Gallery of log for HAPPY BIRTHDAY
When I noticed this locationless cache, I was excited to find out where my birthday coords were, especially since my birthday was coming up very soon. So, I plugged them into Google maps and... well, they came up deep in the Tarkine wilderness on the wrong side of a heavily forested river gully, somewhere north of the Savage River mine. Oh dear...
So I decided to plug my partner’s coords in. He doesn’t actually live in Tassie but is part of Team Hookline and is living here at the moment for a few months, so it counts, right? His came up somewhere near Trowutta and looked definitely possible. Excellent!
So off we went to the far north-west, found our way along Reids Road and even found an old forestry track that seemed to lead in the right direction. Parked the car in a clearfelled patch and followed the track on foot, till about 400 metres when we were forced to bush-bash. Not too bad at first, but got steadily worse and worse, taking forever just to go a few metres, until at 360m from GZ we had to stop. The bush had become just too impenetrable. It was horrible regrowth forest, full of cutting grass, scrubby tea trees and dense prickly scrub, and it was really getting impossible to proceed. We were reluctant to stop, wanting to get exactly to GZ, but we didn’t have unlimited time... and GZ would just be a random bit of scrub exactly like the random bit of scrub we were already in anyway... so we took a waypoint and photo and grudgingly decided it was close enough, and headed back.
We were disappointed not to have made it all the way, but we certainly gave it our best shot! We even tried another forestry road on the way back along Reids Road, but it didn’t get us any closer so we didn’t go for another attempt. Oh, and all this was done on *my* birthday, even though it was my partner’s birthday coords. Um, hope that’s not too confusing, and I hope this log is acceptable to claim a find.
Thanks OldSaint for an excellent locationless cache that was fun and challenging (probably should have a higher difficulty rating!) It was a great crazy adventure and taught us something: that places that look easy peasy to get to on a map can turn out much harder than expected!!
So I decided to plug my partner’s coords in. He doesn’t actually live in Tassie but is part of Team Hookline and is living here at the moment for a few months, so it counts, right? His came up somewhere near Trowutta and looked definitely possible. Excellent!
So off we went to the far north-west, found our way along Reids Road and even found an old forestry track that seemed to lead in the right direction. Parked the car in a clearfelled patch and followed the track on foot, till about 400 metres when we were forced to bush-bash. Not too bad at first, but got steadily worse and worse, taking forever just to go a few metres, until at 360m from GZ we had to stop. The bush had become just too impenetrable. It was horrible regrowth forest, full of cutting grass, scrubby tea trees and dense prickly scrub, and it was really getting impossible to proceed. We were reluctant to stop, wanting to get exactly to GZ, but we didn’t have unlimited time... and GZ would just be a random bit of scrub exactly like the random bit of scrub we were already in anyway... so we took a waypoint and photo and grudgingly decided it was close enough, and headed back.
We were disappointed not to have made it all the way, but we certainly gave it our best shot! We even tried another forestry road on the way back along Reids Road, but it didn’t get us any closer so we didn’t go for another attempt. Oh, and all this was done on *my* birthday, even though it was my partner’s birthday coords. Um, hope that’s not too confusing, and I hope this log is acceptable to claim a find.
Thanks OldSaint for an excellent locationless cache that was fun and challenging (probably should have a higher difficulty rating!) It was a great crazy adventure and taught us something: that places that look easy peasy to get to on a map can turn out much harder than expected!!
Rated: for Overall Experience.
