Today Bradley and I made the trek up Bulli Pass to Cataract Park not sure if we would make it as the car was working on fumes as I had forgotten to fill it up. We made it OK but would we make it home?
Our trip today was to the AJ2010 Visitors Day to catch up with Jenny and Rachael after their first week.
It was a warm day (35C with about 70% humidity) which made for close conditions with plenty of sweat and keeping up fluids.
We managed a car park very close to the entrance (our arrival time was 11:00 am) and they had finished sending all the cars down to the dam and were filling up spaces that were left. Through the entrance was quick and we were on site within 5 minutes. Seemingly those that had entrance times at 8:00am only got on site about an hour before we got there.
The thing with Cataract Park is the walking and distances. Of course Troop 0404 was not the furthest from the entrance, it wasn’t far off. (1.3 km from the entrance).
Jenny and Rachael were happy to see us and we had a quick look at the cap then headed to Sub Camp 4 Market Area then back for lunch with all the other family members that had made the trek across from SA. Meat and Salad Rolls for lunch today.
After lunch, the kids disappeared, and I headed off to the Geocaching Event that was scheduled for today on site. They introduced Geocaching as an activity for this Jamboree and it was being taken up by many with a number of temporary caches set up on site. I caught up with many cachers from Australia and NZ. We exchanged tips, pathtags and travel bugs and headed on our way.
After walking around some more, taking in the Contingient Tents, we went to Sub Camp 2 to catch up with Liam and Lochie McHenry who were attending their first Jamboree. An exchange has been set up for Tuesday night where Rachael’s patrol will dine at 0224 and Lochie’s patrol will dine at 0404.
After another meal with Troop 0404, Bradley and I made the trek back up to the car and into Appin to get fuel (we made it).
While in Appin and on the way back to Wollongong, picked up some caches of course.
Caches for today were:
GA1702 – Jamboree Scout Geocacher Get Together
GA1691 – Where the wild things used to be
GC21KRZ – Barefoot in the Park
GC1A9BY – Copious Caches on the Coast #2
