On the last weekend of November, I went caching in Heathmont, a suburb of Melbourne. I filmed the whole experience on my iPhone for your viewing pleasure.
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On Friday morning I got up at 7am, packed my rucksack and headed out to Don Valley in the 4C temperature and pea soup mist to get my first ever FTF! Now
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!
I just found a great little Wordpress plugin (via Podcacher Podcast) to display your geocaching stats on a Wordpress blog. You can add a widget in the sidebar (see the left sidebar) or you can use short codes to display you stats (see the bottom half of the About me page).
You can download the plugin from the Wordpress site. If you need help or info about the plugin, see the author’s site.
Two mistakes I made when trying to use this plugin: you need to upload the gpx file, not the zip file and when using the shortcode to insert stats, there must be no spaces between the ‘[‘ and the text.
I set off to do some caching in Abbotsford on Saturday. I had planned on doing 5 caches in the area. The first on my list was ‘Penny Bridge’ (GCYON) and within 15 minutes of parking nearby and walking to the local park, I had the cache container in hand. Oh, that’s after a close encounter with a possum who lives in the same tree as the cache container.
Guardian of the cache
The next planned cache was ‘The Abbotsford Convent’ (GC1MON6) but I got a panicked phone call and had to rush off to a minor emergency.
December’s 12 of 12 is a little bit different to the usual format – it’s a 12 of 12 of 12 of 12. Explained: 12 panoramas of 12 shots on the 12th day of the 12th month.
All photos were taken AND processed on my iPhone hence the blur and poor quality on some of the shots.
On the last weekend of November, I went caching in Heathmont, a suburb of Melbourne. I filmed the whole experience on my iPhone for your viewing pleasure.
I only managed to find one cache in Heathmont because of time constraints and LOADS of muggles, but I grabbed another in Vermont in the afternoon.
