Little Critters - D Greenfields, Western Australia, Australia
By Mistraluna on 27-Dec-12. Waypoint GC43C1Y

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.

Found it. TFTC

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Finished this series a while back but this one was MIA at the time I think.... Glad to get this one ticked off

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Logged in book. Put new pencil in

Thanks for the find...

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

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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 in an obvious spot

Four down, and four more to come

TFTC

Not the easiest one to get to with it being in a fenced off revegation area

Back to get the last critter today. Now off to the final. TFTC Mistraluna.

Found it

A great day of caching, in Furnissdale and surrounding areas, which we highly recommend.
We enjoyed the small series and some other hides, which gave us a fun day out.
Noticed that this cache had been replaced, so while out on the geo-bike, we thought we would take a look.
This was a quick ride-by.
Thanks for the hunt today, Mistraluna.

Went to check on this one. Looks like the people doing the revegetation along the waterside pathway have buried the cache well and truly. I tried excavating where I thought it should be, but no joy. So I popped in a replacement cache and critter.

No smiley here. Looked high & low. Couldn't locate this one. TFTC Mistraluna.

Found it

Lovelly walkway to this cache amongst the paperbarks, until eldest kid pushed the youngest kid off it into the water.

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TFTC. A nice easy find

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Another quick and easy find this wet tuesday morning.
Caching with the x-trailers.
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Found on a somewhat wet and overcast day
Nice little series to do
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Gee glad no muggles look at me... Signed the log. Thanks Mistraluna.

Back for more finds along the trail, this time with the inlaws and nieces along for the ride. Anna (3) helped us find this one, and liked that there were critters in the cache!

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. I thought this one would be quicker from the south. Eventually did it from the north. TFTC

Such a lovely walk along here it does the heart good.

TFTC. Mistraluna

Getting wetter. TFTC. No trackable inside.

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Tftc, nice walk trail!

mossies & rain don't mix

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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 2322

tftc quick find here

Went out between showers to find a few caches. This was one we found.
A very nice walk along the lakes edge
Thanks Mistraluna

Lots of birds to see on walk. Another great find. TFTC

TFTC, out to get this series done.

out again with geo-daughter & geo dog...

[:(!] 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.

A quick find, not a fan of where the cache was located 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!

A gingerly grab and we had all the info required to finish this series off.

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 fourth 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.

Right at GZ was a plastic barrier and orange cones while some work is being done on the track for the next couple of weeks. The cache however was easily accessible and still safe and undamaged.

We had the most delightful surprise as we walked between caches C & D...a big splash, a couple of 'blows' and two dolphins appeared right beside us in the river not more than three metres away. How lucky were we??

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

A pleasant afternoon with a nice breeze to keep the mozies away, so ideal conditions to finish off this series after selling more duck race tickets during the day.
Another great riverside walk that we would not have found except for geocaching. The City Council really does a good job at providing this sort of infrastructure, its a pity more people don't use and enjoy it.

A quick find and clues obtained and off to the next one.

Thanks for the cache & the series Mistraluna [^]

Quick find once we got right spot

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. Another fairly quick find here 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.

I headed back here after having completed E, F, G & H ... decided on a path at the fork on the way, then realised that the decision was irrelevant. It took me a few minutes to find this one, but soon had it in hand. Signed the log and photographed the critter along with the data and headed off toward C thinking that I would discover a direct route back to my car from there via B and A . 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.

Carried on this relaxing scenic walk with the family. My daughter had a great time retrieving this one.

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.

Found with Moonlightz while on the pushy's

Just before we started a 22Km ride !!!

Found this afternoon with wot while out on a bike ride.
Was a nice easy find and a large nearby stick came in handy for retrieval
We then headed off on a 21km bike ride around Mandurah!
TFTH.

I think it was about here that we missed the turn but that worked out all ok as we remembered a different way from "years gone by"

Still enjoying the series........ moving along....

With Master 1 in his pram and Master 3 on his pushy, we started our big walk with Luna Maya for company. Soon we arrived at this one and begun the hunt... We searched the one which our GPSr suggested, before looking at the other It was then quickly found and we were on to the next. TFTC Mistraluna [^]

Found by Jasenjanine on our day out with her sons, who I think really enjoyed this series as a nice walk along the paths. The hint did help! SL TFTC Mistraluna

(catch up log as part chwiliwr team)

*FTF* with Chwiliwr.
Continued on down the path in the dark to this cache and made a reletively quick find.

Thanks Mistraluna for the cache.

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*FTF*
Continued on down the path in the dark to this cache and made a reletively quick find.

Thanks Mistraluna for the cache.