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Tuesday 18 December 2012

A bit of a mixed day which started to get frustrating, but eventually yielded a better result than it liked like becoming. We found the first cache then couldn’t find the next two and although finding the last in a series could not get at the log. Then at a location at Cornelian Bay we think we found the spot where the multi-cache would have been, but no container.

 

New Town Bay #1

The spot where we opted to park was right at the site of the first in this series, and it was quick to spot, especially if standing back far enough.

 

New Town Bay #2

Looked around the garden bed where the GPS indicated until Peter saw a green rubbish bin with slat surrounds that reminded him of a lantern. Looking here and there failed so it was off to the next cache then on return Sue went back to the garden and soon spotted the container. We had to retrieve the log and get it back before the whistling dog walker arrived.

 

New Town Bay #3

This was a case of reading too much into the log entries such as “reached in” and “standing on top”, so it was not until returning from No4 that Sue finally located it while Peter was still intent on the spots first searched. We also could not see anything from other log comments about “being freaked” or “nasty little critter”.

 

New Town Bay #4

This one was quite frustrating because the cache container was quickly spotted by Sue but a protracted search failed to locate the extractor. As the others in the series didn’t have hints, we unfortunately did not think to check if this one did, until arriving home. We will have to return and use the hint to help search.

 

Lottie's Lookout #2

On arriving at the start site there were two people ion the seat so we had to politely ask if we could look at the sign there. With that done it was off to the actual hided site where we spotted a clip like object attached to the fence. It was not like anything else on the fence so it seemed a good guess that it once held the cache container; so we have concluded that it has been muggled.

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