On yer' boat! #1 (Mangrove Island) Illawong, New South Wales, Australia
By The Hancock Clan on 15-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2T5HV

Fairly easy to spot this one - the twine is holding the cache tightly in place. Extracting the log is fairly tricky as it was wedged right in place - I left it a little easier to get to. It's about as dry as could be expected. I got here at low-ish tide but it's still possible to get to as it's still fairly close to the water. However would recommend high tide.

Our first kayak cache and it was a great one! Spent too much time looking a bit further in that we needed to and had decided to come back next time given the failing light. We were in the middle of backing our kayaks out from under cover when it suddenly appeared! Inside is perfectly fine but the cable ties have weathered so really only holding on through fishing line now, will look to bring some ties back with us on our next outing.

Hired a yak from the Woronora boat house for a few caches on the river. Was initially looking too “inland” but after widening the search it was a quick spot. TFTC

Found it kind of hard to find replaced the Ziploc bag in there if you come to find next maybe bring some rope or zip ties to put around it

What a fun find. Had a beautiful day out on the water.

TFTC!

Lovely area to be

Spotted this one on approach tftc

The tide was on its way out and the mud was getting deeper and stickier!?!

Another one the others had found so I was in my own.

TFTC.

Teamed up with steeba to tackle some caches along the Woronora River. Bring a water craft he says, we'll do some paddling down the river on the change of tide. What we did consider was the summer north-easterly breeze that had picked up by the time we started our trek.

The caches were soon adding up with us having good success picking off the finds. The wind was making our river traverses tough and we took on a fair bit of water. Collected some more info for the bonus cache.
Thanks

Find No.4011
Found with sesblocker.
We give this a favourite as this is our very first "kayak-by" cache.
This gives me some inspiration for a flood rescue boat training exercise.
TFTC The Hancock Clan
11 January 2019 20:22

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Find#: 1780

Found on: 27 December 2018 12:50

Buddies: 5 of us

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



Hired a dinghy and got this higher terrain one.

TFTC The Hancock Clan TNLNSL

Find#: 1780
Found on: 27 December 2018 12:50
Buddies: 5 of us
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

Hired a dinghy and got this higher terrain one.
TFTC The Hancock Clan TNLNSL

A plan was hatched to do a bunch of The Wonnie caches with The Bebes, PelDroedGwin, EverestHigh and Boogie Rogue. I had found all the others apart from this On yer' boat series, so jumped at the chance to get out on the water again. Collecting our shaded tinny from Como jetty, we headed off with Captain EH at the helm, and had a very successful afternoon, collecting all the ones we needed between us and no DNFs. A perfect day with great company. We even enjoyed a Brew "smorgasbord" lunch on the way back!

This was the second one we found. We knew what to look for now and soon it was CIH. Giving it a FP too. TFTC

On a post-Boxing Day Cache & Picnic Cruise on the Woronora River with Brewmaker, PelDroedGwin and BoogieRogue. Found all the waterbourne caches from the junction with the Georges River up to the Bridge. TFTC The Hancock Clan

OCW the Bebes, Bougie Rogue, Brewmaker, and Everest High. We hired a tinny to spend a a few hours knocking over these water caches. Tftc

Great day out on a hirwd boat TFTC

Such a fun series we did it again. Great on a motorboat getting stuck in the mangroves. Plenty of laughs. TFTC

Find 3/4. Easy, and we didn't forget the clue this time! TFTC

TFTC,
I was out with troador and Nana nel to finish many of the kayak caches on the Wonnie that I have been overlooking for a long time now. Our goal was to get 7 caches, we ended up with 5.
Our fourth find for the day. The tide and wind are pushing the craft around and it is starting to impact on our ability to work together. Glad we didn't try for #2 today. Gathered the required information and added it to a personal note for the Bonus cache.
Visited a group of trackables.

We (Wazza9 & I) spent the day paddling with Tronador on a beautiful day, not sure the body is going to thank me. Turned the corner on our way back to the boat ramp. The 4th find of the day, must say it was nice amongst the mangroves. Located the container then to get it, signed log and replaced. Thanks to The Hancock Clan.

Another quick paddle and grab on a high tide
TFTC

With temperatures set to soar today we hired a boat from Como and got on the water.

After finding Wonnie & George at close to high tide my Skipper wasn’t keen on any others for fear of mud !

We spent a few hours mooching about a took a few dips to cool down.

Almost back at the marina I convinced him to try one more....

Thankfully a quick spot here and no mud to be seen

Clues noted

Tftc

A beautiful day out one the water today. Decided to perform maintenance on our "On yer' boat!" series. We replaced this one with a new container and logbook

#158 Last one for the day and great afternoon paddle knocking off 4 on the river. Found quick enough but unfortunately cache lid has succumb to the elements and fallen off and cache full of water, nothing inside. TFTC The Hancock Clan

Hired a boat for a few to go caching. TFTC

Myself and miltsy92 have hired a boat for 2 hours from Como and are trying to knock off as many of the water ones as possible. What an awesome cache. Our boat couldn't quite fit in so I jumped out of the boat and through the mangroves to make a sign. TFTC.

Out on a kayak trip with The Garbage Man, having a relaxing cruise around the river, picking out a few water caches. A top day had by all!

As TGM mentioned, we were stoked that we didn't have to leave the boat for this one!! TFTC!!!

A big day of kayak adventures with Elevation. We kayaked over from Oatley to the series at Oyster Bay but got beaten to half of them by a low tide. Lunch at Como and some respite from the sun (high 30s today), then headed west to the Woronora and enjoyed more paddling which was assisted with the rising tide later in the day.

This was the second of this series for us and by now the tide was a bit higher and despite being our 5th T5 find for the day, it was the first we could actually pull up right next to! Hooray for a much easier process - the slogs through the mud were getting a bit tiring! A quick find, with cache and log in fair condition. TNLN TFTC

I thought I would try something different today, so I stopped by at the Como Marina to hire a dinghy and cruise around the river for a few hours (and pick up a few caches of course). This was the first find of the day and while I did not know exactly what I was looking for, some persistance had me locating the cache within about 10 minutes. Dropped TB. TFTC

A road trip from the ACT up to Sydney's high D and high T caches around the Georges River region. AngelG27, TikvaNZ, ZQX and I all had caching goals to complete. We explored the rivers by boat, then the bush by foot. I collected 19 caches with 16 different DT combinations. A fantastic, fun day out.

#5 for the day. The 'run-about' boat was a mighty machine. With TikvaNZ at the helm, we manipulated it to the closest spot to the container. But the cache guardians were not going to make it easy. ZQX met a wasp, which gave him a bite for good measure, then we had to clear away some spiders. I then worked my way from boat to mangrove to container. There was a bit of balancing required, but log was signed and data was obtained. TFTC THC

Nearing GZ in the luxury yacht, I got stung by a wasp. Ouch! Right at GZ two spiders grimly stuck to their task of being cache guardians. With my shoulder stinging from the wasp nip, I held the boat steady while FIJ jumped into action. TikvaNZ and AngelG27 were there as well, watching on as the excitement built. We were all hoping to complete a D/T loop today, with a 3.5/5.0.

QX, TikvaNZ, Fox in Jox and I headed to Sydney for a Sutherland plunder of high terrain and difficultly caches to help us with our various caching challenges. A highly successful and tiring day with my DT grid now filled!! 15 different DT combinations, many with T5 or D5, lots of laughs and great company!

This was the series we were really after as the finale was the missing DT I wanted for my grid. I noticed the new 3.5/5.0 pop up nearby but this series was still the one we wanted. We hired a boat from the nearby marina which worked perfectly. This cache was a bit trickier than the last to retrieve but Fox demonstrated his gymnastic skills again! Numbers were just decernable fortunately, thanks Hancock Clan!

#7262 @1025
The fifth of 18 finds of the day on a high d/t raid to southern Sydney with AngelG27, ZQX and Fox in Jox. We hired a runabout for a fun couple of hours to find this series and a few others. Cache quickly spotted and soon retrieved. TFTC.

Part 2 of our great yak adventure with KRS and Crash2079 having done the ones are Kurnell first. The tide still looked ok but was running out so launched as suggested and headed for #2 just in case it had depth issues plus this looked to be the shortest route. A few shallow moments on the way over and we had to head for deeper water as KRS and ourselves in the double yak ran aground. Crash got a better run in the lighter craft and got close while we hit some more mud which was knee depth. A tag team with names in the log and numbers retrieved it was off to #1.
We all got to #1 ok and a quick find was made and the process was repeated. At this stage we thought we where doing well and set course for #3. Here we soon realised just how shallow things were getting and how much more mud there was. We not even get the yaks close and we had limited foot wear plus KRS had the dodgy ankle. Crash used his yak as a skid to good effect to keep most of this weigh off his legs to avoid knee deep mud sinkage. Here things started to go bad. While the container was found the contents were pulp and more importantly no numbers for the final. Various discussions followed and I said lets get to deeper water first I thought this bay could trap us and become a giant mud bath. Well the tide had just gone out a little more and we were stuck so I hopped off to push while KRS (who could not) paddled and we slogged it out for about 100m in the knee deep mud that certainly had some crunchy oyster content. At one stage I must have been walking on an old oyster farm rail as i could feel the wood and was only sinking in about 10cm. Any way once floating again it was PAF time containing past finders, consulting the Blue Mountains phone directory and reading past logs. An early PAF answered only to get this series muddled up with the Treasure Island series and in the end it was a TAF who was in NZ that came through. On getting the result I looked up to find we had been in the main current and drifted a little further than I had wanted so we had some back tracking to do. So we headed for the sand bank (checking for no mud first) and plotted the co ords and then the there was a bit of cooling off due to record heat before our second last leg of the day.
Getting a clear and cut free location near GZ was easier said than done bit we docked and between the mud and the oyster shells on the rocks made it bare foot up to to the final. A quick hunt and the hide was found and signed. A great day out made possible by KRS and Crash 2079.
On getting back to the launch spot it was well and truly low tide and there was one last mud challenge to complete before loading up and heading to the near by pub for a thirst quencher. Despite the amount of mud we were carrying the colour of our money was good and they let us in. TFTC

13/12/16. 1:09 PM. Cache #4584.
6th of 8 finds - Kurnell, Como, Illawong.

A kayaking adventure day with bella at waggy and crash2079, out to get the Arkaroo's Kurnell series of 4 and the On Yer Boat set of 4.

It made sense to do this series in the 2,1,3,4 order based on the layout, so we paddled over here after finding #2.

"High tide would be preferable" - that's an understatement. That was at 8:30 AM and we'd used up the high tide in Kurnell. It was falling - rapidly - and by the time we got to #3 it should really have been unretrievable. But that's another story.

Same problems as #2, we just couldn't get close enough in the yaks and so the much more mobile crash did all the 'heavy lifting' for us again. We collected the shouted clues again. On to #3 next. Another shared 10 months' unloved credits added here. TFTC.
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#1094
Had a great kayak adventure with KRS and B@W targeting 4 Arkaroo caches in Botany Bay and the On yer' boat series near Como. It had been a while in the planning to get the tides and weather right and apart from high temps, it was close to perfect. We had aimed to meet at Bonna Point Reserve boat ramp at 7:30 am for an expected 8:15 high tide, but with heavy traffic, we didn't hit the water until after 8:00 am.

We had originally planned to do these series on two separate days, but having completed The Arkaroo series well before noon and great weather, we thought it worthwhile to at least have a go at this series even though it was a 30 min drive and the tide was on its way down.

Headed around Bottle and Glass Head from #2 and we were soon in a similar predicament as #1. Got to within 20m of GZ before having to face the mud again. Now that I knew what I was looking for, it didn't take long to make the find. Added our names to the log and again took note of the clues.

TFTC Hancock Clan

Thanx for this nice Cache !!
Hired a boat with friends to
do some sightseeing from the
waterside. Of course, we had
to go for few certain places .
Good to find & to log.
Kind of adventure.
Had good fun, so we leave a
blue ribbon to the owners...

Found it!

The weather was pretty rainy the last week and so we quickly pulled out the canoe when the sun finally came out - I waterproofed my phone so many times it isn't really funny - but after 5-10 minutes of paddling we found the cache easily and it was a great blessing after all the bad weather. We got there just as the tide was changing so we nearly got stuck because no one wanted to hop out of the canoe and get dirty feet - the water was probably ankle-shin height so we glided underneath and picked the cache up perfectly! Tftc and I'm happy to say that geodad and geobrother were big helps!

Found with JordsAU & Amanda at 9:14am.

There were a handful of us out on a pontoon this fine Saturday morning to celebrate someone's Birthday. I say fine but it was a little overcast, pleasantly so after all of the heat we've had in the last week. Anyway we boarded at the Como Marina and immediately JordsAU and myself were keen on a cache or two around the river.

It was up to us now to convince the other 4 or 5 people to allow us to go for the finds, they seemed intrigued by the recreational activity of Geocaching so we used this to our advantage

We could see that this one was about 50m in towards the mangroves from where we managed to get bogged in the mud, hence we hopped out into the water and gave the boat a push before we made our way towards the cache.

We hadn't brought any equipment with us so we were really just guessing. After a 10 minute search nothing showed up so JordsAU decided it would be a good idea to walk back to the boat (yes, walk back to the boat) and grab his phone. He wrapped it up in a couple of plastic bags to be sure it wouldn't get wet.

Once he returned to us, we could see straight away that we had gone in a little deep once the GPS showed it was closer to the perimeter of the trees. Soon enough, JordsAU laid eyes on the cache and it was happy days.

I needed this D/T rating for my grid as did he so we were very pleased to have ticked this off.

We enjoyed the hunt. Looking forward to attempting a few more in the river in the future.

Signed log, thanks for the cache The Hancock Clan

Found with Jase90 & Amanda at 9:14 AM. Full log to follow and will change it to 'Found' at the same time. Thanks For The Cache The Hancock Clan.

This entry was edited by JordsAU on Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 13:05:17 UTC.

Found[Time to Find: 15 min]. Great location TFTC.

After having failed to get even close to #2 due to the low tide, we were doubtful if we should even try on this one. However, we paddled closer and found a place where the distance to wade through the mud to get to the shore did not seem too long. Hagar went in, while Helga was remaining in the kayak. Using the paddle as a walking pole, the attack started. There were moments when it was not certain if the mud would let go of one foot, to be able to move it ahead of the other, but eventually there was success. Then it was only 175 meters along the small islet before reaching the cache. Could see that it would have worked perfectly to just glide in to the cache in the kayak, had there only been about a meter more of water.
Log signed and return to the kayak the same was as coming in.

Time to get the boat out and and find this litt;e series. Always enjoy exploring new water and the weather turn out to be in our favor. Found some of the navigating a bit tricky but made the finds easily enough. Thanks for placing these caches and giving us yet another fun day 'onor' boat' SL TFTC

#1668

Caching with Alphadeltaindigo

Well our voyage from "on ya boat 2" was pleasant with a little bit of spray over the bow.. But my trust crew member ADI kept me dry..

As I idle into ground zero.. I see it right away.. So we tie up to a tree so we can make our make on the log.

So I call"let go all lines" and we're now on our way to "on ya boat 3"
TFTC

#1029
9 May 2015 2:32 pm
Log is signed as ADI aka Alphadeltaindigo

Out with pk today to do some caching on a boat and testing his sailing skills! Turns out he does know how to steer and hold a boat in place! Because of high tide, we got to all of them on the series.

Pk spotted this one! I did the signing duties while pk got the boat. He had to reach it because of his height.
TFTC The Hancock Clan

Found it

It was lots of fun rowing down to the mangroves we had a couple of problems but found the cache and got back easily thanks for the fun

My second kayak trip in just as much weeks. Getting quit a few 5 stars done this way! Loved the scenery at this one and decided to not follow the numeric order.
Started at the Como boatramp with a few drops af rain and an overcast, but very humid and warm. The weater turned dry for the rest of the trip and the sun luckily stayed away. Although I was already 2 hours after high tide, I could easily reach all locations without getting out of the canoe (except for actually getting to the cache height. At arrival back at the car I did a 7.5 km trip.
Luckily I have heaps of favourite points to give so a point for every single one of these and a pathtag for the bonus.
TFTC Wilbert67

TFTC, a great little series!

Today we ventured down to Sydney from Newcastle, in company of DOC-WHO and GeoIan. The list for today involved 14 T5 geocaches, but we only managed to get 11 for the day.

Unfortunately this was the only one we did of this series before we thought it was time to head home, we managed to get around to 50m from GZ, but as it was low tide the mud flats were horrible. first step we sunk to knee height in mud, but we persisted and made our way to GZ which took ages as we kept sinking, it wasnt until 20m from GZ the mud had rocks with oyster shells under it. so I and DOC-WHO managed to cut our feet open, so after we signed the log we decided it was time to call it quits. TFTC

Knowing that the Hancocks would be hitting the big 5000 caches today, I thought I might honour the occasion with one of their classic series.

Perfect kayaking weather and some great spots.

TFTC and congratulations on your achievement guys

Word was out early in the week that we HAVOC'ers should set sail today for fine weather and some booty haulin' down south.
The crew arrived at the nearby docks and rigged for light winds and some easy sailing. Two single seat scowels and a twin cargo ship made there way on an outgoing tide in search of treasure.
Cap'n Senz and First Mate Shanno lead the way, well, more this way and that, all day..
I, the DOC scouted for landfalls and new recruit GeoIan, brung up the rear defence, the flank defense and bit here defense, there defence and even over there defence....but this could all of been due to sheer rudder malfunction or disuse

While setting sail at the nearby docks, the Tide was apparently very low, but we sailed on anyways!
Rounding the point we spied the river, half of mud and half of shallow waters!
Beaching our craft, we alighted and endeavored to cross the 60m of mud using our crafts as semi bouyancy aids.
After only a few steps we found ourselves sinking deep, sometimes way past our knees!, and our advancedment was slow, muddy and exhausting.
As we trudged onwards, crabs in the mud scraped at our legs, oysters below scratched our feet, and thoughts of abandoning the attempt grew quickly.
With our Captain injured already with bleeding toe, I abandoned ship and made a Bee-line for the mangroves. Slowly the mud became harder and less of a problem, but now mangrove root systems threatened to pierce their way right through my feet at every step.
This adventure was going sour fast.
Spotting a low down flat log I stood upon it hoping to gain safety from the roots, but instead I slipped on it, slicing my foots soul like a razor, looking up in desperation I spotted the cache at this point, and was left now with two options. Cache-on, or sit down and bleed to death in these forsaken mangroves.... Then I hear the captains cry for help, stuck fast in mud upto his waist... But I had my own problems. I quickly signed the log, hoping the crew would get him out.... Luckily they did.! Now to my own rescue, stepping out of the growing pool of blood at my feet, I dashed out of these good-awful mangroves, just as man eating crabs had begun to march towards me. Across the mud, fearlessly I lunged forward, heading for the ship. Captain and crew were waiting and together we made it back to deep water and began our flight back to the safety of shore.
Today's adventure has been cut short due to multiple injuries, but we will be back, a nd on a high tide !!! [:(!]

If not the injuries, I would FAV this one for sure
[green] - Found It on Saturday ... at 4:22 PM ...
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Total Finds now ... 1084
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Reperio at 0600.

Came down from Newcastle last night for a day of caching today, and decided to get up at first light and visit this series of caches. After paddling to #2, and having to wade through a fair bit of mud, I expected to same with this one. Fortunately, I was able to get to within 7m of GZ before having to get out...and the mud wasn't nearly as soft. Collected the clue for the final, and it was odd to #3.

Gratias Hancock Clan.

After finding that I was delegated for taxi duty this morning, I had just enough time to chuck my kayak on the roofracks and extra gear in the back. I finally had the time to find wome of the t5 caches on the river.
So I set out from the boat ramp and paddled my way under the bridge.
I saught out number 2 first before going for this one.
Found the cache secure and in good shape.
Took note of the clue and kept on paddling.
Have a fav point. (I've been going through them over this weekend!)

After #2 it was upstream to #1. Although the tide was not high this one was easier to get to than the last and although the mud was deep at the start the ground soon firmed and I made my way to GZ. After completing the caching duties and weighing up the time I had to head for home so #3 and the final will be another trip. Thanks for a nice paddle this afternoon.

Got well and truly stuck in the mud making the last few metres to this one. But like the first one I got, co-ords were great, and found it without any trouble. Now on to #2.

First day and second find!

Found on a very enjoyable mornings paddle with pokemon xy. Had a nice high tide + glassy water + good company = all the ingredients for a great caching day. Also picked up clue from #3 which I had forgotten to do last time - much easier when there is enough water for the boat to float TFTC. I loved it !!

What a perfect day for a paddle...........and the tide was in our favour too.

No trouble locating, SL TNLN

TFTC The Hancock Clan

A perfect day for water activities.

TFTC

Cheers
The Odlids

Love kayak caches!

Because we had to turn around and get the copy of the Bonus cache it became another day before we were able to find this one. I helped hold Cookies canoe in position, and vice versa when it was my turn to sign the log and return it to its hide.
I carefully retrieved the Fishing Bell TB, and had thought I had dropped in the water along the line, only to find it (in the hood of the raincoat) when we got back to Taree.
Thanks for the canoeing cache series The Hancock Clan. It has inspired me to look for suitable spots on the Mid North Coast (I know a few are in National Parks, but will see what they have to say on that)

Having 'recently' bought a plastic canoe to replace a slashed inflatable I had been looking for places I could do a few canoeing caches, so had planned on coming down here for a little while.
0020 GAFF1 After leaving the car at Parking waypoint it was a very pleasant paddle out to the corner to only then realise that I had left the workings out for the bonus cache back in the car, so back we went.
The people who had been partying by the waters edge had moved on by the time we came past again.
Not having looked at the GSAK page/map for a while I chose the wrong side of Mangrove Island to paddle to, but surprisingly you can paddle right through the middle of it (at the right tide I guess).
Soon found the well hidden cache, and now to work out how to get it without emptying it into the river.
Dry and intact. Left: a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
Brought through for mileage: 3 Bros, Aust Light Houses, B 2 B ingot, I Bashed at MidWest 2007, Iconic Bridges, Just Monkeying Around Oz, Little Moo, PAP, Trackabulldog, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, and trackable shirt.
TFTC mini-series and paddle The Hancock Clan

Oh yeah, this will be Bookmarked for the Challenging Cache thesis

On our way with one down and ? to go. Great spot TFTC

I was actually excited to be finally doing this series. #3 was the first cache I attempted. It was a DNF becaiuse it wasn't there but it got me hooked. I was happy to see it replaced but then my wing-man was out of action for a while so I had to wait until the old bugger was back on his feet. (no name no packdrilll). We'd had a very successful run in the Bay this morning so this was a great way to cap it off.
The coordinates were spot-on and the tide was nice and high so the caches were easily located. Soon had the codes to solve the bonus cache!. Many thanks for the adventure Hancocks.

Nice place for a cache on a rainy day on a canoe hike to East Hills.
Found with Baggey & some GeoScouts.
Left Travel Bug - Fishing Bell - AHWYR2.
TFTC.

Found with bouw2102 on canoe weekend with scouts.
Tftc

Found this with Xelanhoj. Having done #2 first, we had a better idea what to expect. We did this at high tide, and got a bit of a surprise when we went into the middle of Woronora River, I jumped out of the boat for a swim and found I could stand on the bottom! I thought it would have been deeper, considering the size of the river and time of day. Good fun finding. Thanks for the cache.

This was our second stop today. Tftc. A bit easierthan the first

This entry was edited by xelanhoj on Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 06:16:10 UTC.

TFTC found with nicksmyname

Very nice cache. Definetly needs to be high tide. We were about two hours off the high tide and it was getting a little hard to get to.
Bring your own pen. we forgot and missed out on adding to the log.
TFTC.

Out paddling on a clear and sunny Sunday morning. I headed across here after visiting the Oyster Farms. Not too much traffic on the river yet, though a few passing boats made a few waves to contend with as I signed the log.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache The Hancock Clan!
best wishes,
Wal

Taking our leave of No 2 we retraced our course a little to round the point and head up the Woronora. Briefly we were paddling into a stiff little head wind which meant we were playfully splashed as the bows of our kayaks cut through the small waves. Soon as we crossed over to the eastern shore we found ourselves out of the wind as we piloted our craft along the edge of the mangrove clad shore. In a trice we were at GZ and once again - thanks to the fullness of the tide - we were easily able to retrieve the cache and complete the duties. The cache placement methodology for this series is very good and hopefully will ensure the caches are long lived.

Having started at no. 2 we rounded the convergence and paddled upstream along the Woronora for a bit. Thankfully the wind eased and peacefully we paddled amongst the mangroves. The cache was again quickly retrieved, thanks to the high tide. Remembering to note the additional info. we headed up stream to no. 3.

My joggers were destroyed in the process but a small price to pay.

Found with the aid of Froggy 69, and one of Liverpool SES's floodboat and crew. A much easier approach than #2 where we ran aground, without even getting to GZ.
Thanks THC.

What better way to spend a warm Saturday afternoon kayaking on the beautiful Georges River? Combine it with a bit of geocaching of course. This was an easy find with the tide an hour past full - only had to walk a few steps in the mud.
TNLN. TFTC.

[blue]ABCD: A Botany Bay By Boat Caching Day[/blue]

Back on the bay again with two goals: To hide two caches around Towra Point and to finalize the On Yer Boat series. The weather forecast was gorgeous and who knows how many such opportunities we'll have before the strong winter hits in.

Fully equipped with all travel bugs, Koolkath drove the boat up the Georges River, only one goal in mind, straight into Woronora River. I took over and approached the island from the various sides to estimate where we may have the shortest mud walk. If you studied optics, you'll certainly know that refraction is based on a similar principle: The light optimizes its path in time to travel a longer distance in the faster medium (water) to reduce the length it needs to be in the slower (mud). However, we did not do it fully that smart - or have you ever seen light spinning forth and back around when approaching its destination? Maybe Einstein has, in his dreams! Drove between Mangrove Island and Como main land and, of course, got stuck such that we had to row out - with only one paddle. That remembers me well the rafting on the Bavarian lakes back in my youth! Pretty sure now from which side the best approach would be, drove to the closest point and off I went in The Arkaroo's style: barefoot of course! come on, it's not a city cache where you need to wear shoes - and I am sure, a mud cure is good for your cultures if you develop smelly feet. On top of that, you get a free massage. First tickled by mud oysters - gently, gently - then you walk on a nail board of mangrove air roots. I warned Koolkath not to approach too close as I don't see the necessity of these nails piercing the hull of the rubber duck.

See, we did it smart, this time: Only 30m of mud, the cache was straight there! [red]No blood![/red] Relax on the tree and sign the second find on the log. Seems Sky Dog came after us but is faster in logging on the internet.

[green]An important little thing you can blame me for: Sitting on the tree, I dropped the pen from the cache. Recovered it, but it was humid, so I dried it with my clothes and ... put it in my pocket and forgot! I only realized this when I opened On Yer Boat #2 later on, finding a similar pen. So the latter cache has now 2 pens and #1 is BYOP. Anyway, a good cacher should always have a pen when preparing for a seek - unless spontaneously passing. Sorry for that, gents. The bonus cache will get a geocoin and favorite for this mistake![/green]

The Arkaroo - who loves the mountains and the waters.

Caching Team:

* The Arkaroo

* KoolKath

Travel Bugs visiting:

* Arkaroo's Treasure (TB38AN6)

* Blue Desert Drive (TB3ZQ7E)

* Lighthouse TB (TB1RN52)

* Caching the Slopes (TB42945)

It's about time we had a go at this series, since they are the close relatives of my series further up the river.
OK, first piece of advice is to do this at high tide. Also, wear shoes that you don't mind getting wet. Thongs aren't going to do the job, and I think you would be shredded in bare feet. Lastly, prepare to wade through a lot of mud!

This one turned up pretty quickly.
Looks like Arkaroo was here just ahead of us today.
No pen in the cache, and I didn't bring one, so it was the old "twig dipped in mud" trick.
Thanks HC's

*FTF* whew!
Well, as this series was sitting waiting for a find, and tomorrow is a long weekend, with tons of chance for others to get afloat, I had to borrow a canoe from the scout hall and head there today.
About 11am my wife & I got on the water at Como, and headed towards the cache - a couple of minutes at GZ (and with the clue read - which really stated the obvious anyway) and the cache was spotted, grabbed, signed and replaced.
Find #697 completed.
A great cache, well placed/hidden/disguised, and off to #2.
TNLN

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