Triple R (River Rubbish Removal) - CITO Event

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Following on Sierra1's Anniversary event followed a CITO event, also organised by Sierra1 and helping us to obtain our August Souvenirs.

We started the morning with another pancake breakfast.  The one the day before tasted too good to pass for a second day...

After breakfast we got ready to go paddling on the Maroochy River.  Easy enough as the camp ground is close to the river.  All we had to do was carry the canoe to the water and let ourselves down into it. :-)

Heather and Colin let me join forces with them, which was great, because I hadn't done anything like it before.  Since I didn't have any waterproof gear I didn't bring my camera, so I don't have any pictures to show of the actual caches.  What I do have is a series of photographs that I pinched from facebook.  I won't show too many people here, so I don't think they'll mind.

The series of caches, old and new and a multi, were called:

Muru Kutchi Trail - Wotnot, Roo, Cougar, Chill, Goanna, Quoll, Koala, Nails, Boorooma, and Teewah.

The last one wasn't found by many as it had apparently disappeared.

One, not belonging to the trail, was called

Return of the Sugar Cane Ghost

and was hidden under an old railway bridge across the Maroochy River.

After a lot of hard work, but a delightful afternoon it was time to get lunch and then say goodbye, but we wouldn't be dedicated cachers if we would go home straight away, wouldn't we?

So, we went for a few more:

Chubb

We did Chubb, an actual safe for which we needed to collect the numbers, and which in the end still was hard to open if you didn't have the experience.  I did, from way past as part of my job, and had no problems getting to the goods...

At this point Kylie said good bye and Colin, Heather and I went on to do the Dinosaur Trail in Nambour.

 The Dinosaur Trail - Iguanodon

The Dinosaur Trail - Styracosaurus 

The Dinosaur Trail - Tyrannosaurus Rex 

The Dinosaur Trail - Spinosaurus 

The Dinosaur Trail - Pteranodon 

The Dinosaur Trail - Triceratops 

After finishing the Dinosaur Trail on the way back to the car we passed another one:

Old Sugar Mill 

After a long search by the three of us Heather came up with the goods, signed the log and then we picked up the car.  Before finally heading home we had dinner a Maccas and called it a day, or is that 'called it a weekend'.  What a great time we had!

Seirra1's Anniversary Event

As the end of the month is close it's about time I finish updating my blog, otherwise I am going to get behind far too much.  Here goes:

Saturday, August 2, 2014

The day starts with a hearty breakfast, prepared in the well-equipped camp kitchen.

Pancakes with fresh fruit.  Yammie.

I have to work from memory now (and that is a big ask!), but going by the pictures we went for a hike to pick up a few caches in the forest.  I didn't get pictures of all the caches, but we did find the three that we were after.  Now, if only I could remember all the people who came for the hike.  Let's see: Heather, Colin, Kelly, (and the others I have to fill in later...)  It was quite a hike and I should've had better footwear, but... I made it in the end...

Bli Bli Bounty

These pictures are not of GZ

12 Leg's 

And

One Fifty Three

of which I don't have a picture.

Next we were getting hungry and made our way to town, on the way picking up a few caches.  Oh, and we had a collective DNF on one of them.

Whitecross Park

Pine Hollows Remembered

Cutting Edge 

After a few successful finds and lunch we go back to the camp for the afternoon's entertainment, because it's Ken's birthday we are celebrating today:

Sierra1's Anniversary

This is the event we came for in the first place and we had a great afternoon.

Ken's birthday cake

Overview of the get-together

During the afternoon's festivities a few caches were released, which was great, because they all added to the number of different caches that we needed for our August Souvenirs for 2014.

Here are a few of them:

What's in Store 

You light up the world 

Mail not Female

And that sort of ended the caching day. We had a nice get-together around the campfire after dinner, which was great, because the nights we cold still.

Geocaching Big Way at Dunethin Rock, Queensland

Friday, August 1, 2014

Geocaching Big Way means that I have found 40 (!) geocaches during one weekend.  So, this blog update is going to be spread over a few posts for sure, and I am only going to list the caches by name with the pictures.  That's as much as time will allow me to do.

You'll want to know why I found so many caches in one weekend.  Well, August seems to be the month for challenges and earning souvenirs, so there is a lot happening this month.  To start, there are two events near Dunethin Rock on the Maroochy River.  Both events can earn you a souvenir. At both events new caches are begin published that each can earn you a souvenir as well, so the wise thing to do is attend the events and earn all seven souvenirs in one weekend!

As these events are over two days at a scouts den there is the opportunity for camping.  I borrow a tent and sleeping gear and put the word out that I wouldn't mind sharing the tent with someone.  It comes hardly as a surprise that Heather is interested, so, great!  That's settled!

Heather arrives Friday morning at my place, we pack my car and set off on our weekend adventure.  As I have just placed two caches of my own Heather wants to go and get the easy one today.  We drive to the parking spot and walk to the cache.  Some difficulties with the coordinates make the search a bit more difficult than planned, but eventually she's got the cache in hand and can sign the log.  I even get a favourite point from her for the camouflaged container I have used! :-)

Then we start our trip in all earnest and head north.  Close to Nambour it's time to get off the highway to get collect a few caches.  We've got all day anyway...

Highway One Nambour

 Lost Track

 Olly's Hangout

Ferntree Creek NP

 

The Big Cow

 

After we had collected those five caches and having walked the necessary kilometres ;-) it was time for lunch, which we had at Maccas in Nambour.  Well earned, I reckon!

Then, after lunch, we made our way to Dunethin Rock, which wasn't far to go.

We set up camp, nice and early, and after having said hello to various other geocachers we discovered we had enough spare time before dinner to go and find a few more.  Geocaches that is.

Dhu-Yungathin

Lake Dunethin

 

The Rock

 

Dunethin Rock Fairies

 

Beetlemania

 

Guess Who

 

Finally we have enough gathered for the day and it's time to greet other newcomers and a number of our friends.  The following pictures are of our campsite:

Our tent on the far right

Heather has a delicious dinner ready in no time, which we share and after dinner we stay in the den and spend a night amongst friends, with lots of entertainment from some!

Laughing their heads off

After a few (!) drinks (guess who)

Well, eventually sleep is catching up with us after a long day of caching, so it's time to look up our tent. Sleep comes quickly and we don't really have to snuggle deep into our sleeping bags, because it's not cold at all. See you tomorrow.