Usually Hobart Show Day, which falls on a Thursday, is our chance to have a springtime 4 day weekend for camping and caching. This year things didn’t quite work out that way. Scott’s in Adelaide (where his father is in hospital), and I’m hosting a geocache event on Saturday. Lottie and I could have gone away just for Thursday / Friday, however as Scott is away the BBQ for the event is already in the cacheMobile. A bit awkward for camping!
So the plan was that Lottie and I would head up the Derwent Valley; there are some walks/caches around New Norfolk we haven’t hit yet. I was taking my time over coffee, waking up gently, when I received an email for a new cacher, Roehm, who was having trouble getting a cache published as I also have caches in the area. One of them was temporarily archived, so he was contacting me to see if I wanted to give up the spot. I actually already had my container mostly ready so didn’t want to give up the spot, so we agreed to meet up. I don’t want to give away his new hide as it still hasn’t been published, however I liked his hide and what he was trying to do with the cache, so agreed to move mine. It was nice meeting another newbie, and best of all (of course) Lottie had a blast as we walked back and forth. We were near the water, so she got plenty muddy and smelly. Happiness!
While the paint was drying on the new container, I gave Lottie a much needed bath then we went around in the car while she dried. We tried checking out Anaconda (which had closed early for Show Day just before we got there), did some scouting for another of my temporarily disabled caches, did some footwork for a puzzle, then did two traditionals. The trads were easy ones I’d sort of been ‘saving’ for when I had little time but wanted a find, but as I wasn’t going to get to New Norfolk I thought I may as well do them.
I re-worked my hide to a new multi, set it, wrote up the listing, and then another Hobart Show Day was finished.