The Road Not Taken

Our second find for the day in the Kincumber Recreation Reserve, The Road Not Taken (GC17JYD) by Super Snoop is the logical one to do while making your way out to (or back from) Trafalgar Square.

Located along the Sid Pulsford Trail, this small-sized geocache is an easy and relatively-flat 10 minute walk from the main car park. When we got to ground zero, finding the cache in it’s clever little well-hidden nest only took a few minutes of sniffing around.

Wolfie sniffing out The Road Not Taken

After signing the log book we left a clear blue stone and took a cute little star. You can think you’re all alone out here, especially early on a Saturday morning, however while we were signing the log and doing the swaps a power-walking muggle appeared from nowhere coming from the opposite direction, but went off in a different direction. Thankfully she didn’t see us!

We carefully replaced the cache in it’s well-covered nest. Thanks for a great find Super Snoop.

No 178

Another cache perfect for an early Sunday morning is No 178 (GCNDTK) by Grank. From the logs I had not been looking forward to this – stories of nosey neighbours, barking dogs, and curious muggles. We pass this location in the car quite often – every time we look and wonder to ourselves how we are going to get to this cache.

Being still relatively early on a quiet Sunday morning we decided to pull up in the car and give it a shot. The hint gave us three possible spots. So I stealthily made my way over – no barking dog to be heard, and started checking the three possibilities, and found the cache (of course – after checking the other two places and coming up with nothing).

In the excitement I didn’t notice a muggle walking along the footpath at an alarming rate. There was not enough time to sign it and get it back. Oh what to do! Dropped the cache and walked back to the car to act casually and make chit chat with my teammate. The muggle passed, giving us a sideways glance before continuing his morning power walk.

On the lookout for muggles

Back to the cache – we opened it up, signed the log and got it safe and secure back into it’s hiding spot.

Great to get another of these “difficult” ones out of the way. TFTC.

The Buck Stops Here

A couple more kilometres further up the road from FeO is our next attempted find – a geocache by COD called The Buck Stops Here (GCPM2Q). We’d hoped this would be a quick-and-easy find, and by some accounts in the logs it seemed quick-and-easy for some.

Being mindful of it being in a residential area, the roadway is getting busier, and being parked in a no-parking zone we didn’t want to spend too long here. To make matters worse, during our seeking a taxi pulled up to drop off someone at the house directly at the cache location.

Sadly, we left without a find this time. Given this cache is a 3.5 difficulty-rating, we can take some consolation this was not meant to be an “easy” find! We’ll probably return soon to give the area another going-over.