Some perfect weather for the drive through country New South Wales passing through a lot of small towns that were all unique in their own way.

In Urana, I managed to get swooped by a magpie while grabbing a geocache – the nesting season has started.

In Lockhart, the verandah town, there a number of sculptures using galvanised iron as well as a spectacular showgrounds entrance.

It was then time to join the Hume Highway to Sydney but no journey is complete without a stop at the “Dog on the Tuckerbox“, 5 miles from Gundagai.

Traffic was getting heavy and in fact 50 km from Sydney it came to a standstill.

I eventually made it to my hotel for the week – The Mecure at Ultimo. Went to park the car in the car park and kept going down and down as the car park went 7 levels under the hotel and was dripping water from the walls.

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International Geocaching Day nearly slipped by without me making a find as it wasn’t all that well advertised. If it wasn’t for me reading a reference to it on Facebook, I would have missed it all together.

There was a multi cache down at Frank Smith Park that I hadn’t done yet so off I went. The cache was Thanks Frank and involved finding 5 points while walking 1.2 km around the Park.

Geocaching initiated Challenges yesterday and although there has been a lot of discussion over their introduction, I carried out a couple of the Worldwide Challenges while on the walk – 10000 Fewer Pieces of Litter and Ecosystems Around the World.

I also checked up on one of my Geocaches here – 10 Years of Geocaching – Coromandel Valley as the council is doing some work putting in a cycleway right next to the cache. At this time the cache is still safe.

The last thing on the agenda was to deploy a Munzee called Frank Smith Park. What is a munzee you ask?

Munzee is a real world scavenger hunt game where items are found in the real world and captured using your smartphone and makes use of QR codes.

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