Alexander Series #8 - Round 2 Glenfield, Western Australia, Australia
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Miss-Placed on 10-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6Q0J8
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I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, Miss-Placed, requesting additional time.
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Balayang
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An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.
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Balayang
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###Cache Maintenance Visit Required please.###
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.
The cache owner needs to:
* Investigate the situation and either restore the cache, or address any other issues, such as correcting the D/T rating if necessary.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done, and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.
Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary, or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**.
Alternatively:
* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.
In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Miss-Placed and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)
**I will check back in 30 days** to be see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*
The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is there, and in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.
Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia
This geocache has been brought to my attention as being in need of an Owner Maintenance visit, as the logs indicate that it is most likely missing, or else some other problem exists with the cache.
I agree that it certainly seems necessary to have it checked by the Cache Owner.
The cache owner needs to:
* Investigate the situation and either restore the cache, or address any other issues, such as correcting the D/T rating if necessary.
* Re-enable the cache by posting an Enable log
* Post an Owner Maintenance log to advise what has been done, and to clear any Needs Maintenance attribute which is present.
Otherwise :
* Post a Note Log to request more time if necessary, or provide other information..
**Do not use an Owner Maintenance log for this, that is for use only **when you actually do something to repair the cache**.
Alternatively:
* Archive the cache, and remove any remaining geo-litter from the site.
In the meantime, I've temporarily disabled the cache page to await owner action by Miss-Placed and to take it off the playing board to prevent further geocaching community inconvenience.
[Please see the maintenance section of the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachemaintenance)
**I will check back in 30 days** to be see that action has been by the CO.
If nothing has happened, I will assume that the cache has been abandoned and, unfortunately, I will need to Archive this cache.
*Caches archived because of lack of maintenance/abandonment will not be unarchived.*
The Geocaching Community needs to have a degree of certainty that a cache is there, and in good condition, waiting to be found, and the CO has a responsibility to maintain their caches.
Please see [my profile page](https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=Balayang) for additional information.
Thank you
Balayang
Community Reviewer -Australia
Dnf climb the tree had a look in all the bricks and the lot but couldn’t find anything
Found this one where we don’t think it should’ve been as the terrain is now definitely not a 3.5, signed the log, TFTC
Today in Geraldton we used to visit the Alexander Series. We were able to find most caches well. Unfortunately we couldn't find a few and some were quite tricky or well camouflaged. Thank you for the cans.
Hi there Miss-Placed. While out on the road today we found this cache after a short search - and the container and log are in good condition. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to Miss-Placed for this cache - our find 7909
We are on our way home from a wonderful few days spent exploring the Goldfields but there is still time to find a few more caches around Geraldton. TFTC Miss-Placed
MToday our tour - which began in Perth, WA , and led us thru Western, Northern and Southern Australia back to Perth, was from simply cruising around in Geraldton
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On the way we came to some interesting locations. Here we searched, found and logged this Tradi-Cache.
Weather was good in the morning and it should even get better during the day.
Thanks to 'Miss-Placed' for showing us this location, for the fun we had with 'Alexander Series #8 - Round 2' and the smiley. The search here and today didn't take too much time, fortunately.
Greetings from Germany and we hope to see you soon in the forest.
TFTC says H_M_A @ 27. September 2019 @ 17:09 o'clock @ [#13713](https://coord.info/GC6Q0J8)
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On the way we came to some interesting locations. Here we searched, found and logged this Tradi-Cache.
Weather was good in the morning and it should even get better during the day.
Thanks to 'Miss-Placed' for showing us this location, for the fun we had with 'Alexander Series #8 - Round 2' and the smiley. The search here and today didn't take too much time, fortunately.
Greetings from Germany and we hope to see you soon in the forest.
TFTC says H_M_A @ 27. September 2019 @ 17:09 o'clock @ [#13713](https://coord.info/GC6Q0J8)
Was a little stumped with this one so read back through previous comments for a little hint Love this hide, tested my agility! TFTC x
Had to sit on the fence and get down with a stick!! Had some laughs trying to put it back Found this one with Delnmax.
Phew we found it and we are very glad we did as it contained a jewel that we needed to give us our final clue. Thanks
This cache was found on the ground in plain sight. Replaced cache where we thought it came from. TFTC
This was above me, but managed a great pic of some of the residence.
Crusader beetle
Crusader beetle
Agility done for the day, the muggle walking his dog must have been mighty confused to see a grown woman in a tree, but I’d committed and wasn’t backing down tftc
Up in Geraldton for IGD and to clean up some more of the map, this little series some of the first of the ranks, happy to say we came UP trumps and walked away with a smilie, thanks for the parks and grabs and TFTC
Had us confused for a while but after reading the listing again the penny dropped.
In Geraldton for a couple of days of geocaching.
TFTC Miss-Placed this is find # 5083 for us.
In Geraldton for a couple of days of geocaching.
TFTC Miss-Placed this is find # 5083 for us.
Out and about in Geraldton WA and decided to go chase a few caches, Lucky we are staying nearby.
Log signed and off to the next.
TFTC
Log signed and off to the next.
TFTC
We arrived in Geraldton this morning and set up at the Batavia Coast Caravan Park. We had noted this series a few days ago and decided it would be great to do on our bikes. As it was such a lovely day we thought we might as well do it straight away. We got to number 20 when Mrs SKI’s bike let her down so she continued and found the last 2 while Mr SKI ride back to the caravan to get the car so we could transport the bike and the flat tyre home.
Out of the 22 caches in the Alexander series we found 21, only missing out on number 19. We had 2 goes on number 12 before finally locating it, finding number 13 and then backtracking as we hate to miss out!
We loved the variety of different hides, although we were messed around a few times when we thought we had a pattern worked out only to be proven wrong! We are still grumpy about number 19, but as we are here for a week we’ll probably go back for another shot!
Sorry about the generic log, we forgot the iPad we use to log as we go. We really appreciated the ride (except for the flat tyre) and the opportunity to grab a series of caches on our way. We also appreciated the variety in the caches and a few in particular that were clever and showed ingenuity.
TFTC
Out of the 22 caches in the Alexander series we found 21, only missing out on number 19. We had 2 goes on number 12 before finally locating it, finding number 13 and then backtracking as we hate to miss out!
We loved the variety of different hides, although we were messed around a few times when we thought we had a pattern worked out only to be proven wrong! We are still grumpy about number 19, but as we are here for a week we’ll probably go back for another shot!
Sorry about the generic log, we forgot the iPad we use to log as we go. We really appreciated the ride (except for the flat tyre) and the opportunity to grab a series of caches on our way. We also appreciated the variety in the caches and a few in particular that were clever and showed ingenuity.
TFTC
There was only one place this could be and it was. Mr Beetle did the honours here.
A good place to shelter too as it looked like we were about to get a shower. Luckily it didn't amount to anything and we were soon on our way.
Thanks.
A good place to shelter too as it looked like we were about to get a shower. Luckily it didn't amount to anything and we were soon on our way.
Thanks.
I’ve been caching with friends for a while, so decided to start up my own account. This is a brilliant series, I have loved every cache! Thanks for hiding it for me to find, and for taking the time to place a clever hide Miss-Placed. I did need to make a few PAF, but I got there in the end.
Got some hints from the previous people. Cool hiding space. Its a really cool one. Thanks for the cache.
Outnabout caching with Wollaston on a lovely day.
Cache definitely in place.
Cache definitely in place.
Find #996, had us going for a little while until we noticed the terrain level. Found with Team Outnabout while on holidays. Looking like we will hit the 1000 mark today. TFTC.
Arrived in Geraldton Sunday night and decided to head for the Alexander Series first thing in the morning for the Planetary Pursuit. I loved this series, all set along a barely used stretch of road and made up of all sorts of containers and hides - some easy and some fairly tricky - all of it was fun! I have missed a couple but will go back and try to finish them off later in the week. Thanks so much for this series of caches Miss-Placed!
Who doesn’t love climbing trees!
Who doesn’t love climbing trees!
Getting back into geocaching this morning (after a leisurely 2 year break!) prior to the remnants of Cyclone Joyce bringing rain.
Park and grab raid in the humidity. Number 8 of the Alexander Road series. Sneaky!! Thanks for the hides MissPlaced.
Park and grab raid in the humidity. Number 8 of the Alexander Road series. Sneaky!! Thanks for the hides MissPlaced.
On our trip from Geraldton to Kalbarri we‘ve made this powertrail, thanks for this one! 
Cheers from Switzerland
JoPe19
Cheers from Switzerland
JoPe19
Not sure what the cacher was on about with this cache. No new fences have been erected and cache is still in it's original location. Cache terrain remains the same.
There is a new fence here which may have impacted the cache. The terrain is not 3.5 but now a 1. Please Check.
On our way from Coral Bay to Geraldton, we decided to take some time to find some caches after the long trip.
These looked pretty good.
The Cache could be found after a short search.
Thank you for the nice series.
regards
DrSnuggels
These looked pretty good.
The Cache could be found after a short search.
Thank you for the nice series.
regards
DrSnuggels
Evacuated the task at hand. Then checked out the terrain/diff level and thought, have I not got this one. So couldn't resist giving it a crack. Good hide, tftc
Needed a cache today for the geo-calender and luckily ReticBob suggested trying this one again as we had both failed previously. After 10 minutes of not getting anywhere we resorted to phoning a friend for some divine guidance. Subsequent to say we eventually found it. SL TNLN TFTC Miss-Placed
Hate to admit it but like the previous log we also may be getting too old for this. May be next time. Thanks Miss-Placed
My sister is up from Mandurah so I took her out to see some of the sights. Thanks for all your effort hiding these I love the variety xxx
pug002 found it 23/10/2016, second time lucky, hey Geo Hubby you are getting too old for these one ha ha !
TFTC Miss-Placed
TFTC Miss-Placed
Found the cache quick but lost my faithful pen so if anyone has patience enough & need a pen then there's one in he corner of the fence - you can see it but the trick is to get it out lol. Tftc
Headed out early this morning with iluvtrekking with Nanson and surrounds as our destination. Of course there were other various locations to explore along the way and some great caches. After a big day we decided to do this series as we headed back towards Geraldton. Although we enjoyed the series, must say that there were very few 'free give aways' in the hides. Majority of the finds were well earned. Thanks Miss-Placed
After spending the day with richlink out in the countryside we decided to tackle this series on our last leg heading back into Geraldton. All in all this was not an easy series and we really had to earn our smilies. Thanks Miss-Placed
Headed up to Geraldton for 4 days to try and find as many caches as we could. Its been 6 months since we were last there and there has been so many new caches come out that we will need another trip there to find them all. We ended up finding 215 and about a dozen DNFS. We picked a few up on the way and did a detour on the way home to Mullewa and i must say the wildflowers are beautiful at the moment. We found a great variety of caches including a couple of wherigo,s, lots of field puzzles, multi,s and the highlight for the hubby was doing the chirp cache. I would like to say all caches were found quickly but that definately wasnt the case lol.... There was some very tricky and sneaky hides that took quite a while to find with a few we went back a couple of times to till we found them. We managed to find a few that we previously had DNFS on and it was was great finding a lot of creative cache containers especially some of the field puzzle ones. Thanks to everyone for the caches and hope to find a lot more on our next trip to geraldton....
Hi there Miss-Placed.
We found your cache **"Alexander Series #8 - Round 2"** at 12:58:00 PM today, so this makes our find count 14509.
Our plan for the day was to meet up with Everlasting and to attempt a Mystery Cache and grab the last souvenir of the month.
We started out fairly late because the rain just wouldn't let up until mid morning. When it eventually stopped we headed out to "Old Quarry Walk". Then after completing the mission we bagged a couple of FTF's out near the airport. Then as the sun was starting to hide once again we attempted a couple of caches Alexander caches that were close to our camp - - just in case the heavens wanted to open up once more.
**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.
We found your cache **"Alexander Series #8 - Round 2"** at 12:58:00 PM today, so this makes our find count 14509.
Our plan for the day was to meet up with Everlasting and to attempt a Mystery Cache and grab the last souvenir of the month.
We started out fairly late because the rain just wouldn't let up until mid morning. When it eventually stopped we headed out to "Old Quarry Walk". Then after completing the mission we bagged a couple of FTF's out near the airport. Then as the sun was starting to hide once again we attempted a couple of caches Alexander caches that were close to our camp - - just in case the heavens wanted to open up once more.
**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache around 2m from where our GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
Ian & Penny.
23027 found
Meet Ian & Penny, grab the last souvenir of the month. also some other caches. good company with them. [^][^]
Ian retrieved the cache for me
Thanks for organising the cache, Miss-Placed
Meet Ian & Penny, grab the last souvenir of the month. also some other caches. good company with them. [^][^]
Ian retrieved the cache for me
Thanks for organising the cache, Miss-Placed
I'm so glad that Monts begged me to take Maddox caching today, so that he and Casper could have some time out. As the youngest and most agile, he had the cache in hand, in moments. However, he needed me to perform the signing duties while he bragged about his quick find. I have a feeling that he looked over my shoulder this morning while Monts was checking up on Facebook. However, not one to dampen a junior cachers enthusiasm, I didn't let on. TFTC Miss-Placed
On a road trip to Gero for the IGD event with Kyzabra, jinta29 and SVKR_WA. Lots of good hearted banter was flung too and fro over the weekend while picking up several dozen caches about the place.
I needed a cache up Northampton way to fill a spot on a challenge I'm working towards ([GC3TR3M](https://coord.info/GC3TR3M)) and managed to convince the others that it would be good idea to take trip a little further north. On the way back we met up with Barnzy12 and cravo10 for a total of twelve eyes at several caches.
We decided to see how many of these we could knock off before lunch and came up with a group name of PGC (Perth Geocaching Coalition, or something).
Our resident monkey, jinta29, made the grab on this one.
Miss-Placed I found your cache at 12:08pm, this was the 22nd of 40 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3403. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.
SLTFTC
I needed a cache up Northampton way to fill a spot on a challenge I'm working towards ([GC3TR3M](https://coord.info/GC3TR3M)) and managed to convince the others that it would be good idea to take trip a little further north. On the way back we met up with Barnzy12 and cravo10 for a total of twelve eyes at several caches.
We decided to see how many of these we could knock off before lunch and came up with a group name of PGC (Perth Geocaching Coalition, or something).
Our resident monkey, jinta29, made the grab on this one.
Miss-Placed I found your cache at 12:08pm, this was the 22nd of 40 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 3403. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.
SLTFTC
In Geraldton today with Jinta29, Granett and Kyzabra for International Geocaching Day 2016
Headed out to Northampton to grab a few caches. On the way back we grabbed this series signed as PGC (Perth geocaching coalition)
Jinta29 is on a roll - he is just a machine
Miss-Placed. SVKR_WA found your cache on 20 August 2016. This find brings our finds count to 1480.
We have signed the log and replaced the hide as found.
Thanks for bringing us to this place.
Headed out to Northampton to grab a few caches. On the way back we grabbed this series signed as PGC (Perth geocaching coalition)
Jinta29 is on a roll - he is just a machine
Miss-Placed. SVKR_WA found your cache on 20 August 2016. This find brings our finds count to 1480.
We have signed the log and replaced the hide as found.
Thanks for bringing us to this place.
Headed to Geraldton for the International Geocaching Day event on Saturday 20th August.
Barnzy12 and I packed the car at 6am and headed North. Despite making a critical error by choosing the freeway to start the journey we then made it to Geraldton and checked into the motel.
Today was day two and started with a little tree climbing caches with a group of others.
We then headed further north today prior to returning to gero for the event at 2pm.
Signed log as a group Called PGC team or as cravo10 depending on who we were with at the time.
Tfth TFTC
Barnzy12 and I packed the car at 6am and headed North. Despite making a critical error by choosing the freeway to start the journey we then made it to Geraldton and checked into the motel.
Today was day two and started with a little tree climbing caches with a group of others.
We then headed further north today prior to returning to gero for the event at 2pm.
Signed log as a group Called PGC team or as cravo10 depending on who we were with at the time.
Tfth TFTC
The IGD Geraldton trip is fast becoming a MUST ATTEND weekend and this was my second trip up. Joining forces with Jinta29, Granett and SVKR_WA, we bundled into the SanteFe and headed up.
After a big day yesterday, we hit the ground running with an early start again today.
A couple of early first to finds, followed by some tree climbing, then a trip up to Northhampton.
We caught up with Barnzy12 and Cravo10 to smash out the series
signed as PGC
Miss-Placed - Kyzabra found your cache Alexander Series #8 - Round 2 . This is my find #24 today.The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!
After a big day yesterday, we hit the ground running with an early start again today.
A couple of early first to finds, followed by some tree climbing, then a trip up to Northhampton.
We caught up with Barnzy12 and Cravo10 to smash out the series
signed as PGC
Miss-Placed - Kyzabra found your cache Alexander Series #8 - Round 2 . This is my find #24 today.The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!
We teamed up with Barnzy and Cravo to start this series. The logs were signed as pgc (Perth Geocaching Coalition) . We only got to number 15 before heading off for the IGD event nearby. 
Thanks for the series.
The second day of our Geraldton IGD trip and we had a plan to grab a few oddball D/T rated caches around town and also a few caches north of Geraldton . Kyzabra, Granett, SVKR_WA and I had an early start today as we had a fair distance to cover. This one was on the list, thanks for the cache
The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!
. We only got to number 15 before heading off for the IGD event nearby. Thanks for the series. The second day of our Geraldton IGD trip and we had a plan to grab a few oddball D/T rated caches around town and also a few caches north of Geraldton . Kyzabra, Granett, SVKR_WA and I had an early start today as we had a fair distance to cover. This one was on the list, thanks for the cache The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!
TFTC! Today was day two of the "boys weekend" with me and Cravo heading up to Geraldton for IGD 2016, my third trip to this great part of our state and johns second. Think we will continue to do this every year? Especially with all of the new caches getting published around town!!
We picked up a number of new caches along the route and even some that we had missed on previous visits, being in a 4wd this year made it a lot easier to get to some of the hard to reach places that a 2wd would struggle to get to.
Started day two meeting up with Kyzabra, Jinta, Grannett, SVKR, M4YB, clan Wallace and others to grab some orange tree series caches. We grabbed two and missed two, with safety being a first
Priority, two of them were just simply too high up even with some pretty series ladders!!
We then headed out to Nanson, Nabawa and finally to Northampton to complete the Nabawa Bound caches and everything Inbetween whilst dodging cyclists on the "tour de Geraldton" as we dubbed it. Was some really nice country driving today, this is way I love about caching, getting out and seeing the state on remote country roads.
We headed into Northhampton and found our first cache at the window entrance to town, and were surprised not to see the motley crew of Kyzabra, Jinta, Grannett and SVKR as they were heading to Northampton from the orange tree series so I thought it only fitting to leave them a nice little note in the logbook. We grabbed a couple of other caches around town and were met up by the motley crew at one of them, before we basically joined forces to grab the caches between Northampton and Geraldton. With six sets of eyes the caches didn't really stand much of a chance, although we did have to PAF at one!!
We made our way back into town and grabbed a bunch of caches with the motley crew along the Alexander trail where we signed logs at team PGC, don't really know what it means but that's what we signed the first fifteen or so with until the motley crew decided they need lunch and went their own way and we continued to finish the series and met up with other cachers further down who were out enjoying the sunshine.
Grab a couple of other "must do" caches the chirp chirp cache (highly recommended), Roxy rotunda (previous multiple DNF), something fishy (think we've tried for about five times!!) which was great as we had no DNFs which is very good for Geraldton!!
After lunch we headed back to the room to get ready for the event, arriving slightly later than planned we were only there for a short time before caches were published!! Someone announced twenty four emails had come though and I loaded the map and started running north to the nearest cache, gaining some valuable meters on the competition
It was like a scene from the IKEA ad, with Cravo asking if he should get he car and me yelling back "GET THE CAR!!" So I legged it to the first cache and he got the car and picked me up, it was the first of about fifteen FTFs for the day, we
Completed all of the caches north of the event and then looped back around to grab the caches furthest north and then back toward the event. We had a couple of DNFS Which was disappointing.
We headed back to the event and had the pleasure of completing some of geraldtons finest caches, the shake rattle roll, emergency were awesome. We were one of the few teams that actually didn't need the CO to assist by bringing the key!! Definitely a favourite and probably easier doing it with a beer in hand by the foreshore!!
After finishing the event we had a quick drive out to grab the new plane caches, got 3/4 there and then headed down to the water to complete he whereigo cache (highly recommended) and the two traditionals on the walk. Can't wait for tomorrow's adventure.
Thanks to the local COs for their caches
We picked up a number of new caches along the route and even some that we had missed on previous visits, being in a 4wd this year made it a lot easier to get to some of the hard to reach places that a 2wd would struggle to get to.
Started day two meeting up with Kyzabra, Jinta, Grannett, SVKR, M4YB, clan Wallace and others to grab some orange tree series caches. We grabbed two and missed two, with safety being a first
Priority, two of them were just simply too high up even with some pretty series ladders!!
We then headed out to Nanson, Nabawa and finally to Northampton to complete the Nabawa Bound caches and everything Inbetween whilst dodging cyclists on the "tour de Geraldton" as we dubbed it. Was some really nice country driving today, this is way I love about caching, getting out and seeing the state on remote country roads.
We headed into Northhampton and found our first cache at the window entrance to town, and were surprised not to see the motley crew of Kyzabra, Jinta, Grannett and SVKR as they were heading to Northampton from the orange tree series so I thought it only fitting to leave them a nice little note in the logbook. We grabbed a couple of other caches around town and were met up by the motley crew at one of them, before we basically joined forces to grab the caches between Northampton and Geraldton. With six sets of eyes the caches didn't really stand much of a chance, although we did have to PAF at one!!
We made our way back into town and grabbed a bunch of caches with the motley crew along the Alexander trail where we signed logs at team PGC, don't really know what it means but that's what we signed the first fifteen or so with until the motley crew decided they need lunch and went their own way and we continued to finish the series and met up with other cachers further down who were out enjoying the sunshine.
Grab a couple of other "must do" caches the chirp chirp cache (highly recommended), Roxy rotunda (previous multiple DNF), something fishy (think we've tried for about five times!!) which was great as we had no DNFs which is very good for Geraldton!!
After lunch we headed back to the room to get ready for the event, arriving slightly later than planned we were only there for a short time before caches were published!! Someone announced twenty four emails had come though and I loaded the map and started running north to the nearest cache, gaining some valuable meters on the competition
It was like a scene from the IKEA ad, with Cravo asking if he should get he car and me yelling back "GET THE CAR!!" So I legged it to the first cache and he got the car and picked me up, it was the first of about fifteen FTFs for the day, we
Completed all of the caches north of the event and then looped back around to grab the caches furthest north and then back toward the event. We had a couple of DNFS Which was disappointing.
We headed back to the event and had the pleasure of completing some of geraldtons finest caches, the shake rattle roll, emergency were awesome. We were one of the few teams that actually didn't need the CO to assist by bringing the key!! Definitely a favourite and probably easier doing it with a beer in hand by the foreshore!!
After finishing the event we had a quick drive out to grab the new plane caches, got 3/4 there and then headed down to the water to complete he whereigo cache (highly recommended) and the two traditionals on the walk. Can't wait for tomorrow's adventure.
Thanks to the local COs for their caches
