York Plains Highway 1 (Tasmania) Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia
By Tas_Geo on 12-Sep-24. Waypoint GCARZZK

On our way south to visit family and took the opportunity to find some caches along the way. We found all of the caches we were able to look for, we were defeated by workmen right near GZ for two of them though. All the caches were in good condition, thank you for your work on this series

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.Embarrassingly this one took me a long time to find had to enlist the husband to help of course he spotted it almost immediately ?????. TFTC ??

As we had an unexpected trip south today, we took the opportunity to look for caches in the recently published Highway 1 series. Today we looked for the caches as we headed south - tomorrow we will look for caches on the other side of the highway as we head 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. Today we travelled south and were able to find 17 without crossing the highway. We will look for the other 16 tomorrow as we travel north.**Although the cache was found quite quickly, "fat fingers" made retrieval a little difficult. An impromptu tool was needed.**Thanks Tas_Geo for this cache and the very enjoyable series.

Thanks Tas_Geo for placing York Plains Highway 1 (Tasmania). Swampy and I headed back to plunder more of the Northern coast over the Hobart Show long weekend. 4 day long weekend for 1 days annual leave. Sweet. This is day 5. We are heading for Hobart, as slowly as possible. . At least my log is not full of bad 80s references. This run has us finding both GC and GCA caches. So many caches, so little time. This is my GC find #2269 and was found on 28/10/2024 at 12:20FTF: Found with: selfWeather: fairMuggles: noneLight level: goodCache condition: goodDistance from GZ: Your cache was visited by my trackables: TB9QQD2, TB9KZ39 and TB7HH81

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.Today we were heading home after a lovely weekend on the northwest coast and collecting all the 'southbound' caches.Another cache found on our travels home.

**FTF** @12:45pmBeing 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.Luckily male membsec was able to reach but for some reason it seemed stuck so he had to work hard to remove it from its hidey place! Some effort was needed. We replaced it where we found it but hopefully it wont get stuck again.TFTC

Original Cache Location: S 42 16.156 E 147 24.417

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