Gallery of log for Caiguna Area
WanderingAus wandered by on day 112 of a "climatic refugee" trip, heading home far too early imho, but The WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) has a function she MUST attend next Saturday. Two days of storms, heavy rain, and very strong head winds has had us using far too much fuel, so it was nice to have some sunshine and only moderate headwinds for a change.
I hadn't made a real find since Ceduna, but I'd been looking at all these benchmarks in NT, SA and WA. The WanderingMrs had set a distance limit of 300 metres if I wanted to hunt down more than one, and until we went down the Eucla Pass they were all further away or on top of ridge lines, not particularly accessible.
Once we hit the "Ninety Mile Straight" they became very accessible. I parked on the edge of the road again on a good wide verge, and the Explorist said "48 metres to next". I could see the "Warning" placard from the car. An easy walk in open grassland, but I had to cross a shallow ditch, and I spotted the pipe base set in concrete bearing the number NMF120, which was about 1.5 metres from the "Warning" placard. There were also two star pickets with remnants of twitched wire which would have been the support stays for the head.
I rate this a Difficulty 1 Terrain 1.5 cache, a wheelchair would have difficulty negotiating the ditch. If there was a GAFF rating of 0 this would deserve it. I did a "GoTo" on the Magellan Explorist but left it set at 2.5 Km scale. I didn't do a "Navigate To" on the TomTom, but when the icon appeared on screen about 900 metres out I used it to determine where to stop and where to find the Trig Point.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2* *FTF*
T4TH Geocaching Australia
Keith
I hadn't made a real find since Ceduna, but I'd been looking at all these benchmarks in NT, SA and WA. The WanderingMrs had set a distance limit of 300 metres if I wanted to hunt down more than one, and until we went down the Eucla Pass they were all further away or on top of ridge lines, not particularly accessible.
Once we hit the "Ninety Mile Straight" they became very accessible. I parked on the edge of the road again on a good wide verge, and the Explorist said "48 metres to next". I could see the "Warning" placard from the car. An easy walk in open grassland, but I had to cross a shallow ditch, and I spotted the pipe base set in concrete bearing the number NMF120, which was about 1.5 metres from the "Warning" placard. There were also two star pickets with remnants of twitched wire which would have been the support stays for the head.
I rate this a Difficulty 1 Terrain 1.5 cache, a wheelchair would have difficulty negotiating the ditch. If there was a GAFF rating of 0 this would deserve it. I did a "GoTo" on the Magellan Explorist but left it set at 2.5 Km scale. I didn't do a "Navigate To" on the TomTom, but when the icon appeared on screen about 900 metres out I used it to determine where to stop and where to find the Trig Point.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2* *FTF*
T4TH Geocaching Australia
Keith
Rated: for Overall Experience.
