PCT #12 Dial Creek Penguin, Tasmania, Australia
By sirius Tas on 11-Apr-18. Waypoint GA12115

What a beautiful spot this is. So much natural camo concealing the cache but once I ruled out a few spots, found the well hidden cache.

Went for a short walk along the PCT from Dial Rd to Hardstaff camp ground and back. Lovely sunny but cool day. The track was a bit slippy from yesterdays downpour but easy going nonetheless. Just grabbed the occasional cache along the way as and when the mood took us.

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

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

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, here we left the river and started the climb towards the western side of Mount Montgomery. Cache and contents in good condition.

Many thanks Sirius Tas for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

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We stopped here to contemplate whether getting to Keddies Adit was an option and made a small attempt before deciding we had not chosen the best path (we never got there but theres always next time). We found this cache though so were happy to cross the creek and keep going.
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.

After attending the Hens Party last night we set off early this morning for another trip along the PCT to find the four GCA caches we needed for today. The first section of this part of the trail is down hill and steep in places. The recent rain has washed the leaves from the track in places and exposed the clay and red ochre base that is quite slippery. We passed Sirius pink tape at intervals and spotted the detour to Kedies Adit, no need to go that way as we have found that cache. There were several beautiful clumps of Fishbone ferns on our way down to Dial Creek. After carefully crossing the creek we spotted the hide - only a cacher would know where to look. Our GPS's were not playing ball indicating we were 17m from GZ one minute then 3m the next. Both units refused to settle but as usual this hide has a good hint and is in a sensible spot so should be easy to locate.

The container and contents were in excellent condition and the log sheet was blank giving us a {FTF} at 10:00. Mrs Y'stassie had just replaced the contents and re-hidden the container when she realized that the match was sitting next to her so it was retrieve the container, extract the log, replace the match, put everything together again then re-hide and off to the next in line.

Thanks for another cache in this series Sirius Tas and for a beautiful hide and morning walk in the reserve - beats walking the paths around town any day.

Enjoy!