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Found ‘Nice and close to home’ geocache

A successfull morning of geocaching yesterday (for a change). We found GCJWPY.

We set off at about 10am and were hoping to do a couple of geocaches as I thought this one may be quick since it was only 1.8km from our house and we were familiar with the bushwalks in the reserve. However, we missed the path on our first try and came out to go further down the road and bach into the bush by a different route. We ended up about 20 metres from the cache on the wrong side of the creek, but since it was Jamie (3 yrs), Ethan (1 yr) in a stroller and just myself, we had to admit defeat.

So we went back into the bush and walked a more familiar route to the waterfall and bridges. Which was very enjoyable as Jamie loves this bushwalk.

On the way back, we decided to have another go at the cache since we were certain it was on this side of the creek. We ended up at the original spot where we turned back and noticed that the path veered right up the hill and that we had not even seen this the first time we went in.

We followed the path. We had never been down here before so it was pleasant to see this part of the bush. After negotiating some tricky sets of stairs with the stroller, we came to ground zero (which was about 30m off, but bigfatrob had warned of this at geocaching.com).

After about 5-10 minutes, Jamie found the cache in a well hidden spot. After clearing the cobwebs, we reached in and retired to the manhole cover to inspect the treasure. At this point a muggle came jogging along with his dog. I had to quickly ’stash the cache’ in the top of the stroller and then try to re-arrange ourselves so that the muggle (and his dog) could get around our encampment.

Jamie decided to take the golf ball and magnifying glass, and we left a number 5 birthday candle.

Progress out of the bush was pretty slow, as Jamie want to look at everything through his new magnifying glass!

On the way back we found a bridge that went accross the creek into the paddock behind the houses on Eskdale Road. This was pretty handy as we then did not have to negotiate the tricky stairs.

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