We thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas pageant Saturday morning and then we went to the Koorong bookshop 10th birthday party for a barby lunch and some much needed cake rest. On Sunday, after a lunch with the geokids grandparents, at the geokids favourite fast food place, we started on our journey home. As it was early enough we decided that we could do a few caches to break up the monotony of the trip home and stretch our legs. Our first attempt at Settler’s Start a few months back was not real successful, due to incorrect co-ords being in the GPS and the following; choose whichever excuse you would like:

a. not my FAULT, must have been someone else who done it, HONEST
b. the GPS does some crazy things when you’re not watching it
c. stupid computer misinterpreted a 1 and a 0 giving the wrong co-ords when downloading to GPS
d. GPS was having a hissy fit and thought it would be funny to change the numbers
e. all of the above

Anyway, this time we found the container stuck under a bush. Quite an easy find when you get everything right. I think the nearby shed has seen better days many years ago, but this didn’t deter the Wife from taking a photo of it as you can quite plainly see. (mind you, it is the only thing within cooee of the cache that is worth taking a photo of, unless you want another shot of an Australian native tree, hohum)

With the success of another find, we continued onto Port Pirie where there are a couple of caches that we have been meaning to have a go at for quite some time. Lost Ones was our first port of call. Despite re-landscaping the garden and surrounds we couldn’t find this one where the GZ was or anywhere near it. It was only when we got home and checked it that we noticed that it had been muggled several times and had been moved to another location not far from original GZ. Bugger, this means returning for another go.

Our once high spirits were starting to sink fast. We had to do something to re-elevate them and so made our way towards Big “Steel” Ships. Waiting at the stop lights that lead over the single lane bridge took forever and a day, and there was no traffic coming the other way. Once across the bridge I decided I knew where I was going as I had looked at google maps and seen all the tracks and planned which way I was going to go. Of course nothing goes as planned and one turn lead to another and before long we were coming to dead ends, doing U-turns and getting nowhere fast. Finally, after a few black stares from the Wife and the geokids moaning in the back seat we arrived somewhere near the GZ. Being reasonably hot deterred the Wife from putting her foot outside the A/C’ed car, but H10 and I went walkabout. The cache was located under a couple rocks in a shrub and we returned to the car after performing the normalties. Continuing along the same track, we drove into the carpark for the boatramp. Another black look from the Wife, as this was the way she wanted me to go in the first place. Oh well, can’t win them all.

As we weren’t too keen on solving the mystery caches that are here (they are more than our brains can handle, believe me, we’ve tried several times), we continued on our way to Port Augusta. There was one cache still bugging us in PA that we hadn’t found yet. Towering Views has proven to be a pain in the neck and we were determined to find it. After buying tea at Keeping Fingers Clean, we drove to the water tower and proceeded to vigilantly search it from top to bottom once again. It was FINALLY located above one of the windows. You need to be a monkey to get this one. With the cache in hand, we walked across to the skate park to eat tea and log our visit. I had to wait another 20 minutes or so before replacing it as there was a muggle family at the top. We thought they were cachers, but several comments about caching yielded no response and it was only after they left that I was then able to replace the cache. For anyone who is reading this that hasn’t found it yet, you will see in the two photos, the one on the left is the incorrect view and the one on the right is the correct view.

 

We then continued homeward bound and slept soundly that night, knowing we had finally solved this one as well.