To support Victoria's first ever Block Party, event mascot Muggle the Puggle has teamed up with geocachers across Victoria to place a range of caches for you all to find & enjoy. Whether you visit before, during, or after The Sunbury Event, we hope you enjoy your time in Sunbury & the surrounding areas of Hume.
This is the final puzzle in the series.
Thank You Bunjil
A lot of elements go into the successful hiding & subsequent publication of 1 geocache, let alone more than 50 geocaches in a short period of time. Cache owners need to source/create a container & contents. Find the right place to put it. Take accurate coordinates. Build a cache page. Decide what cache type it should be. Develop any additional requirements (puzzle, multi stages, whereigo cartridge, earthcache lesson etc etc). All of which many Co's willingly undertake in order to create experiences for their fellow cachers.
But one piece of the puzzle that often flies under the radar is the part that happens between the 'submitted to be published' email and the 'Congratulations! Your cache has been published!' email. I.e. the review process. A process that is undertaken by stewards of the game all over the world in their own time as volunteers, to ensure that new geocaches are published within Geocaching Guidelines as well as any regional policies for the Country and/or State the cache is hidden in.
Bunjil are the local reviewers for Victoria (for everything except earthcaches, which fall under the purvey of another local geocacher who reviews earthcaches as GeoAwareANZ2 for Australia, New Zealand and a number of other nearby countries). An appropriate name, a quick visit to their profile will explain why this was chosen (and give you other valuable information about hiding a cache!). Having actively reviewed for over a decade, their support & advice to cache owners across the state is a signifcant factor in the quality of the game within Victoria. This is no small task, with over 1650 new caches/events published within Victoria in 2024 alone. If you do the math that is over 4 caches per day, for every day of the year.
Often present at events (where on occasion you may pick up one of their reviewer trackable tags to add to your collection), their support and guidance to the Victorian geocaching community goes above & beyond what happends when you have press the 'submit' button on a new cache.
So in closing, for the final puzzle of this series of 25 geocaches, we would like to say 'Thank You Bunjil'. For the advice, the feedback (solicited or unsolicited), the time and the effort that you have put into supporting the cache placements for this event and in Victoria in general.
And to all the cache hiders, cache finders & event attendee's: If you cross paths with Bunjil or any other volunteer reviewers at some point, we would encourage you to do the same. A simple thank you is often the greatest reward a volunteer can recieve.
