Blockage - Xylophone or X-Ray Geilston Bay, Tasmania, Australia
By stainless-steel-rat on 09-May-21. Waypoint GA21664

"Hello stainless-steel-rat thank you for the cache.



Today was a lovely day for a walk in the bush to find some caches.
I didn't have much trouble finding most of them.
But was getting a bit tied by the end of the walk.

Found on Saturday 19 March 2022 at 1305

TFTC"

I was in Hobart after caches and this series was on my list for today. A quick find was made. I am appreciating the great views as I wander between caches.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Hoping to collect some ammunition for the Battleships Game we headed out today to reload our cannon in preperation for firing.

Accurate co ordinates led to quick finds of this enjoyable Geoart series.

Many thanks SSR for placing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience today.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Decided to tackle a few Geoart series in Hobart through the week, our day started at 6.00am today to head off to Hobart picking up as many caches as we could find. So it was over the Highland Lakes to target the Battleship series first. After encountering snow,ice and rain we picked up the the Trig in New Norfolk to stretch our legs from the 2.5 hour drive from the North West. Then it was on to the Battleship series. With that one done it was now time to head to Natone Hill reserve.

This is the best series I have done. Thoroughly enjoyed the cache containers and the terrain in which they were hidden. We started off slowly trying to work out which direction we should start in. Ultimately we were going to split up but decided against it. I'm glad that we did. About 10 minutes in we were hit by a really heavy shower of rain and with no protection from the elements got pretty wet, pretty quick. The thought of calling it quits and returning did cross our mind. However insanity prevailed. We were wet already, so continued on to find both the Blockage series and the Smile series in tandem. Caches were ALL dry and well hidden. The containers made an excellent change from the last series we just completed. I would even go to saying these two series had a lot more thought put into to planning and made it an extremely enjoyable experience, even in the rain. Bashing through the scrub looking for tracks to each cache was great. a couple of hides slowed us down by a couple of minutes as they were a tad tricky as there were a couple of gnarly trees and new growth and branches we checked out. Each of these there was a call of " over here, found it" that could be heard.

Thank you very much for an excellent series.

Onward to the next caches. Thanks SSR for the series. TFTGAS

Rated: for Overall Experience

During the week Trimbletas and i made the decision that we would target some of the caches around the New Norfolk and Geilston Bay area. we planned to go up over the Highland lakes to Hamilton, then down to New Norfolk then over to Geilston Bay. Up bright and early we left the NorthWest at 6.00am as we approached the top of lakes highway we were greeted with around 4 inches of snow on the road, so it was into 4x4 and steadily along until we dropped down onto lake level. we detoured to grab the Bridge over Ouse cache then it was off to Hamilton.
We did a maintenance check of my caches along the way and they were all in great order still.
Arriving in Hamilton we snapped a photo of the trig then headed for New Norfolk where we took a short walk to the trig there, it was then onto the Battleship GeoArt series.
while completing the Battleship caches we were stopped by 4 different property owners concerned with what we were doing. we explained to them what were doing but they still seemed concerned. there was a few caches where we couldnt get off the road and cars came up behind us while we were signing the logs, so we had to try and move the ute out of the way.
After completing the battleship series we made our way through Molesworth and into Berridale where we crossed the Derwent River and headed for Natone Hill.
We got the information for WPT 1 of the Multi and set off in a clockwise direction of the reserve to complete the Smile and Blockage GeoArts, we got as far round as the trigpoint when it started to pour down with rain we got drenched as we bunkered under a tree to wait out the rain, as the rain eased we grabbed the photo of the trig then off to complete the rest of the caches. we got the rest of the info required for the Multi cache but as it was back where we came from we decide to leave it for next time. We really enjoyed completing the Blockage and Smile Geoarts. Thank you SSR and Goose&Egg.
After getting back to the ute and trying to dry out we decide to go check out where the Circle Geoart starts, once there we decided that we would complete it next time as it was getting dark.
A quick drive around to Government hill where we walked up to grab the trigs where we were met by another concerned owner, explained we were there to get a photo of the trig and he was happy to see us on our way.
We then headed for food at Bridgewater before our long journey home.
we stopped to complete several caches along the way and arrived home at 9.30pm. A great day was had with nearly 100 caches attempted for the day. TFTC

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Found this cache on a walk around Natone Hill
A successful day finding 20 GCA caches and 1 GC cache
These will be among my final shots for Battleship game
TFTC

Found with Newy71!
Was a fun afternoon finding these GeoArt caches at Natone Hill
TFTC stainless-steel-rat. Newy07

Have been wanting to do the caches at Natone Hill since the start of the battleships game but things kept us away. Finally got here after 2pm today which didn’t allow me enough time to find all of them. Well that just gives me a reason to go again on Sunday.
Beautiful location and some great hides. I was given a GPS to try out as I only have had my phone and Cachly app to rely on. It was needed to get accurate locations on a number of hides today, thankful for that.
TFTC and this GeoArt series stainless-steel-rat!
Cheers
Newy71

Hi Stainless-Steel-Rat

Both your geoart and that of Gooseandegg were my main agenda for today.

There was a light breeze which was bitterly cold and as well the undergrowth was saturated so didn't take long to be wet from the knees down.

Had no trouble finding any of the caches with excellent hides and good coords.

Thoroughly enjoyed the trek around here with 33 caches found on Natone Hill today.

Many thanks for an excellent geoart series which I thoroughly enjoyed in an area never been to before with great views across the river.

Cheers ST.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Hi Stainless
Had occasion to visit Hobart with time up my sleeve
So over the river on a foggy morning to start this series
Enjoyed my 3.5km walk and searching for the caches
Most were found quickly
Took to the bush for all of the walk except for that back to the car, which was along the track
Consequently, my feet and trousers were soaked by the end of the morning
This cache was a very quick find; Sainting it at 1102 hours
Liked the design of the container
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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We continued on our way across the hill fighting through the reeds and wet grasses. We were able to spot this container from some distance away. Container and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for an in your face hide Stainless-Steel-Rat. We hope this one stays safe as we encountered a little group of local primary school children running through the bush very close by. Turned out they were wagging afternoon classes.

It was a perfect autumn day when stainless-steel-rat placed this series and I beta tested them. Today was pretty miserable in comparison!
Thanks for the cache SSR

Rated: for Overall Experience

Thanks for the geoart Stainless-Steel-Rat.
Today was my first chance to get out and about and look for some geocaches as part of the GCA Battleships game.
The weather didn't look that promising, but it wasn't terrible, and the GeoGSP always needs a walk, so with morning chores done, we headed to Natone Hill for a couple of hours this afternoon.
Natone Hill was my backyard growing up, I couldn't tell you how many times I have walked around that loop or walked to the top, and it was often used as a short-cut to get to any of a number of friends places who lived on the other side of 'the hill'. Well, if I thought I had trodden on every spot of Natone Hill! - although, I'm much closer now. The GeoGSP and I had lots of fun exploring the hill today, (and tomorrow as it turns out). Thanks for placing this series of caches here.
Nice quick find. Rain in the distance, not sure how many more we will get a chance to search for today....on to the next one!

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First day of winter, first day of Battleships and we decided to head to Natone Hill to collect the two sets of geoart that were kindly created to be found during the Battleship games. We parked in Broad Street and headed anti-clockwise and across the contours finding the nicely presented and hidden hides. It was a lovely mild winter's day to be out and about. Thanks for creating the containers and for the effort put into placing and publishing the cool geoart. TFTGA

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We enjoyed this quality series of caches you have put around this hill for our enjoyment. TFTC

New series of GeoArt ready to be found.

Please note the Terrain rating on the Northwest side, and as always watch for snakes in the warmer months.