On our way back from “The Holiday” you’d think that we were exhausted enough. But you are never too tired to go geocaching. It was already mid afternoon and we still had a 5 hour drive ahead of us (if you don’t stop ), but we weren’t to be deterred – even by the whining coming from the back (and I don’t mean the diff on the car).

Our first stop was at Well Well They’re Here. The GPS was changing GZ a bit, but only by a metre or so. The Wife said “I reckon it should be there (pointing), but I looked and can’t find it.” Well she must have left her eyes in Singapore, because I found it without any problem. The usual swaps were made, then we loaded back into the car to continue our journey north. About 5 minutes later I asked The Wife how many photos she had taken. Whoops , appears she hadn’t taken any – apparently she’s left her brain in Singapore as well. So, sorry folks, no photos of either of the two wells……

Our next stop was at Just Visiting. As it was on the other side of the dual lane highway, it meant doing a U-turn so that we didn’t have kids splattered all over the place, as they don’t seem to really worry about other things when they have focused on one task. I can remember when these creations were being built. Every time you drove to Adelaide you expected to see a new protest sculpture of one kind or another. I have often thought of stopping here and taking a better look, and now I had the perfect excuse. C6 found this one first and was really proud of himself. This was his first solo effort without any hints or nudges from The Wife or me to get him to head in the right direction (cheer, cheer, applause). Even luckier, this cache contained the Maryland Geocoin that had been placed only a week before (reckon I’ll drop this into one of my caches).

Time was marching on and we still had a long way to go, so we completed another cross highway u-turn and drove to the next geocache site, Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The GPS spat the dummy here, it doesn’t like the vehicle going backwards, and so a reset was in order (the first in a long line of many today). This saw us doing another u-turn to get to GZ. Pretty gruesome movie – guns, drugs and Salma Hayek. About the only thing here that resembled the movie were the cactusususescacti. And I’m pretty sure that it isn’t drugs in that tree….(allllthoooouuuugh it could be full of spiders…….naaahhhhh)

We stopped to look for Which Bank? and I remembered something about having to email the answer to the owner. We think we have the answer, but when I logged on to check what needed to be done, I saw that we also had to sign the log at GZ. Damn, Blast, Bugger, I don’t remember reading that in the post last time. Must be the jet lag setting in. Decided that we would finish this one on our next trip to Adelaide.

The next cache was Settler’s Start and GZ was in the middle of the highway. The  Wife and I searched through the closest group of trees, then another, then another. We looked like a couple of crazed dogs looking for just the right spot before doing their business. After 20 minutes we gave up looking and decided it was going to be a DNF. What a shocker to log on and find that the co-ordinates posted were not those in the GPS. Loaded new co-ords and worked out we were 1.2 kilometers away from GZ. WHAT THE???????? (#$%^& GPS, @?!%*& change of co-ordinates ). Decided not to log it as a DNF as we hadn’t really searched for it. Well we weren’t even within the vicinity, let alone close proximity of it. Next time it’ll be different.

By the time we got to Three Chain Crossing, we were losing light fast and the overcast skies weren’t helping. Who (besides the locals who obviously still use it), even knew this bridge existed? I sure didn’t. A quick guesstimate agrees that it is probably about 3 chains across (although, the way we’ve been going so far it might only be 30 yards). I located the cache pretty quickly and we were soon on our way again.

As it was pretty cold and gloomy by now, The Wife and I agreed that we might be able to do one more easy one. H9 and C6 had given up on it long ago with the comment, “It’s too dark to even see the caches, let alone find them!”. Well there was some wisdom….I think. By the time we got to Go Anna Go, the light was gone and the moon was high. The car headlights came in very handy at this time. C6 was determined to go and play in the mud puddle in the parking bay and needed some stern convincing that it would not be a good idea for him to do that. The camouflage on this one gave us a bit of a giggle, a very ingenious idea that I may use at a later date. It’s good to see how other people camouflage their caches. By now the moon was shining eerily through the clouds and The Wife and kids were getting hungry and cranky (it was a full moon and I didn’t want to run the risk of them turning into vampires or worse, werewolves ), so we ended our geocaching adventure here and continued driving home.