Geocaching NSW events
On Saturday 30 April 2011, Geocaching NSW members gathered at Lane Cove National Park to assist with a clean up as part of the the 9th International CITO Day.
Despite being a wet day it turned out ot be a fun and rewarding experience.
The talk from Lane Cove NP Bush Regeneration Officer Matt Springall at the beginning was very interesting and got us all in the mood to do ourbit. We were a bit surprised at the low level of rubbish in the section we cleaned, but pleased that we managed to gather up enough to have felt like we did our bit.
The heavy downpour at midday made for some fun. We look forward to more of these CITO events with NPWS in the future as well as in Lane Cove NP.
For more info on the Bushcare program at Lane Cove National Park have a look at the Friends of LCNP website.
At our June 2010 Geocaching 101 event, EcoDave from EcoTeam took us back to the early days of geocaching - a time when 'Mega' caches were the rage. These caches were months in the planing, full of hype, mystery and suspense. You'll hear about the famous Get Smart interactive cache story, Achilles and one or two of the major caches that were firsts in their genre.
If you missed it, don't fret. Below is a video recording of EcoDave's presentation. It goes for 49 minutes, but contains some gems of information.
A big thank you to EcoDave for putting together an interesting and inspiring presentation.
It's been a busy few months with a number of events held across the state in the first part of the year. The highlights were the 10 Years! events (Sydney and Wollongong) and the Oz Mega Wagga mega event.
The mega event saw close to 700 attendees and was a lot of fun. Geocaching NSW would like to congratulate the Riverina Caching committee for putting together a fantastic event. You've set an excellent standard for future mega events in the country, whenever and wherever that should be.
For the second year running, Geocaching NSW hosted CITO (cache in, trash out) events as part of Clean Up Australia Day.
These events help build and strengthen our relationship with the community - one of the association's goals.
This year saw members clean up two sites: William Lawson Reserve, Blacktown and Bonnie Vale camp ground in Royal National Park.
The Blacktown CITO, coordinated by Phil Marriott from Ruffasgutts4x4, saw more than 30 geocachers pull on the gloves. Rubbish collected at the site included several bags of recycables and half a dozen shopping trolleys.
A group of 18 geocachers headed out to Bundeena to take part in Clean Up Australia Day. While it was listed as a CITO event, it was strictly Trash Out as geocaching is banned in NSW National Parks.
We started on the western end of the beach and worked our way along. Most of the rubbish was cigarette butts and there were several plastic bottles just inside the fence. A snorkeler, who was not part of our group, was collecting a number of bottles and we helped carry some, as his bag was filling quickly.