Geocaching

Tuesday 12 February 2013 The hint for Organ Pipes was up beside a large rock but after going to Devil of a good time! and the rocks there this was not an ordeal. Whilst up signing the log four fellows went by and they were at the seat further down the track when I got there. One of them said that I was in front of them before, so how come they got in front. So I told them about geocaching. The rock beside the track mentioned in the hint, in this case it is the view from the cache site.

Tuesday 12 February 2013 Devil of a good time! Sue had been to Devils Gulch once before and was not at all keen on going there again, so she was happy to drop me off at The Springs.    The walk was a bit more adventurous than it needed to be and at one stage I thought Barad wouldn’t be pleased with the route I chose if he had been able to come on the walk.  As I departed from The Springs two Asian girls asked if they could follow to the top of the mountain.   I told them I wasn’t going the way they would need to and thought to myself they would be in for one hell of a shock at the boulders ahead if they did go my way.  Anyway I took them to the start of the Pinnacle track and gave them some brief directions.  Snow gum trunk Ice House Track     With that I turned left and headed for the Ice House track.   A bit over an hour later (70 minutes actually, so somewhat off Reborn’s pace) I was overlooking the cache area.  I...

Monday 11 February 2013 On this occasion it was the Pipeline from Neika to Ferntree. Our intention was go the reverse way but, with a bushfire meeting for locals, there was no parking left. However this turned out for the best because we stopped at the Wildside Café at Fern Tree for lunch before making the return walk.   PTPT The three "P's" This was our second attempt on this one, but this time some disturbed dirt looked suspicious, so it was quickly found on this visit.   PTPT Rocky Mountain Looked on the wrong side at first then Peter spotted a suspicious object.   PTPT - Fern Glade Lots and lots of muggles as we reached GZ but luckily all was quiet when the search started. After a couple of false attempts a reread of the description brought success.   Falling Silver Well we looked and searched where we reckoned it would be, but without success. Perusal of old logs at home suggest we may have looked in the correct spot but not closely enough.   PTP...

Saturday 2 February 2013 We had been out Mount Connection a year ago but since then a new cache had been placed there. It is always nice to visit Connection and most enjoyable wandering along the top which has a mixture of snow gums and lots of Orites revolutus, but there is always enough open ground to avoid pushing through scrub. Whist in the area we went along the scrubbier ridge top to Tom Thumb. Early on during the morning a very light shower started, but it wasn’t an omen for the day as it turned out quite pleasant with sun and a bit of cloud, and although it got warm it was never too hot for comfort.   The Lectern Although we have been on Mount Connection many times we have always stopped on the small rocky top about 60 metres before this cache site. We had some friends today who helped in the search and it was Sabine who found the hiding spot. Searching for the cache   With the cache   Wellington Peaks B - Tiny Tom Once on top the GPS still had a bit of di ...

Saturday 26 January 2013 We were going to the Salamanca Market and decoded to look for a few caches in the area. After parking in battery point our path took us through Princess Park and we made a diversion to St Davids Park and also around the waterfront. This route brought us to close to several caches.   Nelson's signal Worked out stage one for this on way. Remainder will have to wait another day when we are in the second stage area. Antarctica TB Transit Lounge This was reached with very few people nearby, despite it being market day. Sue had the container spotted as a little bit was visible. Although lots of travel bugs were listed they had all gone. We left a car trackable and covered the container well.   Hobart City - Scratchie exchange On reaching the top end of the market we branched off to look for this and the GPS took us to what looked the likely spot going on the hint. However as we got close the seats were all being used and no one appeared to be likely to ...

Thursday 24 January 2013 Powerful Chemical Conundrum 12 After reading that this area has an endangered plant (Velleia paradoxa) we decided it might be a good spot to place a cache.  The first thing to do though was locate where the Barad Bunch cache lay so we could be the requisite distance away.   On reading the description we realised that unless a map was taken and a compass we probably wouldn't be able to work out the first position needed. Our first excursion involved finding the poles and the numbers on them.  Peter didn't think to get a GPS reading of the position of the poles, so had to make the best estimate using Google Erath and some map software. Today we went over to the reserve again hopefully with location of the first container in the GPS.  As we arrived Peter discovered his paper with the information and for writing any further clues had been left behind. The GPS  brought us reasonably close and after circling round a bit, Sue called out ...

Tuesday 22 January 2013 The option we chose to visit some caches along the ridges and peaks overlooking the North West Bay River was by riding our bikes along the Pipeline Track then walking circuit via Wellington Falls, Montagu Thumbs and Cathedral Rock. After parking the bikes the three of us, Barad Bunch, Dave a non geocacher and Peter set off on the well-built track to the falls, after that the rough track to the old Montagu fire trail was used. The last part of this is getting overgrown by Bauera as was parts of the old fire trail. There had been some overnight rain and the bushes were quite wet to push through. It was good going along the Thumbs cathedral ridge, although parts are starting to degrade from use, then down the zig zags to North West Bay River in the rain. After crossing we then struggled up the Siphon track, which is an almost unrelenting grunt for nearly 800 metres at a 1:3 gradient. No wonder we were tired by the time we got on our bikes for the return ride to Ne...