Welcome to the new Red Dwarf geocaching blog.
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Last Monday night I took Lil Dwarfette and we headed off to find some caches.
We drove to a nearby park and jumped out of the car and followed the arrow on my Garmin eTrex GPSr. At one point we walked past a guy and his kid who must have been about 1.5yo or so. Lil Dwarfette waved and said HI and the kid did the same. As we passed the kid started following us and his dad turned around and said “Hey! Where are you going???”. I laughed and Lil Dwarfette and I kept on walking as the guy picked his son up and pointed him in the right direction. It wasn’t too long before we found the cache hidden cleverly. It was almost camouflaged but I spotted it. Lil Dwarfette grabbed a party blower out of the cache and we signed it. Sorry.. we didn’t have anything to put in it as I had not done any Geocaching in such a long time I forgot about bringing things along. We headed back to the car while Lil Dwarfette enthusiastically blew her party blower as hard as she could at any passers by. Unfortunately, this resulted in breaking the blower.
We drove on and headed over the ferry to Moggill. We drove to the cemetery and started looking for the next cache. I introduced Lil Dwarfette to the concept of cemeteries but I don’t think she quite understood. I told her there were people under the ground and she wanted to see them. I also had to tell her to put back the flowers she had discovered in a vase nearby hehe. I searched around and the GPSr was having a weird day where I’d follow it until I was about 2 metres away from where it said the cache would be. I put the GPSr into my pocket and looked around for a bit. I didn’t find anything so took it back out again and it’d find the satellites again and tell me I was 36 metres away from it in another direction. *Sigh* I walked off to find it again and got closer to the cache. Next, I used some deduction to figure where it would likely be and soon found what I was looking for. Lil Dwarfette found a rubber bracelet thing in there and was very pleased. I dropped off a nice silver pen and signed the logbook and jumped back in the car.
This time, we headed down some streets near the shopping centre close by but could not find the cache. Eventually I worked out we were on the WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER!!! This is no easy issue to resolve as we have to drive for about 45 minutes to get to the direct opposite side. We stopped in for some petrol for the car and some chips for us and got to the new site. We followed the GPSr and passed by a kids park full of swings and slides and things (and three boys about 3yo or so with their dad). Lil Dwarfette soon had the boys following her around to play with her. Particularly one boy dressed in a spiderman outfit. They slid down dirt hills made for BMX bikes and got quite dirty, but had great fun. After a while I decided we’d had enough and she reluctantly agreed. We drove off to find the next cache and found it down a bit of a concreted bike pathway. (That is, the pathway was concreted.. not the bikes). I found the film cannister sized cache and opened it.. then soon realised I had left my pen in the car. Microcaches do not have enough room in them for writing implements so I walked back to the car. It was only about 5 mins walk away but still annoying as I had to wait for bikes to ride past before I could get the cache out again. I signed the cache and left a $1 coin to make up for the cache earlier which I didn’t drop something off in. We jumped back in the car and headed off for the next cache. Unfortunately, I forgot to write down a special clue which was in this microcache, to go with other microcaches in the set. D’oh! Hopefully someone on the Geocaching.com website can help me out. We found the other two microcaches and got the clues from them.
We found one other lunch-box sized cache and Lil Dwarfette scored a pink balloon and was thrilled to bits, so it was a good day out for all concerned. I certainly got some exercise I normally would not have and got out and about in fresh air.
Caches found on this trip:
Pan Pac by Crew 153 (GCZE64)
Pioneers by wingaap (GCR98F)
The 7 Dwarfs - Doc by Steve & Family (GC10BX4)
The 7 Dwarfs - Dopey by Steve & Family (GC10BX8)
The 7 Dwarfs - Sleepy by NastySteve (GC10BXA)
The 7 Dwarfs - Happy by Steve & Family (GC10BXD)
