Geocaching Australia

My email arrived at midday today telling me I had won one.

tronador wrote: ↑

08 June 20 10:48 am

Loving the games so far but raring to log some physical boxes for the next game.
Thank you for the awarding me a prize in the May game, just want to check if any one else received an email, as I never got one yet.

Mail goes out on Monday at midday AEST for all unclaimed rewards.

Thanks to the faeries... my email arrived yesterday....

After all the fun with the Locationless caches we've been doing for the 2020 Game of Games during April May & June, it's time to head outside again. Yep, with a lot of COVID-19 restrictions starting to lift, it will be great to be outdoors again finding and hiding caches.

To qualify for the July 2020 Game of Games draw you will need to complete the following:

Hide and publish a special geocache.

Geocache must be a Gadget or Podcache.

The hidden date must be in the game month.

The published date must be in the game month.

So get thinking and get those caches ready. It all kicks of in 15 days....

Cool. It is great to be allowed "out" again. Happy caching and publishing.

Got my gadget prepared already. Jut have to go and place it.

oldfella wrote: ↑

15 June 20 12:34 pm

Got my gadget prepared already. Jut have to go and place it.

So do I Although I knew this was coming I still only finished it on the weekend.

eBing retired I like something to do so I make cache containers and have a few gadget style containers just waiting to be placed.

Thank you for my geocaching badge, it arrived in the mail today.

Got my badge today as well, thanks. Being about 20km north of tronador and further from Melbourne it must take longer

With the appalling way that Australia Post handles mail nowadays I'm surprised they are getting there this fast. I'm not happy with letter delivery (or the price), but as it's a government mandated monopoly, we have no consumer choice on letters.

I haven't had too many delays on domestic things, 2 days from Adelaide to Sydney last week for a small-medium box. Though I am still waiting for something small I ordered from China off eBay in late March to show up. Then again in the past I have had letters regularly take over a week to get to me from the southern side of Sydney to the north. Could walk it quicker with a broken leg.

With the badge I just figured the carrier pigeon needed an overnight stop sometime between tronador and me

I literally just had a great (not) experience with the postie who I saw pull up out front of the house. He pulled a couple of large envelopes out so I went outside to take them from him. He was just "signing our surname" for a "registered post" item before he was going to drop them in the letter box. Contents? Our new passports. Too bad if they ended up being stolen from the letterbox as "we have your signature". No use complaining, but I probably will anyway.

Hmmm, not good. I would probably mention it to DFAT as well.

Similarly a few years ago I had an expensive camera lens being delivered to work that was supposed to be signed for. I found it in the open letterbox at the front of the driveway.

Have you placed your Gadget or Podcache for the month of July yet? If not, you have 2 weeks to do so and get yourself into the draw for our specially minted 2020 Game of Games pathtag. Don't leave it to the last moment. Also, why not head over to the Games section and check the leaderboard to see who has qualified to date.

Our next 2020 Game of Games starts on 1 Aug and to qualify to go into that monthly draw you will need to:


Find and log 5 physical* geocaches.

The log date must be in the game month.

The log must be made in the game month.

*Physical geocaches are:
Moveable, Beacon, Gadget, Burke & Wills, Reverse, Multi, Night, Podcache, Augmented Reality, Traditional, Unknown or TrigPoint.

== OR ==

Hide and publish 2 physical* geocaches.

The hidden date must be in the game month.

The published date must be in the game month.

*Physical geocaches are:
Moveable, Beacon, Gadget, Burke & Wills, Reverse, Multi, Night, Podcache, Augmented Reality, Traditional, Unknown or TrigPoint.

All up, an easy month to get yourself into the draw...so start your planning now.