Beside New Town Creek

Wednesday 4 July 2012

We had two reasons for walking up beside New Town Creek today; one was to deposit three moveable caches we had recently picked up from Knocklofty. The other was to locate the New Town Rivulet Track series. We started near New Town Rivulet Track #3, which was quickly found by Sue, despite getting her feet wet crossing the creek. The tiny “Leaps the Frog” was dropped off near here.

It was then on upstream to #4 where we looked about a bit before Peter spotted a bit of tatty old plastic in a tree, which really was just rubbish, but it did lead his eye to spot the real thing.

Upstream further was the one described by some logs as a bit scary and it does have the sub title of “Deadly Peril”; #5. Although Peter knew full well that it was not real, he nevertheless still jumped a bit when he looked closely in the hidey spot.

Well so far so good, but we came crashing down on #6. On reaching GZ both the sub title “Straight Six” and the GPS had us looking at the obvious, but after spending time looking and poking in all the crannies we gave up and went on to #7.

It was at #7 that a lot of time was spent searching, but to no avail. Peter even inspected with a little stick a white plastic object that he thought was a condom. Surely not he said, but Sue told him it really was a balloon, but still highly unlikely. Then along came a woman jogger who asked are you geocaching. Yes was the reply and when we told Dippedidooda we were stumped, she helpfully suggested we look on the other side of the road. When we got over there Sue said it couldn’t be that could it, and yes it was.

We also asked Dippedidooda for a hint on #6 and she very kindly helped there too. Before looking we first went on to hide the other moveables taken from Knocklofty “Woodleigh Gnome” and “Touring Teddies”. However what we figured was a thorough search back at #6 still came up with nothing. We then walked back downstream to #2 when Dippedidooda came jogging back, so we said we still had no luck at #6. Dippedidooda jogged back up to look and reported that yes it was still there and gave us a very good description of where to look. Sure enough, there the minute thing was and thankfully we could tick the box. It would have been awfully embarrassing to have failed again.

By the way Budgietas you have got this one marked as temporarily disabled so you can re-enable it.

Well back to where we left off at #2 and Sue quickly spotted an object that she was definitely not going to touch, even knowing it was not an alive specimen. So who gets the credit for this little beauty, Sue for spotting it or Peter for being brave enough to touch it.

Last was #1 and it did not take long to find, although Sue did say it was not a cache but something left behind by a schoolboy. Try as we might, the log couldn’t be extracted though. Must take tweezers in future.

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