Well, as most of you know, I am married to a very attractive and driven woman.  She is my new secret weapon in solving dastardly mystery caches and will be accompanying me on their retrieval!  She drove the solution to a particulalry tricky TE puzzle, lost me along the way but all was good in the end.  She then climbed a tree for another cache that had alluded me in the past
We ventured out on Sunday to do some gentle walks at Tidbinbilla as we are both suffering from Upper Respiratory Tract infections - I've been off work for 2 weeks (it might be Whooping Cough).  First stop was at Cotter and the new Discovery walk to the dam.  And there is cache along the way though you first need to visit the end to gather the info required (which I had done the prelim investigation in the past).
We then went to Tidbinbilla and did two of my favourite shorter walks, the Cascades Trail followed by the LyerBird Trail.  Lots of lovely babbling brooks and ferns and lush greenery. I have previously hidden  a cache on each trail.  A nice stroll, cool in parts but lovely and warm in the sun in other.
A beautiful lunch (smoked ocean trout on silo bread) and coffee followed at the picnic tables (and why I haven't been packing this caching weapon/cook in the past?) . Ohhh, ok I did have to some Myer womans clothing shopping at the end but I survived.  All up, a great day as Canberra begins its version of fake Spring!

Well, the weekend did start on Friday with a message from a friend who was going to do my Red Hill Meander at night.  The pity is Jeremy has such long legs and I just finished a tally of stout and a glass of wine.  Still, I managed to keep up with him and his woofer as we did the 7.k hike around Red Hill and the views are quite good at night.  Puddles were icing up as we finished the traverse.
Sunday saw me planting a cache on Black Mountain but again one that would require a bit of effort to compete.  A tad over 5k walk, mainly along pretty little foot-trails with the odd fire-trail thrown in but one little demanding climb to close to the tower.  Of course I stuffed the listing but we won't go into that here lest the geocachers rejoice in my error.