A day out caching with Team Wild,Geomerlin,Windpomp and myself Batsgonemad
We left early in the morning myself and Geomerlin after he sorted out his baby to meet up with Team Wild and Windpomp. We finally left in Wild Teams Discovery for our first cache Twin Peaks GCQWB6 not the easiest to takel but it was early and thought we could wax it in about 2 hours,but alas it was not to be. Can you imagin 2 published way point in a nature reserve with no parking co-ords and surrounded by houses, not an easy task. We arrived at the first parking area and started walking one way only to discover we were going the wrong way because we were following the wrong co-ords, having sorted that out we were on our way about 2km along out gps showed ud to we were 1.5km from the cache and had to make a 90deg left turn, hmm easy enough NOT there was a huge gorge between us and way point 2. We had to walk all the way back to the car and try to locate a access point to waypoint 2 that took us about 45min with no luck so we gave it up and chased our 2nd cache
Here above is a picture abit small though of where we went insearch of the the waypoints.
We then dicided to try Nqutu cache GCJM8V. Well here we also first took the wrong path but a blessing in disguise as we met up with a Zebra who was rather tolorant of us and thus we could get rather close to him/her
So off we went in the other direction and before long we were down in the gourge at the river where the container was hidden, the hint said "At co-ord, find large square rock, with angled rock infront with pebble eroded hole. Stand on large square rock, turn 90 deg to the left +- 10m high on valley wall in front of you is a small triangular space in rocks=cache. Happy hunting" We if it had not been for that hint you would not have found it as the reception is very dodgey down there. We found it with little effort and it had some lovely goddies in there which we traded for other items.
The cache location and a coin that i dropped in the cache. The photo below is looking in the other direction
We left to do another cache not too far away called The Boneyard GCZEWQ This is a cache location that overlooks a lovely gourge called Krantzkloof nature reserve and and also where rock climbers come to climb the gourge. The view is majestic and the hight to the bottom of the gourge about 80m. To the one side, one can also find a lovely waterfall abit of a walk away.
Thats me looking over the edge
Thats me stuck to the fence by my caribiner
A close up and you can see Girry my giraffe TB
Next we went to the bottom of the gorge to do Knysna Louirie GCZV96. A lovely walk through a rain forest type area, it's lush green foliage and damp atmosphier make for a great walk, we rushed this one alittle as Geomerlin had to get home to help his wife look after their baby, but fun was had non the less, he also picked up his first TB since joining this crazy game.
This was a terrible day for us as we spent most of our time running around trying to do Twin Peaks, but fun was had. When i arrived back home i uploaded my track log into mapsource and realised we had come with in 26m of waypoint one without even knowing it. It was a very hot day too and doing long walks in a nature reserve is not that pleaseant in the heat.
Team Wildteam without the rest of the team
FUN WAS HAD BY ALL AND WE FOWED TO RETURN TO CONQUER THE TWIN PEAKS.
