Kaoota

Wednesday 4 September 2013

We had decided to go for a walk along part of the Kaoota Tramways track and had assumed that this cache would be somewhere along the route.  After parking the car and starting off Peter realised that the GPS was saying that WP1 was back where the car was parked.   Once the info was collected and plugged into the GPS, it showed that the cache was not anywhere near the expected location.  Thinking that he must had inserted something wrong or made a miscalculation, Peter rechecked and in fact found he had used the B value where the A should be.  That should fix it he thought; but no it was still not where Peter imagined it would be.   A recheck and yes everything seemed to be entered correctly, so back to the compass and now it suddenly was suggesting the location was over 9,000 k away; whoops S had been inadvertently replaced by N.  Back to the compass and still thousands of kilometres away; whoops again W had got in instead of E.   Now with everything correct the blooming GPS still reckoned we had over a kilometre the other way to the cache.

After finally accepting that the cache was not placed along the Kaoota Tramway track, we completed the walk and then drove to GZ.   However the road was narrow and surely it wouldn't be where the GPS suggested.  200 metres up the road we found a wider spot to park and Peter set off with Dave in tow to check out the spot.  Like Peter, Sue thought the spot not likely and opted to stay in the car.  She was a bit surprised to learn GZ was correct.   

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