Caching with the Cousins

The remaining days of the school holidays involved cousin swapping. Josh and Mia joined Andy and the girls for a day. Inspired by the recent geocache find at Bemboka, Andy took the kids and dog in search for several geocaches on Mt Painter.

All rugged up the first geocache began at the Cook Memorial Sundial, a monument that was erected in 1970 to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain James Cook's discovery of the east coast of Australia. The cache however was not hidden here. To obtain the real coordinates involved solving a puzzle based on the wording on the plaque.

Andy thought the kids would be interested in cracking the code but their attention span and comprehension was short lived. Soon though they were climbing up the steep rocky slope immediately behind the houses getting closer to ground zero. A little bit of searching amongst the rocks soon revealed the cache.

Next cache was much simpler - a straightforward gps location. The kids were off, heading downhill towards Coulter Dr. This cache was in a quite obvious spot and discovered easily.

With the cache safely hidden again, the kids attention turned towards the horses in the adjacent paddock. While the others attempted to pat the horses and feed them grass, Katy kept her distance convinced that because she was the smallest in the group, the horse would be more likely to eat her….

From the horses the group wandered back through the suburb, pausing at Little Oink cafe for coffee, hot chocolate and to warm up before returning home.