PCT #20 Deviation Highs North Motton, Tasmania, Australia
By sirius Tas on 11-Apr-18. Waypoint GA12123

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. Cache and contents in good condition.

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

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Rated: for Overall Experience

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. We half climbed the stairs before backtracking to Timberrr! so had to do it all again to continue on, oh well. Thanks for bringing us on another one of your adventure trails sirius Tas.

After finding PCT#21 we found ourselves climbing upwards on what looked like a relatively new set of stairs. We could see the old tack snaking along the edge of the river bank and were pleased that the track up grade provided us with a safer track option. At the top the elevation gave us an excellent view of the river and the far shore.Wet mossy logs and fungi added to our enjoyment of this section of the PCT.

Again we needed to let our GPS units settle - was it the tree cover or was it Trump playing with his satellites? it didn't really matter as we had no trouble locating the well hidden cache. The container and contents were in very good condition and the log sheet was blank - another {FTF} at 15:30.

Rather than back track we decided to complete the loop by walking along the trail beside the river and then following it uphill to Dial Road. We had forgotten how enjoyable this walk is. We took our time to enjoy the fungi and shrubs and tree as well as the ever changing river. We found it hard to walk passed the other unfound caches in the series but they are needed to fill gaps in our challenges so we will be back soon.

Thanks Sirius Tas for this cache in the series along a really lovely section of the PCT.

Enjoy!