There’s been a whole lot of silence here, first while I was planning our trip to Japan, then during the trip, and now while I’m sorting through photos and transcribing our journal entries from the trip. So here’s a very…
Category: Geocaching
8 Hours Day Long Weekend
This year the 8 Hours Day long weekend (labour day) was 7 – 9 March. Although we didn’t go anywhere (originally we were planning a small trip to Melbourne and Canberra), we had some fun each day. Saturday started as…
11 Years of Geocaching
I was at a geocaching event this morning, and it occurred to me that I’ve been geocaching for almost 11 years. One of the other cachers asked me how geocaching has changed over the years, and in my head I’ve…
Pipeline Track Power Trail
Tuesday Eskil and I had a FANTASTIC time bushwalking and geocaching along the Pipeline Track Power Trail with Cathy of Fairly Magic. I was able to have a marvelous chin-wag with someone old enough to talk back, and Eskil was…
SW VIC 2010 Day 3: 12 of 12, November 2010
This 12 of 12 is a little different as my husband and I were in the middle of a long weekend camping in south west Victoria on the Australian mainland (rather than Hobart, Tasmania, where most of my 12 of…
SW VIC 2010 Day 2: The Great Ocean Road
We woke up and got moving fairly slowly. We weren’t in Anglesea for brekkie until about 9 am. At Anglesea we ate at a bakery (which was INSANELY cheap!), but the best part of the town that we saw were…
SW VIC 2010 Day 1: Ikea Meet-Ups
Emails about cheap flights that I receive while bored in my office are a bad thing. Sometimes they make me do rash and spontaneous things, such as book flights to Melbourne for Scott and I. Which I did! Of course then…
10 Years of Geocaching
On 3 May 2010, it is 10 years since the world’s first geocache was hidden by Dave Ulmer. To celebrate, 10 Years! events are being held all over the world. pjamesk listed the event for Hobart, however as work took…
Myrtle Forest
The plan was to head up to the trigpoint and cache on Mt Marion / Sleeping Beauty, leaving from Myrtle Forest near Collinsvale. The weather forecast said temperatures would be in the 30s, which is hotter than we like to do a…
Hidden Huts
Mount Wellington has many hidden secrets. We’ve discovered a few of these over the years, but today we visited two hidden treasures we’d not yet been to and have been meaning to visit for years: two mountain huts. As you…