Waterworks Stroll

1 June 2012

For a few weeks we have been meaning to head back to the Ridgeway Park and collect a cache out on the eastern side. There was also one not far from Two Views which we ran out of time to attempt when we were here in April just gone.

 

The Kong Foo Sing Cache

Walking to the site was quite pleasant and it was somewhere we had never walked before, although we had been on the tracks in other parts of the reserve over the years, and our resolve was to follow some of the other tracks before too long and maybe score a cache or two in the process. The container took a bit of extracting as it was a tight fit and we were surprised at the number of fortune messages that were in it. Although there were no other items present, we still decided to leave a bird card and took one of the fortune messages.

 

A Waterworks Quarry

We parked the car at a spot east of the GZ but when we got closer noticed a closer area that could be used. Anyway we soon located the best way up to the old quarry. We have driven past here on several occasions whilst heading for the Plants of Tasmania Nursery, but never saw the quarry.

The hint and the GPS soon had us at the correct location and pretty soon we were back on the road on the return to the car. Suddenly Sue remembered, that although a note was made in the log that a bird card was left, we had forgotten to place it in the container; so Peter went back to put in it. However he spotted what looked like a short cut to the site, but unfortunately ended up in a maze of prickly Gorse. When Peter did reappear, with bits of Gorse hanging from his jumper, Sue queried him why it took 3 times as long to go back the second time as the first.

At the quarry cache site

IMG_6790 At the cache site

Banksias near the quarry site

IMG_6792 Banksia

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