10 Years! Gisborne NZ Community Celebration Event

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Hidden : Sunday, May 2, 2010
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1 out of 5
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10 Years! Event in Gisborne

You are invited to come for a celebration of 10 years Geocaching in Gisborne NZ. The First Light City

Sunday May 2nd 2010 from midday till 5pm Looking forward to meet out of townees and townees.


The posted coordinates are those of a map that leads to the meeting place. Look for a container having the map rolled into it
There is to be a festive theme and a photo of the attendees is required to meet the Geocaching.com requirements for a '10 Years! Events' cache. A unique icon will be assigned to this event and a logbook will be provided at the BBQ to log attendance. Usual rules - no signature, no log...
Being the first Light City, everyone is required to wear something yellow like light!
If you intend to come please log a note of attendance, thank you.


PROGRAM OF THE DAY

  • 12 pm    Welcome of Geocachers (giving out badges)
  •              Game to get to know each other
  • 12.30pm  BBQ and filling log sheet
  • 1.45 pm  Live Presentation of Geocaching
  •              Visit of probably biggest quilt in the country and
  •              Group photo (@ least 10 attendee) to comply with Event
  • 2.15 pm – 4.15 pm  GPS Treasure Hunt
  • 4.30 pm  Prize giving and piece of cake grape juice bubbly
  •              End and farewell

A bit of Caching History in NZ


Following are the first caches established in NZ 10 years ago. Five in the North Island and one in the South Island. Two of them are still active GC 46 in Wellington and GC 4B in Auckland.
# placed Cache Code / Name Placed by Date Placed
9th GC45 First New Zealand Peter McKellar 12 May 2000
17th GC46 Geocache by Kevin Anderson Kevin Anderson 26 May 2000
27th GC49 Geocache Peter McKellar 4 June 2000
28th GC4A Geocache Bob C 5 June 2000 50th GC4B Auckland Stash nz etrex 20 May 2000

On a local level, the three oldest caches in Gisborne district are:
1. GCKTJT Morning Glory JABBA-THE-HUTT 13 October 2004
2. GCMHBX Captain Who II Beauty and the Beast 6 January 2005
3. GC16F0K Land Ahoy YuGeo4 6 October 2007
They are still active.

A New Zealand company that is an official Groundspeak distributor has kindly sponsored some of the prizes for the treasure hunt



A Fun filled Event


The weather cleared up and we had a fun filled Event with a dozen of people. Two guests were keen to join the Geocaching family.



The treasure hunt had a cross section of cache types found in the game from nano caches to regular and the sneaky ones. Twelve points had to be visited in order to get the coordinates of the final stage. The prize was a ready “regular cache” (ammo box) complete with logbook, pencil, trinkets and a GPSr !



There was a fair competition and within the given two hours a team found the final cache and could redeem the big prize. At the end the celebration cake made by Shellnz was officially cut and shared.



Thank you to all, guests and helpers who helped to make this event a joyful and successful event. The question when is the next one? is the best compliment we could get!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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