FX6694 (DNF)

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.

One Man’s Trash

After a morning of sifting through Ancient Artifacts and Catching Cuckoos, TeamWolfie decided to take a drive down the old Pacific Highway and maybe do a spot of geocaching along the way.

First cache along our route was One Man’s Trash (GCH2XE) – another of GeoMonkeys‘ hides. 

It was a little hike from the road – a little further than anticipated but by no means too far, and before long we zeroed in on our target location. This bush location was a little surreal – on one instance mostly unspoiled native bush, but for the fact it is disturbed by the constant flow of traffic noise from the freeway nearby.

Barking up the wrong tree, Wolfie.

After a 10 minute search we found the surprisingly ingenious medium-sized cache container nestled amongst the rocky landscape. Very clever container, although starting to get a little on the full side… so I hope we didn’t damage anything inside when we screwed the “lid” back on!

Thanks GeoMonkeys for another great hide.

Catch the Cuckoo

This has been the funnest and most challenging multi-cache TeamWolfie has attempted to date – Catch the Cuckoo (GCNAMA) is a very clever concept by Grank. Without giving too much away, in search for the Cuckoo you need to locate four of its “eggs” – hidden in other geocaches, all of which are within a 3km radius of this multi-cache.

One of those particular caches had been giving us some grief, and it wasn’t until our fourth attempt today we were able to get the final egg to reveal the location of the much treasured Cuckoo’s nest – so as soon as this information was at hand we made our way to GZ immediately, arriving there just after 9am this morning.

The location made perfect sense, so we were confident we had the numbers right. Now it was just a case of getting down and dirty and finding it. At one point I was standing almost on top of it saying “GZ is here, but I can’t see where it can possibly be…”, only to find after another 30 minutes of searching that I had been basically right next to it – the whole search taking about 45 minutes.

Cuckoo Cuckoo! Wolfie wants to EAT you.

It was very satisfying to get this one done. We left a white rabbit, took nothing, signed the log. And that Cuckoo – it was all soft and squishy, and feels quite yucky to squeeze… and Wolfie wanted to eat it, but we managed to get the Cuckoo safely back into hiding.

Thanks for the cache Grank, this one was a lot of fun.