PCT #2 Myrtle Creek Bridge Penguin, Tasmania, Australia
By
sirius Tas on 08-Apr-18. Waypoint GA12063
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S41° 8.450' E146° 3.709' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 421265E 5445184N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 143 m |
| Local Government Area: | Central Coast |
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Description
The Penguin Cradle Trail, one of Tasmania's Eight Great Bushwalks, is an 80km walk that takes you from Penguin, a town on the North West Coast to the northern bdry of the Cradle Mountain NP. The walk gives a variety of experiences ranging from coastal views to mountain panoramas, from walking along a wild river to climbing over mountain ranges.
The PCT difficulty varies from easy/medium on the northern sections to quite difficult from Gunns Plains to Loongana Rd. and quite hard up over the Black Bluff Range and onto the Cradle Mt. NP.
Track notes and maps are available at.. http://www.nwwc.org.au/index.php/penguin-cradle-trail
Geocaches will be released in sections where possible to aid access, but will take some months to complete.
To complete the PCT series and to log the last cache, geocachers MUST LOG every geocache plus there will be randomly placed Penguin caches, where you will need to note which actual PCT # the penguin has been placed. These numbers will be required to access the last cache, which will have an appropriate reward for effort.
Most of the cache logs are in bison tubes, inside another container. A match is placed in the log to aid in rolling back up...so PLEASE make sure it goes back in to help other cachers.
All caches except the Penguins have an inkstick...so please take one with you plus notepad to record the Penguin #'s.
SO....ARE YOU up for a challenge?
If so...GLTA.....and please take all safety precautions at ALL TIMES.
Enjoy!
Hearty congrats to Sharnie's Tribe for FTF...well done.
Hints
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Logs
TFTC sirius Tas
A nice quick find by my mate who was more suited to troll duties! We must come back to walk some more of the trail some day.
Found with AlbyDangles on day Four of the 'Bust' leg of our "Kempsey or Bust" tour.
Cheers, EPs.
A nice quick find by my mate who was more suited to troll duties! We must come back to walk some more of the trail some day.
Found with AlbyDangles on day Four of the 'Bust' leg of our "Kempsey or Bust" tour.
Cheers, EPs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
"Hello sirius Tas thank you for the cache.
A nice quick find over a lovely creek.
Today was the forth day of a road trip with EeePees.
Found on Sunday 05 July 2020 at 1614
TFTC"
A nice quick find over a lovely creek.
Today was the forth day of a road trip with EeePees.
Found on Sunday 05 July 2020 at 1614
TFTC"
Today with the company of Trimbletas we completed the penguin to cradle track series and and a few others. We found 25 caches along the way with only 1 that we didn’t find. We majorly underestimated how long this walk would take from the start to hardstaff creek, there was a lot of challenges along the way. Once we finally made it to hardstaff creek we had to make a decision do we try to go out via the farm at purtons flats (we knew the farmer) or do we walk back. When we got back to where the pct track went off the gravel road we thought whether to go back along the river or to follow the gravel road out to dial road, decision was made to walk the gravel road back to dial road and have someone pick us up to take us back to the car at the start. The hill up from the pct track was brutal but once we got up it it was fairly easy walking till we had to climb up to dial road. Overall was a long but enjoyable day really had a great time completing this series.
TFTC
TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found in the company of DEZ055. We couldn't have picked a better day than the first day of winter to tackle the Penguin Cradle Trail. I have been wanting to walk this trail for a long time. I have walked parts of the trail previously. This is my first attempt in walking from the Penguin end through to Hardstaff Creek. Well the legs are well and truly cooked today, but mission accomplished after walking roughly 23kms. We have completed all of the caches so far in this series.
This was an easy find TFTC
This was an easy find TFTC
A pleasant part of the trail and not too difficult to access the cache. Lucky the creek barely had any water in it, so no wet feet.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Was in the area looking for other caches, so thought I better graba couple of the series
TFTC.
Took the longer way to walk to this cache, and then it took me quite a while to actually find cache.
Found this cache on a 2 day trip to the NW, covering over 1000 kms and finding around 100 caches of both GCA and GC
TFTC.
Took the longer way to walk to this cache, and then it took me quite a while to actually find cache.
Found this cache on a 2 day trip to the NW, covering over 1000 kms and finding around 100 caches of both GCA and GC
Mr whitewebbs, Mr Tassie Trekkers a goose and an egg (sounds like the start of a joke, but no joke) headed off early to walk the PCT trail. The walk started at the southern end at #23 and after 6 hours and 14 kms later we arrived at Penguin Cradle Trail No. 1 and the pick up point. It was a great trail with great company, fantastic weather and a great series of caches to find. Thanks sirius Tas for placing the caches along it. We found the whole series of the PCT caches and quite a few others along the way. It was an area Mr W had not been in before and he really enjoyed the trail. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Today we targetted the PCT trail with whitewebbs and gooseandegg. An enjoyable walk with stunning scenery beside the Leven River. A long but rewarding trek - passing by several mini waterfalls along this section. Cache and contents in good condition.
Many thanks Sirius Tas for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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What a lovely spot. I enjoyed following the creek down to the bridge. Walking the PCT trail from the southern end with whitewebbs and Tassie Trekkers, the egg and I had a wonderful but exhausting walk! We found every cache (so far??) in this series plus a couple of others along the way so we were pleased. Thanks for bringing us on another one of your adventure trails sirius Tas.
The day was getting on and we were homeward bound after a lovely little stroll through the Dials with a bunch of caches thrown in for good measure.
Hi Sirius
An unexpected call from relatives had Mum and I take a trip to the North West Coast on the 11th of May to visit with her brother in the Latrobe Hospital
As a result, I was able to take advantage of the situation and do some caching today
After finding caches around East Devonport this morning before our visit to the hospital today, I came over here and started the trail walk
Weather: 13 degrees Celsius Fine, sunny and blue skies with some cloud
Travel: For the day, I totalled 14.91 kilometres burning 2293 calories which required 19907 steps Needless to say, my legs are not in LOVE with me at the moment but they will learn to forgive me.
GA12063 “PCT#2 Myrtle Creek”
A quick find at GZ
Sainted at 1136 hours
All good with the cache
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
An unexpected call from relatives had Mum and I take a trip to the North West Coast on the 11th of May to visit with her brother in the Latrobe Hospital
As a result, I was able to take advantage of the situation and do some caching today
After finding caches around East Devonport this morning before our visit to the hospital today, I came over here and started the trail walk
Weather: 13 degrees Celsius Fine, sunny and blue skies with some cloud
Travel: For the day, I totalled 14.91 kilometres burning 2293 calories which required 19907 steps Needless to say, my legs are not in LOVE with me at the moment but they will learn to forgive me.
GA12063 “PCT#2 Myrtle Creek”
A quick find at GZ
Sainted at 1136 hours
All good with the cache
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
We have always enjoyed the walk beside Myrtle Creek with its mossy rocks and old logs and the gurgling creek. This morning the creek was dry except for a few isolated pools and a lot of the moss is dry and brittle. The track is almost dusty. We hope that some of the promised rain falls here and freshens the area.
On arrival at the search zone it took us a short while to locate the cache container. It is well hidden and blends in well with the immediate area - a typical Sirius Tas hide. Container and contents were in very good condition. There was very little water here this morning making retrieval relatively easy. It may be a different story when the creek is in flood.
Thanks Sirius Tas for the second cache in the series. We hope it gets more visitors soon.
On arrival at the search zone it took us a short while to locate the cache container. It is well hidden and blends in well with the immediate area - a typical Sirius Tas hide. Container and contents were in very good condition. There was very little water here this morning making retrieval relatively easy. It may be a different story when the creek is in flood.
Thanks Sirius Tas for the second cache in the series. We hope it gets more visitors soon.
After finding #1 we moved on to this one in the gathering darkness, we could hear wallabies moving away in the bush but didn't see any. We made this find harder than it needed to be but a black container in the dark can be hard to spot! Haven't been this far down the track before and keen to try a few more on another occasion, in daylight though. No other names in the logbook so we'll claim FTF at 6.30pm. TFTC
