Frognome: I Gnome What You Did Last Summer Western Creek, Tasmania, Australia
By
hookline on 01-Dec-11. Waypoint GA3921
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Other |
Coordinates: | S41° 40.004' E146° 28.472' (WGS 84) |
55G 456255E 5387091N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 576 m |
Local Government Area: | Meander Valley |
Description
Poor Gorban was an innocent frog. Hopping around the garden. Splashing in the pond. Burbling lonesomely in the night. Trying to survive Global Warming. The stuff frogs generally do.
It wasn’t an easy life. But he managed.
Then one evening, things got strange. Gorban was burbling lonesomely beside his bit of pond as usual, when suddenly, out of Nowhere (a mysterious parallel dimension from whence all Sudden Things came), a slavering, howling, radioactive garden gnome leapt at Gorban and bit him.
Gorban sulked. “What did you do that for?”
The garden gnome looked at the little frog with its glowing red eyes and shrugged. “I’m a radioactive garden gnome,” it apologised. “I’m afraid it’s what I do. Good evening.”
Then it leapt away howling into the bushes and was gone.
“Great,” Gorban sighed. “I suppose now I’m going to turn into a mutant, superamphibian frog-gnome freak?”
Gorban was right.
But it wasn’t all bad. He could punch through trees. He could eat bugs from six kilometres away. He had a great, shining, golden beard the envy of all gnomes and frogs everywhere. He became known as The Incredible Frognome, and even went on to star in his own geocaching game, called:
I Gnome What You Did Last Summer.
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Official Game Rules:
- The game commences at 00:00:00 1 December 2011 AEDST and concludes 23:59:59 31 January 2012 AEDST
- The game administrators decision is final
- You can not find and move your own cache during the game period
- Caches must be found and hidden by the same cacher (i.e. no mailing the cache to another cacher to hide)
- There is no limit to the number of times other cachers can find / move the cache provided there are at least two other finds / moves in between
- If a cacher moves your cache overseas and it remains unfound overseas for 1 week or more, the same cacher may move your cache (within the country or to another country) without breaking the "2 moves" rule
- There is no limit to the distance other cachers can move the cache
- Other cachers in the game may find / move your cache, but they must move it on within 2 days
This cache was placed as part of Geocaching Australia's LeapFrog Moving Cache Race 2011/2012
Logs
If you want to log the Leap Frog Hospital then you're welcome to try and fix him, but if you can't be bothered then just put the bits in a box or something and bring him to the Magic Meal and I will fix him at home. Either way, he's going into retirement with Frogeater.
He's in three pieces and a bit cracked but he should be glue-able back together, although I'm not sure if he'll be up the rigours of travelling. Might be possible to fill him with resin?
Would you like me to have a go at fixing him or shall I parcel him up carefully and bring him to the magic meal?
I'll put an image in the gallery.
When I got back to my car I was surprised to find the Tassie Trekkers waiting... Didn't we do this just a couple weeks ago?
Thanks for the frog Hookline
In all, 47 frogs and a gnome were recovered and they will be placed out in the bush tomorrow. Maybe we'll take them to Cockle Creek, NO. Strathgordon or the old Hilton Hotel at Adamsfield! YES. They are good places.
Thank you for the great hides
Mr Frog jumped out of the pond one day
And found himself in the rain
Said he, "I'll get wet and I might catch a cold."
So he jumped in the pond again.
Anyway, a new log signature, and one anyone who saw play school as a kid would know.
Mr Frog jumped out of the pond one day
And found himself in the rain
Said he, "I'll get wet and I might catch a cold."
So he jumped in the pond again.
Thanks for the great frog (Gnome). I do love this one
Anyway here is my log signature
Da -Glumpf went the little Green frog one day
Da- Glumpf went the little Green frog
Da -Glumpf went the little Green frog one day
And the frog went Glumpf Glumpf Glumpf
But we all know frogs go "La de da de da"
"La de da de da"
"La de da de da"
We all know frogs go "La de da de da"
They don't go glumpf glumpf glumpf
Had taken Mum to get her done and then hid a frog of my own. Picked her up from the hairdresser and went in search of this little green guy.
A quick find by the banks of the Huon River and will put him back on his journey later in the day.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours;
but above all else, a safe Festive Season to you all.
I gnome what you did last year and frognome in leaps this year! Well done!!
Cheers OldSaint.
Anyway here is my log signature
Da -Glumpf went the little Green frog one day
Da- Glumpf went the little Green frog
Da -Glumpf went the little Green frog one day
And the frog went Glumpf Glumpf Glumpf
But we all know frogs go "La de da de da"
"La de da de da"
"La de da de da"
We all know frogs go "La de da de da"
They don't go glumpf glumpf glumpf
PS I just looked at the location on the caching map. It's a bit misleading. Suggest using Google Earth. It's all a question of timing!
Today's hunt was fine. There were muggles in a nearby house having breakfast. They gave me a froggy stare but I just smiled innocently as I gnew I had the frog in hand
If no one logs a move, I'll head back to see if I can still find him.
Assuming someone hasn't collected, any chance of a hint? Scrabbling about that bank looking is going to do damage.