Tiddalik the Frog Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By strike-a-light on 01-Dec-11. Waypoint GA3764

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Type: Moveable
Container: Small
Coordinates: S33° 41.928' E151° 1.732' (WGS 84)
  56H 317316E 6269495N (UTM)
Elevation: 209 m
Local Government Area: The Hornsby

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Tiddalik is a Leap Frog moving cache who wants to get home to Sydney

Here is Tiddalik's story: Long ago in the Dreamtime, Tiddalik, the largest frog ever known, awoke one morning with a huge thirst. He started to drink and drank until there was no fresh water left in the world. Soon creatures everywhere were dying and trees were wilting because of the lack of moisture.

All the animals pondered about their terrible plight until a wise old wombat suggested that if Tiddalik could be made to laugh then maybe all the water would flow out of his mouth. This was a good idea the animals agreed.

The animals gathered by Tiddalik's resting place and tried for a long time to make him laugh, but it was in vain. The kookaburra told his funniest story, the kangaroo jumped over the emu and the lizard waddled up and down on two legs making his stomach stick out but Tiddalik was not amused.

Then when the animals were in despair, Nabunum the eel who was driven from his favourite creek by the drought slid up to the unresponsive frog and began to dance. As the dance got faster Nabunum wriggled and twisted himself into all sorts of knots and shapes to the amusement of Tiddalik. Tiddalik's eyes lit up and burst out laughing. As he laughed the water gushed out from his mouth and flowed away to replenish the lakes, swamps and rivers again.

Please locate Tiddalik, take him away, sign his log and re-hide him in a different location, taking note of the new co-ordinates. Then you log the details in 2 simple steps:

 First Step: Log your find with a 'Found' log - this will give you your smiley!

 Second Step: Log the move with a new 'Moved' log, adding the new co-ordinates as well as something useful in the hint box. This will update the main co-ordinates and the hint for the cache listing so that it will update in GSAK and the like.

Hints

Tebhaq yriry, va ont.
ROT 13: ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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Logs

07-May-12
Belated logging of one of the many frogs that had invaded Albury for the Oz Mega event - they all seemed to be having a fantastic time together, catching up on the froggy news and sharing the many stories of their adventures over the last few months.
TFTC - and enjoy your retirement!
 
24-Apr-12
Young Tiddalik is very pleased to be able to settle down in a nice pond and find a lady frog to keep him company RibbitRibbit
 
19-Apr-12
I shall give him a good rest after his long travels Very Happy
 
19-Apr-12
Moved 767.19km
Tiddalik is having a rest with Spadefoot behind a waterfall after a froggin big hop.
 
13-Apr-12
I stopped to drop a frog and this one hopped in when he saw my NSW plates.
 
11-Apr-12
Moved 320.89km
Another frog sitting along Knights Road. This one is on the corner of a paddock. He's not enjoying the view because it's dark where he is. Ribbit
 
10-Apr-12
Collected from the Mega Event. We'll find a nice place for this squishy little guy. It feels like he's eaten a nano container.
 
09-Apr-12
Moved 0.25km
Found at the Oz Mega Event in Albury Smile
 
09-Apr-12
Found it & all its mates at the OZ Mega event in Albury.
 
08-Apr-12
Seen at the Oz Mega Event.
 
08-Apr-12
Found at the Oz Mega Event with all his friends. TFTC!
 
08-Apr-12
Found at the Mega event
 
07-Apr-12
Found at the Oz Mega Event on the trackables table.
 
07-Apr-12
Found at the OZ Mega with Black Bunny. Nice to see this one again.

Thanks for the Frog Strike a light
 
07-Apr-12
Found with Just a cacher at the OZ Mega in Albury with a lot of Frogs and Gnomes.

Always good to grab these Geocaching Australia caches.

Thanks for the cache Strike a light
 
07-Apr-12
Found at the OZ MEGA event in Albury along with a table full of friends.
 
07-Apr-12
Moved 285.17km
Found at the mega but will leave it here for others to find
 
04-Apr-12
Spotted cute froggy at Whitepaws9's car - on the way to Mega...
 
22-Mar-12
Found it again...
Will bring to mega to meet other frogs
RibbitRibbitRibbitRibbitRibbitDancing
 
18-Mar-12
Moved 52.03km
Oh dear, I've been quite remiss in moving this frog along. After intending a next-day move I discovered I had completely forgot about them and it was stuck in my boot with another Leapfrog and a GeGnome... Then after I finally hid them all together just as I found them (less my own Leapfrog) in a shopping bag, I had forgotten to actually log the move... Doh


Shhhhhhh
 
11-Mar-12
I decided to chase down one of my Leapfrogs who was in company with this one.

I made a slight mistake at GZ pulling through a gate and driving up a gravel road - only to realise that this wasn't a road but the trail! Embarassed I quick u-turn - of course now some muggles came along to witness my stuff up Doh who I had to wait to pass by - then came back down the proper road! Honestly - who puts a wide opening on the street end - with no bollard and no warning signs - but a narrow one down the track when its far too late?!? Rolling Eyes After having to wait for more muggles who just had to turn up when I was at GZ, and worse the little ones clambered up onto the platform whilst the elders dawdled along as slowly as possible. I walked to the picnic tables nearby and sat down - discovering my next stuff up - I hadn't transfered a query's worth of other local caches to my GPS so my plans for gathering some more smilies from out here was dashed Sad After a wait the muggles had moved off, and although another was packing their bike into their van I moved in and grabbed the exposed shopping bag which thankfully turned out to be the nice collection of ex-racers (all new to me, except my own GGF obviously) Smile I took them all with me and will release them into suburbia possibly tomorrow (err today now), else during the week.
 
26-Jan-12
Moved 53.45km
Teamed up with some other frogs and made his way over the city and started following a trail out to more water.
 
25-Jan-12
Found
 
21-Jan-12
Moved 23.12km
Moved a little closer to the CBD in the wastelands.
 
20-Jan-12
Moved 31.56km
This little fella had skipped a ride and ended up in Werribee.

A frog party it was with 4 in tow.

Will move him on soon.

TFTF Ribbit
 
19-Jan-12
Moved 63.26km
RibbitRibbitRibbitRibbit into hiding place wait for new finder RibbitRibbitRibbitRibbit
 
17-Jan-12
Hallo Ribbit wanna come with me for a ride home
Love Taddalik Ribbit
Mr. Green thanks
 
16-Jan-12
Moved 3.31km
Hidden with a lot of other Sydney frogs in this nice big park.
 
16-Jan-12
Grabbed him quickly as he was right on my doorstep.
 
16-Jan-12
Moved 721.34km
Moved him from Sydney all the way down here Very Happy

Don't bother searching, this is gmj3191 territory and he will have it within minutes of this log!
 
14-Jan-12
When you are in Sydney for one night, what do you do? Swap Frogs of course Very HappyVery Happy

I found this with many friends at around 11:00 today and made the swap when no muggles were watching. I placed 13, Blossom* placed 11. Fair enough Wink

Thanks quiet1_au and thanks for the organisation Blossom*!!
 
13-Jan-12
Moved 10.58km
All the frogs had heard that a visitor was coming to town and were very keen to show him the sights. And with the Sydney Festival on, there are plenty of sights to see!

I dropped them off at the gates of the Botanical Gardens this morning so they could make plans and book tickets. It was agreed on a general tour around and then an evening climb on the Harbour Bridge Very Happy
 
13-Jan-12
Tiddalik is ready to roam again Very Happy He's off on a mission this weekend with a heap of mates
 
07-Jan-12
I have young Tiddalik for a bit of an R&R break. I'll give him back to blossom* to hide again once he's fattened up a bit Ribbit
 
05-Jan-12
Great to meet Tiddalik again but he does look very hungry. I'll see if I can work out how to fatten him up again Ribbit
 
05-Jan-12
Moved 240.5km
Visiting Australia's oldest cache site
 
04-Jan-12
A box of frogs, mmmm, a trip to Sydney maybe??? Sold.
 
04-Jan-12
Black Bunny has just brought home a box of frogs. A BOX of frogs. Interesting. He says he found them that way.

I think we will take them for a drive towards Sydney, as they all seem to have been here for some time, visiting local cachers.
 
01-Jan-12
Moved 7.86km
The box o' frogs is back in the wild
 
31-Dec-11
Wow, I found a whole boxload of froggies, but this one is the squishiest! Now to find somewhere to move them...

Thanks for the froggy fun!
 
25-Dec-11
Moved 10.37km
 
22-Dec-11
Hmmm, wasn't confident after reading the DNF but thought I'd try anyway. Luckily I did for I found this one, nice and dry in it's loggy hide. Spiders had woven webs across the log but a stick swivel soon had that sorted! Well, I hope it did....can't feel anything crawling on me! Anyway, cute squishy frog... reminds me of the book Tiddalik.

TFTF Smile
 
21-Dec-11
DNFd at 11am. Had a good look around and given the myriad of potential hiding spots expanded my search radius to cover some other options, but I couldnt come up with a frog Sad
 
19-Dec-11
Moved 5.07km
Tiddalik is feeling a bit flat - a run in with a small car and an overzealous toddler have taken it's toll! Sad Tiddalik needs some tender loving moving, come rescue him soon, and if you know of a re inflating specialist - let him know!

*ahem* I wish I'd gone to Tassie, alas, no such luck!
 
15-Dec-11
Bells on on doorbells ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to croak and sing
A ribbiting song tonight

(Some croak more than others, with the help of Tiger-monkey!) Ribbit
 
15-Dec-11
Moved 35.95km
Byee!! You were fun while you lasted Smile
 
14-Dec-11
Oooh! Squishy!
Oooh! Noisy!
Oooooooh, i like it! Smile

GeoCat is currently being amused by this one. She approves of the frogs this year, unlike the gnomes.

Now, Tiddalik and friends are all being noisy in the car!
 
13-Dec-11
Moved 10.51km
 
10-Dec-11
Got the SQUISHY little thing!
 
10-Dec-11
Moved 1.27km
Down, but don't go for it, it has already been picked up.
 
09-Dec-11
GCA 233 - 4425. Another Frog added to the List !

Found with Sol de Lune.

TFTC !
 
09-Dec-11
Got it
 
09-Dec-11
Moved 10.38km
Off he goes again.....
 
09-Dec-11
Grabbed from winglen, to be replaced in the wild very shortly.

Thanks for another frog....
 
08-Dec-11
A late evening dash to this area rich in frogs - and this one appears to be our 6000th GCA/GC combined find! Thanks for the fun Strike-a-light Ribbit
 
08-Dec-11
Moved 16.85km
Ready to go again
 
06-Dec-11
Good looking young frog, thanks for the cache!
 
06-Dec-11
A quick grab on the way to work this morning.
 
05-Dec-11
Moved 1.52km
Dropped near a fellow cacher Good luck!
 
05-Dec-11
With all these caches nearby just had to drop everything and go for them. A quick find TFTC
 
05-Dec-11
Moved 226.55km
Down for a quick pick up to keep hopping.
 
04-Dec-11
Found this frogs on the table. Ribbit
 
04-Dec-11
Found this noisy frog at the NSW Christmas event. It was hard to shut him up all the way back to Canberra.

Thanks for the frog strike-a-light
 
04-Dec-11
Found at the Geocaching Christmas event in Sydney today.
Brought home to Canberra. To be released very soon.
 
03-Dec-11
Moved 24.37km
Don't look for him until the NSW GC Christmas party event on Sunday
 
03-Dec-11
I stopped off here to visit the rest room and heard a croaking nearby. After a bit of a look around, I found Tiddalik! so took him along to visit some people tomorrow
 
02-Dec-11
Moved 2.62km
A quick move a little bit west, seems to be a frog hotspot around here so hopefully he will move on quickly.
 
02-Dec-11
A nice quick grab!
 
02-Dec-11
Moved 8.33km
Time to move him on. I drove in a car park, and he hopped out right at the end. He blends in well Laughing
 
01-Dec-11
Your a squishly little fella. Found him hiding in the dead of the night. Will move him along... Shhhhhhh
 
01-Dec-11
Tiddalik is in the next post to the cache GC2EDF9, 5th from the end
 
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