St Aloysius & St Luke's- The Oaks History #6 The Oaks, New South Wales, Australia
By Dragons2010 on 11-May-16. Waypoint GC6HHR2

Quick and easy TFTC

Very creative and exciting! Thanks for the great cache

Found with CutieGuyCherry! Excited to find two caches in The Oaks today

Finally got this one, every time we come here it is very busy, but today we finally made the grab. TFTC

Quick find. Thanks for maintaining this cache.

Quick find second effortTFTC

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A geocheck reveals case has been muggled. surprisingly magnet is still there. New cache container put in, please replace as found. Good to go

Oi looked ind oi looked ind oi could not foind eet!So whats new!!Thanks Dragons2010

Visited this area with goingplaces2 to gather some more caches to add to the tally. Easy find. TFTC.

A drive south with ilook4geo was organised to collect some caches for the day. We have been caching around this area for quite a while and we were happy to find enough caches, even though it was hot. This one was a quick find and the log was soon signed and replaced as found. Thanks go to Dragons2010 for placing a cache here.

Quick find as container was sticking out.

Nice! Tftc Thanks Hambourne for the swag. Also left swag for the next person.

We found the treasure, left something special for the next person.

Found it
TFTC

TFTC - coordinates had me fooled for a few minutes but was in the right spot in no time

Sneaky spot. Great job

Fun day out caching & Ad labbing. Didn't take too long to find nearing the end of the day.

Didn’t take too long to find here. Loving exploring the area getting caches and ad labs along the way. Tftc

Took longer to remove the log from zip bag and sort out signing and return log than the find

Clever find

A quick find while I was finding some caches in the area. TFTC.

30,031. Found during an invasion of the 'Bargo up to Penrith' region on the Canberra Day long weekend with a great bunch of Cachers.

With the Canberra Day long weekend upon us, a number of Canberra region Cachers performed an invasion of the Bargo up to Penrith area. Canberra Day Invasion 2023 (signed as CDI23) consisted of minniek, Joolay, Kittykatch, isopeda, barb2e, albida33, smittengranny, Nibbletricecakes, GLISS!, Contesta, EverestHigh and myself. After half the group did a nearby 2001 Multi, we all caught up and hit the trail for many many caches. This was the next CDI23 find. Nice little mini-series and a quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off to the next one on the list.

Thanks Dragons2010 !!

Canberra Day long weekend.... what's better than going away and caching with friends.

We had quite a group come up for one, two, three, or four days: barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, Contesta and Smittengranny and also EverestHigh, who caught up with us after the first few caches on the day.
We signed as CDI23 (Canberra Day Invasion 2023)

It was nice to explore a region I had only sped through before.

TFTC

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

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 and MinnieK. Tftc

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.

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!

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.

Thanks for the cache Dragons2010

40418.28 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & State Medallion - California A#227

**Albida**

Found It!
A quick find here today after a DNF about 6 months ago.
TFTC

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 Dragons2010

Find #7463

Nice day out some some caching in the Picton area with a great group of CBR cachers. Signed as CDI23 - Canberra Day Invasion. isopeda, barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Gliss!, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, contesta, and Smittengranny.

Thanks so much Dragons2010 for getting me out and about and enjoying this area

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.

Quick find at accurate coords. OCW CDI23. TFTC Dagons2010

Found after a lovely drive to the dam.
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 Dragons2010

Easy find in a lovely spot thankyou

I was digging around in the bark for a while and then I got it

Log and cache replaced., safely in its spot. hopefully will stay there. Good to go again.

No luck for me today. All I found was a single magnet stuck low on a side fence. DNF.

Found a while ago but forgot to log.

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Thank you

Found by Scott .

Nice camo , had to tie my shoelaces. Lovely area .TFTC

Log replaced, sealed up and now good to go

Unfortunately the log is damp after our rain this week. But other than that. All good. Thanks

Found it

TFTC

Nice and quick

Holy moly what a find!

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Found!!!

Thanks for the find.

A quick find while in town tackling an Adventure Lab. Thanks for showing me this old church Dragons2010.

Just catching up on logs. Found with TanCan20, my 200th find! TFTC!

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No luck with this one

OCW the Bebes. Nice quick find. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin

Decided to get out of the city for the afternoon, lovely to explore this pretty area.

Lovely church

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Took a little too long to find this one but that was my issue.

Thanks Dragons2010

I went on a Sunday but luckily the afternoon. Nice quite street which made it a Quick grab

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Out for a day of caching with Geofam. on a nice sunny Sunday. Was a bit busy late sunday morning here as should be expected. Came back later after searching oaks for other caches to find the grounds free of muggles. Found rather quick with the clues. TFTC.

Thought we’d take a Sunday drive to The Oaks. Number 6 find for the day with lots of muggles around. Found with Gundrills, KnightJR and Panda_Girl65 (signed G, K, M & P). TFTC

TFTC. Well hidden

New log put in, as original was a bit wet, good to go

Heading over to the oaks for a couple of caches in the area tonight with Mizcupcake. We didnt het too far tonight because of the chill in the wind but did try a couple of caches. Parking the geomobile close to the historic house and admiring it for a couple of minutes, we made our way over to gz. Starting at gz we went opposite directions in a systematic search and I was the one to come up with CIH. This was a quick and easy one to add to our found list. TFTC!

I forgot to mention in my previous post. The container needs maintenance. *log is wet* Mizcupcake and I were unable to sign the log as the whole thing was drenched. We didnt even take it out of the plastic. Picture as proof of find. TFTC!

Out with Littl3Vix tonight and this one took a little bit longer than it should have. Littl3Vix made the find but the logbook was too damp to sign. Photo attached as proof. Thanks for the cache!

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Second time here - the first time we had just started our search when we realised the next door neighbour was gardening right next to GZ! We beat a hasty retreat back to the car! Thankfully today the coast was clear and we made a quick find! Tftc!

Good spot

Nice spot. Love the old buildings near by.

Repairs carried out to cache, put back in original position as had moved a bit, good to go

The old building across the road love it.

Many churches in this area. Old building across the road is lovely.

After going inside I spotted something and was then able to make the find from the outside! TFTC!

Found

JP+JW

Nice hide! Kids had been looking for ages...something just a little out of place

Second time

Couldn’t find any magnetic cache. Maybe not there anymore?

Place hand on then maybe it wasnt but it was

I was looking in all the wrong places but misspalot's geohusband was on top of this one and found it. We were watched closely by the neighbours and some cleaners of St Lukes, but we made a reasonably quick getaway. TFTC

I hadn't noticed the update to this cache since I found it early on so I was a bit surprised when the wrong container was found in the wrong place. While the search was in progress a couple who had apparently been cleaning inside St Luke's took interest in what we were up to but not much interest, and left.

Awesome spot!

not find

Nice one

Streak Day #2327 - Quick find with Dave8153. TFTC

24 November 2019
This is find number: 3789
Streak Day: 1438

Found today with Snoopy1976 while caching in the area. Thanks

Thanks to Dragons2010 for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Afternoon drive cache grabbing.
TFTC Dragons2010

I needed to get out of the house last week so I wouldn't go nuts and needed some peace and quiet... Out to the west!

TFTC. Also captured the pokegym!

Nice park and grab. TFTC

Found it

Ez Pz

Not too hard to find.

It is almost 2 years since I DNFed this.
Armed with the memory of GZ I knew where to search and used toes for down low and fingers for up high until I spotted part of the cache peeking out from its hidey hole.
TFTC

Very quick find. Thanks.