The new bridge is a shared cycleway / pedestrian bridge between Woy Woy and Koolewong, and is the home of a micro-sized geocache by GeoMonkeys, appropriately called New Bridge (GC123PQ). It’s a small cable-stayed type of suspension bridge, and has a reputation for being a little bouncy when it gets a certain resonance!
The new pedestrian and cycleway bridge at Woy Woy
Despite an abundance of muggles, we were determined to find this but unfortunately we left empty-handed after an awkward 15 minute hunt in all the little holes and not finding the cache. Even despite reading the hint, and looking in so many of the apparent places, it just didn’t want to make itself known to us today.
Wolfie leaves the bridge, disappointed.
TeamWolfie had to walk away from this one today. But we’ll be back for another go soon.
I’d never been west of Mount White before. Never had any good reason to I guess, but I was quite surprised to notice there was a cache out this way, so TeamWolfie made their way here after lunching at Pie in the Sky, and discovering the Breathless cache.
We took Morgans Road out toward a place called Marlow which I’d never heard of before today to begin the hunt for another of GeoMonkeys‘ caches, FX6694 (GCK099).
After parking the car in a small parking bay near GZ we got out in the stifling summers heat to start our search, and took in some of the great views from this location where you can see the mighty Hawkesbury River snake through the valley below.
We managed to get right onto GZ – presuming our Mio Digiwalker was guiding us right, but sadly we could not find the cache today, nor could we find the item mentioned in the cache hint. Sadly our time was limited at this stage of the day so we had to abandon today’s search, although we’ll probably return soon.
From the main car park we walked over a kilometer to our next geocache hunt – Picadilly (GCYMJB), another of the cphoenix Monopoly series caches. Picadilly is a yellow square on the traditional English version of the game.
It was a lengthy but relatively flat walk out to this very isolated location. Along the way there was a sense of eeriness - being so isolated, quiet, the air heavy and muggy, and the sound of the bird life in this area was deafening at times.
On arrival at the lookout area we took in the scenery and made an effort to get a little closer to Ground Zero – which we found near a rocky area a little to the west of the lookout. The clue mentioning something about a cave had us climbing down the rocky outcrop in search of caves and openings.
We’d searched for about 10 minutes amongst the thick dry undergrowth, the day is hot – and I am always weary of snakes in these environments.
My vigilance paid off. Just as I was climbing around the rocks to check out possible hiding places for this cache I encountered what I believe to be a juvenile brown snake – only about 30cm in length. According to Wikipedia, “The Eastern Brown Snake is the second most venomous land snake in the world“, so I wasn’t really keen to stick around in case it’s parents were about.
TeamWolfie made an executive decision to leave the area immediately – abandoning the hunt for this cache!
Caches Not Found | Wolfie Ben | 
January 4, 2009 6:07 pm | 
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