GCG4VK Go Ask Charles

It was Friday afternoon and I was home a little early from work – so I figured, it’s a good time to go try for a second chance at Go Ask Charles (GCF4VK) which had previously eluded us.

Go Ask Charles is a Multi Cache by GeoMonkeys, located at the lookout of Rumbalara Reserve in the heart of Gosford. It’s a very interesting and clever Multi-Cache, where we had to solve a clue at one location, which lead us to a nearby 2nd location, where we needed to solve another clue to give us the coordinates for the cache.

Wolfie sniffing out the clues

On our first attempt we solved the two parts of the Multi, but we failed on the actual cache find itself. Today was starting to look like a repeat of our first efforts.

Wolfie Guy and Wolfie Ben scavenged through the scrubs trying to piece together the clues, along with hints people had left in their log entries. The clue was a little tricky because it could have referred to a few very similar features in the immediate area.

Armed with our GPSr and iPhone, GZ seemed to dance around. Perhaps it’s the dense tree canopy, or the fact it was a very cloudy day. We had the approximation, but it had us out a little – however, we were determined not to let this one beat us this time – and our determination was to pay off.

After about 20 minutes of searching and foraging, Wolfie Guy gave out an excitable yelp to indicate he had sniffed out something that looked suspiciously like a cache!  Yippee.

This was, to date, the trickiest cache we had gone after (as far as terrain goes). Although it’s rated a 2.5 for terrain, given the cache’s location I would have personally rated it 3 or maybe even 3.5 because the final part of the the search is a little hard… either that or we just went about it the hard way.

Overall this was a fantastic cache – and somewhat of a challenge, which we enjoy. We left the Koala keyring, originally taken from Little Beach, and took the disco ball. Left our mark in the log too of course… so thanks very much for the challenging cache, GeoMonkeys! We’re looking forward to sniffing out a few more of your hides real soon.

Brady’s Pioneers

Well, time for something different. How about a multi, in a cemetary?  A really old cemetary – where pioneers rest, and their headstones contain the clues to finding the cache!

Bring on Brady’s Pioneers – located in a small park close to home which we didn’t even know existed.

That’s the amazing thing about geocaching. You are guided to all these wonderful new places and experiences that would otherwise go by unnoticed.

It was fun locating the headstones and using their clues to get the final coordinates for the cache. TeamWolfie encountered one Muggle, but he and his dog kept his distance whilst maintaining a watchful eye on our activities. And a great little cache it was. This was Guy’s first find, and TeamWolfie’s second find all up. The interesting location, the thrill of Guy getting his first find, go together into making this cache another of our favorites.

Guy's first find - well done, mate!

Brady’s Pioneers was also to be our very first discovery of a geocoin, which we did not remove on this occasion.

Well done, Guy.

Go Ask Charles

After securing our first find late yesterday (Dragon’s Lair), it was time to try our luck with some more Geocaching. We thought we’d start with a Multi-Cache that’s close to home.

A multi-cache is a type of hunt where you a guided to one location to obtain some clues, to then go to a second location – from there either getting more clues or finding the cache. Go Ask Charles is such a multi-cache, and is close to home too. It is in fact, our “closest” cache officially, but not closest to get to given the geography of the area.

Charles was pretty helpful, in providing us the clues to get to the next part of the multi, which we solved quite readily and were now heading in the right direction to the location of the cache.

Sadly, on this day the cache was not to be found. We still have lessons to learn about finding caches.