JackaKid's Geocache 18 - Dartnell VC Throsby, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By JackaKid on 07-Jun-15. Waypoint GC5X745

Thought it was gone, but still there. TNLNSL. TFTC

#5900 @0640
Last night I saw that some of this series that I hadn't yet found was archived, so I took a gamble that they were still actually in place. The best opportunity was an early morning raid. It was still dark when I started with a beautiful full moon. As I cached the moon set and on the drive home the sun rose. Another quick find here. It was great to see many walkers and runners out enjoying the calm and cool of the early morning. TFTC.

Releasing the spot for another Geocache. Thank you to everyone who found my Geocaches.

Sunday 14 February 2016 (Valentines Day) - a hot summer's day in the 30s with a brilliant blue sky with the only breeze coming from riding my cross-bike faster. Found 32 caches in 5 hrs over 18.1 kms starting at 8.30am. Must get a proper bike for this terrain - a mountain bike! Quick and easy find. Thx p2p. TFTC.

A great day out caching with the Geoson The storms were threatening but we were determined to get some caches done before it broke. This is a nice little trail and a great start for the day Thanks Jackakid for the cache. TNLN SL

The great WEEO and I had a fab day out doing a bunch of caches together. Thanks for all the caches you have put out JackaKid.

Found on a lovely Canberra morning, thank you for bring us to this area again as it was teaming with kangaroos, birdlife and lizards. We had a magic time and will definitely be back to finish your series. Thank you for all the caches and work that went into this series.

Tftc

Went on a solo expedition today to grab half the CCT caches from Northern Exposure to Mulligans Flat. Also found a few extra caches along the way and at the end - total caches found was 50 exactly! Glad it was a cool day as it was a lot of walking. All caches found as per the hints and were in good condition. Replaced two logs. I was initially nervous, but the walk went well and the GPS was mostly well behaved. I enjoyed the views from certain caches, the exercise, and looking at the all the shale rocks along the way.

I decided to grab a few extras to take my total to 50 for the day. Bobl27 joined me and did some of the finding. Thanks Jackakid for the series.

Found with AngelG27. Quick find and #99 for me. Thanks JackaKid

Thanks for putting out this series. Will be back to finish it off again soon!

Did the caches in this series that are in the nature park. See cache 19 for a full log. TFTC

Yay

Nice quick find thanks

A two day trip to Canberra to pick up a few caches and to attend an event.
With a good variety of cache hides, we were kept busy.

Cache was found quickly, and in good condition. Signed the log, and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, JackaKid, for us and others to find.

I had been planning a big day of caching for today. My goal was to get 105 caches for the day, starting with the CCT trail heading towards Mulligans Flat and then joining onto the Jackakid caches before finally finishing off with some more caches in Forde and then making my way to Yerrabi Pond for the last ten or so caches. This plan included around 30 km of walking, something which I was hoping would not be a problem given the amount of breaks I would take to find each cache. I loaded up my bag with food, ~3L of water, GPS, phone, and other essential caching/walking equipment.

I hit the trail at 8:30 am, starting off with CCT - S3 - And so it begins. I set very good pace for the S3 set, finding a cache every 3 minutes or so (which was well ahead of schedule), until I got to CCT - S3 - Twisting where I took a very long time to find the cache (half an hour to be precise). There was one spot that looked incredibly obvious and matched the hint well. PAFs were went out and it wasn't until I started searching more methodically that I soon spotted the container in a spot which I did not expect. With that one knocked off, it was back to the earlier pace. There were only a couple of other tricky ones along the way but I had finished the CCT trail component of today's walk in about 4 hours.

Included in the CCT trail caches were some nice ones by other geocachers. It was nice to find a Spindoctors cache along the way as well as an mtbikeroz one, a Tankengine one (which I didn't have the best timing with) and a few Rapidlywild caches (including Reaching for the Sky which I was really happy to find as I didn't want to do a return trip. It was a bit of a silly idea as it was quite windy when I attempted it but I signed the log and descended to the ground unscathed without requiring a 'Special Tool'). Thanks to Champs2Monkeys for this part of the series, it was an enjoyable walk!

After collecting all the caches on the trail, I headed over to start the Jackakid caches. Overall, I had no trouble finding them which meant I had time for a little side trip to collect a letterbox hybrid, Celestial Storm (I had gotten first to solve on this one, it was a great and cleverly constructed puzzle and I learnt quite a bit) and some of the NPS series caches (which gave me just enough info to confirm where I thought the final would be). After collecting these few, I headed back to the main trail and continued on finding the Jackakid caches and others that were along the way.

After about an hour and a half in Mulligans Flat, I headed out and continued around Bonner following the Jackakid trail. The smell of smoke was in the air and there was a massive dust storm blowing in the distance. I spent a bit too long searching for Ducktasia which really cut into my limited time. It was about half past 3 when I reached JackaKid's Geocache 5 - Dunstan VC and was headed off to the last few caches in Forde before heading for Yerrabi Pond. I found Fore!ign Body without a lid so that may need to be check up on.

I was really tired by the time I reached Damp Fore!head, and called in to my mum to say I was ready to be picked up. I headed off and collected one more (Wings of Excellence) before going to Forde shops to buy a drink, without realizing I had dropped my money along the trail. I ended up with 93 caches for the day, and some massive heat blisters on my heels to remind me of the trip. All up, it took me 8 hours to find the caches. Thanks to all the COs who placed caches that I found today, I apologize for the copy paste logs!

Ride bikes with MW9010B and Good weather early morning.... hide well thank

Beautiful walk on flat wide footpath by finding this one of 3 small cute caches, all easily found, after finishing the hard bike riding.

Nice quick find on an evening stroll. TFTC

Yay!! This one gets us to 300 finds!! TFTC

Got our 300th cache.

I am doing per training as I am walking the AAWT (660kms). Geo-dad thought caching would take my mind of the 20kg backpack that I will have to take and add some fun for the day. TFTC

Walking the Mulligan flats with my daughter as pre training for the AAWT in Feb 16. Caching makes it easier. Easy find TFTC SL. TNLN

Minty

couldn't see it

TFTC, out for a walk around the park on a beautiful day

TFTC

found with Injuryman, Army_Stealth and CruzerMan
TFTC

another quick find dodging a muggle with his pet. tftc!

One of many caches found today whilst out with Army_Stealth, CruzerMan and LJtheDJ, TFTC!

1 out of about 50 finds today.
Found with Injuryman, LJtheDJ and CruzerMan.
TFTC.

A quick grab for our daily.

TFTC JackaKid

Tftc!

A lovely day for a ride today and we decided to come up through Mulligan's flat and complete this series. Overall, 25.1km over 3hr 37min, including a tea/coffee break at the back of Mulligan's flat. Coords were generally good and containers in good condition. I have expanded on the few we had problems with. Thanks JackaKid

I think we got 16 for the nice 2 hour walk, cheers

Came out today for a nice walk on a nice day & Great company. We had a very good day came up with all the finds planed for the day. We did see a dead lizard at one of the hides, as boot65 had most out this way, he did come for a walk so I could get what I need (Thanks Boot). we did walk 12kms for the day.
Thanks for bring me out here JackaKid.
Sorry about the copy and paste.

4379. With the first day of spring looking so good, Tanso and myself decided to take an early mark from work and knock off a few more in this mint tin-athon.
A nice walk in the flat with all the wild life and the great weather.
Thanks JackaKid for the cache and the history lesson.

TFTC!

Many thanks for the series, JackaKid.

We decided to go for a walk today and pick up a few caches in Mulligans Flat. This was one of them. Thanks JK.

Such remarkable stories of the events that led to each man being awarded a VC. Some of them are excruciatingly sad too. Thanks Jackakid for this series and a nice walk on a sunny winter's day.

We have enjoyed this series Jackakid. You have highlighted history and shared with us the great bravery of many Australians.

Thanks,

Domsky

Good sporting geokid #4! TFTC

Did this set of the series with one adult, 2 babies, a three year old and two backpacks. Was quite a hike. Lots of fences with a few that had to have everything lifted over. Found all but one cache. TFTCs JackaKid.

Found 8:55 pm with LuckyL10n. As the weather wasn't too good and I wanted to do a daily cache I headed over to LuckyL10n to pick up and head out to a nearby cache we both hadn't done. Tonight I also found a GCA trig as part of my outing. Our plan was to do a couple more but that was thwarted due to the fence and no nearby entry. The cache find was pretty quick having become familiar with the hiding pattern.
Thanks for the cache.

#3419 - 20:50; Out and about with MrDamage, we headed over for this cache after a quick shopping expedition nearby. Parked near GZ and took the short stroll back for a quick find and sign. We had planned to grab a few more in the series, but made a poor choice when we parked close, but on the wrong side of an electric fence to be able to access the next in the series for us. TFTC JackaKid

Good times. A bit cold but good to find this cache. TFTc

Quick find with the geodog on tow. Thanks for the cache.

The sun was out and so were we to do this portion of the JackaKid's series.
TFTC

I was happy to get away from work and go for a short walk along the edge of the park to get some of these caches today. I managed five out of six quick finds before heading home to warm up a little.

Thanks.

20081.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Fish A#63

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Found at 12:51pm with JordsAU.

The Dynamic Duo (JordsAU and Jase90) were on an epic adventure to the Nation's Capital for the weekend. A massive road trip indeed. We had left for Canberra on Friday evening a little later than we anticipated and desired, but escaping the Big Smoke proved to be no problem as we worked our way to our destination.

Once we were on the M5 freeway it was all engines go, myself driving and JordsAU being my handy navigating co-pilot, not to mention the very skilful DJ and great company.

'JackaKid's Geocache 18 - Dartnell VC' was our 167th cache of the weekend and our 22nd for the day.

Yesterday we tackled the 'Kowen Roo' trail in Kowen Forest. It's fair to say that we bit off more than we could chew with attempting this trail. For one, we didn't realise how mountainous the terrain was until we arrived and figured it out the hard way. We were a little sore from the 35km we had travelled by foot on Saturday when we managed to reach the milestone of 100 cache finds as well as the 25 odd km's we did yesterday.

The weather this morning was spectacular for being outdoors, albeit a little windy. The forecast from the week prior was against us but we had no such trouble today. We were on our way back to Sydney after a tiring and demanding weekend of almost non-stop caching. We figured we would work our way back slowly and notch up a few more smileys before leaving town as well as maybe a handful on the drive.

We spotted the 'JackaKid' trail on the map yesterday as a good one to knock over and it didn't seem too difficult. It was certainly nice exploring the relatively new and modern community of Jacka.

Our Canberra trip was a beauty, we racked up a hell of a lot of caches in a short space of time especially given some of the terrain we were up against. We had very few DNF's along the way as well which made it even better. I'm already looking forward to our next visit in the near future. We very much enjoyed learning some of the history and experiencing the great sights.

Signed log, thanks for the cache JackaKid

"Found with Jase90 on our epic weekend adventure in our Nation’s Capital. This expedition was partly inspired by the Geocaching Road Trip ’15 promotion and also because my goal was to reach 1,999 finds so my 2,000th milestone could be the final ever Geocaching Block Party in Seattle in September 2015. Jase90 and I left late on Friday night and, driving down, we made a few stops on the way down so he could find a few of my favourites along the way.

On Saturday morning, we targeted the HMAS power trail and managed to knock off all 90 from the series in less than 7 hours by foot, including Coppins Creek, Bernie's Boulders and Aerial Bold. Afterwards we headed back towards Canberra and we continued caching late into the night (in between breaks in the storms and bad weather). We managed to find the following before calling it quits around 11:00 PM: Gallifrey 2, Geocacher's Lost Lipstick!, Down and Dirty 3, Tourist Tips, Dominion of 2183, Foxy Place, Southwell Surprise, The Thirteenth Man, Sharkiefan's Challenge #3, Gungahleen Schoolhouse, One-Oh-Fore!, Hawkey's 2nd, Grate Expectations, Deep Extra Cover, Wally's Walk, Wally's Way, Harrison and Horsepark, Oblivion, Busy Bees, Heritage Site: ThereFore! A Cache., Liquidambar, Bug on, The Glassworks, and Can you hear the drums… err Bells Fernando.

On Sunday we decided to tackle the Roo geo-art power trail by foot and were able to complete 25 starting from the tail, as well as Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, Kowen Kamp and Reid's Ridge along the way. The terrain was much harder than we expected and the weather was freezing – we could see snow on top of the mountains in the near distance. We had to pick the coldest weekend in recent years to come down to Canberra didn’t we! In the evening we continued our hunt and found the following: The Edward Locomotive, Loch Be a Lady Tonight, carpark of shame, Close To Home, Heart & Soul of Parliament, Fore!midable Contribution, Granite Sphere & Questacon, Peace and Levitation?.

On an unplanned, extra day in the Australian Capital Territory, we felt our legs needed a rest and that they had done enough walking over the weekend, so we went for more park and grab type caches. We started with Oz Rock - Cold Chisel: 'Cheap Wine', then completed 20 of the JackaKid’s series, before doing Little Miss Hayley, Big Sis Angela, Little Man Tristan, Guard Sei, Guard Quattro, Ingress to Forde, DNF #3, Tiptoe through the Tulips and OldFed 4. On the way home back to Sydney, we stopped found Collecta Cache, Cache-abet….Z and GWM 1914-1918.

Thanks to all of the Cache Owners for the hides and helping Jase90 and I have an amazing visit to Canberra."

Found this section of five caches. All easy finds. TFTC JackaKid.

Had fun finding these caches. TFTC JackaKid.

Was looking through our stats and for some reason our streak had stopped. Took a long time and all four of us raking our brains where we were and what we had missed. Finally, Boss Lady realised that this was State Of Origin night and we had "dragged her out before the game to find on of those silly tins."

It then took another half hour to work out where we went, but finally realised that we had claimed this cache for our daily find, but forgot to log it due to getting home to prepare for another QLD Domination.

QUEENSLANDER......

SL TNLN TFTC

Completed the series this afternoon apart from No 25 which I didn't search for after all the DNFs. Thanks for the cache and the series JackaKid

I skipped a few so i could drive more as I tired - a perfect summer's day to geocache - certainly enjoyed the walk - thanks JackaKid

Out on a suburban cache run with mr_roo. Picked up a few more of these JK series. TFTC

Last one in the series we did today. Another easy one just followed the hint TFTC

Came past on a very cold evening and found the cache.

Swung by this one for a quick after work daily find

Thanks for the hide, JackaKid

Came out this way to do the JackaKid VC series with Ginger Floppsy. 1- 30 were found except for #25 which is obviously missing. Thanks for the series the rest were easy finds.

Another find as I continued my walk through the area.

Decided it was a nice day for a bike-ride so my buddy and I went out to get this new VC series. The hiding is all very easy, except for a few which were hidden among a ton of rocks or not in ways too similar to the rest of the series. Even though they were easy finds they were still very rewarding, even stopped off to get a few extras along the way. My friend was a premium so we went for the new premium cache "Sky's the limit" as well, shame I can't log it because it was a really fun cache. We even spotted the elusive " Franklin " while getting caches in Bonner. Needless to say we had quite an eventful caching experience. Anyway TFTFs Jackakid, I enjoyed boosting my finds count substantially even if I only got 29 of them, I can't wait to see what your later hides and series will be like!

Last of the day and nearly dark. Found by sound!

Thanks for the series (pity about the mint tins - they will need some future maintenance)

A quick run down the easy ones. Back for the bush ones next time. TFTC

Out for a lovely walk around around Mulligans flat, picking up a few caches along the way.

Thanks JackaKid , i have enjoyed this series.

Grabbed on the way back tot he car after walking through Mulligans. Thanks for this last one in here for the day....

Returning to clear out some more of this series. Nice quick park and grab

TFTC JackaKid

To-day (well the morning was) was a beautiful crisp Canberra winters day. Decided to go for a stroll (12 kilometres) around Mulligans Flat and nearby suburbs to find a few caches. Nice walking through woodlands rather than thick Namadgi scrub. TFTCs.

How wonderful to have this series to lead me into Mulligans on this lovely winter solstice morning TFTC

After a long and busy day we arrived home and quickly realised that we needed a cache today to fill a hole in the geo-calendar. Zita ordered a pizza and we dashed out grab this cache before the delivery guy arrived. Not only was her time management bang on but so too her caching senses as she quickly located this hide. TFTC JackaKid! PS - the pizza was excellent!

15/6 Another drive out to tick this one off the list tonight..lots of finders already so people must have made the most of the nice weather yesterday! No shortage of these now !

#977 11 of 14 today.

I was on-call over the weekend so I had to watch a beautiful couple of days go by with no caching. Anyway, I took the morning off to get out and finish (?) this series after being trapped at home all weekend.

Thanks for the cache JackaKid

9635 + 1080 = 10715. ticked off 4 more of the JK VC series today with GSC2000, Stardust2410 and AwesomeL!

After swimming, Skyzone for AwesomeL's birthday party, the Mall for a feed, and Cheesecake for a birthday cake, the four of us ventured out for four finds this afternoon. I'm enjoying this series, which could go on forever really ! Quick find at GZ for this one by AwesomeL. Signed, replaced, and off to the next one...

Thanks JackaKid !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Found on a lovely sunny Canberra morning around Gungahlin. After getting our 4000th yesterday, it was time to start getting our next goal - 5000! Saw these new JackaKid geocaches published yesterday, so we couldn't resist coming out here again to get them. These were all easy finds and were all very well hidden and in lovely bushy areas that had good scenery. TFTC JackaKid and all of your good work into your series!

Decided to head out and grab a couple caches today to enjoy the sunshine. Headed out to QBN to grab a couple more Parks caches, then did a couple in Jerra before heading back to Gunghalin.

Decided to swing past and grab a couple JackaKid caches before heading home. A nice easy find here.

Thanks JackaKid for placing these caches, lovely area especially on a day like today.

Out with MGROCKS, bike riding the tracks for VC series Thanks Jacka kids

What a beaut winters day to be out cacheing, Canberra was our destination and JackaKid's were the target. All the caches have good coordinates and and only 1 DNF no;25. We met other cachers here today, Traineerdiplomat, RgRocks, Kel_Mar, nice to meet you all. Thanks for the series.

Woot stf as I return to the area again;

Easy find with JetFuselage tftc

Out caching with Kel_Mar TFTC JackaKid

Found with my Mum, Boeing737, TFTC

Published

Choo ooo *FTF* on a lovely morning. Was at the Mad Hatters event when these all came out, so didn't like my chances at any FTFs, but did manage a few! - thanks JK!

This entry was edited by Tankengine on Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 08:05:16 UTC.