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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
A few days after I arrived back from New Zealand I decided to buy a kayak, since I live not far from a bay on the river. The next day I managed to run it into my garage door. Dummkopf. This was due to not waiting for the automatic roller to reach the fully open state (and this, in […] There is a geocache up on the mountain that is just a tad difficult to get to, located, as it is, in a cave halfway down a sandstone cliff. Although someone with some rockclimbing skill could manage it without any special equipment (and there are a few notorious amusing stories about people contriving to get ladders […] I am currently in Alice Springs attending a maths education conference. Alice Springs is in the “red centre”, the famous arid outback of Australia, with its sandy deserts and ancient rocky ranges. “Middle of nowhere” doesn’t come much more literal than this: the next closest town is over 500km away … and I haven’t heard of it!* Thanks […] I went for a little “caching run” on Saturday morning in Westerfolds Park, which is on the banks of the Yarra in Templestowe. The bush and open grasslands are criss-crossed with tracks and bike paths, and the place was teeming with birdlife (oh, and pesky wabbits). I had just returned one of the caches I had found […] This past year, and the last couple of months in particular, have been lean from a caching point of view. My steady march towards the 1000-cache milestone turned into a crawl … and even that lost momentum at times. The Christmas/New Year holiday break, however, has allowed me some time to get back out hunting, and, […] My niece and I decided to have a girls’ day out yesterday, and she was happy to (a) let me decide the destination and (b) find a few caches on the way. The day started cool and blustery, but I decided to head up Mt Wellington anyway, because there were a couple of puzzle caches I’d […] I arrived home today to find a curious container hanging from my doorbell. I had been expecting something this afternoon, as a couple of text messages from my friend Maybelline (the one who made a screenprint of icons capturing my silly little “Dramatis Persona” quote) had suggested that she was hatching plans … but I had no […] Ten years ago, not long after satellite signals for navigation became publicly available, a guy named George hid the first cache in Victoria. Another person to blame! At 60km from Melbourne, the name “Melbourne’s 1st” is a bit of a misnomer, but he picked a good spot in the hills above Strath Creek, and the cache has survived […] With my students off on their mid-semester break I felt that I deserved a day off to go caching, since it’s been over a month since my last plastic box (“My name is SamCarter and I am addicted to caching”). My caching friend Muzza was able to swap his day off and so we headed up […] Last Friday was the 150th anniversary of the departure of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, famous in Australia not so much for what they did achieve (completing the first south to north crossing of mainland Australia) as for what they didn’t achieve (completing the return north to south crossing without dying). They left Melbourne on […] |
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