Rain Pools Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By The Farmers 5 on 16-Feb-18. Waypoint GC7JBEF

Rain pools was found in the rain!

Good spot for some quiet. Cache had crossed threads at some point and didn't seal

Quick find in a cruise around the lake on our scooters. TFTC!!

CinderBlaze and I hired e- scooters, and scooted around the lake, celebrati g a special birthday. CB found this clever hide in a very pretty spot.TFTC

Out E-Scootering with Rock-Hopper, rode past the cache but decided to come back and look. Very nice spot. TFTC

Found with gmj3191 on a bike ride. Nice camo. Thanks for the fun.

Find # 8,785 for me on 1 Apr 2024 at 2:58pm. Our last day in Canberra has arrived so we're looking for the special caches we've heard about, and anything else we come across in our travels. We decided to ride our bikes around this section of the lake. Found by eagle-eyed PamJ while I was getting off my bike. Thanks The Farmers 5, for giving back to the game. *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

The Cockburn Crew are on tour at the Capital Geobash in Canberra - travelling from Perth to Sydney, Canberra, Sydney and finally back to Perth.Today was day 3 and we had an absolute blast, after an earlier night last night we got up early to head to Yass and the surrounding areas to cleanup a bunch of caches inparticular whereigos and our personal favourite the challenge caches. We stopped in Yass and completed some high quality caches before venturing back to the trails. We completed a huge number of trails, challenges, whereigos, traditional, multis, earthcaches, labs, virtuals and puzzles. It really was a great day for variety. We enjoyed caching in territory we havent been before. Weve filled our boots with some rare DTs and DTTs and generally had a great time. Thanks to the COs for a great day and event. Logs signed as part of team WA/WAC (WA Crew)

Out and about again, headed around Canberra for the MEGA. Super excited my first MEGA and heading over with 2 others from the Cockburn Crew - signed log as WA to save time.This is 14864, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to The Farmers 5 for the caches we found.********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********Head over to Australian Capital Territory for Capital GeoBash MEGA - Canberras first ever Mega Event. Easter 2024 (GC9PNFB): - 5 day event at Canberra Park adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6km from the centre of the city.The mascot for the Mega is Gangles the endemic Gang Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may see or hear while in Canberra.The official website - geobash.ozmega.com.auACT has over 4700 active caches, power trails, and over 100 Lab Adventures. Heaps of challenge caches, hikes for geocaches for all levels of skills and fitness.

After finishing up the mega event festivities I C Nothing and I were still up for a spot of caching so talked Lachlan1.77, Leg5 & Barnzy12 into joining us and we made our way back into the city in an attempt to get as many central caches as we could before the end of the weekend and a return to normal life beckons.On a quiet night in Canberra we combined between walking and driving to caches and by the time we returned to our accommodation had managed to collect a tidy sum of 21 finds and starting to rest before an early morning event to kick off Monday.Thanks The Farmers 5 for placing Rain Pools for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8769 for me.

Exciting times over the next couple of weeks as we takeoff for the Capital GeoBash in Canberra! Its going to be a flood of Sandgropers over east, with a host of West Aussies making the trek east for the event. Im travelling with fellow Cockburn Crew members Leg5 and Barnzy12, starting in Sydney and hitting the road to Canberra, before returning back to Sydney. Honourary mention to our fellow member, Cravo10, who couldnt make it after recently introducing a new geocacher to the world the week prior. Once in Canberra, the agenda is set, well team up with a host of Western Australians to conquer caches. Collectively, were hoping to make it the biggest ever weekend for cache finding. Following the event, the journey continues back to Sydney, with a mission to clean up caches and new Local Government Areas (LGAs), ensuring no cache is left unturned in this epic geocaching adventure. Something tells me that well need a holiday after this, well, holiday. All logs have been signed as WA to save space, abbreviation for our team from Western Australia. Cheers The Farmers 5! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

Part of the Sandgroper contingent that has come to the Mega to explore new hunting grounds. Its sure to be a great week with many finds and laughs with lots of great friends and maybe some new ones along the way. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Logged as WA.

Found after walking up and seeing another cacher find this. Seems like the threads on the bison are messed up a bit

Nice lil garden here. Quick find

Out and about with O319. TFTC

Second one with this camo found this week! TFTC

I fortunately had the right idea about this hide from the outset, so managed to make the find in a couple of minutes. Reminded me of another cache, not too far away. TFTC!

#4356 Taking a ride around the whole of the lake this afternoon I stopped off for a select number of caches. From personal experience this facility is a truly wonderful place.Cache swiftly located and logged. Thanks for another The Farmers 5.

TFTC

# 8878 another quick stop on the way home. A lovely spot to sit and contemplate.
Thanks The Farmers 5

Such a clever spot, and my 100th cache! TFTC!

#4052

After a small (and rather lazy) search decided I better try a little harder, and sure enough, there it was. Thanks for the cache!

Going on a long walk past Jarra to clear my head and saw this one on my way home thanks for always making cool caches

No luck today. A local resident started to watch so i will try another day

No pen so photo for proof!

Nice easy find and nice cache. tftc

TFTC. No pen at location tho.

I very tranquil location. I hope the hospice residences get a chance to rest and enjoy the space while they can.
Tricky hide. Thanks for the cache.

I had already wasted a couple of hours on two DNFs (caches are not there anymore) so was adamant that I wanted to find this. It wasn't easy as it was now dark and there were lots of hiding places. Add to that quite a few mozzies and being hangry (I thought I'd get a quick cache after work), I was very relieved when I found it.

TFTC and bringing me to this cool sculpture.

Find as part of 4as1 with the Mulga Joey Scouts after our canoeing night was cancelled

TFTC TNLNSL

TFTC found with 4 as 1 and mulga scouts

Nice little spot

Stopped for a break on a ride with Ddoohickey and noticed a likely looking hiding spot. Then remembered there was a cache nearby we hadn't found yet! Nifty hide. TFTC!

TFTC !

A fairly fast find while out walking the geopup. Nice peaceful area and we had the GZ all to ourselves. TFTH

A quick look before a morning paddle today. Even having an idea of what to search for, this cleverly camouflaged cache took a bit of finding!

Thanks, Farmers 5, and a favourite from me.

Yay! A coue of lazy dayz relaxing after the effects of the booster vax wear off and i get a D3 straight up! Maybe the booster has also helped my GC senses lol

Rocked it in

Yay!!!! A clever hide by a crazy pretty pond. Great to explore the area with KTYBEE, onieferret and GLISS! on this weeks instalment of “Wednesday night caching adventures”. Thanks for the creative cache. A fav from me.

A break in the rain allowed us a chance to grab a few caches. A quick find by K8TYBEE

Found quickly with Nibletricecakes, k8tybee and onieferet on an evening finding caches around Russell. TFTC.

Found it

Out and about on a lunchtime bike ride. My partner had said that he often rides over here, and calls friends and family while e enjoys the beautiful spot. Knowing there was a cache here, I decided to check out the area. It was indeed stunning, a great view of the lake and a planted out well. After a bit of circling, I found something suspicious. The hunch was correct, as the cache was attached. I sat down on a nearby chair to sign, glad that I'd found the cache and that I had the area to myself. I rode back the way I came, to avoid an aggressive magpie at Bowen Park. Thanks for the cache The Farmers 5!

Great little cache, even spotted a medium sized brown snake whilst searching too which was a bonus TFTC

Great location

Ingenious cache lovely rain pools

Seven of 14 finds on a morning walk through the wetlands and around the lake. We had this lovely spot to ourselves and zita was quick to find a really well hidden and clever cache - the type of which has eluded us before. TNLNSL TFTC

Took a while, mainly because of the muggle who just wanted to keep walking past this spot.

Great. We DNFed this 3 years ago on our last visit to Canberra. A very nice cache. TFTC The Farmers 5.

This is a very peaceful spot. This cache took me two full circuits to find but it was a very nice place for a search
TFTC

Tftc

Love hidey hole from Carswells

Riding with Jondub around the wetlands and Kingston foreshore. A skink helped us find this one TFTC

Found with Curloo. Thanks for the hide.

Really nice hiding spot. Found during a pleasant walk around East Basin. TFTC

Found on a loop of the east basin. Busy choking sand spluttering on the water I tried to breathe instead of drink (don't try it) so my mate found it instead. Looked like a nice spot once my eyes stopped watering.

An very early event, lauding in the day to try for 11 caches types. So between packing and organizing and going to the scheduled 3 event of the day I found al the relevant cache types.

Since I was down here for the event I took a stroll over to this one a really nice camo in a nice spot!!

Thank you The Farmers 5 for putting the cache out and maintaining it.

Signed dsd this was a hard one but found it after a 10 min search.

Added a few photos from the days caching.

A nice, quiet and tranquil spot along the lake. Thanks for taking us out here to reflect. TFTC

Cache was showing on arrival and I have secured it! TFTC

The long list of finds had us cautiously optimistic here and so we set about a systematic search. This soon revealed the clever container. TFTC

Found this one while on a cycle with the family. Pen was dYing, so did the best we could to sign. Clever hiding spot. TFTC

This was a relatively quick find. This is a gorgeous spot, and more so on this stunning foggy, Canberra morning. I’m from Brisbane, and we never see things like this. Gorgeous!!! TFTC.

Full log to come

You def need to sit for a moment and look for something that is out of place! Nice hide! Codawives

Crystal Warrior and I had some spare time to call by. She found the cache after I had passed over it! And that's why more eyes are better! Thanks TF5

E E E E EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE [Found!] at 1:34pm!

Caching day has commenced, on the attempt to smash a previous record of 18 caches in a day we got up bright and early to start! We got a lot of places today! So wake up at 7:00 and GO!

This cache was fairly easy. I had a feeling that farmers 5 might hide the cache elsewhere but no. We just found it where we thought it might be. Wasn't too hard but I do love this place. Had to dodge all the sprinklers. Finally found and signed. TFTC The Farmers 5!!!

found it!!

Quite tricky but reading the logs helped. Such a lovely day to be out. TFTC Farmers 5. Fav from me

Great hide. Great afternoon to be out. Tftc

Nice one

Nice effort on the hide. Here on sad terms but this helped to brighten us up a little.

Found during a day of caching that started with a walk around the Canberra City centre, along the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin, across the Commonwealth Avenue bridge, spending most of the day in the Parliamentary Triangle before heading back across Kings Bridge and down to the Airport. Luckily it was a relatively quick find here, even though a very tricky and challenging hide. Thanks for the cache The Farmers 5!

Took us at least 30 min. but we found it! Great hide! a favo tftc

Nightvealk after dinner. Thought it was going to be the better of us but made a lucky find. Thanks for placing.

Fine spot. Ta.

Today was a perfect Sunday, so, after a picnic in the park, we collected the Geohound and set off to see a part of Canberra we had never cached in before, and, we saw fabulous views, lots of history, weird art, the lake, and plenty of people out enjoying the fine weather.

After doing Mt Pleasant, and the Duntroon Diary, we headed across moreshead drive to the lake side, and grabbed the three caches there.

This Cache looked like it could be tricky, but my caching partner zeroed in on it instantly with her six sense for these types of caches. We paused for a few moments in the shade and enjoyed the views, then headed up the hill to the day's biggest challenge.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache The Farmers 5.

At Russell for work today. Took a lunchtime stroll to grab this one. Thanks Farmers 5.

Took a little bit of looking for at night but after a little poking and prodding it was soon found great camo TFTc.

Found it on a beautiful winter day.

Nicely dry and no creepy crawlies seen!

Only three entries left in the log

A short stroll from the car park, I found a great little spot to sit and relax. Pity the weather was so damn cold that relaxing was not an option...

I got lucky in the hunt and pulled the container from the first place I looked. Another bonus as the temps dropped around me. Name was quickly added to the log and the cache tucked back. I headed off to the other nearby cache but was muggled out.

Cheers Farmers 5.

Little E found it.

Found @15:00 #7033
Lovely spot found while in the area. A peaceful spot, quite carm conditons on the water no breeze. Like the construction effort on this one. Impressed.
TFTC The Farmers 5

A great weekend at the Clearwater Mega, TFTC!

#3092 @9:05 AM

Miz Wacket, steelpaw are visiting for the Mega event in Queanbeyan. The Ridgeopup and I took them for a tour of the lakeside caches on a perfect Canberra Autumn day.
After trying a few places we finally came up with the cache. Nice camo and a pretty spot which probably carries some strong emotions for many visitors.

Thanks for the cache The Farmers 5

An attractive sculpture. Found with Miz Wacket and Zimba W.

We came here with my aunt and uncle (Domsky) and signed this last time they were here ( May 2018). It was my little sister who found the cache!
We are logging this today, since we signed it last year before we had our own official account.
Thank you,
Domsky

The second cache we were going to search for on our bike ride but with a group enjoying GZ, this wasn't going to be the time. So on our way back with the late afternoon cool drifting in, the little nook was free. Knew by the CO this wasn't going to be a simple hide but this time we got lucky and found it quickly. TFTC The Farmers 5.

Found today on a scoot after work. Tricky little hide. Cache in good condition. TFTC

Found while having a nice stroll in the area. TFTC

Out paddling with Marmaduke Rothschild. After loading our boats we drove then walked to nab this one. TFTC.

Bike trip round the lake brought me back here. If Im not mistaken there was a cache around here before

I helped daddy find it by checking the holes with my magnet tool. TFTC.

This is a world of possibilities! Being an accountant maybe helps with being methodical, so it wasn't too long a search. Googlasaurus loved poking & prodding with my TOTT. Great hide & views! TFTC.

No luck for me today - I spent some time poking around before deciding my time was up. Maybe next time.

That was very very tricky. Methodical is the only way.

Found with Aye_Gee_71 on 27 Jan. TFTC

Out for a ride and found with LAG06 this morning and finding some caches as we go. Had a pen failure with this one so photo attached. TFTC

Cool find

Found after a quick search - in the shade!!! Thanks.