Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition

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Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition

Post by *Quokka » 24 July 13 12:57 am

How is everyone going with this event? I'm even dreaming of solving puzzle caches in my sleep 8-[

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Post by Yurt » 24 July 13 10:27 am

I keep seeing logs by some local cachers referencing this but I have no idea what it's about.

[old man]Didn't have geocaching back when I was in Scouts!! We used to do orienteering with a compass and map if we were lucky![/old man] :mrgreen:

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Post by pjmpjm » 24 July 13 2:25 pm

Yurt wrote:I keep seeing logs by some local cachers referencing this but I have no idea what it's about.
No idea either. :-k

Would welcome any new caches up here in the mountains . . . even puzzle caches!

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Post by Black Bunny » 24 July 13 7:44 pm

Yurt wrote:[old man]Didn't have geocaching back when I was in Scouts!! We used to do orienteering with a compass and map if we were lucky![/old man] :mrgreen:
You had a compass!!! Sheer bloody luxury. We could only dream of having a compass. We had to use a sextant and navigate by the stars. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by Agent Basil » 24 July 13 8:02 pm

Black Bunny wrote:
Yurt wrote:[old man]Didn't have geocaching back when I was in Scouts!! We used to do orienteering with a compass and map if we were lucky![/old man] :mrgreen:
You had a compass!!! Sheer bloody luxury. We could only dream of having a compass. We had to use a sextant and navigate by the stars. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Stars??????? We dreamt of having stars! We were blind-folded and had to crawl on our hands and feet using our noses to smell which way was North!

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Post by *Quokka » 24 July 13 8:31 pm

You had hands and feet ?? and eyes and noses too ??? Luxury... we had to wriggle our way towards the light using only our instinct to guide us. And that folks is how I often feel when confronted with a confounding and elusive cache ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)

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Post by WazzaAndWenches » 24 July 13 10:36 pm

Come on. I'm getting old sitting here waiting for the next witty reply. :-"

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Post by spatialriq » 24 July 13 10:53 pm

*Quokka wrote:You had hands and feet ?? and eyes and noses too ??? Luxury... we had to wriggle our way towards the light using only our instinct to guide us. And that folks is how I often feel when confronted with a confounding and elusive cache ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)
And you tell that to the kids of today and they won't believe you!

But seriously ... What is this comp? I've not heard of it :shock:

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Post by JABs » 25 July 13 6:03 am

The long or the short of it visit

http://geocaching.scouts.com.au/

Has all and more info for those that wish to know more

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Post by Toriaz » 25 July 13 6:38 am

My eldest daughter (The Imp) is in the competition. For her it mainly means that she's actually logging her finds these days, although I've just realised she hasn't done her logs from the last weekend of the holidays yet.

Must look up the end date, I've promised her I'll take her out for a bike ride to do the WRPT caches. She thinks she can use the ride for both the competition & for the cyclist badge :D

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Post by jusojara » 25 July 13 10:50 am

Toriaz wrote:My eldest daughter (The Imp) is in the competition. For her it mainly means that she's actually logging her finds these days, although I've just realised she hasn't done her logs from the last weekend of the holidays yet.

Must look up the end date, I've promised her I'll take her out for a bike ride to do the WRPT caches. She thinks she can use the ride for both the competition & for the cyclist badge :D
If finishes mid September (somewhere around the 15th I think?)

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Post by Bronnie_1990 » 25 July 13 7:15 pm

Yeah...so i need to get outside more.

However, i'm pretty sure i'm the only rover in ACT doing it, so i may be winning by default.

(prove me wrong, someone)

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Post by *Quokka » 25 July 13 10:42 pm

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings Bronnie_1990 but with just 66 finds since the Ides of March you're trailing a distant second to Black Bunney's 395 (assuming that BB is registered in the comp and also assuming that no others are ahead of you in the ACT). I'll be in Canberra myself next week and I plan to knock off the 50 Must see Places series. Anyone up for caching on Friday 2nd August? :) :) :)

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Post by Bronnie_1990 » 25 July 13 10:48 pm

*Quokka wrote:Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings Bronnie_1990 but with just 66 finds since the Ides of March you're trailing a distant second to Black Bunney's 395 (assuming that BB is registered in the comp and also assuming that no others are ahead of you in the ACT). I'll be in Canberra myself next week and I plan to knock off the 50 Must see Places series. Anyone up for caching on Friday 2nd August? :) :) :)
BB is not involved in scouting, last time i checked

besides, i'm only against other rovers, like other venturers are against each other, other leaders are against each other etc

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Re: Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition

Post by *Quokka » 25 July 13 11:02 pm

Ok, so I've just realised that there's a whole bunch of GCA caches out there. Can someone please explain to me how these work and whether they add to my total at geocaching.com or if they constitute a separate game entirely? :? :? :?

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