After School Activity

A snap decision was made while getting into the car to find a few nearby geocaches before heading home. A quick investigation revealed several on The Pinnacle - a short drive and short walk would be perfect!

The afternoon was warm with a hot dry wind and we all know that energy levels are relatively low post school so with these factors combined I knew there was lots of potential for complaints. However a snack seemed to cheer everyone up and soon we were off following the phone compass. Pippa seemed to be the most eager of all trying to pull everyone down the track!

Both geocaches were named after the parts of the 12 days of christmas song reminding us that Christmas was fast approaching. We were close to ground zero for the first of the two geocaches. The only problem was there was head high grass between us and the cache!! With Pippa leading the charge we managed to locate the geocache in a log, write in the book and swap treasures.


Once back on the track, the complaints were not about tiredness or hunger but rather the grass seeds in their socks!! We spent a considerable amount of time de-seeding ourselves before continuing on to the next cache. We were treated to lovely views overlooking Lake BG, southern Canberra all the way to the mountains.

Cache number 2 came up quickly although both girls were reluctant to venture into the head high grass again. The allure of the possible treasures helped with this and we found the cache quickly. Again the same routine as before including the de-seeding of the socks!!

Everyone decided to run back to the car which was all going wonderfully until Katy had a big stack. Eventually we made it back and arrived home 5 minutes later. A nice change (except for the grass seeds) to the normal afternoon routine.