2000 to 2010 = 10 years of Geocaching in Australia Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Geocaching Australia on Monday 1 March 2010. Waypoint GA1722

2000 to 2010 = 10 years of Geocaching in Australia

Lane Cove was hidden on 18-May-2000, so 18-May-2010 will see the 10th anniversary of geocaching in Australia.

Geocaching Australia would like to have celebrated this momentous occasion by gathering all of the GCA members together in one place for a fun event. With the Wagga Wagga Mega-Event in April this year and a number of members in more rural and remote locations the logistics are simply too hard to arrange.

So instead, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching in Australia we will be doing a few things virtually rather than physically with the intent of bringing GCA members together, regardless of where they may be located.

Firstly.
We would like to get as many GCA caches hidden and published on the 18-May-2010 as we can as part of the celebration. To encourage you to hide a quality GCA cache we are going to have a special anniversary pathtag minted to be given away as a reward to cachers who hide a GCA cache and have it published on 18-May-2010. See the link below for more information on qualifying to log this cache.

http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13830

Secondly
Upon listing and publishing your cache you will be eligible to log this locationless cache. When you log the locationless cache you are asked to provide a link back to your cache listing along with any comments you wish to make in your log. To make a link back to your cache listing simply copy the HTML code below, replace GAnnnn with the GA number of your cache and replace The Name Of Your Cache with the actual name of your cache. Please leave in the " marks. If you make a mess of it one of your kindly admins will be along occassionally to fix it for you.

<a href="http://geocaching.com.au/cache/GAnnnn">The Name Of Your Cache</a>

Thirdly
We invite you to mark the anniversary by gathering together in the forums and via a special event cache listed on Geocaching Australia. We will post a special forum thread for the virtual gathering and create a special cache listing for the event. The event will have physical co-ordinates but it will be ONLY a virtual event. The co-ordinates will be location of the Geocaching Australia server which is in a secured co-location data centre and will not be accessible. The event is a virtual event for all and sundry to join in on and make a log of what you have done and enjoyed over the last 10 years of geocaching in Australia. The thread detalis will be posted in the not too distance future.

So come one, come all, create your listing, future publish it (see the thread above for instructions) and log your cache here to claim this locationless cache.

We really hope you will join in the fun.
Geocaching Australia on behalf of the Senate and site developers.

We're on our way. W00t!