Mooching to Muchea - Rottenegg Bullsbrook, Western Australia, Australia
By olthomas on 20-Nov-21. Waypoint GC9JK7F

I ride past by accident so had to turn around to get back to it. Cache was a quick find with blood coordinates.

Knocked over half this series this morning. 22 out of 22. 25kms on the bike and the wind behaved itself. All pretty easy finds and all caches in good condition. I'll be back later for the rest. Thanks for the series olthomas.

After dad fixed my bike, I was able to take it out for the first time in at least 2 years! I used to ride my bike everywhere back when I was living in Albany before having my driver's license. It was great to be back! But where do I go? Well I had seen this series on my map not that long ago, so decided to just go for it and see how far up the path I would make it. I had arranged with my brother that I would ride from home, and he would pick me up however far it was that I got. I was 20km in before hitting the first cache (Bong Country). The roadworks on the bike path meant I had to detour through the suburbs before claiming my first smiley. It was 38 degrees at this point, and the journey had only just begun! I ended up making it pretty much dead on half way up the bike path before calling for a lift home. All caches attempted were found relatively quickly, with no real issues to the containers or log books. Some of the smaller logs signed as JK. Just over 40km ridden today. Thanks for the trail, I will definitely be back to finish it!!

Headed out early to do some mooching before the day gets too hot.Did a mixture of cycling, scootering and driving to collectthe smileys.Thanks for putting together this series - sorry for the generic logs.There has been some changes at GZ and after discussion with the CO the cache has been replaced with their permission.TFTC olthomas this is find #16412 for us.

No luck here today.

Mr Felix wanted to give his new e-bike a run, so this series along the new Tonkin hwy looked a good bet. Took some time to get to his starting point at the Northern end, so much roadworks!

A warm day today, not much shade on this cycle path, but a bit of a breeze seems to have kept the flies in lower numbers compared to previous logs. Did some log maintenance along the trail. Met up with Mrs Felix for lunch and a rest in some nearby shade.

Astounded to see so much vandalism to gates and infrastructure not to mention the cycle repair station.

Most caches found with good coords, some took more than a cursory search.

TFTC olthomas

The Better Half, pommieparkin2, and I planned a trip out this way to finish off the Mooching to Muchea series. The bonus for me was the pommieparkin2 allowed me to try out their electric scooter.

Cache was found without problems. Log was signed and the cache returned as it was found.

Thanks olthomas for placing this cache for us to find.

Chwiliwr, pommieparkin2, and I planned a trip out this way to finish off the Mooching to Muchea series. The bonus for Chwiliwr was the pommieparkin2 allowed him to try out their electric scooter.

Cache was found without problems. Log was signed and the cache returned as it was found.

Thanks olthomas for placing this cache for us to find.

hydrogen sulfide? Reminds me of school science lessons. TFTC olthomas

A lovely day for some Mooching as megawat60 and I don the geo bikes! Another quick find, TFTC!

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.

Thanks for the hide and olthomas.

I had an RDO today and decided it was time to come up and grab these caches. I packed up the bike, plenty of water and some food with the intention of grabbing all of the caches in the series in one go! It was an early start and I was looking for the first few before the sun had come up. I was surprised at some of the names and several of them made me laugh out loud! Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there olthomas, I was in this area today and found your cache Mooching to Muchea - Rottenegg GC9JK7F. Our name was added to the log book at 6:21 am on 21 March 2022. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

We took up Geocaching on 3 March 2013 and this cache brings our total find count to - 13290.

My second time out on this bike path in as many days, and my bottom - despite being substantially padded - is feeling it. Seeing I had already got the bike on the back of the car, I had no excuse not to do another section of the Mooching to Muchea power trail - this time between the Fauna Bridge and Neaves Rd. All caches found without issue. I even remembered to solve the couple of Mystery puzzles before I set off. TFTC

Mr richlink and Mr ILT rode the track today. The sun was high but a cool breeze made for an enjoyable ride. Unfortunately they had 2 DNF but all others were found due to good coordinates. Log books were signed and caches replaced as found,

It is hard to believe that these are actual place names. Well done olthomas, a great series.

Met up with ILT in Muchea mid morning so that the two geo-hubbies could cycle back to Ellenbrook collecting this series along the way. Found all but two of the caches and despite the temperature being around 26 deg, there was a breeze blowing which made the ride comfortable. Thanks olthomas for placing this series for our enjoyment.

Found it. TFTC olthomas. Returned today to try to finish this series. Happy to make a find here. Replaced as found.

Back out here again to pick up a few more of these caches. We are doing this the hard way and walking them. I think i clocked up 18,000 steps today and even with sunscreen on im still sunburnt. Cache was quickly spotted here TFTC olthomas

Thank you for the time taken for this series.

Today the weather is very pretty warm... I am very lucky to have my buddy... of course mostly and quickly spotted the caches before me but I did find them before her. not easy for me "huff puff and sweat all over my body"
Thanks olthomas for organising the cache and hunt. ??
PS sorry about copy and paste.

Well it’s been some time between mass publications and after a few days … almost a week of minimal activity in the metro area this ticked all the boxes to race out the door!

Thanks for making us find out 30…. Or more minutes of exercise for the day!

Joint *FTF* here TFTH.

Published

*FTF* with B12, C10, Leg5 and neva2old - a joint venture here this evening. Out getting a bunch of newly published caches on a Sunday evening. Thanks Olthomas for this terrific addition to the Perth caching scene, I’d wondered how long it would be before someone actually placed caches along here. Cheers olthomas!

I was on Nan duty when i heard the phone pinging, but didn't pay much attention until the pinging stopped and a message came through saying GO GO GO. So checked the emails and some caches published nearby, to good an opportunity not to attempt for some ftfs, dropped the grandkids and headed to the closest cache. I had just unloaded the bike from the car and I had company. The usual suspects. So with my butt still sore from riding around Rotto we managed a some FTF's.
A joint (*FTF*) with B12 C10 Legs5 and Lachie1.77.
Thanks for setting up this power trail olthomas

Had a truckload of caches pop up, just after I got home from an afternoon out with the family. The better half wasn't impressed when I said I was heading out - messaged Barnzy and he said they were already on the way up to Ellenbrook. Put bike in car and started from Ellenbrook end. Greeted at the parking spot with teenagers without helmets doing wheelies at 100km/hr and a little concerned leaving my car at that spot (all good when I got back 3 hours later).

Managed to find a variety of hides, most quickly found - some took a bit more effort.
This was a joint [FTF] with Barnzy12, Cravo10, Lachlan 1.77 and Never2Old.

Thanks for the new series - had fun riding plenty of km.

**FTF** with Cravo10, Leg5, Lachlan177 and Neva2old.

I’d been bemoaning the fact we haven’t had many new publications in the local area this week, and was nearly at the point of publishing a few myself, but I’ve published too many this year, and it’s throwing out a few of my stats!

Id had a busy day doing nothing at home, enjoying some time with the geodaughter EGB2020, and had just got ice cream from the truck that occasionally drives past our house, and the mother had popped around for dinner.

Suddenly the phone went bonkers, and email after email just kept flowing theough, loaded the map and had already had a couple of texts thrown my way with the usual “go go go”.

Threw the bikes in the back of Cravo’s car and we were off like a dirty shirt on the way to Muchea with a few phone calls to the usual suspects.

We managed to park up in a safe spot and worked our way through the caches, which were good finds with accurate co ordinates and a nice variety of containers. We did have a couple of DNFs which we had to return for, which I think were just fatigue from the long ride and excitement from seeing this many first to find opportunities come up.

The timing of the publications couldn’t have been better, with it late enough in the arvo that it had cooled down, but still had enough light to make searching as easy as possible. We still had to find a decent number by torchlight but the temperature had dropped nicely and it made the ride very pleasureable.

We snagged most of the FTFs, with some plucked from the few vehicle access points to the path.

All in all a very enjoyable series, and it was good to get back out on the pushy, albeit the rear end will no doubt pay for it tomorow.

Thanks olthomas for the series. I have awarded the first and last in the series a FP as a thank you.