Geocaching

This was day when we were looking after our granddaughter, so it was decided to go for a walk on the TinderBox Hills Track and collect a few caches. First up though was to drop off the redone Travel Bug KLAMMER to a new spot. We hadn’t added Boronia Hill Reserve (Rebirth) to our list and being a regular size made it ideal for the bug.   Boronia Hill Reserve (Rebirth) Our approach to this was through a lane then up a vehicle track, with the GPS suggesting a route through some thick casuarinas. Thinking there must be an easier way to it we kept going uphill until reaching a side pad heading back to the GZ. Once there it was a fairly quick find with the help of Ella our granddaughter. A bird card, as well as the Travel Bug, was deposited. Ella and Sue dropping off the travel Bug   The Japs are Coming! After parking the car and being greeted by a friendly land owner, Sue & Peter headed up the Tinderbox Hills Track with granddaughter Ella. We might have even got this on...

On a trip to Binalong Bay our hope of accumulating the maximum planned caches was thwarted by a day of almost nonstop rain, but fortunately the second full day was fine and gradually improved ending in a lovely sunny afternoon. In fact it became so pleasant it enticed us back to the Binalong Bay Café for a coffee and delicious berry tart As well as us we also had six helpers and this came in very handy with a couple of them being quite enthusiastic. A walk to Grants Point had us scoring eight caches and before driving home on the final morning we collected a four more, as well as dropping off a moveable cache to a new spot. 26 May 2012 This was a walk from the shack south along the Binalong Bay beach to Grants Point. Grant Us Peace. . .and a More Challenging Find Our first and as previous logs indicated a quite trickily hidden cache. The clue helped pinpoint the spot, but it had nearly all of us searching until Dave thought he would try a more obscure spot and bingo it revealed t...

The final cache for the day was third time lucky for us, being Swimming Hole , which was finally found. Earlier in the afternoon we parked our car in Carlton Street outside the Jean-Pascal Patisserie enjoyed a coffee and a small Black Forest cake all of which passed muster easily. From there we walked down to Risdon Road to locate Don't get Muggled which had some intriguing log entries, including some that wondered how ever the cache could remain where it was without getting removed by a muggle. You do have to watch out for the passing traffic and our case, it was not just the cars that had to be contended with, but a couple with a young kid who walked past close to where we were we had moved to fill in the log. The bloke dropped his shopping including lot of bread rolls about a metre and half from us. If we hadn’t seen a similar type of daring hiding object before we may well have taken longer to find this one. From there it was off to Albert Road to find Total eclipse of ...

At this time of year the creek looks anything but inviting as a swimming pool, but finding a cache is an all year activity. It looked like trying to find the Swimming Hole cache might well take us all year too. On the second visit, see Frogs and Water for our first effort, we were confident after studying the past logs that we would spot something. But it was not to be and gave up after plenty of searching about, including inspecting an unlikely spot under a large storm water drainage pipe. We knew Barad Bunch had found it and sent out a “give us a hint request”. When Sue learnt of the hint she immediately thought of the bit of log she gave a kick to but thought “no that couldn’t be it”, but the news made her pretty suspicious that maybe it really was. On return for the third try proved quite quick, although Peter had to tug hard to open it. Although we waited for mugglers to depart, there was the owner of a nearby house doing repair work on his fence and gate, so we had to ...

As the geocache Lets Take a Dip was going to be driven past on the to the bushwalk to Trestle mountain, via Mountain River, a quick stop was made by Peter and Barad Bunch. A vehicle with a couple of people was parked at the GZ and the occupants no doubt were wondering what two men were doing walking to a spot and then busily searching for the something. The cache was easy to locate although it had accumulated a bit of dirt due to its location. The other vehicle by the way left before we finished with the cache so hopefully they won’t be curious enough to return to see what we had been looking at. Found 16/5/12

9 and 10 May 2012 It was hoped to be Tasman Trio as the story below will reveal . Hauy We camped overnight at Fortescue Bay and planned to take the opportunity to collect the aHauy there! cache at the end of the Cape Hauy walk, and pick up a couple more whilst on a walk to Shipstern Bluff the following day. The new track to Cape Hauy was very impressive, with a huge number of rock steps and the rest hardened to a high standard. It is a very expensive construction but, as it is a single file track, maybe money could have been saved by making it narrower. Mind you any saving would be most unlikely to get spent on another track elsewhere. We have been on this walk quite a number of times over the years and felt that although it was a good surface it was actually not any easier because of all the steps to be climbed. The scenery is so impressive that we almost forgot about looking for the cache. A search about by Sue, Peter and Mike the Muggler did not locate it and we t...

Sunday 6 May Peter had been preoccupied trying to work out some of Barad Bunch’s puzzle geocache, with plenty of help from the owner being sought. However they were put aside for the moment to locate Wellington Peaks E - Beware of the Tharks It seemed like a fairly reasonable day weather wise, even if a bit misty on top of the mountain, but during recent times there had been a decent few periods of rain and it was quite wet underfoot with widespread areas of water lying about. The new start to Thark Ridge was standing up well, but soon after reaching the old track the poor siting of that section became very obvious, with boggy bits and considerable pools of muddy water. To avoid this people had spread out to the sides and much braiding was evident. We have been along here many times before, but today it was a worse than we could recall. Some of this could be hardened with nearby rock and some could well be rerouted. As we were familiar with Thark Ridge, we walked through the saddle...