Yes, despite Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer TB being retrieved by enthusiast German newbie cacher Der-Steiger, lgxkls' Hazards Of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Travel Bug has gained on the little two-tone car by the distance of 7.99 miles after cacher Helle22 dropped it into this recently-placed German cache. It was picked up the very next day by JohnPower & Mopxi.
Biggest move of this update goes to Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB, which added 159.53 miles to it's total travelled after cachers Bull&Tink placed it into this fascinating cache, one of a series placed on an artificial spit built above a waste pipe discharging more than two miles into the recently named Salish Sea close to Vancouver International Airport.
This may be for naught though, as New Zealand cachers sww have revealed that they picked up current Knockout leader, Team Blid435's BraveHeart, last month and are planning to take it to Australia shortly...
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Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Knockout leader extends it's lead!
Bad news time for all entries except the current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug, which has recorded it's first milage since early April after New Zealand cacher Mel74 dropped the shiny little heart into this cache, adding 5.12 miles to it's distance travelled.
Another entry may be adding some miles soon, as novice cacher kharaa retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller Bug from the German cache that it had been resting in for the last couple of months.
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Another entry may be adding some miles soon, as novice cacher kharaa retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller Bug from the German cache that it had been resting in for the last couple of months.
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
Catching up on an active Easter
Lots of moves in the second half of this week for entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout; Current leader, Blid435's BraveHeart TB has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by New Zealand cacher Mel74.
Current 3rd place entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) trackable was placed into this cache by the Canadian cacher that was holding it, adding 21.62 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved the very same day by fellow Canadian gottagonow, who subsequently dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 0.81 of a mile to it's Knockout milage. Gottagonow has retained possession of LaP(Maan), therefore any subsequent dips or placement will not add any official Knockout milage to it's record. LaP(Maan) keeps moving, but appears to be stuck in a sort of "Bermuda diamond" east of Vancouver at the moment. Will Hediya's entry eventually be swallowed up or break out?
Fourth placed entry, cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, was retrieved from the German cache that it was residing in by cacher tapescript (whom I believe is Swiss, but does much of his caching in Germany). Two days later he dropped tnt into this interesting cache in Germany, sited at the epicentre of a Richter 4.5 earthquake which occured on May 5th 2009. This placement added 8.65 miles to tnt's distance travelled.
Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, smart451, have had their Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug retrieved from the Swedish cache in which it had passed the last 16 days by Swedish newbies SjöqvistRockers.
16 days is nothing compared to the 73 days that oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug spent in a cache in France before being retrieved by experienced French cacher christian35, who the very same day dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 1.14 miles to ½H's distance travelled. Christian35 has since dipped the shiny little trackable into no less than thirteen more caches, none of which add official Knockout milage, and has retained possession.
Finally, as more than one cacher has noted the disappearance of G-X's Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug) TB, I've marked it as whereabouts unknown, hopefully only temporarily!
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Current 3rd place entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) trackable was placed into this cache by the Canadian cacher that was holding it, adding 21.62 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved the very same day by fellow Canadian gottagonow, who subsequently dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 0.81 of a mile to it's Knockout milage. Gottagonow has retained possession of LaP(Maan), therefore any subsequent dips or placement will not add any official Knockout milage to it's record. LaP(Maan) keeps moving, but appears to be stuck in a sort of "Bermuda diamond" east of Vancouver at the moment. Will Hediya's entry eventually be swallowed up or break out?
Fourth placed entry, cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, was retrieved from the German cache that it was residing in by cacher tapescript (whom I believe is Swiss, but does much of his caching in Germany). Two days later he dropped tnt into this interesting cache in Germany, sited at the epicentre of a Richter 4.5 earthquake which occured on May 5th 2009. This placement added 8.65 miles to tnt's distance travelled.
Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, smart451, have had their Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug retrieved from the Swedish cache in which it had passed the last 16 days by Swedish newbies SjöqvistRockers.
16 days is nothing compared to the 73 days that oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug spent in a cache in France before being retrieved by experienced French cacher christian35, who the very same day dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 1.14 miles to ½H's distance travelled. Christian35 has since dipped the shiny little trackable into no less than thirteen more caches, none of which add official Knockout milage, and has retained possession.
Finally, as more than one cacher has noted the disappearance of G-X's Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug) TB, I've marked it as whereabouts unknown, hopefully only temporarily!
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Comings, goings, and a possible disappearance
New Zealand cacher willbuild just can't resist Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug! Having dropped BH off in his own cache last week, he's now retrieved the shiny TB and dropped it into this cache near North Island's Welcome Bay, 26.94 miles away. The milage will not be added to BraveHeart's official Knockout distance travelled due to it being the upteenth cache that willbuild has taken it to.
lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB has been retrieved from the German cache that it was penned in by Slovenian cacher perhan.
Finally for today, G-X's Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug) TB has been reported as missing from the Cheshire cache that it is logged into. If another cacher reports it missing too, then I'll mark it with the dreaded whereabouts unknown.
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lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB has been retrieved from the German cache that it was penned in by Slovenian cacher perhan.
Finally for today, G-X's Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug) TB has been reported as missing from the Cheshire cache that it is logged into. If another cacher reports it missing too, then I'll mark it with the dreaded whereabouts unknown.
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Saturday, 16 April 2011
Confused? You Will Be!
Okay, first a little background; when I started The Great Travel Bug Knockout I decided not to allow multiple placings (known as "dips") to count towards an entry's total milage, so as not to give an unfair advantage to a TB that is picked up by a regular long-distance traveller. All three Bugs that have been moved in the last week have therefore had some or all of it's recent milage disallowed.
Firstly, current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart has had all of it's dips by New Zealand cacher willbuild disallowed apart from the first one. How many dips have been disallowed? Well, let's count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42! After all that diptastic action, willbuild finally placed BH into this picturesque cache which he owns.
Next up is Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB, which cacher Anothercell placed into this cache on the busy U.S. Interstate Highway 5. Mysteriously, this log was deleted and KF was then dipped into this cache instead, then this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one and this one, before eventually being logged into Along the 5 again. As the difference between being placed directly into Along the 5 and being dipped into 1-Carrot-But NO BLING! is less than a mile, I've allowed the corrected order to stand.
Finally, G-X's Voodoo Whodo Whatever... TB was placed into an event cache named Dragon Motor Meet. Shortly afterwards the event was re-named Deceangi (The Boss's) Suprise Party and was revealed to be a surprise 50th Birthday party for Geocaching.com's head U.K. cache reviewer Deceangi. VWWYDDDP was retrieved from the event by cachers The GeoBEATS, who dipped it in this Cheshire cache, adding 39.54 miles to it's total distance travelled, before placing it into this cache, also in Cheshire.
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Firstly, current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart has had all of it's dips by New Zealand cacher willbuild disallowed apart from the first one. How many dips have been disallowed? Well, let's count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42! After all that diptastic action, willbuild finally placed BH into this picturesque cache which he owns.
Next up is Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB, which cacher Anothercell placed into this cache on the busy U.S. Interstate Highway 5. Mysteriously, this log was deleted and KF was then dipped into this cache instead, then this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one and this one, before eventually being logged into Along the 5 again. As the difference between being placed directly into Along the 5 and being dipped into 1-Carrot-But NO BLING! is less than a mile, I've allowed the corrected order to stand.
Finally, G-X's Voodoo Whodo Whatever... TB was placed into an event cache named Dragon Motor Meet. Shortly afterwards the event was re-named Deceangi (The Boss's) Suprise Party and was revealed to be a surprise 50th Birthday party for Geocaching.com's head U.K. cache reviewer Deceangi. VWWYDDDP was retrieved from the event by cachers The GeoBEATS, who dipped it in this Cheshire cache, adding 39.54 miles to it's total distance travelled, before placing it into this cache, also in Cheshire.
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Deja vu!
Yes, it's deja vu all over again, as Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug has been picked up from the cache that it was resting in by veteran New Zealand cacher willbuild, who then dipped it into this new cache shortly afterwards, extending it's lead by 19.61 miles.
lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB has also done some travelling, from Budapest, Hungary to this Austrian cache, and from there to this odd German "Flirt-Cache"; translate the webpage to find out what that means! Unfortunately for lgxkls, none of this international travelling has added any milage to HoG1's official Knockout distance due to the rule that stipulates that only the first dip by a cacher counts.
Finally, smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug has been retrieved by relative newbie cacher Dilboket.
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lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB has also done some travelling, from Budapest, Hungary to this Austrian cache, and from there to this odd German "Flirt-Cache"; translate the webpage to find out what that means! Unfortunately for lgxkls, none of this international travelling has added any milage to HoG1's official Knockout distance due to the rule that stipulates that only the first dip by a cacher counts.
Finally, smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug has been retrieved by relative newbie cacher Dilboket.
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Sunday, 3 April 2011
Plenty more miles for BraveHeart
The newbies from New Zealand, FlipDags, have proven that they know what they're doing by moving the current leader of The Great Travel Bug Knockout, Blid435's BraveHeart TB to this cache 73.84 miles to the South-East. I've only just noticed how all geocaches in New Zealand seem to include the area of the country that it is located in as a parenthesized addition to the cache's name, I wonder why this is?
In other Knockout news, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB may have outstayed it's welcome in The Frozen North, as no cacher was interested enough in it to retrieve it from the Event Cache that it visited on Friday, so the event organiser, Chewy_06, has logged LaP(Maan) into his inventory.
Finally, Hungarian cacher tomreti has dipped lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Bug into this fascinating cache in Budapest, but no milage has been added to HoG1's distance travelled as this is the second cache that tomreti has taken the bovine trackable too.
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In other Knockout news, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB may have outstayed it's welcome in The Frozen North, as no cacher was interested enough in it to retrieve it from the Event Cache that it visited on Friday, so the event organiser, Chewy_06, has logged LaP(Maan) into his inventory.
Finally, Hungarian cacher tomreti has dipped lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Bug into this fascinating cache in Budapest, but no milage has been added to HoG1's distance travelled as this is the second cache that tomreti has taken the bovine trackable too.
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Thursday, 3 March 2011
Top two contenders battle it out
Current second place holder, Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug has been placed (by the Cache Owner, shakenbake47) into this cache in the former Gold Rush city of Marysville, California, adding 234.08 miles to it's distance travelled in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
However, Knockout Ferrari's milage addition has been partially neuralised by the leader of The Knockout, Blid435's BraveHeart TB being placed into this cache in the Auckland suburb of Mission Bay, adding a respectable 143.72 miles to it's distance travelled.
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However, Knockout Ferrari's milage addition has been partially neuralised by the leader of The Knockout, Blid435's BraveHeart TB being placed into this cache in the Auckland suburb of Mission Bay, adding a respectable 143.72 miles to it's distance travelled.
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Sunday, 27 February 2011
BraveHeart retrieved already, 2 days left for Scary Halloween Monster?
5...4...3...2...1...
Good news for current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug which has already been retrieved by newbie cachers TheHamiltonsNZ, on their very first day of caching.
Bad news for Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB which is still missing without trace. Possibly it's like a trackable Germelshausen and only reappears every Halloween...
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Good news for current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug which has already been retrieved by newbie cachers TheHamiltonsNZ, on their very first day of caching.
Bad news for Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB which is still missing without trace. Possibly it's like a trackable Germelshausen and only reappears every Halloween...
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Saturday, 26 February 2011
BraveHeart back in a cache, Scary Halloween Monster still AWOL
5...4...3...2...1...
Despite the Christchurch earthquake disaster on New Zealand's South Island, caching has continued on the North Island, with cacher cabhassett placing Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug into this cache in Taupo township on the northern shore of New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo. As this is the 5th cache that Braveheart has visited whilst in the possession of cabhassett, no distance has been added due to the only the first dip counts rule, despite which BH has still travelled more than twice as far as it's closest competitor in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Unfortunately nothing more has been heard from Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, meaning that SHM is currently the most likely TB to be kicked out of the Knockout at the March 1st Elimination.
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Despite the Christchurch earthquake disaster on New Zealand's South Island, caching has continued on the North Island, with cacher cabhassett placing Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug into this cache in Taupo township on the northern shore of New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo. As this is the 5th cache that Braveheart has visited whilst in the possession of cabhassett, no distance has been added due to the only the first dip counts rule, despite which BH has still travelled more than twice as far as it's closest competitor in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
Unfortunately nothing more has been heard from Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster Travel Bug, meaning that SHM is currently the most likely TB to be kicked out of the Knockout at the March 1st Elimination.
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Friday, 18 February 2011
Braveheart extends it's lead
New Zealand cacher cabhassett dipped Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug in this cache in Napier, New Zealand, extending it's lead in The Great Travel Bug Knockout by 61.79 miles. Cabhassett then dipped Braveheart into this cache, this cache and this cache, none of which adds milage for the purposes of The Knockout due to contravention of rule no.3 Only The First Move By A Cacher will Count.
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Monday, 14 February 2011
A tale of distance allowed ...and distance disallowed!
Cacher Nottinghamman has placed wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug into this interesting Derbyshire cache, overlooking Sir Richard Arkwright's historic Masson Mills, adding 6.72 miles to it's distance sailed. It may be moored here for some time as this is quite a tricky cache to find; I logged a DNF myself on it a few weeks ago and a cacher has already logged a DNF since The Skylark was dropped into it.
The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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