Somercotes Highway 1 (Tasmania) Ross, Tasmania, Australia
By Tas_Geo on 28-Sep-24. Waypoint GCAT00V

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.**Another interesting hide but, again, we query T1 as the cache cannot be reached by a person sitting in their wheelchair.**Thanks Tas_Geo for this cache and the very enjoyable series.

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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 Pulled into this spot and couldn't find the hide initially then i had a "D-Uh" moment so i moved down a bit and the hide was swift then lol... what a dunce!Signed the log at 12:32 on Saturday 2 November 2024.I needed a small natural tool in order to retrieve it but on the re-hide it was placed back using the extra wire bit attached to the hook.TFTC Tas_Geo

Thanks Tas_Geo for placing Somercotes 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 #2263 and was found on 28/10/2024 at 11:38FTF: 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.Just after my previous find, Mr and Mrs EeePees were driving past and spotted me getting back into my car, and they guessed correctly that I would be stopping here next. So as I pulled into the turnout area, they were there waiting. We had a quick catchup and then decided to look for the cache. As it turns out, I was standing in almost the exact right spot. Happy to add our names to the log and then we continued on our way.

On the way home from Launnie, not intending to cache this trip, we spotted Lil Rafa at South Perth as we passed.So decided to pull into the next one - that they'd probably stop at - to have a catch up chat.We'd only been here about 2 minutes when Lil Rafa parked behind us.After a bit of a chat, I wandered over to GZ, and overshot, but Lil Rafa and Mrs EPs stopped bang on GZ.The cache was soon to hand and our names added to the log sheet.A bit too early in the season for cherries!Thanks Geo_Tas for the cache.Cheers,EPs

FTF @ 1140 . A nice and easy find. TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan

Original Cache Location: S 42 03.915 E 147 29.061

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