PCT #23 Hardstaff Creek North Motton, Tasmania, Australia
By sirius Tad on 11-Apr-18. Waypoint GA12126

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. Luckily for us we were driven to this cache in the Trekkers geo4WD. 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. 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. After researching access points we made our way to the suggested parking point. Continuing on from #22 we managed to park within 5 metres of the cache.

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

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This wasn't so much as a drive by, it was more a 'drive to'. We did explore the road a little further but soon found an unwelcoming gate so that ended that. Cache was found quickly and we grabbed a lift back to #22 to start the long trek. Thanks sirius Tas

We had decided to look for the last four caches in this series this afternoon and had hope to be able to drive our all wheel drive Toyota wagon to the WP noted in the cache notes. This would have given us quick access to these caches. On inspecting the access road we found that recent heavy rain had caused some severe washaways and the gale force winds experienced on the coast yesterday and today had blown some large trees down over the road. We felt it would be unsafe to try and get the car down the road and as we did not have a saw of any kind with us wae would not be able to remove the fallen obstacles. So shanks pony it was.

The 3km+ walk down the road took us just on 1.5 hours. For the most part the road was OK but there were several large road width pools of water, half a dozen large fallen trees some of which would need a chain saw to cut them up and a final very steep, slippery decent. Although the walk was longer than we had planned we enjoyed the quiet of the bush area and particularly liked the last 300m along the banks of the Leven River. There was quite a lot of water flowing down the river today.

Good coordinates took us to the hide and we had not trouble locating the well hidden container. Container and contents were in very good condition. As the log sheet was blank we will claim a {FTF} at 15:08.

Thanks for this cache in the PCT series Sirius Tas. This section of the trail is particularly beautiful.

Enjoy!