This was to be our one and only cache attempt for the day after a relaxing morning at the beach. We parked our geo-mobile near the McDonald’s and headed across the vast expanse of the truck parking area, down into the bushland adjacent to the noisy truckstop, where the cache was indicated to be resting.

Being guided by our GPSr, after only a few minutes of prodding around in the scrub we had a fix on the cache, which was placed in a rather obvious spot and covered up in a way that makes it stand out to your average geocacher who has attained a moderate degree of geosense.

Wolfie hanging around the F3 southbound Truckstop

The cache was in great condition, and contained a “Here I Come!!!” coin by the geocoinclub.com – which we took with us and will soon be placing into another cache. We left behind a small coloured “Jack” (some funny-shaped little brightly coloured object that really serves no purpose).

Thanks for another great hide bower birds, I guess that completes both twins for TeamWolfie!

Located in a bush reserve adjacent to a coal conveyer belt that feeds the nearby Lake Munmorah power station, we spent about 30 minutes (possibly longer?) here trudging around in the dense undergrowth seeking out this cache.

Mysteriously, we did find a perfectly rectangular “indentation” in the growth that indicated a place where a geocache could have been resting very recently – but if so, it’s no longer there.

We’re keeping a watch on this cache, and might come back again here soon one day for another go.

Twins North is so-called because it is near one of the two (twin) service centres on the F3 near Wyong – this being the one servicing the northbound traffic. It is a popular place for truck drivers to stop and have a rest – with there being ample parking for trucks.

A little homework was required for us to inconspicuously leave the car vehicle area and plan our way across the vast expanse of the truck parking area to the track that was to lead us down to the cache.

Power Wolf

Before too long we closed in on GZ and walked in circles a few times, sniffing out for the cache until one of us eventually spotted it in fairly plain and easy sight. We must have looked right at it a few times – always seems to be the way!

Diesel Dog

On our way back to the car, Wolfie wanted to get his photo taken sitting on one of the truck trailers parked nearby – so we got this great shot of the little fella.

Time to continue our caching expedition.

FeO is a strangely named cache. Not sure of the significance of the name – it might have something to do with the type of old truck it’s mounted on, or the business it’s promoting. We were too busy looking for the cache to worry about it’s strange name.

It took us about 20 minutes of pretty solid searching. In the end we found the cache in a spot where we were positive we’d already checked over. But it was a good feeling anyway to get this one out of the way – it’s an industrial area with high muggle activity, and the area was becoming increasingly busy despite the early hour.

Sniffing out the FeO cache

Interestingly, while searching we inadvertently found a couple of other items of interest “hidden” on the truck – but we returned these without disturbing them. We were only interested in signing that little log book and moving on to the next find. TFTC.

The satellite view indicated this was located at the front of a factory – in what looked to be some kind of landscaped garden bed, hence the reason we thought a weekend would be a good muggle-free time. Well… not exactly, you see – there’s a popular 10 Pin Bowling Alley right across the street, so even though the commercial/industrial side of the street was quiet, there was a steady stream of muggles coming and going from the bowling alley.

Not to be deterred we waited, and picked a time to make a jump for it. There was only so many places this small cache could be – and as a previous log for the cache had indicated – there two large brown lizards on either side of the cache came out from under the garden as if they were the guardians of the cache! Thankfully the lizards were rather friendly – but the shrub itself was rather prickly – so take care when retrieving this one!

Click to zoom - look closely at ear level for 2 lizards

The lizards ran away a second before this picture.

We signed the log, swapped a precious stone for a knight, and as we were taking the above pictures a muggle drove past and LAUGHED at us. Hmph!  Grab the dog – we’re outta here.