farmdoc's blog post number 561

Last Saturday I went geocaching. Geocaching Australia’s homepage defines it as a free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches by other players. It’s a great way to be outdoors, enjoy the environment and the revel in the thrill of the hunt!’ It’s described in more detail here. My friend Haydn has a GPS and he’s into geocaching. So off we set in his car along with his wife Lyn, to the Bastion Cascade track – on the Central Highlands 48 km south-east of Mole Creek. It was superb weather for a walk. And it was a superb walk: old growth rainforest, gigantic rock overhangs, massive tree-ferns, majestic waterfalls. And more. When we neared the Bastion Cascade waterfall where the geocache is, we paid more attention to these instructions. And, by George, we found it. There are various sorts of geocache. The photograph shows the contents of Saturday’s. (Click on it to enlarge it.) Haydn stuck his ID sticker in the book and left the little rubber frog. Then we replaced the cache in its hiding hole, and walked on. We were on the track for 5½ hours including the lunch break. When we arrived home, Haydn (aka Mr Gumby) called up the website and logged our find. (TFTC is caching lingo for ‘thanks for the cache’.) All things considered it was a wonderful day. I doubt I’ll become a geocaching aficionado, but I must do more bushwalking. For sure.