Taralga Trek: Fairview Tarlo, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 24-Apr-17. Waypoint GC74HHF

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. Loved the camouflage. Quick find.

Townsville to grab the Palm Island LGA. Now only 2 LGAs to complete Australia.Back around Canberra and doing some side trips.TFTC. A return trip from Oberon to Goulburn with 60 caches including a CITO, 2 ECs, a multi and many interesting trads. Firstly along the highway and then through the pine forest plantation tracks. Amazing scenery with lots of deer, emus, roos and rabbits.Good parking. A great container cover.

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: We made a quick and easy find once at GZ. The rocky path or embankment required to traverse to get the GZ was another story entirely. It was a little hairy and slippery in places, but we made it unharmed!TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Reperio 20:12Today 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

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!

Not a bad climb up to GZ where we made the quick find. Funny little "cache friend" at GZ. TNLNSL. TFTC gazza959!

Find#4895
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

Excellent description, exactly as described. Thanks, Gazza

Good hunt! Bring your gloves

All replaced. Cache on.

More to come. Log is wet and I was unable to sign but initialled, regrettably no replacement available.

Tftc! Log book needs replacing as it is wet and could not write on it

TFTC Quick easy find here today.

Soggy slimey log book, needs replacement

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

Soggy slimey log book, needs replacement. Unfortunately I didn’t have anything with me

Logs noted re condition of log. Its on the maintenance list, to be attended as soon as I can

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.

After clambering up the steep slope, accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The novel container was in good condition, but the log inside was saturated and barely signable. A replacement log is needed as quickly as possible as well as thorough drying out of the container. Thanks gazza959 for this cache and the part of the series we visited today.

#11328 - 8:57:00 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

This cache was one with a very soggy log.

Good naming of this one.

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 our way to Oberon. Freezing cold day. TFTC

Ghost Gang

Found it water logged needs attention thanks logged ghost gang however log extremely wet

Found on previous phone

Found him broom broom

Found him brooom

Tftc quick park and grab

A day off today, so I have decided to do the Taralga series of caches. We finally have a weekend without miserable weather and it was a great day to be outside. A nice quick find, thanks gazza959.

The short climb was worth it. Well guarded again. Tftc

Thanks

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.
Good to be able to safely stop with a van.
Visited trackables.

Hey - take the scenic way & walk along the fence, you will find leopard orchids, iris' about to burst into bloom, sundry heaths & peas as well as the really large puffballs which seem to like it around here. Like me! Cache exposed but nice & dry, now better camouflaged. Thanks again, gazza.

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.

[:(!] 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 Gazza

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 on the trip home from Queanbeyan Mega. We decided to do some between Goulburn and Taralga. Thank you for these caches! : )

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

Trip away with woolwood9 hunting containers in the area.
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or in pen as tm421/ww9
*Another nice find for us today, thanks for putting this cache out.*

Fun trail, good caches and generally safe places to stop.

Yep !!
A fair view on the way to Goulburn today
And a fair view of a cache too [^]
All fair !!

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 4806 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: dty73 made the 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. We soon found this one once at the top of the embankment. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

#3380 In the area today from Canberra. Found a total of 25. The cache was a quick find. TFBMH gazza959.

Very rocky. A quick find once I was in the right location. 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 …

Another baggie bites the dust.
Most of the baggies on this series need replacing, split or missing.
Quick find.
Made our mark & replaced as found but with a little extra camo.

TFTC gazza959

I'm out today to rack up numbers. Found quickly in good condition. Tftc

#10033 @0848
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.

Staying at Crookwell with aries44 and finding some caches in the area and hoping to complete the Taralga series. With our friends The Neighbs and SESBlocker. Nice days with chilly nights. TFTC gazza959.

3104 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.3271
Found with sesblocker, Aries44 and Mrs Aries.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 12:17 pm

Started the taralga trek late in the arvo. All good with this one.
Thanks for the cache

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.

After claiming our last smile we were on a high as we continued our trek. Parking as close to GZ as possible, we dove out of the geomobile and set off in search of our next smile. A quick search and the smile was ours. Despite the weather starting to warm up we were happy to return to the warm of the geomobile and set off for our next smile.

#5,517

Good to stretch our legs a little at this one. Quick find once you're up high enough.

Thanks

A little bit more of a climb for this one, but an easy find, nevertheless. 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. Think this was the highest of today’s terrain ratings but a careful scramble and I quickly had CIH.

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.

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!

#11276 Found and Logged at 7:24:00 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

Miss Stormcatcher did the hard work and clambered up the embankment for the smiley. Illegal dumping near parking and now reported. Did a small bit of CITO here too.
TFTC

Another quick find as the light started to fade. Another broken baggy 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.

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.

**# 20660** 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***

This one was more challenging in the fair light. 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 in good order.
OCWF SL TNLN. TFTC

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. 1871 ##
(Caches Found Today: 6 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 but no TB in cache. TFTC

Found 15:55 20/1/18 with SimpsonFamily 15. There was a little bit of shade at GZ which provided some relief from the heatThank you gazza959 for the cache.

Another quick find MrWindy

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.

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.

A fair hide. An easy find. TFTC

Find No: 6405. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Wingello State Forest for "Let's Wing It, Again" event, thanks for the cache gazza959!!

Found at 10:26 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

We parked close to GZ and made a short sharp climb up a small hill, where we soon had the container in our hands. All good with this one.

Thanks gazza959 for placing and maintaining this series. We are enjoying our drive along this country road.
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. The heat is taking is toll will be glad to get into Goulburn. Tftc

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

Today we were up early to do the Taralga Trek. It was a cool morning as we left but soon warmed up by midday. This gave us a nice tiki tour of the surrounding countryside as we have not visited this part of NSW. We were surprised to see a few windmill farms along our journey.
Some great locations visited & a variety of caches found.
Thanks for placing this cache

Find #5 of 53 caches found for the day.

Thanks gazza959 for this wonderful series and great scenery to cache these less travelled roads

Grand Cache count = 442 total consisting of 415 Traditionals, 16 Multi, 5 Mystery, 4 Earth and 2 Virtual.

A quick find by hubby here on a cold wet Monday. We’re really enjoying this run despite the weather. Hasn’t got above 11 degrees yet and feels like it should be snowing instead of raining! We’re on a slow trip home from the Alexandra Mega, caching where we can. TFTC

A quick and easy drive by on our way home from a caching weekend to the North of here. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.