We need a new logo for our 2020 Event, so we’re putting it out to the masses.
The logo needs to be easily translated to embroidery.
What to consider:
Purple Shirt
City meets Country
Bushland
National Parks
Reservoirs
If we choose your design, you will win a rare Whittlesea Event Unobtanium coin.
You have two weeks. All submissions to be in to president@geocachingvictoria.com.au by 8pm EDST Thursday, 19th December 2019.
Annnndddd GO!
The dust has settled around St Arnaud and it’s just those last few things that the committee find themselves doing to tie off all those loose ends! What an EVENT! What a Year! Are you ready for 2020?
Receipts Game Winner
Congratulations to muff1 for being the winner of the receipts game. A staggering $20,830.84 was tallied in physical receipts – that’s incredible and certainly helps demonstrate the economic impact geocaching events can have in rural areas!
This can be broken down into:
Petrol: $3866.37;
Accommodation: $7247.00;
Food: $7238.13 (so many coffees);
Other: $2488.21 (pharmacy, books, crafts, clothes, op shops, hardware, camping store)
This excludes receipts we weren’t given (plenty of those), cash sales and money spent in surrounding towns.
Evaluation survey winner
Congratulations to Cliff5009 for being the winner of the evaluation survey. The information gathered here will be used to help plan further Mega events.
#StArnaud2019 Photo Competition Winner
Congrats to GeoTurtle37 for being the winner of the photo competition.
Honourable mentions go to ILookedThere and Tally Tiger for their entries too.
Merchandise update
The last batch of shirts have now been ordered. There are still some coins for sale with a new batch of Standard Coins on their way. Order here.
Pathtag Trading Sets
If you didn’t quite manage to get all the “trading set” St Arnaud Pathtags don’t fear. It is important to Geocaching Victoria that no ones ends up without a complete set, so we are hoping to assist the geocachers involved to get in touch with each other and complete the required trades. If you have an incomplete trading set of pathtags, please get in touch with louiseannsullivan@gmail.com or via Geocaching Victoria FB messenger with the tag colour you have to trade and the tag colour you are missing and contact details you are happy to pass on to the other parties and we will help get you in touch with the missing pathtag holder.
The Whittlesea Event 2020
In case you missed the news the next big thing happening in Victoria is The Whittlesea Event 2020. Register your “will attend” now! And in case you missed it, the event is now officially a…
Stay tuned as more information about The Whittlesea Event 2020 will be announced SOON!
The Mega might have officially finished but we know plenty of geocachers are still out and about and as with any event there is always some follow up information!
Signal Trackables
Did you get a picture with Signal on Saturday and miss out on an “I Met Signal” trackable? We have a few left to send out so add your Signal image on the Geocaching Victoria Facebook page or email it to gemmasiemensma@gmail.com and we will randomly select 10 winners!
Receipts Game
Forgot to pop your receipts in the box or no longer in town to drop them at the caravan park? Email your receipts through to gemmasiemensma@gmail.com and we will add them to the stash! Make sure you tell us your name and mobile number in case you are the winner of the unobtainable coin!
Photo Competition
The photo competition is still happening. Tag your social media images with #starnaud2019 to be in the draw to win a cool prize. Competition closes Sunday the 24th November.
Evaluation
Please take the time to fill in our evaluation. We will use this to help with future planning: https://forms.gle/45mgqRHuEqqx5Ss36
Pathtag Trading Sets
If you didn’t quite manage to get all the “trading set” St Arnaud Pathtags don’t fear. It is important to Geocaching Victoria that no ones ends up without a complete set, so we are hoping to assist the geocachers involved to get in touch with each other and complete the required trades. If you have an incomplete trading set of pathtags, please get in touch with louiseannsullivan@gmail.com or via Geocaching Victoria FB messenger with the tag colour you have to trade and the tag colour you are missing and contact details you are happy to pass on to the other parties and we will help get you in touch with the missing pathtag holder.
Merchandise
Standard Edition Coin
We were trying something new with the standard edition coin this year and we were so happy with the response. It was so popular, that for the first time ever we have sold out completely!!! To make sure no one misses out, we are putting in another small order. We have the coin up for sale on the website now and orders will be closing at the end of the month, so please order now to avoid disappointment: https://shop.geocachingvictoria.com.au/
St Arnaud Shirts
We will also be placing one last order of shirts so make sure you order before the end of the month if you want to look as snazzy as everyone else! Order in the Geocaching Victoria Store: https://shop.geocachingvictoria.com.au/
Limited Edition Coins:
There are a few of these remaining so make sure you place your order to ensure you don’t miss out. Order here: https://shop.geocachingvictoria.com.au/
Winners!!!
Congratulations to all the different winner across the weekend.
Friday CITO: Bushfire
Friday Night Event: Squalid
Saturday CITO: Monchichi1
Saturday Night: 6Hinemoa2
Sunday GIFF & Farewell: debandsteve
MEGA Event FTF: smiley1982
Lead Up Event Game: micaparamedic
Letterbox Game: surefoot24
Social Bingo: McAdies
Maccamob Raffle: Joolay
Far & Wide Game: LOP833
Thank-you!
An event like this isn’t possible without many people who tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Firstly thanks you everyone who attended – without you there is no MEGA!
Thanks to the organising committee: Becca85, FUF009, GemmaSistema, sharkiefan, The_Tritonz, Tyred n Cranky.
Thanks to the Geocaching Victoria Committee: ahomburg, BernieH, carkisser, CleverMonkey, GemmaSistema, LouiseAnn, The_Tritonz.
Thanks to the presenters/reviewers/lackey: Bunjil, Balyang/GeoawareANZ2, The Coffee’s, Ministro, Rock Chalk, Tschingal.
Thanks to the sponsors: GeoStuff, Caching Supplies, Sssafe, Sistema, Pathtags, Geocaching HQ, GeoVenture2020.
Thanks to those who helped in other (special) ways: day1976, McLookers, ozglory, beckNmonts, SteMicMitSar, Clever Monkey, highrod, maccamob, ILookedThere.
Thanks to the Lab Cache builders: Becca85, FUF009, Tyred n Cranky, Fergzter, beckNmonts, chooknchunk, GemmaSistema, carkisser, JSando, plowfive, micaparamedic, Cybergran V, BFMC, The Morris, 4Moule, Sims Family.
Thanks to those who volunteered on site: McLookers, maccamob, micaparamedic, n0w0rries, +Wife, suss vulture, Wollaston, wozzle68, JakTembo, Alansee, Muzza, chooknchunk, Sedgwick Dave, Hansand Linda, feathertop, sally_mally_616, Rustymac75, Posums, AussieFunSeekers, little blue wren, The Morris, cathlud.
Thanks to the local businesses and organisations that supported us: St Arnaud Sporting Club, St Arnaud Caravan Park, St Arnaud Rotary, St Arnaud Agricultural Society (special thanks to Tony Marland), Buloke and Northern Grampians Landcare Network, St Arnaud Football/Netball Club, North Central News St Arnaud plus all the businesses across the town.
A huge special thanks to The Northern Grampians Shire for all their help and support.
Thanks to the town of St Arnaud for embracing us!
Thanks to everyone else who helped (of which their were many) in an unofficial capacity. As the cliché goes – many hands make light work.
The Whittlesea Event 2020
Did you hear the good news? We are doing it again in 2020! Get logging for The Whittlesea Event. It’s shaping up to be MEGA exciting: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8EW40_the-whittlesea-event-2020
Can you believe the MEGA is about to start – are you ready? We thought this blog should consist of all the things you need to remember!
What to Bring
Apps to Download
An ORANGE ribbon
Travelling to St Arnaud for the MEGA Event? Tie an ORANGE ribbon or two to your car so we can all see each other.
Lastly…
Be ready to HAVE FUN and CREATE some
new MEMORIES in a wonderful part
of VICTORIA
Welcome to The St Arnaud Event update. Can you believe there are ONLY A FEW DAYS TO GO?
It is important that you log your “will attend” on any events you plan to attend so we can plan and cater accordingly. Check out the full Schedule so you can plan your weekend.
Event Updates
FRIDAY NIGHT: Due the overwhelming number expected on Friday night the Sports Club is putting on a buffet meal (one plate only – no second helping) at $19 per adult and $13 per child.
This will consist of Salt & Pepper Calamari, Honey Chicken, Fried Dim Sims, Beef and Black Bean, Fried Rice, Steamed Rice, Mixed Vegetables, Noodles, Chicken Schnitzel and Chips.
Meals can also be ordered from a reduced menu but this will take considerably longer.
Please be patient as they deal with such a huge influx of people and if you have eaten please ensure others can have your seat when their meal is ready. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.
FRIDAY CITO: Please bring some secateurs if you have them to help with this CITO.
SATURDAY CITO: Due to recent rains the location of the Saturday CITO has been changed. If you have saved this one offline please update so you end up in the correct location!
Some statistics (so far…)
Did you know that there are:
Lab Caches
Two of the Lab Cache Adventures are now LIVE! There was a glitch with an apostrophe on iOS devices for the Historical Tour Lab Cache. This is now fixed. If you have saved offline please reload and save again. The other two Lab Adventures will be live on Saturday morning.
Food, Glorious Food
The Rotary Club of St Arnaud will be selling food across the weekend. This includes Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings (bacon and egg rolls), lunch on Saturday and Sunday (sausages and vegie burgers) and dinner on the Saturday night (sausages in addition to the supplied roast beef roll). Please bring plenty of loose change to support a worthy organisation.
There will also be a coffee van onsite. Rotary will also supply free standard tea and instant coffee so BYO coffee mugs if you want one!
We will also have a water refill station on site so remember to BYO a drink bottle!
Receipts game
We know that many of you are already enjoying the caches around St Arnaud. Don’t forget we are collecting receipts for the week pre and post Mega so we can see the economic impact an event like Geocaching can have for a small town. Keep your receipts and bring them to the Mega Site on Saturday.
Sponsorship
It’s thanks to amazing supporters that make a MEGA event possible. This includes GeoStuff who will be on site during the Mega. We’ve also had donations from our mates in South Australia who are organising a MEGA event there – GeoVenture2020, Caching Supplies, Sssafe and Sistema so a big thanks to them too. It’s also important to note that this event isn’t possible without the support of the Northern Grampians Shire Council so thank you NGS – your support is invaluable! And we can’t forget the amazing support from PathTags and Geocaching HQ who help to make this dream a reality! Thanks guys!
Geocaching Victoria 