Sommers and Flinders Bays


Tuesday , 28 June 2016
A Monumental Expedition
We could remember getting a cache here before and discovered this was a replacement. We thought we would have a coffee at the café but it was closed on a Tuesday.
Conical chronicle
Noticed a track to the shore but then found this was not the ideal way at all but once a better approach pad was found it was much easier.  Left a TB.
First time we have seen one of this type of container which was nice and dry inside so must seal up well.
Vee to me
Spotted location, but was busy looking for State Permanent Marker and didn’t check it at first. Although the cache was found the marker wasn’t.
Somflin #1
Easy enough to find as was expected for this first one of the series.
Somflin #2
Did not tax us too much as it did not require any calculations.
Somflin #3
Calculation was fairly straight forward and it didn’t take long.
Somflin #4
Bit of scrub, which may well have grown up since cache was placed, so it took a bit of work to get to the final location.
Somflin #5
There was a bit of learning that Peter had to do the get the direction right, but a valuable lesson. Took us a longer than it should have.
Somflin #6
Almost gave up, especially Peter who was calling it quits, but Sue ventured a bit further and found it, her GPS was reading at a 10+ difference to the  somewhat differently to the note.
Somflin #7
After the last couple we were happy that it didn’t take us long to locate.
Somflin #8
Most likely made a blunder on the direction to the hiding place and ended in very wet thick scrub.  This was enough to decide to call it quits and leave.

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