Sandfly Again

Wednesday 9 January 2013

We had been invited for lunch at a friends place and this seemed the opportune time to get some of the caches we did not have time for on our last visit to the Sandfly Margate area.

Bunyip Walk

On our return to the area we didn't take very long to find the critter. Quite a novel one really

Down by the River

When we got to the end of the fence lines there was some tapes marking a track downstream and away from where the GPS suggested, however Peter thought that maybe the pad headed back in the right direction once near the river.

Not so and we returned and followed the GPS until coming to a widish track and while Peter was busy studying the GPS , Sue said look to you right it must be there, and it was. For a change we didn't even need to look up the hint.

We left the scout buckle travel bug which seemed appropriate as it took a bit of scouting about to find the cache. As he attempted to hide the cache container a little better Peter managed to get bitten by an ant with a powerful sting; ouch.

Stealth Team I

On returning from finding "Down by the River" we realised we had parked the car quite close to this cache. As Peter read the hint he heard Sue soon say here it is. A person in the property over the fence noticed us but we suspect they were aware of the cache and may even have been the cache owner.

Tranquillity

Took us a while to find this until a bit of greenery was moved. Didn't find any TBs. This was our 300th geocache find.

Margate Mosaic

We assumed that this would be a false mosaic or some where in the wall, but as we walked down Sandfly Rd the GPS started pointing back where we had just passed. We had seen a similar container to this so it did not take long to locate.

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