KSCP - WOTTON SCRUB Carey Gully, South Australia, Australia
By four-fun on 10-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10468

We've walked through this part of the park a few times now, and even on a warm day it's still a nice experience.

Arriving at my calculated GZ I could find no trace of a cache. I headed closer toward the large tree nearby, and after checking a few likely spots, soon had the well-made cache in hand for the logging ceremony.

We see this cache is about to be transferred into Minotaur's control.

Thanks four-fun.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found It!
I solved this one last night without much trouble. After the nearby event today I went for a walk and found the cache! I walked though here a couple years back for a chirp cache...
TFTC

Planning for this trip began in June - we knew we would be heading to Adelaide but which way would we go? This depended on our targets. We looked at our list of unclaimed Dragon Zone trophies and picked out several that we could feasibly collect the required number of finds to qualify for the trophy. We then had to identify caches that would meet our targets and from here it was time to plan a route that would take us past the caches we had identified. Any caches too far off our route were discarded and replaced by suitable alternatives.

All was running smoothly until the Christmas in July game was announced. We would be travelling in the latter part of the game. It was difficult to include this in our target caches as we did not know what was required. Once the game began and we understood what we needed to do we could then add other caches to the target list.

We were just getting our heads, yes all four of them, around this when more Dragon Zone trophies were added. Which ones could we meet and which should we ignore? Do we need to add more GA caches and/or do we need to change our route and our targets? We decided on our target list and then our route and timeline. We had just drawn a line under everything and were about to begin printing our caching booklets, route maps and target lists when caught@work published 23 new caches on the Western Ring Path. Earlier we had decided on the caches in the Edgewater Walk series. If we added the new ones on the Western Ring Path and as many of the CCC series as possible, we could probably reach the required number of caches to qualify for the Dragon Zone trophies “Restraining Order Stalker” (Find 100 DZ caches hidden by the same cacher) and “Obsession!=Insanity” (find 50 DZ caches in a day). As the latter would give us our first Blaze Trophy, it was decided to alter everything to include the CCC series.Four Fun, in South Australia published five puzzle caches that would bring good points in the Christmas in July game. Can we solve the puzzles? A few more adjustments to the route and the caches to find list and we would be off.

Having successfully completed our Melbourne challenges and gained our first Blaize Dragon Zone trophy it was time to focus on the Christmas in July game and start on the Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park puzzle caches recently published by Four-Fun. Wotton Scrub was the first one we tackled.

The hint in the text identified the tool needed to decipher the message and after a little playing around to identify the additional input required, all was revealed.

With the final coordinates in the driving GPS we headed towards what we thought would be the start of a trail. We found ourselves going round in circles - we hadn't read the cache notes thoroughly, not a good idea if you are not familiar with the area. After a 20 minute wild goose chase one of the team decided to read the notes and lo and behold there was the suggested parking coordinate. GPS reset and we were soon there and off on the hunt.

We were enjoying the walk down the trail but became a little concerned as we appeared to be heading in the wrong direction. As the scrub was relatively sparse we considered taking a cross country route, something we would not consider in Tasmania as the under story growth in the Tasmanian bush tends to be thick and intertwined with blackberries. Common sense prevailed and we soon found a track junction that had us heading in the right direction. Another track change and a walk through the bush and we found a well hidden large cache container. Container and contents were in excellent condition and to our delight the log book was blank giving us a {FTF} at 10.40.

Thanks for the puzzle and cache Four-Fun and for bringing us to an area of the Adelaide Hills we had not visited before. We enjoyed the flora and fauna particularly the the frogs in the water pools and the parrots in the trees above. We will have to return when the wild flowers are out as this is a particularly beautiful area. Thanks also for a cache that will give us maximum points for a Christmas in July claim.

Ready to go, Happy Caching