Sky Space Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Tankengine on 20-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2P277

This was among one of the first caches I attempted since moving to Canberra and introduced me to a location that I've since returned to several times - I'm definitely a fan!There's some otherworldly quality about it that I'm very fond of and just relaxing against the slope of the wall is very peaceful indeed.Alas, our first scouring of gz in February failed to reveal anything outside of some thoroughly beaten reeds following whatever weather had swept through the area.Today, it was lovely to return once more (via the free bus!) and take a moment to stop by the Skyspace before wandering over to gz and finding that it's been done up very nicely with some mulch and TLC.The cache has also evidently received some TLC since then and was a much quicker find once I ignored the bugs that were keen to greet me at gz.Thanks to Tankengine for placing this multi here!

Thanks for the cache!

I dont remember when I visited the sky space and did the calculations to derive GZ for this multi. Nonetheless, I did and had stored my results for another day. Today was that day, with the final location being along my route for this mornings jog. Once there, the hint made for a short search. A bit of a reach to retrieve the hide, then some effort for my slightly frozen fingers to open up the cache. Log signed and then the reverse process to tuck it back in place. A well concealed hide, in good order. Thanks Tankengine --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their long lasting, and ongoing connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to Traditional Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Nice hide. Bit muddy retrieve but good spot and find with the dugongs. Tftc

Day 23 of my interstate trip. Today was my second day in Canberra and made my way around the Parliament House area on foot picking up what I could while doing a few tourist things as well.. I managed to find 20 caches today and only 1 DNF.This cache.... done the required counting made my way to the final location eventually spotted it then got it out but struggled to get it back in there. Before I managed to get it away I dropped it rolls down further under and me being a bigger person really struggled to get it out again but managed to eventually get it out again and finally screw it back in. I'm sure I walked around the rest of the day with a big dirt mark on my back but hay at least I got the find ands wont soon forget this one. It was a cool location worth a visit.TFTC Tankengine

We had no idea this place existed, yet it is quite entrancing and rather special. We sat and looked for some time before collecting the required information. Off to GZ and we were most grateful for the clue, but the retrieval was still difficult.There was a bit of a break in the cold spell today and the sun was out much earlier and things warmed up, even though the temperature only got to 13 degrees. We had been keen to ride our bikes round Lake Burley Griffin so today was the day. We only made it to the Farmer's Market on our first attempt then had to return to the van with our purchases!With that done it was back out to firstly catch the tram into town and then the ride round the lake. On our way round we picked up a variety of caches, trads, multis, puzzles and quite a number of Virtuals. Some were straightforward while others challenging.Lunch at the National Portrait Gallery was welcome. We made it home just as the sun was settingThank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Tankengine.**SKI Pair****

A pleasant if chilly late evening stroll with moonlight rather than sunlight the inspiration here tonight; numbers collected, the container was soon in hand. Thanks for the cache Tankengine

This one was solved a while ago, and thanks for bringing me to a place that I hadn't visited before. I liked this one. A quick find this morning on the way to work. TFTC

Not my favourite bit of art. Quick solve and find. Did the virtual while we were here. Today was all about Capital Hill and the area to the lake. About 10 km walked today ( at least ). Adventure labs, virtuals, earthcaches, multis, wherigo and trads plus the odd puzzle were targeted on the walk. some we just didn't have the time for. We walked for over 8 hours. Some interesting history was sighted along the way. quick find.Found with Mogni. Myself and mogni are headed off to canberra on the " I missed the Capital GeoBash Mega " holiday, since last minute family problems came in to play and we had to adjust our plans by a few weeks. On the way over we targeted multi's, wherigo's and puzzles to make sure we had 25 in each or at least close to that total ( or more ) as possible, getting as many new New South Wales LGA's as possible, the 17th most favourite point NSW cache and every cache size in New South Wales.In the ACT it was getting 2 of the 5 oldest letterboxes, oldest wherigo in Australia, 2nd oldest earthcache ( with a side trip to get the oldest earthcache of course ), and ACT oldest cache too. I also hosted a CITO and planned on getting every different cache type i could and eevry different cache size as well. I also needed 9 more virtuals this trip to get my virtual count over 100. Finally canberra was far enough away from from house to complete the well aged well travelled cacher 0 to 1000 kms with a cache every 10 km's ( i only need 7 more caches to complete )Leaving the ACT it was going via Victoria to get there last active web cam cache and slowly getting a total of 20 finds in each LGA i passed through if i had enough time plus also hosting a CITO in Victoria as well. A busy 11 days. Trust me by the end of the holiday you would have thought the 6 meter ladder weighed more than 13 kg's to amount of times it was used or carried up hills or over creeks. If your cache was found with a broken container/lid it was replaced or if the log was full it was replaced or a extra log if the container was big enough ( except for nano's, do your own maintenance on nano's.

Day #8 Geobashing It was our last day in Canberra, so OzHockeyChick and I made a must do list all over Canberra for our last day. We werent going to let the weather stop us.A very interesting place to visit and we sat and enjoyed the peace at this location before setting about our maths task. The coordinates fell into place and soon after we had a cache in hand. Well worth a favourite for bringing me to a space I had not visited before.A big thanks goes to Tankengine for taking the time to add Sky Space to the geocaching map for us all to find and enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

Canberra Geobash Road Trip 2024. Day Eight: More caches of interest around Canberra, focussing on Virtuals and AdLabs due to the inclement weather today.We sat inside and calculated gz, then RoamingHowie reached for the cache soon after.Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Tankengine ~ ~

Found It!I sat in the sphere and did the counting while trying not to go dizzy by looking up. What a strange place. Once I had all the numbers, I wandered over to the final location and soon found the cache!TFTC

A great piece of art and cool multi. Sent in the small one!! Found on the Mega Capital Geobash coastal loop via Adelaide - Barrington - coast to Mexico City loop. A lot of caches and white line fever was sweated out. Thanks Tankengine and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! Some logs signed as TAD as teamed up with Tenkae and Deanside for additional fun. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Great piece of artwould be nice to see it at night timeNow chasing caches around Canberra for the Easter 2024 Geobash,signing as TAD which encompasses Tenkae, Astro and Deanside. Enjoying great company and the different aspects of our Commonwealth Capital. Thanks Tankengine for contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy.

Nice quick find here.We deployed the smallest team member for the retrieval.TFTC!

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Headed into the city again with the bikes on the back of the geocruiser as it's a publich holiday, making parking a bit easier.Bumped into Ian&Sue-Team Pathfinder, Lachlan1.77, weirdobiker, TeamAstro, Crystalfairy and barefootguru on the hunt today. Then off to the CITO to round out our busy day.Misunderstood 1 of the questions which had us in a flurry, but with the help of a friend we were pointed elsewhere and the crafty cache was soon in hand.TFTC Tankengine

Such a tranquil place. We are in Canberra enjoying the GeoBash and making the most of exploring new areas. As we relaxed in the cool chamber, the numbers were calculated, then it was a short stroll to GZ.Thanks Tankengine for highlighting this amazing location for us.

Woo Hoo I found Sky Space today while in Canberra for the Capital GeoBash. Thanks Tankengine for setting up this great multi and bring me to the Sculpture Garden, I really enjoyed the art around this area and the hunt for GZ was fun.PS: The Troll Dolls [TN6TR0] were with me on my great caching adventures today.

That GZ was a bit cray cray lol. Glad I had my bike helmet ?? on. Thanks for a fun cache

We heard about a Mega in Canberra a year ago. Having never been to the big capital, we booked our accommodation and the planning began.Which caches shall we do? Wow they really love their mystery caches in ACT! Ok, we need to get our thinking caps on and solve some of these puzzles pronto. We have made the trek from Adelaide to be here and appreciate the efforts of all those involved to make the Capital Geobash happen. We have hired bikes to ride around the lake today.

Another fantastic day here in Canberra, the locals have certainly turned the wonderful weather for the event, maybe they had a chat with the Lord Above. We did not find many caches today but they certainly are quality caches. We signed a couple of challenge caches that we do not qualify for but found many others that we do qualify for and signed. So many caches and we will never get anywhere near solving or finding a small percentage of them. SL TFTC

Found 31 Mar 2024 at 2:27:53pmOut and about on a cycling tour of part of Lake Burley Griffin with Team_Crumble in a beautiful sunny day. We cycled about 20km today, picking up a few caches as we went.Tricky gathering numbers at the listed cords due to so many muggles, but we got there in the end and a nice quick find once at GZ.Many thanks to Tankengine for placing Sky Space for us all to find

During our weeks trip with Bare Foot Guru, Infoferret and Trinity to the Canberra Mega we logged as a combination of "BFG, CF, BIC, BITC" depending on who we were caching with at the time. The trip took us on a flight to Melbourne first, then a drive to Canberra, followed by a drive to Sydney before flying out again. Where possible I will add commentary to each find about the cache. Thanks for all the caches, hides and effort put into hiding and maintaining them.Great set of Ad Labs and we soon had some co-ords in hand.. Got to GZ and searched as per the hint but nothing to be found.A little deeper search and we found the cache. It was quite tricky to extract from it's location and as we were signing it a local security guard came to investigate. They had heard about caching but were more interested in telling us about the art. Had a good chat, replaced the cache and moved on. FP awarded for cache container.

Sent the largest person in to get it. Just to add an extra half a star of difficulty. I found your D2.0/T1.0 Small Multi-Cache called Sky Space on 31 March 2024. It was find #19128 for me. Thank you Tankengine for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of Australian Capital Territory.

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC2P277 Sky Space31 March 2024T18:51:51 AEDTTFTC TankengineSome clue counting in front of the muggles, for to GZ, chatted to security guard who wondered what we were up to

Something special or unusual goes here:What an amazing place. So of course we did this multi as well. [^] Of course the fattest of us had to got and make the retrieve. Such a fun place to visit. The Generic Bit:The Capital Geobash Adventure 2024. Day 9: Adventure Labs Day Yet again today myself, Anymules and Muff1 set out to try and find a few more caches. We concentrated on doing as many Adventure Lab caches as we could and then some virtual caches . We also managed a few other caches whilst passing so close. ***Thanks Tankengine for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. *** Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

As part of the tour group, we walked a ton of miles and signed all the caches as LT2. Wow! This multi ended in an incredible hide. I'm pretty sure that, had I been alone, I never would have found it. Buckle up for this final, folks. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!The day:Today was day 3 of my time in Canberra for the GeoBash Mega from the U.S. and getting to spend time with my friends. Hooray! It was another day that started with an awesome tour around Lake Burley Griffin. The weather was warm and the cachers were friendly. We were led by tankengine, one of the cachers who had a hand in the gadget caches at the mega, has awesome mysteries and other caches in the area. He kept us moving the entire time and we were able to get all the caches on our list. Then I attended the mega which was a lot of fun. There were so many people! The gadget caches were amazing, the adventure labs were fun, and the evening get together for trivia was a blast. Many thanks to all the geocachers who placed and continue to maintain their geocaches for folks like me to find. I know it's not always easy, but know that I appreciate you.

Exciting times over the next couple of weeks as we takeoff for the Capital GeoBash in Canberra! Its going to be a flood of Sandgropers over east, with a host of West Aussies making the trek east for the event. Im travelling with fellow Cockburn Crew members Leg5 and Barnzy12, starting in Sydney and hitting the road to Canberra, before returning back to Sydney. Honourary mention to our fellow member, Cravo10, who couldnt make it after recently introducing a new geocacher to the world the week prior. Once in Canberra, the agenda is set, well team up with a host of Western Australians to conquer caches. Collectively, were hoping to make it the biggest ever weekend for cache finding. Following the event, the journey continues back to Sydney, with a mission to clean up caches and new Local Government Areas (LGAs), ensuring no cache is left unturned in this epic geocaching adventure. Something tells me that well need a holiday after this, well, holiday. All logs have been signed as WAC to save space, abbreviation for Western Australia Crew. Cheers Tankengine! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

Out and about again, headed over to Sydney early in the morning, grabbed a hire car and got some local hides before driving to Canberra for the MEGA. Super excited my first MEGA and heading over with 2 others from the Cockburn Crew - signed log as WAC to save time.This is 14423, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to Tankengine for the caches we found.********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********Head over to Australian Capital Territory for Capital GeoBash MEGA - Canberras first ever Mega Event. Easter 2024 (GC9PNFB): - 5 day event at Canberra Park adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6km from the centre of the city.The mascot for the Mega is Gangles the endemic Gang Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may see or hear while in Canberra.The official website - geobash.ozmega.com.auACT has over 4700 active caches, power trails, and over 100 Lab Adventures. Heaps of challenge caches, hikes for geocaches for all levels of skills and fitness.

Today we found Sky Space on our travels. On a brief visit to Canberra for the Capital Geobashso many caches, not enough time!Thanks Tankengine for being part of our geocaching fun.

I found this cache. Please excuse generic log, I need to catch up on my backlog of caches to make sure the Canberra mega event is my milestone. I will edit this log when I am back in geelong Victoria

Found with LT2. Thankfully I wasnt the one to discover it! TFTC

I do love this piece of art and enjoy it every time I get to visit. Found as part of the Mega event on the LBG tour (signed as Lt2). The end point makes for a pretty fun find, especially if youre not the one doing the hard work and just watching someone else sign the log.TFTC!

Found while attending the Mega and out with the tour group at Lake Burley Griffin. A great day out. Log signed for the group as LT2Another great day for caching. ?? TFTC Tankengine

Easy solve but getting at the log was a bit grubby. Maybe I'll stick to a few more Ad Labs!!

While attending the Canberra Geobash participated in The Lake Burley Griffin Lake tour this morning. A most enjoyable walk around the lake and surrounds taking in a variety of caches and scenic locations. Our group signed the log as LT2. TFTC

This is day 4 of our Australian adventure. While here, we participated in the Lake Burley GeoBash tour. What an amazing walk enjoying the sights navigated by Tankengine. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment today. Logbook was signed as LT2. TFT ?? ????

The Cockburn Crew are on tour at the Capital Geobash in Canberra - travelling from Perth to Sydney, Canberra, Sydney and finally back to Perth.Today was day 2 and we had an absolute blast. After being up late last night we backed it up again this morning with an early start to make the most of the cooler weather and lack of muggles in the morning cold. We completed a huge number of trails, challenges, whereigos, traditional, multis, earthcaches, labs, virtuals and puzzles. It really was a great day for variety. We enjoyed the large number of virtuals, and caching in territory we havent been before. Weve filled our boots with some of the oldest caches in Australia, some rare DTs and DTTs and generally had a great time. Thanks to the COs for a great day and event.

Out and about as part of the Capital GeoBash Mega activities. Thanks to Tankengine for organising the Lake Burley Griffin Lake Walk tour, showing us around and for placing the cache. Log signed as LT2

The Adelaide Leap Day Mega and Canberra Geobash gave us a great excuse for a road trip. This trip has shown us so many new and interesting places as weve chased LGAs, oldies, challenges, interesting D/T combinations, rarer cache types and favourites.Meeting up with friends old and new along the way, we sometimes cached together and sometimes alone but always had a great time.Today we drove all over Canberra, firstly filling a couple of D/T grid squares before focusing on finding favourites. Afterwards we took a tour around Lake Burley Griffin in this superb walking weather. Some wonderful places visited and caches found, it was a most enjoyable way to spend the day. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for us and adding to our enjoyment.

Found with hevwalker on the Lake Burley Griffin Tour 2. All logs are signed as LT2 to save space. Beautiful views during the walk around this part of lake. Thanks for being our guide and for taking us on this tour. This is a great hide and cache, thanks for bringing us here to do so many cool caches.

scramping & I were in Canberra attending the Capital Geobash Mega event. We were lucky enough to participate in some of the organised tours. The 2nd Lake Burley Griffin Walking Tour was one of them. We saw some awesome sights and collect some caches along the way.The Sky Space is an amazing spot. Thanks for bringing us here and being our awesome tour guide Tankengine

So glad i had some friends here to with this one. TFTC

Well, for someone that has not bothered to do anything geocaching related for a while I seem to be going out of the way to do Mega events. This particular caching trip was the brainchild of the other participant in this little excursion, that being greencordial. I flew into Toowoomba this morning hoping that the car gremlins had departed (they hadnt, but were sorted with another quick mechanical visit) and we were on our ways to Canberra. Fingers crossed I did enjoy all of the elements to this. Thanks Tankengine for placing this Multi-Cache for me to convert into a smilie

Loved the experience of walking below the serene lake and underneath a grassy knoll. The artwork makes you consider what earth, sky, and water mean. Thanks for creating this cache. Found with Tweety2 and Martini.989 at Canberra GeoBash.

Thank you to our fellow geocaching acquaintance who kindly helped us by walking around the circle and counting. I am so sorry that I forgot your name but you were so lovely ??Greencordial asked BenM70 to do up a caching found template while she is doing the driving and Im doing duck all. Im actually just pressing the screen randomly like Im actually enthused to be doing this. Anyways, we are visiting the national capital to attend Grrencordial2nd mega as I got scared by Covid for Dayboro and didnt take the punt that Townsvilles coolest cachers BenM70 and burgo78 did. Thank you Tankengine for placing this cache for me to enjoy!

While we were inside the dome, we had a quiet moment of reflection before moving onto the coordinates for this cache. Thankyou for bringing us here.

Beautiful piece of art, an absolute immersion in the space. Thanks for bringing me here. In Canberra for Capital GeoBash with Tweety2 & Tilda241. Today saw us doing the war memorial tour and then we had some time so targeted this one due to high recommendation. It turns out it was on Tweety2s to do list as well so that was convenient. Thanks for the cache.

Cache found and extracted. That is a neat hide.The trip bit.Easter geocaching festival of twenty twenty four. This time it is the turn of Oz Mega GeoBash MEGA event in the nation's capital. It is time for a road trip across country to Canberra in the Sporty Pajero Sports. Freddo and Gridge98 traveling from Adelaide via a strange inland route that takes in scenic rural locations, dusty roads, punctured tyres, overheating batteries, various tools of the trade, special campgrounds, and lots scope for many many geocaching finds. Along the way we saw running emus, jumping kangaroos, wandering deer, dead foxes, herds of wooly sheep and stray steers.Arriving in Canberra we met our colleagues e.gregory1, featherwaite, team walron, courtney rose, davidwazza, e_smilie, and georode, signing as ABP, plus a huge group of other like minded excited mega geocachers attending event after event, and more events.Day one. Adelaide to Broken HillDay two. Broken Hill to WellingtonDay three. Wellington to CowraDay four. Cowra to BathurstDay five. Bathurst to CanberraDay six. Canberra to CanberraDay seven. Canberra to QueenbeeyanDay eight. Canberra to AdelaideThe generic bit.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Come visit the world's longest running annual geocaching event - keep the weekend free - 7th - 10th June 2024 Cant wait!! GCAK1D5 - Lameroo's Ludicrous Legwarmers

Thanks for this multi Tankengine.Visiting Canberra for Easter to visit my son and to attend the Geobash mega event.Really enjoyed visiting this space where I ran into a couple of other cachers. We gathered the required info, did the required calculations and made our way to GZ.Found with greencordial and BenM70. A favourite from me.

Found on our journey over the week here.This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Courtneyrose_ Freddo, Team Waldron, e.gregory1, Davidwazza and Featherwaite as part of our team called: ABP (Alphabet People), the log books were either signed with the name, ABP or our individual caching names.A great weekend away in the capital and a very well organised mega, it was nice to be back in the ACT caching once again over easter with great weather.Thanks for the cache

In Canberra for the Easter GeoBash Mega.Our team cosisted of Team Waldron, Featherwaite, E.Gregory1, Freddo, Gridgre98, DavidWazza, CourtneyRose. Logs were signed as ABP.We travelled far and wide had a great time.Thanks to the organising committee and all the cache owners.TFTC

Found as part of the Geobash Lake Burley Griffin tour with Tankengine as our guide. Our group signed as LT1. Thanks to all the COs, the caches were in amazing locations.This was a fascinating place to visit, the art work was very unexpected but pretty cool.TFTC

This was so much fun! Put 14yo to the task of counting. Also sent him in to collect the cache

TFTC Tankengine your cache Sky Space that we found today. We are in Canberra for the fun and games of the Mega. Our second tour of the Mega a walk around Lake Burly Griffin gathering caches as we went. All logs signed as LT1 to save space on the logs.Thanks to Tankengine for chaperoning the group around.Find Count: 19329

Out and about joining the lake tour as part of the mega activities. Signed with LT1.Thanks to Tankengine for showing us around and organising everything.

TFTC found whilst completing the GeoBash Lake Tour. Signed as LT1. Enjoying the Mega event in Canberra ????

Day 4 of my Canberra Mega adventure. Out caching with the members of the WA6 crew. The day looks to be another sunny day. Very happy to claim a smiley here . WA6 crew - Geotrakka, meme28, burns345, Neva2old, I c nothing and CirrusSome logs signed as N2O or WA6This is my 12750 find Thankyou Tankenginefor placing and maintaining this cache.

Part of the Sandgroper contingent that has come to the Mega to explore new hunting grounds. Its sure to be a great week with many finds and laughs with lots of great friends and maybe some new ones along the way. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Logged as WA6.

I've joined the Lake Burley Griffin Loop Walk being held during the Capital GeoBash. Thanks to Tankengine for showing us around today.All caches signed LT1 for the group.Thanks for find #5918TNLN

Found as part of the geobash tour. Thanks tour guide Signed as part of LT1. TFTC.

Out on the Lake Burley tour with our terrific host, tank engine. Had a wonderful time today! Thanks to all the COs who maintained their caches here! Signed logs as LT1.

Day 2 of my magnificent mega caching experience in Canberra and surrounds.Today I C Nothing, meme28, geotrakka, Burns345, neva2old & I (signing as WA6) focussed more on the central Canberra area with a couple of tours booked at Parliament House & the Australian War Memorial, was fantastic to see these places and meet caches from all over the place too.The evening was spent on another mega tour at Mt Stranger.Once again a great variety of cache types and containers were located and with a large group the competition to get hands on the log first was high, with plenty of laughs along the way too.Thanks Tankengine for placing Sky Space for me and others to find.I added my name to the log at 17:44 on 28/3/2024.This is find number 8399 for me.

Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88 on the Canberra Mega

Another beautiful sunny Canberra day here for the GeoBash.Out and about with our WA5 team and Neva2Old. Logs signed as WA6.Cache found with no issues. Cheers

Over from the West to enjoy my first Mega.Out to fill my grid and find some high favourited caches. Lots of laughs catching up with old friends and making some new friends along the way. Signing as a team - WA6Some logs are delayed and out of order - Apologies for that- its been hectic trying to keep up! Wish I could have experienced it at dawn or dusk but still I really enjoyed being here. Heres a fav point for bringing me here. Many thanks Tankengine for placing this hide for me to find and adding to my adventures.

Find # 8,641 for me on 27 Mar 2024 at 3:09pm. This cache was found on our Canberra Mega adventure. After leaving Melbourne with PamJ in our little caravan, the plan is to stay a couple of nights at Bemm River, then a few more at Pambula before cruising into Canberra. This cache was found as part of this journey. Loved everything about this one. Fav point from me. Thanks Tankengine, for giving back to the game.*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Found with gmj3191 after checking out the antique quilts in the nga. Thanks for bringing us here.

On a road trip to attend Capital Geobash Mega and see many different sights along the way with 2beez.Thanks Tankengine for creating for us all to enjoy. This is a fantastic spot. A FP added. ...................................................Nominations for the **2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards** are now open and will close on **17 April 2024**. Nominate your favourite caches [here](https://forms.gle/Ktb6LZvtAJDX5iCb6/).Join us for a sausage sizzle as we announce all the shortlisted nominees at Cherry Lake on 21 April 2024. Log your will attend at [GCAK9V2](https://coord.info/GCAK9V2/).

Checked on this, and discovered it was missing...Have replaced. And a new log.GOOD TO GO!!!

Loved venturing into the Skyspace and looking up at the sky before looking down to do some counting.GZ looked likely, although it seems there's been a bit of rain here recently that may have caused some chaos in the area.Our corner rock checks revealed nothing, so we moved on for today (though I do hope to return!)

Interesting one. TFTC

Tftf!

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 7 - Canberra, Capital Region, Austrlie - 60 kmDnes jsem se nikam nehonila, neb vechny galerie a muzea otevraj a v 10 hodin. V klidu jsem posndala a pak popojela autem do gare u Nrodn galerie. Podle mapy sice bydlm nedaleko, ale toto msto nen pro p pochody pli stavn a ve je dl, ne to vypad. Canberra je vbec zvltn msto, kter bylo vlastn umle vytvoen jako hlavn msto Austrlie mezi Sydney a Melbourne, aby se nehdali. Centrum tvo soubor velkch budov bu sttn administrativy a parlamentu nebo pamtnky, muzea, knihovny, archiv, Nejvy soud atd. A vude kolem jsou obrovsk parky. Cel okrsek je pak obehnn umlou vodn ndr. Je to pkn, ale te v dob parlamentnch przdnin a vnoc se tu mot jen pr turist a obas njak mstn na prochzce. I silnice jsou skoro bez aut. Pro m teda fajn, neb m mn lid vidm, tm lpe. Cel dopoledne jsem se vnovala prohldce Nrodn galerie s australskm i mezinrodnm umnm a sbrka je docela pkn. O pl jedn u jsem toho mla pln kecky a la na vzduch. Po kv jsem udlala p koleko parkem kolem dalch instituc, pamtnk a vody a docela jsem se tm unavila. Poas je dnes nestl. Mlo bt pod mrakem a 22C a rno i bylo, ale pak se zaalo oteplovat a chvlemi i oste svt slunce. Tak je to chvli na svetr a chvli na ortky. Odlovila jsem si njak keky na trase, vtinou virtulky, a po 15.hod si vyzvedla auto z gare a vydala se opt na sever dolovit si zbytek challeng, kter jsem vera u nestihla. Bylo jich tedy jen 6, ale tak jsem se tu stavila v obchod, kter v tom administrativnm stedu msta vbec nejsou. Nakoupila jsem si grilovan kue, salt Coleslaw a bagetu a vrtila se na hotel. Njak m to dnes zmohlo a budu tu jet dlouho, tak se musm trochu etit.My todays plan was visiting National Gallery of Australia and parks around. Canberra is interesting city. There are only a few peoples now on Christmas time. The Gallery was good and than I walked through the park with many monuments and other important institutions like National Archives, Hight Court, Old Parliament etc. I found some caches there, mostly virtual. Late afternoon I go back to North Canberra for another challenge caches. Thanks for all caches and greetings from Czech republic.This is a very interesting sculpture. I like it.

Find #2500 in Australia!!!!! My first find in Australia was in Brisbane more than nine years ago, and since then, caching has taken me from the northeast corner at Cape York to the southeast corner at Augusta. I've been through the middle of the Outback, across Tasmania, and over to Lord Howe Island in search of a great many finds. Since then I've found caches in more than 300 local government areas (LGAs) in every state and territory in the country. I'm wholeheartedly ready for at least another 2,500 finds in Terra Australis!

A little too early in the day to be enjoying something spectacular in the sky from the starting point, but it's always pleasant to visit the dome. With the info I needed, I was off to GZ where the cache was located quickly. I was sat minding my own business (well, signing the log) when a couple of muggles passed and likely wondered why on earth I had chosen to sit 'there' with my feet over the edge, but I heard no mutterings and I detected no sideways glances, so once the coast was clear I moved back in for replacement. A nicely constructed multi and a great excuse to revisit a pleasant location. A favourite point for the experience.Cheers Tankengine.

Love a cache that takes you to a location you wouldn't normally go! Thanks for the cache

What a great cache! Perfect pre-lunch find and took me to an area I had not previously explored. TFTC

Logsheet replaced - old log attached.GOOD TO GO!!!

Amazing, had it to myself. Once I fixed My blond mistake it was meters away instead of km.

Im not sure I why I didnt do anything about looking for this cache last time I was here. I really like this artwork too. Anyway, found the info today and then crossed paths with GZ somewhere along my path today. I was joined in the hunt by a currawong who sat patiently next to me hoping for some food which I didnt have. Sorry I cant post the photo or it will give the hide away. Thanks!

Nice place to visit. Cheers

Found it!

Don't you just love geocaching on a cold day on your road trip to the act. Today I'm setting out on a trip to the act taking us into cool new geocaches & places and ya never know mabye we will meet some new friends. This trip will take 2 days up and we will be spending 6 days in act then heading back to the cold Victoria. We will be completing this with
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Finds while on the trip

Find No: 37

Thank you for hiding this geocache we appreciate finding geocaches in every corner of Australia and the geocaching world

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-Raven

Wanted to do a multi for my 50 tftc

A lovely find on a ride around central basin today TFTC

9 Aug 2023 15:55 Find #1508

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SquiresSquire

Found with MoSSau, squires squire and nsw lrc

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Found with Moonb1. Great wp 1.
Thanks for the cache Tankengine .

With Alansee travelling to Canberra to meet up with fellow cachers to complete some caches. Packed a lot of winter woolies!
Thanks for the cache Tankengine

It was very peaceful sitting inside, counting tiles while also wondering what was keeping StreetWalkerNZ. He was near the outer entrance, wondering where I was, not realising that around the corner was a hidden entrance. He eventually found me!
I must have counted correctly because a short walk later, we were signing the log book. Really enjoyed this artwork. TFTC.

#22465. The last caching task to do while sitting at GZ was to work out where this final was. It was nearby (though a direct route was out of the question). Cache was soon spotted once we got to GZ. Another nicely done cache. TFTC.

Found with SA a while back. TFTC

Sims_family and Dromaniax are on day Eight of a our 10 day trip to Queensland and back again towing a 12x8x7 foot trailer that is loaded to the hilt and weighs quite a bit. Fuel efficiency has gone out the window with the Ginja Ninja (My Orange Mitsubishi Triton) going through fuel faster than I have ever seen before.
Day Eight sees us travel from Woolongong to Canberra. Making to Canberra early enough we made hast towards the Skyspace to make it inside while it was open. Last time we were here it was closed and we were keen to see inside. With the cloud cover we were amazed on how it looked like the moon today. The seat was nice surprise when we sat beautiful and warm on a cool day.
While visiting for the Virtual we couldn't resist the Multi while we were here so we did the numbers and headed to GZ straight after.
Thank you Tankengine for a nice Multi

Today is the eighth day of the Sims_family/Dromaniax big road trip to Queensland and back again.

We are towing a very big trailer, which is chockers, but when you have a mission, and someone else is paying for the fuel, and there is the opportunity for nine days of caching fresh fields, you jump at the chance.

We have a long list of target caches and hope to cross quite a few goals off the list on this trip.

We picked up this Multicache while we were completing the Virtual nearby.

Thank you Tankengine for this Multicache.

Wow, super cool spot! Collected all the required info inside and then it was off to GZ where the nicely hidden cache was found. SL and replaced as found. TFTC and showing us this spot.

Log to come

Nice find and we loved putting in the coordinates and finding the cache.
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I made this harder than I needed to, with 2 trips needed to recount due to rushing. I do love this artwork, it looks great when the sun is out and luckily got it all to myself. Tftc

We are visiting Australia from Florida, USA for a multi-week vacation which will have us visiting two states in Australia (Tasmania and the ACT) we missed in 2014 followed by 28 days on the Ovation of the Seas including New Zealand and a Transpacific to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Today was our tenth day of the trip, we would spend the day walking around Capital Hill and the Australian War Memorial area logging around 12 miles. Our main focus was 14 Virtual caches and 15+ Adventure Lab sets which took us between our Virtual caches,

Must had made a slight mistake in plugging in the coordinates, however it was close enough to see where we really needed to be, thanks for a fun multi. tftc!!

Chook has been in Canberra this week, up from western Vic. This afternoon she had the opportunity to wander around the south shore / parliamentary precinct area, doing lots of labs and virtuals and caches. Hardly anyone around, which was really surprising, given it was a beautiful Saturday in the Autumn sunshine. Made it easy for caching though.

This is one of the best public artworks in Canberra. I had been here earlier in the week with the group I had been hiking the CCT with, but it was a pleasure to revisit the day do this multi. Tiles counted, coords calculated, and the czche was found in good condition exactly where it was meant to be. Will definitely bring Chunk back here next year at Mega time.

TFTC Tankengine.