These dam caches are everywhere... Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By geo-hack on 03-Jul-11. Waypoint GC2KZYG

Container removed on 2/10/2020. The original trunk collapsed at some point, which blocked the original hide (several finders were unable to replace it properly, so it was often in the wrong spot & required zero skill to find). Removing as it could only be hidden in a typical & boring fashion!

A beautiful little spot. So much wildlife around. Container is broken and no longer waterproof. TFTC

Out for a stroll around Mulligans, lots of baby wood ducks and swampies out today

TFTC

Easy find. Probably not the original hide. TFTC

Easy find, this is not the original location so hint wont mean anything.

I headed out here for some exercise and a cache. Thankfully there weren't many muggles out, I saw three on foot and three on bicycles. Saw a few kangaroos lazing around while I walked. Once at GZ I started searching and after a few minutes spotted the hide. Log stamped and all replaced and I headed back. TFTC.

Eventually found by geokid after a bit of a hunt around. TYFC!

Cheeky

A quick find on a beautiful day to be out exercising in Mulligans. Crazy the amount of people out in here today.
TFTC

Lovely location and an easy find, but lots of muggles around. TFTC!

Swung by to check the cache.

The trunk appears to have shifted and the original hide is inaccessible. It's now a standard (crappy) cache hide in what's left. A nearby stump has also gone missing, which is odd. There's also a wildlife camera pointing at GZ too.

This will need to be reset/reworked.

TFTC So pleased to have found this cach at the end of a long day caching in Mulligan's and beyond. I had been searching for the perfect spot to drop Travel Bug Froggy, and this little froggy hollow was indeed perfect. Shame there is no water in the dam, but hey, maybe froggy will bury himself for a while as frogs do when it's dry!

A half day caching with Kiteslayer on my birthday. Blustery wind. 100% finds today - remarkable for my demonstrated skill. Lots of roos and wallabies, 3 bettongs, 2 echidnas, 1 shingleback. Nice quick find, probably not as hidden. No wires in sight (or in site). TFTC.

Found on a birthday caching outing with JohnnyBoyACT. Saw lots of critters despite the weather and had a great time visiting places we hadn’t seen before.

This one wasn't reset properly, had a look for wires but couldn't find any. Still though, a pretty location and a good walk to get to it. TFTC!

A nice slightly of the path find on a walk from Mulligans Flat to Goorooyaroo. TFTC

À great Sunday for caching in Canberra, started out very cold, but turned into a perfect day. Did lots of kilometers of walking on and off track and could have saved a lot of time by taking the pushbike, but really enjoyed the walk.
TFTC Wilbert67

Out on a Saturday caching through Goorooyahroo nature reserve. Beautiful Canberra winters day in perfect conditions for a long days walking. TFTC.
Easy find but think has been moved by the park ranger.

Tftc and tnln on this sunny and incredibly balmy day. HOTA

2nd time out on this trail with Lpud. TFTC

A good find.

Easy find!

Found it. Thank you.

7344 Located by baby&Mrs gopher. The fences make for interesting decisions as you walk the trail. With bit of thought we should have come through the gate at Old Coach road. No so we walked back 200 metres to SL Tnx geo-hack

Quick find number #17 this evening as the stars, planets, and moon glimmered overhead. Cache was fairly exposed, we spotted the wire and not sure if the cache had creeped. But other than that it was in great condition and a lovely bit of old wood here and some nice views towards the urban lights.
Replaced as best we could using the hint as a guide, not perfect but a little better.
Thanks for the cache .

Walking Mulligan's Flat today. Very nice hide. Replaced for the next person. TFTC

Found with cullum68 thank you for the cache

Found with nissan 65 on a few days away caching Log signed and returned to its hiding place. Thankyou for the cache .

After a big day caching the Centenary Trail between Mulligans Flat Road and One Tree Hill by bike, then a mandatory rest day, it was time for some hiking in Mulligans Flat and into Goorooyaroo, picking up CCT series caches that didn't exist last time I cached this area (plus a couple of detours). A great and tiring day with some wonderful close encounters with wildlife and some big storm clouds that threatened but withheld.

Very clever. Really nice to find something a bit different - fun to find and rehide. Great spot too - I was keeping an eye out for snakes (mainly to photograph them) and this did seem a prime location, but none to be seen. Or felt. TNLNSL TFTC

Random draft log word for this cache: McKnight

It's been a long while since we've done a caching marathon, so today we left The Woofer at home and headed out to Mulligans Flat. We spent just over 5 hours wandering the trails, found 43 caches, and encountered lots of wildlife. We left goodies in every container that would fit one. What a gorgeous place!

We'd been commenting on how much the gates/fences reminded us of Jurassic Park, and how we kept expecting a T-Rex to come across the field. Imagine our surprise when we opened the container and found one...sort of! Pic attached. Replaced as instructed. A very nice hide, and something different from the others along the track. TFTC!

Aquilus1 and I decided to finish the last of the CCT Trail we had left.

Not a boring cache at all, it put a spring in my step. TFTC!!!

With dty73 we had a very early morning start to see about the CCT from Horsepark drive through to Mulligans with many side trips for other caches along the way. Started out to be a very cold morning not getting much better with the strong and cold wind through most of the day. Nice creative cache and found ok as well, except for the prickle bush i knelt it while looking! Although without the notes for this cache suspect this could have taken a while. TFTC geo_hack.

We rode in from the East to complete another section of the ever popular CCT Series. Despite a chilly start, the day soon warmed up to what was an almost perfect day out in Canberra's bushland. While for the majority of the day the only traffic we encountered was air traffic above us, we were run off the road at one point by an ignorant local driver, presumably using the trials to access various parts of his neighboring land...you know what they say about Canberra Drivers...

Thank you to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches we found. Apologies for the generic log, it certainly does not detract from the amount of fun and laughter we shared along the way!
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Worth the detour from the CCT series. An ACT Parks Ranger was nearby monitoring some gauges, so we stopped for a quick power break to give the Ranger time to move on. After looking in the common 'goto' hiding spots, we broaden our search and came up...or maybe down?...with the goods. Loved the idea behind the cache and the simple execution of resetting the cache and hide. Worth a fav. from us!

Worth the detour as clue was intriguing - love it! Pretty clever and worth a star!

Went out with team "Capital Crunches" (Kittykatch, Joolay, mtrax, ACTchil, Darkside Dan and McKatieCJ) to grab the rest of the CCT - S2 series starting at Mulligans Flat finishing back at Federal Highway. We searched for ages and then I spotted the container with a nice little smile on my face. Definitely a favourite point from me. TFTC geo-hack

found on a day of caching with the Capital Crunchers team (ACTchil, Darzee Di, KittyKatch, MTrax, Darkside Dan, Joolay and McKtCj) tftc geo-hack

Found with he Capital Crunches group (Kittykatch, DarzeeDi, Joolay, mtrax, ACTchil and McKatieCJ) today on a walk from Mulligans Flat to Federal Highway. This one had us all searching for a while until Darzee found the very cool hide. Gets a FP from me. TFTC

11:04:00 AM: (17 of 45) Find#10779
hmm almost didn't find this one sneakly location down low.

A group find with the Capital Crunchers back for stage 2, weather was a bit overcast which was a perfect for the walk, took us about us about 4.5 hours with a couple of detours to do this part of the SST. Terrain quiet flat and unfortunately couldn't bring geodog along but enjoy the company of KityCatch,Darzee Di , ACTChil Joolay , McKtcj and Darkside dan.
excellent day out.


thanks geo-hack

Found today (date stamp was wrong month) with Capital Cruchers made up of ACTchil, Darzee Di, KittyKatch, MTrax, Darkside Dan, Joolay and McKtCj. Great day for a walk and good company. This was a good one. TFTC

Finally cracked it - the third of my previous DNFs found today. This is brilliant - am learning fast. Thank you, geo-hack.

Well that was a little trickier than expected! I was about to give up, thinking that the geocache was long gone. But a final review of the area revealed another potential hiding spot. Eureka! There was the telltale sign. TFTC

Spent quite a bit of time here poking around but no luck. No. 9 for the day and first DNF

We spent quite a bit of time searching for this one. Even had a previous finder with us but no luck. We did see a very sweet little skeleton of a small animal inside the hollow.

Headed out today with SpecimenX and ZimbaW to walk the CCT trail from Mulligans Flat to the Goo. These caches have been on the radar for some time, and even though it was forecast to the warm, it was too good an opportunity to pass up! Found most of the caches in line with hints, but a couple eluded us in the end. By the end, we were hot, thirsty, tired and sunburnt but happy to have walked the trail and grabbed a bucket load of caches. We still have a few to grab, but perhaps on a cooler day! Loved seeing all the flora and fauna - especially a number of lizards, dragons, and rosellas. Huge thanks to the cache owners for giving us an excuse to head out for a hike and exercise.

Sadly, a DNF for us today on this one. It was really warm by now, and though we spent a bit of time poking here and there, we could not bring the container to light. Another day perhaps, thanks geo-hack!

My second day caching in the ACT this long weekend. I down here for a rich caching ground and found myself walking deep within Goorooyarroo and Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. Surrounded by mobs of kangaroos, swooping magpies, rosellas, and three echidnas! A total of 29km, 64 finds and 3 DNFs. Unfortunately I also found out the hard way that winter is over and the UV rays are burning again.

Hopefully I will be back someday to continue on the caching trail.
Thanks for all the caches.

Found the cache on a short stint in the Goo and Mulligan's Flat. I have returned the cache to its intended spot (I believe), with the assistance of a securing 'device'. TFTC geo-hack

Some time to myself before switching jobs so I decided to use the nicer days to get out and grab some caches.

The fog had finally lift enough to head over to Mulligans for a walk. Continuing my walk around Mulligans, this was the next one found, found this one within the fallen tree. Yes I read the notes, I THOUGHT I knew where the CO wanted it, however the location I THOUGHT it was, the container didnt fit, so I replaced it where the previous finder had it hidden.

Thanks for the cache geo-hack [^]

Found this one straight away. The container was lying on the ground next to a fallen tree. Because I did not retrieve it, I did not know the correct gimmick for hiding it. I have replaced it in the fallen tree using the GPS. There were multiple potential hides. So the CO may need to reset it.

TFTC

Found it. Was on the wrong side of the fence before tracking it down. Nice spot. Think I'll have a chia here.

#1885 A quick easy find with green-martian, Duffco and the geokids. TFTC.

Decided to clean-up caches in this area with TheSkype, Duffco and geokids. I've been here before when the older series of caches existed, so it was deja vu. The track was water logged in some parts but a great walk up to main fence near cct2 electric cache. Tftc.

DNF the cache as it went walking away

We found this cache nicely camouflaged on the ground along with some scrunched up duct tape and what appeared to be a broken rubber strap.
Having read the note we still had no idea where this cache should be or how it should be positioned. Based on the broken rubber strap I would guess something has broken.
The cache container itself and it's contents are in good condition so we placed it back where we found it.
TFTC

Did a huge amount of geocaches today with BlueIris. This cache was part of an 8 hour geocaching hike. I signed the logbook DSD or Darkside or Darksidedan.

Nice tranquil spot, thank you

Found on a weekend caching blitz to the ACT with Hoojar and The Rats. We came, we saw, we biked, we walked, we had plenty of fun along the way .

Saturday was our monster day basically tackling the long snake of caches between Majura and Hall. A generic log like the others have used but that does not take away from the great CCT and other cache placements. TFTC!

After a few weeks of planning, and a number of attempts to align calendars, this weekend I came down to Canberra and the ACT area for a big weekend of caching with The Rats and steeba. On bikes, on foot, and in the car, we targeted a number of series and Power Trails placed since our last trip down here. The weather was perfect, the company exemplary, and the numbers achieved exceeded my expectations. It was a very long and tiring weekend, but of course it was also extremely satisfying!

Saturday was a big day. A very big day. Probably classified as a huge day! A massive amount of terrain was covered via various means. We went through suburbia, we rode along trails, we pounded the pavement. We found caches in several series, mostly along the Canberra Centenary Trail and it's surrounds. What a buzz! I really enjoyed the varying terrain, a few hills, some lovely wooded sections, and some amazing views. There is nothing quite as satisfying as going to bed knowing that you are thoroughly exhausted, and really earned your sleep!

Thanks to the all of the cache owners for placing their caches. Sorry for the mainly generic logs.

Cheers

[Teal]Came down to Canberra for a weekends caching with Hoojar and steeba. Taking advantage of the perfect weather conditions we had two great days riding our bikes around some of the newer powertrails that dot the city and suburbs.

Super Saturday had us racing around town from first light till the last rays of the day. We did different trails, different types of caches different types of hides, we used different forms of transport but most of had a great day.

Thanks to the various CO’s for placing these caches. My apologies for the generic log but it doesn’t detract from the fun we had finding them.
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2:32pm 3/4 - #32 of 50. A nice diversion from our CCT run.

For Mrs Froggycache's birthday we decided we'd have a go at our first trail - a great opportunity for us to get out doing something we really enjoy together, sans tadpoles.

We started close to home with Section 2 of the Canberra Centenary Trail series, beginning at the southern end off the Federal Highway and Horse Park Drive. The big goal was to bag 50 for the day. We walked much further than we anticipated, picking up a couple of non-CCT extras along the way - but there were still more than we could manage in the few hours we had available to us. The latent OCD in us will ensure we'll be back to clean up anything we missed.

Thanks to Champs2Monkeys and AngelG27 for the CCT run, and all the other COs for your hides.

Nice quick find. Great walk

What the heck, I have to get off the track? oh no!

Finally managed to get out here and pick this one up. TFTC

Yesterdy I completed the difficult part of this CCTrails.
**Today I continued the CCTrail with my bike and it was significantly easier to drive around.**
I also found many caches here.

Thank you for the adventure

Team sissifalke

Aiming to get to the other side, geobike away! TNLNSL TFTC

We decided to head out for a run through Mulligan's Flat to Goorooyaroo today. It was a pretty hot day, and so we packed up the camel-backs with plenty of water and wore our heavy duty legionare caps for protection.
We have run here often over the last few years, and really love the area. It is so peaceful and the changing bush land scenery is Australia at some if its' best.
The cache appeared to be almost exactly where we thought it should be...so hopefully someone has replaced it correctly before us.

Thanks geo-hacks for the adventure,

Domsky

Sunday 14 February 2016 (Valentines Day) - a hot summer's day in the 30s with a brilliant blue sky with the only breeze coming from riding my cross-bike faster. Found 32 caches in 5 hrs over 18.1 kms starting at 8.30am. Must get a proper bike for this terrain - a mountain bike! Second time lucky. Quick and easy find. Thx p2p. TFTC.

# 2103 The plan for today was to clear the last of the Muligans Flat caches and get some kilometres into my legs. I have been so lazy lately with a torn hamstring.

For some reason, every time I look for caches in Muligans Flat, I am always on the wrong side of the fence for a cache. I rode up the hill, through the gat and then back down to the dam. Once again, I sat down for a drink and relax in the shade.

SL TNLN TFTC

My second visit here, and cache was very quickly spotted!

Thanks!

NOTE FOR NEXT FINDER(s): I've heard the cache is currently in the wrong spot as someone hasn't replaced it properly. Can someone please read the hint + details and replace properly as I can't get to the cache for some time.

Some of these places you wouldn't want to come to at night but during the day are amazing! TFTC

Walked around abit. Read a few of the logs soon had my hand on it.

After reading the cache's description we thought we may be in for a search. After reaching GZ, geowife sat down to rest her weary legs and immediately said "there it is". We were soon on our way. TFTC

#5147 @1420
After today's orienteering in the Goorooyaroo reserve, I jumped on the bike to collect the caches along the Centennial Trail. Once the cache trail ended I continued on for a couple more. This one had me beat for a while. So pleased when I eventually spotted it. From here I headed back the way I came. TFTC.

Out today to hit my next milestone of 1000, which was only 22 caches away. Seen some great views and some great cache locations. thanks for the cache.

Dropped by to check this one. As usual it wasn't in the right spot Also, the 'strut' was missing, so I replaced it with something else. I'll come back to fix some of the other bits later. Dropped off a TB.

Out today on our bikes, riding on Mulligan Flats. Seen Kangaroos, and bird life along the way, perfect winters day. Found cache out in the open, we hid it where we thought it would live. TFTC

TFTC

Nice!

Found with sacada. Now have my own login. TFTC.

Doing a round trip around Mulligan's Flat. Lots of new caches to do since last time. Found this one in the open. Now safe and sound. TFTC geo-hack.

We decided to spend ANZAC day going on a bike ride through the reserves. This was an easy to find cache. Thanks Geo-hack.

What a great day out in the reserve and a nice spot. TfTC

Too easy TFTC

Wit duano

A nice walk. TFTC geo-hack.

An enjoyable walk in Mulligan's Flat. The ground was damp/swampy from all the rain (my home rain gauge showed 58mm), but the day was a comfortable temperature for walking. It also did no more than sprinkle while I was there. TFTC geo-hack.

Too tricky for me today... I'll have to come back.

Really I only see one.
TFTF

This entry was edited by Ginger Floppsy on Saturday, 13 December 2014 at 02:59:53 UTC.

Went for a 7 hour bike ride/ walk with Ginger Floppsy today around mulligans flat finding about 20 geocaches! It was a very eventful day.

Was quite impressed by the fallen tree, and also the other nearby tree at this dam! They are quite interesting trees haha Took a little to find this one looking in many holes all around GZ.... but eventually spotted where it was!

Today we took five scouts to do some geocaching in Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. A route was planned to visit 17 caches. The young scouts were to go anti clockwise around the loop, while the older ones went clockwise. The younger scouts found six while the older ones found eleven before we had to return to the scout hall. A good time was had by all.

Thanks geo-hack for the hunt and the cache.

Lots of diversions

A first look didn't get me the cache so started going back through previous logs. Hmmm a tricky one... Began a systematic search and soon had the container in hand. Startled a cockatoo who took off noisily and startled me right back.
Thanks geo-hack

Out for a bit of Friday arvo caching on yet another beautiful spring day.

Once again found myself on the wrong side of the fence and had to backtrack. This was not an easy find and I was about to pack it in when espied it. The shear number of potential hiding spots makes this tricky. I was wary of snakes too with all the long grass, but nothing today. Thanks for the tricky hide.

First time exploring this reserve and what a nice spot! Read the hint and found it pretty quickly, cant believe it got muggled out here! tftc

Please be on this side, please be on this side! .... Doh! Okay, lets do this! Back we go. Still a nice area and good exercise. TFTC!

Took me about 15 minutes at GZ to find the cache. Partly cause my brain wasn't in gear, and partly because I tried a host of incorrect locations before finally finding the right one. Tks geo-hack!

Out for the day on the bike, this was the first cache after a long ride to get here.

Looked in all the wrong spots again, but eventually spotted it just as I was leaving. Very well hidden.

Good to finally get this one off the list.

Thanks

I was on a hike with scouts and I found the cache. That was a good place to hide it. Thx

Found on a Macarthur Scout Group hike with Girrawa and Eblana. Quick find for the geoscouts.