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We thought we could get some northern caches done the weekend of the 9th, and then realised 'Oh, the 9th!'.  Some voting will have to happen instead, but then we'll go off and do CraigRat's Coaled Hearted!  Another multi - should be fun!  Also can do some much needed maintenance on Poor Puppies!

Speaking of maintenance, Snuva visited Wellington's Cascade and left some more ziploc bags.

Frustrated with not having any more local caches and not being able to get up north, Snuva logged a few locationless caches: 

• Doin' Hard Time (Female Factory in South Hobart)
• Murals Around the World (Little Arthur in North Hobart)
• Skate Parks (North Hobart at Harrington and Tasma Streets)
• Totem Pole (aboriginal ceremonial poles in the North Hobart skate park)
• What a ZOO! (the site of the Baumaris Zoo on the Domain)

Next weekend we decided to do some reconnaisance so hopefully a Tasmanian caching event can be planned.  Went up through the midlands and did the Topiary Tributes locationless cache. Then on to Biggles Bear's Heaven's Gate Drive By.  Then on to do our first CraigRat find - The Commandants what????.  Excellent!  Checked out some locations in Campbell Town - 'No dogs Allowed'! - and headed east towards the coast.  There were two possible locations in Swansea, so we took some photos and posted a link to them and comments in the forum.  On the way home took some photos to help Snifter out with the  Where's in a Name locationless.

Team Tweeti had asked us to check out Polar Bear Swim because it looked like earthworks in the area had destroyed the cache.  We investigated and miraculously the cache location was dozed, but we were able to find the container!  So we moved it to a new location, the cache owner updated the coordinates, and Team Tweeti was able to log it.

While taking a visit to another one of her favourite bouncing places, Snuva  leaves 11.265 Kilometre View  behind.

To make up for the lack of activity in the previous month, Snuva visits the Tasman Peninsula and finally is able to log South Tasmania 1; she's been here before, but that was BGC (Before GeoCaching).  Snuva then goes on a nice long walk and sets Basic Brown.  What a beautiful spot!  However Snuva was a bit annoyed with the mere human for being slow in taking coordinates; it was such a windy day she thought she would be blown away!  In a tacky place near some sites of beauty now lies Doo-doo DOO DOOOOO!!.  Again, Snuva wasn't pleased while setting this cache; being a poor puppy she is close to the ground and the horrendous wind kept blowing sand in her eyes.  And speaking of Poor Puppies!, Snuva left this one in an area of history and a beautiful bouncing beach.

On the first day they score Yes, but is it art? I and Yes, but is it art? II and attempt Geometry and Island Hideaway.  This is Snuva's second attempt at the last two, but still they elude her.

Day two, and Snuva spends much of the day in the NGV - um, Impressionists.  When the gallery closes a attempt is made at Figurehead. Score!   Later, after all the muggles have gone to sleep, they try for Geometry  and this time the HandsomeMan finds it!  You really need to go when no muggles are around or you can't be free enough to look silly and find it.

The next day, the mere human's birthday, and they have Feet of Bronze after spending some time around the war memorial.   Another stint in the NGV, and then they're off on a Woozle Hunt.  

After weeks of waiting and gazing at Mt Wellington, 22 May dawns and the sky is clear - even around the Organ Pipes!  Off we go (unfortunately minus the hund as Mt Wellington has just gone canine free, the b@stards!), and after a fantastic walk and a few false attempts the cache it is found.  Yeah!

The next day we take a nice Derwent-side walk and leave a bit of local history at Illawarra's Folly. You can get to this cache quickly or as part of a much longer walk;  guess how Snuva decides to do it?  And yes, she finds a few sticks to pick up along the way!

9 April, and Snuva sets off with her entourage, the mere human and HandsomeMan, to find herself some geocaches.  As they approach Hobart City - Scratchie exchange Snuva is admired by some muggles (of course).  Need to use the hint, but at last some success for the Snuvster!  Snuva has a scratchie with a $2 win and in it goes, log is read and signed. Off they go to Wellington's Cascade  and more success!  They all read the log, Snuva finds a stick to chew, and the mere human is bitten my mozzies.  Excellent!  Then off to another - Polar Bear Swim  - and another find!  With a new log book added as this one is getting full, we stop by home for lunch, then decide to tackle KY Aeroplane.  Bit of a drive and more of a walk than the others, but what a fantastic one it is.  And Snuva's been meaning to come here ever since she moved to Hobart.

Looking through gc.com, Snuva realises that there aren't that many caches in the Hobart area and the cachers that come seem to be mainly from the mainland.  She tells a few people she thinks might be interested about it, and decides to hide a few more caches.  She puts Snuva's Haunt in another favourite place for a bounce.  It also is a nice walk non-locals might not normally find their way to.

Chepup will be flying back to the US, but as she was using Snuva's can to camp in Snuva meets her in Melbourne.  They attempt a few caches - Geometry, Island Hideaway, and Quasimodo's Dream V2.0, but no luck.  Chepup and Snuva just cannot find caches when they are hunting together!  Maybe it has something to do with the fact they haven't seen each other for so long and spend more time talking then hunting?!?!

Chepup heads back to California, and Snuva takes the ferry back home to Tassie.  And has a horrible crossing.  So horrible that she doesn't sleep a bit and  is too tired to attempt any of the caches up north.  Truely evil!  She needs a pit stop anyway, so makes an attempt at Heaven's Gate Drive By.  Too tired and grumpy for any success, and Snuva agrees with someone's log entry that the loo is one of the foulest in the world!   
 

Chepup and I set off one day early in her stay and attempt to find some of these caches.  We try one called Wellington's Cascade, but after an hour's search it appears to lead you through some private property.  Give up.

Chepup showed me the printout of one called Polar Bear Swim, and the photo looked like some statues down at the wharves.  Off we go, and the coordinates are nowhere near there.  Back into the van, and with the eTrex out the window we find the general area.  Confronted with a choice of going onto commercial property or public road, we pick the public.  Follow the GPSr, but again looks like we're going to wind up on private property.  Give up.

New plan of attack:  we'll set a new cache for the travel bug.  Off to Chickenfeed!  With loaded plastic containers and the travel bug, off we go to one of Snuva's favourite places for a bounce.  We find a place the container just fits into, cover with a bit more camoflage, and take readings with the GPSr from a million places.  Snuva thinks this is fantastic thing - we're outside, we're doing slightly bizarre things without other people knowing who/what, and there are plenty of sticks around to ask the mere human to throw.   Chepup & Snuva is born.  YES!

Chepup and Snuva set two more caches the same day, again in places Snuva likes to go to for a bounce.  But what should we call them we wonder while gazing into these containers.  African animals, party poppers - Snuva knows:  Wild Party Animals #1 and Wild Party Animals #2 !

Off to the internet cafe to submit these new caches and to sign Snuva up as a geocacher.  A few days later we here from Swampgecko telling Chepup that they cannot be listed as they are vacation caches.  Snuva adopts them and before she even has found a cache is started on her way to being a keen cache hider.

While snooping obsessively through gc.com, Snuva realised that a place she'll be taking Chepup to to see a view of the area is something called a virtual cache.  They visit Trigpoint Scenes 1, and her first log is made!