Ice House Walk

Thursday 22nd November 2012

The caches on the Ice House Track put in by Dippedidooda were the objective behind this walk. As well we decided to place a cache ourselves on the nearby Milles track (Milles Jewel) and also collect a few other caches on the Shoobridge and Jacksons track areas.

 

Jackson's Tunnel

It didn’t take long to see the likely hiding spot, but spider webs were already around the opening even though it had been only a couple of weeks since the last finder.

 

Jackson's Ferns 'n' Logs

A bit further up the track, from Tunnel, which was nice and dry today, then back down to the car.

 

Rocky Whelan’s Cave

This is a spot we have been to several times over the years, but the first since taking up geocaching. Left our wizard trackable.

 

Bicep

Started along Shoobridge track and noticed the GPS was pointing uphill, so soon realised we should have gone along the north south track instead. Rather than backtrack or head through the bush we decided to go on to Squidly Diddly at the Octopus Tree and get this on the way back

 

Squidly Diddly

We have visited the Octopus Tree a number of times, but are fairly familiar with it that more often than not we just walk past with a glance. So it was good to reacquaint ourselves the intriguing tree whilst going for the cache here.

 

A Cosmic Springs

A rock drew our attention and this was soon to hand.

 

Ice House Ruins: Lowest

Before the current start to the Ice House track was put in this spot was rarely seen, but now everyone using the track walks over one wall of it. Hint was good so a find was made.

Ice House Ruins: Lower

The growth about this ice house is now quite thick; it wasn’t that long ago that you could see the walls from the track, if you looked carefully. Left tablespoon and bird card and took rock hide.

 

Ice House Ruins: Upper

This was the last cache and so the turnaround point. We have been up here and continued on past this spot many times over the years.

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