Feb was a busy month for me as caching goes. I managed 25 geocaches in the month – my busiest ever (not that I’m a numbers man!)

I was also lucky enough to do some travel caches – in Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia. I managed to grab 5 caches in the 4 days that we were in town. One whole day was lost to a wedding and another to travel and the heat (42°C!)

In the early part of the month I also took a bike ride from Croydon to Blackburn north and grabbed a few caches along the Mullum Mullum Creek and the Koonung Creek cycle trails.

I attended a lunch event and made some new friends too at the “Another Bung Lunch” event.

My favourite find of the month was “Wetlands Walk” which I did with my 3½ year old son. My favourite hide was “Mont Court Reserve“, a very stealthy hide in a kids’ playground.

Tags: bike, bon scott, fremantle, locationless, perth, Photos

Well, I didn’t hit 300 by the end of the year as I had planned but not being a numbers-chaser, it wasn’t really an issue for me. I still managed to grab seven caches in December though.

While we were away on holiday in Venus Bay, I did 2 nearby multis and a couple of traditionals in the Wonthaggi area. I also managed a locationless while away.

My favourite was definitely the “Surfing Eagle” (GC1PKMN) micro which was quite tough due to the number of muggles about. The best part was the views of the beach and the ocean below!

Tags: cape paterson, venus bay, wonthaggi

While I was away in South Africa and during my stopover in Singapore, I managed to do a few geocaches. I didn’t get to as many as I would have liked to, but I did manage to get 3 earthcaches! I had planned to do 2 (2 Oceans – GC1H9WR and Table Mountain – GC1ABZK ), but when the opportunity presented itself for a third (Cango Caves – GC1DTQF), I grabbed it!

I didn’t have much time for caching as I was “acting tour guide” for most of the holiday as I had my in-laws and a friend with me. Luckily the friend doesn’t mind a spot of caching. I dragged him all around the top of Table Mountain to help me with the Earthcache answers. It was a mere 7C up there too and we both had shorts on!

The 2 Oceans Earthcache was much easier to log which is just as well as it was pouring with rain and the wind was howling. We quickly took the required photo with the “Southernmost tip of Africa” marker, took some notes, grabbed another nearby cache and then dived into the warmth of the car.

The Cango Caves Earthcache was by far the simplest to log. We did a walking tour through the caves, I asked all the right questions (to log the cache with) and then some photos. Thanks to Adrian for allowing me to log this (I had taken the group photo in the wrong place).

I also set a new record (albeit a personal one) by logging 2 caches on 2 continents in less than 24 hours. They were Giddy Up Horsey #2 – GC1MYNZ and Butterfly Garden – GC1HA96.

In all, March was quite a successful month. I have also applied for my Earthcache pin from Earthcache.org. April is not looking too flash on the caching front as I am yet to log a geocache!

Tags: Africa, Cango Caves, Cape Agulhas, Cape Town, record, Singapore, South Africa, Table Mountain

I spent the last weekend in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. While there I managed to drag my mate, Dazzler, and my other half around to look for caches.

The first one that we found was Admiral 3. Hidden near a small Orthodox Church quite near the port, this one was quite easy. I also dropped off a travel bug, Welsh Whale (Beluga) , here.

Next we moved on to Fat Margaret, the name of the tower ‘guarding’ the old town. This, too, was quite an easy find except that there was a man relieving himself near the cache, so we had to wait a short while.

On day two I went in search alone for Eve while the others had lunch. Again an easy find, but in a very public place and quite hard to get to and to re-hide after signing the log book.

The last cache in Tallinn was the hardest. It was quite small and very well hidden. It was also down an alleyway which affected the GPS signal quite badly. Dazzler eventually spotted it at about 2m height in a small hole in the wall.

TFTCs.

Tags: estonia, tallinn