The St Arnaud Event – June update

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Geocaching Victoria

Welcome to The St Arnaud Event June update. The committee are working behind the scenes to bring you the best MEGA event we can – all for FREE! Remember to REGISTER HERE as this year we will be crossing off names at the event to ensure everyone who registered early gets their gift.

Exciting news is that we have registrations from every state and territory in Australia as well as some international caching friends who are joining us from the USA, Zimbabwe, Canada, Finland and Switzerland. Don’t you love how geocaching can bring us together globally?

The lead up events have continued and in May and June we’ve seen events in Portland (Vic) and Wangaratta (Vic). Thanks to our hosts for helping to spread the word about The St Arnaud Event 2019. June and July are packed full of events in Adelaide (SA), Appin (at The Gong MEGA – NSW), Hexham (NSW), Geraldton (WA) and Camperdown (Vic).

Portland & Wangaratta

Geocaching in St Arnaud – St Arnaud Ramble Series GEO ART

Those of you keeping an eye on the St Arnaud geocaching map may have noticed some new geo-art pop up earlier this month. 89 caches plus a pre-existing trad make up alpha crusis, beta crusis, gamma cusis, delta crusis, epsilon crusis and the northern star – otherwise known as the southern cross. With D2/T1.5’s the norm, this series is doable for all with each star giving you a new type of puzzle challenge to solve.

As the newest series in the area, the caches have just a handful of finds but we’ve no doubt those numbers will be bumped significantly throughout the year. Put together by geocaching stalwarts FUF009 & sharkiefan, the series will teach you all about our radiant southern cross and take you along some farmer tracks and back roads around the outskirts of St Arnaud. To get started head to StARS 01 – Delta Crusis GC85FK4.

geoart

Official Shirts now Available

Official St Arnaud Event shirts now available to order. Check out the Geocaching Victoria Store to pre-order yours now. Available in Men’s, Women’s and Kids sizes.

shirt

Lab Cache Builder Competition

We are looking for several keen Lab Caches Builders for St Arnaud. Do you have a great idea a little “left of field”? If so we would love to hear from you. Simply email gemmasiemensma@gmail.com.au and tell us your idea along with a simple sentence (or two) on how it would be “interactive and delight cachers”. Entries close on August 10th so get creating!

Pathtag Competition Winner

Congratulations to Victorians “chooknchunk” who designed and won our Pathtag Design Competition. They will receive a full set of the 5 official St Arnaud Event 2019 pathtags. Now we don’t want to give away their special design so you’ll just have to come along to the event to discover it for yourself!

If you are designing your own pathtags for the event (or just in general) please consider using the GVI pathtag back. A small percentage of these sales go back to GVI to help run FREE events like the St Arnaud MEGA!

pathtag back

Sponsorship

It’s thanks to amazing supporters that make a MEGA event possible. This includes Caching Supplies AND GeoStuff who will both have their shop on site during the Mega. We’ve also had donations from our mates in South Australia who are organising a MEGA event there – GeoVenture2020, 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 in invaluable! And we can’t forget the amazing support from PathTags and Geocaching HQ who help to make this dream a reality! Thanks guys!

St Arnaud Geo Coins & Pathtags

The St Arnaud Event 2019 MEGA standard and limited edition geocoins are now for sale in the Geocaching Victoria store.

The Standard coin has been specifically designed for the event and features Fern the ledbeater possum as well as some stunning Australian flora including Victoria’s floral emblem – the Pink Heath. What sets this coin apart is that it is a 3D textured coin. If you’ve seen one before you know how magnificent they look – if not you will definitely want one for your collection! Coins are $16 each. Order here.

ST A standard coin

The Limited Edition coins come in three different colours and aims to depict the farming communities that are located within the St Arnaud district. Get in quick as these are limited in number! This coin is 3 inches in size so nice to add to the collection. Limited edition coins are $34 each. Order here.

LE tractor coins

And whilst in the store don’t forget to purchase your St Arnaud Pathtags too!

St A 5 set

First to Find (FTF) Raffle

We know people love chasing FTFs – how would you like a MEGA Event FTF? This raffle supports the amazing work done by The St Arnaud Agricultural Society (whose premises we are using and who do an amazing job of coordinating the St Arnaud Show). So if you are a FTF hound, or you just want to support a really great charity, then you can go in the draw to earn the right to call yourself the FTFer of The St Arnaud Event, 2019. Tickets are only $2 and you may win FTF and an unobtainium geocoin… You can purchase your tickets in this wonderful raffle by following this link!

St A Ag society

GVI Oxfam Second Fundraiser

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Geocaching Victoria

The second fundraiser is a TRIVIA NIGHT

This will be held on March 22nd

Upper Ferntree Gully Cricket Club
Kings Reserve
Upper Ferntree Gully

Enter via Acacia Road or Willow Road.

This is an all ages DRY event due to licensing restrictions.

BYO food/snacks and non- alcoholic drinks

Entry fees are $150 per team of up to 8 people.

If you don’t have a team or only have part of a team, pay a $20 entry fee each and turn up on the night. We’ll mix and match a team together.

We have an amazing, and experienced trivia host lined up for your viewing pleasure.

Cr Louise Crawford.

Current Deputy Mayor of the City of Port Phillip.
An activist for climate change.
Film and television actress.
Scriptwriter.
Trivia Host.

Louise comes to us with an impressive CV, and I’m sure she will provide us with a fun and entertaining night.

There will be prizes and of course some great little auctions on the night. Bring along your sense of humour, your trivia brain and a little coin to bid on the auctions.

To allow us to set up the room, entry fees can be paid in advance to the GVI shop. GVI will divvy up the profits between the four teams after the event

Entry fees via GVI can be paid HERE

Stay posted … more charity events to come

Fundraising for the GVI Oxfam Teams

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Geocaching Victoria

A message from members of the GVI Oxfam Teams on their latest fundraising exploits.

Karen, Adriaan and Donna have been busily working behind-the-scenes to organise some fundraisers, that will be fun for us all.

The first fundraiser is a TREASURE HUNT

Pre-register HERE

The treasure hunt is being held at Brimbank park on March 2.

The treasure hunt has a $10 entry fee per person/team. Entry fees can be paid direct to an Oxfam team, or to GVI who will divvy up the profits between the four teams.

Entry fees via GVI can be paid HERE

Or direct to a team

Oxfam Teams below:

GVI1 – Looking for GroundZero

carkisser – Karen, Jaktembo – Donna, Jaktembo – Erica, Muggle Friend – Christine

GVI2 – Anatidaephobics

Lever’s – Frauke, Teammoss5 – Jess, Bucks23 – Neil, Marcus Vitruvius – Warren

GVI3 – Back for more

Day1976 – Day, Jentrek1 – Jenny, The Welder – Ross, Vacant Position

GVI4 – Again Really Yep

Ahomburg – Adriaan, Ruverbug Jam – Sharon, Loz6032 – Lauren, Buhfuhguh – Michael

Mention treasure hunt with your donations direct to Oxfam teams so we can track payments.

This is being held a few hours before a CITO for GVI. All of the treasure that you will collect on the day will have an undisclosed random number of points assigned to it and once the points are added up the winners will receive prizes.

The great part about this is that the treasure that you collect will also form the first pile of rubbish for the CITO. So you can come for the treasure hunt and stay for the CITO or just be at either one it’s up to you, but we would definitely love to see you for both.

CITO – Log your Will Attend

Bring gloves. We should have enough hessian bags to go around and we have some grabber tools too. There will also be a fundraising sausage sizzle prior to the official CITO event with sausages in bread and a small selection of drinks available for purchase

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Stay posted, we’re hoping to set up other fun fundraisers 😜

The St Arnaud Event – January 2019 update

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Geocaching Victoria

Wow – it’s now 2019 and we are in full planning mode for The St Arnaud Event 2019 (log your will attend here). Lots has been happening so let’s get to some news…

Pathtags

The official St Arnaud Event Pathtags are now available to pre-order. Don’t they look amazing? Visit the Geocaching Victoria store to purchase the below St Arnaud pathtags which can be collected at the MEGA event. Many thanks to Ozglory Designs for designing these tags for us. People have inquired about using the border on their own pathtags and we suggest you contact Ozglory Designs.

Don’t forget if you are designing your own Pathtag remember to add the Geocaching Victoria tag back (which helps fund events like this Mega).

St A 5 set

Pathtag Design Competition

Ok – so we know there are lots of budding Pathtag designers out there so we are asking for your help. At each Victorian Mega thus far participants have received a FREE event pathtag (different to those above). This year we are throwing it open to attendees to design this FREE event pathtag. The winner will receive a full set of the above 5 official St Arnaud Event 2019 pathtags.

The competition is now open and will close at midnight on Sunday February 10th. That means you have over a month to get designing. Send your “winning” design to gemmasiemensma@gmail.com with St Arnaud Event Pathtag Competition as the subject line.

Lead Up Events

The Victorian MEGA lead up events are back! We know people like prizes so we encourage you to attend as many events as possible as each event you attend will give you up to 6 raffle tickets for a special prize that might just have your name on it? This special Lead Up raffle will be drawn on the Saturday night event of the Mega – so make sure you attend as you need to be there to claim your prize. And who knows… the prize might consist of an illusive “unobtainium”…

GC Code & Link

Where

When

GC80RYA

(3 raffle tickets)

St Arnaud

Saturday 26th of January 2019, 11:30am

GC81NXZ

(2 raffle tickets)

Emerald, Melbourne

Saturday 16th of February 2019, 10am

Not in Victoria? Never fear we have some interstate events coming soon so stay tuned!

Sponsorship

We are super excited to announce that we have our first sponsors on board. This includes GeoStuff who will have their shop on site during the Mega. It’s also important to note that this event isn’t possible without the support of the Northern Grampians Shire Council so a big thanks to them too!

Accommodation

Did you miss our post on this? For more information visit here to see what accommodation options are available.

FAQs

Check out our St Arnaud Event FAQs page for answers to commonly asked questions. One that we can now clarify is that the MEGA site is dog friendly – so please feel free to bring your well behaved pooches!

A Friend for Fern for Oxfam

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Adriaan

We are looking to include a friend of Fern on the 2019 version of the Oxfam Trailwalker Geocoin. We would like to run a poll to see which one our community would most like to see on the 2019 coin. Below are the 2017 and 2018 coin.

If you would like to have your say as to who the new Trailwalker Mascott will be, fill in the form HERE

There will be a random draw from all entries who will win an extremely rare 2018 “Night time Walker” Geocoin.

Entries close Monday 31st December 2018 at midnight.

Geocaching Victoria

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