Second visit to the Huon in a week

Wednesday , 30 April 2014

After running out of time two days earlier and with a pleasant weather prediction, we headed off to do the caches that had been planned for the previous trip, plus some more. But it took us so long walking and searching that we ended up still being at Ranelagh after 1 PM and bought lunch at Summer Kitchen baker. It advertises as an organic business and the food and coffee were tasty.

Save a cowboy Ride a ???

A light shower was falling, but Sue was able to hop out and quickly bring it back to the car for signing.

One Lane Creek 4

Looked where the GPS and logic said, but no sign of it.

4 Corners-2

Found one in this series before so went straight to the the right spot.

One Lane Creek 3

Peter went north side and kept his shoes dry, whilst Sue encountered long wet grass on the south approach. The log was so wet it was impossible to sign. Actually on first sighting Peter was none too sure that this wasn’t just some an old discarded object rather than the cache container.

It's Showtime

Went inside at first before discovering the mistake.

Surprise!

The park was under maintenance and we had it to ourselves, but no luck.

It's noisy's cache

Went to wrong match to hint, then spotted closer to the river.

Mosquito Point

Looked for what was long enough.

Bell Tower

Finally one that was a cinch today.

Kids Matter

Thought heck why can't we see it and then started searching where we thought was just only discarded stuff.

One Lane Creek

Found thanks to the log suggesting to look up as we had been at the location but only had looked down. Not sure about the singed bit but the object certainly is still standing , but days are numbered. Had to delve quite a bit too.

Scenic Valley

Good view but couldn’t see anything matching the hint.

Who Knew?

Sue saw it and said "you can get this one".

WOOD CARVING WONDERS

Only spotted when walking in the right direction. The TB was not present.

Burning the Midnight Oil #2 Redneck

We think the calculation was correct but could not find any cache at the GZ we went to. There has been some disturbance where a new fence has been installed and it was clear of blackberries and a bit muddy near the bridge.

Muggle Invisibility test part Huon

It was 3:15 PM when we nabbed this and it helped having two people as one could block the view and we could also give the impression of discussing something, which of course we were. "do you think it might be there" etc. Sue pretended to tie her shoe laces whilst checking a likely spot; which proved to be correct.

4 Corners-1

We noticed the last log was a not found and we only made a quick search.

Caching Is Not Dead 1

Amazing how you don’t see it then after wonder how you missed. We kept looking near the berries (Billardiera) after reading the previous log and were about to give up when Sue spotted the container. Thought we were about to finish our day on a low note, but instead managed a high one.

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