Little Critters - A Greenfields, Western Australia, Australia
By Mistraluna on 27-Dec-12. Waypoint GC43C0X

Time for this series to be put to bed.

Still working on this one - sorry for the delay.

These are next cab off the rank as far as maintenance goes - sorry, but have been kept busy with a spate of disappearing caches over the summer months.

School holidays have arrived so cache maintenance will be happening very soon.

I guess that I can be called a traditionalist because I really like caches that take you into nice areas. Combine that with nice weather, great company and the thrill of the hunt and it's perfect. The only things I don't do very well are making tricky finds and logging my finds.

I hope that the CO forgives me for a belated generic log because I really enjoyed this little outing and the lovely locations it took me to. Hopefully I'll get back to Mandurah and will get to see this area again.

A fun series and it would be great for kids. (Hmmm, maybe that's why I liked it so much)

Down for maintenance.

On my way to view a few rentals in the area and decided to collect a few caches on the way, most of them were quick finds with a few tricky one...TFTC

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Thanks for the find...

did this series with son on canoe down the river

Yay thanks

Fun

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Muggle partner came with me today so his 'man flu' can't be too bad or the fact was I didn't really give him an option
When I'm going to be this close to water I'd prefer not to cache alone in case of 'accidents'.

I downloaded this series and some around Meadow Springs area as hard to judge the weather until in the area and since it wasn't raining it was this series that was on the hit list for today.

Was a lovely walk to gz and a quick find by partner

Must watch the 'gopher brigade' from the nearby retirement village as they can approach without you knowing.
It was a lovely lady and her little dog out for a 'stroll' just as I was signing the log.

One down many more to come

TFTC

Poked and prodded. Looked and looked. Didn't find

Cheers

Decided on a trip to Mandurah today, to do some caching.
Many changes have been done in the town, since we lived there.
This is another short series, that we have had our eye on.
We had a fantastic bike ride along the river, and into the wet lands.
All the caches were well hidden and we located all, but 'D'.
Will have another look, on our next trip to Mandurah.
Many thanks for the cache, Mistraluna.

First cache of the series enjoying a lovely walk until I encountered a tiger snake on the path. Lucky for me he decided to leave.
TFTC Mistraluna.

Replaced damp logbook with a new one. All good again.

Log is wet, needs replacing

TFTC

Found it

This little critter had definately strayed from his home. I found him by chance about 30 meters upstream on the waters edge. I placed him back where he should have been and moved on after much searching.

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An easy find, TFTC

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A wet start to the day had The x-trailers, missymu and myself out walking the trail.
Found easily and took not of creature.
Took trackables to visit.
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Staying at the Top Tourist Caravan Park close to this great little series so headed of this morning even though weather forecast not so great
Enjoyed the walk and locating the caches
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Search until spotted it and signed the log. Thanks Mistraluna.

Heading home from checking out a new hiding location and decided to pop in and grab a couple of these before heading home for school pick up. This was a nice easy find and the coordinates were spot on. TFTC Mistraluna

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Waiting for my wife and so I thought I would have a go at some Mandurah caches that I have had my eye on for a good while. At last I'm finished. Thanks Mistraluna for a great series.

Beautiful morning for a walk in the delightful area and a nice find.

TFTC Mistraluna.

With the help of daylight and a low tide the cache was in hand quickily. GPS was pretty well spot on. TFTC

Having found C to H, our confidence was high, so we decided to try to find this at night by the light of the spooky yellow moon. The kids had a hoot walking by the river in the dark. The GPSR had me headed for a splash. We hunted around in the dark, looked underneath, and looked further afield in likely spots but no joy. The tide was quite high. We'll be back!

After much searching, we found it eventually. On to the next!

Decided to finally do this series, tftc

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This is weekend is the start of my assault to get back on track for 1000 cache finds for the year, To start I thought that I would attack the little critter series after work today,.

Accurate co ords made it fairly easy to find these caches. It does get dark in these parts quickly at this time of night, but my trusty LED torch provided ample light to find the last couple

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Thanks Mistaluna for this enjoyable walk and great series . [^]

This is my find number 2319

Never seen these caches before getting a premium membership? Sun came out so decided to bike to the series: this cache was very wet but log has stayed dry despite cache full of water. Dryed cache but tide is very high today.

Not too hard to find. TFTC

Yeh ... great day...

[:(!] Did a three day caching run to Mandurah with geowife to incorporate the event being held there "J & J Say G'Day to WA - (GC47DF1)", and picked up a few caches along the way and this was one of them, after booking into the Caravan Park near Pinjarra, we were off again in search of more caches, parked the geocar as close as to Little Critters - E (GC43C2K) and rode the push bike from there, on arrival at GZ I had the cache in hand within a couple of minutes.

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH Mistraluna.

Been meaning to do this one for a while. After being attacked by Mozzies tonight a continuation may b another day.

GPRS was telling me to go for a swim but logic suggested a better place TFTC

Headed out today with Holdfast7616 to grab a few caches. Noting the amount of time available to us, I decided to hit this series for maximum fun in the sun!

After grabbing the first few without too much trouble, we stuffed some driving directions and I ended up with us down this end of town. A nice walk around the path to this one and a quick find. Photo and numbers taken and away we went

Thanks for the cache Mistraluna

Cheers

Despite it getting on in the afternoon I hoped to have sufficient time to complete this series. And even though most of my blood had already been siphoned off at those recent caches I hoped to be able to survive the distance.
I have never been in these parts before and (despite the flying critters) it was well worth the journey. Thankfully they were mostly easy finds so didn't have to hang about too long as a target for the buzzing missiles, took note of all the necessary info and moved onto the next.
Would have liked to have found the final as well, but by this time was too tired and bitten to try for it in the dusk - with even more mozzies about (if that is possible...) so that will have to wait another day.
Thanks for a great series, Mistraluna - and heed her advice... take mozzie repellant!!

After visiting the thrombolites at Lake Clifton we hightailed it back to Mandurah hoping to complete the nine caches in the Little Critter series. This was our first find. The walking trail along the banks of the Serpentine is well sealed and nice and wide and the scenery is very pleasant. Surprisingly not many muggles using the trail today even though the weather has cooled a little and it is the weekend.

Took a photo of the 'critter' and made a note of the number in the cache. A promising start...
Thanks for the hide Mistraluna [^]

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After selling raffle tickets for the Duck race all afternoon, we decided we needed to take a walk and find a cache or 2 to relax a little.
There was a reasonable breeze to keep the mozies away so picked this series that was released while I was overseas as it would hopefully be less prone to mozie attack today.

There were a lot of muggles fishing along the river near where we parked at the bridges, luckily they did not extend up to this GZ. Quickly identified where GZ was and retrieved the cache and the required info.

Thanks for the cache & series Mistraluna [^] We look forward to completing the series over the next day or so.

Found after about 10 minutes as gps wasjumping

im not sure what i was thinking when i deciced to go out geocaching in 40 degree heat??? I managed to talk geo daughter KRISTYBELLE into coming with me so i filled up the esky with lots of water and headed down to mandurah. This one took about 10 minutes to find (i think the heat was getting to me) but recorded info and off to the next one TFTC Mistraluna

Great idea for a series and an interesting location, but, my goodness it was hot and still in there and the mozzies were ferocious we are still covered in bites. Thanks Mistraluna.

Joined with iluvtrekking for a days caching in Mandurah. Although it was a lovely walk along the river path, the mozzies were ferocious today which took away from the overall enjoyment. Still we pressed on and found all the required 'Little Critters', some of them leaving more of an impression on us.

I parked on the left bank below the Pinjarra Road bridge and set out to do this series on foot from there ... found critters A to H without any drama, but couldn't do the finale because I didn't bring a print-out and my smart-phone battery ran out, so I couldn't access the web-site. doh.

Quick find here in the second place I looked. Signed the log and photographed the critter along and the data. TFTH Mistraluna

All back up and ready to be found. Unexpected high tides due to recent cyclone up north meant a couple of the caches were compromised. Please take care to make sure caches are all securely in their spots and not going to be washed downstream in the next high tide. Thanks

Disabled for maintenance. Will be back asap.

A quick and easy find by the geo sister while we were checking on our cache just down the path.

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TFTC this series is going to be a hit with the whole family.

Awesome series...I really do enjoy this type of theme...as usual in my haste I did not read descriptions properly and we had to backtrack a little....great paths, highly recommended for bikes and mozzy spray a must......thank you Mistraluna

Generic Log for Little Critters - A through H.

After checking in at the nearby caravan park, Mickeydv and I rode over to complete this series just before 7pm. Despite multiple layers of insect repellent, the mozzies were still out in force so we were grateful that these caches were generally quick finds so we could keep moving on our bikes.

We had to visit the first 4 caches twice since we didn't initially realise we were required to record the type of animal as well as the letter and number. Since we had to ride back on the same system of paths, this was only a minor inconvenience.

The lengthiest find was actually the cache that was most exposed; it was closest to the water and in plain sight, just not where we were looking for it.

The paths are perfect for riding so I'd encourage others looking to complete the series to consider using bikes as a form of transport. It's an efficient way of logging 9 finds well within an hour.

Thanks for this "new" series, it was one of the highlights of our stay in Mandurah.

This series popped up in the email we recieved this morning and we quickly decided that our afternoon would be spent geocaching this trail.

We hopped onto our bikes and cycled over to LC - A from our base at Silver Sands arriving at the first cache at around 3pm. A short hunt and the cache and code A was in hand. On we travelled.

(catch up log as part of chwiliwr team)

Was after midnight by the time Chwiliwr walked around the loop from 'B' to this one. GPS had me in the wrong spot for some reason but he soon found it. Now to work out the final.

Thanks Mistraluna for the cache.

Well the FTF's were well and truly gone by the time I woke this morning, but I decided I would take the kids to do the series today. We were lucky to have Luna Maya to come along with us

This was the first we tackled in the series and it took us a little while to find! Although the GPSr suggested elsewhere we knew that it had to be there somewhere Eventually Luna Maya found the well hidden container, my GPSr suggested 5m away... TFTC Mistraluna, I can already tell I am going to enjoy this series [^]

What a beautiful, peaceful area I had not seen before. Out for the day with Jasenjanine and sons. Will have to return with Mr Luna Maya to do some fishing. What lucky people that live nearby! So we found the cache, SL and returned to its spot. TFTC Mistraluna, and on on ...

Was after midnight by the time I walked around the loop from 'B' to this one. GPS had me in the wrong spot for some reason but I soon found it. Now to work out the final.

Thanks Mistraluna for the cache.

Found with Moonlightz on a night caching trip.

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FTF with wot at 9:47pm. Nice hide.
The nearby horses came out to say hello to us as we walked past
TFTH!