Mooba and More

Flat White Mooba and More

category: Trips Out, author:

Agamedes

2 September 10

The cat is at the vet's. We have a few hours to wait till we can pick her up. Time to find some geocaches...

There is a swag of caches in the Canning River Regional Park -- well worth a visit, we think. So off we go.

We only find two caches, though the first is a multi: following clues, point to point, through the suburbs. Just a few kilometres in total but through an unfamiliar area. On top of that -- school is just out for the day. We zig and zag through the streets, slowing for narrow roads, children on foot and parents in cars.

Quite a lot of fun, really!

It's Spring -- just -- and wildflowers are blooming. The final stage of the multi cache -- "gz", or ground zero -- is a hundred metres or so off the nearest road. A short walk through light bush and more open ground with flowers.

We're pleased with our find and decide to try for another.

"Barking Mad"?! Is the cache, perhaps, hidden on the doggy poo bag holder? Nooo... it's another meaning for the word "bark". Takes us a few minutes but the search is successful. Time for another?

Yes... probably... We set the GPS for the next nearest geocache.

These roads are very confusing! Where are we really going? The GPS shows only the next road... and the screen is a bit difficult to read as the light changes.

Enough!

Set the GPS for home and follow its lead.

Even that is complicated! It's not a straight path, out from these parkside suburbs. No worries -- we just follow the GPS. West, north then west again...

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We're still a bit early for the cat. Is there time, we wonder, for a cup of coffee?

Of course there is!

There's a coffee shop called Mooba... A coffee machine squeezed in on the edge of a walkway at the end of an IGA. Plastic chairs, plastic blinds, generally open to weather and traffic.

Actually -- it's a pleasant spot with quite good coffee. Perched between busy shops and busier roads.

Mooba closes at 5 pm on weekdays. As we sit here, enjoying our coffee, we wonder what they do at night. It's a bit open!? Do they just leave the chairs and tables out all night?!

As we sit there, enjoying our coffee, half the Mooba staff (that is, one person) starts to clear away the furniture. Chairs are stacked and moved. Tables are folded, stacked and moved. It looks as though all will be cleared for the night.

"All"?! Yes -- though "all" is not very much. It's quite a small coffee shop:-)

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Then it's a short drive to the vet's. The cat is alert and happy, bravely sporting a bandage on one paw. We take her home and feed her a hearty dinner.

The cat is sleeping, after the excitement of her day. Well, sleeping as she normally does, for most of each day.

Another great day of cat, coffee and caches.

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