Outstanding in Australia Hornsby Heights, New South Wales, Australia
By
Baktrak on 21-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9603
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | Unknown or Mystery |
Container: | Regular |
Coordinates: | S33° 38.477' E151° 6.690' (WGS 84) |
56H 324859E 6276017N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 199 m |
Local Government Area: | The Hornsby |
Description
Another strangely named cache for the 2016/7 Summer Scavenger Series
You can park at the listed coordinates but there's probably no cache there. This one's certainly not there.
It's fascinating what you come across, or what comes across you, if you just stand quietly still for a few minutes, off-track in the Australian bushland. While waiting for the GPS to get a nice long average for this cache, a small echidna, waddled past and started burrowing into a mound, no doubt sensing the ants within. There were all sorts of ants scurrying about. That's a picture of him (or her?) I took while standing right at GZ. A little later, a male lyrebird with its glorious frilly satin tail scampered by, then raced uphill when it saw me. Earlier, I'd been treated to an aquatic display by myriads of long, silver fish jumping and cavorting in the quiet, sandy shallows of the creek below and later, in the fading light of dusk, little black wallabies bounded through the bush. And of course, there are always the ubiquitous brush turkeys scratching amongst the blossoms.
So take a walk in the bushland and see what you can find.
P.S. Easy access from NNE via trail.
Hints
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Decode |
Logs
Collected as part of a Scavenger hunt run this morning before it became hot.
SL TFTC
Signed and we replaced as found. Thanks for the puzzle Baktrak.
Solved a few local GCA mysteries yesterday and came to collect today. This was my 5th stop. Never ventured off road here before and enjoyed the short stroll into the bush. I tried to be very quiet and stopped for a while after signing the log but none of the local wildlife showed itself. Nice hide.
TFTC Baktrak