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Bamboo the Panda Travel Tag Bamboo the Aussie Panda

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Owner:
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Released:
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Origin:
South Australia, Australia
Recently Spotted:
In The Cranbourne Meteorites

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Current Goal

To travel all around the world (maybe visit Pandas??), avoiding the general public, seeing where this rare Australian Panda can be found.  The Panda is quite found of large things, national parks, and strangely.... bamboo.

Please help me move quickly from cache to cache, and please take of a photo of where I am, my junior Geocache owners would love to see where I am going!

About This Item

Bamboo the Aussie Panda

Due to outbreaks of Bamboo in the late 1960s, the Australian Government held secret talks with China in the best eradication of this invasive plant.  China on the other hand, could not get enough bamboo to feed the rare yet beautiful Panda.

In a secret deal between to the two countries, Australia agreed to help with Panda conservation in exchange for a Panda for trials in bamboo control.

As with most species introduced in Australia, the Panda escaped it's enclosure and has not been seen since.  As the Panda was missing for many years, the government assumed the Panda either is a natural at the game of Hide and Seek, or built a sea going vessel of bamboo and sailed back to China.

Yet the real story is that the Panda can still be seen in the wild, often visiting caches from one place to the next, and is regularly caught on camera by a secret society called 'geocachers'.  These brave volunteers keep the true story of the Australian Panda a closely guarded secret.

 

**PLEASE NOTE: This story is probably fictional.  I think.

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Tracking History (3595mi) View Map

Dropped Off 1/7/2013 easty115 placed it in The Cranbourne Meteorites Victoria, Australia - 568.27 miles  Visit Log

Dropped off bamboo panda a Cranbourne meteorite , with new geo family

Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2013 easty115 retrieved it from Killing Hidey Victoria, Australia   Visit Log

Traverling home from our christmas holidays in Out back Victoria, Australia. We had just been introduced to the Geocaching over our holidays and were very keen to start finding some.
The Geo kids were very excited to find this special trackable , Bamboo The Panda.
We thought Bamboo The Panda would like to Visit the Penguins on Phillip Island In Victoria Australia.
Will drop him off there shortly. :)

Dropped Off 12/28/2012 TroubleGrub placed it in Killing Hidey Victoria, Australia - 484.69 miles  Visit Log

On a bit of an outing, letting it get back out travelling about

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 12/28/2012 TroubleGrub grabbed it   Visit Log

Liddyo has been unable to go geocaching, and forgot she had this trackable (plus some others) in her possession, so gave them to me to get back out there

So will get this trackable out and about again ASAP :D

Happy Caching :D

Discovered It 2/20/2012 jonignite discovered it   Visit Log

he is very agro and out of control

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Retrieve It from a Cache 2/19/2012 liddyo retrieved it from Another Ramp New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

Really good. I hurt my leg though getting too it :(

Dropped Off 11/25/2011 latanzi placed it in Another Ramp New South Wales, Australia - 124.05 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/4/2011 latanzi retrieved it from Pavilion Pavlova New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

Picked up the Panda for a trip north

Dropped Off 10/11/2011 MissPixie placed it in Pavilion Pavlova New South Wales, Australia - 1.79 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Pavilion Pavlova

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/8/2011 MissPixie retrieved it from Stony Range New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

First ever Geocaching with my mate {goldilox!}, we stumbled across Bamboo the Panda in Stony Range. Planning to move it nearer to the beach, to climatise to our warm weather, ready for summer time!
MissPixie

This entry was edited by MissPixie on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 at 01:50:36 UTC.

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