NATURE'S DOONA Trevallyn, Tasmania, Australia
By thomarter on 21-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3P16F

No luck here today unfortunately

Thanks for the CacheFind#163Search/SL Time=5M/14:37Today Found/DNF=10/1

Searched for ages, GPS might be a bit off

Hello thomarter thank you for the cache

A nice quick find.

Today I came up to find some caches in this recreation area.

Found on Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 1037

**TFTC**

Spent a while looking for this one but to no avail! Will need to try again another day!

While down here on holidays we decided to find a few random ones to get an idea of the area. We'll return again another day to find more and explore.
It was an easy and enjoyable walk to GZ. All was good with the cache.
TFTC

Found it.
Lots of trees down in the area made it a bit more cozy under the doona

Nice quiet spot not far off the track, TFTC

26 Apr 2022

Found ‘NATURE'S DOONA’ (GC3P16F).

Thanks For placing and maintaining The Traditional Cache thomarter.

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A little damp. Tftc

Easy find but these leeches are eating me alive

Morning walk out with some muggle mates who patiently waited while I darted up here to make the find. Thanks

Relatively quick find in a gorgeohs area tftc

First cache i've looked for in a while and I walked straight up to it, unlike the first three times a while ago. TFTC

Found!

Thanks! Sat here for a while listening to the ravens have a chat!

Found after a lot of searching

TFTC

3 in Day. Very nice trip to get there.

Keeping an eye out for snakes as well as caches this time haha ️️️

12:39 I walked by and didn't see it. Only after a while of searching did I find it. Thanks.

Absolutely loving this walk around the gorge.
TFTC

From 23.09 until 24.11.2019 Stadibast and I spent our holidays in Australia.
During the first four weeks we drove with a camper van from Darwin to Perth along the West coast and its amazing national parks, in which we made several hiking tours.
After that we flew to the wonderful green Tasmania for a roundtrip lasting two weeks.
For the last three weeks we went back to the continent and followed the South-East-Coast from Melbourne to Sydney.
We had impressive nine weeks in Australia, in which we hiked through various national parks, visited interesting sights and met many friendly and helpful people.
Thanks to all owners for setting and maintaining their caches.
TftC
black_dog2402

Tftc had a lovely family walk today and always enjoy finding your caches

TFTF

A quick find on approach to gz after finding the multi near by.

I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. Given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After over 5000 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 70 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before the end of next year. It's surprising how much is has increase since doing this.

TFTC

Nice stroll up penstock ladder past mountain goat multi and onto this cache, all before it pours on us! Lol tftc

Having walked down to the old power station, we crossed over and headed up the steps to here. It turned out to be a quick find and we managed to spot a wallaby too.

Thanks to thomarter for placing this cache.

Nice easy find after Duck Reach. TFTC.

A pretty little find TFTC!

Looked for a while but no luck.

Unfortunately I DNF for this one looked and looked with AddisonPascal. Saw I little fern but no cache
Maybe next time

As I was checking a nearby DNF cache I thought I'd walk on to this one as I was so close. All is in good order except that a finder had placed the container 1/2m away under some rocks - not under - as the name implies- a doona made by Nature. It's now back exactly where it should be snug and warm with it's 'doona' over the top!

I was enjoying a stroll around the reserve today
And as usual was following the GPS more often than actual trails
Much more fun that way !!
I like mixing a bit of orienteering with me caching.

And here at GZ,
under the blanket,
a cache was soon revealed

TFTC.

I cache your reality and substitute my own! TFTC.

Found this one on a geocache running tour around Trevallyn, thanks!

Took me a while but eventually found it when I just started looking in places that might be good to hide things in-the gps was not settling so I just had to be cache savvy! Thanks for all the exercise thomarter.

TFTC quick find and the 5th out of our hopefully 30

Back in Tassie for another great walking holiday. FSL Lenng

Great hint, took a bit of time but found it after a while! TFTH!!

Found this fairly easily but not sure if I put the right date on it, but I did forget to find some other nearby caches AND an interesting multi...will have to do the walk again soon! TFTC.

Nice spot. Thx

Nice easy one, nice spot, if a bit damp on the way in. Cache all good, TFTC

TFTC.

May the way of the Hero lead to the cache!

Great day caching

A tiny little fern friend

Tasmanian holiday geocache number 11 - and probably last - Cateract Gorge

We arrived early and the kids delighted in making me walk across the bridge at the first basin while they tried their hardest to make it wobble - I'm not keen on wobbly bridges but not actually as scared as they think, but it makes them laugh.
We return across the bridge and take a path deeper into the gorge, which is well paved and easy walking. The path passes a geocache but I miss the point where you head off the path so decided to get it on the way back. We press on and I spy one on the phone which is apparently just across another bridge so we decided to go for that one. We cross, another bridge of limited stability- more giggles while trying to make me scared, and we are surprised by a charming historical display in the power station building. Muggle hubby looks at that while I take pictures of scenery, he emerges and asks if I went and got it? Ah. No. But I will now. I look at my phone and it's bizarrely further away now we crossed the river. I mount the steps with geokid 8 and go up... And up... And up.... I check the phone but we seem to be getting no closer. Still we ascend, on and on. A wallaby crosses our path! Wow! I grab a picture and we keep going. My heart rate gets to 161 and I suspect my face is Beetroot red. We finally reach some sort of midden and I realise we are at the top. I check the phone- we are about 5 meters or so closer so we trek into the bush. We finally reach GZ and locate the cache. We make a swap and sign the log- I must find out what all these Tassies use for logbooks as they are ideally sized, like a miniature raffle ticket book but not perforated. We head back and about half way down the steps I get the "where are you?" Call from muggle hubby who is a bit bored. We get down and cross the bridge and head back up the other side of the gorge before "SNAKE!" The kids spot a middle sized snake on the path. I can see it's going some so I tell them all to stop still and let it go where it's headed. It passes by and we head back along to the recreational area near the Carpark. My Fitbit registered 108 floors climbed - so a good little walk! I never did get the other cache as they were all tired and no-one had the patience to wait for me.

Thanks for the holiday, Tasmania, it's been a blast!

Didn't know what to expect with the doona, but we found it OK.
A lovely dry, warm spot.
Thanks.

Found after some searching of area around a jumpy GPS reading. TFTC

Whilst in the area chasing a multi cache's final stage, I thought i'd better grab this cache to save hiking back up here again. Was a quick find once in the GZ
Slowly but surely ticking off all the caches in this reserve area.
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

Thanks thomarter for this cache. Alls good.

Tackled this one after conquering Mountain Goat's Multi, so was thankful for the lesser grades. GPSr was a little bouncy so this took a bit to locate, got there in the end.. thanks..!!

Tftc

Travelling around Australia and spending a few months in Tasmania.

Out on the GeoBike to knock over a few more of these caches. Thankfully no snakes came to visit today but oh such a bouncy rough ride! The GeoBike is not a mountain bike! Reckon there will be many aches and pains tomorrow! Talk about rock'n roll'n ridin'.

Looking forward to meeting local cachers at the Event on Saturday.

TFTC thomarter

Great find. Tftc.

TFTC took a little while to find but all good at GZ. Out for a walk in a beautiful area

Great walk! TFTC --- billcamz

found it.
TFTC

Was out in the open so put it back where it looked like it came from. Log dry rest was wet. TFTC

A brisk walk over from The Knob, there certainly was a little bit of doona about, but the find was made after careful interpretation of the hint.
Thanks for the cache, thomater !

Great walk thanks for the cache

Tftc

After "cleaning up" the northern section of the reserve, the focus switched to the "Hoo Hoo" end for a few more. This one had been visited back in May with little success. You know how annoying DNF's are when they can't be blamed on muggles? The "must find" reading just skyrockets. So when the CO posted one or two additional hints it was firmly on the radar. Interestingly, with the added info I walked straight to it & had CiH inside a minute. What's more, after signing the log, the GPS was telling me I was within 3m so I don't know why I was so confused last time. That makes 3 thomarter finds in a row. It would have been more but the rest in the area have all been done - except for those boaty ones, but sadly the Tardis doesn't float.

Quick find by geodad. TFTC

I checked on this today and am pleased to report that it is exactly where it should be. If you are finding a patch of many little ferns you are 7-10m too far to the left when looking uphill. I was wondering why people were saying there were so many possibilities and this explains it. My other thought was that more little ferns had grown since I hid the cache but this is not the case. There are only 2 possibilities in the few metres of GZ.

Nothing for us either. Curefully searched near anything that matched hint (there were a fair few). Read logs & spread the net out further. Found one or two classic hides for a small container but they were unoccupied. Gave up after about 40 mins searching. Not the sort of spot that would attract muggles though.

Nope, looked everywhere!

Been back and forth to this one several times and once again no such luck....... thomarter expect one of my 'charming' emails

This was a cool cache as I liked the riddle and surprisingly not that hard to find as geohubby honed in on it pretty quickly. TFTC!

No luck today finding this one. Maybe next time! Still a good excuse to be out walking.
best wishes,
Wal

Found while on a very enjoyable walk from town up through the gorge and back. Highly recommend to do this loop.
PS. The little fern is doing well.

after going for an epic slide on the wet moss on the ground on the way to gz i soon had the cache in hand great little hide now home for a shower and a clean up from all the mud lol

easy find on a rainny day lucky i got in and out before it got too heavy T.N.S.L

We are the best kept secret in the galaxy. We monitor, licence and police all alien activity on the Earth. We're your first, last, and only line of defense. We live in secret, we exist in shadow we are the men in black. T.F.T.C

Clear skies and not too wet underfoot. One of my hunt team had a major fall in the wet mossy mud just to provide some comic relief. He cheered himself up by actually finding the cache. The hint provided was very handy but many spots suited the description. TFTC

TFTC

Tftc, acting as German Hounds tonight

Well hidden cache - Good walk

This was our 4th cache find in the caching run & we found it at 12:15
So this now makes our total find count 6078.
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What a day it's been, trudging up and down mountains and along mountain bike tracks. Today must be a good day to go out caching, because we have been able to meet and chat with a couple of teams during our hunt today.

This cache was a nice cross country trek from the nearby [?] cache "Anyone for Equestrian".
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Coordinate Accuracy: Fair (Around 9 metres)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks thomarter for the hunt today.

Off the beaten track. Tucked the dooms in before we left. TNLN tFTC

Hi thomarter
Parked at the car parking area above the Duck Reach swing bridge and decided to look for all the caches in this area from there. Found this cache first without any difficulty and then moved to "Cross Tracks", "Not Another Brick in the Wall", Yesteryear Logging", "Half way up or down", "Between a rack and a huge rock" and the final one - "Little Knoll."

Found Nature's Doona at 1128hrs.

TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

Who would've thought?? Closing in on GZ we were surprised to stumble across a couple of fellow cachers searching for the doona. We joined them in the hunt and after widening our search area the cache was soon in hand. Nice to meet you Bruce and Marg from Jindy, you've certainly earned your caches travelling by push bike. Safe travels SLTN

#535 Scrambling around in every nook and crannie, Tassie2Heads appears from the scrub. Joining forces we searched and chatted. Thanks for your assistance, B reckoned he had already searched the obvious, but Tassie2Heads succesfully found the frustrating hidey in the end. Thanks for the kind words in your log. We did take the trusty steedsdown the Duck Reach penstock stairs, had lunch, found the gx on the other side and then hauled the steeds up the other side. We will MOST probably NOT attempt this circuit with our trusty steeds again! Happy trails. TFTC.

Took a bit to find this one but after an expanded search we achieved the find, SL, TNLN, TFTC

took a bit to find but got it in the end. TFTC

We spent a bit of time searching around the place before finally zooming in on the correct area. The cache is in excellent condition. Thanks thomarter

The "Class 2 Lever" was still in the cache along with the tag. The chain had broken thus the Class 2 Lever was not connected to it and the tag but was simply resting on the bottom of the container with the other swaps. The person who reported it missing must have been having a 'boy look' lol
I've brought it home to repair/shorten the chain so I can reconnect the parts before sending it on its way. I'll probably drop it off at another cache in the next week or so.

Just hiked up from power station. Fiancé had. Rest and I eventually found this one. Thanks. Trackable tag in there but no trackable.

Bright skies and a cool breeze made this an ideal time to walk through part of the Trevallyn Recreation Reserve. The one unexpected happening was when we arrived to park our car new Hoo Hoo Hut - there was a drummer in the hut with a full drum kit making a continuous racket (only the most optimistic would have called it music). So we set off rather quickly for this cache. It was a pleasant walk and after what seemed to be a short time, we neared GZ. As mentioned in the cache notes, we headed off track but our GPS was slow to settle in this environment. We looked around the area at sites consistent with the hint. After a short time the GPS settled and it pointed to a particular location. A survey of the immediate area and the cache was discovered. It was in good condition. TFTC thomarter and for bringing us back to this reserve.

This entry was edited by 2y'stassies on Friday, 16 November 2012 at 05:39:14 UTC.

Found it after a bit of searching. Beautiful day for a walk, no one around except lots of birds.

It was so fun looking for that geocache.
Thanks

TFTC! I loved the description on this cache. Nice easy find on a day out walking. Found with Elcato

Elcato and Zoobsx4 together found this cache, great team work!! 20/10/12 tftc

To lazy to drive any where today so a nice walk around the reserve will have to do. Thanks for the cache.

I had a good look around but decided to give up because I was treading on too many precious things! It is a beautiful reserve and maybe I'll be back some day.

Our GPSr was a bit all over the place this morning, but we soon had the cache in hand thanks to the clue. L: Bottle Opener TB. Thanks for organising the cache and getting us out of the house on this beautiful September Sunday morning.

Out and about In Tassie for a few weeks on holidays collecting caches. Quick find in a great area, thanks for bringing us here.

TFTC

Found eventually with my inaccurate gps having me 20 meters away.