Roadkill George Town, Tasmania, Australia
By Grumbligrot on 28-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7RX2D

Last find for today. This one was quite gross. Not sure if it was where its supposed to be looked like maybe it was as supposed to be hanging. It was soaking wet and really unpleasant to handle, definitely needed a hand sanitize. TFTC

Found with ttatriff82 but have only now realised I didn't log it.

Can't say I've seen a cache hidden like that before, brilliant idea and very fitting out on these roads.Heading into George Town, the long way, to get some paperwork scanned TFTC GrumbligrotKeep smiling

Wow what a surprise such great thinking for this cache . Log book extremely wet unable to retrieve. Took pic to log tftc.

A cache that totally resonates with my passion - roadkill- or better - finding ways to mitigate the issue. It was uplifting to see all the roadkill awareness signs in the neighbourhood (an initiative from artist Ruth Waterhouse).
The cache was fascinated and fun. Obviously a favourite from me! Thanks fur the fun

Over the long weekend xxDouDouxx and I made a plan to knock off several challenge caches including caches from "Old School Challenge" GC44WV0 and "Tasmanian Mainland LGA Challenge" GC8CGMX, as well as a few caches for various statistic grids. I'm happy to say LGA is now complete and Old School is well on the way. A fantastic, busy, and adventure filled 3 days was had, covering 1500km from Huonville, to Ben Lomond, then Georgetown, across the top to Burnie, down through Waratah, Queenstown, and back to Huonville. Lots of great caches, new places to explore, fantastic views, and interesting locations...

Wandered all around the cache, looking straight at it a few times before finally making the connection. Very wet inside. Had a nbice evening exploring in the area. Thanks

After attending Grumbligrots (I’m still having to check the spelling every-time) Celebration Event I was told this cache was a must do… intriguing…

So as my final cache in Georgetown before setting off in search of new LGAs because it’s Sunday and there’s a challenge in Queensland for that…

I spent a good 30 minutes going in and out of the foliage… round and round… I read the hint, then I read the logs… “easy find” my a@$%

I eventually had to call it… and regrettably returned to the Ute to carry on East…

Logging with the kind permission of the CO…

The creativity, borrowed or otherwise, is worth the detour off the power trail…

Thanks Grumbligrot (the predictive text has finally caught up)… I recommend anyone visiting to visit this one of a kind cache…

Tftc…

Tftc. Not something you find everyday

Ewwww furry lol
Tftc

Nice quick find this morning, log a little wet will need replacing. Great Hide

Well that wasn't as bad as I imagined it might be. I nearly missed it altogether.

After grabbing the three newish GCA caches on the way to Beechford we continued on to Georgetown and was pleasantly surprised to find that it is now bitumen all the way.
Turned off to look for this cache and decided to explore a little further down the road before stopping to search. Went quite a way and then had to do a 100 point turn to get around. There was probably somewhere more suitable coming up but that is often the way!
At GZ Mr Beetle walked straight past the cache discarding it and was horrified when I stopped to investigate it. Then when layer 2 was revealed he commented that I wasn't really going to touch that with my hands and tried to convince me to use a stick. But I had seen something that made me realise that it was quite safe to handle.
Eventually we got through to the log sheet and all was returned as found.
Thanks and a favourite point from us for something a 'bit different'.

Thanks for the cache Grumbligrot.
After two nights staying at Low Head, RLD4963 and I had to make our way back to Hobart today.
However, there were still two caches close by that we needed to seek out. This was the first one, straight after breakfast. Mmmmm, what can I say? I will mention that RLD4963 stood by and watched me retrieve the cache, whilst I squealed and squirmed, without ever offering to take over - who is the brave one? A favourite from me for such a novel hide!

out and about with 1 Lil Rafa caching in the Low Head and Georgetown area, this is the first find for the last day of the weekend we had in this area. drive out the back of "woop woop " where ever we are. pull over the let other vehicles go past if they ever come? walk to the right side of the road and search for roadkill and soon we find the road kill, a clever container and hide, lucky the blood had dried and set. find sign and re hide and of we go to the next one. TFTC TNLN log dry.

I didn't really like the sound of this cache and I was a bit apprehensive about finding it as I had no idea what to expect. So I did my usual quick search around the area and found nothing (as usual) and went back to the hint and thought about it and then I spied something that looked slightly interesting and then I felt around and then I felt the wet and hairy and slimy I had put my hand into, and then I yelled!!! OH MY GOD, what was I doing??? As iIt didn't actually smell bad, I decided to continue with some trepidation but I was still very wary of what this was. Then it was like opening a pass the parcel, how much did I have to keep delving into this? At last (quadruple wrapped I think) I had my hands on the spoils and was pretty happy with my bravery - lol. Gets a fav from me. TFTC.

This cache was on our must do list and it did not disappoint! After searching for quite some time, we resorted to reading past logs for hints. Well this had us closely inspecting every piece of rubbish in the area, repeated. For the second time today, I declared this to be a DNF which spurred Mr Coder into locating the cache. A very clever hide, which is very deserving of a favourite point. Thanks for such a great cache.

Finally a long weekend and with travel restrictions lifted, the temptation to hit the road for a geo-adventure got the better of us! All great plans to hit the road early we’re delayed, but eventually we arrived at Georgetown and an invite to meet up with Mr & Mrs Grumbligrot for coffee & cake was greatly welcomed! Distracted with talking all things geocaching we realised we would be caching well into the night, not to matter, booked a hotel & spent the evening solving a couple of multi caches in preparation for an early start tomorrow!

Out finding a cache for the last day of ‘19
Not what I thought the cache hide would be, but found a clever cache creation instead. Tftc

Brilliant and clever cache. Found thank you for placing and maintaining the cache.

Tassie Trip Day 214 - out for a little bit of sight seeing today with a quick trip down the road to collect a cache or two whilst travelling around the area.

This was an interesting find after looking and disregarding the item several times it was only after reading a few previous log the penny dropped and a closer look was taken and the whole name of the cache became very clear and the container was found.

Thanks Grumbligrot for showing us the area and a very interesting cache to collect.

Very hilarious. Love it. Kids though it was as well

Out and about caching with Tassie Trekkers around the West Tamar then headed over the Batman to George Town and beyond. This cache sounded intriguing and when we finally found it, it was not what I was expecting. The object had been looked at and discarded so after a more thorough search the log book was finally found and signed. I am glad it wasn't what I was expecting as would have been yuk! TFTC

Today we went out and about with Whitewebbs and headed to the George Town and surrounds to find caches published since our last visit.

This took a while but found in the end, cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Arrived at gz, this took some searching although it wan't to hard, we read some past logs and I picked up and examined something that people were talking about but no cache was found. A further search I found some more to be what looked like rubbish but it was a little odd and bigger than what i use on on my bike.

Today I decided I would head up to pipers river to collect a multi and then continue over to Georgetown/low head to pick up the remaining few caches I had left to find it the area. A total of 17 finds turning 6 DNFs into smileys. Was great to even run into some fellow cachers: Tassietrekers and whitewebs on their journey in the area.

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

Thank you for the cache. Maggie the great GeoWestie caching with Carer. found with Angus 88. Great cache

With Maggie2. Took a couple of minutes. Great cache. Tftc

So, this is the second time that I have visited the area looking for dead things by the side of the road. Fully expected to find some grotesque plastic thing with its plastic guts hanging out strapped onto a fence post. But no, disappointed?, not sure. First time around, I left defeated after a good 15 minutes of searching. Went back to read over the logs to believe that I had espied the hide and had dismissed it. Well back in the area today and went straight to it and closer examination had me smiling. Smiling that was until I touched something that didn’t feel nice, pulled my hand back in disgust, breathed a few times then boldly explored again. What can I say, a brilliant hide, nicely done.. thanks..!!

With only a little searching once at gz the cache was quickly in hand. Signed the log. Log did seem to be a little moist. Tftc

Initially dismissed but took a closer look tftc

After the event this morning we headed north rather than south for one reason only. This cache!
We arrived at GZ and had a bit of a look around. I mentioned something to the egg and pointed at it and we searched some more. We circled around and kept coming back to a particular spot. I had a good look and noticed something very small a little out of place. Further investigation led us to a very nifty hide.
Thanks Grumbligrot, this earns a favourite point from us [^]

A well disguised cache which I had dismissed initially and I walked around in circles. I needed to find this cache for the “thorns” attribute so I persisted. Checked my initial suspicion and there it was. Great Cache idea and given a favourite point. TFTC

My phones GPS had me wandering around in circles like a doughnut, and the hint had me looking in the wrong spots. I had to read through previous logs then the penny dropped, I had looked at the cache several times and disregarded it as nothing. Upon closer inspection, it revealed a sneaky hide. It could be classed as a double roadkill.
TFTC
Cheers
Rocket

Thanks

Had a lull in my activities this afternoon so I headed out to grab this cache so I'm one closer to achieving my hidden creatures Dragon souvenir. Located cache easily although there was quite a bit of water after the rain from the last few days. Actual cache nice and dry though thanks to it's the triple layer of camouflage! The attached picture was taken in the same area a year ago which made me think the Roadkill cache could have been there, although it isn't so fellow cachers should not get mixed up. Tftc Grumbligrot

ewe found it. Lots of small marsupials in this area it is a shame to see the roadkill.Had to stretch my luck to find it.

Wheelie clever.

Congrats to 2y'stassies for FTF

Published

From the beginning of each month we place a high priority on trying to achieve a FTF so that we can maintain our streak. In the last couple of days mention was made on Facebook of a cacher intending to place 5 new caches in the Launceston area. Hoping that the placement may have been made over the weekend and having recognised a rough pattern with the publication of caches, we decided to head to Launceston early this morning in the hope that we would be in the area when new caches were published. If there were no new caches, our trip would not have been wasted as there were still a couple of recently published caches for us to look for.

We were about 10km from Exeter when the tell tale tone on our phone indicated that new caches had been published. There were two in Hobart and two in the George Town area (nothing in Launceston). So we turned north at Exeter rather than south and headed to the East Tamar.

This was the first cache we looked for. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of an unexpected object, nothing like what we were expecting. A little exploration and the logbook was in hand. To our delight the log book was blank. The cache and contents were in good condition. So we will claim {FTF} at 7:18am. Thanks Grumbligrot for a different and novel hide - it earns a favourite from us. So, our streak of FTFs is extended to 61 months. We can relax for the remainder of July.