A Swell Place
It was by shear accident we stumbled upon this geocache whilst out on a Boxing day drive around the local area. TeamWolfie had been sitting at home, full of Christmas cheer – when it was decided to get out of the house to see what the locals are up to. We’d deliberately decided NOT to go geocaching today – this was to be a simple relaxing drive. No pressure, no maps, no plans.
Our drive took us over toward busy Terrigal, then up to the more quiet Forrester’s Beach where we decided to check the headland with the communications tower on top. After driving as far as the road would take us, we turned the car and headed back down the hill when something on the screen of my GPSr caught my attention. There was a waypoint on my in-car GPSr navigator right near our current location – indicating a cache was nearby up on the headland.
A use Mio Digiwalker C510 for my in-car navigator – I bought this long before I knew anything about geocaching. These days my Mio is used for in-car and out-of-car activites. I find it to be very accurate when hunting for those caches in places where the iPhone lets me down. I have all the cache waypoints within a 20km radius of home loaded into the Mio which saves a lot of manual typing of coordinates. My “Points of Interest” (waypoints) are categorised, and I leave my Mio set up so the only waypoints normally visible on screen are geocache locations.
The Mio simply shows us the location, and the cache name “A Swell Place”. Time to get out the iPhone and log into the geocaching app to get some more information… A Swell Place (GCHPZZ) by GeoMonkeys, Diffficulty: 2, Terrain: 2, Size: small. We read the description, and recent logs, and had a quick glance at the hint before heading off up the track to get our find.
To get to the cache we parked in a nearby handy little parking bay, and walk up the track to the communications tower, and beyond. The views were spectacular to say the least.
A Swell Place, with Swell Views
Turned out to be a fairly easy find. I’m so glad we got out of the car and walked up to the top to take in the spectacular views. We’d left our normal geocaching backpack at home – so we had no swaps with us. Even Wolfie, our trademark dog who loves having his picture taken at almost every cache we visit was resting at home this afternoon, guarding the Christmas presents!
It was a great accidental find, our 49th find in fact, and shows again what a handy tool the iPhone can be for those “unexpected” finds. Fantastic to stumble upon this great location. We signed the logbook, took nothing, left nothing. We’ll be back one day soon to explore more of the Coast Walk track when our stomaches aren’t so bloated from Christmas feasting.
Thanks for the cache!
Tags: iPhone, Mio, scene, small-cache
Caches Found | Wolfie Ben | 
December 27, 2008 6:46 pm
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