Crochet for Beginners Westvale, Queensland, Australia
By Ginger Ninja on 17-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6NAJN

This was the furthest Northern cache which we found today.TBU joined in a team to hire a boat and to tackle caches on the Somerset Dam.We started our journey from North so this was one of the first caches.Tftc Ginger Ninja

Peppa had a plan. Hes been banging on about boating on Somerset for the last year and finally today was the day. The weather was less than perfect but Peppa, wayn0, Beardman75 and I set off in karicka to see if we could outrun the rain. There were some pretty impressive lightning strikes as we made our way around the peninsulas, but thankfully they were off in the distance. We pulled up near GZ and walked up and had no issues finding the cache. Tftc Ms MaddyFind #5053

There was a plan Im not sure who first suggested the plan, but it involved Beardman75, Davinells, wayn0 and I aboard the recently renamed Karicka attempting to collect as many Lake Somerset caches as possibleIt was left to wayn0 and I to make the walk into this cache as Davinells had to hold Karicka down The fact that we were walking towards the biggest lightning conductor in the area during a lightning storm wasnt the least bit concerning Signed the log after emptying out some waterThanks Ms Maddy

On the lake in a storm with geobuddies. Its what we do. Wheres the cache? Over there near the lightning arrester.. some people call them tall trees.. Okay then.. giddy-up

Team GSW found these cache today. With Davewazza and Stairman.

I AM GUR

Great Team GSW spent a great morning on the lake today tracking down the last few caches we never collected yesterday. The hire boat has done us well. The fog has been very thick making navigating by gps only, an essential.
It took us about 1 hour to get here. We found a nice place to anchor up and made a nice track to gz. Cache was in great condition.

TFTC

It was our first geocache for the day, and it took us about 50 min in our hire boat to make the trip up and around. We initially approached this cache from the west, but it looked quite shallow and swampy, and my experience from yesterday around the lillies was that it can quickly tangle the motor propeller. We elected to approach this geocache from the opposite direction, so took a drive around and launched from the east. This wasn't too bad, and we were able to park the boat and disembark without getting too wet (I was in my hiking shoes today). Given the length of time from the last find, I didn't have high hopes that this cache would still be around, so I brought a few spare maintenance supplies just in case. However, as we approached the GZ main stump, we saw the cache quite high of any possible water level. The cache container was in good shape, but the logbook was wet and saturated. We added a few new waterproof logbook pages to the container, and we signed as Team "GSW" (GurTheWanderer, stairman1, and David"W"azza). Thanks Ms Maddy for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance. It was also nice to have found this cache with 534 days [17.5 months / 1.46 years] of unfound love since its last find on 28/01/2022.

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During this extended weekend, it was a trip north to find the 65 Roses geoart in Kilcoy, followed by two days boating on Lake Somerset to defeat the Dark Side series joined with GurTheWanderer and stairman1.

Today, we were back on the water and after defeating the dark series lord yesterday, our plan was to head north and detour past the small traditional caches subset. The lake was at 80% capacity with not too much boating muggles about. We launched the boat from the Day Visitor Area's eastern boat ramp early at 07:00 hr, and the lake was still shrouded in mist/fog, which made navigation interesting. Another few hours passed whilst driving the boat and shuttled between geocaches, before returning back to the boat ramp to return our hire boat. We started to return home south passing through Somerset Dam before splitting, and my route was then south through Bryden and Dundas, and then west through Mount Glorious. My final drive/adventure was then the Goat Track up to Mount Nebo Road, and a walk from Boombana in D'Aguilar National Park. A near-perfect Winter weather day!

Down here visiting from Mackay, found with alphag_25. tftc.

27/1/22 Travelling down yesterday from Mackay to do some GeoArt caches. On our trip down lost a bearing buddy from boat trailer near Rocky. Then near Gin Gin blew a boat trailer tyre. Got both issues sorted as had spare parts. Arrived at Dam yesterday and was raining. Setup our camp at Somerset Camp Ground and got a good nights rest. Woke up 530am and on the water at 615am. Rain has moved on. First lot of caches supprised me on the landscape as different to other dams I have done. The water shoes definitely getting a work out. Found caches secured and gps co ordinates good. Have Geokid CAITLYN1105 hiking around with me which is good company. Thanks for the variety of puzzles to solve and some I did get assistance on as good value mysyeries. TFTCs Signed Logs.

Logging old caches originally found with alphag_25. Now have my own account and logging them separately so that i can claim the finds or not as the case may be. TFTC.

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks Ms Maddy (F=10083 H=161) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

We ventured further up the dam to make this one the last for today. It was a challenge to get ashore but we made it. We trekked to the cache and with a bit of though, extracted the cache and signed the log. Now to get out from the reeds! Thanks Ginger Ninja, found with beckNmonts, Alansee and micaparamedic.

This cache was our last for the day. And it was the hardest to get to! Weeds and reeds! Eventually we parked the boat, and spent some time unweeding the motor. Then we went to find the cache. It was soon discovered, but it took longer to extract than it did to find.

Thanks for placing the cache Ms Maddy.

Found in the company of McLookers, beckNmonts and Micaparamedic. We decided it was worth it to come and get this one after getting so many others.

Out on Somerset today with Mr CuriousQuest. His son in-law kindly brought us out on his boat and he fished while we cached. This cache was added to the list of solved puzzles to be found today. A quick find was made, thee log signed and we headed on our way. TFTC

Many thanks to my son-in-law who took us out in the boat while he did some fishing. SelvaGirls and I had a good day picking up quite a few of the geoart on Somerset. We didn't get them all but happy with the nice quick finds in one day. TFTC

When you see the cache name with this type of unlikely location it's hard to make a connection but in a whimsical kinda way it has.

We launched the kayak at the Day Area. There was just us and a boat coming in. It was a lovely morning.. warm, cloudy, light breeze. Ten minutes later it was pouring and the wind came up. Arriving at GZ it was hot and calm. Wow, what a lot of weather in half an hour! The view was stunning today... low cloud on the hills, birdlife everywhere and a total lack-of-boats quiet.

Unexpectedly we had a handy cache retrieval tool with us and after a slip stitch had the cache in our hands. Unfortunately the container had water in it and the log bag was torn but we were able to sign the wet log.. a new bag would work wonders though. Thanks for a very enjoyable cache Ms Maddy.

Out for the day with our friends Steve (otherwise known as Urdera) and Michelle to see how many of these Dark side caches we could get plus a few other caches that were tantalizingly placed nearby. This being one of them. We were on the water by 8am and we left the water at 4pm. We were sunburnt, scratched, tired and had enjoyed a wonderful adventure. Each piece of headland was different to the last. Some quite hilly others nice and flat. Grass not too high but sometimes where no trail was evident it was bush bashing through head high lantana etc. We saw cows, lots of rabbits, a huge goanna, two snake skins and several turtles. We had leisurely stops in scenic spots as we enjoyed lunch and morning and afternoon tea on the boat. Our thanks to Ms Maddy for placing this cache series and enhancing our enjoyment of the area and we would not have visited this area if it had not been for the caches.

Wow another awesome time caching, I just love getting out and caching, a big thanks to 4ando for this series.

A couple of weeks back I tried to organise a few regular suspects to come and grab the dark series. It wasn’t looking good as only one solid confirmation and three can’t confirm till last moment. Then it was a mad week to finish of the rest of the puzzle caches and be ready. A bunch of phone calls in between and a rough plan in place all of a sudden things changed and we had a group to attack this series. An overnight camp Friday, a few drinks and a few laughs. Saturday night brought the excitement and the stories to tell after the event.

A great day, a long and fun day, lots of laughs and some awesome caches. With Team Tyrrell setting off on kayak while we waited for the slow boat to be loaded and launched, then it was Willis007, Simber15 and CHAMAD following up in a “hasty” pace, we had turtles asking us if we needed a tow, we even got passed by a butterfly at one stage, however this was just added to the fun of the day. The caches took us all over the dam area with some great views and some nice cache placements. Mrs Simber15 cured her phobia of cows and Willis007 learnt how to deal with angry magpies. The bird life on the dam is remarkable, there were a couple of sightings of roos and rabbits but nothing could beat the views from the tops of the hills, just inspiring; surprisingly no DNF’s and all caches are in good condition.
I really had a great day, the memories of the day just added to the great caching experience. Thank you to all that came along and be ready for the next assault on the next geoart. Thank you to the CO for the time spent placing these and setting this up. If it took us a long day to collect them it must have taken you weeks to organise and to set them out.

Included in our day were a few Traditional caches, “can’t leave a man behind”, we grabbed these in our days boating as well, thanks for the placements.

That was yesterday, so with the boat hire still available it was an hour ride up to grab this one today, then the hour return. It was well worth the effort this morning, such a beautiful day and the bird life up here was just in abundance, thank you for the placement, all good with this cache.

We had an enormous day on the lake yesterday collecting the Darkside geo art and with some hours left on the boat hire we decided to take the SS Slow Boat north one more time to add our names to this log sheet. An hour up, three mins on land and an hour back! Loved the scenery and would happily come back to spend more time on the water up here. Thankyou for bringing us out here.

After a sensational day out on the water yesterday, our caching super group still had the premier vessel SS Slow Boat so decided to power up this way to learn some crochet tips.
When we eventually arrived and disembarked in the most elegant of ways, the cache was found quickly. Log signed, cache replaced as found, we boarded SS Slow Boat and powered back to camp. It was such a lovely morning, I was more than happy to be chugging around the lake!
A fav from me as it was our farewell to the lake cache. Thanks Ginger Ninja for bringing us here.

Yay, I FINALLY got to get out to finding this cache! It has been on my 'To Do' list for a long time. And what a blast of a day this was. Muddling through puzzles and trees and stumps and having a jolly great time!

We had such a great time, Captain Tenkae, stortigirls, E_Smiley and I, collecting about 50 caches in the area on this beautiful day. We clocked up quite a few boat kms and the walking kms added up too. I may have ended up 'accidentally' in the water when it got a bit hot. Beautiful!

Thanks for placing this cache here, Ms Ginger Ninja, was great catching up with you the other day, hope to do so again soon.

After a big day on the water our group had a little time up their sleeves, so we set sail for this cache. An amazing amount of black swans dotted the Lake as we approached; absolutely gorgeous. We all got out of the boat once we reached land and headed toward gz. A little teamwork was required to retrieve the container, then all names were added to the log. Thanks for the cache Ms Maddy and the amazing wildlife experience on the way to it!

Fantastic day with Tenkae, Car0 and Stortigirls! We collectively signed as Team ACE A (our real name initials) or AACE or sometimes our caching names, depending on our mood.
We were meant to hire a tinny today but we were late to book a full day so Tenkae decided to buy a boat instead! She's always full of surprises.
Cruising was much faster and more fun! We managed to pick up 50+ caches including this traditionals up north from 7 am to 4 pm.
Great day overall. So much laughter and catching up while caching. Amazing teamwork and camaraderie on board Oasis of the lake. Entertainment, food and activities were much better than the Royal Caribbean version, Covid-free was a special bonus.
Thanks for the cache Ginger Ninja. Enjoyed the hunt.

We have just finished the dark side series and this d/t was too good to leave behind so off we motored... so many swans... tftc

COs- Currently in the process of catching up on my logging backlog- some of it, I'm embarrassed to say extends back a number of years.
I'm logging each cache on the date that I actually visited it, not the day I'm logging. Cheers??



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We'd been busy beavers solving this series and could finally come and collect the goodies here. It took us 3 days in a slow boat but we had a great time out on the water and being away from home.
As Ratty?? said to Mole??...
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
We didn't mess about too much though or we wouldn't have found them all in the time we had the boat.

The logs were signed as either team GERSH or sometimes GRESH, depending on the memory of the signee and the caches were where our coords led us and no issues were encountered.

We saw plenty of turtles and cows, both live and not so lively, also all sorts of birds. There must have been plenty of fish too by the number of muggles fishing. We had a good haul too but not of what you could have thrown in the pan.????

One highlight here was finally getting my first D/T loop with this series although sadly I wasn't aware of it at the time. Probably just as well as I may have capsized the tub in my excitement! No happy dancing possible in a plastic tinnie without soggy consequences!???????
I'm pretty certain this is the one we saw the swans at.
TFTC??

TFTC smile 7150 out and about with Hatzoff, RoddyC,Snickersallan, having a great time boating , walking, caching ,and thanks to my fur baby sitter without you I would be up the creek without a paddle



Thank you, Ginger Ninja, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

We decided to join forces for a few day's caching on Lake Somerset. Our first day, and we are motoring our boats to do the northern end where there are some traditional, caches, then start on the caches of the Dark Side series.

All logs were signed as "G.E.R.S.H."
(Grannysmith1947, echocahe1, RoddyC, Snickersallan and hatzofff).

On the map, it looked as if this one was in the water, but Google Earth gave a better idea. As we approached GZ in the distance, we thought that we could see reeds in the water ahead of us, but it turned out to be a bank of swans!

I soon nudged the boat as close as we could get and tied up to a log end - enough to hold us for now. Soon on dry land and victory was ours.

Cache located, log signed and all replaced as found. TFTC, Ginger Ninja, at 10:50 AM on September 3, 2020.

Another Great day out doors and on and around the water.

Great day, great weather, great company.


All caches signed as GERSH (Granny Smith 1947, echocage1, RoddyC, Snickersallan, hatzofff)
TFTC Ginger Ninja

Visiting from the Gold Coast and spending several days in the local area. This is our first day on the water after hiring a neat little tinnie to get us to and from the various islands and we certainly enjoyed every minute of it especially with the large volume of different types of birds flying around or just keeping a watchful eye on us combined with the herds of cows coming & going.
To save on paper, all our logs were signed as Team GERSH (grannysmith1947, echocage1, RoddyC, Snickersallan and hatzofff)
Well done CO, thank you.


TFTC Ginger Ninja
Found September 3, 2020

Out and about at Somerset Dam with El Peregrinos doing some of the Dark side series and after finished the ones at the top of the dam headed out to grab this one.

Once at GZ it was a short search and the cache was soon in hand.

TFTC Ms Maddy

Tftc. A team of six out on the water today. Had a lot of fun getting caches.

This was the last of the northern traditionals out of the way, now it was onto the Darth art and finally getting rid of the rebel rebellion from this corner of the universe. Good to see the rainfall has hit the right areas with the land greening up and the water level rising. Thanks GN for maintaining this cache. Log signed as The '6' Sith.

Group effort around the lake today - all logs signed as "The Sith". A few traditionals to get us underway. Quick find at the GZ. Very glad to be using a powered boat - my usual kayak would have struggled to get me to here. TFTC!

To we who dwell in the Force, normal life is little more than pretense. Our only actions of significance are those we undertake in service to the dark side.
“To be a Sith is to taste freedom and to know victory.”
We were today The Sith and we indeed tasted the freedom of boating on the lake . At the end of a day where litres of sweat were lost we had claimed victory with the Dark Side conquered and a few traditionals as well !!! An enormous team effort and a few cows disturbed by the Force. A brilliant art and the trads were awesome too! Congratulations to Ardom on his 5000 find and 6th DT loop. Bestowing congrats on TeamARF for a 4000 target achieved ! What a day!!!

Out caching with a group of 6, plus one semi-muggle boat driver
With the Star Wars theme, 6 of us caching together today, and being Ardom’s 6th D/T loops we decided on the team name, The Sith!
The Lake was beautiful and quiet, I saw lots of turtles and turtle shells today - a ridiculous amount of inquisitive cows, and one cute little fox!
Another amazing adventure with an amazing team. Thanks for the caches and the effort that went into placing them

Finally come today has. Yes, hrrrm. Changed and evolved over the time plans have. Our name for the day the Sith was.. Yrsssss.. Found slowly caches were. Long and hot the day was. Hrmmm. Complete we are.

Enough Yoda! We truly had a fabulous day, the weather was perfect although very warm and humid. The dam ever so quiet thanks to the ban on ‘in water’ activities after the rains. We did get stopped by SEQ Water doing a check on all watercraft and thankfully we both passed being fully kitted out boats and four licensed drivers between the seven of us. I am thankful that we upgraded our motor last year as dang that spread is huge!!! Even though the second boat was much zipper than ours we still managed to hold our own and get the wind in our hair.

Huge thanks to my muggle husband who drove our boat and managed to get us in and out of some tricky spots. Lots of debris up the top end and we may have clunked on a couple of submerged trees. The turtles in the water were curious things almost as much as the cows who at one memorable point thundered past us and down the cow track to the skinny bit of the island about 2m from the front end of the boat where Mr JACS was having a catnap!

I was pleased to see the growing tick piles of caches done growing bigger and bigger, because I was done!!! So glad to be able to finally say this fabulous Geo-art is finished. Congratulations to both, Ardom who completed his 6th DT loop and 5000th Cache and Team ARF who achieved his 4000th Cache.

Mrs slow puncture and I had a plan today to turn Somerset dam into all smileys. We had gathered most of the caches here and mrs slow puncture only ended up needing I more and I needed 10.This was our fourth find today and after finding a rabbit island cache which is no longer an island we saw we had a big paddle ahead but seeing the water has dropped so far we thought we would paddle across from rabbit island and try walking 1.5km. We were not confident but as we got closer we were happy to see we could do it. By now the sun was beating down and it was probably around 40 degrees so lucky we had water. The cows had ventured over to look at us . We tried to reach the cache but it was hooked up high. Be ok if we were tall . So in the end I got on mrs slow punctures shoulders and I managed to reach it. This was such a fun cache to find thanks for placing it here for us to enjoy . I just hope they got the rain they predicted today.

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Saturday. This was the last cache on Somerset Dam for Slow Puncture to find and turn the whole place into a full lot of smileys. I was out today with Que Sera and we had paddled around to the other nearby caches and looked at how there were meant to be islands – but now there was land with visible tell-tale signs of where the water level had been previously. We eyed off this cache and formulated a plan of attack. We decided to take the direct route to this one and made good time! Nearing GZ, we found we were walking on what was the driest piece of land I’ve ever walked on. The cracks in the old mud were wide and I reckon there were spots you could lose your foot in. We made good time however, and once we reached GZ, we looked up.

We managed to find a stick to lever out our quarry but it was hooked right up the top! Nothing for it but to get Que Sera to sit on top of my shoulders and I stood up and we managed to snaffle the cache container that way Que Sera had the honours of putting our names into the log and we replaced the container back to its hidey spot. We were watched by a whole herd of cows who were letting us know they weren’t too happy with us being there, but after a while they moved on to what should have been greener pastures, but at least they moved on. They were mooing so loudly I thought everyone within cooee could hear them . It was lovely to visit this far up the dam. Looking forward to the day when the water level is higher again in this spot.

This was the only cache found by SP on today's trip.

Thanks ***Ms Maddy***, for showing us this place.

bella at waggy wanted a clean sweep of the dam and this one was included.
The VERY shallow water explains why there has been no finders since March.

Thanks

This trip had many targets but things changed due to fires, lack of boat hire times on a Friday and so on. The end result was dahumbug and B@W spent two days on the water instead of one on the water and one on the Bluff which due to the heat the number of steps taken was probably just as well as despite having a boat we covered plenty of ground on foot not helped by some very low water levels and that the hire boat so slow.
As a result of the leisurely opening times we headed back into town to brighten the start to our caching day although it was not without issue.
We picked up the boat at Somerset Caravan Park and lets just say the speed to get us in the water matched the speed of the boat but we were grateful we could get a craft and it had a sunshade cover.
So with the late launch we changed our plans to two days on the water and decided to get these ones up north before engaging with the art work.
Saw some roos, rabbits, cattle and bird life on the way round.
Due to the low water levels the approach was very shallow and we headed up with a 500m water starting in the mud and shallows
No problem making the find, We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

Staying at Somerset dam for a few days where we hired a boat to explore. Back in the area and realised we missed logging this one at the time so this is a late log as we were so focused on the Dark Side of the Moon series
TFTC Ginger Ninja

Out on the lake today with Dora the Explorer! and Phil Serenity on their jetski. They had previously found this cache however I had not so we headed further up the lake and headed over to GZ. It was not too long before I had the cache in hand.

Plenty of bird life on the lake today.

Find #1960

TFTC ***Ms Maddy***

All done all good thanks for my mate's boat ! TFTC

Lovely quiet location. A bit windy on the water. Saw lots of cows grazing by the water. With Geowife Dora the Explorer tracking to cache

Quick and easy find in a beautiful area

Heading to Somerset for a paddle this morning, then I'll be off to smell some roses in the afternoon and tomorrow. To cold to paddle real early, so I had time to round up some strays on the way.

9am was a good time to start the paddle. I had 3 to round up on the pond, and Kirkleagh was as good a place to launch as the other. The paddle from either boat ramp was almost the same distance to get to the caches I needed.

It was the perfect day for a paddle. The water was like glass as I set off.

Lots and lots of swans on the water near this one. Too many to count, gave up at 100.

An easy find at GZ.

That took us a while, struggled where to park the boat. Pants wet but a happy one

We only had one last cache to collect on the dam, as we were heading over to it we were lucky enough to see another flock of pelicans on the waters edge followed by a large group of swans. That was where the beauty ended for us, arriving close to GZ it looked anything but beautiful how do we get through those man sized weeds...we can feel a favourite point coming on:)

We kept going on a bit hoping to see some sort of entry, arriving at none, but we did see a beautiful thinning of weeds and it was like a mirage. Having no point but to wedge the ski in Mr 4ando decided to stay with it and sent Mrs 4ando in. After getting through the barrier I realised what a great spot it was in here, the grass wasn’t that long in some spots and could walk over to GZ.

Next hurdle, the taller of our team is still with the ski, found an improvised TOTT and could slide it in and under and up and on the fifth time managed to balance it out. Log was signed and now to get it back in, I couldn’t balance it long enough on my improvised TOTT, so tried gently tossing it, I’m stronger than what I thought, that made it go straight over. After using a couple of TOTT’s I managed to return it exactly how it was.

Now I’m not known for my navigational skills, turning around all that was seen was long weed…hmmm where did I leave Mr 4ando? Walked for a bit on a different trail then coming in and eventually spotted the high vis life jacket through the growth. Thanks for bringing us here, it would have been part of the dam that we probably wouldn’t have come up to if there wasn’t a cache here and it was an adventure, we dropped an FP.

Tftc Ms Maddy

We are nomads. Having left Perth WA in February 2014 we now live in our caravan and go wherever the will or caches take us.

catching up with El_Peregrinos for a few days so up to Toogoolawah we moved. Dratz so did the wet weather. Still the boys headed out onto Somerset Dam at 0630 for a morning of fun.

TFTC Ginger Ninja

It was an early start to the morning with FelixII to grab the caches on Somerset Dam
The good thing was the rain held off so it wasnt a really wet morning.
Thanks for placing the caches. Somerset Dam is an old favourite place of ours.

Some family friends were heading up to Somerset Dam for a day of wake boarding and invited us along. This provided a perfect opportunity for me to have a paddle out on the dam while the rest of the family was otherwise entertained. A paddle out from the Somerset Park day use area and back looked a fairly daunting proposition but some further research revealed an opportunity to be dropped to start the paddle a lot closer to this cache and continue on a one-way paddle to meet up with the family at the other end, saving a considerable amount of paddling.

Arriving at the starting point, there were a lot more cars in the parking area than I had expected. While I unpacked S.S. Portokali (TB8N7QF) and the rest of my equipment, my wife and daughter were being entertained by another would-be mariner who was having all sorts of problems with his engine and had to end up paddling back to shore to rectify matters. No sooner had the keel of the kayak touched the water, than my wife and daughter sped off in the car in a flurry of dust. No long, tearful bon voyages here!

The weather at the start was perfect for paddling - not too hot and barely a breath of breeze to stir a ripple on the water. Despite the number of cars in the car park I only spotted a couple of other boats trolling in the distance, and only the odd pelican and other water fowl to keep me company. Not sure of the best place to land, I picked a random spot and walked the rest of the distance at GZ. I didn't know whether I would face any long grass and the possibility of slithery friends so took my paddle for the walk, just in case. Nearing GZ I initially headed for the wrong item but that was soon corrected and a bit of dexterous manipulation later had the cache in hand to sign off on the log. One cache down, a lot more paddling to go. TFTC

We launched the yaks near the boat ramp in the day-use area and headed out for a day of fun on the water. This was our fifth and final cache find today.
Man alive!! This paddle was much longer than we initially thought it was going to be. But we did it!
Thanks to the hint and good coords this cache was a nice easy find. Cache and contents are in great condition.
Thanks Ms Maddy for the challenge and adding more fun to our day.

Found Ok

My current house sit has a canoe.
And I am allowed to use it.
So I planned a day out getting those last few dam caches that I have scattered around on Wivenhoe Dam and Somerset Dam. [^]
I found a reasonably close launch point and had very little wind getting to this one.
A quick find.
Thanks for the cache.

FTF @ 7:30am. Log to follow

23/07/2016, 7:29 AM Find #939 *FTF*

I have been meaning to get up to Somerset for a little while because there's a D/T I need but it was so far away.

When I saw that the CO had been up here and places this cache I thought maybe I should come up this weekend if the FTF is still available. I put the cache on watch but fully expected it to be grabbed by someone during the week.

Come Friday night, it still had not been found so I cemented my plans to make the trip.

I wanted to get an early start so I was on the water by 7am and at the island by 7:30am. From there it was a short walk and an even shorter search. (There aren't many features on this island).

I took the TB to move along although I'm not sure if I'll be visiting any castles anytime soon. Thanks for the nano. I'll have to find somewhere to place it.

TFTC

Well this was a challenging day cruising to Rabbit Island caches from the Eastern launch point but I do like making caches entertaining and exploring parts of the world where other cachers may not have ventured. With the rainy cloudy weather clearing we set off a tad late for this journey and made it back to the launch point a tad late in the afternoon. All told about 14. 1 km round trip and worthy maiden voyage for the Orange Pirate vessel captained by my accomplice for the afternoon the sea wench Ms Maddy.

While I first suspect she may not be speaking to me when she realised the alternate route was significantly less distance to travel all seemed forgiven when this cache was hidden on the return journey. Great to see another cahce in a back blocks of the lake.

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Published

Dropped off the Pink Unicorn TB to continue its adventures. Please help it on its journey as it has a mission!