PCT #14 Mine Adit North Motton, Tasmania, Australia
By sirius Tas on 11-Apr-18. Waypoint GA12117

This was the find of the day. Loved this spot and had fun in the tunnel, not sure how far it goes. I almost have up on finding the cache. I tried one last tactic, it was buried rather deeply..... no wonder I couldn't see it.

The tramway track makes for very easy and pleasant walking along this part of the PCT. Stopped here for lunch on the return leg and picked up the cache as well.

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

Oh, by the way I left my torch hanging on the fallen tree near the adit.

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. Explored the tunnel and discovered a tiny stalactite forming at the end. Wow!! Cache and contents in good condition.

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

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Mr TT and the egg went in the mine entrance for a look. They didnt have any torches and Mr TT yelled back that he was "going by touch" They seemed to enjoy it.
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 vegetation beside the river along this section of the trail changes often and we were surprised to see how well the adit blends into its surroundings. We failed to notice it on our earlier visit to this area. Again the GPS's took a long time to settle indicating 16m at the track and 3m as we left.

We had read the hint before we arrived at the hide site so knew what to look for. It still took us a second look before we spotted the neat hide. Container and contents were in very good condition and the log sheet was blank - a third {FTF} for us at 10:25. After signing and carefully replacing the container we were just about to move off when we spotted a little object in the leaf litter at our feet - yes it was a match stick. We retrieved the cache and extracted the log, replaced the match and put everything back again. As we hadn't brought our torch we resisted the temptation of entering the mine tunnel. It looks stable and not very wet from where we were.

Thanks for this cache Sirius Tas. It would have been very easy to miss the adit if this cache had not been here.

Enjoy!