Bug Race"</b></font></A> <bR> Please try and help these bugs to achieve their missions where you can.
Many thanks and happy caching

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Post by swampgecko » 17 April 05 7:39 am

Your Link doesn't seem to want to work for me.

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Post by 68 GUNS » 17 April 05 11:56 am

The server supporting the web page has a temporary fault which I am assured will be fixed soon within 48 hrs (hopefully sooner) so please check back soon.

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Post by Map Monkey » 17 April 05 4:10 pm

The domain name says it all :twisted: :lol:

I take it there are rules on the webpage dictating how many TBs you are allowed to take out of Remember Harold at any one time :wink:

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Post by 68 GUNS » 17 April 05 7:28 pm

There is no restriction applied to how many bugs may be picked up at a time, its entirely up to you how many you want to help. If a particular bug takes your fancy feel free to give it an advantage.

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Post by 68 Guns » 21 April 05 5:56 am

The web page link is now working, and there are just 4 TB's left to be released in the Townsville area out of the 29 taking part in the race. Please do your bit and help them on their way.

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Post by crew 153 » 21 April 05 1:09 pm

Townsville is a bit out of the way for most cachers. Don't expect them to move too quickly.

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Post by Map Monkey » 21 April 05 1:24 pm

Crew153, You must get out more then 8)

We might just pick up 25 TBs and shoot them down to Brisvegas in about two weeks time. :roll: Or out to western Qld :twisted:

BTW Townsville has a nice assortment of caches for those who are travelling up this way. Bob has picked some good caches to place them in IMO...... :lol:

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Post by crew 153 » 21 April 05 1:58 pm

Weekends are too short :)<br><br>

Would love to see some of them come this way.

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Post by Map Monkey » 21 April 05 2:04 pm

Return flights from Brissy are cheap :lol: There are just no excuses anymore not to visit NQ, apart from the odd croc :wink:

See what we can arrange if people don't beat me to it :roll:

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Post by Alibags » 25 April 05 10:06 pm

Thanks in advance for any help Australian cachers are able to give to our bugs in the race. We chose Australia as a start point because Bob was conveniently going there to visit his daughter, and it's almost entirely round the other side of the globe. Somebody who visits any of the Townsville area caches will have a chance to seriously increase their TB stats! 8)

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Post by Guest » 11 May 05 2:43 am

:?:

Are all the australian cachers hibernating? Have all the cachers in that area done all these caches? :cry:

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Post by ideology » 11 May 05 8:26 am

no, we are not hibernating - it's just a big country and as crew_153 and agsmky already said, the bugs have been placed in a small population centre (about 100,000 from memory) a long way from anywhere. here's a comparison map for interest. on this basis, the bugs are somewhere in deepest russia!

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the location of the first bug, townsville's first, has not been found in six months. the location of other bugs, saunder's seabreeze, gets about one log every two months or so. at this rate it will take over a year for all the bugs to move.

we think your best chance of reviving the competition is to get someone to collect the bugs and post them to a populated area where caches are visited once a fortnight or so.

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Post by Dooghan » 11 May 05 8:29 am

Anonymous wrote::?:

Are all the australian cachers hibernating? Have all the cachers in that area done all these caches? :cry:
You are taking about North Queensland. I can count the number of people that are caching on one hand. If you wanted then to get away a bit more quicker (instead of sitting in a cache for 6 months) then they should have been released in Brisbane or Sydney :cry:

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Post by Map Monkey » 11 May 05 9:03 am

Looks like someone will have to grab a bunch and send them south :roll: maybe to the Queensland Geocaching Winter Picnic where it counts as 25 points :P

The problem with some races is that people expect them to be going a hundred kilometres an hour from one cache to another. A race where they start very slowly is still a race and IMO is a great twist to the event. :lol: Be patient and enjoy the suspense of the wait :twisted:

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