The Old School Yard Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By Derf10 on 03-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1EVNV

Sorry I found this one a little while ago and forgot to log it so now I'm having to play catch up with all my logs. TFTC Found with Scruffyblake, The S's and Me_To

Cache is no longer there.

Geocaching Australia received this letter today:
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cache on private property
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I have recently had my garden and rock walls decimated by your avid followers.
i have found the cache and removed it.

please remove the coordinates for the SCHOOL HOUSE BATEMANS BAY NSW 2536 from your list

thank you
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"

Sorry No longer available

Thanks derf10 for the history and the cache. Log book a bit damp. Left a small trinket.

We found it very quickly. First we thought the box were on a higher level. We are happy that we could reich the container without anything climibing. Thank you for the cache. Karen and Thomas

I was camping for the long weekend at Durras and I decided to grab a few caches I would not normally be able to get. After a kilometer walk we got to the GZ and the search was on. My whole family was searching for the cache and it proved to be quite a challenge. But in the end my little brother found he cache. We walked off happy and with a few mozie bites.

Didn't find the right spot today will try again soon

Nice garden. Luckily I found this cache in a short time. Thx!

Suscoe's 11th find of the day on our final caching run in the Bateman's Bay area.
A cloudy sky and a cooler day accompanied us.
Finally the right spot was looked at and the cache found.
Thanks to derf10 for placing this cache.

Veni, vidi, repperi!
Found during a habour Walk.
Greetings from Austria

Second time lucky. Searched the wall again and happy to find the cache. TFTC

Found it got fit climing the hill:)

2nd for today hunting with nic. Left lots of lil treasures!!!

Lovely placed of town batemans bay, easy to find as no trouble... Thanks

I found it. But I didn't have a pen, I didn't want to use the pencil because I might of ripped the log that is wet.

Sorry I found this one a little while ago and forgot to log it so now I'm having to play catch up with all my logs (well Mummy is TFTC Found with Scruffyblake, The S's and Charli_Bear

Visiting the area for a short family holiday. I started my search and then the nearby business owner came out and was tinkering with his ute. I ceased my search and went over and looked at some flowers in the nearby garden. The business owner then said to me that the cache is still there somewhere. Knowing that he wasn't a muggle I then continued my search and he went back inside. I was soon signing the log. Thanks derf10.

Came back when it wasn't raining and spotted it immediately! TFTC!

Found with the family whilst on holiday. The Ss Me_to Charli_bear. TYFC. Nice location.

Found with Scruffyblake, charli_bear and me_to TFTC TNLNSL

Haben uns zu viel Arbeit gemacht und auf allen Ebenen gesucht.

This entry was edited by frines on Thursday, 08 January 2015 at 09:54:28 UTC.

A quick find on a snny day. Tftc #3858

Hallo, I am from Austria and traveling with a Hippie Camper 6 weeks through your nice Country.
I have limited internet Access so I will say if something special after my
THANKS A LOT.

There so lots mosquitoes and pelicans this area.

Tftf..

A nice quick find for GeoDaughter today.
Log is a little damp. TFTC

Great cache and a happy new year to everyone

First to find cache in 2015

Second time around got it with miss10 woohoo

Great find

Found an empty plastic money bag.
Will check another time

The first part of our 6-week-journey in Australia took us from Sydney to Melbourne and also led us to this hiding place.

Thanks for hiding it
globus from Germany

No luck today. will come back.

In the area visiting family. Got to GZ and the car park was full. However no one was in the cars. Great time to find this cache. Nice area TFTC

One night in batemans bay. Up early for a spot of caching. Tftc

Another slice of history known only to cachers (& very keen historian muggles). Many hint items were examined before the correct one was found. Thanks derf10.

Trip down to Batemans bay and lovely sunny, TFTC

Found at 2:30PM by Ray and Maya. Easy find once the Muggles departed. TNLNSL. TFTC. The Nomads.

Current streak: 147
Cache no: 1247

Another quick park and grab during our road trip to Batemans bay. Log still abit damp. TFTC

Quick easy find, thank you

Log a little damp.TFTC

This entry was edited by mistysoho on Friday, 31 October 2014 at 22:13:15 UTC.

Needs a new zip seal bag. great location

cache find #2047. Found the cache a few metres from the given coordinates. Discovered the tb, and left it for someone else to move it on. TFTC.

17:04
Based near Tomakin for a few days, we had the opportunity to seek out a few caches in this fascinating coastal area. It is always good to find caches after reading of the interesting local history in the cache notes. The satellites today had our GZ 9M north east of where we found the cache, which was a little damp hopefully only because the lid was not quite secure.

Thanks to derf10 for the hunt.
9614

Quick find on a walk by the river.

I enjoyed reading your story and connection to this place. Easy find although I am sure I was spotted by lady putting out rubbish next door. You may want to check on the container as looking a little mouldy and damp.

With only a few empty cars parked nearby I had a clear look for this one and just had to reach out to remove some camo to find it. I took the TB and left another TB. Thanks for the hide.

Sorting out the bounty

Found it and left track able

Harveyspectre and the running girls 3:45pm 29th September 2014 TFTC such a gorgeous harboir

[green]Find #3529[/green]...

[red]My humble apologies for the late log...[/red]

After living away from home for 6 months, I have managed to find all my caching associated paperwork / notes & photo's so I can (finally) log all my finds... Found this cache whilst House Sitting near Moruya...

My sincerest thanks to all the cache owners for their hides & all the effort gone into them & I'm sorry for the generic log... I have seen many beautiful area's that I would not of seen or experience if not for your hides...
Thanks for bringing me here and for the cache...
- P

Took: Nothing Left: Nothing Dipped TB's...

Found by The Empire + H @ 6:30pm
We'd made it to Bateman's Bay and had a great dinner, now to grab a quick one on the way back to the Motel. Thanks for the cache derf10.
- M

Found it on our roadtrip with plus+ and Pharmacacher. TFTC!

Nice and easy to find.
TFTC PharmaCacher

Quick grab near our motel.

Very interesting

Fun find, thanks!

Trouvée en 2s Cami2614 et Mouna33 se la coule douce... TFTC

Merci pour la cache. Encore un beau souvenir d'Australie.

Travelling with relatives from France, so don't be surprised if you see logs in French. The trip from Canberra to the coast and back took a long time with all the stops for the caches...Is this the new trend "Geocaching Travel"?

Thanks for the history

Contents damp. TFTC nice that they kept the school sign in good nick

Easy done

#24 in Australia
Wet and misty - not a nice day to drive North towards Sydney.
TFTC
Frank from Germany

Day six at the coast and have to go out with Mister JD in Knightech-trek

decided that a quiet day not travel to far so we hit Deep creek

Weather is great !

Finalky got to do this one - have driven past about 20 time and lot of muggles to get in the way

today nobody - nice quick find

1 of 9

TFTC

We started our extended weekend trip from Cherrybrook. Our first stop was at Lake Illawarra. After, we made our way to beautiful Jervis Bay. Here I was surprised with a beautiful whale watching cruise where we saw many dolphins and seals.
After watching the amazing marine life, we continued our way to Batemans Bay where we stopped at many beaches and many nice locations.
The highlight of our tour was waiting for us in Durras where we got to cuddle with tame wild kangaroos. An amazing experience.
Here we also found a cache.

Thank you
Team sissifalke

Nice location and history. Unforunately the container an log got wet and will need some TLC. Tftc

At last success with no miggles around TFTC

Geo kids found it!! Quick park and grab!

TFTC

Last grab of the day (#14) travelling from albury to batemans bay. Tftc.

TFTC!
Found with Shellumbus and RedLeader&Fox2.

Number 14!!! Todays quota is filled!! With indianagleeson and geofriends

Great spot. Found with the geokids. TFTC

Beautiful day for geocaching!

Four months later, Donnazev and I go for another look and lo and behold....there's a cache. Turns out our GPS units were putting us 7-8 metres away and once we widened the search found the cache. We weren't however as sneaky as we would have liked as the local "business muggle" came out and asked if we were "orienteering looking for the tin".

After a brief chat about caching, it turned out that they are aware of the cache being there (and are happy enough for it to stay), but would really appreciate that finders PLEASE replace the rocks they move and not just throw them onto the lawn. He said that they are often having to come out and put the rocks back into the garden.

Derf10, if you're able to - it might be worth updating the cache description to ensure that future finders are a little more careful when looking for the cache.

TFTC. It was good to put this one to bed.

4 months to the date, Genghicat & I decided to give this another go.

This time we widened our search & were successful in our attempts. GPS was off by about 7 metres.

Yayy we can finally add this to our finds. TFTC

Great Cache we are locals and never knew that this was an old school yard THANKS for giving us some information

Had parked the car nearby when we went in search of breakfast so picked up before getting back on our way towards Canberra. Took a while to locate.

When we left the car, the ladies from the café were tidying outside, so we gave the cache a miss. On the way back to the car, we had a go at finding it. It was not a quick find but we got there in the end.

Beautiful spot

Found it

First geocache i found! Yay!

Found it!

Nice n easy, TNL new pen, SL

We decided to travel from Canberra back to Melbourne via the scenic coastal route. We stopped in Batemans Bay for lunch and a bit of a look around and passed this cache on our way back to the Princes Highway.

There were a few muggles further down the road but nobody near GZ. We searched a couple of spots without success so we widened our search area. We soon found the well-hidden cache behind something looser than the rest. We signed the log at 2:05 pm and then returned the cache to its hiding spot. TNLN.

Thanks derf10 for the good hide and, for we out-of-towners, the interesting history of the area and the old school that was located here. Also, thanks for the warning re pelicans on light poles. We looked out and up and took a photo of one having a nap.

An easy find under a severe Mossie attack. TFTC derf10

Almost got carried away from mosquitos

A quick find during a walk through town after setting up camp across the river.
We were bombarded by mozzies here, so be aware.
Thanks derf10.

Off we go again on another fun filled geomission with Rapidlywild and the two ladies of the FurfacesLL This time we decided to target Batemans Bay to Tuross and surrounds as none of us had yet to make any finds at these locations. Luckily for us the rain eased mid morning so that meant the rest of the day was reasonably dry-good for caching!. An 8am start and 3am finish meant we were all geobuggered, but as always we had lots of laughs and a great day was had by all

Wow this one really had us going here! All of us looked where the cache is-and then RW rechecked again! Ahaaaa! The cache! Pays to investigate further!

Thanks for yet another, Derf10

A geomission was planned with Rapidlywild and specimenX and as no one in the group had collected any smileys down the coast the location was decided. The week of wet weather threatened for the mission to be cancelled, however the rain eased and the mission was going ahead. We awoke to overcast skies and headed off down the highway ready for a big adventure and big day, some of the group with sleepy eyes. Thanks again ladies for great day and lots of laughs we are looking forward to our next one.

We all looked at the hidey hole but didn't see anything. Rapidlywild returned to the spot and found the hide, maybe four sets of eyes is not efficient all of the time! TFTC

The weekend was here, and there was a location that had not been violated by myself, specimenX and the FurfacesLL ladies, so the location was revealed and we were off to the coast and surrounds. The sky was not in our favor all week and it was touch and go, but the final call was made Friday night and we were all go for an early morning Saturday for a wet coast expedition. There was a lot of laughter, a lot of experiences that I had never had before, a lot of blonde moments and a lot of caches found. What a wonderful day we had over a period of 18+ hours, many many km's and seen lots of the coast

We overlooked this one probably 3 times before we actually found it LOL

Thanks for the find Derf10

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Found with Stigpat - started looking in the wrong spot before double checking the location. TFTC!

Bad start but easy when you know where to look. TFTC

Found on a coast caching trip with Mr Roo.

Found with Kittykatch and captain Tomato. This one took us a why I hate rock piles and the cache was found where I had already looked TFTC

Found on a coast trip with Mr Roo and Captain Tomato. This one had us searching all over the area but in the end CT made the find. Nice hide - TFTC

WOW ..what an amazing place to go to school .TFTC

Quick, thank goodness. No muggles but a million flying bities. TFTC.