Taralga Trek: Dover Park Tarlo, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 13-Jun-17. Waypoint GC777Q7

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. Quick find! TFTC gazza959!

TFTC. 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.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: I may have overshot the parking on this one, so we had a lovely stroll to GZ. Once there, we had a quick find. Everything was in good condition. Log signed, and everything was returned as found.TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Reperio 19:25Today 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

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, another nice roadside stop. TNLNSL. TFTC gazza959!

Find#4900
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

Nice easy grab. Thanks Gazza.

Tftc

Shady spot.

No problem

TFTC gazza. The cache is nice and dry unlike some of the other caches we have found today

Time to clear up a few more of this series returning from Oberon to Goulburn for lunch.
All were found safe and in good condition with the exception of one DNF, logged separately, where timing constraints were not our friend today.

TFTC and the great series gazza959, looking forward to completing this series on our next visit.

TFTC! Nice little park and grab! Love the area and the track

TFTC Quick easy find here today.

Gave this one a new plastic bag as the old one was completely open and no longer fit for purpose

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.

#11333 - 9:25:00 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

Picked up the odd one of the trek caches on the way home.
Nice quick finds inbetween rain showers.

TFTC gazza959
Find 7165 logged from cgeo:

Ghost Gang

Nice find thank you logged as ghost gang

Quick grab

TFTC

Found on previous phone

Good

Look

Found

Found

Tftc quick park and grab

Finally made the trip around Goulburn, Taralga and Laggan. A big day on the road with lots of caches found. Thanks For The Caches!

Too easy, when I DNFed this cache a few years ago I doubt it was where I found it today.

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.

Well cobered. Tftc

Found

Thanks good cache, very sneaky

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.

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 #29

Another quick find here.
Cache all good

Thanks

#3467

Lots of history here - beautiful place with the strategically placed tree. (Which came first...?) A really nice place for cache - 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.

[:(!] 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 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 quick stop here by Dover Park
For a cache find of course on me way to the big smoke,
aka: Goulburn

TFTC and continuing tid-bits of local history and scenery [^]

TFTC !!

Now if only you could do something about the traffic !! [:o]

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 4810 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: groot has his phot taken!

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

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

#3384 In the area today from Canberra. Found a total of 25. The cache was a quick find. I parked about 50 metres out. TFBMH gazza959.

A very quick find. 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 quick find here as the cache was uncovered & IPS.
Made our mark & replaced with a little extra cover.

TFTC gazza959

Seems this one is a little bit too much of a challenge at night. Not sure if I need to climb this tree. Tftc

#10035 @0859
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.

3108 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. The rain is getting heavier the closer we get to Taralga.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 12:39 pm

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

Oh not, its going to rain but we hope to keep going to get the series finished. 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.

10707 and 2nd 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 white.

A quick jump out of the geomobile and we were in search of the cache, soon enough it was in our hands and the smile claimed.

#5,520

A quick find in an area with a lot of nice pinecones. Pity I wasn't allowed to collect many .

Thanks

We parked next to the corral and found the cache not far away. Toriaz also noticed that there were pine cones about, which she likes to collect for lighting fires. Unfortunately, she is very enthusiastic, and on long cache days where we encounter many pine trees I am either driven from the car by the smell of pine sap or the sheer number she collects, to spend the rest of the day clinging to the roof racks. Today I put my foot down. I dragged her back to the car, still clinging to a pine cone in each hand and with one clenched between her teeth. 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.

EMT grabbed this one- yay!! His second find ever

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

Tfrc... plenty of space to park and pull over safely...

Tftc... plenty of space to pull over safely

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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.

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!

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

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!

Found with the geo kids whilst filling in some time.
Tftc ??

Geocaching buddy StrangTrousers and I headed off for a bit of caching on what turned out to be a cold – dam cold and windy day. So good to finally get that number. The road has been long to get here. Today’s journey was a loop Taralga Trek series via Goulburn, Crookwell, Laggan and Taralga. The 1000th cache mentioned a rock – so apt with geocaching. A glass of something with bubbles in it to celebrate a lunch before the final push using the last hours of daylight. What a day! Loved every minute of it even with the wind and the cold. Big thank you to StrangTrousers for the company and hours of driving.

TFTC gazza959

#3938 39th for today

I joined CBRChic for a return to the Taralga Trek series via Goulburn, Crookwell, Laggan and Taralga. On the way home we took a detour via Currawang to grab a few caches out that way. CBRChic was keen to reach her 1000th find & today she smashed through that milestone before lunch and added a healthy bite into the next 1000. Glad I could help. We enjoyed an impromptu glass of sparkling white at a Taralga pub in celebration.
The weather this weekend has been pretty horrible. Today was no exception with bitterly cold gusty winds and occasional showers. Just a week ago it was hovering around 30C, but today the wind chill had us in wintery conditions.



Thanks to the COs: gazza959

#11280 Found and Logged at 7:45:00 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

Almost took a cat out on approach, luckily Mr Stormcatcher had pretty good reactions...So that was one lucky cat .

Love the big tree at GZ and the old sheep ramp. Cache found and it was almost time to pull out the torches.
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.

**# 20635** 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***

Stepping up our pace before we run out of daylight. Made the find and moved on. TFTC.

It's been a while since the FFLL team have been able to do an assault together, we had a break in our calendar so we decided to arrange a geomission with Rapidlywild and clear out in and around Goulburn. We left Canberra at a decent hour and headed up the highway, the weather was a little cloudy along the way and the storm clouds seemed to follow us. So there was a few showery spots. As usual the day was fun and lots of laughs were had.


A quick run through the new placements. This series was enjoyable, and better to do in the daytime, and the passing showers kept us cool. There were a couple of places where the pull off was skinny for a big car, although we didn;t take nay unnecessary risks now that we were without a spare tyre. We had no real issues locating the hides, all signed and replaced.

Thanks for the series gazza959, and our apologies for the generic logs.

Plans were put into place with both the ladies from FurfacesLL to do a little run on Goulburn and surrounds. We had our sights set the remainder of the Taralga Trek (and Taralga Trek Too) as well as collecting the last few WPs of the "JDogMonkey's Tour of Goulburn" multi. Was a nice fun day out and about with sunshine, cold winds, spats of rain, a punctured tire and lots of laughter.

Time to head up and finish off this series. We had collected the first release of these caches after a big caching weekend up the coast a while back now, then the second release was published. We didnt have any issues locating the caches, signing them and replacing them. We found parking at a few a little risky as it is hard to identify if the series is supposed to be done in the Northern direction or the Southern direction. Either way, we got the series completed today, apologies for the generic logs on this series.

Thanks for the cache hide gazza959

Nice day out with caching family TFTC!