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Hidden : Saturday, 30 March 2024
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30 March 2024, 08:00 - 17:00

 

Welcome to the Canberra Geobash 5 day event

The Oz Mega Committee looks forward to welcoming geocachers from all over to the first mega event held inside the ACT. Canberra is the capital of Australia. Our mascot is Gangles the endemic Gang-Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may well see or hear while you are in the area. The event times will commence from 8am Thursday 28 March and conclude on Easter Monday 1 April at 9pm.

Canberra Park

Our home base of Canberra Park is located adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6 kms from the centre of the city. Canberra Park is an ideal location from where to explore all of Canberra's geocaching locations.

Canberra Park is the largest and newest group accommodation facility in the Canberra region. Canberra Park has been designed to specifically meet the needs of groups travelling to Canberra and is ideal for geocachers.

The spacious, purpose-built accommodation buildings include contemporary guest rooms, 500 beds with ensuite bathrooms, group-leader rooms and communal living spaces. A large open-plan dining room offers three meals throughout the day and doubles as a dynamic geocaching stallholder and activities area.

There will be only 7 powered tent camping spots and 70 powered caravan style sites available amongst the action for attendees to hire. The camping area features one of the best camp kitchens in Australia. Numerous stallholders will host great displays in the main building. There are no un-powered tent sites available.

Caterers will be on hand for all your meals from breakfast Thursday to dinner Monday with a fine array of family-friendly priced meals.

For full details about the Canberra Park site, please follow this link: Canberra Park

 

 

Capital GeoBash website
The official Capital GeoBash website is now available with details of camping, powered sites, registration, official geocoins, pathtag sets, meals, event schedule, site maps, geotours and official event shirts.

Are you coming ?

We look forward to your inspiring  messages. Please show your intent to be at this exciting Geocaching Mega social gathering and to give the Oz Mega Committee an idea of numbers for planning. If there are more than one in your team, please indicate using this format: @3@ (if there are 3 coming to the event for example).

The event is free to enter
Registered attendees will receive a free rego pack including a personalised, geocaching-themed name tag, a personalised car flag and much more. Camping on-site and meals will, of course, be at your own cost.

Remember: You only have to attend one of the days from Thursday to Monday to get a registration pack, but the mega-event icon is only on the listed day of the 30th of March.

Stay in Touch

Keep up with all the details in lead up months on our Capital GeoBash FB page and our Pilgrimage to the Nations Capital FB page where you can post stories and photos of your travels around the event.

Committee Video Of Event Site (YouTube)

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