A recap on the last post. We had just finished visiting the not so green Greenland and the day was freezing cold with rain on the horizon. Now on with the story.

By now very eager to try out the 4wd drive, I tried to get to the next cache the cheats way via a short cut. Didn’t turn out well at all and ended up going along the road as the GPS navigator had told me in the first place. As we got closer to the cache of Emma’s sea view, we couldn’t see any roads going in the direction of the co-ords. At last we spotted a track that pointed in the general direction and turned onto it. FINALLY, as I selected 4WD, I figured this would test it out. It was a very rough road with sand on many of the corners, but the Outlander handled it magnificently. I will have to admit that there would have been no-way on gods given earth that the Commodore would have made it in here. Eventually we arrived at a parking area of sorts and proceeded to seek out the cache. As we were searching the rain started. We tried to shelter under a bush and our jackets for a while (jackets will only soak up so much water and no more), before I bit the bullet and found the cache. As we trudged back to the car, sopping wet, the rain eased then stopped. Typical.

With our wet jackets draped over our knees, and the heaters up full bore, it took until Coffins Bay before they were dry enough to wear again. As we were entering the town limits, the GPS decided to have a hissy fit and told me to do u-turns and all-sorts to get us to the cache of Where the wild things are. Obviously a bit of road work has been completed since I had downloaded my navigational maps and the route to take was a ‘T’ road off the road into town. Once we got to the spacious car park it showed we needed to walk down the embankment in front of us for about 30 metres. The Wife saw a walking trail and thought that this may be the easy way to reach the cache. After all, isn’t that always the way whenever there’s a walking trail nearby. Well the trail was leading us further from the cache and so we all decided to go bush, directly towards the cache. What a mistake. There is a prickly bush here that has thorns that penetrate even the thickest layer of clothing. We eventually come out of the bush, you guessed it, next to the car park where we had started along the path. This time we took the direct approach and scored a find. I left my MaX 305 CASE IH tractor TB here to starts it’s journey. I’m glad we found it as I don’t ever want to bring my family back into unfriendly scrub like this again.

We had intended to do all the caches around Coffins Bay until we found that they had a mini-golf course. Coff ‘n Putt proved to be a popular time out from caching and travelling which you can read about by clicking on the following link: More *ss than Cl*ss.

We didn’t hang around long after we had finished playing golf and our next cache was waiting to be found. It took a U-turn and some fancy driving before we parked parallel to Rustlers turn. The kids decided to stay in the car while the Wife and I trudged off through the alternative Australian bush and over a fence to find the cache.  There were many kangaroo tail bushes around here of which the cache was hidden under one of the biggest ones. A great hide in very pretty surroundings.

Back in the car we completed another U-turn and made our way towards the local roughnecks B & B cache that goes by the name of Stay the Night 5! Well, it’s not actually at the exact location, but you can see the complex from the cache site. Not quite as close as Stay the Night 2! though. H9 found this one quite easily.

Not far from here was another cache called Power up. Upon arrival we figured we would have a search on our hands as the grass is really thick and high as the clue suggests. This looked like it might be a very seldom used road until I started to search for the cache. The number of times I made it look like I had been visiting nature, it’s no wonder the grass is so high. Mind you if the same person had driven by a couple of times they might have wondered what I was up too, or that I had a very small and weak bladder. It took a bit of searching to dig this one up, as the sub-station seem to have an effect on my GPS and I couldn’t pinpoint GZ very easily.

As we had come this far around the back way into Port Lincoln we figured we might as well keep going and pick up Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt & ……. on our way into town. When my Wife and I lived in Port Lincoln, we used to visit here quite regularly. I remember it use to be a favourite place for budding young couples when the moon was right and the night was still and clear, you had to cuddle up to stay warm (well that was the excuse anyway). Looks like the favourite of the hoons now, judging by the tyre marks everywhere on the way up. When we got to the top there were muggle teenagers hanging around but H9 and I didn’t let that stop us. Off we trundled to GZ. As we were looking for it, H9 jumped nearly 40 feet into the air. She had been scared by something in the grass. On closer inspection we found two sleepy lizards fighting. We must have scared them as when we walked back that way about 5 minutes later, they were gone. The camouflaged cache was well hidden behind the rocks and it took a couple of looks before I located it. We took DeltaEcho’s Christ Centered Caching Geocoin #4 from here even though it had not been logged into this cache.

On our way back to the car we could hear the muggles living up to their reputation and there was a new set of tyre marks on the ground when we climbed back into our car.

That’s it for now, but when we return in the next post we will attempt to get Juke to find his Lemon Pepper Squid recipe and go for a ramble through a park.