Not all I'm quacked up to be Mogo, New South Wales, Australia
By readtherocks on 24-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4Y5YF

Destroyed in the January 2020 bushfires, along with the infrastructure upon which the cache was based.

This cache was destroyed in the January bushfires which extensively ravaged the south coast region. The infrastructure upon which the cache depended was also totally destroyed and no decision has yet been made to rebuild it. So a decision whether to replace this cache will not be made in the foreseeable future.

We think this one may have been destroyed in the bushfires. Large sections of the gardens have gone.

No luck

Very sneaky hide. Went for what I thought might be GZ, but switched up my way of thinking and had CIH nice and quickly. Tftc!

queenofscots & bobstaf have been geocaching & sightseeing for the past 2 1/2 weeks with over 30 other cachers from USA, canada & puerto rico....... we left auckland on 11/8 aboard the celebrity solstice......cruised around new zealand and over to tasmania, finally arriving in sydney, australia, ......

now it's time for the two of us to say goodbye to our friends as we continue to explore southeast australia .......so we pick up our rental car at the sydney airport as our adventure continues .....driving on the opposite side of the highway will add to the thrill......while we enjoy our final week at a time share as we can explore the beaches & 'bush' before returning to virginia

look right....KEEP LEFT....it's my job to make certain so that we don't craash...... & we now have 'sim' cards in our smart phones so that we can be 'smart' enough to find some geocaches along the way......sooooo off we go, hoping to see some kangaroo and more.......TCTF, queenie

spent several hours exploring the trails at the botanical garden near our resort......... had a 'stand off' with a grey kangaroo (he watched us as we watched him), but got some interesting photos.....and i still really hate the flies

Queenofscots and I are touring Australia enjoying the sights and finding a few caches. Like the high quality of containers here in Australia.
Having a great time.

I believe log book is missing have sent message with photo

Out for the day after going to Myrtle Beach. Decided to stop at gardens. This one was on the meandering path we chose. Container made no sense in the location but fit the name and hint. Log is missing and have sent you a message with photo just to be 100% sure that is it. Tftc

99% sure we found it but the log book is missing

Cheeky but in need of some maintenance

Thanks for find

Tftf

Alicats not what it seems...found it..

this is a cool hide! found it with rob! tftc

A very good hide. A FP. TFTC

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Nice one. TFTC

Found on day 7 of Fergzters holiday which took us from Ballarat to OzGeomuster at the Gong. Now we are on day 2 of our travel southwards to home. What a great little find this garden was. Great necessary and a group of caches. A great way to spend an hour or two. Upon approaching the GZ I saw something not quite right from a distance and knew it had no business being here. Sure enough it was the cache. The baggy is torn up pretty bad but the log is perfectly signable. TFTC readtherocks.

Very cheeky! I think the bag might need replacing

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I like this one.

Clever hide hardest to find for the day.

TFTC

Very very sneaky loved it signed dsd or Darksidedan

Turn it off

Time for a waddle around these gardens
First time I've visited,
and I'm impressed already

Here by the pond and picinic spot,
I needed the clue before the cache was loctated
A poke of something and with a satisfying 'click',
a cache was found

TFTC and cool camo !!

This would be so much better with no hint but love ur work.

Day trip from to collect some caches to fill in some stats. Not what I was expected, but a fun hide. TFTC!

Day 13: Clear Waters Mega Trip

The plan for today is a drive down to Batemans Bay picking up a variety of desirable statistics. Then looping around for counties.

Should we or shouldn’t we!! Lol!

Thanks readtherocks for being part of my Clear Waters adventure.

Great cache! Found it!

Cache was approx 15m from my GZ and easily spotted thanks to the clue
TFTC

Came here this morning for a wander around the Gardens and find the caches herein, most were easy finds with the odd one a bit harder,

TFTC

We had noticed this batch of caches in an enticing location that involved the type of geo-hike we enjoy. We were certainly not disappointed, and we also had the added bonus of being able to do some excellent birding at the same time, and so many thanks to the CO for having laid the trail that gave us a great morning out! The clue for this one helped ensure a reasonably quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the good fun cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Found at 12:43:00 PM.

Staying at Batehaven for a few days and decided to go for a wander through the Euorobodalla Botanic gardens. We had a very enjoyable time wandering the paths in the gardens with the bonus of geocaches to add further interest. Nice clever hide.

Thanks to readtherocks.

Clever

Very sneaky hiding spot love your creativity. TFTC

Very sneaky hide. Loved the pump. Took a long time to find ! No ducks but watched black snake in the pond.

Great hide. TFTC

Wouldn’t have found it without the hint! Thank you!

Lovely spot for a relax... Except for no 1 child pumping the water! TFTC

Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens. Great location to walk and relax in the bush. Enjoying nature. With some caches to go. Thank you to readtherocks.

Clever! TFTC

Found after checking several other switches in the area. Thanks.

Nice quite area beside the ponds. TFTC

TFTC!

Great day out with the family! Kids loved the playground and spotting all the wildlife. The adults enjoyed the strawberries in the picnic. So many great walks to enjoy as a family, we ended up spending most of the day here. TFTC.
Ingenious cache, very impressed with the container, would not have found it without Jump Pilot.

Love these ones! Tftc

Great hide. Found with madzac TFTC

Awesome cache
Quick find with the hint
TFTC

First of the day and a right quacker it was; loved the cache and it's location. We spent a great morning in the gardens which were really impressive. Met loads of marsupials and also a lovely volunteer at the centre who had once stayed in Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, UK where I worked for 30 years...small world.
FP of course.
Thanks for all the fun.

Over from Canberra with fitzy_1965 for a weekend south coast caching run

So much better being on the coast with it's sparkling ocean and cool breezes than boiling hot Canberra! And lovely to cool down after a hot day of caching than with an icy cold beer at the campsite!

Coords were slightly out at this one. Spied the hide after we wandered over to have a look at the beautiful water features. If only there was a functional one overhead to cool us down!

Thanks for hide, readtherocks

15,348. Found during a meander around the south coast with specimenX on a hot hot weekend.

A last minute plan was hatched to spend the weekend away from the Canberra mega-heat and put up with the coast heat with specimenX. This was the next stop along the highway. Heading into the Botanical Gardens for a caching walk we stopped here for the next find. Took a few minutes until we looked at the clue and found the fitting item ! Love the container ! Signed the log, replaced the cache, and headed off to the next one.

Thanks readtherocks !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

We ducked on down for a quick look for our first cache in this park. Something odd soon spotted and log soon in hand.
Now on to the rest (if we don't go deaf first from the cicadas)
TFTC

Found it really quickly with the help of the comments

This was a fun one

We got close then it was Pigtail Magee, thinking about the clue who spotted it.
Great cache.

Awesome hide! Thanks.

Nice camo thanks for the walk

Found on 6/1 with TSL while strolling around the gardens. Lovely spot tftc.

29 December 2017 at 14:31
Thanks to the hint, I found this one without too many dramas....

TFTC readtherocks

I have never seen anything like this before, very well done, TFTC

Found with Shelley0 on our great week in and around BB. Fishing, swimming, golfing, rockhopping, and generally touring around this great part of the country. So, so jealous.
We had a lot of trouble here with the coords, should've just trusted the hint, and searched accordingly.
Thanks again RTR

My GPS found GZ at the bench next to the tree in the open (not under the pergola) I search that and then extended the search. A DNF for me .

Well hidden. We were with a previous finder so got some hints. Thank you

On a few days caching around the south coast and these gardens were a good place to start todays walk. Mr S spotted this cool hide but we were wary of a couple of muggle workers until one of them asked us if we were Geocachers. Uuhm yes, we answered. Well, hi, I’m the cache owner. Lovely to meet you readtherocks and thanks for all the information on the gardens and the work you do.

Greetings from New Zealand.

Very tricky ,good placeing

Good

Day out caching with the family thanks for the cache

Tricky!

Hidden in switch

I was a little shocked when I finally found this cache.... I am not so sure it is a wise thing to do to encourage anyone to start trying to take these sorts of things apart. ANyway, found it after 3-4 minutes scratching around.

We've had a relaxing morning but decided to head out for a short caching run round town this afternoon.
Well, we messed this up a bit. Didn't actually read the cache notes which tell you when this place is actually opened, so we rocked up on Monday afternoon. Lucky for us the gates weren't locked, so we went for a walk in the park and found all 7 caches within the boundary of the botanical gardens. We missed the one at the water storage dam as a bloke came up to us in the car as we were driving up to it to tell us he was about to lock the highway gates. It could have been a miserable night stuck in the car if we couldn't get out!
This one was found by Mr SKI after seeing something out of place. Our GPS had us about 10 metres away.
TFTC

You definitely need to switch your way of thinking with this cache. TFTC

What a great cache! Love the thought that has gone into it... sometimes the obvious isn't always what it seems! TFTC!

Good one!! Thanks

Great hide but concerned that youngsters might start checking these electrical items out for caches in others places which could be quite shocking. Tftc favourite awarded

TFTC

TFTC

Pretty clever. You have to be switched on to find it. TFTC

I quite enjoyed this series of caches. This was our first find. I knew that we were in for a more interesting ride than your average sistema after this one.
Thanks for putting in the effort.
Cheers

First time I visited this place. Really nice!. TFTC.

Found while out and about with the geohubby and geobaby. TFTC

Out With my GeoFamily great place for a day out, Good food and drinks. PS Grass not at GZ.

On a trip around East Gippsland that will eventually take us passed Sydney. Stopping off at Eden and Harrington plus a few other places and I will be occasionally picking up a geocache along the way. Today was Batemans Bay Botanical Gardens lucky day and I thank readtherocks for placing this cache in this wonderful location.

Yay the hint helps about itself

My iPhone coords were off, but using the name and hint helped. When I tried to open it wouldn't, but I was with a previous finder who told me I was right. Finally between muggle families I was able to have a good go. As per previous finder there was no log. Had a spare bag and piece of paper so added to cache. Tftc!!!

Decided to go get some caches while down in the bay for football, found it but no log. TFTC!

Excellent hide. Thanks.

Mr Geo had this one pegged & soon we were signing the log. Can't wait to bring our daughter here. The Geo grandkids love the gardens so getting them here won't be hard. Giving this one a fav for the clever hide. Kutgw

Extreme Hide! Loved finding
Thanks for bringing me here!!

Today we made a trip over Moruja to Batemans Bay. We visit the botanical garden and the beatiful area arround. We could find all the caches after a little searching. Thanks to the owner. All containers were in good condition
Greetings from the Moorhelmis from Germany

Waited for muggles to go...and spotted the well matched to clue...tftc..

TFTC

Great hide,some previous logs had me swimming in the wrong direction,then it clicked,HA nice one!!
TFTC

Nice hide, great some would say cool!
Cheers guio

We're a 'fan' of this one!!
'Keep cool'.

A caching day out from the ACT to find a few caches in the bay and this series looked like a great place to start.
This cache had me confused about hint and location however geo kid found this after about 10mins. Great hide, but is it a micro?? Tftc.

Batemans Bay Cubs found their fourth Geocach

Gotcha - switched our way of thinking.