Not tired enough from the previous day's hike; and when the weather looked pretty good the call went out to find the geocache "Flossie and Mop" ... which was rumoured to be difficult to get to. We checked that someone had found it relatively recently so off we went, gps in hand.
Heading northward we turned onto Lawn Hill Road and figured out to go on to almost 2 k past the bridge ... then we headed out along the very old North Road corduroy, established in 1910?. Wet and slippery on the logs but some great woodland pathways too ... especially with the filtered sunlight shining through ... a bit over an hour walk in.
We admired the cairns along the trail and the fire damaged snags ... saw some "smelly lilies" but few flowers and virtually no signs of wildlife although the odd bird song did sing through.
We had been warned that the logging had made the pathway difficult to complete but once we got to it we were undaunted and scrambled over the logs across the "new" logging road and over the next log pile and then continued down the trail for another 20 minutes or so, until we found the Flossie and Mop sign. Next we followed the taped trail into the "fields" and then to the geozone where we quickly found the cache. Then we took some time trying to decide which goodies to swap for ...
After we had signed in and congratulated ourselves on our success ... a cellphone rang, and it was a call from England!
By the time we hiked back to the car we decided that we should try to find the logging road ... this involved heading further northward to Lawn Hill North Rd and driving in several kms before finally getting to the crossing [very hard to see but we had taken the gps co-ordinates] ... as we got quite high up there were some interesting views from some unfamiliar angles.
One thing we did notice was a sign on the way in pointing out the trail to Prettyjohn's and the Pontoons ... I'm told by a pioneer family in the area that it is Pettijohn and Pontoon. So maybe we can get those corrections made.
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