Taralga Trek: NSWPDT Tarlo, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 24-Apr-17. Waypoint GC74HFP

Trying hard to clean up the remaining caches in and around Goulburn. TFTC

Exploring the Goulburn region today we took the opportunity to stop here. This cache was a straightforward find in the obvious location. Container and log in good condition.Thanks!

Fun caching in this region today. Great weather in a lovely location. TFTC gazza959!

TFTC. Quick find. Lovely day for a drive.

Our day started at 7 am. We were dressed and in the car, ready to head down towards Goulburn with the specific goal in mind of completing as many of the Taralga Trek caches as possible. We arrived at our first cache just after 8 am and completed our journey at 5 pm. We attempted 59 caches in total. Sadly, 6 turned out to be DNFs. Throughout the day, we had to battle the wind to keep our feet on the ground. Despite that, the views from most locations and the journey in between were great. We stopped in at Taralga Hotel and had a delicious lunch between the legs of our adventure. Given the sheer volume of finds today, my logs are pretty generic unless there was something interesting to add. ABOUT THIS CACHE: Quick find. Everything was in good condition. Log signed, and everything was returned as found.TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Reperio 20:18Today I headed down to Canberra to catch a flight to Adelaide for the upcoming mega event, and managed to pick up a few caches this afternoon along the way before finding somewhere to sleep for the night. This one was found after a short search at GZ. Gratias gazza959As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

#7126- another dead animal, this time a skinned kangaroo, made for a quick find and exit. Found with thomo31. Thanks

Found with WaywardWoman. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

A bit whiify nearby.tftc

Found with sebass19 on an awesome day on the Taralga Trek. We started at about 9:30am and starting heading back towards Canberra at 4pm. All up, 46 caches for the day which is great considering there were a couple of hard ones and DNFs. Very cold and windy day but the drive in this beautiful picturesque rural area was well worth it and the company made it even greater. We had beautiful BBQ pork ribs at the Taralga Hotel which made for a great chance to sit down and have a relax. Awesome effort from all the COs in this area!

Bit a walk to this one from the safest parking spot. Quick find at GZ. TNLNSL. TFTC gazza959!

Find#4893
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in NSW and grab some old caches. TFTC.
Nice quick find.

G'day, Gazza. I'm up here today for a day of caching to try to make 1000 finds for the year. I'm sitting on 842 find so far, and I'm hoping for about 80 today. I ended up with forty-one, mostly yours. I've had a good day. I've enjoyed the caches, and had a great drive in the country. I now have no chance of getting to 1000 for the year because of christmas / new Year commitments. never mind, it will still be my second best year of caching, providing I get to 895 finds. Today gets me to 882, so I should make it OK. This was an easy find. Thanks, Gazza.

Watch out for the ants

More to cone

Tftc! Park and grab

TFTC Quick easy find here today.

Grateful thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining so many great caches to entertain me on my journey.

After visiting Mount Gray and completing an Adventure Lab in the morning, we decided to head towards Taralga to see part of the area we had not visited previously and to look for the caches placed along the roadside.

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks gazza959 for this cache and the part of the series we visited today.

#11326 - 8:50:00 AM; Set out on a cold but sunny morning with Sol de lune and Smittengranny on a caching mission north to Taralga then west to Laggan and Crookwell. Seventy three caches found and three DNFs for the day. Logs signed LL, Sdl and SG or similar. Most caches were found without incident and apart from a few soggy logs, were in good condition. A chilly wind came up just before noon, but didn't detract from an excellent day's caching. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC gazza959

On this sunny cool Sunday morning I was out caching for the day with Sol de Lune and LuckyL10n. Our main target were the caches along the roads through Taralga, Laggan, Crookwell to Gunning and home to Canberra again. We started this series here as it had been decided to get out of town a bit as we could grab the others at a later date.

We took it turn to jump out and grab and sign the logs, though on occasions all three of us were out searching. Thanks for this series gazza959. All logs were signed with some combination of LSS.

A day out caching with Smittengranny and LuckyL10n up to Taralga, Crookwell and Gunning before heading home to Canberra. A great day for caching, even with the wind being a tad cool...

Lots of caches found today and this was our next one. No issues at all and our names were soon in the log.

Thanks gazza959 for the history and showing us the area.

Quick find on freezing heading to Oberon. TFTC

Ghost Gang

Nice find, along side dead brown snake on the road.. logged ghost gang

Found on previous phone

Found him

Tftc quick park and grab

Checked, OK

Cache was out in the open so sighed and covered. TFTC

Thanks good cache

Thank you we hit this from Goulburn right up - what a great way to spend the day, everything was nice and green. Thank you for the cache.

We based ourselves in quaint Binda last night and apart from a horrific storm which inncluded hail (not happy with dents in car) it proved to be a good base for many of the geocaches in the area. The countryside is looking awesome and we enjoyed the rural location, wonderful views and history. Thanks to gazza959 for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

On our way home from the St Arnuad Mega, decided to complete this series. Quick find, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to gazza959.

TFTC,
Completed the second half of this power trail in January 18 when we were washed out trying this first part.
Back today and again looking forward to morning tea at Tarago.

Tftc - found it on the ground but put it in a good place

Day 4 of KmanNZ's VIC,NSW,ACT roadtrip of 2019.

Today had me on the old tourist road between Bathurst and Cooma.
A lot of smoke in the air from the fires over the hills. Met a caching couple in Taralga and found 41 caches.

Find #31

A quick find here and back on the road.

Thanks

#3469

A nice old carthorse (?), large with white legs and big feet was snorting his interest nearby. Nice and easy, thanku.

Decided to take a drive to Goulburn, along the back roads.
Picked up caches along the way, and this was one of them.
Signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, gazza959, for us and others to find.

Travelling from Bathurst to Batemans Bay. Couldnt resist stopping for a cache. Tdrc

On a trip from Canberra to Gilgandra and back collecting answers to windmill caches. A quick find, thanks gazza959.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH *Gazza959* [^]

TFTC

Travelling from Orange to Goulburn today, and enjoying this trail, on a breezy day. Thank you for cache

Staying in Goulburn for two nights and today we decided to do the Taralga Trek and Taralga Trek Too caches. Many thanks to the CO/s for placing these caches and showing us around your area.

jojoo57 and I are visiting the Goulburn area and today we decided to do the Taralga Trek and Taralga Trek Too caches. Thoroughly enjoyed travelling the countryside and finding these caches. TFTC

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
Thanks for the placement

Thanks gazza959 for the good trail.
Found with woolwood9 - we had a fun time hunting these caches.

A quick stop and grab here,
as befitting the location nearby

TFTC on me way to Goulburn today.
Hey !! I'm here !!

TFTC

On our way to Queanbeyan Mega, caching along the way. Staying close by decided to grab a couple of caches. Log may be stamped Coongoola or small logs signed CG. SL

Thanks for placing this cache gazza959

AngelG27, Tankengine and I decided to hit the trails near Canberra to pick up some numbers. It was an awesome team - TEs driving skills, AngelG27s food delights and I guess I was just there for my sparkling personality??? Anyway it was a great day out and I loved being with my friends.

Trails aren't my favourite way to cache, but doing it with friends makes it not so bad. I have to admit too that a lot of the caches on this trail were also a little different than just a mint tin or sistema under a rock and so for a powertrail this was a nice one.

All the caches were in good order and the coords were good enough to find the cache - unless otherwise mentioned. Tftc gazza959!!!

Cache 4804 on 10 Mar 2019.

What is not to love about a long weekend - an extra day to go caching! I have a goal to reach 5000 caches at the QBN mega, so a few extra cache trips are required. Power trails are not my favourite type of caching, but doing them with caching buddies makes them bearable! So Tankengine, dty73 and myself headed toward the Taralga series today for some numbers.

TE has most of them already so he was driving, and giving us such useful advice! We also picked up other caches along the way, well why not! All caches found in good order and according to the hint, unless otherwise indicated.

This cache: quick find

Thanks gazza959 for the cache and the fun!

Our goal today was to cache the Taralga Trek from Goulburn to Taralga before continuing on to the Wombeyan Caves. It was a lovely drive and we enjoyed the scenery. We saw a few kangaroos and did some birding at the various stops along the way. Many thanks to the CO for having laid the trail. This one was a nice quick find once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Nice dry cache. Thank you

#3378 In the area today from Canberra. Found a total of 25. Great placement. TFBMH gazza959.

A quick park and grab. Tftc.

Having a couple of hours to fill I opted to head out for a little solo caching.
Taralga Road looked interesting to this Brisbanite so off I set.
Totalled 30 finds in just over 2 hours, not too bad for an old fella! LOL …

I had the misfortune of stopping right in the middle of an ants nest when I arrived here.
The ants were NOT that impressed. LOL …
I then realised I was looking for a cache that bordered the Police shooting range … what a great day this is shaping up to be!
Luckily another nice quick find so goodbye ants & Police!
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC gazza959

I'm out today to rack up numbers. Found quickly as it was out in the open. Moved back to clue position. In good condition. Tftc

#10032 @0844
The start of a 3 day drive to the Sunshine Coast, The first goal of the day was to find 50+ caches, each at least 1km apart for a [NZ challenge cache](https://coord.info/GC3QY6Q). This series helped to achieve that goal. Due to the distance limitation, I only found every 3rd or 4th cache, so will back to complete the series another time. All easily found. TFTC.

Found with Sneakysquirrel 3325, after. I dragged him out of town for some evening caching.

TFTC!

3102 31 August 2018
Staying at Crookwell with Mrs Aries and hoping to grab some caches especially the Taralga series, with our friends The Neighbs and SESBlocker. Nice days with chilly nights.

TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959

Find No.3269
Found with sesblocker, Aries44 and Mrs Aries. The rain is fair consistent today.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 12:07 pm

A quick find on a cold and rainy afternoon!
TFTC

International Geocaching Day today so Joolay and I headed out to grab a bunch of caches. Goulburn parkrun first and then caching. Finished off the Taralga series and grabbed some others on our list. TFTC

Out and about with Kittykatch and decided to go back to finish the Taralga Trail. It was a very chilly, windy day to be out and about but still good to see some country views. We knew there was some rain about and for some got a bit damp but mostly beat the rain. Thanks for getting us out and about.

New log supplied.

Log full, needs replacing.

#5,515

One of the ones we had to run over the road to find.

A fair few of the caches in this series need a new log. We, like a few other people before us, signed sideways on the paper. Sorry, if I was in my old car, I would have had a stack of replacement logs I could have added, but I only picked up this new car yesterday & didn't put my cache maintenance kit in it yet.

Thanks

We were driving north, so we pulled over, crossed the road and made a quick find here. This cache could do with a new log. Thanks

Needing a concentrated area to tick off enough smileys to make a dent in the Mythical Creatures challenge, k.e-a26 joined me for a “quick” run around Goulburn, Taralga and Crookwell. Sun shining, wind icy but enough PnGs and by nightfall we had ticked off 50 finds. When I had passed along this road a year ago, I had been more intent on tackling TRLT (south) than starting this, at the time, partially completed power trek, but after an impromptu invite recently for the Trek Too section with HappyUke, decided to return today and finally tick off the north/south run. It’s common to not read full descriptions during a powertrail so glad to figure out what PDT meant as we approached.

Driving past this location and the acronym soon made sense. An exchange of do you want to go, want me to go, saw us both jumping out of the vehicle in search of the cache. Soon enough the smile was claimed and we were off to our next find.

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A massive day was planned to clean up the area around Goulburn and do all of the Taralga trek. Started with a parkrun in Goulburn and then took the clockwise loop to Crookwell, Laggan, Taralga and back to Goulburn. Weather wasn't really on my side, cold and partly wet, but no soaking rain so I pushed through. Great caches and a good series with lots of different containers and hiding spots. I had a great day, thanks to all the cache owners for putting out the caches.
TFTC Wilbert67

The Rats, steeba and Hoojar once again teamed up for another fun day of caching in the highlands. With our intended target being the Taralga Trek we made our way to Goulburn late on Saturday where we grabbed a few local caches before heading out to Peejar Dam where a very chilly night was spent under the stars. Sunday had us snaking our way around the Upper Lachalan area of Crrokwell and Taragla before heading back to Wollongong to complete our 24 hour adventure.


Thanks to all the CO's for your cache placement, they added to gtreat day out with the boys.

Out and about on a 24-hour spree with The Rats and Steeba. We headed down to Goulburn on Saturday night to grab a few of the local caches that we had not yet collected, and then out to Peejar to spend a cool night under the stars. Sunday morning we went into Crookwell for breakfast, before following the Trek series into Taralga, and back to Goulburn. Finally we headed for home via a few more caches in the Highlands.

I ended up with a touch over 100 caches in the 24 hours away from home (100 was my goal, as I work towards 10,000). Some excellent caches were found. Thanks to all of the caches owners for their efforts.



Cheers

Another little caching sojourn with The Rats and Hoojar- not quite a weekend away but with a night out. We started in the darkness in Goulburn before camping at Pejar, into Croowell in the morning then across to Taralga and back to Goulburn via the Taralga Trek. Some nice countryside! Then back to Goulburn and slowly made our way back via the highlands and a few more find.

TFTC!

OCW Stumble'sMate today for an epic geocaching trip. As usual, our day was alot longer than anticipated but that's what you get when you geocache. Sorry for the delay in logging! TFTC all. Not in a souped up geomobile today to go play, unfortunately.

OCW StumbleTrip today. Our aim was to do the trip between Goulburn, Taralga, Laggan, Crookwell and back Goulburn. All up we attempted 67 caches of which 4 were DNF's. Time wise we took way longer than we had calculated but then we didn't really have a time limit! Thanks to the cache owners for placing all the caches we attempted today!

#11274 Found and Logged at 7:17:00 AM
One of 68 cachers for the day on the roads less traveled from Goulburn to Taralga then Laggon and Crookwell then back to Goulburh
A great day to be out caching
Thanks for the cache / series gazza959
Lgoody

Another quick find on the TT track out to Pluto. Interesting location.
Full logbook, but otherwise in good condition.
TFTC

Found on a drive around from Goulburn to Taralga to Laggan to Crookwell and back to Goulburn. TFTC and for the series.

Found with Roostaman while visiting the area.
Thanks for the cache.

**# 20661** Found on the start of our mega adventure to ACT, NSW, QLD and beyond.
Today was a good day for a drive to Taralga with Tassie Trekkers.
Lots of muggles around today and a good variety of hides.
Thanks for the cache and the series gazza959,
***Roostaman***

Heading to Morrisset for the Mega we picked up a few caches along the way with Roostaman and this was one of them.

While staying at Goulburn we travelled to Taraga. We made an easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

That's it, we're out of light. I think this is about it for us for the day. Got this one but just barely. We'll try one or two more but it's looking like the jig is up. TFTC.

Nice day out with caching family TFTC!

Out around Taralga for the day caching along the way, all smilies and not one missed. Thank you to all COs for placing caches in our path today. Cache needs a new log.
OCWF SL TNL1. TFTC - Left Hammy TB to continue its travels.

Found ourselves heading toward Taralga and thought what better time to grab everything in this series. The weather was on our side and we never missed a beat. We left home mid-morning and were sitting pretty in Taralga before lunchtime. A good series. Thanks for the caches.

This year (2018) I have been trying to get more caches to boost my total finds. This weekend I decided to do all the caches from Goulburn to Taralga to Laggan to Crookwell to Wayo to Goulburn. Sadly I was going to do this trip on the Saturday but Geowife (Blueiris) was feeling unwell and I stayed home to look after her. Today 21/1/2018 she was feeling better so we headed out to complete the previous day’s plans. I wanted to try and get 69 caches in total. I left home at 0630 and headed to Goulburn for a lovely McDonalds breakfast before starting the massive caching day. The first cache of the day was GC74HCZ, a quick find and almost all the finds for the day were quick. I wanted to set a fast pace of approximately 8 minutes per cache including driving time. I am happy to let everyone know that I got a total of 72 caches for the day in 12 hours exactly. Not a bad effort at all if you ask me. The wildlife along the trip was fantastic. The animals that I spotted consisted of Wombats, Kangaroos, Wallabies, various Lizards, Spiders and so many bird species that I could not possibly name then all. The first part of the trip was also done in thick smoke from the Taralga Fire. This fire has burnt about 960 hectares (about 2372 acres). The bushfire was burning about eight Kms to the north-east of Taralga and north of Bannaby Road area. It was burning through bush and grassland in a south-westerly direction. Fire crews from Taralga were fighting the fire with additional crews from Marulan and Bungonia joining in to help. These crews consisted of 77 fire fighters supported by numerous aircraft and heavy machinery. Smoke from the fire could be seen from up to 200kms away. Anyway enough chit chat, thanks for the cache and for making my caching experience today so much more fun. Please keep up the good work by putting out more caches. Sorry for the generic logs but with so many caches found in one day it is impossible to put private logs for them all.

**## Found Cache No. 1869 ##
(Caches Found Today: 4 OF 62)
Streak Day: 765
DNF Today: 0**

On a day trip with Snoopy1976 today and decided to do this series and a few extra on the way home. Thanks for placing these caches.

Streak Day #1654 - Out with dave today to get my numbers up to 5000 for the OZ geomuster. Quick find. TFTC

Found 15:41 20/1/18 on a hot day with SimpsonFamily15. Thank you gazza959 for the cache.

TFTC. Quick find on a hot day with MrWindy. Watch for the ant hill nearby!

After a great time at the Wingello event, it was time to pick up a few more smilies as I headed towards my 3000, with Brew providing company for the adventure. Being close to the magic number we came to the trail to get me to 2999. Oddly the car parked right next to the cache was not one of the many doing the trail today.

TFTC

Having spent the night camping in Wingello State Forest for the event this morning, delloro and I set off to get our smiley totals up for the day. After grabbing some on the way to Goulburn, we set off to grab some of the Taralga Trek series.

Easy find after we crossed the road. No PDT going on today. TFTC

Find No: 6403. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Wingello State Forest for "Let's Wing It, Again" event, thanks for the cache gazza959!!

Found at 10:19 AM GAFF1 with Grub Fred.
After a big night at the Wingello camp, we gathered a group together and headed off to do this series. We were supposed to be with Nana Nel, wazza9 and Aries44, but a little rain caused that group to head for the comfort of a tea room in Taralga - not very committed are they
Enjoyed the series and the thoughful placement of the caches with good parking - except for 2 or 3 of 'em
Had a fantastic lunch at the Taralga pub which fortified ourselves for the west bound leg of the series.
Thanks gazza959.

I had a lot of fun with this trail today All the caches were well hidden, but easy enough finds. the hints definitely helped with some I got them all collected before lunch time despite the rain Thanks for placing and maintaining this series

Another quick find as we drove on this Trail today. The hint and accurate coordinates lead us straight to GZ, and we soon had the log signed.
Thanks gazza959 for all the geocaches along this route.
Domsky

Day 7 of our caching xmas blitz. Looking forward to this string of caches and seeing some new countryside. Thanks for all the effort in placing and maintaining this series. Still full from awesome lunch at Taralga, what a great day out. The cars are flying past here. Tftc

Set out to do the Taralga Trek. A quick find, signed log and replaced, TFTC.