Taralga Trek: Pontilla Tarlo, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 24-Apr-17. Waypoint GC74HJ1

Still to replace. Currently away till early December when hope to attend to

Needs replacing

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 were surprisingly optimistic heading in... but no luck. We looked up and down, but nothing. No find here today.

Yeah, no luck

Gps wandering everywhere with this one

Searched here for a while with no luck

No joy

More to come

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.

#11331 - 9:13:00 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 our way to Oberon. Freezing cold day. TFTC

Nice find muggles asking questions logged as ghost gang

Ghost Gang

Cache ok. Tree is fine, no risk

Nice spot to put it easy find!

Found it

Cute little cache.. not the best idea in things!

Thongs even

Found it

Attaching wire is strangling tree

TFTC

Good

Good

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.

I dnf'd this one a few years ago when it was missing. Nice to replace the sad face with a smile today. TFTC

Tree!!!

Another great hide. Yippee!!! Tftc.

Thanks it was clever

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.

Avenging a DNF TFTC

New cache placed, in original location. BYO pen. Cache good to go.
Cache on!

On our way home from the St Arnuad Mega, decided to complete this series. Quick find, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to gazza959.
No problem finding the cache today.

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.
We didn't know this was disabled. Obviously in review, found a cache here and signed it.

Gone. Will replace

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

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

Nope

No luck today!

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

Cache blindness?? Had a good look and no luck here today, thank you anyway : )

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.

A stop by the Pontilla,
and a stand around for a while,
finally spied me the replacement cache

TFTC on the way to 'not Taralga',
otherwise called Goulburn [^]

Found remnant of cache so replaced with hanging plastic vial at GZ. 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

Despite looking high and low, this was unfortunately a DNF this time around. Maybe I will have better luck next time? Anyway, thanks for the cache listing and I will have another look next time I am in the area.

Sadly no luck here.

Found on a day trip from Goulburn to Crookwell via Taralga
TFTC

Had a qiuck look around but came up with nothing. Maybe next time.

Cache blindness? I searched for about 15 mins with the gps bouncing around. I found a very likely spot but no cache.

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 …

A super quick find here.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC gazza959

I'm out today to rack up numbers. Found quickly in good condition. Impressed with myself finding that at night. That's a good hide.
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.

3107 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.3274
Found with sesblocker, Aries44 and Mrs Aries. Nice variety of hiding places.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 12:32 pm

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

Log book full so we added an extra sheet of paper. 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.

10720 and 15th of 19 found today.

FFP and I decided to take the day off today to do something different. So we were originally heading to Young but my mate was away so we headed to Wombeyan Caves instead. Of course whenever a cacher heads away they normally do a PQ or caches along a route and away we go.

And that's what we did.

Nice that most, if not all, this series had good safe places to pull over and the co-ords were good as were the containers.

Happy to say that FFP (lapsed cacher) helped me find a couple that had me scratching my head.

A lot of work went in to this series so thank you for that and thank you for placing the cache gazza959 and the Ricky.

Great spot!

Nice quick find, thanks for bringing us to some gorgeous country views

Hard to find but got it!!

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. Tell-tale attachment gave away hide so angled a little better.

Fun to teach some newbies to cache whilst out on the trail This is such a cool cache! Tftc

Some friends staged a coup and conned me into coming out caching tonight. So glad they did. We have had a wonderful night! Out with Countrykittykat, lovetherabbitohs, and EMT.

Found with a great group of friends

Found with a great group of friends

Had done a big whack of this series a fair while ago, but notice now that there are more! So decided to come out and collect some more of them today! Not sure it was a good day for it, what with the extremely fierce - super icy cold wind (and not to mention the constant horizontal drizzle). Not that I really got wet, the wind dried me as fast as the rain could wet me! The car said it was averaging 3-4 degrees outside, but with the wind chill, I recon it felt like -10! One thing I though odd was that many of the wind turbines around here were stationary! (Others were going flat chat!). I would have thought on a day like today, they would all be going flat out! Maybe I need to report a needs maintenance .

Nice quick find here, thanks G959.

Tftc... quick fun hide!

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!

Sneaky sneaky

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!

Another easy find on a sunny autumn afternoon.
Tftc ????

#11279 Found and Logged at 7:37:00 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

Loved the attachment mechanism again, glad there was a cache on the other end and not an angry posum . TFTC

I've dropped my lady at work, the GPSr is loaded with caches around Goulburn, the SUV is loaded with fuel, a slab of bottled water, my GeoSchnauzers and my lady's GeoCavoodles. We are off up the road towards Goulburn for a day of caching and walking. Nice hide. I liked it very much. Have a favorite point.

Find no 19 of 22 today.

Thanks, gazza959

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.

**# 20658** 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***

As the evening wanes and darkness threatens, we're hanging in there. 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 new log.
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.

#5,358

A slight change of style here, but still a quick & easy find.

Thanks

We found this cache easily and checked the name in the logbook. In a previous log I explained that we decided to stop for a few extra caches in this series to check a theory that some of the caches had been shuffled around, which turned out to be incorrect. Thanks

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. Signed the cache DSD, Darkside or Darksidedan depending how big the logbook was and how much room there was in it.

**## Found Cache No. 1874 ##
(Caches Found Today: 9 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 20:41 20/1/18 with SimpsonFamily15. Thank you gazza959 for the cache.

Quick find after last light heading back to Goulburn with MrWindy. Now off to find dinner!

XAfter 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.

MrD's favourite container type. Just hanging around. TFTC