Then on the 27th, I did 38 geocaches in one day - 26 of which were on the APM challenge route - one cache representing each Prime Minister Australia has had so far. I found all of them and another dozen extras. The photo below was taken near one of the side trips - I couldn't get further back to take a wider photo, the banks were steep and a bit treacherous-looking. Not many creeks have water in them at this time of year. There were other nice and unusual things to see along the way - I saw a lot of cellar beetles (harmless, sometimes kept as pets (not by me, thanks)) and thistles that had grown improbably large. I had no idea they got that big. I also learnt a lot about driving on dirt roads with loose surfaces - particularly about acceleration and steering. Fear not, no disasters. Just a few interesting learning experiences. The roads were very quiet - most people stick to the sealed roads. I was exhausted at the end of the day but it was quite an adventure!

Early nineties extremely American version of Trivial Pursuit - we were playing around with the question cards late at night. Sometimes the questions are more fun than the answers :D




Today I did some geocaching, placed a new geocache, and picked up the new Dresden Files Fool Moon comic hardcover bindup from Pulp Fiction Comics. It's very, very pretty :D

I learned to solve another kind of sudoku today - I got the hang of it fairly quickly. What you see here, (modified to remove numbers as it's a geocache puzzle) is my first false-start. I didn't get too far and made a minor error. Second time went a lot better but about 2/3 the way through I made an error - the GPS co-ordinates produced by the puzzle were impossible. Once I worked out what the error was I was able to backtrack to just before that. Most sudoku don't really allow that, but because of the method of solving this I was using this kind of puzzle allows it. Anyhow. Third time I got it out without any particular difficulties. I put the co-ordinates through a checker and it turns out I was right :D I shall have to go find it soon...

Also, had dinner with my parents. Mum made a thoroughly awesome lasagne.

After a fantastic bacon-eggs-and-everything-else-too breakfast and a spot of geocaching in Jamestown I started heading back towards Adelaide. This photo is taken along a road in the Bundaleer area where I was doing more geocaching - shortly after I took this panorama shot I took a walk all the way to the very top of the hill in this photo. The view up there was spectacular but photos just don't do it justice. I can definitely recommend the climb though! It's not as bad as it looks - there's a path part of the way up that isn't too steep and the rest of the time I walked along the ridge of the hill. A bit longer, but not nearly so steep!

After finishing up caching in the area I continued home, stopping for two more caches further on, to visit a cellar door and to take a ride on a miniature train at the Hobbies Alive festival in Clare - I saw the signs as I was passing through town and thought it might be fun to check it out. The train in question was a fantastic replica of the old Glenelg trams. There were quite a few other trains including one absolutely stunning little steam engine which had stopped to top up on water and coal while I was at the station. The drive home was beautiful - the weather was much better than yesterday and it made the drive a pleasure. I must do this again...

After a busy day at work yesterday I had a great day. I went to the Wittunga Botanical Gardens for geocaching and lunch, stopped by another cache I'd had trouble with in the past (it turned out to be my 150th), then to the city for afternoon tea, and onward to dinner...

I had a kangaroo and strawberry salad. I was feeling adventurous so just thought... why not? I'm not sure I'd pick it again, but it wasn't bad and was a very unusual flavour combination. The cider, on the other hand, was excellent. I'll be having that one again!

Sometimes geocaching has you doing strange things. Like moving wheelie bins to climb onto them to reach caches. Such a situation may have been encountered in this alleyway... had this happened I might, theoretically, have felt really strange and conspicuous. Eh-heh.

The important thing... mission accomplished.

(if your monitor brightness is low the photo may appear... very black)

This is Aa Bailey Reserve, once upon a time a horse paddock for a nearby hotel.

So I was here earlier today averaging waypoints and such things. Because I'm awesome like that.

Today was quite eventful! My netball team won the semi-final! I played three quarters in WA and had the best run I've had in ages! Really looking forward to the Grand Final next week. I don't know who we're playing, but the team's been performing amazingly lately.

I did my 100th geocache and a several others before and after. I must have walked between five and ten kilometres (or more?) in the space of five and a half hours - very enjoyable.

This flower was grown in our garden - despite many photo-worth events and beautiful places discovered today, I didn't have a camera with me. I might have to take one into the North East area of the parklands some day. There are some really nice places in there.

Went out geocaching again with Amy and Barnaby. I went out in the morning intending on doing a few and phoned to ask if they wanted to join me - turns out they had similar plans, so we did a large part of linear park.

One cache involved a vertical challenge. Barnaby appears to be related to Spiderman.

Laelia's 30th was tonight too, though I couldn't stay dreadfully late it seemed to be going well - Happy Birthday Laelia :D

Well here I am at my 200th photo!

Today was a really fantastic day weather-wise so I took advantage of it! I went on a picnic up to Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens with my parents - we had a lovely wander around. The gardens are really fantastic at the moment, no doubt in part because of the large amounts of rainfall recently. This afternoon I went on a bike riding treasure hunt... it was also much fun.

Very tired now though, so I must go to bed. More treasure-seeking tomorrow as the weather is set to stay fantastic.