Lost World

3 November 2012

The Lost world is at Mount Arthur in Wellington Park and we planned to find the somewhat difficult to get to geocache up there and then enter the cave system which is one of the features of the place.

After that there were a few other caches that could be collected on the way home.

All did not go to plan with the first problem being that Peter’s GPS did not have any of the caches showing up on the screen. The GPX files had been checked beforehand but none could be seen. Fortunately Barad’s GPS could send them to Peter’s so that overcame the lack of data. On checking the GPX files onIMG_0329 the device after getting back at home it was found the missing ones were in fact there, but for some strange reason did not display on the GPS as present.

The second problem was that the entrance to the caves could not be found. Plenty of openings were visible but all seemed to have too big a drop to safely enter and be able to extract oneself. Quite a bit of time was spent looking, but it was very pleasant wandering about the place anyway; especially given the lovely still and sunny day.

 

Jurassic Park

After a scramble down we located cave with a small exit gap on the side that enable us to get through and close to GZ. The hint soon had us at the spot where the container was.

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AC/DC: A long way to the top

At first we looked outside at the back of the GZ then tried another tack and found the right spot. There was just a log in it container and although we looked keenly as well on the ground, there was no sign of the laminated label with numbers.

 

Rocket Ship

Lots of cars and people but were able to visit the GZ without anyone taking much notice.

 

AC/DC: You shook me all night long

We spent a bit of time looking before Sue gave the call of found it. Whilst at the site and off the actual walking track we had a several people go past, all seemed to be from the one scattered group, but none appeared to think it strange that we were where we were. They probably didn’t notice the GPS’s, pens and paper that we were holding.

 

Angel cache

What a delight this nice hide was, thanks Dippy. We had just visited our little 10 month granddaughter and her growing hair badly needed a hairclip, so we were pleased to take the Christmas hairclip which we will send to her in Canberra. Left a card.

 

A Perfect View

Walked down from the car park after finding Angel cache and on arrival there were no muggles taking in the view, so we had free rein and the cache was soon to hand. However a muggle pulled up just as we were about to replace the container and we had to be quick and wait until she was concentrating on opening her door before striking.

We reckon that one the last entries in the log was from a muggle going on the offensiveness of the writing and that it unattributed, so we put our find sticker over it to hide it. Took the ladybird rubber and left a card.

 

O' Grady's Specimen

This was our final one for the day and on arrival we all spied the spot that matched the description. It actually took two looks at the suspicious little area for us to find the container, and then we all realised the relevance of the second part of the cache name.

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