The Dog Karabar, New South Wales, Australia
By
nutwood on 01-Dec-12. Waypoint GA4747
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Moveable |
Container: | Nano |
Coordinates: | S35° 22.034' E149° 13.088' (WGS 84) |
55H 701516E 6083972N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 645 m |
Local Government Area: | Queanbeyan-Palerang |
Description
This little moveable is one of a series of ten which have a monopoly on the GA4740's. Some of these little tokens are very obviously travel related, others less so, but do not be fooled. These tokens have been travelling some of the worlds most famous streets for in excess of seventy years. The dog one of the later tokens. It was first introduced to the standard set of pieces post war.
Dogs have had a long history of involvement in transport. Apart from the obvious dog sleds, they have also been used for pulling delivery carts. I've not been able to locate any evidence that Scottish Terriers were used for this duty but they come from a canny race where you wouldn't use a horse if a pony would do!
We like to include a FTF pathtag in our hides but this was obviously impractical with these little magnetics. Instead we have decided to offer a FTF pathtag to the first ten teams to find all ten tokens. This offer is for the duration of "Bingo", so if you find all ten before the end of January, just PM us with your dates and a mailing address and you have a very good chance of receiving a FTF tag. There's ten caches so we're offering ten tags. We're not keeping count so first in, best dressed!
This is a Bingo cache so we ask finders to respect the rules. Please do not log a find unless you are prepared to move this cache to a new location at least one kilometre from where you found it.
Hints
Pyvccrq vagb gerr arne tngr - urnq urvtug |
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Decode |
Logs
We're archiving it to help keep the database clean. If this cache reappeares the cache owner can reactivate him by posting an "Unarchived" log.
Will relocate asap.
TFTC !!
For future finders, this is a tiny moveable, so have a good look when searching.
Thanks
Albida
Thanks for the moveable nutwood33
Thanks nutwood33
This is a very small dog; could just about use a nano container for a kennel! Will require some careful feeling to locate.
I decided to leave him there as with the size I'll be afraid he'd get lost in my luggage when flying home.
Thanks Nutwood33....nice little cache.
OldSaint.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d7536956-03da-4036-9d80-7288eb20ad9b
First the keyring was replaced, this made it easier to discern where the cache was, but the tag was still hard to make out so it was also replaced.
This was all well and good but the dog remained hard to see so he was replaced as well. This appears to have sorted the problem!
Many thanks to Makky Brown, 2y'stassies and a small manual entitled "How to fix grandads axe".
As I offered by email recently, I can move any up north that you know need to come up that way. (With one exception - I am not bringing the trailer)
Please get him back out there!
I've replaced two of mine as soon as they went missing so that all cachers still had the opportunity to log them in order to complete their cards. The two were "On the High Seas" and "A Cost to Move." It's called co-operation.
Remember, you asked me to keep mine in the game right at the start the BINGO Race as others were relying on them to complete their cards.
I think I said "The whole is greater than the one!"
It would be good if this little character is put back in the race ASAP so that those who have not found it have that opportunity.
Cheers and thanks
OldSaint.
This one seems to have been muggled, as there was a DNF on the 4th of January. Hopefully nobody has found it on the 3rd and not logged it for a fortnight..... Gee I was getting in trouble for not logging them after 6 hours.
We are happy to offer a replacement - many of the southern cachers need this number to complete there card - but can we offer a replacement so we can complete our cards
Bt
We're considering options.
The dog is attached to GA5343's key ring for security but these are two separate caches