Load It Up Burra, New South Wales, Australia
By Chalk It Up on 19-May-12. Waypoint GC3KPAJ

Thanks to every one who log our caches. Cheers

A quick find with sophiescout and aussiepuschaks. TFTC

Found with Jemalong and Family and Sophiescout on a drive out to London Bridge for more caches. TFTC

Another nice day to be caching

Found

Found with IamCoust, geobros 2 and 3.

Found with The Matetrix, geokid2 and geokid 3.

Took the boys out to London Bridge to expend some of that built up school holiday energy. I'd never been here before so it was an adventure all round. Picked up a few hides on the drive in, dodging some local road works before pulling into the carpark with a number of other cars. Looking around there were a few muggles about but not too many. Wandered around a bit before heading over the hill and down to the bridge. Sat in the sun and had lunch before heading down to the water's edge to skim some rocks, as you do with three young boys. Had a look at the bridge and cave(s) before investigating the possibilities of further exploration. Spent about 90 minutes here before heading back to the geomobile, picking a few more hides along the way. Will be back for more family fun and of course, more geocaching. TNLNSL TFTC

A quick park and grab with Lpud (remaining in the car lol) while visiting London Bridge. Lovely Sunday afternoon drive. TFTC

With BomEm, on a Nice sunny Sunday drive.BonEm made the find after being questioned by a nearby land owner
Nice easy find.
TFTC

Found!

The usual clever name and really appreciated the ease of parking for most of the caches along this road. Thank you.

Found. I have been here before and experienced a dnf. This time my GPS put me the opposite side of the driveway. All good with cache. Tf5c

Lovely old farmer

TFTF

A day with Marmaduke Rothschild caching around the southern end of Googong Dam and along Burra Road and Old Cooma Road. Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches for our fun day.

Out caching today with Happy Feet and the Snakepiters we signed the log as DISH.
We had an enjoyable morning lots of laughs & the good competition between all in the car trying to locate the cache 1st.
Thanks for placing this cache Chalk It Up

In Queanbeyan to attend the Mega. So great to get here early to spend time catching up with some many familiar faces. Always taking the time to grab a cache, when the opportunity allowed it.

Out today with Di Morgan and Snakepiters, signing logs as DISH. Had some fun and laughs along the way, while finding a number or good finds.

Thanks Chalk It Up for all the effort of placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play
9327

Found it with Deaf Geo-caches Lucky9

Found while out and about with geocaching friends - Alansee, Zobo04, Gonefishen07, Anderka and Phetlern.



My thanks to Chalk It Up for placing and maintaining the cache.

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Apologies for the generic log but we have found too many to compose individual logs. Many thanks to all the cache owners for their caches, which have been exceptional in their maintenance I have had only 1 dnf and that was only because I was not going to make a tree climb without seeing where the cache was. The vast majority of caches have had very good coordinates. Along with useful hints. TFTC

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. Our team started off the day walking around Googong Dam targeting the Queen geocache trail, before then heading south through Royalla and visiting Michelago, and then heading north via Burra. A massive day caching indeed in great weather.

An ongoing drive back towards *home* along Burra Road collecting the Burra series power trail, as well as some odds and ends on the way, such as this one. This geocache didn't take long to find, and the cache and contents were in good shape. Thanks Chalk It Up for its placement and ongoing maintenance.

Found while out and about with a group of cachers. We decided to cache in this area and were rewarded with good caching.

Found with geo-friends and signed as Lucky9 during Mega event, thank you so much for placing it Chalk It Up. Beautiful day today.

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Found with a group catchers and logged as "Lucky9" Thanks for placing it Chalk It Up

Detoured down this road while on the hunt for caches with family and friends (gonefishen07, zobo04, phetlern, muzza and alansee) attending the Clear Water Mega event over the Easter long weekend. Love the naming conventions with this series of caches. TFTC Chalk It Up.

Thank you for share Lucky 9 awesome :):)

A full day of caching as a member of LUCKY9 to save time and log space. Thanks for the hide.

A full day of caching as a member of LUCKY9 to save time and log space. Thanks for the hide. Chalk It Up

Found on the trail along Burra Rd. No load fie us. TFTC

No cattle in the yard today. ? TFTC

No cattle in the yards today. ? TFTC

OCW PelDroedGwin, Brewmaker, EverestHigh & MaxAdventurer

Exploring the area via a caching trail

Again bumped into lgoody and again he was the first to get his hand to it

Tftc

OCW the Bebes, MaxAdventurer, Brewmaker and Everest High during the Cw mega event. Tftc

Found with Zobo04,Alansee, Phetlern,Anderka and Muzza. Out and about finding caches while attending the Mega. Fun times with friends , thanks for taking the time to place this cache . TFTC ????

Out and about today in the very good company of Alansee, Anderka, Gonefishen07, Muzza and Zobo04. This section of Burra Road comes up trumps for facts and fun! We just have to "Talk It Up" with a FP!

Thanks to 'Chalk It Up' for creating these cleverly themed caches.
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12301 Found and Logged 9:23:00 AM
Picking up a few cachers while in Quernbeyan for the Clear Waters Event
Great weather to be outdoors
Thanks for the cache Chalk It Up
Lgoody

Found with Gonefishen07, Alansee , Muzza , Anderka and Phetlern. A super fun day was had by all. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment ️️️️ TFTC

A full day of caching as a member of LUCKY9 to save time and log space. Thanks for the hide.

Found with my mate while visiting for the mega. TFTC

This cache is gold!

Another long great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*

Found on a day out with Guz's Travellers and Mr Cupcake - a beautiful day for it!

Here for the Queanbeyan MEGA!! Had a lovely afternoon caching with Mr Cupcake and Shandyk. Signed logs as GMS.

Here for the Clear Waters MEGA!! Spent the afternoon caching with Guz's Travellers and Shandyk. Signed log as GMS.

Thanks for the cache the Ewoks

Tricky one but great find

Found on our 2 week trip around Canberra, Queanbeyan and Bungendore with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache Chalk It Up,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 23005** Found on another perfect Spring caching day while at Queanbeyan.
Another trek along some trails on the south side of town towards Burra.
More nice country roads and a fairly busy road in some places too.
A tricky one here too, but located and logged.
Thanks for the cache and the series Chalk It Up,
***Roostaman***

Thanks to the CO for these caches, lots of fun and good finds. TFTC

Yesterday I was quite uncomfortable on the Tarago road PT so today I headed on a different direction. I was surprised by the number of vehicles on the road but at least there were nowhere near as many trucks.
I think I will finish with 40 and 1 but I did miss one somehow.
Thanks to all the COs whose caches I found today . Most were found easily due to good coordinates and very friendly hints.
All logs were either stamped or signed though sometimes as SG as I often do in small logs to save space.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Chalk It Up [^]

We started on this fun series this afternoon. The names were all well chosen and the hides that we looked for were all found successfully. Our name was added to each log before restoring each container to its proper hiding place. We really enjoyed this series and would like to be able to complete it on another occasion. Many thanks go to Chalk It Up for putting out these fun caches.

Day out in ACT., to bring up 6000 finds. Thanks to all cache owners for an enjoyable day out.

The sheep were keeping a close eye on us as we made this find. They looked happy enough despite the chilly weather. Thanks Chalk It Up

Found with cullum68 on a few days away thanks for the cache

Found with nissan 65 on a few days away from the south coast caching. Very cold overnight and cool today. Thankyou for the cache

After Aquilus1 and I played at Googong Dam for longer than we thought we would, we planned to meet up with GreyHams and collect a few down this area.

Aquilus1 and GrayHams were quick to find this one, I didn't even get a chance to get out of the car! Tftc!!!

On a beautiful winters day it was a day of caching, with dty73 in the morning out at googong for the queens series and later in the afternoon to meet up with GreyHams for a targeted cache to collect Londons Loft. And of course we stopped for many other caches along the way as we passed them as well. After a false start to the morning to detour for a newly published cache as we were just arriving for our morning walk we did start off around the circuit a bit later than we had intended, so were a bit delayed for the days plans but still got to stop for most of this series.

Couldn't have asked for a nicer day, and with the brightest blue sky and the sun shining but not hot it made for a very comfortable day to be out. The highlight of the morning was the frozen waterways out at googong, the frozen water was very thick and made for some fun entertainment, it also delayed us even more in the afternoons caching with Greyhams and had to leave many of our planned caches of the day to catch up! Thanks for the cache Chalk it up.

Having to drive past many of the caches along the way we did catch up just a few caches along this road and then drove together to complete the caches along the way, it didn't take long to figure out the hints to each cache hide.

Todays mission was all about filling yet another gap in the JASMER missing months and grabbing an oldie. Londons Loft was the target.... oh my lordie I am not sure that was a good idea at this time of year. I met up with Aquilus1 and dty73 who were going a bit ice silly out in Googong in the morning.

On the way I was also grabbing a few here and there that I had missed previously. This was one of those.

One more of the UP series.... they do go on and on....

Today is the 1st of July 2018 and I managed to find 157 caches for the day. It was amazing, we did so many caches with only about 10 DNF’s for the whole day. We spent a total of almost 12 hours caching and I was dog tied at the end of it all. There were some highlights for the day, Joolay got her 1500th cache find, I got my 3500th cache find and Kitty Katch got her 5000th cache find. We spotted an Echidna, a Wombat and several thousand Kangaroos during the day. Not sure exactly how far we drove but it was many hundreds of kilometres. I love geocaching so much and the friends I have made along the way make it all worthwhile.

I have included one of the Geocaching poems that I have written. I hope that anyone reading it likes it. Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the generic log for this cache but with 157 caches in one day it would be too hard to write a different one for each cache.

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind

I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see

Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?

Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there

As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of 31st January 2018 my average was less than 70 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After 3500 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 90 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

Found with Joolay and DARKSIDEDAN on a quest to find 150 caches in a day and qualify for the Hidden Creatures souvenir. TFTC

Found with Kittykatch and Darksidedan on a lovely sunny day (pea soup northside when we left). Decided to try and get to 150 for the day. TFTC

#9273 @1310
Another day focused on multis. I found a couple around Queanbeyan this morning, then went MTB orienteering at Sparrow Hill. After that I returned to Queanbeyan to do another one, then headed for the south end of Googong Dam to do some more. A quick park and grab on the way. TFTC

F(H)ound it! #2645 @ 10:45 AM

I love these structures, they are so geometric. Just try not to think about the emotional state of the beasts when contained in them. Found it quickly and then pfaffed about for a while trying to find my pen.

Thanks for the cache, Chalk It Up

CDog and I had to really hunt for this one. Fun find

Out and about on the way to Cooma to see friends we found some really good caches today, it was a awesome day to be a cacher, thanx to the cache owners for making the day what it was , awesome
cheers from the Routers

This is our fourth trip to the northern island this year. The first three were primarily for family events but with some opportunities to do some caching along the way. The fourth trip is different as caching is our focus. After getting off The Spirit of Tasmania we are heading north to cache at Wangaratta and then Yass before heading into the ACT and Queanbeyan for a week. After that we will travel to Jindabyne for a few days with summiting Mount Kosciuszko being our main target for this part of our trip. Then we will visit Cooma and Tumut before heading back down the track through Wangaratta and Mansfield as we make our way to Alexandra for the MEGA. After the weekend we will continue to make our way south and back onto the Spirit of Tasmania for the “drive” across Bass Strait. We are really looking forward to three weeks of intense caching in great areas and, hopefully, catching up with some geocachers in each of the areas we will visit.

Today we left Queanbeyan and headed south caching along the way. Rather than initially going down the Monaro Highway, we detoured through Burra before rejoining the Monaro Highway at Michelago. From there we went down the highway to Cooma, cached for a little while there, before heading to Jindabyne where will stay for three nights. This will be our base for caching in the area, including an attempt to get to achieve one of the goals for a trip, to get to the top of Mount Kosciusko. We are just hoping for reasonable weather with the weather forecast suggesting a little rain.

Unfortunately we had to log a DNF on the "Fire It Up" cache. Thankfully we were able to find the next one. Despite accurate coordinates the long grass complicated the hunt and it took a couple of minutes of systematic searching to locate this cache. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Chalk It Up for the cache and the series in a very pleasant rural area.

***** We are currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. On 1 September 2017 our average was 86 which seems close to the 100 target. However given that we have found so many GC caches, we have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get our average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that we can strive to attain this challenge. After 383 caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 95.8. We are now entertaining the possibility that we might be able to achieve our gaol before this trip ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

Headed down Burra Road today to pick up some caches with AngelG27. It was great to finally find some caches which I've driven past every day for years!
AngelG27 made the find on this one, I was a little distracted by the cute little lambs wagging their sweet little tails around the paddock opposite to GZ! TFTC

Cache 3059 on 8/10/17

Headed down south with SleepySnowLeopard and geodaughter to grab a few caches including the London Bridge earthcache to recognize International Earth Cache day. Found around 7 caches along the way.

Quick find - the most straightforward of any of this series!

Thanks Chalk It Up for the cache!

Quick find for this one. Being in a gateway, of course a local drove out as I was near the cache. Just waved and they seemed happy, & kept going.

Day four in Canberra with BettyBoo3747. Today we didn't venture far from home and went down to Googong Foreshores to brush up on our Queen history, and to have a look at London Bridge.

Looks like nothing has been loaded from there for a while (except for cachers!)
Thanks, Robmc.

#11275. Day 4 of our two week Canberra Holiday with Robmc. A day to rock on with Queen at Googong, and pick up a few other caches along the way. A big walk (for me anyhow) to start the morning at 8.00am. We got up close and personal with many kangaroos and yellow and white flowers of all varieties and came back crippled from all the grass seeds in our shoes. I did have sock protectors but the wrong shoes. New shoes for grass seed country are on the agenda ASAP tomorrow morning. We then paid a visit to London Bridge and gathered a few more caches and grass seeds before heading back to our accommodation for a well-earned rest.

Like Lucky L10n we had a quick find here too. That was lucky as the grass was quite long here and I don't like to loiter too long at people's farm entrances.

Thanks Chalk It Up

#4880 - 13:55; Decided to head out to Googong today to collect a few newish cvaches and then head along the Old Cooma Road and Burra Road for a few quite old ones. After spending quite a bit of time at the last cache, it was nice to 'chalk' up a quick find on this one. TFTC Chalk It Up

There were lots of young'uns at GZ waiting to be loaded somewhere....perhaps as pets (I think not). They welcomed us with lots of noisy bellows as we got close. The cache was found quickly and we weere soon on our way.
We were on a drive to London Bridge for a walk in the winter sunshine.
Thanks Chalk It Up for putting the series together.

Domsky

Replaced the log. Cheers

A quick easy find

#1909 5 of 19 today.

My Easter visitors made a early return home today leaving me most the day free, so I headed out Burra as I'd always wanted to see London Bridge. It did not disappoint & was much bigger than pictures suggested. All in all, it was a lovely cool day for walking around, enjoying the scenery, and, of course, collecting the odd geocache that got in the way !

Thanks for the cache Chalk It Up.

Nice quick find on the way through to Cooma. Tftc!

Found on the way to London Bridge. TFTC and the series Chalk It Up.

Tftc. Really enjoying this series.

Found with my Mum (Boeing737) and CanberraChick. TFTC

Found on a mini road trip with JetFuselage and CanberraChick. Found about 4m south east of where the GPSr identified GZ. TFTC Chalk It Up

Found this whilst on a mini escape / road trip with Boeing 737 and JetFuselage. Thanks for taking me along for the ride. Nice hide.

TFTC Chalk It Up

Long grass suggests stepping carefully. Tftc

Long grass suggests stepping carefully. Tftc

Easy drive by

# 1770 Detailed log to follow

SL TNLN TFTC

I love this string of finds! Thanks chalk it up

Tftf

Out for a quick afternoon fix, decided to go for a drive and do this section by Chalk It Up. TFTC!

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

A day of caching in the Burra area. TFTC CIU

This was an easy (But very well hidden) find on a hot day, driving down to London Bridge and picking up a few caches on the way. Thanks CIU

We had our Christmas Day at a farm at Burra and after leaving we managed to find this cache. [^][^] Thanks to Chalk It Up for placing this cache.

Tftc! :)

After dropping off Geocoin nearby I continued down the road to complete this series.

Great hide, TFTC Chalk It Up

Nice spot. First bison tube for me. 4th for today

Thanks for the quickie,

Cheers

I felt really exposed here. Too close to the farm gate, too close to the nearby house. I'm glad I found it quickly. I signed the log, looked around, returned it and off we went again. TFTC - I'm loving the names.