Count the Frogs at the Dam... Black Mountain, New South Wales, Australia
By cccmikey on 26-Jul-15. Waypoint GC6051C

Out with the geoparnets and still no luck today. There has been heavy rain since the last time it was found though

Left a voice message <3 TFTC

Tftc
This was the most exposed cache I have ever done. Can't believe it is where it is and still active. Power source for cache suprise totally drained. Your Geosences won't help you here, it's about the Co ords.q

This one caught our attention when we noticed it hadn’t been found in 18 months. Spotted it after a quick look around maybe 5-6m from GZ. Battery had a little bit of charge left, shame the camera wasn’t working, but was cool to see the other photos! Contents still in great condition. Thanks for bringing us here - what a lovely view! TFTC!

No luck with 3 of us looking for about 45 minutes. I even tried calling a previous finder and still had no luck. We searched using the listed co-ordinates and then using the ones in previous logs with no luck. I will be back in a few months to try again.

Nice easy find just a little walk around with an awesome view!

No frogs today and a bit of blue green algae in the dam TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 17.398 E 151° 44.164

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 17.363 E 151° 44.140

Distance from original: 246.3 feet or 75.1 meters.

Finally figured out how to convert Google's coordinates to DDM.

The original log that concealed the cache has disintegrated.

Periodic maintenance and check. Battery was still over 50%, charged it up to 80%.

Noted that the camera has died - probably moisture ingress. Collected a few photos fro the phone, uploaded a couple by Bluetooth. (had to resize first.)

Photographed the logbook entries, cleaned the seal on the jar and returned the cache to its location.

May replace the phone soon.

No frogs here today mainly because there was frost. Thanks for this one

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

Read the previous logs and realised the cache was not at posted GZ. Took a walk over the hill. Cache was found 70m from GZ. Lots of frogs!!

Thanks for the fun cccmikey !

Cheers from Canada!

Good cache...shame the coordinates don't match the location....

Usually when I drive from QLD to Tamworth (or vice versa) I am in a bit of a hurry so don't have the time to do any caches away from H'way, but this time was different.
Got to the co-ords GZ and realized it's not the cache GZ. So had a look at previous logs and soon has a set of co-ords that will work.
Got to the cache and after a struggle open it and the log was signed.

All Good .. TFTC ..

Found this on our way back from the Event at Morriset at Easter. What a great cache. TFTC. Logging this cache on 19/1/2019 after I was advised by my joojoo57 that I had not logged them yet. TFTC

Beautiful setting for a cache. Thanks.

So I've been on a journey down to Morisset for the Easter Mega Event. Afterwards I parted company with my fellow geo-camper-friend as we wanted to cache in different areas. I made my way east and north and then inland and set up my campsite at a spot not too far from here. Ok, so it was a long way from here, but that's beside the point! I have a short list of caches I wish to find as I make my way home near Toowoomba today, and this one is on that list.

The road was in good condition and my 2wd magentis got me there no problem. Wow, what a neat view. I should have camped out this way...

I soon realised GZ was not where the cache was, so I wandered down the hill a bit and poked around at a few places. Nope, nothing. Then some muggles drove in. What the?! Not to worry, they got out, looked around, saw me looking weird and left after a few minutes.

I kept looking, and spent quite a while not finding it. I was about to give up when I found the cache in the middle of a pile of what was probably once a really nice log. Now it's fallen apart. But the cache is there, the battery worked, and, well it was too bright and I was going to get sunburnt so I had a quick look a the pics and then switched it off and replaced everything as found. Oh yes, I did sign the log book first!

I found the cache about 70m NNW of the posted GZ. Thanks for this one, cccmikey, it's pretty nifty and in a nice location.

TFTC so many frogs!!!!!!!!!

**S 30 17.362 E 151 44.141**

Beautiful early in the morning. Loved bushland and scene... finally found cache see pic. Worth to visit this Dam. Thanks fav from me

Tftc

Veified Cache still intact and located at

S 30°17'21.73", E 151°44'08.35"

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-30.28937%2C151.73565

I'm the cache owner

I've returned to the cache today and found it intact. Checked battery at 70% and filled it, checked location to be S 30°17'21.77", E 151°44'08.56"

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-30.28938%2C151.73571

TFTC

Was visiting the dam, read through the logs and thought we would give it a go, found something interesting at the picnic table then took our chances, a little walk and we made an easy find of an interesting cache, we have noted the correct coords at the picnic table so others can find this great cache as well. TFTC

Diamonjs and I made an easy find of this with information from previous logs. TFTC great cache, beautiful spot.

Taking this cache offline as it causes too many problems - cannot get the coordinates corrected on the main listing despite trying a few times, so people keep going to the wrong location.

We read the cache notes and "assumed" and headed then looked at the GPS. Grrrrrrrrr. Back we go and find the place the GPS wanted us to be. Then we returned the way we came, hubby looked and found nothing so we looked further afield thinking we had not changed correctly. Grrrrrrrrrr. I went back to where hubby found 'nothing' and lo and behold, guess what, there was a nice cache there.
We placed the battery in the item and followed the instruction but could not see frogs or take a photo, not sure what we did wrong. The battery life is good. SL TFTC

Very pretty place. No frogs around. TFTC.

This was a nice one although we did not spot any frogs. Found together with dule.

Found today using Time Librarian's co-ordinates. I overlooked the cache at first but went back for a second try after a cup of coffee at the picnic table. Amazing what a shot of caffeine can do. There were many frogs and different colours too... Thanks for the cache.

A new bunch of frogs today

Went there today to "feed the frogs" but they have all disappeared

I hope Doc Hopper didn't get them!

I'll have to find some more...

Thanks for the cache cccmikey, what a lovely location. This is cache #804 so far for us. Can't understand the Coords.

Coordinates were way off. Just combed the bushes eventually found cache and were on our way!!

Tftc, no frogs today, found using time librarians coordinates, took Elvis the pelvis tb.

Found thanks to Time Librarians coordinates! Dropped off Elvis the pelvis TB.

Finally found after three false starts this morning - one because I tried to convert the coordinates from DD MM.MMMM to DD MM SSS before realising all i need do was change the default on my GPS. I eventually used something close to S 30 17.360 E 151 44.141. Took everything back to my car to count the frogs. Thanks cccmikey. FP from me

2TF, 0650hrs 3/8/15, lots of frogs to be counted!! with the additional information.thanks cccmikey

Unfortunately the cache is not at the posted coordinates but "3 minutes walk away" can the co please post the coords of the cache location?

I updated the coordinates when I created it but for some reason they don't seem to have taken. Try

S 30°17'21.77", E 151°44'08.56"

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-30.28938%2C151.73571

Published

It's been a long time since our first visit to Malpas Dam to see it being built. The dam was put "where the rain falls" and with that bit of insight Armidale has a healthy water supply. Arriving at the co-ordinates we began to search but came up with nothing. So we went on a 3 minute walk and soon found the cache. {FTF} at 2.37pm. Counted the frogs, there's a lot! We're not sure we went about this the intended way but it worked for us. TFTC cccmikey.