Geocaching Australia

ABC digital will screen a segment on Geocaching tomorrow. If you want a preview check out the following link. The segment features Thomas the Tadpole, Alice the Amphibian and James the Newt. And some nameless frog.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/abc3/news/B ... 110316.mp4

Do you know the time it is on?

Just watched it on the link... looks good!

Although I wonder how that ammo can survives out in the open?!

Zalgariath wrote:Although I wonder how that ammo can survives out in the open?!

And how the tadpole works the controls on the GPSr?! (I can see that the frog could manage it!)

Great little article there - And very cute to see them 'hunting' a cache which we had the pleasure of doing on a previous trip over (although I don't remember that ammo box being there!!)

oh BTN *shudders* I still squirm at it from being made to watching it in school and write reports on the stories...and they werent fun stories like this one!!

where are the caches just sitting out in the open when I'm looking for them!

cool story though, its becoming pretty popular

Teirae wrote:oh BTN *shudders* I still squirm at it from being made to watching it in school and write reports on the stories...and they werent fun stories like this one!!

Ha ha we had to do it at school too and the stories were usually pretty boring.
Nice story on Geocaching though.

Great watch , very well put across

Nice work!

Well done Freddo and family .

I've done the 1st cache in the story, but I don't remember seeing that ammo box there

Well done to Freddo & family!

An experienced Geocacher with nearly 1000 DNF's

Well done, a few less non-magic folk now .. I can see kids in schools across the country asking their teachers .. can we do that!

I'm going to head into the city and see if I can find that ammo box now!

thank you freddo for posting this i actually went on a tour of the abc building with double helix science club about a week before this went to air 1 guy said he just got back from doing a story on australian geocaching (only because i learnt about caching on GC.com (the note in the first cache i found) i pronouce it cashing so i dint here it then he went on to say that its a treasure hunt with a gps and i said that i did it any way i forgot to tape in and missed it so thanks once again for sharing this

Another that wanted to say thanks for posting this
Finally the kids were able to show their classes what on earth they were on about each time they mentioned caching, I stuck the file on a USB stick and the whole class watched the segment on the interactive whiteboard.