A Geocaching meetup lesson and a whole buncha caches.
This drizzly rainy day there was a Geocaching meetup called “Geocaching 101: Paperless caching”. I drove to the Carlingford bowling club and sat down to listen to the lesson. They taught us a bit about the GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) program and we discussed other things about Geocaching. Afterwards, I had a nice chat with some Geocaching people and grabbed a few Travel Bugs to drop in caches on my adventures. I had a fantastic time meeting everyone and highly recommend it. I joined the Geocaching NSW group and got my Geocoin and badge. I was very happy.
Once the meetup was over I wanted to find a Geocache. It was in my mind and I could not shake it. They told me there was one out the back of the club, so I headed off. I got to the bush behind the club and there seemed no way through. Every time I went cross-country I found a lot of trees and bushes in the way, plus a LOT of orange and black scary-looking spiders. I phoned up the GeoTalk phone number to record my attempt and plug my website 
I left a quick message about the “Cox Park” Geocache I was at for them to play on their next show. After a lot of pacing back and forth I decided to try a different tact and headed to the far right of the park and found a trail. I followed the trail along to not far from the cache and took a sharp left turn, headed down the next trail and got close to the cache. I looked round and round where the GPS said it should be, while getting bitten by many mosquitoes and sweating like a pig! I checked the hint and with some deduction looked in another area not too far away. Sure enough, there was the cache. I stickered the log and left a Travel Bug I had picked up. I phoned the GeoTalk hotline again and left another message about finding the cache and how much fun I had at the meetup.
I was just going to head home and decided to throw in a few other Geocaches before I got there. There are a group of them called the “M7 caches” along the M7 motorway. First up was “Sh…it’s a brick” ( an M7 cache )”. I found it without too much trouble and dropped in a Travel Bug. Next was “Mount Cecil ( an M7 cache )”. Another quick find and TB. Two more, including “Just out of sight (an M7 cache)” and “Lighthorse” (an M7 cache)”. More Travel Bugs dropped and my day complete. I was tired and wet from the rain on me, but had a nice time. I did, however slip and fall near one of the caches and bent my finger back at a bad angle, but that’s what happens when you are out adventuring on your own in the rain. I also updated my “Jay and Silent Bob” Geocache with a new, non-broken container. A really big Geocaching day, but lots of fun all the same.
