North York Plains Highway 1 (Tasmania) Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia
By Tas_Geo on 02-Oct-24. Waypoint GCARZZH

The wife and I decided on a sudden weekend away up north, so of course I had to get some caches. Thanks Tas_Geo for hiding this Traditional cache, North York Plains Highway 1 (Tasmania).This takes my finds to 2328 and I found it at 16:07 on 29/11/2024. FTF: Found with: selfWeather: fairMuggles: noneLight level: goodCache condition: goodDistance from GZ: Your cache was visited by my trackables: TB9QQD2, TB36MWF, TB9KZ39 and TB7HH81

I was excited when I saw this series of caches published! Making my way to Devonport up the boring Midlands Highway, its so great to have some caches along the way to break the monotony. This is the first one Ive had the opportunity to find . and it didnt disappoint! Really safe pull off area and very interesting cache housing. So deserves a fav point for all of the above and the anticipation of doing all the caches as I make my way up and down the no-longer boring drive. I wont do them all on the same trip - Ill eek them out over time. Excellent! Thanks Tas_Geo.

Today we headed out from Oatlands to find a few caches in the area that we either dnf or are new since our last visit.Fast find here with honorary resident spider ??? inside. TFTC ??

As we had an unexpected trip south yesterday, we took the opportunity to look for caches in the recently published Highway 1 series. Yesterday we looked for the caches as we headed south - today we looked for caches on the other side of the highway as we headed north.This is an excellent series with well designed caches placed thoughtfully and with safe parking very close by. There were some interesting cache containers, with one particular style we hadn't seen previously - a great design used in a number of hides. Unless stated otherwise, coordinates were accurate (within 5m) and the caches were in good condition.The CO's, quite rightly, have included a very important warning about walking from one side of the highway to the other. It would be remiss of us not to add another. *In some places there are U-turn bays which allow safe access to a cache on the other side of the highway. However, once on the other side, the same access cannot be used safely nor legally to return to the original direction of travel - instead backtracking in the direction opposite of your intended travel is necessary before resuming your original direction of travel.* If possible, the caches are best tackled by looking for those on the side of the road you are travelling, not the other side of the highway. Yesterday we travelled south and were able to find 17 without crossing the highway. Today we looked for the other 16 tomorrow as we travelled north.**Another of the unique style of containers. This one took some juggling to access but then the right technique was discovered. It went back in very easily.**Thanks Tas_Geo for this cache and the very enjoyable series.

A new series of caches on the Midland Highway published in the week before I was heading north for the 'Hobart Show Day' long weekend - nice one.With the GeoGSP's loaded in the car, today we headed north.Another quick find of a well-designed container.

**FTF**@12:55Being such a nice day we decided to go for a casual drive along the Midland Highway with our grandson. He was very excited to find some treasure. We had this newly published series in mind but sometimes we had to wait for our return journey to grab some of them.We had a lovely lunch and break in Oatlands and decided to continue on as the grandson was having a good time! We were so lucky to see the unusual decorated cars parade through Oatlands. Another well constructed cache,TFTC

Original Cache Location: S 42 15.217 E 147 24.487

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