Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

So with Twenty Ten moving along rapidly and with thoughts that our time may get limited due to the impending SA/Wagga Wagga trip planned for March and April we thought we had better get organized to ensure we got everything done we wanted to before leaving this south west area.

January had us playing host to a visit by my sister Theresa and her husband Geoff. We did lots of tourist things like visiting the Aquarium at Hillarys, the Maritime Museum at Fremantle, Kings Park, and Botanic Gardens etc. Caching was not high on the list of priorities during their visit.

So with February approaching we headed off to do a loop to collect some caches and see some countryside. Our first destination was the Dryandra Woodland and we were fortunate that it was quite cool. We found a lovely spot for the caravan at the Congelin campground and sat outside in evening hoping to spot some wildlife. With the fruit scraps we had put out and with the aid of Bruce’s new P17 torch we had lots of possums coming up quite close to where we were sitting. That night we had a visitor on the roof of the caravan and then clinging to the screen door of the van probably after more of the fruit they had sampled earlier. I also observed the possums crawling over the barbeque plate after meat scraps so I was very glad we had put down baking paper on the hotplate before we had cooked our snags.

The next day we visited Wickepin to do some caching and we were pleased to be able to check our Albert Facey’s Homestead and visit the surrounding area. Albert Facey wrote the wonderful and best selling autobiography “A Fortunate Life”.

That night we stopped at Boyagin Rock – another wonderful granite monolith and yes there is a cache there. It was at this spot that something happened that has not happened to Bruce and I for nearly 32 years. We lost our hatch. When it happened 32 years ago we were heading to Port Elliott for our honeymoon and when we arrived at the caravan park we noticed there was a big hole in the roof of the caravan. It was my first caravanning adventure but certainly not my last. This time it was just the hatch off the toilet skylight vent (now replaced with a nice new one) we figured we must have gotten too close to some of those overhanging trees.

We enjoyed a couple of nights in York. A quaint location with some lovely old restored building. Good caching to be done both in town and in the nearby Avon Valley.

We then went to Toodyay and were able to spend a night on land owned by friends of ours. We were not prepared to see the burnt out mess that remained (even though we had heard a lot about the bushfires via the media) – they were fortunate that though the bushland was totally burnt their shed was still ok unlike some of the other homes and properties nearby.

We are currently doing a short stint of house-sitting at Maddington and will soon be returning to Safety Bay. We fly to Adelaide on the 17thMarch. The geocaching mega event in Wagga Wagga is over Easter, being the beginning of April, then we have a short spell back in Adelaide before flying back to Perth on the 13thApril. We have ordered our first pathtag and hope to receive it before we leave so we can take it along to Wagga Wagga – our thanks to Craig (AlliedOz / The Jokers) for his help in getting this project to completion.