Taralga Trek: Cowpers Creek Myrtleville, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 12-May-17. Waypoint GC75JXY

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

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

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!

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.Nice quick find

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: It took us way longer than it should have to find this one. I think we both knew exactly where it was, but neither of us wanted to put our hand where we couldn't clearly see if there were creepy crawlies. Log signed and replaced. All in good condition. TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Staying at Taralga and hunting down some caches in the rain. TFTC

Reperio 18:48Today 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

It is finally a bit cooler so we are doing a bit of caching on the way to Goulburn. Thanks gazza 959.

It has been hard to get the energy for anything, but cooler weather we are able to get out and find some caches. TFTC

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 5 - Katoomba, Blue Mountains, - Goulburn, New South Wels, Austrlie - 270 kmDnes m ekal pejezd z Modrch hor do nin ve vnitrozem. Jet jsem se stavila na vyhldce na mstn Grand Canyon a pak u mazala m dl menmi silnicemi pes mal msteka a kolem farem s dobytkem. Kdo si mysl, e hlavnm australskm divokm zvetem je klokan, je hluboce na omylu. Nejrozenjm vudyptomnm nesnesitelnm a odpornm australskm zvetem je moucha ! Jsou vude a pod. Klokany jsem zatm vidla jen chcpl u cesty, take tu ij, ale je otzkou, jak dlouho. Za 250 km jsem napotala 12 mrtvol u cesty a to jsem nezahrnula u rozloen a neidentifikovateln mrtvoly. Cestou jsem sbrala njak keky a odpoledne dojela k mstu Goulburn na srii challeng. Celou jsem ji nezvldla, neb narz pila dsn bouka s pvalovm detm a kroupami velikosti nehtu na malku. Tak jsem to zabalila a jela na hotel. A v noci v hotelu dolo i na porn poplach a to 2 x po sob. Take m v pyamu vyhnali 2x na parkovit do det. A jet to byly plan poplachy, no to je asi dobe. Neb jsem byla tak zblbl, e jsem si poprv nevzala k pyamu ani doklady a penze. Take zitk plno, a to jsem na zatku cesty.Today I travel from Katoomba through Blue Mountains to Goulburn. I found also some caches on the road and saw many dead cangaroos there. In the late afternoon I arrived to the challenge serie near Goulburn. I didnt finish it due a great storm with heavy rain and ice balls. So I go back to Goulburn and have another surprices at night in the hotel. There was two times a fire alarm and all guests need to go out to the carpark. Thanks for all caches I found today and greetings from Czech republic.

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!

Quick find at GZ. What a steep part of the drive, great views though! TFTC gazza959!

Find#4913
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

No problems finding this one. Thanks, Gazza.

Find Number 9

A quick find as we head back to Goulburn


Thanks gazza959 for placing the cache

Found

Found it. No hint needed

A team effort once we parked on the opposite side to be safe. TNLN TFTC

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. However we had to get some long-nose pliers from the car to extract the log as the previous finder had stuffed the log in so tightly. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks gazza959 for this cache and the part of the series we visited today

#11343 - 10:06:00 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 in turns 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.

Found it

TFTC

TFTC

Not safe to stop !!!

Not found

Couldn't find

No luck

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.

Almost eluded us. Tftc

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.

Dangerous stopping around here - had two goes, up the hill and back down again before it was safe. Cache all good.

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* [^]

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

Nice spot TFTC

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.

Staying in Goulburn for 2 days and decided to do this Trail out in the countryside. Due to the number of caches found a generic message is done for all. Thank you gazza959 for placing these caches in their respective locations. Found cache and signed log. 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.

A creek side stop here,
with plenty of parkin'
Poking around and I soon found this cache

TFTC on *my* Goulburn Trek [^]

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

Cache 4818 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 soon located once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

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

A quick find on my way back to Canberra. Tftc.

Unfortunately we did not find this one no service either to help me out

It was very hot and yet another DNF. Maybe next time.

After a wonderful weekend camping, caving, swimming and hiking with outdoor adventure church in Wombeyan Caves, popular demand ensured that we stop in for a few caches on our way back home.

Found with: Nibletricecakes, K8tybee, Cryp1, Cstebbings, Sneakysquirral3325, Snow15, AndAGuest

After a wonderful weekend camping, caving, swimming and hiking with outdoor adventure church in Wombeyan Caves, popular demand ensured that we stop in for a few caches on our way back home.

Found with the crew:
Princessmarriette, K8tybee, Cryp1, Cstebbings
Sneakysquirral3325, Snow15, AndAGuest

This hide tricked SS3325 but we got the little guy in the end (after he was halfway down the hill).. cstebbings enjoyed checking out the nearby animal bones and Princessmarriette was excited to a bit of a CITO around this cache - helping collect a stray bottle or two are relocate them to the pay station Tftc

Found after camping at Wombeyan Cabernet for the weekend!
TFTC

The trip of detours... Canberra to Wombeyan Caves via brindabella and now Nowra from Wombeyan Caves via Canberra...

Found on the way home from wombeyan caves

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 …

Quickly spotted.
Made our mark & replaced as found.
Quite a few bleached bones nearby which I think were once a kangaroo … or perhaps a wayward geocacher? LOL ...

TFTC gazza959

#10041 @0922
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....except today TFTC gazza959.

3112 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.3275
Found with sesblocker, Aries44 and Mrs Aries. The weather is certainly turning to shit.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 1:27 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.

10715 and 10th 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 Bull

New log and protective bag provided.
Cache on.

Sadly some more dead wildlife around GZ. Still a very lovely spot to stop. Sun was getting low and the sky was changing colours by the minute. Another quick find here.
TFTS

We are smashing through these caches and claiming plenty of smiles towards the current souvenir challenge. Read through description for hints as it’s spot on.

#5,527

The service road was a nice place to park safely for this one, even if we did need to walk a little way to the cache.

Thanks

We pulled off onto the side service road and then crossed back to make an easy find in the obvious spot . 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. Container full of paper scraps. Probably needs fresh log.

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.

First Time in Australia. Today in Crookwell Logboock füll.
Gemeinsam mit bomi58 ein paar Dosen dieser Gegend eingesammelt. Dieser Cache konnte sich nicht lange vor uns verstecken. TFTC

Zusammen mit Rio2013 war ich in Australien for Sightseeing und zum Cachen. Dabei haben wir auch hier gesucht und gefunden.
Heute haben wir diesen Trail begonnen.
Greetings from Germany!
TFTC bomi58

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 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!

#11290 Found and Logged at 8:27:00 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

Found after an overnight stop at Crookwell and playing Lawn Bowls Pennants. Very windy to-day .Blowing so hard it was very hard to stand in the one stop. No wonder this area is used for wind Farms. 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.

**# 20642** 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***

Should have been an easy park n' grab but phewey what bouquet in this corner of the world.

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 once it was able to be reached, last cacher has pushed it way too far in, please don't do that! Dead black skeleton of kangaroo.
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. Signed the cache DSD, Darkside or Darksidedan depending how big the logbook was and how much room there was in it.

**## Found Cache No. 1885 ##
(Caches Found Today: 20 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

Quick find! Don’t fall down! Thanks MrWindy

Found 19:19 20/1/18 with SimpsonFamily15. The creek is very dry. Thank you gazza959 for the cache.

Find No: 6419. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Wingello State Forest for "Let's Wing It, Again" event, thanks for the cache gazza959!!