North Ross Highway 1 (Tasmania) Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia
By
Tas_Geo on 01-Oct-24. Waypoint GCAT00B
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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.**Although there was a van parked close to GZ, there were no hassles as the driver was having a snooze. The cache was a quick find. This was our last find for today and over the two days, not one mint tin!**Thanks Tas_Geo for this cache and the very enjoyable series.
In Launceston again for a 2-Dayer of full-on Caching (after bringing a mate up here to grab his car).I have been out of this game for too long due to seven weeks of illness thanks to a chest infection that just wouldn't let go, (I'm so glad it wasn't the "100-Day Cough" i was told about)... anyway enough about the 'Hiatus from Health', so being back at it was such a breath of fresh air and being away from down south and back in Lovely-Launnie was just what The Doctor ordered When i saw that some of these hides are on the other side of Hwy 1, i was thinking: "ok, some of these i'm gonna have to back-track in order to grab them", but luckily there were some that had right turning lanes to them so that made it safe in order to get them, there will be some where i'll have to drive down then back but it's the safe and proper way to do them.This one had a right turning lane for this wee blue (southbound) birdy, so with that done i was outta the car and back in with cache in hand to sign [^]SL at 10:57 on Saturday 2 November 2024.TFTC Tas_Geo 
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.OK, retrieval of this one required inventive parking. Then it was a nice quick sign of the log and it was returned.
A tricky retrieval having big mitts but got there in the end! TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan
Great cache we were on our way to port sorrel to drop off my brother when we saw this and just had to find it. Great cache. I'm honored to claim FTF on this cache and my brother was hyped to find it. 21/10/2024 Evelynn and Leyland. TFTC!!! Great cache highlight of my road trip.
