To the top of Mount Nelson

Wednesday 13 June 2012

We had an early lunch then drove to Lambert Avenue to commence the walk up through the gully to the summit of Mount Nelson. Eight caches would be passed on the way and the day was pleasantly sunny and it was quite warm walking up from close to sea level to the summit at 340 metres. At the top there is an historic signal station, but having seen it many times before, we were more interested in coffee and cake from the nearby café. As well as caches we also discovered a few weeds that the local Bushcare group have now been told about. There were a few muggles about but they all failed to see us when we were off the track with a cache.

Just before the top of Mount Nelson we heard a person say “what was the clue again Dad”, so when Peter passed them he enquired if they were seeking a little plastic box. “May be “came the reply. From a perusal of the logs our guess is that it was the “fennwal”.

Our score for the day was seven out of eight, plus a 200 metre diversion when Peter accidentally pressed a point on the GPS map which then promptly headed us away from our real objective.

 

A Bridge Too Far

Our first try for the day was A Bridge Too Far and the GPS did well with the tree cover. This was at the bottom of the climb to Mount Nelson. Left a bird card.

 

The Twisted Tree

After the climb up from Lambert Gully “The Twisted Tree” was the objective and Peter had assumed it would be off a bit from the main walking trIMG_6807 Twisted Treeack, however the GPS was pointing hard right so off through the bush we went until an old vehicle track was reached. At this stage Peter touched the GPS map and somehow had the compass taking us in the wrong direction. When this spot was reached there was no twisted tree and a closer referral to the GPS showed it some 200 metres in the opposite direction.

With that rectified it didn't take Sue long to spot the intriguing looking tree and the cache container.

 

Not The Twisted Tree

After finding “The Twisted Tree” we headed for “Not…” and soon crossed a walking pad and continued down slope on the shady side of the hill. A bit of minor scrambling brought us to the cache. Left a bird card.

 

Ribbet!

A little walking pad was followed to a junction with a bigger track where there was IMG_6809 Frog Pondalso a pond which is appropriate for cache named Ribbet. It is in quite a lovely area. We left a bird card and a fortune message ribbon that we had taken out of ”The Kong Foo Sing Cache” the previous week. Took a little water pistol.

 

Frog pond near Ribbet!

 

Happy Birthday

Although we have been along the track to the summit on numerous occasions only one other other of these involved geocaching. At that time we had some friends with us an no one could find the cache during the brief time we spent looking. Now with a bit of experience under our belts it was quite quick to find, for Sue anyway as she spied it from a couple of metres off. Left a bird card and elk and took a helicopter.

 

Leaves n rocks

Although the GPS took us to the spot the hint had us looking a bit further away. Eventually Sue spotted the hide where the description would have been spot on once, but one of the main hint objects has been decapitated. We left a bird card.

 

COTFTF#7 Burning the Midnight Oil 1 Regret

This was the only multi-cache for the day and it was easy enough finding the details for stage two, but the GPS took us along a little side track then through a bit of bush to the Truganini Track to very likely spot. A quick search revealed nothing and on checking the GPS it wanted to take us off on a tangent. Around in circles we went, but kept coming back to one spot. The last approach was from a different direction and Sue quickly spotted a disturbance and had the cache in hand soon after.

 

COTFTF #6: Skull Duggery

It was getting late by the time we got back to Lambert Park, but decided that there was time to have a shot at Skull Duggery. However, we found the light insufficient for us to read the headstones well enough and had to give up and put this one off til another day.

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