Binalong in the wet and dry

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 the little cache container. We were a little nervous in case it got dropped in the water.Binalong Bay Getaway 23-27 May 2012 020B

Dave showing Sue the find

Path to Paradise

Muggles were a problem at this one, but with a couple with an interstate number plate having morning tea or maybe very late breakfast we just had to hope they did not think that congregation beside a little rock was not unusual. Anyway although the GPS pointed the way it was Dave who finally discovered his second for the day and incidentally his second ever cache.

Lost Ball

As we approached this, the GPS started pointing into the scrub but sense prevailed and a less direct approach was adopted by Dave as he forced his way through Boobialla to the cache which was soon brought out to complete the log. That was 3 from 3 for Dave.

Binalong Bay

It took a little weaving through the coastal scrub ending with three of us scrambling on the rocks, until Dave was again the successful searcher. So this was his fourth in a row. Left a bird card.

Bones Bay

After walking along the road from Binalong we arrived at the start of the walking track beside Skelton Bay and the Bones Bay cache. Now Peter had read that this one was under maintenance and the log removed, but we figured we would still look for it. Although the GPS suggested a slightly different spot to what we thought would have to be the site, based on the hint, Sue soon had located the hiding spot. Close inspection did not reveal a cache container, so we assumed it had also been taken away with the log.

So we reckon we can count this as a find.

Grants Point

It did not take us long to find what had to be the cache site, but we started searching on the wrong side of the feature. Sue, Peter and Dave decided maybe the other side would be the go, but Christine had already headed there and called out that she had found it; her first ever cache find.

At this stage the moveable Camp the Cache was also nearby, so this made it a double find.

Camp the Cache

At the time we were looking for this cache it was at Grants Point which is also a cache site of the same name, so it gave us a double hit. The hint and GPS led us to the GZ and it was Mike among the 5 of us to get there first and grab the container.

As we were all staying in a shack near Jeanneret Beach that seemed to be a good spot to drop of this one.

Comment added to move log

It is nice outlook over the beach and although there is a camp site not far away. I am sure Snuva would think it a nice place to sit with her little child.

Hint

Behind a sad looking little, but not young, blue gum that looks like it gets a spurt of new branches only to have them damaged by the salty air blown off the sea.

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View to Cosy Corner

Poles Apart

It was about 450 metres further on from Grants Point to this GZ and as we got close we soon saw what inspired the cache name. The hint plus the accuracy of the location reference meant that it did not take long to find the container. Left a frog.

It was decided to return to Binalong Bay to the café for a coffee.

27 May 2012

Alfs Home Away from Home (and Away)

This was not far from where we were staying, in a very comfortable shack among the trees with heaps of native bush birds. We walked there past Jeanneret Beach and Cosy Corner camp, depositing “Camp the Cache” on the way. A track directed us from the beach through the coastal to the site, where Mike was quick to spot the container.

DORA THE EXPLORER

This was notionally down for collection on the walk via Grants Point, but coffee back at Binalong Bay was a bigger drawcard than the extra 5 kilometres of walking involved in going to Dora point. So it was done by driving there on our return journey to Hobart.

On reaching the GZ Peter discovered the hint had not been deciphered, so we had to just rely on the GPS pointing correctly (which it did) and hunting about the site. There were five searching and at first we thought it had been discovered, only to pick up the handle of a toy gun and realise it was a false hope. Eventually Dave located the cache to notch up the most finds of any of us. He seems to have a talent for it.

[AG] Scrooge’s cache

We parked the car at a spot suitable for vehicles and a mere 70 or 80 metres from the cache zone. As promised the views were good and finding the cache not hard, especially with a group with their eyes all on the one spot.

We often leave bird cards at caches and it was quite a thrill to see someone had moved one of them to here.

Now for the Travel Bug “Klammer” (RAPAV3) tag that we found that caused us some confusion. You see we had not seen one quite like this one and thought that someone must have clipped on some paper clips with a note. A log in April suggested that no TB was found and we thought maybe someone had taken it without the tag, so what did we do? Left the paper clips and took the tag.

On returning the home, which sis 270 kilometres from Binalong Bay, Sue looked up the Travel Bug to discover that in fact the paper clips were part of it. So we have printed out the TB description and added some paper clips and will drop it at cache soon; in the Hobart area. But anyone who visits Scrooge and is heading south might like to reunite the paper clips. Klammer originated in Germany in October 2010 and arrive in Australia in October 2011 and after spending a lot of time around Queensland was moved to Tasmania on 19 May 2012 and we found it on 27 May, after it had a journey of 18767 Kilometres.

Travel Bug

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Code RAPAV3

Message about the bug

Die Büroklammer ist ein kleines soziologisches Experiment. Wer möchte, kann eine Klammer oder ähnliches an die große Klammer hängen. So bekommt man einen Einblick, wie in den unterschiedlichen Ländern Papier zusammengehalten wird.
This is a little sociological experiment. If you like, you can add a paperclip or similar things on the big paper clip. So you can see how different people work with paper.

The direct translation of the German is

The paper clip is a little sociological experiment. Who wants can hang a bracket or similar at the big brace. So, you get a glimpse of how paper is held together in different countries.

Using Google Translate it works out that it is German for you.

Oh The Serenity

Our final cache for the north east trip was at Moulting Bay and the clue very helpful and it was again Dave who was on the right side of our objective and soon had the cache in hand. Although this was the off season, we were still glad we were not camping at this spot as a one person went past with three dogs and another was constantly chopping wood. And this was from just the two camp groups in the ground.

We left a bird card but took nothing.

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Moulting Bay

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