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This is a short video of the Oz Mega Wagga Wagga Event held over Easter 2010. The entire video was shot on my iPhone and edited on my PC. Beware of spoilers if you HAVEN’T cached in Wagga Wagga!
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For more posts on the Wagga Mega Event, click here.
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Tags: event, Mega, mega event, OzMegaWaggaWagga, Photos, video, Wagga Wagga
Collection of photos and vids from around the web:
The Daily Advertiser in Wagga Wagga - http://foxyurl.com/QXN
Paegle Boy’s videos – Part I – http://foxyurl.com/QXJ, Part II – http://foxyurl.com/QXI
Team Wibble’s video – The helicopter ball drop – http://foxyurl.com/QXK
Flickr Pool Slideshow:
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If you have any other photos or videos that you would like me to link to, let me know here.
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Tags: Daily Advertiser, mega event, OzMegaWaggaWagga, Photos, video, Wagga Wagga
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See also “Oz Mega Wagga Wagga – Part I – The Event“
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Tags: event, Mega, mega event, OzMegaWaggaWagga, Photos, Wagga Wagga
On Friday morning, 2nd April 2010, we set off at 7.15am from the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Ahead of us was a six hour drive – myself and my four year old, Josh!
I’d download a pocket query for the drive up, but wasn’t too fussed about grabbing too many – I’m not a numbers chaser. If it was an easy roadside drive-by, we’d stop. Otherwise we’d just stay on the road.
Our first stop was in Yarra Glen about 15minutes after leaving home. It was still dark and the temperature was a mere 9ºC! We needed a torch to search for this one and Josh was happy to get this logged and jump back into the warm car! The next town that we passed through was Yea where I grabbed another cache while Josh slept. This one was a little tougher to find as it was hidden on an old gun (see photos). But, too cheer me up, there was a fantastic sunrise.
By midday we were in Table Top, NSW. We pulled over at the Ettamogah Pub (see photos) where we found our 5th cache of the trip. From here it was going to be a straight drive through to Wagga Wagga as I was getting tired and we were both quite hungry.
We eventually arrived at Camp Kurrajong around 3pm after stopping for Maccas in Wagga Wagga. I quickly pitched our tent with no help from Josh as he had already made friends with 4 year old Toby from across the track. Once this had been completed, we went to register and collect our goodie bag. We spent some time talking to other cachers, looking at coins and TBs and checking out the campsite before heading back to our site for some dinner and a welcome cold beer!
We waited until dark for the bonfire to be lit then headed back to our tent and crashed!
Day 2 started at around 7am. It was already light outside, so we had a quick brekky and a wash before heading over to the stage for the Official Opening Ceremony. Unfortunately the organisers couldn’t get through to Groundspeak but a recording was made so the cachers headed off to complete the various games/challenges and to hunt caches.
We headed into town and managed to grab 5 ‘treasures’ in the morning before Josh got bored. Everywhere you turned, there were geocachers hunting for a clue or a container! We took a 3 hour break to have some lunch and Josh had a short nap before we got back to work, finding another 10 caches in the afternoon.
This evening’s entertainment included a magnificent fireworks display and some live music. We waited until quite late for the bonfire, but Josh passed out before they lit it so we headed back to our campsite and hit the hay.
Day 3 was a 6.15am start thanks to daylight savings coming to an end overnight. We had an easy morning with breakfast, a Mega Easter Egg hunt and a helicopter ball drop. I left Josh to play with Toby until his family headed off to go cache hunting. We had lunch around midday before taking off on a cache hunt again. This afternoon we managed 10 finds including 2 GCA caches.
This evening brought the awards ceremony and another magnificent bonfire before hitting the sleeping bags around 11pm.
The final day started early too. Breakfast, tent packing, coin purchasing, a CITO event, farewells, petrol top-up and off we set. Back to Melbourne.
A fantastic event that was extremely well organised by the Riverina geocachers. Congratulations to all! We look forward to the next Mega event!
See also “Oz Mega Wagga Wagga – Part II – The Photos”
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Tags: event, Mega, mega event, OzMegaWaggaWagga, Photos, Wagga Wagga
On Tuesday (16th Feb) I attended the Geebung Lunch event (Another Bung Lunch – the Long Return – GC234F0) where I got to meet some new cachers.
The event was fun, lots of stories (as you would expect), a lucky dip FTF and a beautiful geocoin was won.
The only disappointment of the day was the food actually – we couldn’t get the bar menu and had to eat off the expensive restaurant menu!
