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Commemorative Geotalk/Spindoc Bob coin


richary

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Many people in the caching community worldwide will know Spindoc Bob/Spindoctors from Sydney AU via his popular Geotalk podcast that sadly finished last year. Unfortunately Darren was diagnosed a couple of years ago with an aggressive brain tumour and despite his positivity he lost the battle in January. Quite a number of the Sydney and Canberra cachers turned up for the funeral which was a sad day, but a celebration of his life - not only with caching but his science background and work with the ABC broadcaster in Australia as Science editor.

 

Another one of Darren's achievements was to start the Geocaching NSW Association, initially formed to provide a liason with National Parks here in NSW who had banned geocaching as an activity. Since getting that ban overturned we have also worked with local councils to solve issues and provide educational sessions.

 

Earlier this year Darren's nephew Ryan started a campaign to shave his admittedly very long hair off to raise money for the curebraincancer.org.au charity, and with support from around the world and the caching community raised over $12000 for the research.

 

The association decided to make a commemorative geocoin with the family's permission using Darren's logo from geotalk. All profits after manufacture and postage will be going to the charity, this will be a pre-order closing at the end of April with shipment expected in June (depending on Oakcoins delivery). The exact amount raised will partly depend on the exchange rate of the Aussie dollar at the time, but we hope $5-7 per coin will go to the charity. This was only publicised on our website and some facebook groups on Wednesday, and already we have orders for 81 coins.

 

So if you have memories of Geotalk, or of Darren himself and would like a coin as a memory or to support the charity, these are available at the GeocachingNSW online shop. I am looking forward to having to fill out lots of customs forms to post the things overseas. And please feel free to promote this in whatever forums or facebook groups you may use that haven't already seen this.

 

http://www.geocachingnsw.asn.au/index.php/shop/shop-trackables/product/57-geocoin-2014.html

 

You can also donate extra funds through our site if you wish.

 

Just to re-iterate, the association makes no profit from this (though if you choose to buy some other merchandise at the time we make a small amount which helps keep us going). All profits go to researching the causes and hopefully finding a cure for brain cancer.

 

Cheers

 

Richary

Treasurer - Geocaching NSW

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