First of the new year January 8, 2012

The forecast wasn't too good so when the hike was proposed we had few takers ... then we ended up on 2 different islands!

One half when to Moresby with geocaching on their mind ... that story we can tell

The other group went to the Knob to find the way in the back way ... they will have to tell their own story ... it is a good one; something about bushwacking and long walk to get the car!

Moresby trek started off with a bit of birding ... Canada, Snow? and later some Brandt
 

The road down to Gray Bay was pretty good until after the turn off ... lots of blow down, which we had to drive over very carefully [it was the new car's maiden voyage]. We headed to one of our favourite spots, into Secret Cove ... where strangely [after looking a couple of times before, unsuccessfully] we went straight to the Atlantis Cache ... then feeling very proud of ourselves spent some time checking the beach and admiring the waves crashing in ... It was warm, dry and totally calm ... quite a magical spot.

Next we head to the ALM Cache ... and replaced it once more. The beach was covered in clam shells with a few moonshells sprinkled in ... some beautifully coloured sea weeds.

Too early for lunch and with 2 more caches to find we headed off towards Pallant ... it is always longer than you remember.

Quite quickly we found MIRCO, which was quite micro and clever too ... we celebrated with lunch before heading to Mt Moresby Adventure Camp for a final cache ... thanks to Heather's persistence and enthusiasm we had another celebration. We want to send our thanks to Awesome Possum for her great ingenuity. You have raised the bar! We has just enough time left for a hike into the falls ... the Pallant was really running as was the Copper!

The trip home going via South Bay was quite something ... trees down everywhere, passable but just ... the rivers are as high as we'd ever seen them. Another celebration, hot chocolate, cookies and Christmas cake in the ferry line up in the dark ... home by 6:00 with 3/4 finds to post.