WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 139 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip. The WanderingMrs had determined through the wonders of the Information Superhighway that there was over a week of line dancing at the Wentworth Services Club, so after a couple of cold, wet and windy days in Horsham, and a night in Ouyen, we made our way to Curlwaa and booked in for five nights.

Once the line dancing competition was over the WanderingMrs was ready to head for home. After a night in Waikiri and a night in Jamestown we headed for Port Augusta via a roundabout way, and after grumbles from the WanderingMrs the day before, I decided not to hunt many caches on the way.

We stopped in Wirrabara to use the facilities, then as I was getting the rig up to speed I noticed Quick Firing 25 Pounder Mk II Field Gun, and immediately thought of claiming a find of this cache .



After taking a couple of photos of the gun I stepped up to the gun and as I went to mark a waypoint noticed that GC23243 Wirrabara's First by mobdx seemed to be directly under the cursor. Since the gpsr was set at a range of 400 metres to one centimetre a lot of ground could be under the cursor, and with the name "Wirrabara's First" I didn't expect it to be here, so after marking my waypoint I switched to the "geocache" page and was surprised to see Wirrabara's First was two metres away. This ws the second time in two days I'd "gone for the gun" instead of hunting for a cache, I must try to avoid making a habit of it.

Having prior experience with the 25 pounder both as a target for the hunt and an item of equipment I had hidden about six caches on, I checked the traversing ring, then under the barrel, then noticed an anomolous projection, and made an extremely quick and easy GAFF 0 find. I was surprised to find when I checked later that there was no mention of Wirrabara in the logs for this cache, so I was happy to make the claim.

*Overall Experience: 3*

T4TH MADSTARS
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience.