Wreck of the Bronzewing Tasmania, Australia
By
TasKanga on 19-Mar-22. Waypoint GC9Q2Q1
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Logs
#23186 @1935Day 7 of a 9 day trip: Drive from Canberra to Melbourne, then by air to Flinders Island, Launceston, King Island, and back to Melbourne, then drive back home to Canberra. For the King Island part of the trip, I joined Aquilus1 and sacada. We arrived on King Island in steady heavy rain. Today, we visited the northern and eastern caches. Here, it was a quick dash out of the car to collect the information, then off to the next WP. We stayed in the car out of the rain to calculate GZ. Once the checker confirmed our answer, we drove as far as we could towards GZ, then got drenched, walking the rest of the way and back. Sacada made the find. TFTC.
Worked through the calculations without too much trouble. A few checks and was pleased for the Checker. We didn't get all the way there by car which is a muddy, sticky story in itself. The track with the rain was too wet and muddy. Tricky to walk on even. But we made it, the seas are huge and impressive today.It's been quite a journey, just to get to King, yes, but the many years of trips and travel in the quest to find every cachable LGA in Australia. So, here we are, on King, our last, all found and now sacada, Tikva and myself are spending our time exploring the island and its caches.The weather hasn't shown its gentle side. Instead, we have had wild wet and windy weather. Apt perhaps, that this journey ends memorable, and gives us a little taste of the roaring 40s and bass straight life. A reminder of the islands history, often tragic, so a little wind and rain as we explored, quite mild in the scheme of so much hardship of the past.So, we carried on, as you can only do and found amusement and fun in the craziness of it all. The second day was much more pleasant, a light drizzle later on, and the wind still but compared to the previous day. Quite nice! Scenic, rugged, and wild coastlines, grassy lush fields, and cows lined up in rows to protect from the weather. Wallabies in numbers so high, just lining the roads, it makes you wonder how many there are we can't see. Wild peacocks, turkeys, and pheasants are often seen as well. With our caching complete early on the second day, a little fun. King island dairy for tastings and a little shopping! Very yummy and great prices, too. The KI brewery was next on our list where we had some tastings and a cheese platter to enjoy too.We finished the last day with an event, a celebration to reflect on being the first two to have all cachable LGAs completed, great to share this with milestone with sacada , and great TikvaNZ was there with us. Now the question is, what next?Thanks for your cache!
Off to Tasmania to get Flinders Island LGA and finally the last LGA for AU at King Island. TFTC.Today is the day to get the last LGA in Australia that has a cache. It's been a long trip.A few caches around Launceston and then a flight to King Island, our last LGA.King Island is wet... very wet. It continued to rain and then the wind picked up. Heavy rain and strong winds drenched us for hours. Even managed to get bogged for a while. Still we cached on. What a great day. Now to dry off a bit.A quick find on the waypoints. Was getting too windy and wet to get out of the car. Tried to drive to GZ but ended up getting bogged. Had to walk the last few hundred meters in the storms.
Almost got there. Solved the first puzzle. Solved the second puzzle. Walked 500m but GPS failed us in the final quest. So close!
Found - and trackable picked up. TFTC - had some minor trouble with retrieving final coordinates for GZ but stuck with it and soon realised my mistake
TFTC,
Our last cache for this visit.
Now that was a multi with a couple of options. Took us 5 goes to get WP2 and 3 goes to get GZ.
Left a TB, visited trackables and added a favourite.
Our last cache for this visit.
Now that was a multi with a couple of options. Took us 5 goes to get WP2 and 3 goes to get GZ.
Left a TB, visited trackables and added a favourite.
Came out to do this multi, got the information had to run to the car, as it was starting to rain. Started to calculate then realised one mistake, soon got the green light. Off again to the next waypoint, same thing happened again, took a photo of the information, then the rain came again, calculated again, took another wrong turn. Got the green light now off to GZ, parked and walked the short distance, arrived at the corner, 11mtrs out on GPS. Found container laying it's side, with lid laying beside it, contents wet. Stamped log and tried to dry the book, replaced and covered well. Thanks to CO.
Somehow couldn’t get the numbers to work today so I never got to look for the final cache
My first ever ftf!! I have to admit that some questions were a little misleading. But got it eventually
