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!
Our third geocache find for the day at Kincumber Recreation Reserve, was also our 52nd find, and our 4th find in the Monopoly series of caches by cphoenix – this one being red game square Trafalgar Square (GCYBTP).
Just another 5 or so minutes flat walk further along from The Road Not Taken, this had us a little stumped at first. Sometimes hints should be interpreted carefully. “Beyond the lookout sign” does not necessarily mean behind the sign – so one should trust one’s GPSr here until one gets closer to GZ and then start looking in the obvious cacheable hidey holes.
Wolfie owes another $20 rent
We took a little paper Aussie Flag and left a swappable travel bug. This guy is called “Clockwork Orange” and he has traveled over 19000km from the UK, and still going strong. Unfortunately the little digital clock on the poor guy no longer works and the battery in it is missing. Hopefully someone will find him a new battery and get him working again.
Bye Bye Clockwork Orange
A great location for our 52nd find, and a perfect spot to drop off this cute little traveler. Good luck in your travels.
Whitehall (GCYBT5) is another in cphoenix‘s series of Monopoly-themed geocaches – each cache find representing a square on a standard Monopoly game board. Whitehall is one of the Purple squares on the English version of the game.
It’s located in the Kincumber Recreation Reserve – along with several other caches, so we decided to spend a morning there finding as many of these as we could. Turned out to be a great morning where TeamWolfie got some much needed exercise after two days of Christmas feasting.
The search for Whitehall takes you about 600m in a southerly direction from the main picnic areas at the Kincumber reserve, to a pleasant rocky outlook with sweeping views across the village of Kincumber below, and far beyond.
Wolfie lands on Whitehall. $10 Rent owed!
We found this cache fairly quickly – making it our official 50th cache find, and puts yet another of the Monopoly series under our belt! We left behind a Soldier and took a Sheeps Head (not a real one).
This was a great little small sized cache in a very pleasant location, with lots of unusual trees and great views. Thanks for giving us an excuse to come here. Another great find.
Bad Experiences, Caches Not Found | Wolfie Ben | 
December 27, 2008 9:24 pm | 
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