A Sunday! The great thing about this Sunday was that usually we have to try to fit as much in as we can before it is time to point for Hobart, whereas this Sunday we have to try to fit as much in as we can before it is time to point for the energizers’s place! YEAH!
First order of business was finding Come for a Walk Stoodley. Then we de-camped and found Santuary, which first thing on an early autumn morning was a bit misty and picturesque.  Loads of great sticks here too! Then it was off to Railton Gazebo – gggrrrrhhhhh!! Our first foiled-by-muggles attempt of the day! Strangely enough (as it is so close), at old rail town there was not a muggle to see, and we quickly scored that one. Then we quickly grabbed MOLLY (and was almost hit by an irresponsible driver as we turned off to get it!) on our way to brekkie in La Trobe.   Although we had started in decent time rather than sleeping in too much, we had a long, relaxing breakfast and touched base with the HandsomeMan to ensure he was on his way.
Next attempt was at A GOOD WALK SPOILED. The female slave looked and looked and looked, and all she found were 2 dead cats in the back of the bushes (not a bad result, but a DNF nonetheless). On to Allissons Lizard – or at least I hoped it would be. Female slave tried to get there from a few directions, but just couldn’t find the correct way. Ugh. After another 2 failed attempts at caches – and an attempt at 
Is Don Is Good (he isn’t – No Dogs Allowed), for some strange reason we headed to forthferalz country. As we left the hiway, we went past Another one rides the bus, but a feral was standing nearby waiting for the bus, so on we pushed. A quick stop and we scored down by the banks, and also found out Mrs energizer would be roasting a beast in my honour that night!! Woo-hoo – that ensures we won’t be late! Next was NON CORPUS MENTIS, which we didn’t find, however I enjoyed seeing Braddon’s, but didn’t find the cache. On our way back past Another one rides the bus, the feral had obviously found a lift, so we grabbed the cache from the hide we’d spotted on our way past earlier.Â
We then decided to do Back 2 the Beach, one that we’d been looking forward too. But oh, the muggles! The motorcyclists! We had to park a fair ways away, however the weather was nice although overcast and a leg stretch was just what I needed. We visited George and Ethel, who quickly revealed their secrets to us. Then we headed to GZ – and coordinates would have had us standing on it! Lovely little multi!
Now, I loved this and all the other caches we’d done so far, but I’d done several bush walks, camped, and all I had for company was the female slave and human muggles. So I couldn’t just rush away from this beach – there were DOGS DOGS and more DOGS. They were sandy, wet, smelly, happy dogs – and I wanted to be one of them! So before the female slave could tangle me up in that silly string, I grabbed a stick and waded in. Found some dog-loving muggles and made them my slaves. Had a BALL – both literally and figuratively. When I had had my fill of fun, we trekked back to the cacheMobile, hunted down a late lunch, then waited for the HandsomeMan to arrive. YEAH!!
We picked him up, then headed out of town. Quickly grabbed TOO MUCH INFORMATION #3 in amongst all the information the slaves were exchanging, then they gave me a short holiday from their presence while they did ON THE BEACH. And I’m glad I did sit this one out – there was a rather unfortunately looking nude muggle not far from the cache (why aren’t nudists every attractive?!). Our next find was ROCKWALL, where we thought we’d sighted another cacher because we spied someone with an eTrex yellow (but no one else has logged the cache for that day?), then on to BURIED TREASURE, which was a great hide but easily found once we approached it from the correct angle. We attempted TENNIS ANYONE #2, but only found empty beer cans (and wondered if there were that many beer cans where they emptied their bladders), then went to the location of A PICNIC AT THE POINT – but boy, it was no picnic! But with the Ulysses Club in town, anywhere vaguely camp-able was completely camped-out, so we quickly left.
We moved on to the next town and attempted BEAUTIFUL GARDENS, but soon became frustrated. We figured we had time to fit in one more bloody cache before we had to rush to get to the energizers on time, so we bloody well found NOT ANOTHER BLOODY VIEW.
The female slave had trouble doing it, but she left the GPSr off after that, and we made it to energizer HQ 3 minutes ahead of our deadline (whew!) only to find that the mr had given us the wrong time and Mrs energizer had been keeping dinner warm for us (roast beast yeah!). Somehow they didn’t quite get that Ellie and I should eat FIRST and humans are welcome to OUR leftovers, but we had a lovely meal and I did my best not to let Ellie treat me like a guest (i.e. I decided to exert my seniority and experience and take over).
Mr energizer is one of the truly fantastic hosts of all time, so after dinner and a bit of a chin-wag, he found some excuse to go to the shops. . .and the slaves and lil miss energizer happened to fall into the vehicle with him, and strangely enough the GPSr was there too. . . and so through the goodness of mr energizer we were at Throwing Deficiency (#10) at just the right time of day. Next we hit OH NO NOT MORE ROCKS!!, but alas were unable to find it – and we lost the last light of day at this point. Off we went to P Foul, and although the HandsomeMan was stung, we found it in the end. Next we attempted Crowning Jewel – but not only were we unable to find this one, but mr energizer checked and it was not were he had found it. But the views certainly are lovely of an evening! It was now too late to even pretend we could see anything, so although we drove past wed didn’t even attempt DUCKS WITH BALLS. Mr energizer made a quick stop at the shop to justify having gone out, and back we all were at home. We quickly showed them some of our photos, they showed up some of theirs, and we chatted about the next day: The Day of The Aztec King. Although they’d been there more than once prior to caching, the energizers and the cachingdynamo hadn’t done The Aztec King since caching, so they said they might join us in the morning. The female slave scored a shower (hoping cleanliness might ameliorate the bizarre rash that was coming up on her arms), I went back to my cacheMobile with a much cleaner slave, and we all tried to ignore the pounding rain that we hitting our roof. . .