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Tealby |
All clear now to archive this listing. A big thank you to everyone who was involved.
PS I think there are still possibly 2 cachers to log this cache - miainact (email sent) and Bullfrog & Minime (unable to find their caching profile on gc.com). |
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feathertop |
With impeccable timing my plane arrived on the dot and Alansee whisked me to this well attended and organised event. Great to put some faces to the names of the locals and thanks to Tealby for organsing and giving us one of her badges as well.
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The S's |
Unfortunately due to kids swimming lessons and terrible traffic we didn't make it for the start but we were there soon after, managed to have all except Mr S in the photo (he was still trying to park the car) great to see everyone again.
Thanks Tealby for another well organised event
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aussie_phoenix |
this was my first event cache. good to match faces to names.
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Roadie1212 |
Wow! A great day for it. My first event. Thanks tealby.
Put some faces to names and picked up a travel bug.
Heading north next weekend.
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Tealby |
I'm still waiting for the last few logs before I can archive this cache. Plus, all the trackables need to be collected.
In addition to my summary of this event listed below, there were 167 events like ours all around the WORLD today! 15 countries and thousands of geocachers "shared" this experience. Sonny and Sandy at PodCacher.com will be bringing together pictures, audio and stories from all the WWFMs around the globe. To see the pictures and listen to the show, go to http://www.podcacher.com - they will also be collating the grand total for the number of people who participated in WWFM III.
For information, there was only one other event in Australia - in Melbourne. They had a few more attendees than us, but not too many more. Hopefully next time we can get every Australian state & territory involved.
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Fishing's Fun |
This was our first event and it was great to meet some fellow cachers. Great fun and especially good to meet up with Sol de lune again after so many years.
Thanks for organising a great event Tealby!
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Fore! |
Yee-ha!
At risk of repeating everyone else's sentiments - that was fantastic, Tealby! I've not attended an event before (despite best intentions) and that really was great fun. I do regret not having the time to stop and chat with more people, and to miss some of the opportunities to put more faces to names. I think I need a "cacher mugshot gallery". You know what I mean!
Love all the photos that people have posted - great work! The group shot is a corker! (no pun intended, Bubble and Squeak!)
Tealby - you have done a great job (again, I presume) with this. Thank you so much for the opportunity - you have obviously gotten it down to a fine art.
Sol de Lune: what a champ you are - great to meet you. I saw Eynowd in the distance, missed BigOn altogether, was "slap me silly" when I realised that winglen was not a guy (don't you love the assumptions we all make when we read log reports!), enjoyed meeting MtBikerOz yet again - what an icon that fellow is! (I think next to Eynowd, we've run into hm more than any other cacher), and Secret Squirrel!FINALLY my ftf hunter shows his face!, mightydent you're a slip of a fellow, aren't you? No wonder you can run! - BigMatt and Shell, I really really wanted to meet you but had no idea who you were until the log report that identified you as the ones with the boxers that were putting up their dukes with Huxley!!! eheheh Next time!!
Hey, there's more, but even me - with the verbosity rating that smashes most of you out of the water, I'd best stop here. Safe to say I had a great (but brief) time, and look forward to seeing mroe of you next time. I know I was probably identifiable, but so many of you weren't!
And for those of you who might be in the least bit curious, I shot 9 over par today. Not too crash hot, but it could have been worse!
A HUGE thank, Tealby!
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Shadow! |
Wow, that was great! Thanks Tealby!
This was my first caching event, too, and a flash mob seems like a good way to do it.
Enjoyed meeting the cachers out there!
TFTC! Fun  !!!
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bubble & squeak |
Yipee! Excellent way to start a brilliant Canberra day. Ta.
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Sol de lune |
Another great event cache run by Tealby.
Thanks for the organisation and running, thanks to the helpers as well.
At the last WWFM in November I was the 'newbie' and the event was my 9th Cache. Todays event was my 400th cache. And to win the coin for the 'best'?? dressed was great, and yes I did try. Thanks to Tealby for the prizes.
I met up with 'Fishingisfun' today, who was a previous supervisor of mine back in my RAAF days. Second time this has happened at an caching event.
Good also today to meet Fore!, Allrounder, Huxley and the crew. A few pathtags were swapped as well as a few stories.
Hope all the new cachers and first time event attendees had a good time and hopefully we will meet up in the bush sometime.
Thanks again Tealby, and happy anniversary. 
Cheers,
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Captain Tomato |
Thanks Tealby for another great caching event. Good to meet some new faces and share a few experiences over coffee afterwards. Loved it.
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SecretSquirrel-BJC |
821 10am with Captain Tomato
Congratulations Tealby - another excellent event!
I just love catching up, putting faces to names and swapping war stories.
*Overall Experience: 5*
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating
Rated:  for Overall Experience
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derf10 |
What a great morning and the great effort by all involved thank you all.
To see the red outfits and try to put names to them before the ten o'clock gathering time was interesting. Coffee was even better, getting to meet the faces behind the names was a highlight that I will not forget . What a great bunch fellow cacher's you all are.
We are looking forward to the next event hopefully its before we head back to QLD.
Excellent well done Tealby
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BigON |
Hey, it was great to see all the familiar crowd, put a few more faces to names and meet some of the newbies as well.
I have all the trackable registration details for the event and will send them out to all who preregistered and any that send an email requesting them. Don't forget to pickup the trackables from the site folks
Great event Tealby, thanks
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SWEENEY0302 |
Had a great time at my first WWFM. Won a GC during the prize draw-bonus!!! Thanks Tealby.
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Rexyboy |
My first caching event, very nice to meet the faces behind the names. Tealby thatnks for the organisation and the chat at the outpost afterwards. I hope to see you all again at the next event or in the field.
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AusCan1965 |
373 - Well - really enjoyed todays event! There is only one other thing I enjoy above caching in the field - and that is meeting fellow cachers....
Great to catch up with some people again - and some Fore! the first time (Yes the first time meeting Fore!, Shadow, Allrounder & Huxley)...
Its great swapping war stories and current cache problems - although the threat of Honey and Ant Mounds is a bit of a worry....(lol)...
Thanks to Tealby and all her helpers - a really good event - Cheers....
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steeba |
This was a great event. Went well with the days caching too. Good to see some people who you only know by name in logbooks. Was quite exciting at 10am when people gathered from everywhere. Thanks for a great event.
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allrounder |
Another extremely professional event organised by Tealby.
Good to put some handles to faces. Also thanks to Sol de lune for the pathtag!
Love Tankengine's photo - perhaps we should add captions so we know who is who??!
Looking forward to attending more events in the future.
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McPhan |
1117. Headed off to this one telling the kids that I'd be back by 11ish. After 1 I finally got home after swapping war stories and seeking clues.
Another great event and well organised. Thnaks Tealby and for the helping hands of BigOn, Big Matt and Shell, winglen and anybody else that helped that I missed.
TFTC and the camaraderie.
Rated: for Overall Experience
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mightybent |
After nearly two years of caching this was my first event. Great to see so many people and put some faces to the names I know very well. Thanks very Tealby for organising. I have just got back from a walk up Mt Tennant. I highly recommend it.
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angel755 |
Thanks for the event Tealby. It was a great day for it. It was good to put faces to names, Great turnout. We will see you at the next one.
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AussiePuschaks |
Great event - well done Tealby. Thanks for organising, involving the kids and the pathtag.
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BecSmith |
Thanks for a great event Tealby! I had fun, even though Hayleylou and I were a little bit late!
Thanks for organising it.
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winglen |
A great day - I'm late logging because after the event I took my parents through parts of the War Memorial which they really enjoyed. The event was the excuse I really needed to get along to the WM, my first visit in all the years I have lived in Canberra.
Great to see everyone and meet up again, and another well organised event Tealby. Great prizes, and a really big turn up. Funny to watch everyone walking in the opposite direction of the doorway just the building opening! Thanks again.
Dropping my trackables in late sorry - too much going on lately and I forgot to do so earlier.
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BundyB |
It's been a long time since I last showed my face a geocaching event ... maybe I should wear a mask today?... |
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Bullfrogg |
Myself and Minime will be there |
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rickmancr750 |
Great to see such a wide variety of people with similar interest. Sol de Lune certainly deserved the Best Dressed prize.
Thanks for 15 minutes of fun!
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BundyB |
I couldn't find any masks before I left the house this morning  they're all in ununpacked boxes from a recent house-move ...
I do, however, have photos from the event to upload!...
larger versions can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundyb/sets/72157604975311371/
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zoratz |
34th that was fun it was my first ever event cache
thanks for orgonising this telby
took: Quacker TB & surfbord GC
left: nothing
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scotty_308 |
Well first cache of this type for me, and was glad to attend, I think it was asked if we had members who joined in March, didn't know for sure so kept quiet, just checked and that would be me...
Was good to see so many people turn up, even though I was the quiet one and hardly said boo to anyone it was good to see some of the faces of fellow cachers.
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Tankengine |
Thanks for organizing Tealby! Nice to see so many cachers in one spot at one time! - Now to try and remember who they all are! Lovely location, lovely morning! Have posted a photo - but expect it's shrunk a lot by GC site! - So contact me if you would like a bigger one... Either that, or I need to find another place to post it!
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nathanr.au |
Yeah, thanks for setting this up. We had a great time.
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wilga |
Had a great time - was fun trying to pick the geocachers who were trying to look inconspicuous before the event!!
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mtrax |
thanks for the event, got to see quiet a few new faces, pity I didn't have long enough to see every one but hopefully next event. Got to play with new colorado WhereiGo game.
Picked up a few geocoins which I will take to Wagga in a few weeks.
Thanks
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RexTrex |
Thanks Tealby for organising a fun event. Most appreciated.
Team Geocache, it was great to meet you and to put faces to some of the names I have been seeing in logs. I look forward to our caching trails crossing again.
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Big Matt and Shell |
This was our first WWFM event and it was great fun. We got to the rough area a bit early and saw a few familiar faces hovering around and a fair few people in red! A blow of the whistle soon revealed just how many people were there! We headed on down and said hello to everyone, it was good to see so many new faces! Some cachers that have been around for a while and some that have only just started! Unfortunately it was over all too quick and the hounds wouldn't have been welcome at the cafe so off we went!
Thanks Tealby another great event.
TNLNSL
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RexTrex |
Just depositing a Flash Dog. Thanks for the company Huxley - see you down at the lake sometime. |
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Tealby |
Wow - another great day in Canberra - again a BIG thank you to everyone for attending & for those that made a special effort to dress in red.
My tally of the logs is:
43 log sheets completed = unique caching identities
65 people in attendance (based on photographic evidence, so let me know if anyone arrived after the photo was taken)
3 dogs in attendance
Interestingly, this is almost exactly the same number as last time - then we had 43 unique cachers / 66 total people & 1 dog!! (If only Biggles303 had been able to come this time as originally planned.)
Congratulations to the prize winners (I hope I have remembered correctly):
RexTrex
mtbikeroz
Derf10
Sweeney0302
jubecube
Also to Sol de lune for winning the WWFM GC for his "stunning" outfit - I know I was stunned when I saw him!
Thank you to our interstate visitors for making the effort to come too. Plus our newer cachers - this time I think AussiePuschaks was the newest registered cacher - welcome. Also, there were 3 caching teams that had parties of 4 - The S's, BigON & Angel755. Next time I might have a special prize for the cacher that can bring along the most people - but you'll obviously need more than 4 to win this.
Lastly - thank you to my helpers for the day - BigON, Winglen, Big Matt & my young treat distributor (sorry, I'm not sure who you were??) - it sure made life a lot easier for me this time.
PS Today was my wedding anniversary, but my husband is over 16,000 kms away in the Meditteranean, so this was a great way to celebrate in his absence! And I just realised that tomorrow is my two year geocaching anniversary too!!
[This entry was edited by Tealby on Friday, May 09, 2008 at 11:53:19 PM.]
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mtbikeroz |
Another great event Tealby - Well done. (and the prizes, colours, lollies etc all well done again)
Sol de Lune - Stunning!
BundyB - After all these years (MANY) great to finally see you. And those other "shy" cachers - really good to see you.
Good to see all the new cachers too and many of the older ones too, and glad to see just who are those people who have been getting around finding caches recently - just names before today. A successful day today, 2 caches, 1 Event and completed 97.5km on the Mountain Bike, Coooeeeeee. Thanks Tealby.
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hayleylou |
Thanks Tealby for organising another event! Was a shame BecSmith and I arrived a bit late (had some issues trying to get my cat to swallow some tablets before I could leave home!) but great to see plenty of people had come along.
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albida33 |
It was a brief visit, but good to see so many people there. Thanks for arranging it all Tealby, with all your willing volunteers. Thanks.
1249.1. LN Tk Denmark GC
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 07 Feb Signal GC A#88
Albida
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StevenWill |
Thank you, Tealby for another well organised event. Glad we could attend.
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jubecube |
This was awesome, thank you so much. Got to meet the geocaching world...
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Eynowd |
#514 at 1000
Yay for another flash mob. I think we had more people at this one than the last one. So many faces I didn't recognise.
It's also amusing that I don't think we were the only ones doing a flash mob. When I arrived, there was a big group near the german gun, singing Waltzing Matilda....
And the 15 minute event ended up turning into a three hour talkfest, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Thanks Tealby for organising another successful caching event!
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allrounder |
Like Fore! I have also moved my tee time so I WILL be able to attend!
Thanks for organising this Tealby! |
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Tealby |
Only 2 more sleeps... (now there are 34 people watching this listing, so I hope that translates into a really big attendance!!)
A couple of last minute reminders.
1. Don't forget to wear red (if at all possible). The WWFM GCs arrived & they look really flashy, so I hope that I can give one away to a worthy recipient. If anyone is really keen to purchase their own, then they are available again for a short time through coinsandpins.com.
2. Please BYO pen to assist with signing to log sheets as quickly as possible.
3. Make sure that you advise BigON of any trackables you plan to drop in to this event - don't leave it to the last minute because your emails go to his work address & he won't see them on Saturday!
4. Biggles303 won't be in attendance now (he is playing soccer in Cooma), so I will be looking for a young cacher to help me handing out the food treats. I will ask someone at the event.
5. I will again have my swag box for young cachers to help themselves - not swap necessary.
6. Lastly - I hope that a few new cachers come out of the woodwork for this event. Last year Sol de lune was the newest cacher in attendance. |
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jubecube |
Hoping to attend :) be one of the newest... :P Hopefully will be there with a friend, if not then by myself... |
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curseddagger |
I just got told that unfortunately i have to work on saturday...
The family will still attend in my absence though, hope you all have a great time! |
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miainact |
Just on my own as the other half is MIA, but it looks like the more the merrier! I look forward it. |
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derf10 |
Knee surgery seems to have been successfull so I will be searching for the sea of red on Sat morning . Hope its not to cold !!!!! |
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BigON |
Hello everyone, I have been nominated to track the TB's and Coins for this event, to help facilitate this can anyone intending to bring trackables to the event please please send the tracking number to my email account below so that I can do up a master list of anticipated TB's and GC's. Unregistered items will of course be welcome on the day as well.
I will send a copy of the full list to anyone that requests it or preregisters. I'm hoping this will reduce the data input on the day (both paper and PC) and help prevent any trackables getting stuck on the site for ages. I will have two buckets/containers there, one for registered articles and another for unregistered, as the tracking numbers are recorded they will be moved to the registered where they can be collected after providing the track number and cacher name. Any not collected or registered at the event will of course be available at the post event get together or distributed around Canberra caches. That sounds like a system that might work but I welcome any comments or suggestions.
In addition I'm hoping to be able to set up a trackables stand nearby before the event, there will be a trackable sign up (RED?) for them to be dropped off and made ready for the event, Co-ords will follow.
Thanks
BigON
Owen.Roberts@finance.gov.au (gives me something to do @ lunch every now and then) |
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albida33 |
Well, all is looking good for next week. See you then. Albida. |
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Fore! |
okaaaaaaaaaay.
Here's commitment fore! you - today I moved my (golf) tee time to 11am so that I can make it to this event... it'll be tight but I reckon it's workable!
I've also talked Shadow! into coming.
Huxley's only a "maybe" at this stage - I'd have to work out the logistics of how he can get a lift home when I head to golf... (not requesting volunteers!)
Just have to see if we can make allrounder head over as well.
Alright!! This is exciting - thanks Tealby! |
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AusCan1965 |
Hi Tealby,
I'll certainly be there - but sorry I can only stay for about 15 minutes..........
Cheers.... |
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RexTrex |
Hi Tealby,
Another lurking watcher springs from the gloom! RexTrex will be there and is happy to help in any way if you need more supporting hands.
Red! Hmmm, must check the wardrobe for capes and other garments. Happy May Day. |
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