The Bends The Oaks, New South Wales, Australia
By Noodles22 on 24-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5FBDW

Quick find.Just had to wait for the all-clear TFTC

That took me a lot longer than I was expecting to find it. Only once I changed my angles that I saw it. TFTC

Found about 3m from where GZ on my phone was. Signed log and replaced as found.

Eventually got itWalked right itTFTC

Nice easy park and grab. TFTC

Tftc - easy find

Quick find despite the farmers friends. Tftc

Coordinates changed from:S 34 4.467 E 150 32.062Coordinates changed to:S 34 4.469 E 150 32.061Distance from original: 13.2 feet or 4.0 meters.As I said in my last maintenance log, it hasn't moved far. Also that dead kangaroo is only bones now.

We stopped opened the car door and the stench from a dead kangaroo was too much to keep looking when it wasnt at coords. We left.

There's been some sloppy patchwork done to the damaged barrier here. Instead of replacing crushed fencing and poles, they've just rolled the flattened barrier up and capped the last intact post.Anyway a new container has been placed, though it might be off by a bit now, but that shouldn't stop you making a quick find.

No luck on this one as well

Made a stop for this one on the way back to Camden area ... but I had no luck. It's been almost a year since it was found last and there looks to be some damage to GZ area. I had a quick look around, but there was a lot of traffic and plantlife was very tall and grabby - too much for my summer attire.Gave it a go.

Nice one! Tftc

With a long weekend in Canberra who can resist getting away! Joined a great bunch on friends to tackle a bit of the Picton area. The day included a big investment of time in an oldie (lots of fun) and then lots of caching in the region. A really delightful day trip with barb2e, Kittykatch, isopeda, albida33, fitzy_1965, Minniek, joolay, Smittengranny, contesta, EverestHigh and GLISS! Signed most of the caches as CDI - for Canberra Day Invasion. Thanks to all the cache owners for the fun!

Found with the Canberra group and signed as CDI 23 for Canberra Day Invasion. On the list of caches to do on Sat and the group included Kittykatch, Joolay, isopeda, Contesta, Albida33, Smittengranny, GLISS!, nibbletricecakes, fitzy_1965, MinnieK, EverestHigh . Tftc

On this Canberra Day holiday weekend a group of geofriends travelled north from Canberra and surrounds to grab as many caches as we could. This was one of them.Thanks to all COs for adding to our adventures. Log was signed as CDI23 - Canberra Day Invasion 23.

Fitzy_1965 & I headed to the Picton region today with a bunch of friends from Canberra for our Canberra Day long weekend invasion (the joys of living in NSW but working in ACT for me). All caches were signed as CDI23.

We had a fun day finding, trads, puzzles & multis and a few AL's for good measure. We ended up at dinner at a great Thai restaurant after the event in Picton itself.

Picton & Penrith Canberra Day weekend Invasion. Day 2. Today the trip got underway with the team caching. I sat out the walk to 'More', which I had done many years ago and joined up after a late morning break. The group was made up of Fitzy_1965, MinnieK, Joolay, Kitty Katch, Barb2e, Isopeda, Smitten Granny, Contesta, Gliss! and Nibletricecakes. EverestHigh joined a little later on. We had a huge list of caches to do and we got underway on a warming day. As things looked to be running out of time we changed to the end of the list to get to the Dam for a virtual and then cached out way back to Picton to get to the event and a chance to meet some locals and others caching in the area today. Dinner was a great local Picton Thai restaurant followed by finishing Lab caches before I headed back to Bargo for the night.

As we headed back to Picton we stopped for as many roadside caches as we could, pleas a bit of a lap of the two small towns we passed through. It was good of the road designers to put such a generous pull off area here.

Thanks for the cache Noodles22

40414.24 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Townsville Mascots A#483

**Albida**

Found on a trip to Picton and Penrith with a group of Canberra cachers. Signed as CDI23 (Canberra Day Invasion). Thanks for the hide Noodles22

Found on an overnight trip to Picton. I joined a large group of Canberra cachers for one day of the long weekend. Caches were signed as CDI2023 - Canberra Day Invasion 2023. My fellow invaders were - isopeda, barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, Contesta and Smittengranny. A Sydney local, EverestHigh joined us for many of the caches.
TFTC The Bends

Signed as CDI - Canberra Day Invasion. isopeda, barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Gliss!, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, Contesta, Smittengranny..... and now also with EverestHigh. All here for a long weekend (Canberra Day) of caching.

Quick find

TFTC

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

Quick stop on our way back to Picton.
Long weekend trip away. Looking forward to new scenery. Signing as CDI-23-Canberra Day Invasion. Also joined by Everest High.

Thanks for getting me out and about Noodles22

Find #7485

Nice day out some some caching in the Picton area with a great group of CBR cachers. Signed as CDI23

Thanks so much Noodles22 for getting me out and about and enjoying this area

Took a couple goes but gotcha thankyou

Found with Iwalkamongyou, TFTC

Tricky find, TFTC

Found It!
A quick find here as it was getting dark!
TFTC

Streak Day #3360 - Out this way with Dave8153 for a quick find to keep the streaks going. TFTC

22 September 2022
This is find number: 6731
Streak Day: 2471

Found today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find while in the area today. Thanks

Thanks to Noodles22 for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Found with EverestHigh on our way back after a day in The Dilly. We didn't quite go around the bend to grab this one, but it took a bit of extra looking to spot it. TFTC

Easy find around the bend. OCW Brewmaker. TFTC Noodles22

Found on my way home from Burragorang lookout. TFTC.

The hunt continued around this area to put some more smileys on the map along with ilook4geo. This was another nice easy find. Many thank go to Noodles22 for placing this cache.

Some more caches found around this area when we came along with goingplaces2. Had a good day and found what we wanted, just missing some for various reasons. Log signed and replaced. TFTC.

Nice easy park . Good hide TFTC

A nice straightforward one as we started homewards. TFTC!

After doing the nearby AL I decided a quick detour to Burragorang Lookout was in order ... and as a bonus, I was able to score a few smilies along the way.

Thanks for this one Noodles22 ... it was where but how I expected so it took a few minutes to spot the tell tail sign of a hide. Nice one that I'll remember for next time!

Fell behind on my logs and only just getting a chance to log these later, sorry for any generic logs!

Out for my daily streak and had some time to go for a drive today. This was an interesting one, not in the usual spot but a nice quick park and grab. Thanks for the cache!

On the way to The Oaks to complete the Adventure Lab there. This one had me stumped for a bit. Perhaps not in the usual spot which is good.

Thanks Noodles22.

A nice easy park and grab on a wet and rainy day. Sure is bendy here! But there is a good parking spot just a few metres from the cache, so easy to access safely. Tftc!

Headed out this way this afternoon hoping to get a few caches west of here before the fires impacted on the area but we were too late. We ended up getting a few around Oakdale before heading home. The boys in blue stopped by to see what we were doing, when we explained geocaching they took a lot of interest in the game.
Thanks

Out for a caching day with Gundrills. Nice little hide. Thanks Noodles22 this one brought me to my 100th cache

Last one of 10 for the day out with geowife. Nice park and grab. Didn’t get straightaway due to trying to be discreet with cars passing by. Nice hide though. TFTC.

Thanks

Geoboyfriend found this one as I was standing in front of it looking at old logs feeling dumb for not finding it quickly. Glad to see some great parking here - was worried on approach that it would be way less than what is there - thanks for the smart placement Noodles22.

Unusual park and grab. Tftc

not what I was expecting but a good one. TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Out cache with oldmorty on a big day. This one of many caches we found along our travels. Thanks to all the cache owners for maintaining their caches
Took longer than it should of

Out today for a day’s caching with marj01, no bush bashing, just park and grab. After heading off pre-dawn from the eastern suburbs we visited the towns of Wallacia, Warragamba, Narellan, The Oaks and Nattai. Lots of caches were found; on the ground, dangling in trees, on signs, in stumps and even one in a haunted house. Whilst most of the caches were familiar we did strike some very ingenious ones. A large percentage of the finds were quick, however, there were some that had us scratching our heads for a while. All in all, it was a very enjoyable day out and I would like to thank all the CO's of the caches for hiding and maintaining the caches that we visited. And yes, I did read the reason/history for each cache in the lead up to the trip.

out with Chrissy61 (NAN) & Ellyse04. TFTC

with chrissy61

found on way home from lookout with Ellyse04 & Unicorn8. TFTC

Found with *Throsbyonchurch* and *Little Kitten*. Signed log. Thanks for the hide.

I have found that cache. Thanks for the cache

Found -- 3:05:00 PM -- Thanks for the hunt and Thanks for bringing us here to this location Noodles22.

**Cache Condition:** Cache good.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:**

**The Cache**
Hubz found this cache. Last time I passed by here we just couldn't locate this one. Wow have our snoopy skils improved since. Didn't take too long at all today and I can avenge my previous DNF. SL and returned cache to its hide'y hole.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Kitten* and *DustyJapserJet*. We have hardly been out over summer as it was just too hot and other things took over our days also. So this was the first day, apart from the OZ GeoMuster, that we have had a full day caching and I decided to begin by cleaning up strays. I had not completed the Burragorang Road series so that was the target and then to swoop on the surrounding area - accomplished. I am very pleased with our amazing results today, and all were found. We got home in the dark after a fantastic day out. The weather was fantastic and tonight the weather was balmy albeit for the wind.

25 = 23 0 2 [8)] not attempted.

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Drove past initially! Cargo147’s 200th cache so of course we came back!! SL TFTC!

Have seen lots of these! Great one to mark my 200th, nice easy find, TFTC

Stopped on the way to the lookout.
TFTC
Fionat

Quick and easy find while driving round the bends with fionat who is visiting from England . TFTC

Found with nissan 65 on a day trip caching. Beautiful day off work. Thankyou for the cache .

Found with cullum 68 on a few days off work thanks for the cache

Easy find today. TFTC

A nicely found cache – liked the hide – road nice & quiet in the early morning - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Played the waiting game for there to be a break in the traffic. Grabbed nice and quick.

New log book

I went caching with Noodles22 i was looking at the without noticing for a while

Geofamily afternoon outing with AWTYOW, Brizzle11 and geo-gangstas. Trying to finish a few between the Oaks and Burragorang. TFTC

Out for a drive to knock of some caches between The Oaks and Burragorang with AWTYOW, Gabstar, and Geogangstas. TFTC

Mr AWTYOW spotted this one. TFTC

Last cache of the day and although we were all sure where it was, Mr AWTYOW saw the tell tale sign first. TFTC

TFTC. A quick park and grab between inspections

Out and about with Happy Uke again today trying to grab some nogood caches hiding in and around Oakdale. And we were not disapointed!

We have not been up this way for more years than I care to remember.

Thanks

Since the wind had finally died down and the glorious sun was shining, a caching raid of The Oaks area was organised. Great caches and fantastic company. Finalf29 and I ended up finding twenty in the afternoon.

This was our fifteenth for the arvo. Not in the usual spot... clever hidey hole. Lots of traffic, but a good spot to park. Thanks

Found at 2.30

Easy find.

TFTC

Easy & fun. PAC & CLCEMS

#3988 (9 of 15 today)

The Geowife is amusing herself today, so I decided to binge on caches. Decided to head towards Oakville and The Oaks to try to grab a swathe of caches. Got 15, but interestingly the closer I got to The Oaks the more the the DNFs piled up.
Closing in on 4000 finds. Time to pick a target, but not today...
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Like the description says, a nice easy find. Which it is why it took me 10 minutes to spot the obvious... Sigh. I don't actually think I've seen this type of hide in this spot before.

Completed signing duties and replaced.

Onward and, erm, onward!

SLTNLN
TFTC

Found this cache at 11.45am while in the area picking up some caches on this beautiful autumn day.
Thanks Noodles22 for the hide.
The Bushies

Tftc!

On a little caching tour this Sunday afternoon from Picton to Burragorang lookout. Quit warm weather, but still nice for caching. All but one caches found and traveled home very content! Thanks for putting out all these caches.
TFTC Wilbert67

6017. Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1335 in company with thomo31. On our way back after visiting the lookout and doing a little bit of birding. thomo made the find. SL Tnx Noodles22

I had missed this one last year when i was this way caching with WaywardWoman. Pulled up nearby. A look around and soon had cache in hand. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

#4,869

Interesting that the hint is 'the usual', when the hide is nothing like the usual for this type of hide location. But it was still a quick find for us.

Thanks

Ah good ol radiohead,
found the cache with no car distractions,got there at a good time.
TFTC

Good stop and grab, good view. TFTC

Quick find for us today, thanks Noodles22

Sorry to say it was not a quick find for us.

Clue may state “usual hide” but it’s only from a few finds today that the method, rather than the location, is becoming “more usual” as well. Took a little while to change my way of thought which was a bit scary as cars came whizzing round the bend in the rain and as I returned to the car. Parking probably would have been safer traveling in the opposite direction.

I thought I'd be here a lot longer. As it was, I found it so quickly that I've nothing to say about it. A very nice roadside nonetheless.

05 September 2016 06:13:34 OK I hate cut and paste logs so will try my best
to add a little something different to each log
I post. Code 1 and myself were out on our annual
caching run weekend. So some of our logs read
both names but to save room on micros and nano’s
etc we used CJ1.
Like most of our past trips a little homework
was needed to work out a suitable location,
route and to build lists and PQs, with this done
and set we found our self’s in the Camden
location. A great range of finds and styles were
located with a great deal of questioning over
some of the posted difficulties and terrains.
JABs.

Found on a lovely Sunday geocaching adventure with Falling_Rock. TFTC!

Found on a lovely Sunday Drive with Stumble Trip. TFTC!

Found on a weekend invasion of my old romping ground with JAB's.
It's crazy to see how much the area I grew up in has changed over the years.

TFTC Noodles22
Find 5062 logged from c:geo.

I came out to Burragorang with the WaywardWoman this morning to find some new caches recently published, as well as to find older caches like this one I'd not gotten around to in the past. It took a moment or two before I located this one, with the assumption that caches in these locations will just jump out and bite. Not so. But the cache was found, signed and reassigned to its position in quick order. Thanks

4.55pm. A nice hide quickly found.
Thank you. David.

Had to get it on the way back.tfth

Started my own account Found with/as Lucky Cricket

found with lucky cricket TFTC

Quick find while passing through this afternoon. TFTC

Found this traditional hide, hidden in a non traditional way. All in good order. Tftc noodles22 xo