Bubbler Dash
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Today we headed down to Manly to have a go at the Bubbler Dash. Parked the geomobile on the Manly beachfront (no need for parking fees thanks to last years’ council merger) and then walked over to the starting location near the Manly Art Gallery. Started the Wherigo app on the ipad and, with the stopwatch now running, we all charged off to the first bubbler.
With that one registered it was on to the next, and the next, and the next. Worked our way through the various bubblers, and answering a few questions along the way, until we reached number 10. At that point geomum (owner & operator of our ipad device) was struggling with the hectic pace and, with our time rapidly running out, it was decided that I should take the ipad and continue at top speed to attempt to finish the dash before the clock stopped.
Managed to reach the final (20th) bubbler but, with the stopwatch still running, I was asked one final question. I knew the answer but didn’t know how to bring up the onscreen keyboard to enter it. A very frustrating moment that cost us several minutes in time as I desperately fiddled around with the unfamiliar device. Anyway I finally figured it out, input the answer, and completed the dash with 1 minute & 46 seconds remaining on the stopwatch, so total time taken was 18 minutes & 14 seconds.
By this time the rest of the vk2df geofamily had joined me at the finish line, and we all sat around for a while to recover from the run and to load the Garmin GPSr (well at least I know how to drive that device) with the coords for the final cache location. It was a fair distance over to the cache so we opted to drive, hoping to find a parking spot nearby.
We were lucky to grab a parking spot not too far from the cache location, so we parked the geomobile and headed over for a look. On arrival we spotted something interesting and, on closer inspection, confirmed that we had located the outer “camo” of the cache. Soon figured out what we needed to do, so did those things and was rewarded with CIH. At this point we realised that we had forgotten to bring a pen, so had to borrow one from the friendly staff in the nearby office, and we were then able to sign the log sheet. Everything was then replaced (reset) as we had found it.
Thanks Tyreless for the fun, albeit exhausting, dash and for the cache. Worthy of a Favourite point from us.
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