Geocaching

Friday 22 March 2013 With New Town bay #4 back on line we decided to do a loop walk through Lutana to Prince of Wales Bay and back via Moonah. A 7 kilometre walk. Lutana is an area we hadn't walked through before and we got a surprise to find a pocket of houses all with that rough cement rendering that was used 50 years ago or more. Some were single story and others double and were probably built by the zinc works for employees. New Town Bay #4 After learning this was back online we went to complete the series. Took a while to get the removal implement working at the right spot. But once we had it there was a new log. Not Winnie the Pooh On approaching the site we realised why the name was chosen. Spotted a likely hiding place but had a bit of delay getting into it. Eventually a stick helped get things moving.  Sherlock Holmes 1 There were plenty of nearby muggles, including one fellow a couple of properties away watching closely. We figured that it was likely he knew about the ...

Tuesday 19 March 2013 There was multiple purposes in going for a walk to Collins Cap. The bushwalk to the summit is a nice walk and of course there was the cache to collect. The third reason was to see what destruction had occurred as a result of the fire there in January and how it had effected the track work the Wellington Park Bushcare Group had done there during the last part of 2012. Ironically the fire had burnt much of the area where the track had been cleared and left the uncut section untouched. Wellington Peaks C - Cap it Off The GPS was followed up the peak branching off the actual track early then down to the spot described. There was a log entry from a muggle who indicated they discovered it by accident, but were happy to go a long with it all and record their entry as a finder. A group from Pandani bushwalking club arrived on top soon after we found the cache and while Greg and Peter were busy with the geocaching exercise, Shirley had to explain why we were off down ...

Monday 11 March 2013  An afternoon circling the Domain, starting with what we thought was a pretty smart start with the unusual "Batteries Not Included" cache. However although we thought we had things correct, it seems that was not the case as it ended in taking lots of time and frustration. The remainder of the day was successful with a mixed bag of caches. Batteries Not Included We thought all was really going well after discovering the initial container and having an item to make things work. However the GZ didn't seem right and certainly didn't fit the spot that other logs mentioned. After more searching we went on to other geocaches and as our car was parked nearby, decided to go back to the start. This time we found more combinations that seemed to give a response, but still didn't get the confirmation expected. Nevertheless we went back to what was now several potential GZs, but failed to find anything at any. We must have missed a vital clue somewhere i...