Watched by:
Chwiliwr, Elmofreak, Ian&Sue - Team Pathfinder, Ideology & Lyn Pat and Nathan |
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Logged Visits:  3
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Description
The Cache is not located at the above stated co-ordinates.
Your first co-ordinate will be here LiHe.HF.BeBBe / HHB.BeC.BeZn
To find the cache will require you carry a few 'extra' items.
You'll need to carry a compass, a nine volt battery, 1 litre of water (not for drinking), a piece of string 1 meter long, and a piece of cardboard 15x15cm (or book ... something stiff) .
OK once you have the starting point the carpark can be found less than 100 meters from the start ... it will be obvious on your arrival.
Expect a walk through the bush on sandy tracks for approx. 2 hrs (return to your vehicle) and there are 13 waypoints/puzzles to work out before the cache will be revealed.
Logs
October 2005
8th
We went and checked this one out last weekend and some of the waypoints were a little worse for wear and the hidden cache unfortunately was never discovered. For those that did attempt it the photo at waypoint five which indicated you were heading the wrong way had a sign in the background with co-ords to the hidden cache. Within that box was a tapedeck which required the 9 volt battery to find the co-ord's to the hidden extra cache.
Keep it in mind we may re use that idea on another cache in the future. But for now we'll archive this one due to the constant repairs that made this one a lot of work to maintain.
Keep it in mind we may re use that idea on another cache in the future. But for now we'll archive this one due to the constant repairs that made this one a lot of work to maintain.
June 2005
28th
After forgetting to bring my cache notes and folder I decided to continue and see what came of it. I began with only the start coords, and came up smiling. Many of the puzzles were found to be damp from recent rains, but I was able to work them out with patience. This is a great walk with a beaut twist at the end - good work Mike. T: trouble lamp and a cache card, L: fuse set and a calling card. Thanks for the exercise (mind and physical) and the cache - keep up the good work!
April 2005
17th
After a stirling effort last night decided we needed a head clearing walk. Bear Lefts log seem to indicate this was up our ally.
Parked at the suggested spot and read the signs on the gates.
Hmmm We are looking for an ammo container in an area marked as having unexploded ordinance. Well we trusted TLC to keep us safe and off we went.
We felt the same as Bear Left with a little anticipation building over the first couple of waypoints as to what would happen next. However we were not as disapointed as our purpose was a cache and a walk. As we twisted and turned our way through the area we are quite grateful for the waypoints to lead us around. You will be pleased to know that we checked out every waypoint for you.
For those that want to know the distance travelled was about 7.2 kilometres and took us 2 hrs 50 minutes to complete.
Not a dispointment at all. We did three other caches on the way down. Now there were some disapointments. Thanks for a good afternoon out.
Oh we took nothing and left a Buzz Lightyear pencil case.
Parked at the suggested spot and read the signs on the gates.
Hmmm We are looking for an ammo container in an area marked as having unexploded ordinance. Well we trusted TLC to keep us safe and off we went.
We felt the same as Bear Left with a little anticipation building over the first couple of waypoints as to what would happen next. However we were not as disapointed as our purpose was a cache and a walk. As we twisted and turned our way through the area we are quite grateful for the waypoints to lead us around. You will be pleased to know that we checked out every waypoint for you.
For those that want to know the distance travelled was about 7.2 kilometres and took us 2 hrs 50 minutes to complete.
Not a dispointment at all. We did three other caches on the way down. Now there were some disapointments. Thanks for a good afternoon out.
Oh we took nothing and left a Buzz Lightyear pencil case.
March 2005
19th
(Mama Bear hadn't yet found the box with her hiking boots in, and there was some housework to do, so Papa Bear was allowed out on his own to do this one.)
I saw another car pull up next to the start point and went over to say hello, but they were model plane flyers, not cachers (luckily I hadn't said anything too stupid... "G'Day, I'm Papa Bear_Left! Who are you? Red Roo? Devar? Elmofreak?"
The first puzzle waypoint was nifty, and the next one was also fun. Unfortunately, the next waypoint was much the same, as was the one after it, then the next, and the next, and the next...
My mood wasn't improved by a keying error I made (at the longest section, of course) that caused me to walk an extra 2km or so, at about the same time as my water ran out. Waypoint 8 seemed to be missing, but I found where it had fallen and repaired it, before trudging on to the next identical waypoint.
Wherever possible I got off the track, since walking in soft sand is _tiring_ to someone like me who displaces the odd grain or two!
I bush-bashed one section along kangaroo tracks, just for some variety, then finally got to waypoint 13. It was a little different in content, if not in form, and the cache was very soon found after that.
You won't need all of the items, but don't leave out the card/book; you _will_ need that a lot! And, as always in the bush, carry plenty of water.
I appreciate the effort that went into this, but waypoints just for the sake of them get old fast, and I guess my expectations had been raised by the intriguing list of required props. I've done a couple of "MacGyver"-themed caches and was sort of expecting this to be along those lines, but it was more of a bushwalk than a puzzle series.
You'll also need to be a lot fitter than me to walk this in two hours! Unless you're a keen bushwalker, allow more like three, or even more.
I took the FTF card for our collection, but made no swaps.
I saw another car pull up next to the start point and went over to say hello, but they were model plane flyers, not cachers (luckily I hadn't said anything too stupid... "G'Day, I'm Papa Bear_Left! Who are you? Red Roo? Devar? Elmofreak?"
The first puzzle waypoint was nifty, and the next one was also fun. Unfortunately, the next waypoint was much the same, as was the one after it, then the next, and the next, and the next...
My mood wasn't improved by a keying error I made (at the longest section, of course) that caused me to walk an extra 2km or so, at about the same time as my water ran out. Waypoint 8 seemed to be missing, but I found where it had fallen and repaired it, before trudging on to the next identical waypoint.
Wherever possible I got off the track, since walking in soft sand is _tiring_ to someone like me who displaces the odd grain or two!
I bush-bashed one section along kangaroo tracks, just for some variety, then finally got to waypoint 13. It was a little different in content, if not in form, and the cache was very soon found after that.
You won't need all of the items, but don't leave out the card/book; you _will_ need that a lot! And, as always in the bush, carry plenty of water.
I appreciate the effort that went into this, but waypoints just for the sake of them get old fast, and I guess my expectations had been raised by the intriguing list of required props. I've done a couple of "MacGyver"-themed caches and was sort of expecting this to be along those lines, but it was more of a bushwalk than a puzzle series.
You'll also need to be a lot fitter than me to walk this in two hours! Unless you're a keen bushwalker, allow more like three, or even more.
I took the FTF card for our collection, but made no swaps.