Geocaching Cycle

Last night we said goodbye to Nana, who returned to Perth. We have a free day before Grandad arrives tomorrow! Not wanting to do too much we opted for a loop of geocaches on our bikes. Perusing the geocache map, we discovered an easy route taking in 8 caches.

A lovely sunny day with the first part of the ride downhill, we were all pumped. Out first geocache was in the cork oaks and what  a cracker it was! Hidden within a hollowed out branch that was nicely placed onto another branch of an oak tree.

Next two geocaches were relatively easy within a fallen log and an old tree stump. From here I made a route choice error, thinking we could cross under the Parkway (a dual carriageway 100km/hr highway). So after lifting all bikes over the fence, riding for about 150m the cycle path became the shoulder on the highway...which I wasn't prepared to take with the girls. We retraced our steps, back over the fence then followed the lower track in the cork oaks.

 

Our next cache was a special one too. Only a nano, but a very clever one. It was a magnetic bolt where the top nut came off and the log was inside the screw part! Then on foot for a short distance through the kangaroo paddock to another nano on a spiky bush.

 

We had been out for nearly 2 hours by this stage and energy levels were beginning to decline. Not good when we still have to cycle back up the hill we came down at the start. Luckily there was an easy cache about halfway up to keep the girls distracted.

Then with the lure of a stop at Little Oink for a treat, we collected two geocaches along the back of Cook. At the cafe we discussed our favourite geocaches - the floating one found by Ella and Andy at Wallaga Lake ranks the top and the possibility of making our own.