Time and Tide

It was Monday morning, I had the day off. With 37 cache finds under our belt it was time to see if I could hit the big 40 by lunchtime. Wolfie Ben would be caching solo today, so technically it’s twice as hard with only half the eyes looking for the prize.

I set a plan of attack – two easy looking ones, and a 2nd attempt at one with a 4-star difficulty rating.

The first was Time and Tide (GCR7VG) – another of the Shifter Brains caches located in a waterside park at Point Clare. As a railway worker I normally travel right by here on the train many times each week, but I didn’t realise what a peaceful and pleasant place this is. Apparently it gets very busy with muggles on weekends, so I figured Monday morning should be relatively quiet.

Looking toward Gosford township

Looking southbound along waterfront

The waterside roadway took us to a carpark within metres of Ground Zero. The trick was to wait for a break in the muggle activity – even on a Monday morning there is an intermittent parade of people – young, old, walking, cycling, etc… I checked out a few places among the trees and eventually spotted it just as an older lady approached. Time to look sweet and innocent… until she passes.

It wasn’t long and I had my hands on the small cache at 0955 hours. The log book and treasures were packed in rather right, yet in good and dry condition.

Sniffed Out Time & Tide

After taking the picture I signed the log and made a swap – took a dice, left a red gem. A nice, discrete, and safe find in a relaxing location.

Central

A special little project for me was Central. This is my place of employment, as a train driver for CityRail.

It just so happened this week I was working on very early morning standby shifts – these are shifts where you have to be on-call just in case they need you (e.g. if another driver doesn’t show up for whatever reason). I had a midnight start – so it was the graveyard shift…. and an ideal muggle-free time to go looking for the elusive Central geocache.

I ventured out to GZ about 1:30am for a look.  Taking into consideration the GZ, the clues, the comments left by other cachers – I was fairly confident I knew exactly where this urban micro cache would be hiding.

Sadly – no luck.

A work colleague turned up a few hours later and we both had another look together at 4:30am.  Again, no luck. But something good came out of this – my work colleague is now into Geocaching and later that day he located his first cache close to his home!