Macarthur Panther #3 Appin, New South Wales, Australia
By Noodles22 on 11-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4FV2W

Another container and log book in place. Hope this one stays dry.

Found It!The paintball centre was in full swing today and judging by the sound, they sure were using a lot of paintballs! Found the cache after a bit of searching around but it was half full of water and the logbook is soaked. Left a bit of a mark on the wet paper but it is in need of some maintenance.TFTC

Day 5. A last minute plan had been hatched to make my way to QOGM. Very little planning had been done but a very rough outline was in place and it was going to be a day by day trip.

Wollongong to Sydney today with lots of detours.

After parking nearby it didn’t take too much exploring to reveal this one.

Thanks Noodles22 for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Found with Ben & Boys. GPS out by about 5m (SW). TFTC. ️

Found before meeting my parents in Appin for a birthday lunch.
Checked a couple of spots before spotting the "umbrella".

SL TNLN TFTC

Another container in place. This one with an umbrella. Please keep it covered.
Unless the sea level rose dramatically I still can't figure out how this one filled up.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

A good few cups of water in this cache. Easy find though. TFTC.

Pulled up headed to the direction the local Panther would be avoiding the prickly pear. Arrived what I assumed was the liar but unfortunately it appeared to belong to another animal who appeared to be a angry with my presence. As looked to the right there was hide , partly hidden but quickly spotted . Signed the log and left my traditional golden paper clip . As I quickly put the cache back I could hear the paintball events in the distance. Took note of the panther .TFTC Noodles .

Lost one of the pieces of the puzzle, so went to revisit. Found out in the open, placed it a little better and some extra camo.

For some reason this took way longer than it needed to. We kept thinking we needed to do something extra to earn the terrain rating but turns out just needed to look in the normal spots. Took photo of the animal as I have previous panther caches though I think I've lost the others so may have to visit a few again. TFTC.

I couldn't hear if the mysterious panther was nearby as there was a lot of noise from nearby paintball guns and motorbikes. TFTC

Nice and easy find just off the road. Thank you!

Found today with geofriends tftc

Working my way to eventually resolving this mystery!

Found with MizCupcake on the 30/6/2020. Found this one quickly, before the GPS could even adjust Tftc!

Don't hear paintball, but I think the dirt bikes have certainly scared the panther away! TFTC

Found with Littl3Vix. She found this one quickly while I was still settling the GPS Tftc!

I found it! The black panther! Cache I mean. We sometimes refer to our (black) cat as a blank panther, I wonder if he’s responsible??? Thanks!

Bit of a scramble and soon had the CIH. Lots of prickles in our pants though

Seems like a good spot for a panther to lurk! Geo 8 year old was complaining it was creepy lol. GPS was confused but I looked in all the obvious spots and finally made the find. Tftc!

Nice quick find to start the geoday. TFTC.

Sneaky sneaky noodles_22

Covid 19 outing with family. TFTC

Covid 19 outing. TFTC

Quick find for last of the year! Thanks

TFTC

A quick find picked up info.

Found cache took photo of info

Found and noted the hint

TFTC - no paintball fire today

Great spot especially when you dick from the firearms
Tftc

#11711 @1155
Attended a 50th birthday in Sydney last night. Completing this series was high on the priority list for the return journey to Canberra. I found the first three of this series 3 years ago, and another three today. The final will wait for the next trip. Easily found. TFTC.

found with btm and gm10... catching up on logging

Found with gm10

Found with btm



*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Easy find TFTC

some others and I found this cache whilst out and about. I am now catching up from some geocache logging after the ozgeomuster and the rest of the weeks full of geocaching. TFTC co's. i apologize for all of the generic logs

Found with Beary_Unicorns on our way home from the OZGM, TFTC

Just picking up some last caches before leaving.

Found by Mary and David at 14:50 in company with Alansee. Our second cache on Brian Road. A quick find again. Our thanks to Noodles22.

Heading down for the last morning of the Wollongong Mega event seemed like a great opportunity to finally find the gap in this series. Now I've just got to find my old notes on the other five!

We flew to Sydney from Bendigo on the new direct flights, hired a car and drove down to Wollongong to attend the muster.

Time to head back to Sydney but we thought we would travel back via Appin and collect the few caches there.
Thanks for contributing to the fun Noodles22

Found with Firesafe and Moneydork on the last day of the OZ Geomuster 2019 Mega Event. A great weekend with many caches found. My apoligies for the generic log.

Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Last day of the Oz Geomuster and grabbing caches north of the event site. TFTC

TFTC which we found while some kids were being tortured right next to GZ at paintball.

Nice to meet you the other night... hope you survived the tree climb!

Caching during The Gong event
Nice hide
TFTC ??????

Find # 8194

Found while up at the Gong event.
2nd one up the road from where I was gunna turn around.

TFTC Noodles22

Day 43

#7248. My last day of the Australia trip. Been having a good time touring around caches in Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong after visiting the Mega event. Today was the least structured day of the trip. I need to be back in Sydney by 4pm at the latest for my flight home and so haven't really planned any target caches. Just picking up a few that seem interesting as I head inland and back along the highway north.

Almost out of time now. Needed a side road so I could change out of my caching clothes and into better clothes for the flight home. Thought this one would be ideal. Had not counted on the paint ball going on down the road and the carload of geocachers at this GZ! Nice quick find of the cache. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks Noodles22 for hiding it here.

Time now to head to the airport. My last cache in Australia this trip although there are going to be a few earthcaches, challenges and other types that need working up before they can be found so maybe a virtual trip back here in the near future.

A quick find here on the way home after spending a couple of days in the area attending the OzGeoMuster.

TFTC Noodles22!

Found while attending Oz Geomuster 2019, TFTC.

Followed a bit of a geotrail in - I guess thats going to get worse as the Mega progresses. Nice quick find thanks. t I was quite astonished at the rubbish dumped at the side of the road here. As I pulled away I was surprised to see a huge cactus same as the one I've just removed at home a couple of days ago. Plenty of teams starting out for the paintball this morning. TFTC # 14.020

The journey to the mega resulted in a lot of driving, with a few select cache finds, due to the distance I had to travel. If only there was time to find them all! Once at “The Gong” as there are so many caches, yet again, sadly, only some could be attempted. Thanks for placing the cache Noodles22

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Weve completed this cache before weve visited the mega event.
Thank you for the nice caches
Team sissifalke

Trip to OzGeoMuster 2019 Mega weekend in Wollongong. Great chasing the lights around the Gong. Noodles22

Found your cache today. Noodles22, thank you so much for placing it.

Headed up to Appin from the Mega campsite to refuel the GeoVehicle so decided to stop and grab a couple of caches while I was here....

Found on my adventure to the 2019 OzGeoMuster in Wollongong. A few crazy long days of caching working my way through a huge number of towns en route from Geelong to Wollongong and back, a different route each way leading to different caches, different CO’s and different vista’s, all enjoyable. We targeted caches with a number of goals in mind. Jasmer months, D/T loops and LGA’s were high on the agenda, with priority also given to virtuals, large caches and whereigo’s.

Thanks CO for your placement, this is find 1340 for BFMC.

Caching day with Geofriends during Oz GeoMuster 2019, thank you Noodles22 so much for placing it for us to have fun.

Loud here whilst trying to find the cache.

Day 8 of our “mum and kids adventure” holiday saw us head to the St Arnaud 2019 Mega Lead up event and then team up with one half of the Tritonz and collect some of the geoart and other random caches. Lots of fun was had. I’ve loved the geoart and managed to work out most myself before heading here to find them as part of the OzGeomuster event. Many thanks for the cache.

A few quick finds in the morning heading to the mega! TFTC!!

Good drive around to NSW with Group more fun ... Thanks

While the team was split in 2, with different agendas today, the unfit Triton had a fun adventure with GemmaSistema and Jr Sistema’s tackling the local Appin caches.
Thanks Noodles22 for the placement.

With Isis58 from NZ, set out to find caches in the lighthouse series and other local caches. Met many other geocachers doing the same thing. I left a necklace here. TFTC Noodles22.

Found with CastleKay and baby&Mrs gopher while attending the OzGeoMuster Mega. TFTC!

8704 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1405 with fizzgig&lyric and CastleKay. We are interested in the trad hides for this trip. After lunch at the local time to make a couple more finds.A wander in the bush and soon in hand. SL Tnx Noodles22

TFTC

OCW the Bebes, MaxAdventurer, Everest High and Brewmaker. Quick walk off the toad and found no problem. We could hear the shooting going on in the nearby paintball range. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin, Brewmaker, EverestHigh and MaxAdventurer

A quick grab near the paintball

Tftc

Found easily while keeping our heads low during constant paintball rapidfire only metres away! TFTC

Quick find. No panther today.

Not prepared to venture into this overgrown spot with attached rubbish

After visiting friends in Tahmoor, we found this cache on the way to our bed'n'breakfast accomodation in Appin; all leading up to the mega tomorrow. Pulled up near GZ and dashed through the wet bush for a quick find. Lovely area surrounded by cows. TNLNSL. TFTC Noodles22!

Second cache for the morning while staying at Cataract Scout Park for the OzGeoMuster. The cache was located quickly.
Thanks for the hide Noodles22.

Out with SpikeyMikey today to complete demolishing the lighthouse and collecting a few others as we dodged the showers. An excellent lunch at the nearby hotel fortified us for more caching. A great day, great company and great caching Thanks noodles22

Attending the OzGeoMuster, and out in the company of au.fait today.
A quick find.
Too cold and wet for any panthers to be out today!!
TNLNSL TFTC

Fun bush bashing in the night

Found with WaywardWoman on a caching day out. After doing the nearby dishlicker cache we drove a bit further along the road to this one. A short walk through the scrub and WW spotted it in an obvious location. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

#5010- ,Out caching with thomo31 early today. This one wasn't on our plan but we thought we'd look since it was so close. Out in the open, it made for a quick find through the scrub with paint balls to the left and cows to the right. Thanks

Found!

Find 1002.

After searching the GZ shown by my GPS I widened the search and found it 6 metres away.

Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

Found pretty quickly, couldn’t see any numbers for the bonus in the cache

Another good day for geocaching it started to rain so I had to make it snappy tftc

I found it, but it was 1/2 full of water. Definitely needs some TLC

After the recent log, i came by for some maintenance. To my surprise i found the cache hidden in the original place I had it, but moved to a place less likely to fill with water after so many repairs.
Please don't put it back in that hole.

Found it finally on a couple of dodgy cracks at this one container and log a bit damp tb dropped and tb picked up

Good one thanks

TFTC

Great hide tftc

Nice and easy to find. TFTC

Park and grab. Nice easy walk. Tftc

A quick find! TFTC!!!

Quick find and drop off

Find count: 300

Today was the day that [HubbyandMrs](http://coord.info/PRREKMT), [Crzymelly](http://coord.info/PRRP17E) and myself decided to clear out the Scout Trail at Cataract Dam, collect cache number 300 for myself, and continue hunting for some hidden creatures.

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After claiming an ammo can for find number 300, I could continue finding any and every container type.

A quick search at GZ revealed the cache and quite quickly we had signed the log and replaced the cache as found.

TFTC

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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

Out and about clicking up numbers for the hidden creatures challenge..
Tftc

Picked up first 2 trackables! Thanks for the cache !!

Cache number 18 for us today the most we have done in one day! Safe to say we have 4 tired children. The Noise from the paint ball nearby and the dirt bikes was loud. Dropped 3 trackables to go on their next journeys.

Found with nissan 65 on a trip to Campbelltown to visit friends for an Australia day BBQ. thankyou for the cache

Found with cullum68 On a day trip to campbelltown to visit friends for an aussie day bbq thanks for the cache