Pirates Bay Tasman, Tasmania, Australia
By
McPumpkinson on 20-May-23. Waypoint GCA8Y03
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Logs
The last person had pushed it in a little too far so I tried using my pen to push it through but then that got stuck, so I tried another pen from the other side and that got stuck!! Thankfully I found a stick I could use and managed to retrieve both my pens and the cache, phew!!
Very pleased to find a cache out this way, some need a bit of attention but this one is here and easy to find. A new log was required and added. Thanks from a couple of kiwis caching in Tasmania.
Quick find on our way back from Port Arthur. Good hide although difficult to search without being watched by patrons of motel over the road.
Hello Tassie!Im excited to be exploring this southern state to see all the beautiful scenery, cultural and historic places and hopefully find a few geocaches.The drive down was really beautiful and its wind is roaring overhead now it was a quick find and luckily there was lots of nature tools to help retrieve it. Thank you for taking me to this lovely space.
Nice quick find here on our way to the Tessellated pavement. Thanks for placing this cache here.
Arghhhh me hearties! Twas an easy task to spy the sneaky beasty. Then pirate wombles drew her skinny sword and plunged it deep to extract the treasure. We left our scrawl on the parchment then continued down to the seashore. Thanks for the cache McPumpkinson 
Great day. Had completed the necessary earth cache near-by and decided to pick up a few previously unclaimed traditionals. The real difficulties here are avoiding the eyes of muggles and then actually extracting the cache. Eventually the carpark emptied enough and a significant prod unearthed the cache. Great spot on a really pleasant day.TFTC
I was sort of expecting an Earthcache at this location, but instead there was this beautiful traditional cache. I did not have an extraction tool, but one was easily available on the ground, right there by the cache. Extracted, opened, logged. TFTC.
Thanks McPumpkinson for hiding this cache. Now that my calendar and streak are completed, I can just cache for the fun of it. Your Traditional cache, Pirates Bay, was just what I needed to get me out of the house and exercising. This is my find #2025 at 08:54 on 28/9/2024. FTF: Found with: selfWeather: fairMuggles: noneLight level: goodCache condition: goodDistance from GZ: Your cache was visited by my trackables: TB9QQD2, TB9KZ39 and TB7HH81
Such a lovely walk, marvellous views. Unfortunately didn't realise I had left my pen at home.
Quick find after parking the car next to the third post. Considered moving it for cover but realised we each held Bunnings umbrellas which are an excellent size!
Heading back to Hobart after finishing the Three Capes track, we wanted to stop at this one on the way down but the carpark was full of rally cars about to drive up the hill. Coming back today the carpark was empty and we made a quick find.Tftc McPumpkinsonFind #6254
I was driving by after attending an event in Port Arthur so made the brief detour to look for this cache. Accurate coordinates and a generous hint enabled a quick find of a cache in good condition. Thank you for the cache McPumpkinson.
Found, had to be super stealthy for this one. Log full so added some paper for others to sign. TFTC
Geez, I poked thru from both directions and came up empty handed. It was now too dark to see in/thru. Luckily my muggle mate who counted the poles, queried my poking quality, re-poked, and bingo! FOUND IT.Log sheet is overflowing, so my initials are sideways in a small gap.Needs a new sheet, sorry I don't have anything to add in as I'm travelling light on the quick overnighter.Thanks for the cache McPumpkinson.Cheers,EPs
Today we headed to Eaglehawk Neck for coastal exploration, walking and caching. What a splendid day out we had. Whilst it certainly wasnt a blue sky day we were so lucky as there was no rain and it was quite warm for the time of year. We loved the walk to waterfall bluff and the scenery was nothing short of spectacular, some real wow moments.This was a nice quick find and sign. TFTC
Extraction was not too tricky! High muggle area however - log is full! Thanks for the cache 
Big thanks to McPumpkinson for creating this cache! Your effort brought an extra spark of excitement to our geocaching quest. This discovery was find number 1,126 for us, marking another memorable moment in our adventure. Living and traveling full-time across Australia in our Coaster Bus, we're always on the lookout for caches to uncover. Currently, we're in Tasmania, planning to explore this beautiful island for around 18 months or so. To see more of our travels, feel free to follow our journey HERE...
We were docked in Port Arthur Tasmania Australia for the day on our ship - Holland America's Volendam. We had a shore excursion in the morning and then free time in the afternoon. So, we planned to do caching in both places. We found 7 by the end of the day.Thank you to the COs for their efforts.#####################This Cache: Quick find when we got off the bus.
On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. 
Day 33/74, Friday. My mini-holiday to Tasmania! Just four days but better than nothing. Today I woke up at my accommodation in Acton Park and drove - slowly - to Port Arthur for the next night. I visited many interesting places during the day. This was a great day! This was a quick find with a precise hint. Great area! Greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).
Day 33/74, Friday. My mini-holiday to Tasmania! Just four days but better than nothing. Today I woke up at my accommodation in Acton Park and drove - slowly - to Port Arthur for the next night. I visited many interesting places during the day. This was a great day! This was a quick find with a precise hint. Great area! Greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).#2780 This is my day 263, and the longest physical cache find streak so far. I want to see how far I go. I am on a family vacation in Australia, and Tasmania road trip is our main highlight. Today, we visited Port Arthur and found caches along the wayThank you for the cache!-crystaloops from Taipei, Taiwan @ February 22, 2024 11:41:42
My third Australien cache. There was already another cacher around and we waited until her logging was completed. We walked down to the beach afterwards.TFTC
A day out down on the Tasman Peninsula to grab a bag of hides was the plan. If i succeed in grabbing a Cache down at Mt Brown the day may be truncated somewhat due to distance walking and uphill adding to my age-grumbles, will mean i will only grab 3 hides today and be back for the other planned 7, ha ha Parked pretty much directly on GZ. There was a Muggle parked about 15m away and looked like he was asleep in his car (saved on accommodation cost there ha ha )I read the hint re: the 15th pole so this meant i didn't have to look sus trying to find it. It was sighted prior to trying to extricate it.With that done i was signing the log back in my GeoMobile as to not give away the hidey spot's GZ in case that sleeping Muggle awoke. SL at 08:55 on Wednesday 31 January 2023.Replaced with 'Sleeping Beauty' none the wiser The cache log was 100% full so i added a bit more of a scroll to the existing scroll and it fit nicely in the cache post sign, without being too tight to get out so all is good there 
TFTC McPumpkinson
Parked pretty much directly on GZ. There was a Muggle parked about 15m away and looked like he was asleep in his car (saved on accommodation cost there ha ha )I read the hint re: the 15th pole so this meant i didn't have to look sus trying to find it. It was sighted prior to trying to extricate it.With that done i was signing the log back in my GeoMobile as to not give away the hidey spot's GZ in case that sleeping Muggle awoke. SL at 08:55 on Wednesday 31 January 2023.Replaced with 'Sleeping Beauty' none the wiser The cache log was 100% full so i added a bit more of a scroll to the existing scroll and it fit nicely in the cache post sign, without being too tight to get out so all is good there TFTC McPumpkinson Found it! The log was full but a great little spot to hide. Def need a stick. lol
TFTCWhilst Mrs y'stassie went to look for another cacher in the area, the other half of the team went to look for this cache. The initial problem was muggles - they were everywhere. Then, without any fuss and bother, they disappeared (most got into their cars or buses and headed off while some headed down to the Tessellated Pavement). Tjay gave an opportunity to search. As soon as we saw the pole, we knew what we had to do. Out initial attempt failed as the tool was too small a diameter but the second attempt dislodged the cache from its hide. The cache and log were in good condition but the log was full - we managed to write our name and the date in a small spot next to another cacher's name. Unfortunately we didn't have anything with us that was suitable. Thanks McPumpkinson for the cache.
Grabbed this one on the way back from Clydes Island. Thought we counted correctly but with muggles around we weren't keen to probe too deep and look suspicious. Jo2022AUS decided to look elsewhere while I persisted and soon enough had the prize in hand. Nice hide TFTC
Such a lovely spot up here. I think Ill go for a swim tomorrow if the weather is fine. A few muggles around which didnt deter us. I grabbed a stick and handed it to TBS to retrieve. Thought it was missing for a sec but noTFTC
Today we explored Sorell and surrounds using geocaching as a guide.We found a variety of hides with varying degrees of difficulty.Enjoyed this area, cache and contents were in good condition, took some time to find as it did ot want to pop out!!!Many thanks to all CO's for your cache placement.
Hello McPumpkinson thank you for the cacheA nice easy find on a lovely night.A lovely big spider guarding your cache.Found on Thursday, 04 January 2024 at 2341**TFTC**
Came down for a look at the tessellated pathway and thought we'd do a quick geocache. Our first thought was that the cache was missing, but on further inspection we found it. It took about 5 minutes to get the cache out but was worth. TFTC
Mr W was out and about with a rat, a goose and a budgie and they kindly stopped to let him make the find after doing the walk to Cape Raoul lookout. A clever use of the surroundings. TFTC
tassietan and I headed out for a beach walk, a caching maintenance run and to find a cache for the end of the year souvenir.This was a saved cache for just this reason.As always, the carpark was chockers, and there were people milling everywhere. We were hoping that the number of people doing all sorts of things masked our suspicious caching behaviour. At first we thought the cache was missing, but on closer inspection we discovered the sneaky hide. A great spot in plain view!Thanks for the cache McPumpkinson
RoadieM and I thought we would look for a Christmas Day cache, and this was the closest available cache. The car park was packed of course, but using stealth (and the very helpful hint to help avoid loitering for too long in such a high muggle area) we located the correct location. Initially we thought it had gone AWOL but with further investigation we located it. We didnt need tweezers but did need another tott to extract cache from perfect hiding spot. Another beautiful day on the Tasman Peninsula. Thanks for the cache McPumpkinson.
Found with Mobi702. A nice find and loved the 'hint'. Terence TB enjoyed his visit. First time in Tassie!!! TFTC
With the hint this was a quick find. Needed the needle nose pliers but easy enough to extract. TFTC
On my way to Port Arthur, and stopped to do a walk, and collect caches.I needed the hint, and the suggestion from a previous finder, before I managed to spot this cache.
On our long term trip from Germany to Western Australia / Tasmania / New Zealand for about 3,5 month, we arrived Tasmania and picked up some caches. This one was an easy and quick found. TFTC
Spent the morning at Eagle Hawk Neck, Helping to setup for a market and then some time to cache. Off to grab a couple of local caches that I hadnt gotten last time I was down here.Very clever spot for a cache. The view from here is always brilliant, but today it was outlined by some grey clouds with the sun cutting through
5/12/23 Cache #23After looking at the Tessellated Pavements searched for this one. Found it with grace3287, and I recommend using a long stick to retrieveTftc McPumpkinson!
Mr Shifter's geosenses must have been working overtime as there were plenty of empty parking spaces yet he parked right in front of this one. A quick retrieval for Mrs Shifter.Thanks for the hide McPumpkinson.
Between muggles and showers we found a suitable tool as well as our on hand extraction tool and the cache was ours. TFTC
Quick find with a hint like that, but it took some coaxing to get it out. We came down here last night to take photos of the bioluminescence. We were standing right here bur hadn't checked for any nearby geocaches. Tftc
Sneaky. Got the poles counted and extracted the cache. Ran back to the car to sign it, then struggled to get it back in between all the muggles arriving.Managed to get it back into place before heading down to the tessellated pavers
Found on a trip to Tasmania with pineapplegoldy!Some caches have been signed as "Goldy and Jimmy". Goldy has sent answers and uploaded photos where applicable. TFTC
Goldy and Jimmy are holidaying in Tasmania for a few days. A quick trip away from our regular life to see sights and find caches.I'm aiming to continue my daily streak and fill some Jasmer grid spots. As well as find some challenge caches and as many virtuals as I can.Today we left Launceston and drove along the East Coast towards Port Arthur and exploring towns along the way.We also explored the Tasman Peninsula before checking into our accommodation at Eaglehawk Neck.This was a quick find here, as a stick was poking out of the cache hiding spot. This made it easy to identify where the cache was.I signed the log as "Jimmy and Goldy" to save room. A cool spot here. Very nice. Thanks for bringing us here.Thanks McPumpkinson for this traditional cache, which brings Goldy's total find count to 3805 on the 12th of November 2023.CITO's are a brilliant way to help keep our community area's clean. The Earth is our playing field and we need to protect it! Always be sure to cache the "leave no trace" way!**South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!**
Ahead to maintenance my caches in port Arthur area, via stop here to bump rhubarbroad and together searched, Mrs spot to got it, sign the log with good dryTFTC
We think this might be our first McPumkinson cache, so thanks for placing this one here. However coffees at the Lufra cafe came first ! Then the bonus was running into 63ROOS looking for the same thing as us. We have been logging some of her Tasman Pen. caches over the last couple of days. Don't often meet other geocachers whilst out and about.
A quick find with good clue. Very busy here today! TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan
Found while holidaying in Tassie with friends! Hoping to find a few more while on this trip! TFTC!
Nice lunch across the road followed by a quick find on a sunny day. Thanks McPumpkinson
