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Random ImageGalapagos Hawk |
In February 2003, I placed a small wooden horse in a geocache in Sydney. It had been manufactured in Sweden and its task was to make it back to Sweden by being passed from cache to cache by geocachers. It made it back its factory birthplace in May 2006 and has been making its way back [...] It is my sad duty to inform the world that after travelling 27,740km around the globe, the furry travel bug called “Robeart Actually” is officially missing in action. The bear began its journey in New South Wales on 26 February 2003 with the destination of Switzerland. It has since travelled to New Zealand, Queensland, Singapore, [...] Geocaching is a high-tech version of high and seek using a GPS. “Caches”, which could be anything from a film contained to a 40 litre drum are filled with goodies (mostly stuff from the $2 shop) and hidden around the world. The GPS co-ordinates of the location are posted on the internet and anyone with [...] We are sitting in the hotel’s breakfast room finishing off a bottle of vino blanco while an interview is being filmed next to us. I have no idea what it is about or who is being interviewed, but we haven’t been asked to move and are sitting only just out of shot. Today was very quiet. [...] Today we have two half day tours with the two remaining Australians. There was a three hour break in the middle. We visited more huas and the ceremonial village of Orongo. It was just near here that I failed to find my second cache on Easter Island. Ground zero was an opening under a pile [...] The flight to Easter Island was great because it was on a 767-300 refitted with a new entertainment system. It had both video and audio on demand with a choice of over 70 movies and TV shows and 300 CDs. There were also video games. At Easter Island our bags were almost the last on the [...] |
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