The Solar Powered Talking Microwave Mailbox Black Mountain, New South Wales, Australia
By cccmikey on 29-Mar-13. Waypoint GC48MM8

I've seen plenty of microwave letter boxes but this one was certainly unique.Loved it! Well done on the effort put into the contruction of the container.Giving it a favourite point for the uniqueness of it.TFTC

Hahahahahaha, thankyou! Absolutely worth the detour.

Found It!I've seen a few microwave mailboxes before but none quite like this one!TFTC

After visit to thunderbolt place how could we miss one with 106 likes and it didnt disappoint! TFTC

#2658Found during my road trip from Sydney to Coffs via the scenic route..Very funny and full of mail TFTC

On the road from Coonabarabran today with BenM70, after the Mega back to Toowoomba. On a mission to grab a first to find around Tamworth. This one was out of the way, but we did rescue a turtle on the way and got to enjoy the magical talking mailbox. Thank you cccmikey for placing this cache for me to enjoy!

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 so we could drive down and pick up plenty of LGAs along the way. We got into Canberra late on Day 2 after picking up some challenges at Yass Day 3 and we chased many virtuals and caches in the city centre Day 4 saw a continuation of the UGC challenges, multis, virtuals and the odd tree fish as well as a wedding, a lackey and volunteer event were undertaken. Day 5 sees us start at parliament house, two lookouts, multies, virtuals, an epic night cache and a Pirate celebration. Day 6 saw the April Fools come out and a visit to Canberras oldest existing cache.Now for some more Yass challenges on the way home. Day 7 saw a FTF detour to Tamworth which took us up this way and a scan of the favourited caches brought us to here. Spotted a cute little turtle at a creek on the southern approach to this cache. Nicely done. Awesome letterbox. Thanks cccmikey for placing this Letterbox Hybrid for me to convert into a smilie

Found on an impromptu Easter road trip with CaptainVimes and little_miss_cacher. Thanks for the cache cccmikey

Taking out geodad for a drive and explore. 2nd ever letterbox. Dad loved it and made him smile.I can't believe this is a real mailbox love it

Was caught by fellow cachers!!!Awesome mailbox Tftc

Found 4/1/24, great fun

Found this one on the way home from Armidale. It has been on my to do list for 10 plus years. Happy to have a smiley here. Thanks for placing this one

Made a side trip to collect the mail here after seeing all of the favourite points. What a cool cache, well worth the detour. Log signed and back on track. Take another fp for your collection. Tftc!

What fun this cache was to find, although I had to close the door to enjoy the peace of the location. When we pulled up some neighbours were chatting at the gateway over the road. Luckily they knew about it and had pride showing me where the cache was, although I didnt need any help. Certainly worthy of another favourite point for the ingenious cache.

Wow. I dont know what I expected but it certainly delivered on the title. What a brilliant cache. Tftc!

What a fun cache. Like the change of pace, from searching for hidden subtle things to the in your face and ears! Of this one. Thanks for making our day. Tftc

I LOVED THIS CACHE. bunadoorian and I are enroute to Warwick QLD today. This was our second find for today. I enjoyed the drive to this lovely township. I would imitate the message all day during our travels much to bunadoorian's annoyance. TFTC and for bringing us here - cccmikey. Yes another favourite point from me.

A very loud noisy cache, Grub62 loved it. I gave it a favourite point. A nice little drive off the highway. TFTC.

We’ll, that was different! Also met a Shetland pony, inadvertently opened the gate, worked out how to close it again, and found a log to sign. TFTC!

Very original and made us laugh. Happy days. Thanks for the cache.

I joined Willis007 and Chamad for a drive to Guyra today. This was the furthest we visited - and was well worth it. Fantastic cache and it does talk! So a fp. Tftc

With the holiday Tuesday, Willis007 came up with a cunning plan. The plan was to go for a long drive to complete a particular challenge cache. We are heading to Glen Innes and Guyra to collect some high altitude caches and a few fun ones along the way. It is going to be a long day with Willis007, Kolour and myself. All three of us have set goals and a few extras to collect but we all want those Tuesday caches. With only a couple of stops along the way we were making good time until. I spotted 4 new FTF’s in the area. We ended going for the walk on one and grabbing the ftf, awesome.

We heard so much about this one we had to check it out. OMGoodness how funny and we had to just wait and hear it to the end. Yes it gets another favourite point.
We signed the log, replaced as found and continued on our way. Thanks for the fun we had today and placing this cache here.

Needing to find some high altitude caches, Kolour, chamad and myself planned a day trip to Glen Innes and Guyra.
This was a must do on the list for today, so we headed here as our furthest point south, then turned north to start the trip home.
This was hilarious, a FP from me.
Thanks cccmikey

Making our way back to QLD after a few days in Sydney.

Needed a letterbox for this LGA and this was the only option. Very well worth the detour though, nicely done!

Tftc cccmikey

Brilliant stuff! Very entertaining.
Thank you for the fun.

Very entertaining, tftc!! Kids enjoyed studying through the swaps available.

What can I say some geocaches are both annoying and make you chuckle. This is one of them. TFTC.

New favourite! TFTC ️

Blkthunder and I are off to Tamworth… having left home at 4am there’s plenty of time for caching…

Black Mountain, the entire town and its elevation helps with a challenge or two in Brisbane… so these were must do’s…

The quality of caches was an added bonus and delight…

A bit of detour to arrive here, but it was worth it… have another fave point for your collection…

Left Cisse 2 & Signal Football! Tag to carry on… hopefully further south…

Tftc…

Found it with Peppa and yes you have some mail

Out on a road trip with EleniB55 and had to stop by to show her this geocache. We're on our way to Black Mountain to visit the railway station there.

I've been here more than once, if only to see the look of surprise on the faces of travelling companions when they open the mailbox.

Thanks again for a brilliant cache, cccmikey. Took nothing, left nothing, signed the logbook and travellers visited.

Second last day of our five day journey from Bathurst to home in QLD.

Our journey today is from Tamworth to Glen Innes.

Hooray I got mail! I got mail! I got mail!

Worth the trip here. A Fabulous Favourite for sure!

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 3:53 PM on January 12, 2023. TFTC, cccmikey

Travelling and caching with RoddyC to Canberra & Bathurst before returning home. Heading towards Glenn Innes today.

Hey we got a letterbox too.

Nice quick find.

TFTCache cccmikey

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in NSW and grab some old caches. TFTC.
Lol. That is the most annoying mailbox, ever. Glad I took the detour.

That was pretty funny! Thankyou. Hubby took a video of its antics.

Staying around the Armidale area to cache for a few days.
Nice little drive out this way, a few more cars using this road than we expected. Awesome cache and easily our favourite of the day, very well deserved fp given
Thanks for the cache

Lovely country road drive to get here and had chance to wave at the neighbour as they came down the river!! Very funny letterbox! Gets fave point from me!

This cache was on my list to help with another challenge and so glad it was! Loved the drive to get to it and the effort put into the cache creation. Favourite point given.

TFTC

LTF

Loved it, we live just off this road and cannot believe this has been here every time we drive past. TFTC

#5386
It was wet and 7 degrees this morning, so we decided that a few drives to interesting caches would be better than endless in and out of the warm car, so we decided to focus on the letterboxes around Armidale and go from them.
That's cool.... it was a nice drive out along Toms Gully Rd too..... the kids loved it, and made a video for the grandparents.... I suspect they will want me to fire up an arduino and make one of these for us too now! TFTC!

Found today while on a morning cache drive with my Dad, Mum and Little Brother, it was raining so we decided to head out and do some semi roadside caches before we went and got lunch, found 6 and also found a few more this afternoon...

Really cool cache, definitely deserves an FP!

TFTC

Geofriend, Heather and I did some geocaching on the way to the Highland Gathering at Glen Innes. I had heard about this cache but this was the first time I had time to find it. We were not dissapointed! What a great Geocache! Heather was smitten by the horse. Well derserving of a favourite point. Took nothing, but left a hatching chicken. TFTC cccmikey

Just over two years ago my wife and I were holidaying in Armidale when we first visited this cache. Something wasn’t happening that day and we left without a find after the microwave had enjoyed a big night on the sherbets and had lost its voice. Today we were driving from Mudgee to Glen Innes and so stopped in for round two.

This time everyone was in a more talkative mood including the horse which came down to say hello. In fact it wasn’t shy in coming forward at all as it nudged me out of the way to have a crack at my wife. Another favourite point added. tftc

Crookedpete and I were given leave passes from our respective families for the Easter long weekend for a geocaching road trip. I suspect that this was our families' Easter present to themselves to have a weekend alone without our company .

As members of The Bromance geocaching collective, we are a rather contrarian bunch, so while the main geocaching action was apparently up north over Easter we decided to instead head south from Brisbane. Our main focus was on caches with lots of favourites, good DT combinations, high elevation or sitting sad and neglected with no visitors for an extended period. Well with this number of favourite points how could we drive past!

In fact I have driven past a number of times on previous geocaching road trips. On those occasions we have a far off destination to reach, with time being of the essence, and the detour out here didn't fit the schedule. No such issues tonight as we made our way out in the pitch dark. Not sure what to expect here but upon opening the cache all was revealed. I though my ears were going to start bleeding by the time we completed the logbook signing duties. Good thing your neighbours are a good distance way. TFTC

Instead of heading mega north for Easter, Seffnjarah and I planned a long weekend road trip collecting interesting caches and doing some bushwalks as we meandered our way south to Armidale and surrounds.

Whilst this one was a little out of the way, with this many favourite points, we had to detour to see what it was all about. Well, what a carry on. I thought it would never stop! Does it spook the animals? I can only imagine your posties anticipation when you actually do. Got a good belly laugh at the end. Log book was signed and we headed south. Have a crooked favourite point.

Many thanks cccmikey

Pete

Totally worth the detour!

Driving between Brisbane and Armadale stopping for interesting things like this along the way. TFTC

On the road heading home and took a detour to collect this meting the home owner while at it. Kids loved this one

Thanks cccmikey for the cache.
Found at 3:41 pm on 31/1/2022.
Find # 2448

Fav point. Very funny mailbox amazing cache impressive work TFTC

This was very well worth the detour off the main highway to visit this much talked about Letterbox cache. Absolutely loved it and more than worthy of more than one favourite point. Oh BTW CO, you do have mail & a parcel to collect

TFTC cccmikey

Something a little different! TFTC

SO COOL

Roadtrip today to collect some bare rooted fruit trees from the nursery and combined the trip with this cache. It must have been the coldest day of the year, and the ice was building up on the windscreen as we parked across the road from the mailbox. Totally worth getting icy and wet for. TFTC

One of my favourite caches. I really loved this one. TFTC.

We were in the area this afternoon & couldn't resist the lure of this cache, even though it was out of the way, freezing cold & there was flurries of sleet & sago. & it was totally worth it! I'm logging this a couple of days later & Googlasaurus has been asking me to open the microwave to repeat the message since we found it TFTC, fave for me.

Found this cache today on my way to Armidale with HardlyNoobish and it was a cute one to see
Tftc

#5071

On the return leg of our road trip to Brisbane after spending the night in Armidale. With freezing temperatures overnight, glad we opted for a motel rather than the tent. A quick detour north to grab this letterbox and check in on Captain Thunderbolt's cave.

This cache was hilarious! Got the attention of one of the locals too

TFTC cccmikey

Primary battery replaced

Internal battery is not holding a charge, stops speaking after a few seconds. Will replace on 17/4

Cache 7434 on 5 Apr 2021.

Finally, a real geocaching mission with an airplane flight, nights away, so many caches on the list and a road trip home! Flew up from CBR on 1 April with TikvaNZ to join Fox in Jox for a 5 day full-on mission centred around attending the Dayboro Mega event. Plan is to cache in around BNE, targeting old caches, virtuals, LBHs, Wherigos, DT combinations and anything else that takes our fancy and then start heading home Monday via as many counties as we can squeeze in. We have so many caches on the list we are unlikely to get them all, but we will try our best! Don’t care if it rains or snows - QLD here we come!

This cache: our last cache before stopping our journey south to our pit stop in Armidale. Very cute cache. Fav point comin at ya for all sorts of reasons!

Thanks cccmikey for the cache and the fun!

In the area for my kid's 21st birthday and to attend the Dayboro Mega. AngelG27 and TikvaNZ joined me. We signed as Team FAT.

I actually think the whole talking microwave is a ruse. It's the horse - a ventriloquist. Very good, mind you. Stood right behind the letterbox as we signed to make sure everything was fine. Good cache guardian. A fave, of course. TFTC cccmikey

Found while on a day trip to Armidale and Guyra, while staying in Uralla over Easter.

We couldn't resist making a detour to find this legendary letterbox cache. Hilarious! Got heavily muggled by the very friendly palomino in the paddock. Or is he the cache guardian? TFTC cccmikey. Fave point.

Easter trip away (in the hopes of getting into Qld) with fitzy_1965 for the cacheQLD Dayboro Mega.

After leaving home yesterday afternoon, this was our first full day of caching with the aim of heading north whilst county hopping along the way.

A nice easy find here today.....unfortunately, the microwave got camera shy when we tried to recreate our initial find. Fav point from me.

23,882. Found with minniek on our Dayboro QLD MEGA Adventure trip.

With the sudden COVID outbreak in Queensland putting the Mega in doubt we decided to head up to the New South Wales / Queensland border and see what happens, while developing a Plan B (Longreach region) and a Plan C (New South Wales counties loop) ! Day 2. An early start today with an aim of caching our way through some counties and spending the night in Tenterfield. Everything went according to plan which made for a great days travel and caching, with some wonderful places visited. This was the next stop for the day, and another well constructed cache hide. Hilarious !! Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then continued on up the highway.

Thanks cccmikey !! Favourite Point of course !

Road tripping with PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa, heading home to Sydney now.

Just the name of this demanded a detour!

A super fun cache, have a FP from me

Tftc

OCW the Bebes on our trip to the Sunshine Coast from Sydney. Stopped here on our way back. Had to detour foe this iconic cache. So funny. Tftc

Ha ha that’s funny. Loved it

Found with bedlem2 love it great job

Had to check out this cache based on the name alone.
A fun one!
Took nothing, left ooshies.
SL TFTC
Awarding a favourite point.

The name alone had us intrigued and we just had to take a detour which was very much worth it. Kids loved both the cache chatting with them and the family of rabbits eating grass out the front of the driveway on our arrival.
Definite favourite point from us. TFTC

TFTC
Road tripping to Tamworth,
Found this one on the way.
What a cool cache, definitely worthy of a Fav from me.
Cheers
Seemyshell

#13518 @1715
Day 5 of a 7 day trip from Canberra to Bourke, to Narrabri, to Armidale and back to Canberra. The main goal (apart from having a break from working from home) is to collect counties, and see some of NSW I haven't been to before. A pleasure to find this cache. TFTC.

Another fabulous letterbox cache which we particularly trekked to for the sole purpose of logging this one. We had a lovely chat, signed the log and moved on. A favorite point awarded from us. TFTC

Out collecting the various trails and a few extra caches today. A good day in total with only 1 DNF

Thankyou to the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches

Another big day of caching with @itsonlybarney, @TeamPQS and @hubbyandmrs. We decided that we would head out to Guyra and cache the town out. And a successfull day it was.

Love the creativity in this mailbox. the postie must get a laugh.

TFTC

**Total find count: 1022**

After what has felt like an eternity, we are finally taking our first geocaching road trip since Clear Waters with Crzymelly, TeamPQS and HubbyandMrs.

We decided to have a go at clearing out Guyra and having a smiley for every cache in town. It seems today was our day.



**TFTC cccmikey**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin
* Clear Waters 2019 Geocoin
* OzGeomuster 2019 Geocoin

Came for the snow, great little find

Pretty awesome find on a snowy winters afternoon in Guyra!

The voice has returned

Microwave has lost its voice - probably just corrosion on the volume knob inside. Will give it a clean on the weekend and see if that restores it.

With Fangsoki, Crew153 and 1MinnieMoo we have been on the Dorrigo Plateau for the weekend - and now taking the New England back to Brisbane. Our next caching stop this day was here. We spotted this one on some facebook group and decided it was a must add to the target list for our Long Weekend trip - and oh wow is that cool. Weird (umm ok, it doesn't stop quickly does it?). Well, that was different. Indeed.

Thanks cccmikey for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #7543}*

I was on an Australia Day long weekend road trip with Pprime, Fangsoki and 1MinniMoo and we had targeted caches in the area which would help us to qualify for a number of challenges.

We saw the name of the cache and wondered what we would get. We got what the cache name offered. such a great idea..

TFTC cccmikey

27/1/20 Find #3412
Fangsoki, PPrime, Crew153 and I were spending the Australia Day long weekend in and around Dorrigo. This was our final day of our trip.
We had heard about the famous talking solar microwave letterbox cache, so had to have it on our list for this trip out of complete curiosity. Arriving at GZ, we wandered over, and PPrime got ready with the recording of the reveal. No sooner had I opened it the chatter began to much amusement. However I had to close the letterbox while we signed the log to silence it for a bit. Then a quick return of the logbook and the letterbox itself stopped rather humorously with a “yayyyy”.
Thanks for the cache and the laughs cccmikey.

1MinnieMoo, Pprime, Crew 153, and I were in the Guyra / Ebor Area grabbing caches. This was our third day while in the area.

Well - the name defininitely checks out on this one. We were impressed by this beast. However, we were concerned we could not stop its commentary. But it soon fell silent. Very well done.

TFTC cccmikey

Great location lots of fun and very entertaining.

I was on the road from Uralla - headed back home to Lismore when I was sussing out what caches I should stop in at. I didn't have a lot of time, but I wanted to get a few good ones.

I pulled out the map and saw a letterbox, all the way out at Black Mountain. Nice place out there, so I decided to go for this one. And I'm glad I did. The cache certainly did not disappoint. Pulled over and saw the box straight away, and it wan't long and it was talking to me. Love the stamp, and there's plenty of swag in here. I took a path tag, and left a set of glow sticks.

Thanks to the CO for creating such a fun cache. I'd recommend this one to everyone. So many good caches in the New England area, and it's great that they're not all on the highway. Thanks again cccmikey! Love your work!

awesome hide here, found while on my way to Guyra. Thanks

Found on a very cold morning at the time the car was saying 0 degrees but when l left Guyra it was -2.
Such a clever cache, giving it a heart as well

Long trip along the dirt road, came across a sheep who was very confused on where he was. love the stamp and talking microwave

FP given for the laughs

TFTC

Hey ya got mail mate!!! Ha ha ha
Brilliant cache
TFTC

don’t forget your mail TFTC

It's behaving most of the time now. Looks like the battery drained one day and took a while to recover. (Solar)

Dont know what went wrong with this one as i was there on the day n it was talking 19 to the dozen!

The letterbox seems to have lost it’s voice today or maybe we were doing something wrong
TFTC

Not talking, needs maintenance.

Made a detour off the highway to visit here. Had a laugh when I opened the door and it started talking to me! Signed the log and did a few swaps as there were two pathtags inside which made me jump for joy. Put in a double tag from my collection and some fun stuff for the younger cachers. Liked the naughty stamp!
Saw the note about the letterbox not working by a visitor on the same day as me. It was going fine when I visited in the morning.
TFTC cccmikey

We're back in Australia once again, picking up a few caches as we explore.

Got a great laugh!! This has got to be the most unique mail box we have ever seen.

Well done, gets a FP from us. Thanks for the fun cccmikey !

Cheers from Canada!

Awesome! Loved it!

It really is a talking microwave!! Thanks for the cache

What a classic !!
Am so glad I took the drive out here to see/hear it ... lol

All good ... TFTC ...