Mango Madness - Mango Smoothie Livingstone, Northern Territory, Australia
By smoink on 12-Jul-18. Waypoint GC7TG18

We are archiving this geocache at the request of the cache owner.

Well my whirl wind tour of 5 states in 3 weeks has started and after reaching the SA border and now the NT border it was time to locate a few caches here or there as I won’t be doing that much caching on this trip as I’m with muggle friends.
We have finally reached another spot where we are staying for 4 nights this time to really enjoy the sights of Litchfield NP.
So after another casual night I got up early and headed off to Darwin for the day to find a select few caches and others as well.
Darwin just seems the same as from when I was last except the roads are getting better.

Thanks smoink TFTC.

Batchelor to Humpty Doo staying in the CMCA camp for 3 days
We had a few finds on the way, stopping where we could with the caravan on.
What a great way to tour the country following the geocaching trail.
Thanks to the CO for placing this cache

A return visit to Darwin with iluvtrekking, we were last here eleven years ago. Quick find while out and about. Thanks for the hide.

Travelling with richlink on a trip from Perth to Darwin and return via Alice, Adelaide, and the Nullarbor. Found on our first day in Darwin. TFTC.

Found it and our first travel bug!

Cache 9886 on 25 Mar 2023.

Greetings from the ACT! TikvaNZ and I are finally in Darwin after our initial plan to travel to Darwin in August 2020 was thwarted by COVID 19 travel coming to a grinding halt! Just here for the weekend, so focusing on different types, counties and a few different DT combinations!

Quick find on our way south this morning! Cache in good condition.

Thanks smoink for the cache and the fun!

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AngelG27 and I are finally in Darwin from Canberra for the weekend. This trip was originally booked for August 2020, so we are finally using up our travel credits. Today's focus was counties from Darwin to Katherine. A quick find here. Left TB. TFTC.

It's been awhile since we have been caching and this was a nice easy one for us. TFTC

Tftc! I like these “typical Northern Territory hides!”

Hapfkejkf

Another stop on our way between Katherine and Darwin, using the caches as a reason to stop and stretch our legs. Here's a nice cheesecake recipe to use those mangoes up ......................
Ingredients
BASE:
▢150 g / 5 oz Arnott's Marie Biscuits (17 crackers), or digestives, Graham Crackers or other plain sweet biscuit
▢100 g / 3.5 oz unsalted butter , melted
▢2 tbsp white sugar
MANGO:
▢700 g / 1.4 lb mango flesh (2 large mangoes) (Note 1)
FILLING:
▢4 1/2 tsp gelatin powder (Note 2)
▢1/2 cup / 125 ml cold tap water
▢500 g / 1 lb Philadelphia cream cheese, softened (2 blocks)
▢2/3 cup / 150g caster sugar (superfine white sugar)
▢300 ml / 10 oz whipping cream*
MANGO JELLY:
▢3/4 tsp gelatin powder (Note 2)
▢1/4 cup / 65 ml cold tap water
▢1 tbsp lemon juice
TOPPINGS (OPTIONAL):
▢300 ml / 10 oz whipping cream*
▢1 tbsp white sugar
▢1 tsp vanilla extract
▢1 large mango, cut into cubes
▢2 passionfruit
Instructions

CAKE PAN:
Use a 22 cm / 9" springform pan (or similar size). Turn the base UPSIDE DOWN (for ease of removal later).
Place a square sheet of baking paper on the base, then secure in springform pan (see video) with excess paper hanging out sides.
Grease sides with butter and line with paper.
BISCUIT BASE:
Blitz crackers into fine crumbs in a food processor.
Add butter and sugar, blitz until combined. Pour into prepared cake pan. Press down firmly - base only, not sides.
FILLING:
Put water in a heatproof bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over surface (don't dump in centre). Stir to partly dissolve. Set aside 5 minutes - it turns gelatinous.
Microwave 15 seconds on high x 2, stirring in between. Stir until dissolved (few tiny specks ok). Cool 5 minutes.
Place mango in food processor. Blitz until smooth.
Measure out 3/4 cup and reserve for mango jelly, set aside.
Add cream cheese, cream, sugar and gelatine mixture into food processor (2.5L/2.5qt/10 cup+ capacity - Note 3). Blitz for 30 seconds or so until smooth.
Pour into cake pan. Refrigerate 3+ hours until top is set.
MANGO JELLY:
Pour water into bowl, sprinkle over gelatin. Leave 5+ min. Microwave on high 2 x 10 sec, stir well until granules dissolved. Set aside 5 minutes to cool.
Place reserved mango puree (from step 4 under Filling) and lemon in a bowl. Pour over gelatin and whisk well.
Pour over cheesecake filling. Tilt cake around to spread.
Refrigerate 12 hours+.
Release pan sides, then use overhang paper to slide cheesecake onto serving plate. Then slide the paper out from under the cheesecake.
DECORATIONS:
Place cream, vanilla and sugar in a bowl. Whip until the cream is softy whipped.
Piled over the centre of the cheesecake.
Top with more chopped mango and passionfruit pulp. Serve and relish in praises!
Recipe Notes:
* Any cream that can be whipped is fine to use here. There are some creams which are for pouring only. The tub should say if the cream is for whipping.
1. You'll need 3 large mangoes for this recipe - 2 for the Filling / Jelly topping, and 1 for decorating. Or you can use 450ml / 15 oz mango puree (this is what 700g / 1.4 lb fresh mango purees into, ie volume pureed is less than the weight).
I really like using Honey Gold mangoes for this because the flesh is a beautiful intense deep orange colour and it's really sweet. But any mango will work - as long as it's ripe! (Tip: Calypso mangoes which are prob the most mass produced / best value here in Australia look beautiful on the outside but are the least mangoey )


Thanks smoink for the cache

On my way to Perth via Broome with a few detours for LGAs. TFTC.
A quick stop as I leave Darwin.

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Nice hide

TFTC I hadnt realised I didnt quite have completed the whole series, so a nice find today.

We've enjoyed our stay in Darwin and exploring the different locations. This is one of the caches we targeted and found. Heading south now. New log scroll added.

Stopped here with ilook4geo and found this cache which proved to be easy enough to find. Signed log with both names and replaced all where found. Best of all are just plain mangoes. Thanks go to smoink for placing this cache.

Found this cache together with goingplaces2. Cache located, log signed, all replaced, job done. TFTC.

TFTC. I use this smoothie recipe regularly. It is one of my favorites.

OCW jennyfromthefarm around Darwin, catching up on llgs today TFTC

Found this one on the trip from Batchelor to Jabiru. Getting the caches done super early in the morning really helped with the heat. The humidity is insane but it’s really when the sun is beating down on you that it’s hard going. Thanks for placing these caches TFTC

Found it but unfortunately log was wet so didn’t sign

Kids really enjoyed this find

Fount it

Found it

Took the kids Geocaching for the first time! They loved it

Found it

Today was an adventure down to Litchfoeld NP for the next leg in the Great Aussie Icon Hunt. It started off soooo good, until we got to about 8 klm from the turnoff and we hit the roadworks, blocking off both sides of the road and using traffic lights to control. 1 and half hours later we get to the turn off, passing about 5 caches due to the bumber to bumber traffic.

Picked up a few and also a couple of DNF's, but all good when we got to the Bitter Springs Tavern for lunch 3pm, and a cooling ale.

TFTC smoink
Total Cache Finds 11466

Easy find TFTC

TFTC, mango smoothie is one of my favourites. sooo yummy.

TFTC, bit moist inside and starting to get mouldy.

Tftc!

TFTC GJ.

Birthday day caching TFTC
Easy find

TFTC. Nice easy find. It “powers” you to keep going.

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Love a quick find!TFTC

TFTC.

Heading back to Darwin from Litchfield for a Supercar Race. TFTC

Great catch

Left a treasure

TFTC

A quick find on my way out to theDaly River. T4TC

Good cache! Did this one with no gps help, was a fun race between the wife and i converging on the cache at the same time.

Over from Perth to enjoy Darwin for a few days Today was a drive down to Litchfield NP with a few caches on the way... and a few on the way back This was one that I stopped off at, and another mango recipe stored away Tomorrow I am heading down to Adelaide River so hopefully I might just be able to complete the WFTM & MM series No problems here, it was another quick find. Thanks for placing these to break up this stretch of highway TFTC

The lynx effect!!! Almost got the whole series now. T4TC

Found

Found after a short search. Found it was easier to use GPS rather than phone due to coordinates jumping around on phone. TFTC

Nice one we left a toy w vcollection

found it TFTC

we are travelling for one year around Australia and sometimes we are looking about some geocache. This was one of the Caches we stopped, looking after and found them. Thank you very much for the Cache. You Show us another part of Australia !

Geowife and son out on a day trip to Litchfield NP and finding GC’s without me

Found it TFTC

Nice easy one.
Visited 3 TB.
Grabbed a TB.
TFTC

Heading to Katherine after work and stopped for this nice quick find. Left a TB. TFTC.

Last find for the day - Easter Sunday caching with a different kind of 'egg' hunt! Out n' about with DeFCoN_6, we decided to head to Adelaide River and complete a series of caches. We managed 25 inc. 1 DNF this being our 25/25
TFTC @smoink

Out and about with Kyms Adventure knocking off some caches on Easter Day ️ TFTC

Thanks for the fun find!

TFTC Got it - thanks ELouise80 for replacing ~Clammy~

Looked in all the obvious places - this one had as stumped for a bit until we found it randomly on the ground. Lucky we didn’t run over. Replaced where we thought it to be located.

Find 1936
Back in NT for a week and this one is close to whereI am staying. A quick one to locate. Log signed and all back safe again.
Thanks for putting this out there.

Our last find of this series on the way to Darwin. Have a friend to drop at the airport so no time left for anymore caching now. Tftc and placing this newish series.

Found Ok

Cool spot.. quick find.

Found it

Soo easy

Tftc

Lynx

Back in the Northern Territory heading up to Darwin. Caching along the way, makes our journey interesting, and the stops are great to have a stretch as well. This new little series have popped up since we were last here, so decided to get as many as we could on our way. Thanks smoink for placing and maintaining these caches for our enjoyment. We love mango, so the recipes are a bonus:-)

Found it the kids had a race to grab it

Today we targeted this series and started off doing the first of the series "Mango Madness" and collecting the required information for the mystery cache as we headed back towards Darwin.

Thanks smoink for creating this series and adding to our geocaching experience today. Left TB.

Found while out and about with corunnaroad on... quick find here and another to add to our cache finds for the day ... Love mango smoothies Thanks smoink

Enjoying the day with Doodle Bug Oz-here is another one crossed off the list. Thanks

Saw a number of new caches so said to myself go for it. Lucky number on the list back in my stride TFTC FTF

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