The last few days of 2008 were rather quiet: just the two of us and Dot's brother, Dick. However, New Year's Eve was possibly the best day of 2008, weatherwise: not a cloud in the sky, pleasantly warm (28 degrees C), and relatively low humidity.
We decided to visit one of the geocaches I planted almost a year ago and check that it still existed. It was a lovely walk through the Oxley-Wild Rivers national park to get to the location. For the record, the site is GC18TZ6 at S 30:35.847; E 151:48.211 and you can find it on Google Earth, especially if you have geocaches enabled. The site is just off the track following a disused flume that once delivered water to one of Australia's oldest hydro-electricity stations built a century or so ago. Hence my full name for the location is "Get Flumed", which sounds more interesting than GC18TZ6!
The site is also perched high on a hillside over- looking the Gara River as it tumbles from the Tablelands to the bottom of the Gara Gorge some 300m below. After our heavy rains, stream flow was substantial and the dry sclerophyl woodland surrounding the track was covered in native orchids ... very pretty. Interestingly, visitora to the cache the previous day had planted a travel bug. It is now my job to send this bug (a metal and coded tag) on its way to a new geocache somewhere in the world and the owner (and I) can track its movements around the country because its movements are logged on a special web-site.
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