The hardest part of this month was actually picking 12 photos for the day. We were over on the Yorke Peninsula in the Copper Triangle (Wallaroo, Kadina & Moonta) for the June Long Weekend Copper Coast Caching Geocaching Event.
This was Day 2 of the Event which started with an Egg & Bacon BBQ and Group Photo with 66 teams and around 250 geocachers heading out at 9:30 am to try and find the 80+ caches that were hidden by everyone on Day 1, with a few bonus caches and other tasks.
Our day started well with Rachael being able to solve the 2 Mystery Caches in the first half hour but as it would happen we would only have time to find one of them (much to her disgust). We did find the 2nd one on the way home on Monday.
We started on some of the Kadina caches before heading down to Moonta then up the Coast to Wallaroo grabbing as many of the northern caches as we could before 3:30 pm. After that time we had to pick up our 2 temporary caches and return to the start point at 4:00 pm which we made with 30 seconds to spare.
We didn’t pick up one of our temporary caches and took a 5 point penalty but we probably would have ended up with a 30 point time penalty if we did get it. (I made the hour round trip after to grab it). This temporary was published as a permanent.
At each of the events we have attended, we have left a permanent cache which is a letterbox out in the middle of nowhere. The three caches are:
There were a number of clever hides as well as some frustrating hides. The kids liked the Owl in the tree, Split log and Spooky Skull. The most frustrating one was the one hidden in the 10m x 5m pile of gravel which we didnt find. Rachael also enjoyed the tree climbing caches which there were a couple of. My favourites were those that involved some 4WDing to get to.
The day finished with a spectacular sunset over Wallaroo then the Presentation Night back at the Harness Club.
We didn’t win the Event with our score about middle of the pack. Jenny and Rachael blame me for stopping at too many “real” caches instead of the “event” caches. What we did win was the best themed table which was “Red” and also the Jim Beam raffle which was a 4.5 litre bottle of Jim Beam. 😀
After the Presentation finished and we did our bit to clean up the hall, I dropped Jenny and the kids back at our Office Beach Cabin and then headed out for some night caching with a group of other Geocachers ending up at 2:30 am. It was a big day considering we started at 7:00 am.
Until next month ….
