Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia - disguised as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels.
Apart from some vague similarities between the location of this cache and the moon of Endor (ie: there are some trees), the Star Wars movie has absolutely nothing to do with this cache. It might be more aptly named "Return of the Geopiggies".
That's right, we're back! It's been a year or two, we know, but here we are! Same Pigs, same caper. A new cache, with a slight twist on the Geocaching theme...
'Return of the Pig-I' is a 'Newbie Cache' (Newbie V2.0 now!). This means that, if you fit our definition of a 'newbie' cacher, we'd like you to log your find on this cache twice. Specifically, if you have less 30 'Found' caches to your name, you should make two 'found it' logs on this cache when you find it. Note in your note which one you'd like removed when your 'found' count exceeds 30 caches, and we'll remove the extra one, or you can do it yourself - whatever!!! (If you don't fit our definition of a 'Newbie', then log your find once as you would normally log any other cache.)
Anyway... on with the show...
The Geopiggies fourth cache, 'Return of the Pig-I', is a large-ish cache, a cylindrical plastic container about 10cm in diameter, and 20cm tall with a screw top. It is hidden above ground, but out of sight. You should be able to find this one without any digging, shoving, or generally trampling the shrubberies! Up until the last five metres from the cache, there's no particular reason to depart from the well established trails.
We suspect that there might be more than one way in to, and out of this location, but we parked our car at 33 48.614 South, 151 8.668 East, and made our way in from there. The high-ish terrain rating on this cache is because there are around 50 steps to climb down on the path we followed, and they might be difficult for some folks. Once you make it past those steps, it's all pretty easy.
For additional enjoyment, we reccomend you wander on past the cache, and take in the interesting surrounds. Extra bonus kudos points to those who include a note in their log about the 'Surprise' at 33 48.473 East, 151 8.575 South. Try to make it something that previous cachers haven't noted.
We found this location excellent for GPS reception, despite the light tree cover. Still, we found a significant difference between our initial location samples, and a second set we took about 30 minutes later. If you find the cache, but find our co-ords less than perfect, please let us know what you think the location is!