SOTN #09: Heading To the Homestead Cotter River, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By 2y'stassies on 10-Jan-18. Waypoint GA11398

Day 3 of the plunderage of the northwest of puzzle caches (and some normal ones...)
Found this one on our way home. Cache in excellent condition.
Thanks for hiding this cache and the series for us to find.

Swampy and I decided that we needed to continue our plunder of caches in the north west of the state. Countless hours were spent solving puzzles, planning routes and generally preparing for the onslaught. This was going to encompass caches both from GC and GCA. Thanks for placing this hide.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found with RLD4963. This was missing last time we drove along this road, so we were keen to visit again today.
Thanks for replacing and maintaining the cache. A nice quick find at GZ today.

An early start was required today to drive to Gretna to install some gear into a farmers tractor. Took the Lakes highway to save a bit of time. This didn't really work as there was ice and fog everywhere. Stopping for caches didn't really help the situation either.

Found easily enough signed log and returned to hiding place. TFTC

Hello 2y'stassies thanks for the cache.

Not too much trouble finding this one.

Found on Thursday 2 July 2020.

TFTC

Hello 2y'stassies and TFTC.
Thanks for the replacement. We missed this and the Kosciuszko cache on our last trip here, it wasn't until Lil Rafa mentioned them that we became aware.
These two were probably the primary reason we came over the lakes today, but we were each able to pick up several finds.
No snow falling here, so a quick find.
Found with AlbyDangles on Day One of the 'Bust' leg of our "Kempsey or Bust" tour.
Cheers, EPs

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This afternoon after going to mawbanna this morning we decided to go try and finish off the lakes road caches. In total we attempted 7 caches and found them all. We only have 2 left now to complete the series up this road.
This one was a quick find using the hint, everything was good in the cache. TFTC

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As we were passing by today we dropped in to check on this one. It was indeed missing - seems those who dumped all their bottles and white goods over the bank may have collected the cache container.

We came prepared so have put a replacement in place.

The cache is now ready to go again.

Unfortunately, this cache looks like maintenance maybe required.

To ensure future finders have an enjoyable experience in both finding the cache and visiting the area, a check on this cache is recommended.

If the cache still seems to require maintenance within 28 days, Geocaching Australia will archive the cache to stop it appearing on cachers lists / PQ's.

I enjoyed doing all the puzzles for this series way back when they were published. Finally dedicated a day to come and look for them with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP. Unfortunately, no luck here for us today. This is one of a few places along this ride that appear to have become a bit of a dumping ground....

This morning we had to go to Golden valley to collect a timber thicknessing machine, so we decided to do as many of the series of caches on highland lakes road as we could before miss DEZ055 had to be back for work.
we attempted 11 caches with 10 finds and 1 DNF before turning to head back home.
unfortunatley this was our DNF for the day and our turning around point foer the day.
we managed to find the old oven but there was no oven door anywhere near the paperbark trees, there was alot of rubbish and broken bottles in this area. hopefully we just had cache blindness but i dont think so. TFTC

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Found this cache on the way northwest to get another target cache.

This was an Epic day, with 16 finds, not big by number, but important caches I want to grab. Really enjoyed a couple of walks to caches, one of which hadnt been visited in quite a while. Returned home after 13 hours in the saddle but some memories etched in my brain

Pity I missed this on previous trips to this area. Hard to find when it is listed in another state.

Decided to change tactics due to increased dz pts available, so a final trek up the Lakes Rd. was in order to find all my remaining unfound caches.
Once at gz a quick find was had with cache and contents all in top condition.
Many thanks 2y'stassies for placing all these caches for us all to enjoy...most appreciated...cheers ST.

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Whoa - respite after the last one an easier one.
GZ and cache found quickly.
Cache logged and replaced, and moved on.
Score 18 of 20 - loving this
Thanks 2y'stassies

Hi 2y'stassies

With SoTN over - could you please look to moving this cache back to a more suitable posted co-ords?

Many thanks

Andrewbt

We laughed at the hint for this one

For us, today was all about the two (originally 5/5) events on the coast, that was the reason for our trip up. While we were up there we planned to find a few other caches to top up our meagre contribution to the States of the Nation Game. We managed a handful on the coast and one or two more on the Highlands Lakes Road, finding all but one (I need to check my cords on that one).
My apologies for the copy and paste log but if I have any hope of finishing and claiming some scavenges, it’s my only hope.
We found all containers in good condition and really enjoyed our time at the events this morning and our various finds during the rest of the day.
Thanks to the various cache owners of our finds today (mainly Tassie Trekkers and 2y’stassies).

Rated: for Overall Experience

In the area performing maintainence on our caches and grabbing some more caches for the States of the Nation games and this one fitted a scavenge requirement.

Many thanks 2y’stassies for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience.

Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a We were one of the lucky teams to receive a pathtag from Geocaching Australia for publishing a "Geocacher Cache" - thanks Geocaching Australia.

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A day of caching was required for the States of the Nation Scavenger Hunt.

Weather:
It was fine when I left Huonville where it was seven degrees Celsius and a little over cast.
At Liawenee it was only six degrees and it stayed at that temperature whilst on the Plateau. Mind you, the wind chill factor was a lot lower.
The temperature increased the lower down the hill I went and the closer I got to Deloraine.

Travel:
From Huonville, I travelled straight to Liawenee and found my first cache. Left Huonville at 0630 hours getting back at 1920 hours.
From there I travelled toward Deloraine stopping as required to find caches and then on to Huonville again.
Total mileage for the day was 530.3 kilometres per the car.
On foot, I took 7398 steps burning 1598 calories to cover a distance of 5.97 kilometres finding twenty caches for the day.

GA11398 “SOTN #9: Heading To the Homestead”
Third cache for the day. Drove almost to it and had an easy find.
Sainted at 0955 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

Spent some time over the last few days solving puzzles for a loop through this area. We set off fairly early on a mission and found all the caches we targeted, we even got a couple of FTFs along the way. The weather was lovely at the start but a bit over halfway up the clouds lowered and the rain started, not too heavy but it did mean that one cache that was a "maybe" on the list became "leave it for another time". The finds today should mean some good points for scavenges in the States of the Nation summer game so thank you to both the teams that devised the puzzles and hid the caches that we found today

Nice to grab a FTF on this cache as we knew other cachers had been along the route before us. Must be saving it for a particular scavenge. We had limited time between family commitments and bowls to gather caches that we could use for scavenge points in the States of the Nation games. With the northerners and northwesters publishing puzzle caches profusely (and all with large containers) we set about solving them as profusely as they were being published.

We decided to take a couple of days to make our assault and this was one we found on our trip. The weather varied from warm to hot, to dry to wet to torrential rain, to a change of clothes in the empty car park in Trevallyn Reserve (nearly considered "Nude up for a smiley" but luckily we changed our mind - not enought points on offer for that one!)

We thoroughly enjoyed solving the puzzles and the tour through the Geocaching Australia and Geocaching.com toolboxes.

Thanks to the cache owners for their hardwork in creating and hiding the large caches.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a dragon zone virtual verbosity trophy. We have just received the 100 word trophy, so now aiming for the 150 word trophy. For all new GCA cachers, a warning, write a decent log to start with in case you want to get these virtual trophies down the track. Having now passed 2000 GCA finds with a lot of one word logs (on many moveables) makes for a lot of typing now!

We are participating in the States of the Nation games which are currently running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018 and we will try and use this find against one of the scavenges.

States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.

There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.

Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.

Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie, Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie Go Tassie

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whitewebbs are now a geocache themselves as we have published a 'Geocacher cache' GA10805 - Where's whitewebbs? - so if you spot us out and about in the field sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a smiley.

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Take two Bex and have a lay down if this puzzle hurts.