Monday 11 February 2019
We had promised to be up early as we wanted to put in a full day of
geocaching. Normally I put up a picture and the name of every geocache I
find, but there were too many this time and upon my arrival at home I got too
busy to stick to this routine. What I'll do instead is showing some
pictures of interesting caches we found, because that never changes: some
geocaches are found in the most interesting places.
We left at around 8 am and drove the triangle Alstonvale - Lismore (west)
- Clunes (north) - and back to Alstonvale.
We found and interesting geocache:
The cylinder had to be removed by moving a ring upwards along a pvc pipe
and once removed numbers, obtained by having solved a puzzle, had to be lined
up in order to get to the logbook. Remember the cylinder in The Da Vinci Code?
Some geocaches commanded a beautiful view:
And others brought us to interesting places:
(Unfortunately my phone camera's settings have mysteriously changed to
the wrong picture size, hence the elongated pictures.)
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| Removed headstones lined up in a park |
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| An open-air church |
In the morning we found a geocache for which we needed to find a special
internet connection which provided us with the necessary information and since
this spot was next to a shopping centre we decided to sit down and relax with a
cuppa:
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| Patricia and Gail enjoying their cuppa at Goonellabah |
Lunch we had at Distractions Cafe, Wyrallah and at the
end of the day we ended up at Eltham where we stopped for a
cool drink at the pub and found a geocache next door. That was the last
one for the day. Tally: 32.
At home we sat down at a nice dinner prepared by Gail's daughter
Katy. As it had been a successful, but also tiring day we had an early
night and decided not to get up as early the next day.
Tuesday 12 February 2019
We did go in search of geocaches, but this also was a sightseeing day
for us. Gail took us south to Wardell, from there up and to
the coast via Ballina to Lennox Head. From
there north to Byron Bay and back again to Alstonvale.
On our wanderings we came across one of the most natural and peaceful
cemeteries I have ever seen:
At Ballina we saw the famous Big Prawn:
And as the Big Prawn (with a geocache of course) was right next to
Bunnings all three of us needed a 'Bunnings-fix', so we walked into the store,
but went to the cafe first to have lunch.
On the way out I bought a small gas-stove to be used with gas canisters
as I did want to have something in reserve if I would run out of gas when not
near a re-fill station.
From there we drove to the coast and found a geocache at a cemetery with
a million dollar view:
More coastal pictures at Lennox Head:
We looked around a bit at Lennox Head itself and stopped for a much-needed
ice cream. Yes, the days are still very hot. The shops had lovely
wares, but the prices were not to our standard. ;-)
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| Patricia walking to the car |
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| A rather weird sculpture outside of Lennox Head |
Next stop: Byron Bay, THE tourist centre of NSW in
summertime, hence my reason of not having visited it earlier. I don't
quite like crowded places. Besides, if you can find parking at all it comes at
a hefty price.
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| Byron Bay's famous lighthouse |
We finished our day with a visit of the Macadamia Castle, a huge
business selling, yes, you guessed it, only macadamia nut based products.
Outside is a huge knight who guards a geocache.
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| The Macadamia Castle |
We were back home by 5.30 pm and sat down with a cool drink and talked
about the lovely day we had had. Geocache tally: 14
