Hawmorfords get new Australian record

The Garner Family · Post by **The Garner Family** » 16 September 06 10:54 pm

Hawmorfords have been busy down in Melbourne... its 9:52pm and they're up to 89 so far for the day... they're hoping to get over 100 before midnight.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 16 September 06 11:00 pm

W00T !
You go guys.

acts2youthgroup · Post by **acts2youthgroup** » 17 September 06 12:17 am

Well done on the new record, last phone call I had with them they were on 91 and still at it.

astroboy1967 · Post by **astroboy1967** » 17 September 06 2:00 am

QUEENSLANDER!!!!

The Garner Family · Post by **The Garner Family** » 17 September 06 7:22 am

The final tally for the day was 101!!! I bet they'll be sleeping in this morning.... or maybe they'll be out trying to get 8 more to get another record, i.e. Australia's fastest 1000!

Nosugrefs · Post by **Nosugrefs** » 17 September 06 8:32 am

WOW!! Can you really enjoy the caches with these numbers, or is it simply the competition? WELL DONE

Wingaap · Post by **Wingaap** » 17 September 06 9:51 am

Congratulations. What a mammoth effort.

A rough calculation......that's better than one cache every 14.4 minutes for a full 24 hours.

It takes me longer than that just to get over to the dark side of town...before I even find my first one!!

If · Post by If » 17 September 06 2:10 pm

Queensland does it again

Congratulations HawMorFords on a new Aussie record !!!
Now go and get some sleep....

rogainer · Post by **rogainer** » 17 September 06 2:21 pm

sheesh - super human effort that. 
Thats nearly half of my total which I have taken 5 years to get...

The Garner Family · Post by **The Garner Family** » 17 September 06 7:14 pm

We should create a wiki page to keep track of the various state and Australian records... anyone know the dates/holders of the previous records ? (I know that a2yg had the previous best, but don't know the date).

Facitman · Post by **Facitman** » 17 September 06 8:13 pm

The ever reliable c@w provides the basic detail 
 
The ones I know of (for Australia) are: 
Rabbitto did 33 on 20th Nov 2004 
teamkittens did 43 on 1st Jan 2005 
Rhinogeo and I then did 44 on 8th Feb 2005 
Rabbitto did 56 on 12th Mar 2005 
Acts2youthgroup did 77 on 7th Oct 2005 
 

BTW, absolutely fantastic effort by HawMorFords

. Congratulations!!
 

http://caughtatwork.net/geocaching/grap ... ALL&size=2

If · Post by If » 17 September 06 8:19 pm

Phew, I'm glad I'm not represented on that graph

Slow and steady wins the race

How do you keen cachers find the time to stop and smell the roses?

rhinogeo · Post by **rhinogeo** » 17 September 06 8:47 pm

What drugs are the HawMorFords on

CONGRATULATIONS

I'm exhausted thinking about it

I hope they put the time of each find (as well as the count) in each log - it'll give us amateurs some vague idea of how they did it

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 17 September 06 9:19 pm

Give it a couple of days for the logs to filter through and this should plot an interesting route!
http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/HawMorFords.kml

djcache · Post by **djcache** » 18 September 06 9:37 am

Okay. Who's going to be brave enough to back me up here.

24 hours
101 caches
=
14mins 20 secs per cache.

That allows no time for driving between, sustenance, fueling vehicles if required, a loo break.

It's simply not achievable if you actually have to search for each cache.

If you had one cache that took you ten minutes over the average you'd have to eagle the next in 4 mins to get back on track.

Of course if you claim logs on caches that you actually replaced as they are missing in action, muggled etc it makes it somewhat easier GCM3JN

A legitimate claim should be based on an actual search for all intact, logable caches, without a tour guide, and all team members for the attempt present at each find.

Ready with open mind for an adequate explanation of how this was achieved - and flame retardant overalls on.

DJ

Geocaching Australia

Hawmorfords get new Australian record

Hawmorfords get new Australian record

another 24hrs

going overboard