Tom Sails Down Windang, New South Wales, Australia
By NationalSteel on 19-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CW26

Unsure if it's still here or not. Could not find.

Nice spot, i missed it. My wife is sharp but. Apparently i had a Man look typical me..

I'm in the area picking up some samples for the [Lake Illawarra Salinity](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC894WR_lake-illawarra-salinity) earthcache and decided to find a few others to add their LGA's to our tally. I searched around for this one and eventually located it on the ground. after signing the log, I returned it to a suitable spot for the next geocacher who comes along.Thanks for find #6297TNLN

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.While going through my photos from a recent road trip visiting friends I discovered I had forgotten to log my find. While filling up the at the nearby servo?? I spotted this cache at the next door park. A quick find to give me todays dose of Vitamin GC.Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

It was only one whole day in Sydney for us; we landed two days ago in the afternoon, and walked from morning till night yesterday exploring the metropolis. After a nice evening and some rest, we woke up today with the intention to start our drive down south. Little did we know that our plans would get quite derailed with a flat tire just as we left Sydney. We had visited Sydneys oldest stash and then finally got on the highway, and as we were driving down the coast just two hours after we picked up our rental vehicle, a strange sound made me pull over. One of our tires was *completely* flat, with no visible puncture. Well, this was **not** the start of our road trip we wanted, or needed. Damn. I pulled over when I could and that just so happened to be near this stash. Finding out we had a flat tire didnt make either of us very happy. After that, we tried to figure out what to do, but the rental company didnt help us whatsoever. I swapped the tire (very happy we had a spare in the trunk), and adapted our plans as we could with the unfortunate circumstances.We slowly continued down the coast, though it was soon clear we would be cutting our drive a lot shorter. Being the evening on a Sunday in Australia meant there was no options for external help. But as Laura was searching for the nearest service center with an available hotel, we stopped by this stash, being an easy stop for us. The sixth stop of the day, we briefly came to check out Tom Sails Down, where we found the nano container after a while; the nanos seal is ok and so is the logbook. We penned in our nick at 5:34 pm, making this our 7141st overall find. Thank you NationalSteel for placing and maintaining your Tom Sails Down stash; we were glad to visit it and spice up our Sunday while down under in Australia for our spring break, visiting from slightly-distant Myanmar! We snapped a photo and returned the stash as we found it, and appreciate the opportunity for a find and visiting another new location. For my own personal statistics; this is the sixty-first of 112 geocaches we visited down under while on spring break, excluding the 56 adventure lab caches we visited and 28 Waymarks visited. It was quite a long and exciting day for us, as we walked 21.17km throughout the city while visiting twenty-five stashes just this one day.

Tiny magnetic on the seat

Now chasing caches around Canberra for the Easter 2024 Geobash, often signing as TAD which encompasses Tenkae, Astro and Deanside. Enjoying great company and the different aspects of our Commonwealth Capital.Thanks for placing the cache NationalSteel contributing to this great game we play. Happy trails, deanside!

#2644A quick park and findTFTC

Is this art!BN. SOS. BDTNFAEAWSN. rant over!!Nice newish log! https://youtu.be/_xeh4-RNZEs?si=oG2kT5bhofmMJiPqFound 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 NationalSteel and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Quick find thanks to hint . I love new logs but not that small . Nice little spot , TFTC

Enjoy!

New container, new log. Cache is now a magnetic nano.

Hi NationalSteel,The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention, or it may not but in the absence of the cache owner performing maintenance and/or disabling the cache to check it out, I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 4 weeks) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 4 weeks to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.Ngaambul - Matt

Searched but I am requesting co to check

A few DNFs here. Just hoping the CO could do a welfare check of hide please

Down in shell harbour for Christmas with the extended family. Muffindough and I dashed out to grab some caches. Sadly no luck at this one today. Will have to try again next time. Thanks for the cache!

Looked around for a while and quite frankly I think its gone.

Not found. Searched pretty throughly. Others commented an easy find and was located on the ground near the sculpture. Latest person before us also not found. So assuming its gone. A bit disheartening for the little ones when so many are missing in this area.

Missed - Looked and looked but could not locate. Tftc

Good view H&M

Beautiful sculpture!

easiest find hahah

Easyies one for me

Thank you

It was a good find

Yayy first one very poggy

Great disguise

Found it easy to find

Very nice, quick find

New container and log, same hide. Enjoy!

Good to go now.

Have made a replacement - will replace it soon. Apologies for the delay.

Hi NationalSteel,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 4 weeks) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 4 weeks to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ngaambul - Matt

Couldn’t find maybe missing

Seems to be missing

No container

Searched everywhere no where to be found

Doesn't look like the case is here it's been missing and can't find it

Tried to find the reported abandoned container with the Geogirlfriend but we think it really is gone :/

Its gone unless this is it there was nothing in it some has taken it

Cache on floor magnets removed no log

Nice quick find but needs a little attention as container was on the ground

Nothing at previous suggested location as per photo posted by tyeese_rodrigues_sa

Returned and had CIH as per hint

Cache was gone. We had a temporary replacement which the CO cam check on and decide what to do with our logs. TFTC

#11833 14:20
The second edition of the loop around Lake Illawara to find the SES caches Everest High and I missed or DNF'd during the previous loop. Of course some non SES caches was also thrown in the mix.

A quick find after a replacement cache was placed by Martin Cousins and Brewmaker earlier on the day.

TFTC

Found the log on the ground. There was no tin. May need maintenance.

easy find

found it pretty easily, found it with my brother

easy find very nice spot

Easy find, thanks for the hint!

Took a bit but realised what the hint meant, found it with my pop

TFTC. Perfect for the kids! I’m

Thank you found it with my brother

On my way home back up the coast I detoured off to get this one. On arrival I was a bit nervous as there was a truck parked pretty much in line with it. As I made the find he left, talk about great timing! Everything was in order and I replaced as found. Thank you !

really cool find!

Coordinates are way off but an easy find once you focus solely on the hint. TFTC

Nice and easy one. TFTC

Nice and quick

Good quick fond TFTC

Stopped here for an easy find while out doing some adventure labs ! Tftc !

Worth a stop. TftC.

Great spot but a loud and busy road. Thanks for the cache

Very cute. Wandered round for a bit but saw the shine fairly fast

Quick find for Bizzy

Tankengine and I were on our way to a caching weekend away with other caching friends in Wollongong.

The day was warm, if not hot compared to what we’ve been use to, but it was also perfect for the caching we had in mind.

This cache: The hint was spot on and the artwork is… interesting

But a find is a find so I’m very happy about that. Tftc!!!

Chooo ooo [found] with dty73! Coords about 10m out… Thanks NationalSteel!

Thanks for a nice hide. Beautiful sculpture too.

Lovely sculpture and great cache!

Tftc

Tftc

So cool

Hi

Hi

Found it! Very cute!

3rd find

Found earlier this week

Nice sculptures in a most unexpected place.
SL TFTC

Find number 5752

Mrs Booo sat and put her hand straight onto this cache. A good way to start the day.

Thanks NationalSteel for placing this cache.

In the area from Sydney visiting family and, despite the rain, stopped in for a couple of caches. Nice sculpture here. Have driven by many times without noticing it. Did our signing duties and got back to the car before the next squall hit. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Find 214 for the tribe.

Out completing part of the SLSC adventure lab at windang beach this afternoon. It's been fun to visit some other beaches besides the usual suspects and windang was great! Not too busy, easy to park close by to the beach too.

This one was en route to windang beach so we made a stop around the corner and made an easy walk to GZ.

Cache found swiftly near a really nice sculpture (see pic) which commemorates both the aboriginal and european history of the area.

Cache in good condition with plenty of room for future finders.

Thanks for the cache, National Steel!

First Geocache. Thanks for the fun!

Too easy found it within a minute

Nice

Didn’t catch any fish today but we did catch a cache.

Thanks

TFTC

Found it thanks. Easy one.

Love the artwork

finally came back after it was restored and found it!

First find of the day. Lovely little park and artwork.

I was surprised to discover that the plaques are no longer on separate stands (the old hiding place) but are now attached to the structure itself. So I have replaced the cache and log in a restful position very near by, with the same coordinates by my measurement. Enjoy!

Found the two magnets that remain seems we did find it the lasttime but the cache itself remains missing

Found the magnets thats all thats left

Did not find, the last DNF has made me concerned we are looking for something thats no longer there, but we plan to revisit soon as we are locals

Followed all hints from the comments, even spoilers but didn't find.....

There is no log book or canister needs maintenance only the magnets so assumed this was it

Nice clue

Found !