Seven Mile Sojourn

Saturday, 13 July 2013

It was a most pleasant day with lots of sun out Seven Mile way and we did a circuit from the south east corner to the end of the airport and back through pine plantations. Originally it was thought that the caches at Five Mile Beach might be included, but once back at the car we decided we had expended enough energy already for the day.

11.265 Kilometre View

Went too far along the coast as it would have been a slippery ascend if we followed the GPS, so had to backtrack about 20 metres to pick up a pad. The cache was found at the spot the GPS indicated. On return we ascended a bit further and used the fairly newly gravelled walking track back to the beach. This was our 450th cache, excluding the Aust site ones.

Pining For Mum

Found the log on the ground beside a cut down pine, but no sign of the container. We didn’t have a spare one but put the log in a plastic bag and placed it under a quite large log chip beside the stump.

See Smells By The Sea Shore

A bit of searching went on then we returned to our first spot and Sue, with the help of a stick, revealed the cache.

TIAGARA TRAIL

After emerging from the pines after a couple of the Fir Trees series we walked along the road then a track beside the golf club until a junction with a narrow track. Shortly down this we started searching, then with the description and hint carefully considered, soon revealed the container.

2008 Amongst the Fir Trees

Did a direct line from 2006 Fir until a track was met then when getting close again had to weave to this spot. Once there it was fairly quick to find.

2006 Amongst the Fir Trees

We had lunch ion the top of a dune opposite the pine plantation and debated which would be best approach. The edge seemed to be quite thick with young and old pines, but then a gap looked OK and once through we discovered it was quite open going under the canopy. The GPS eventually brought us to a spot with a bit of tinsel and we knew it had led us well. The geocoin recorded as here wasn't found.

HB VOR

On getting close, as we walked along beside the road, a spot matching the hint was seen and as we have previously found hides of this nature it made for the quickest find for the day. Soon after leaving for our return walk we heard a roar and stood and marvelled at the site of a passenger jet taking off. Whilst having lunch it bit further along we watched two more take off and swoop up close above.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Off to the Thumbs

Image
Wednesday 27 June 2012 Well the weather was just ideal for a bushwalk to the Three Thumbs and to collect a few geocaches during the trip. However, the geocaching part looked a bit shaky as Peter’s GPS did not display any in the area. A later check at home showed the records were on the GPS and when overwritten with a new copy they displayed OK; puzzling! All was not lost because Barad Bunch had notes on the caches and the grid on his GPS. This enabled us to locate the one near the cars. After morning tea at the lookout over Maria Island we commenced the walk to the Three Thumbs. Shady spots had plenty of frost but a fair bit of the way was along the tops of the main ridge and in the sun. Eventually we w ere on the highest peak, presumably the third Thumb and also what we presumed would be the hiding placed of the “ Three Thumbs Up ” geocache. But when Barad checked his GPS it indicated it was over 400 metres away on the peak previous climbed and descended from. Oh well that would have
Read more

Freycinet Bushwalk

Image
3 – 5 October 2012 As we were going on a bushwalk to Freycinet Peninsula the potential geocache finds in the area were checked and several were close to our route. We went for three days, camping at Cooks Beach for both nights and heading down to a rocky peak beyond Passage Beach. Graham (Graham51) was with us although he took the longer return option over Mount Graham where he also managed to locate a cache on his journey. On the way back in the car we picked up a couple in the region. Top of the Pass Our first for the day, located by Graham, and although a few muggles were about none took much notice of us,   Half empty or half full ? We dropped our packs and with two people holding GPS’s and three heading to GZ it was surprising how little attention the muggles paid to our activity. One looked up for a while but soon turned back to look at the scenery elsewhere.   Blue Champagne Our objective for the days bushwalk was the southern peak on the Freycinet Peninsula above point Geo
Read more

Frogs and Water

We knew that " Swimming Hole " was a cache not far from home and finally decided to seek it. Earlier in the week we had picked up " Spot the Frog ", a moveable cache found under the Geocache Australia website and needed to deposit the little fellow somewhere. As frogs like water and this one had spent a few months on a dry hillside it seemed appropriate to lodge near a creek, so finding "Swimming Hole" was combined with the task. We could work out the starting spot even without a GPS and soon had the next stage entered in the GPS. Much to Peter's surprise it led us back down rather than up the creek and we ended beside a fence. A bit of searching and head scratching saw us give up for now and head off to lodge our little froggy. On return home Sue scanned through past logs and discovered several people also ended up where we did and then found this was several metres out. This has encouraged us to head back to the GZ soon and to ignore the GPS for on
Read more