Heading North

Driving the Midlands HighwayI’ve been meaning to inflict myself for the weekend on MullinitOvr for ages.  Usually when I’m staying with her in Launceston I’m up for work and we can only get in some night caching.  So Lottie and I headed north after I’d finished work on Friday for a weekend of caching up and down the Tamar.  The drive up was beautiful – as always – and I arrived around sunset.  MullinitOvr soon had dinner served, and afterwards we were checking to see if anything new had been published we needed to add to our list of caches for the next day.  Hmm. . .no one has yet claimed a FTF on a cache a mere half hour away. . .it really would be silly to try for it – or would it?  Well try we did, and Snuva chocked up another FTF.  We did a few more caches on the way home, in the moonlight and fog, and were especailly pleased to get the long-time nemesis HOW GREEN IS MY COW found! 

Here are my logs and a map (although Google Maps fibs; we went up and back the West Tamar, however I couldn’t be bothered correcting it! 😉 ):

HOW ABOUT A PICNIC

Cache Details
GC1NG33 by FLANGE_1&TRIBE
S 41° 14.896 E 146° 56.349
Difficulty is 2 and Terrain is 1.5
Cache type is Traditional
Container size is Micro
It was hidden on: 9/03/2009
Snuva found it on: 13/03/2009
My Log
Earlier in the week, as MullinitOvr & I were chatting about Lottie and I coming up to cache on the weekend, we noted that FLANGE_1&TRIBE was still getting a few more caches out for us to find. As the week progressed, I was amazed to see this had not yet been found. Where’s Mad Chilli? What’s CraigRat doing letting a FTF go in his back garden?Then here it was, Friday night, and no one had admitted to finding this one yet. MullinitOvr and I could either have stayed at home an chatted, or headed out to do a bit of caching. First we headed to the shops to get some supplies, and obviously the Northern geocaching spies were out: we bumped into michaels mob. I let him know we were going out caching (I didn’t really have an option as he wouldn’t have believed anything else of me) but failed to mention we were on a FTF mission. You never know with michael and the mob. . .So we arrived at GZ on a foggy night, with an almost full moon just peeping through the mists. MullinitOvr even had torches. . .we approached GZ. . .and we gotcha!! An easy FTF sometime after 10 pm!!!Thank you for the cache.

GRAVEL PARK

Cache Details
GC1K03T by FLANGE_1&TRIBE
S 41° 17.626 E 146° 58.229
Difficulty is 2 and Terrain is 2
Cache type is Traditional
Container size is Small
It was hidden on: 20/12/2008
Snuva found it on: 13/03/2009
My Log
2nd find for me as MullinitOvr and I celebrated Friday the 13th with a little night caching! This one was fun to do in the dark: Lottie was most impressed with the fine smells and the wallabies bouncing around in the darkness.Thank you for the cache.

Look! More boats

Cache Details
GC1M96P by MullinitOvr
S 41° 19.282 E 146° 59.268
Difficulty is 1 and Terrain is 2
Cache type is Traditional
Container size is Small
It was hidden on: 1/02/2009
Snuva found it on: 13/03/2009
My Log
3rd find of the evening. I came up to Loonie after work, then after a yummy dinner cooked by MullinitOvr we haeded out to celebrate Friday the 13th with some night caching. Unfortunately I there wasn’t much to see when you had a ‘Look!’ tonight as there was fog and darkness, however I did find the cache!Thank you for the cache!

WETLANDS

Cache Details
GC1K03K by FLANGE_1&TRIBE
S 41° 23.456 E 147° 04.420
Difficulty is 1.5 and Terrain is 1.5
Cache type is Traditional
Container size is Small
It was hidden on: 20/12/2008
Snuva found it on: 13/03/2009
My Log
4th find of the evening. I came up to Loonie after work, then after a yummy dinner cooked by MullinitOvr we haeded out to celebrate Friday the 13th with some night caching. It took a while for me to find this one, and I think other should beware of a certain plant that looked inconspicuous by the light of the torch but which actually takes great pleasure in inserting prickles into the body of cachers. Found the cache, logged it, and, under advice from the cache’s FTF, I rehide it in the spot it had originally been hidden.Thank you for the cache!

HOW GREEN IS MY COW

Cache Details
GA1008 by robtas
S 41° 25.787 E 147° 07.955
Difficulty is 1.5 and Terrain is 1
Cache type is Traditional
Container size is Regular
It was hidden on: 21/02/2008
Snuva found it on: 13/03/2009
My Log
Last find of an evening’s night caching. I must say we were happy to find this after having DNFed ages ago. Thank you for the cache.

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