Gallery of log for TS 4106 Skelton
21:15
"Just one more.. "
That familiar refrain is quite often the precursor to an adventure, and this was definitely one of those cases.
What can I say about that road? It's definitely an adventure all by itself, and poor leafotwind's comments about night making it even more interminable than it might otherwise be definitely had its merits.
But we got to the Earthcache, eventually. My revenge on leafotwind?
I grew up on the edge of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, so have had a fair amount of experience driving similar roads in the Otways. The payoff, usually, has quite literally been the light at the end of the dark track. And tonight, after getting so close, I was determined to make it so. My grandfather, you see, was an assistant keeper, and my father spent his early childhood in isolated places like that.
Thanks, leafotwind, for doing the extra miles so I could see the Green Cape lighthouses. Oh, and for stopping while I hared off into the scrub in the dark for this Trig Point. As usual, I found the easier way out.
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Road trip!
leafotwind and I had meticulously planned a trip in the opposite direction to fill a few gaps on a variety of challenges, but with the weather forecast to be reminiscent of an Activities Week tour of all the wet holes in the southwest of the state when I was in high school, a mad scramble ensued to come up with a scheme to complement those goals towards the eastern border instead.
Crossing off a few of the Country Road Atlas maps, finding a March, 2001 placement and a whole lot of Earthcaches meant we got in to Mallacoota just before midnight. Now for day two..
GCA#445
"Just one more.. "
That familiar refrain is quite often the precursor to an adventure, and this was definitely one of those cases.
What can I say about that road? It's definitely an adventure all by itself, and poor leafotwind's comments about night making it even more interminable than it might otherwise be definitely had its merits.
But we got to the Earthcache, eventually. My revenge on leafotwind?
I grew up on the edge of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, so have had a fair amount of experience driving similar roads in the Otways. The payoff, usually, has quite literally been the light at the end of the dark track. And tonight, after getting so close, I was determined to make it so. My grandfather, you see, was an assistant keeper, and my father spent his early childhood in isolated places like that.
Thanks, leafotwind, for doing the extra miles so I could see the Green Cape lighthouses. Oh, and for stopping while I hared off into the scrub in the dark for this Trig Point. As usual, I found the easier way out.
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Road trip!
leafotwind and I had meticulously planned a trip in the opposite direction to fill a few gaps on a variety of challenges, but with the weather forecast to be reminiscent of an Activities Week tour of all the wet holes in the southwest of the state when I was in high school, a mad scramble ensued to come up with a scheme to complement those goals towards the eastern border instead.
Crossing off a few of the Country Road Atlas maps, finding a March, 2001 placement and a whole lot of Earthcaches meant we got in to Mallacoota just before midnight. Now for day two..
GCA#445
Rated: for Overall Experience.
