Geocaching

We knew that " Swimming Hole " was a cache not far from home and finally decided to seek it. Earlier in the week we had picked up " Spot the Frog ", a moveable cache found under the Geocache Australia website and needed to deposit the little fellow somewhere. As frogs like water and this one had spent a few months on a dry hillside it seemed appropriate to lodge near a creek, so finding "Swimming Hole" was combined with the task. We could work out the starting spot even without a GPS and soon had the next stage entered in the GPS. Much to Peter's surprise it led us back down rather than up the creek and we ended beside a fence. A bit of searching and head scratching saw us give up for now and head off to lodge our little froggy. On return home Sue scanned through past logs and discovered several people also ended up where we did and then found this was several metres out. This has encouraged us to head back to the GZ soon and to ignore the GPS for on...

We were going to the Plants of Tasmania nursery at Ridgeway and had time to search for " Two Views ", a multicache. We assumed the first site where the clues for the final location were to be found would be beside the track, but not so and it was off in the bush a little way. The photo in the gallery was a help in confirming the spot. After entering the final coordinates we followed the GPS, but as it directed us downhill through the bush we started to get the feeling that we might have got things wrong and on a wild goose chase. However when the GPS pinged that we had arrived, there was the little cache close at hand.   Interestingly some logs mentioned scrub and prickly stuff, but we walked around any of these spots and let the GPS redirect us back onto course. We found Spot the Frog , a quaint little fellow, after looking for "Two Views", and will be moving him to a new spot soon. We walked around the area that the GPS suggested, doing a bit of poki...

Well after our failure to locate this one earlier in the week and then suspecting we really had spotted it, we made a quick return today. And yes the object that Peter had looked at, but dismissed, was in fact the cache container.   So very clever and had completely fooled Peter last time, even though Sue was still a bit suspicious.  The log was pretty much unusable so could not write on it.   To visit the Geocache website .

Today we left the car in Davey Street and walked through some streets to have a look at the different houses in the area, ranging from large impressive ones to some small ones, before joining Romilly Street and the track into the Waterworks.   We have been going to go along this way for a walk for some time now and this was just the chance.   Found ' Cup of Tea? ' but looked for 'Woody' in the wrong spot though not dissimilar to where we shortly after find the cache. The track became more like a bushwalking one as we continued on past the first reservoir and then uphill to ' AWwC(OSoV) '. So many tracks here that were unknown to us. On arriving Sue said she wasn't putting her hand in the suspected cache spot, so Peter risked it and got out the little box.   Well we were at least half way up the hill so decided to follow the track to the road above and the descend to find 'Linear Park #3 '.    The problem was that we ended up leaving the tra...