10th Australian Scout Jamboree 1973 - 1974 Appin, New South Wales, Australia
By h.j.smith on 12-Dec-15. Waypoint GC683KY

This cache is hidden in a water catchement area that is zoned [Special Area: No entry](https://www.waternsw.com.au/water-quality/catchment/manage/special-areas/restricted-areas?fbclid=IwAR2q4dJDi3sfCuhAmbd2bG_7VoaZVICy0Ash4MfmVtVl2Rj5hkQEi-5rHes). There are large penalties for people found in these areas, ignoring the restrictions for Special Areas.
After discussions with representatives from WaterNSW they have requested that we archive these caches. Upon discussion the only geocaches allowed are in the public access areas and can not be placed in the bush surrounding these areas.

If you would like an idea of the areas affected by this catchment area, you can find an interactive map [here](https://www.waternsw.com.au/supply/Greater-Sydney/system?fbclid=IwAR2AQb-OlLrdK_WooJap_V2HMFpla_lpcJJ2RtJHRegjjt8q6TsVjsLCUp8).

Please do not attempt to remove this cache, WaterNSW will arrange a time that all cache owners affected by this will be able to be escorted to remove their cache. A suitable time will be advised in the coming weeks.

In order to further discourage people from seeking these caches the listings will also be locked.

Regards,

Matt - Ministro

Out with the geofam (Macka4867, Gundrills & KnightJR) to get some more caches. TFTC

A day caching with Geofamily. Finishing off the mystery at museum event. TFTC.

Out with the geofam to get more clues until complete! Let’s just get some caches!
Signed G, K, M & P (Gundrills, KnightJR, Macka4867 & Panda_Girl65).
TFTC

Out with geomfam. (Macka4867, pandagirl and knightjr). Spending the day Getting the rest of mystery museum caches in the Gong area. Great day for caching.TFTC

Found with Lucky Cricket and Little Cricket. TFTC

TFTC:)

Thanks to SpikeyMikey for replacing this cache at the recent mega-event. I have never received such an influx of find-its before! All good to go.

Quick park & grab! TFTC!!!

for some reason I can't log this with a find? weird. found with wootowncrew

Fl

Found with Gazkersh, littlemisslonglegs and some other geo friends while attending the nearby MEGA

Found with Gazkersh and littlemissleft (Mum and Dad)

Last at Wollongong for the Mega with my Geoson TFTC

Found while at the OzGeomuster 2019 signed DSD

While over from Tassie to attend the Gong OzGeo Muster 2019 myself and Goose of GooseandEgg we managed to polish off few series and grab some other random caches in our five days on the big island.
We flew out on Thursday night and arrived back in the apple isle late on Tuesday night, thanks for all the caches.
We normally try and get some old caches or D/T's we are missing but this time it was more about a couple of series and catching up with a few fellow cachers.

Found on 09/07/2019 at 11:22:00 AM

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

The very last morning of the event before heading home, and my last drive down this road. I decided to refresh this still disabled cache that I had looked for on the first night and was surprised to see found it logs! I did imagine someone would think it is a good idea to replace it.... with 500+ people and right at the mega site it was bound for one person to start a trend!

So, like everyone else I quickly stopped by this final cache before attending the final event down the road. Found the replacement and signed the log

Hopefully the CO of the cache becomes active again so it can officially live on...!

We skipped this cache when we did the others nearby because it had been disabled. But, we heard a whisper that it had been replaced so we stopped to check on the way back out from the farewell event. Sure enough it had been so we were able to sign this one and add another smilry.
Thanks h.j.smith

Day 89 Mainland trip - OZGM
Staying at Cataract Park we headed out to locate this cache as it appears it has been replaced. We have enjoyed caching in the area while attending the Mega. TFTC

OCW Sensible Shoes and Little Shoes, nice quick find after a wonderful weekend at the Geomuster signed as shoes X3

OCW Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior. Quick find on the way back from the ozgeomuster. Signed as Shoes x3TFTC.

Found with my Dad and big brother and Banj Ward and the beary_unicorns on our way to the farewell event....
###TFTC!!###

Found with FUF009 while in the area. Tftc

Finding the last of the caches along this road before heading towards home. There is a new cache and log in place, so this can be reactivated. It's a small though now. TFTC .h.j.smith

Finishing this series of caches after attending the OZGM. TFTC

#3223-3229
We had to skip this section on Sunday as we were running out of time before the flash mob event, so grabbed it before the farewell event on our way home after a great weekend at the mega and surrounding caches. Found with Banj Ward and the beary_unicorns, logs signed Team 740.... TFTC!

We had an enjoyable morning finding the caches along this road, after leaving the Mega. All of the caches were found pretty easily, with some taking a little longer because our GPS was a bit unreliable. Thanks for placing these caches - it was great to have a little trail to do on our way out. TFTC!

Found today on our way to the farewell event, we had a great time exploring around here.

### ***TFTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*** ###

Out for a big day of caching on this fine Tuesday with Djant, Jedi_Anakin

Thanks h.j.smith for placing the cache this one is find #401 for me TFTC.

Found with Jedi _Anakin , and dart16,
Thanks for the cache h.j.smith
This is my 1073 find

Found with Djant and dart16

Found on the way home from the Mega with Little Shoes and Shoes Junior. Signed as TheShoesx3. Thanks to Golden wattle for sensing us back to find this disabled one!

Missed this one yesterday using the official app which didn't show it as it is disabled.
The cache (or a cache) is obviously there, so using another app I pounced today on the way out of the Mega.
TFTC, h.j.smith.

TFTC

Someone has obviously replaced this container... it’s now a small size and from the logbook is pretty active.
Our eleventh find so far today.

Thanks to whoever replaced the cache. All now complete.

Well, we were passing by on our wander down the road, so we stopped by. There was a cache, so we logged it! Thanks.

A cough and it was found.

Signed KC for Kiwi Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. TFTC

Been having a great time at the Mega but now to get this series. Out with Kittykatch and Nibletricecakes to find them today. TFTC

This is my last day of caching at the Mega Event, so I thought I'd capture the ones near the scout camp. Tftc.

Thanks h.j.smith for placing this geocaches 7219 find for me. CITO was first on the list after listening to Cully's talk. The next plan was to find our final GEO art, followed by the dam lab cache. Anything in-between was a bonus.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Kiwi Caching Chicks are in Aussie! We are Nosynel, Infoferret, Jude_E, (thedbees, graciesgpsfun some times) and Ethness. Over from NZ for the Ozgeomuster and trying to do as many caches as we can in the time we have here. We signed as KC or KCC. No yrouble finding this one so perhaps it was replaced prior to the mega. Thanks!

Found with littlemissleft and littlemisslonglegs
Thanks for the cache
We are finding some great caches while at the Mega.

A group of five of us from Auckland, New Zealand have embarked ourselves upon Australian territory to while away the time here at the MEGA and to gather up some old caches and see the country wile we’re at it.

I didn't want to go past this one without at least coming for a quick search, sure enough it was found.

All logs while in Australia were signed as NZ MEGA 2020 to save space. We are FMZ, Agazo, rustynz, harisree and myself.

Found with Canberra crew while attending the Oz Geomuster. TFTC

The GeoFamily and I are off to the Gong for the OzGeoMuster. We got up at sparrow flatulence, and set off in the dark. Mrs Mister JD uses Mister JD with me, but the kids have their own ids, AM_MMJD and Su_MMJD. Dawn didn't appear before Goulburn. We ate at the dreaded Maccas, and on we went to event GZ and about 8:30, where we met our geocaching friends. Hugs, chats, milling about. Then off for a day of geocaching with our mates. Day 1, we collected four and had a great day. Day two saw us with 12 caches and a lot of fun. Today, we've arranged to meet up with our mates at the fmega event site for lab caches and to do th Jamboree series. We got 15 lab caches logged, with the battle of the labs all solved but unlogged because the app didn;t want to play. No worries, we had the fun. The kids loved all the labs except the zombies. We elected to start at the dam end for the Jamboree series. We fond all of them, even the disabled one.

I'm sorry about the generic logs. The lurgy has got me.

.Hmm. Disabled. Found it anyway. And it's a "Regular" for my project. Obviously replaced.


Find no 5 of 17 today.

Thanks, h.j.smith

At the Gong with Mum and my sister and Mister JD.

At the Gong with Mum and my sister and Mister JD.

Find # 8313

Found while up at the Gong event.

Not feeling tired, I was interested in a walk down n up this road under torch light.
I would have drove it but alas the gates were locked.
To break up the walk I done every second one down n the rest on the way up.
With all the noises coming from the dark bush made it for an interesting n sometimes on edge caching experience.


TFTC h.j.smith

Day 44

This series of caches has been staring us in the face throughout the Mega, so Team NZ Mega 2020 just had to knock them off before the closing ceremony. TFTC.

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Coords took us on a wild goose chase but joolay followed her nose rather than us and soon had the cache in hand.

Out adventuring with Joolay and Kittykatch on my first full day at the Mega in Wollongong. Such a diversity of caches today, with CITO’s Puzzles, Trads and even the odd Trig. Thanks everyone for the awesome day!

Found as I head my way to the dam - thanks to whoever it was who put down the replacement for the weekend. What happened to the 11th? TFTC # 14,133

Found as part of the Kiwichicks today - working our way up to and Back from the DAM LAb groventure. TFTC. Although this is marked as disabled, the Kiwichicks can confirm a cache is in place.

Day 4: A group of Westies (rustynz, harisree, Gorby, FMZ and Agazo - temporary Westie visa holder), are in Australia from NZ to attend the OZGeoMuster MEGA in Wollongong. All logs have been signed NZMEGA 2020

It is the last day, and the closing ceremony is tonight, so we are caching nearer the scout camp whilst we still have daylight

Although this one had been disabled, we noticed cachers at the location on our way down to the dam. On our return took a detour and found the cache

Thanks h.j.smith for the history and the hide

Found this one with team NZ MEGA 2020 as we were passing by along the road here - while in the area for the GeoMuster mega event. TFTC!!!

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

#Find#: 2274#
Found on: 7 July 2019 10:53
Buddies: PelDroedGwin, Maxadventurer, Everesthigh
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

---
All of them done now. Great series.
**TFTC h.j.smith TNLNSL**

The afternoon light was spent heading down to cataract dam and collecting all the caches along the way. Very impressed with the dam itself but also with the long standing history of the scouts here.

Thanks for all the cache placements. ????

Pretty sure this is a throw down but seems everyone at the Mega is signing it so I’ll join in. Hope the CO doesn’t mind.

Cheers.

Seems the cache has been replaced even though it is still shown as being disabled. TFTC h j smith

Joint find with 4Moule TFTC

Ju and I headed back to Cataract Park from the flash-mob and started on this series, before she had to be back on-site to sing. As a Scout and now a Scout Leader (and Ju being a Rover and now a Leader as well) it is great to see this series - TFTC

Staying at Cataract Park for the OZ Geomuster with whitewebbs we found these caches and this was one we found.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found while enjoying the *2019 OzGeomuster - The Gong*. OCW *Throsbyonchurch* who found the cache previously. As we were down here for the lab cache we stopped to sign the log for me. TFTH.

OCW PDG, EH, BR & IP. TFTC h.j.smith!

Day 9 of our “mum and kids adventure” holiday saw us head down to Cataract Dam to do the Lab Adventure and collect some scouting caches. Yah for nice quick finds. Many thanks for the cache.

Day two of my Geomuster Mega weekend. After breakfast Quiz and Reviewer Talk, caught up with friends and headed out to get to the lighthouse for the Flashmob. We then went for caches on the way. Went with dghoffy to find the physical logs and signed as TTT (Trans Tasmin Team).
Unfortunately we did so many in the one day I haven’t done individual logs for all of the caches but know they were all in good condition. Thank you for putting these out, made for a fun day.
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:
20 years of geocaching worldwide.
20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
And it's 2020 - all the 20s!
Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of this event - you won't want to miss it!

OCW MaxAdventurer and Everest High and Boogierogue. Doing the power trail by the Oz Mega. Tftc

TFTC

Found while at the Geomuster, TFTC!

12879 Found and Logged at 1:05:00 PM
Out and about caching after setting up camp at the Cataract Scout Park for GeoMuster
Thanks for the cache h.j.smith
Lgoody

In town for the geomuster. Even though this was one listed as disabled on my list, I noticed that it had been logged a few times over the weekend. So off I went to find it - excellent to see a cache there!

Out for the day at the mega, so grabbed a few caches nearby. All found OK.

Thanks,

Found with Firesafe while attending to 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

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 h.j.smith

Teamed up with Natalie247 and Hinemona from NZ, and called ourselves Trans tasman team signing as TTT. Handy series to the camp so a few quick caches added to our days tally. Tftc

Down from Brisbane for the OZGM, grabbing a carefully compiled list of caches, while enjoying all that the Illawarra has to offer.

Though disabled, there was a container in place when I visited.

---

Log signed at 15:31 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **h.j.smith**. This log is trackable.

.........@__,
/|___||_/__________|\
\\_______/_TGQNRV_/
~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~

[ GC675G1 ]
Found it YAY
I made a quick day trip to Appin for the MEGA mostly, I think thats #7, and thats awesome !
Many thanks to all who made this Event possible, and great to see some familiar faces as always ! - and soooo glad the rain held off.
Missing all this caching fun, its hard finding the time, here's hoping this year has many more finds.

[green] - Found It on [ 6/07/19 ] ... at [ 4:19 PM ]... [/green]

TFTC! - [blue][ Wilbert67 ][/blue] ...
--
[blue] This log was posted with GCDroid, on Android![/blue]

2nd Mega evet and first one away at the Oz Geomuster Mega at Cataract (the Gong). Highlight for today was the group visit to the “Dark Side of the Moon”. Most of the caching today was with my geo buddies mtrax and StrangeTrousers. Had been looking forward to this for a while. Met new geocachers at the trivia night and even at parkrun before we headed off to the fun in the tunnel at the “Dark Side of the Moon.” The day was topped off with a trivia night and more people to meet and a chance to catch up with old friends too.

TFTC h.j.smith

decided to tackle this series of trads while out and about completing the cataract lab series. Some great hides along here, always nice to find a few ammo cans! Found the replacement container someone has left at some point.

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 to h.j.smith for placing this Regular Traditional cache for us to find. This is find 1313 for BFMC.

out and about with AussieBen for the Mega Weekend doing lots of caches in the area thanks for maintaining and your contribution to the game

this cache was kindly replaced for the mega with a 200ml sistema container you might like to re enable this cache

Found your cache today. h.j.smith, thank you so much for placing it.

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

#7216. I came over to Australia a week ago and have had a great time caching in Sydney and Canberra. Today it was Mega day. Should have been the highlight of the trip but alas technology seriously let me down. Both my GPS units went offline for about 4-5 hours from 10 am before working again without a hitch for rest of the trip. The phone totally refused to upload the Adventure Lab app and with Groundspeak now making that a mandatory way to log lab caches I was sunk. Gathered codes at the shed but couldn't do anything with them. Very frustrating and not thinking kind thoughts about our geocaching masters in Seattle at the moment. Anyway flagged away doing other Mega activities and just went back to the basics - finding geocaches. Off to pick up the Jamboree series. Having fun grabbing these. So many other cachers out on the trail so its quite sociable geocaching. Not quite a case of lining up to sign but certainly easy to locate as others emerge from the scrub. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here h.j.smith.

In the area to attend the OzMuster so couldn't pass up doing these as we had completed the nearby series quicker than we expected.
Thanks for the information and for placing these for us to find.

Teamed up with Natalie247 and dghoffy for a day's caching under the alias of Trans Tasman Team (TTT). Great fun, and awesome to have a bit of team work! TFTC!!!

#5225 9th for today

Day two of the Oz Geomuster Mega at Cataract (the Gong). Caching with mtrax and CBRChic and various others. Several highlights today, the voyage into the dark for "Dark Side of the Moon" as well as the Trivia Event at the mega itself. In between we did lab caches and adventure caches with varying success. Weather was a bit drizzly early on, but lovely & warm the rest of the day. Met lots of great cachers out doing what they do & back at the mega gz.


Thanks h.j.smith

After registration at the Mega, one of our first targets for the day was the Jamboree series. They had some attraction for us as our two boys were active in scouts and attended some jamborees in Victoria. Accurate coordinates and a good geotrail led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks h.j.smith for the cache.

Thank you to the previous geocache we met at #8 for achrive this cache

Thanks for the cache, and trail. Out caching for the day with kingfisher_au. Down for the ozgeomuster , thanks for bringing me here.

Here now at the Oz Geomuster and out grabbing the event caches and few of the others TFTC

A new container and log has been placed and is available. TNLNSL TFTC

Seems this one has been muggled. I will be able to replace it in mid June. Damn.

As previously stated no sign of a cache. I found a geotrail in and spotted and photographed a likely spot. Even saw some discarded camo. If CO wants I can forward the photo to confirm.

Oldmorty and I searched but couldn't find anything of a regular size here.
I'm afraid it may be missing.

Last finder has muggled this one

ahahah

Ammunition

#294
Down at Cataract Scout Park today for the gear packing and collection of merchandise for the upcoming 25th Jamboree in Adelaide.

Thanks h.j.smith for this great series. I did not complete them all. I will have to complete the rest when I am next at the camp.

Down in and around the southern highlands for a few days and trying to rack up a few numbers with the kids.

This Scouting series was a good way to break up the drive from Newcastle. Apologies for the generic logs but when you find 20 in an hour they tend to get a bit that way!

After doing the ones on the main road it was nice to feel much safer with the kids. Geotrails are VERY obvious along this stretch.

Where’d 11 go?!? Ha ha

TNLN TFTC

Tftc

Easy park and grab. Tftc