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In 1992 sloeg een container met 28.000 plastic badeendjes overboord van een containerschip dat onderweg was van Hong Kong naar de Verenigde Staten. Sinds die legendarische dag, dobbert de kolonie gele eenden de halve wereld rond. Sommigen zijn aangespoeld op de kust van Hawaï, Alaska, Zuid-Amerika, Australië en de Pacific Northwest, anderen zijn gevonden bevroren in Arctische ijs. Weer anderen hebben een of andere manier hun weg weten te vinden tot in Schotland en Newfoundland, in de Atlantische Oceaan. De eendjes hebben bijgedragen aan ons begrip van oceaanstromingen, alsmede onze kennis over plastic vervuiling in oceanen.
Deze eend is speciaal voor het Het badeendjes Community Celebration Event in 2020 (https://coord.info/GC8HJWY) in het leven geroepen. Tijdens het event zijn er vele bad eendjes de geocache wateren op gestuurd om te kunnen zien hoe de TB stromingen over de wereld lopen net als de badeendjes die in 1992 van een containerschip sloegen en overal gevonden werden.
Zoek voor deze eend weer een nieuwe cache om hem verder en verder van huis te laten drijven net als zijn andere vrienden.
via : http://badeendjes.reijsbergen.nu/ kun je deze en de andere eendjes volgen die zijn vrijgelaten op het event
(met dank aan DeFret)
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Wombatwandering took it to London Calling Presents: GIFF 2023
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London, United Kingdom
- 1.6 miles
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Ohhhh, it’s GIFF movie day. Some great films were shown. The Australian one at a Geocaching Care Home was my favourite. Also loved the Danish one, the German FTF one with the 40 metre log, and I can see everyone buying the log winding device in that film. Well done everyone involved even if your film wasn’t chosen to be shown. 🎥
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Wombatwandering took it to 1000 Traditional Caches in London CHALLENGE
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London, United Kingdom
- 3.95 miles
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I had a few moments spare so popped over to nearby Paddington with you. No sign of Paddington Bear though. 🐻
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Wombatwandering took it to Edwards Invisible Cross
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London, United Kingdom
- 5.61 miles
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Still looking for a day when I can spend it all geocaching. Instead, I grabbed the chance to find this cache about the crosses for Queen Eleanor (1241-1290), the wife of King Edward I. Queen Eleanor died in Harby, Nottinghamshire, and Edward ordered a cross to be built at every place the Queen’s body rested on the cortege's journey back to London. The largest and most ornate of these medieval Eleanor crosses was the Charing Cross. Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional "centre of London" and is now the point from which distances from London are measured. ✝️
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Wombatwandering took it to Wandsworth Roundabout
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London, United Kingdom
- 5.48 miles
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South of the Thames for you today with a visit to Wandsworth. Nothing too exciting to report about Wandsworth except that it has one of London’s busiest interchanges. 🛻
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Wombatwandering took it to It’5 A V3rY H4pPy XXth 81rThD4Y TO db3034!!
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London, United Kingdom
- 3.38 miles
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Today’s outing was a birthday party event at a ruined church near the Tower of London. St Dunstan’s Church was built in 1100 and added onto as the years went by. It was badly damaged in the Great Fire of London and then rebuilt and a steeple added by Christopher Wren. Then it was bombed during the Second World War and the ruins eventually turned into a beautiful garden. I think it’s a great re-use of the area and especially poignant to be here on Remembrance Sunday. Still amazing that the steeple survived the Blitz.
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Wombatwandering took it to The Greatest Secret Agent
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London, United Kingdom
- 1.87 miles
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A bit of sightseeing in London for you today. Stopped by 221B Baker Street, the home of Sherlock Holmes. It’s now the Sherlock Holmes Museum and is actually situated between 237 and 241 Baker Street. Baker Street did not go that far when Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the books. Then we stopped by the home of Danger Mouse, a secret agent mouse who works under a pillar box red post box around the corner from Sherlock Holmes. 🕵️♂️
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Wombatwandering took it to London Event @ The High Holborn Cuillères
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London, United Kingdom
- 9.5 miles
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Time for an event, in fact two. We are lucky in London, we have our own ‘regular’ events and then we have a lot of events from travelling cachers. Headed to Australia House first as I had something to do there but got caught up in a Julian Assange demonstration. Moved onto the London Cachers’ event was nearby in a pub in Holborn, an area of London with strong links to the legal profession. Then headed to the Tower of London because somehow another event managed to get published for the same time. 🍻
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Wombatwandering took it to The Petersham Lock-Up
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London, United Kingdom
- 4.64 miles
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Out to the London village of Petersham today to say goodbye to my geocaching friends who are moving to Scotland tomorrow. Who will solve all the puzzles for me now????!!!
Petersham appears in Domesday Book (1086) as Patricesham. It was held by Chertsey Abbey. Its assets were: 4 hides; 1 church, 5 ploughs, 1 fishery worth 1,000 eels and 1000 lampreys, 3 acres of meadow. Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby in Petersham and the village is also home to the Deutsche Schule of London. 😢
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Wombatwandering took it to The Hammersmith Ghost
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London, United Kingdom
- 3,611.17 miles
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Welcome to the United Kingdom! You have flown into London and are staying at my house in Hammersmith. No rest for you though as you had a dim sum birthday to attend and then I took you for some ghost hunting near the River Thames. 🇬🇧
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Wombatwandering took it to Sahwah Gardens
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Oman
- 4,115.63 miles
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Goodbye Manila, Hello Muscat. You’ve arrived in Oman after a relaxing flight in business class. I look after trackables! No travel in the hold for you. Oman looked quite interesting topographically but there was no time to explore as it was back onto the next plane. 🇴🇲
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