Station Creek Rest Area

TeamWolfie pushed our geocaching geographical boundaries northward today whilst on a visit to see my dad for his birthday. After lunching at Tea Gardens we headed back and I thought I’d show my dad and his wife what geocaching is about on a visit to the Station Creek Rest Area (GC128GX), a cache by outdoorbloke, located on the Pacific Highway near the Tea Gardens Road turnoff.

It all went as planned, being a nice easy find. There were a few muggles around a the rest area but they were too busy worrying about their toilet stop to be too concerned with us trampling through the shrubs on the side of the road. The cache was sited relatively quickly – and I had to explain to our friends that geocaching is rarely this straightforward.

Wolfie with the cache container

The container had a few small swaps inside – we swapped a red gem for a “fuzzy purple creature” (honestly, I don’t know what else to call it), signed the log book, and replaced the cache in it’s little hiding place.

Thanks to outdoorbloke for a nice straightforward find and a great way to introduce my dad to what geocaching is all about.

TeamWolfie

Kool View

TeamWolfie’s latest geocaching adventures saw us stopping at at Kool View (GC12APY) by daznat99 - a geocache located in the township of Koolewong. My guess is the “Kool” in Kool View comes from Koolewong, so it’s a cool name for a kool cache.

This small cache is located in a clever spot along Glenrock Parade. It is the stereotypical park-and-grab cache – you find a spot to park, walk a few paces, grab the cache, do the business, return the cache, get back in your car, and off you go. Nice and easy when you’re not in the mood to go hiking through the forest – or you want a quick find to get you motivated for the day, as we did.

Kool View, Kool Cache

We enjoyed finding this cache and taking a drive up a few streets we don’t normally get the chance to visit. Left a red gem, took an Aussie Flag sticker.

Thanks for the cache daznat99 – it is a Kool cache and a Kool view.

Crimson Mountain

We’re not sure if the name of this mountain really is Crimson, or if that’s just an arbitrary name for this geocache, but Crimson Mountain (GCTDVX) by Ourhome was our 2nd find for 2009.

This small cache was located directly along a dirt road through the Ourimbah State Forest, and there was a lack of obvious parking opportunities at the cache so we just pulled over to the side of the road and put the hazzard lights on. Although narrow, thankfully it’s normally a quiet road – and we had no passing traffic on this occasion. 

Wolfie in the Woods

This was a nice, quick and easy find. We retrieved it safely after some hesitation with the spider risk, but thankfully there were no angry arachnids waiting for us. Being a small cache we made no swaps, signed the log, and replaced it and moved on.

Another one down. Thanks for the cache!