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North East Geocaching

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4- 7 December 2013 We went on a mini holiday, staying at a shack at Binalong Bay then drove through the northeast to Launceston, collecting a few caches on the way. Our final day was at the Tamar Wetlands where the extensive mudflats were a new experience for us. Geocachers Garden The grass was quite high so we opted to circuit to GZ on the rocks. Royal Garden The grass was wet after the rain and our shoes absorbed some, but the cache was not hard to locate. Left Princess TB and took two geocoins Fisherman's Memorial We had a look here although the bushes were very wet, but could not find the cache. Sloopy's Spa Bath Even from Jeanerette Beach we could see a distinct feature that we reckoned would be what had to be described to claim the cache. On reaching the actual cache site our assumption proved correct. It was high tide and anyone in the pool today would easily get swept out; we kept a big distance away. Dragon of Information The eyesight read the word "rear...

Binalong in the wet and dry

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On a trip to Binalong Bay our hope of accumulating the maximum planned caches was thwarted by a day of almost nonstop rain, but fortunately the second full day was fine and gradually improved ending in a lovely sunny afternoon. In fact it became so pleasant it enticed us back to the Binalong Bay Café for a coffee and delicious berry tart As well as us we also had six helpers and this came in very handy with a couple of them being quite enthusiastic. A walk to Grants Point had us scoring eight caches and before driving home on the final morning we collected a four more, as well as dropping off a moveable cache to a new spot. 26 May 2012 This was a walk from the shack south along the Binalong Bay beach to Grants Point. Grant Us Peace. . .and a More Challenging Find Our first and as previous logs indicated a quite trickily hidden cache. The clue helped pinpoint the spot, but it had nearly all of us searching until Dave thought he would try a more obscure spot and bingo it revealed t...