Stockman Highway 1 (Tasmania) Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
By Tas_Geo on 01-Sep-24. Waypoint GCAYVZC

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.**WE had to expand the search area and eventually found this cache 9m from the published coordinates. There was, however, an identical location only 2m from the published coordinates. So we relocated the cache to this spot. We trust that this meets with the approval of the COs. The coordinates should now be accurate.**Thanks Tas_Geo for this cache and the very enjoyable series.

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Tftc -

Hi Tas_Geo. Today I found your cache .Found this one on my way to Launceston for work. Thanks for hiding the cache for me to find today. Finding this cache takes my GC finds to 5322 and I found it on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024FTF: NoFound with: selfMuggles: driving pastCondition: GoodWeather: cloudyMy favorites:Creative - Back to the future 1 by peaches (GCA5JYD)Hardest - Men in Black Holes by SG-3 (Archived)Most visited - Dragons Lair by Shagzter (GC2E33)Tractable also visited your cache

Thanks Tas_Geo for placing Stockman 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 #2274 and was found on 28/10/2024 at 13:09{FTF}: YesFound with: self Weather: fairMuggles: noneLight level: goodCache condition: goodDistance from GZ: Your cache was visited by my trackables: TB9QQD2, TB9KZ39 and TB7HH81

Cache ready to be found again

Message received from seasoned Geocachers stating the cache is missing, disabling until we can investigate.

Male membsec has been here 3 times and arrived today with 2 extra sets of eyes with no success! Think we know what we are looking for as have visited others in this series.

Original Cache Location: S 42 29.144 E 147 10.903

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