Chifley Dam The Lagoon, New South Wales, Australia
By Noonie1990 on 10-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6RRA9

I managed to walk straight past this one before coming back past then it jumped out at me, nice hide blends in wellThanks jNoonie1990 for the cache

Found

Catching up with late logs.We are traveling with Geoturtle 37, Papi4506 & The Drovers to do an assault on Bathurst and surrounds. We solved all the puzzles we could before we left home which was also an enjoyable part of this journey.We had a great time today doing a southerly loop picking up any caches that came up on the map finding all types of cache sizes and hides but unfortunately we have got behind in our logging and are trying to catch up now.We can no longer remember the caches individually so we apologize for the generic log, it's certainly not meant to take anything away from our experience, it's just the old minds just ain't what they used to be.We signed the logs as The Mob.Many thanks for adding this piece to the game board for our enjoyment.

Day 2 of our Bathurst trip with Team Crackers, Geoturtle37 & Papi4506.Today we did a lot of country driving, through nearby towns.The scenery was lovely with the trees turning a multitude of different colours for winter.All puzzles were solved before the trip.This is one of the caches we stopped to find along the way.A quick search and the cache was located, signed and replaced.Many thanks for placing this cache, Noonie1990, for us and others to find.

There are some very new signs at GZ so one of the crew replaced the whole cache. Thanks for bringing us here.

Hmmm ... I looked and looked on both similar-looking possibilities ... but no luck. Given the photo, I thought it would be an obvious find. Either I got a DNF because I could not see up to the second possible hiding spot, or maybe because the whole object has been replaced??? (it's pretty shiny and new looking).I even had a look around the area, but with the three major storms we've had in the area lately, there is little chance it didn't get washed away.In the area for a few more days ... will check back before leaving and perhaps I just missed it.TFTC ...

No luck today

TFTC

TFTC

Found

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House sitting in Bathurst, of course, includes Geocaching!

Quickly done. Replaced log sheet.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 12:31 PM on January 2, 2023. TFTC, Noonie1990

Travelling and caching with RoddyC to Canberra & Bathurst before returning home.

Nice quick find.

Happy New Year everyone.

TFTCache Noonie1990

Last for the day, easy find but watch out for white tails. TFTC

Quick park and grab. TFTC

Quick and easy find with Roomar_S while in the area for work and play. TFTC!

Having fun exploring the area with Irol_22. TFTC

Nice hide

Quick find with Rainbow Bears after driving the wrong way! TFTC

Quick find after getting lost on the way to Mayfield Gardens. TFTC

Thanks for the cache, all looks to be in good order.

Quick find. TFTC

Easy find even though no mobile coverage. Thank goodness for my Garmin GPS thingie that I use for times like this! TFTC.

A nice easy find to earn a 2/2/22 souvenir TFTC

Found with Hintonites...please put log in lid...makes it easier for the next

Found with Sixftundernover whilst on covid deployment with RFS

Log all squished...needs replacing...found with Hintonites

Found by geokid C, needed tweezers to get log out as it was pushed right in.
TFTC

Quite a small cache…but easy find! TFTC!

Tftc

An easy find, thanks.

#5874-Found with thomo31 while in the area. Thanks

Found with WaywardWoman while caching in the area. TFTC

Not where I expected

Tftc noonie1990, on our way to the dam for a look. Made the find, lots of log paper

Easy grab

Great Cache! Easy find

On our way to the dam.
Find number 201.
MASSIVE SPIDER guarding cache! Be careful!!

Gotcha tftc

Signed it. Nice cycle

After finding the dam closed for all water activities we decided to grab this one on the way out.

TNLN Sl TFTC

NIce quick find tftc

Easy find TFTC

Found 21.7.19 - Zac and Emma
Great cache !!

Sign your life away! Good easy find thank you

Nice easy one

Nice and easy TFTC, make sure you check out my geocaching instagram @tresure_hunter905

Found on our 2 week trip to Bathurst and surrounds with Roostaman.
Many nice trails, scenery and lush pastures around here.
Thanks for the cache Noonie1990,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 24031** Found on another fine sunny Autumn day with MrsRoosta.
Another trip around while at Bathurst for a few days.
Mainly good safe hides and nice quick finds.
Sadly, this place is becoming the micro and nano capital.
Thanks for the cache Noonie1990,
***Roostaman***

None of the above happening this morning
Too wet and miserable for people to be out of bed.
So I enjoyed a quiet cache find on the way to the dam

TFTC.

Caching with oldmorty and marj01.
(Log signed OMF to save space).
TFTC Noonie1990.

OCW frazerdaze and marj01. House sitting at White Rock for a week has provided an opportunity to do some geocaching runs around Bathurst - mainly TRLT series indispersed with a number of trads and puzzle caches. During the day we saw lovely scenery, lots of sheep and cattle, a few foxes and one deer in the forestry area. We even encountered fire persons doing a burn off which included two of the caches we were chasing. Please excuse the generic logs and thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches and adding to our enjoyment. For expediency all logs were signed OMF.

On a big weekend caching with oldmorty and Frazeydaze and logs have signed OMF.
Would like to thank all cache owners, for making and maintaining the caches.

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

The dam is only half full but looks good

Hill End and Mudgee weekend April 2018. I set out late on Thursday after a small car battery issue. I only stopped once before a night at Bummeroo ford. Friday took me to Orange via many spread out caches between Oberon and Bathurst. I spent the night at Macquarie woods. Saturday started foggy and then warmed up. I was heading to Hill end, and did make it, but I had to give up on the Bridle track due to a rockfall. Late in the evening I did find a spot along the Turon river and the very bumpy northern section of the Bridle trail. Sunday had me finishing the TRLT trail from Mudgee to Gulgong and a few missed ones in the middle of nowhere. The last day was a simple drive home from Sofala. A great weekend !

Plenty of roadside stops today. I had to wait for a council worker doing some mowing in a big tractor to move on before dealing with this one.

Thanks.

24918.8 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 International Womens Day A#343

**Albida**

Bathurst Day 2
Todays trip was round trip out to Chiffley Dam then home via the PGP caches.
We saw lots of farming land along some dirt back roads. Found some good caches in interesting locations.
Thanks for placing this cache Noonie1990

We have had a wonderful time caching around Bathurst and on the back roads, love the rural scenery. This was one of the caches we targetted and found. Thanks to Noonie1990 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Found with nissan 65 on a few days away caching. Day 2 of our 4 day rd trip. Shame about the weather but it wont stop the keen cachers. Thankyou for the cache .

Found with cullum68 on a few days off thanks for the cache

14807. Found during a tour up around the Bathurst region with minniek.

With a full day available for a caching run for my birthday we headed up towards Bathurst to fill in many gaps and have a great days caching. This was the next find for the day. A nice quick easy drive-by fine - love it. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then we were off to the next one.

Thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

I suggest to fitzy_1965 that we should go caching for his birthday. He chose the Bathurst area. So with a list compiled, my only request was to grab some unloved caches so I could finally complete a challenge cache. We managed to fill in a lot of gaps and some previous DNF's.....although I think we ended up with more DNF's for the day

Quick find here today....now to go finds some trigs!

Tftc

Quick find tftc

Quick fInd TFTH

This weekend was all about ticking off caches we don't normally get near, so we managed to rack up just under 700 kms doing so. An easy find thanks. Was hardly a ripple on the water today.

I walked around one end and Toriaz walked around the other. By chance, she was at the correct end, so she made the find. We took a brief look at the dam, also, where we kayaked last year to find a long unloved cached called Pirate's Treasure. It was a good experience. Thanks

#4,807

There was huge spider at GZ. One of those big flat ones that you find when you move a picture in your house, or when you look in your mailbox. I'm not fond of them. I may even be known to scream and refuse to open the mailbox ever again, but I managed to cope today. Helped that I only saw him after I had already found the cache.

Thanks

I was distracted and searching elsewhere till the GPS settled for an easy find.

TFTC.

After much deliberation and comparing of diaries, The Rats, Steeba and I eventually found a weekend that we could all commit to completing the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, along with some caching in Bathurst (which was actually the scene of our first combined geocaching trip nine years ago!). A last minute trip overseas for me cropped up; but I arranged it so that I could fly home just in time to not miss out on this caching extravaganza.

Friday night we headed to Abercrombie River via Goulburn (from Wollongong), and camped at the campsite there. Saturday saw us drive the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, ending up in Bathurst right on dinner time. We then found some local caches before staying at a friend's house for the night. On Sunday we headed back out to Oberon for some more caches and then did a couple of loops around Bathurst. We had originally planned to stay Sunday night, but once we clicked over 300 finds for the weekend the inspiration started to wane, and we all agreed to turn our heads for home.

Cheers

Nothing beats a "road trip". My find count had been suffering from the "rest of life" getting in the way of caching so along with Steeba and Hoojar a plan was hatched to go "beyond the Great Divide". The 2nd half of the TRLT looked to be the obvious solution. Under perfect skies and with gps loaded we hit the dirt roads.

Day 2 of our caching trip and we were out on the roads again. We headed to Oberon and some of the back roads around Bathurst before getting a few more caches in Bathurst. By days end we’d put a good dint in our "beyond the Great Divide" so decided to head for home. Thanks to all the CO’s of the caches we found along the way. Apologises for the template style log but with 300 finds for the weekend each container begins to look the same.

TFTC

The Rats, Hoojar and myself made for the wider Bathurst area for a weekend finding some of TRLT series of caches.

The whole area was quite green and recent rains had meant the grass had exploded everywhere and was 3 or 4 foot high around many of the caches.

Not only did we find plenty of TRLT, there were many 'History of' caches found amongst others. Thanks to all the hiders. TFTC!

Just spending a short time in the Bathurst region and decided to add some more smiley faces to our map.
None of the caches we looked for were difficult to find and there was a variety of sizes and types of hides. This was a really quick park and grab as there was no other place it could be. Thanks to Noonie1990 for bringing us to the Chifley Dam area.

Quick park and grab on the way to the dam.

TFTC Noonie1990
Find 5173 logged from c:geo.

TFTC

found it

A few years ago there was a cache in this spot, so it was a good quick find of this one today. TFTc Noonie1990.

Quick find in the obvious place in company with KellickGuider, Apsley 168 and Yvonne5 today. TFTC

Easy find - been here before as well. TFTC

First geocaching run to run in and test to the new Garmin 64ST before the upcoming surf coast Mega Event
we did a top run out through some very lush looking country side, totally awesome i reckon, the 64ST performed perfectly as did the rest of our gear we will be a force to contend with in two weeks time
many thanx to all the cache placers as we had a ball doing your caches, nice and easy they all were, we look forward to more please till then cheers from The Routers

Very glad this one is easier than the former Routers cache that was here. TFTC

Stopped for the cache and then went onto the dam for morning tea. TFTC

Nice and easy, but i wish finders would put logs for bison tubes in THE LID! TFTC

Went for a drive to see the full dam and remembered this had been placed not long ago. Turned on the phone and at 1.3 km away the phone died. Had a rough idea of where to look so keep the hunt going.

Arrived at what I hoped was GZ and made a super quick find. A few comments ensued as to my luckiness as I signed the log.

SL TFTC

Published

[FTF]. Quick find in obvious place. Cache all good. Tftc.