Grass Tree Rock

Some days you find 10 geocaches, others you just find 1. Today was a 1-cache day, a nearby one I’d really love to get ticked off my list – an ideal thing to do after work on a Monday afternoon.

Grass Tree Rock (GCPQDA) is a cache by Cache On Demand located in the hilly green belt linking the Rumbalara and Katandra Reserves that separate Gosford township from the coastal residential areas of the Central Coast. On looking at the map we identified three, or maybe four ways to get to this cache. We decided on the day to approach from Clyde Road from the east.

On arrival, the very steep uninviting track made me wonder whether I should have checked a topo map first, and as we made our way to the cache it became obvious we SHOULD have come from Toomey’s Road (i.e. from the north) for the easiest approach. We’ll know next time!  It was quite a warm pleasant day, and I like to get a little exercise, so the steep climb was more an inconvenience than a barrier.

Yet again we’re treated to a new and interesting place which we otherwise would never have visited. The cache had many treasures, though we decided to place the travelbug we’d collected two days prior from Bumble Along and just sign the log.

Travel Bug parking in it

Another cool find in a cool location – which is temporary home to a pretty cool travelbug car.

TFTC!

GCTZ15 Little Beach

This has to be one of the Central Coast’s best kept secrets. “Little Beach” is just that – a little beach, nestled in a bay of the leafy Bouddi National Park. We actually had no plans to visit this cache today, just driving past I thought – “wow, that looks really nice in there…” – so parked the car and decided to take the bush track toward the beach.

Along the way I got out the iPhone to check for caches in the area – and sure enough, I was headed straight for Little Beach GCTZ15 – great stuff!

I absolutely loved this cache. Beaches are great, and caches on (or near) the beach are just fantastic… and it’s good to find a medium-sized cache with room for swapping treasures. It actually astounded us that this cache was in such excellent condition, given the log book indicates its presence since 2006!  It looks no more than a week or two old – so congratulations to user “Grank” (the hider of this cache) for choosing such a durable container for this relatively harsh environment. It’s holding up very well against the elements!

Wolfie loves Little Beach

We swapped an orange “gem” for a Koala keyring, and signed the log book. Thanks for the cache.