Travel Bug Dog Tag Fawley Owl

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Released:
Sunday, February 24, 2002
Origin:
United Kingdom
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In Little Claire's First Cache

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Fawley Infant School has approximatley sixty children and is located on the south coast of Hampshire in the United Kingdom. The school's emblem is Fawley Owl. Fawley Owl's objective to visit as many schools around the country and to meet as many children as he can.

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Fawley Owl is a kind, helpful and cheerful little soul who is very inquisitive and loves to meet children of all ages.

He was hatched and hand-reared in 2002 by Fawley Infant Schools' Reception Class (now Year 2), who were between four and five years of age. They took considerable time to train him and teach him to be polite in the company of strangers. Following Fawley Owl's progress around the country (or even the world!) is an excellent introduction for the children into the use of computers, the Internet, and basic geography.

The class would love to hear from other children who have found him and taken him to their school to introduce him to their friends. If you have children of any age and find Fawley Owl, please encourage your child to take him along to school and have his picture taken with them.

If you would like to visit the school's website, please click here.

The children look forward to watching his progress!

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Team Tate

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Tracking History (31516.5mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/8/2003 Dutch Safari retrieved it from Paarl Rock Cache Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

We found Fawley at a very nice location with a great view over Paarl. We took Fawley with to The Netherlands and will soon replace him.
Dropped Off 9/20/2003 MugglesOnTour placed it in Paarl Rock Cache Western Cape, South Africa - 13.52 miles  Visit Log
Write note 9/17/2003 MugglesOnTour posted a note for it   Visit Log

fawley spent the week at stellenbosch university.

  • fawley arrives at university! Fawley arrives at the Natural Sciences building to spend the day with a bunch of zoologists!(http://www.sun.ac.za/zoology)
  • Fawley in the lab Fawley lends a hand in the genetics lab - here he helps Amanda set up a PCR (a technique for making millions of copies of a stretch of DNA)
  • Fawley still in the lab Fawley is looking at the all the pieces of DNA (now in the gel on the ultraviolet lightbox) he helped Krystal copy in the genetics lab (http://www.sun.ac.za/zoology/EGG)
  • Fawley in the museum Fawley looks at the mountains and campus from the window of the zoology museum.
  • Wild Beast Fawley below the grumpy wildebeest!
  • a lizard The lizard seems unperturbed by the little owl's presence!
  • buffalo horns Fawley perches near the buffalo skull
  • Relative Fawley meets up with a relative in the museum
  • Fawley over Stellenbosch Fawley looks out over the mountains and campus, the "red square" (commons), the statue, the underground library and the student centre.
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/13/2003 MugglesOnTour retrieved it from Wind Farm Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

\found fawley at wind farm cache early saturday morning (13 september). will be going to school first thing next week :)
Dropped Off 9/3/2003 timm placed it in Wind Farm Western Cape, South Africa - 14.47 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/9/2003 timm retrieved it from Tygerberg Cache Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

Fawley Owl joined Brad(6) and Ross(4) today at Kids Kingdom's (pre-school) tenth anniversary. (Goedemoed, Durbanville, Cape Town).He also came up the road to play in the snow (Ceres). Brrrr - he couldn't believe it snowed near Cape Town. Ross had to keep him warm in his gloves! Fawley Owl is so happy to be out of that plastic box and stretching his wings again. He hopes to meet the rest of the kids at Kids Kingdom during the week.
He sends best regards to the kids at Fawley Infant school (UK). Photos to follow.Timm Brad Ross

  • Fawley avoids speeding tortoises On his way down from Tygerberg Cache, Fawley had to watch out for super fast tortoises. The park warden has even had to put up a sign telling the tortoises to slow down to 15 KPH.
  • Kids Kingdom Fawley at Kids Kindom (Goedemoed, Durbanville, Cape Town)
  • Fawley Owl sees snow near Cape Town We thought Fawley Owl would like a night time drive through a forest - just to make him feel at home. When he looked outside and saw snow - he really thought he was back home in England. We assured him that he was still on holiday in Africa, and we'd arrange a few braais for him to enjoy the night life here.
  • Kids Kingdom Sign
  • Fawley visits fellow pilots Fawley meet up with a few other pilots at Stellenbosch Airfield (Cape Town)
Dropped Off 8/3/2003 The Vans placed it in Tygerberg Cache Western Cape, South Africa - 17.27 miles  Visit Log
Write note 8/2/2003 Team Tate posted a note for it   Visit Log

Few, thats a relief! We were a bit worried for a while.

No problems guys, we all have to learn how to use these new fangled computer thingies, and we appreciate your honesty in this matter. In the meatime, we look forward to seeing where Fawley Owl gets to next.

Best regards,

Team Tate
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/2/2003 The Vans retrieved it from Silvermine Tales - 1 The Trembling Lamb Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

Our apologies for this delay. Due to our inexperience in these matters we have failed to make to appropriate notes and log-ins - but this will (we trust) now be put right.

Fawley Owl is about to get back on the road within the next week i.e. by 9 August 2003.

He is in excellent condition and has, as luck would have it, met with children from Parklands College in Cape Town South Africa although, unfortunately, no photos were taken.

Our apologies again.

Write note 7/31/2003 Team Tate posted a note for it   Visit Log

Fawley Owl was featured on a BBC Radio 4 Programme - Your and Yours - today at midday!

The headteacher of Fawley School, Tina Daniels, along with Sarah (from Team Tate) and six children from the school were featured as they went to find Owl's House - a cache set up specifically for the event.

Each of the children received a gift from Fawley Owl with his picture on, along with the Radio 4 logo.

The broadcast lasted over six minutes and promoted Geocaching as something that is not only fun, but also educational!

Team Tate would like to sincerely thank the BBC for helping to promote our sport. Lets just hope Fawley Owl manages to hear the good news!

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