2009 Victoria Bushfire Appeal Geocoin

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Owner:
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Released:
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Origin:
Victoria, Australia
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Current Goal

At this stage this coin will be kept on me.

As I am a firefighter who fought in the 2009 bushfires this is a geocoin I do not wish to loose. I will let other geocachers discover me at events and also friends and fellow geocachers I run into as it travels around from cache to cache with me.

About This Item

2009 Victoria Bushfire Appeal Geocoin

As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February.

The Black Saturday bushfires, were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday 7 February 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. 173 people died as a result of the fires and 414 were injured.

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Contrary to popular belief the Sam (The Koala) encounter as depicted on this coin was not from the "Feb 7" Fires, the video was taken in January during backburning operations around Mirboo North.

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Tracking History (4193.9mi) View Map

Write note 5/21/2010 FLIPPER&CO posted a note for it   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 5/15/2010 Thongswithsocks placed it in Come Meet The Flipper's from SA Victoria, Australia - .59 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/15/2010 Thongswithsocks retrieved it from WWFMVII - not the Wilburys Victoria, Australia   Visit Log

Retrieving to move onto the next event.
Dropped Off 5/15/2010 Thongswithsocks placed it in WWFMVII - not the Wilburys Victoria, Australia - 65.02 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 5/15/2010 McAdies discovered it   Visit Log

Met up with Nalhcal at the WWFM and saw a familiar coin.
Certainly a nice coin we are glad you like it.
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/12/2010 Thongswithsocks retrieved it from Light My Fire Victoria, Australia   Visit Log

Only a short visit to Fiskville Training College, I can't count the hours I have spent here undertaking training as a CFA member.

Dropped Off 5/12/2010 Thongswithsocks placed it in Light My Fire Victoria, Australia - 23.88 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/4/2010 Thongswithsocks retrieved it from 10 Years! Ballarat, Australia Victoria, Australia   Visit Log

Retrieving from event.
Discovered It 5/1/2010 64EH discovered it   Visit Log

98 people representing 55 geocaching teams attended 10 Years! Ballarat, Australia to celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching. This TB was discovered at that event.

Dropped Off 4/29/2010 Thongswithsocks placed it in 10 Years! Ballarat, Australia Victoria, Australia - 15.79 miles  Visit Log
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