Thirteen of many Prestons, New South Wales, Australia
By BudoTom on 12-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7R47W

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Ngaambul - Matt

Hi BudoTom,

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Ngaambul - Matt

No find here

DNF - worked with the clues provided and people’s comments and couldn’t locate it at all.

Not able to locate

A miss unfortunately

Didn’t take too long, just the attachment is a bit dodgy. TFTC!

A nice find this morning. TFTC.

No luck for me after an extensive search here. I’m going to PAF

Finally found it after PAF and pacing back and forth at GZ. It had been dislodged so that’s what made it so difficult for me today. I retrieved it and attached it to the logical thing so it won’t go floating off. May be vulnerable to lawn maintenance. TFTC glad to turn this into a smiley today.

Could not find.

Nice quick one to end our day. TFTC

found it easily

I had stopped nearby for fuel and decided to take a break at the park. Little did I know that it is currently being used for covid testing, so I drove a bit further and parked on the street. I went for a short walk and decided to try for this cache. I arrived at GZ and had a good idea as to where the hide might be. After a short search I spotted the cache. Log signed - it's had water damage and many of the sigs are just blots - and cache replaced and I continued on my way. TFTC.

BudoTom I found your cache Thirteen of many on 1/5/21, 11:40 am. This is my find 3174 and find # 8 today. Narrowed it down for a quick find. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Of all the caches in Liverpool LGA, I’ve chosen this as my first. Thanks for placing.

OCW Mizcupcake and the rain has been coming down but we found a moment of ease for the cache to search for this one. Being here previously, a search was undoable as a muggle was keeping a keen eye on me. Luckily tonight was a different story. A quite street and not a soul in sight, we started our search and funnily enough I glimpsed it quite quickly. So much easier when eyes aren’t on you. Happy to cross it off our list, I must admit it is tricky so keep your eyes open. We SL and replaced. TFTC!

Found with geokids

Found with Geokids and JaySkinner15 tftc

It's still there! Great to redeem this previous DNF for me. TFTC BudoTom

With darkness approaching we only made a short search here. Will return later.

A kind passerby gave us a hint but we still chose to move on after a further short search where she had suggested.

STM

COVID 19 outing with CC00H

Couldnt find anywhere.

Found on ground

Does it still exist?

Find number 4196.

A hint and and easy find to correct a previous DNF

Thanks BudoTom for placing this cache.

Not wrong blackberry and recently mowed

Found with Joshwyatt83 ArmyBrats4 and Blayke04.... will message owner as we found it laying on the ground

Found with kelr0cks, armybrats4 and blayke04.

Quick park and grab
Thanks for the cache

Watch out for blackberry bush thorns

Not good when you are chasing numbers.

This one was super tricky. Spent ages on it but no luck.

Too tricky this time, and no helpful neighbours!

No luck, no neighbours!

DNF.
Unfortunately no friendly neighbours with hints today.

Had a quick look amongst thorns then decided bugger it let’s go home.

Went ice skating this afternoon with my daughter and had a lot of time left after this so finishing off the series here that I started months ago. A few very nice finds again with much better weather conditions then last time.
TFTC Wilbert67

With the bike we went this route to search for the caches. Most of the hiding places we found good. But there were some caches that were a bit more difficult and we had to search a bit longer.

We thank the owner for hiding , **the Moorhelmi's from Germany.**

TFTC!

A quick find today. I suspect a lot of our quick finds were because we had three pairs of eyes looking. TFTC!

Another quick find today. I am alway attracted by shiny things. TFTC.

Found with Ris768 who has far more perseverance than me as given the location & time it took I was ready to walk away. glad Ris768 found it in the end. Thanks for placing this cache BudoTom

Log 1816 Streak Day 811

Found with Deep_99 after work for our cache for the day. Took a while to find under all the grass cuttings but perseverance paid off. SL #3953 on streak day #2451 TFTC

TFTC

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House/dogsitting closer to here than home, figured I’d tick off as many as possible at a leisurely pace without the extra travel time. Good co-ords (had to trust rather than question them at times), helpful hints and a variety of hides, made for an interesting trail. Of the 21 attempted (mostly due to heat and parking), claimed 18 smileys. Will return for the remaining 14 on a cooler day or when the definite MIAs (ie ones with several dnfs) are checked by the CO.

Found with nissan 65 on a day caching before we head to homebush to see Phil Collins tonight.Thanku for the cache .

Found with cullum68 on our way to sydney to see Phil Collins concert thank you for the cache

Day 358 successfully logged. Looking for a quick find I was cranky as it started raining. When I arrived at GZ a friendly neighbour came out and showed me where it was.

A good hide and a favourite for the friendly neighbour.

Thanks BudoTom for another find to fill in the calendar.

#2781
Having recently depleted my store of favourite points, I targeted this powertrail to earn some more. I was not prepared for the quality and variety of hides that I would encounter today. I managed to visit all of this series on foot over a period of about 4.5 hours and 20K+ steps.

I had the wrong hide type in mind here but after only encountering one possible (empty) option, I considered something else. After a few minutes of systematic searching, I had my name in the log. No helpful neighbours to be seen today.

TFTC BudoTom

TFTC and the cycle ride around Prestons on a glorious afternoon.

Wow, with that being a difficulty 2, I can see why I'm struggling with the 3's. Very hard. You have to have eyes like a hawk. Only found it because the friendly neighbour gave me a point in the right direction. TFTC

Streak Day #1872 - Out with dave8153 for a quick find to keep our streaks alive. TFTC

Cache find No. 2669
Streak Day: 983

Headed down here today with Snoopy1976 for our daily find. Took us a few minutes to find. But soon had CIH after a PAF gave us a hint. TFTC

5321 (2 of 5 today)

Looking for a non-traditional today to keep my streak going for *Tomorrow will be a different challenge* (GC59F90). But I'm also looking for at least three finds to keep me on track for my personal goal of 10 finds per calendar day by the end of 2019.
With plenty of traditionals and one multi in the *Of Many* series, this looked like a logical target for the day.

Got my multi and four other caches - with no DNFs! I'll take that.
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Was slightly worried that the last log was a DNF, especially as GZ is very exposed to the neighbour muggles over the road.
Took about 5 minutes of to-ing and fro-ing before I spotted something in the first area I checked - the one that seemed most logical to me.

Yep - that's the sort of hide I had narrowed it down to. CIH!

Signed and replaced.
Onwards!

SLTNLN
TFTC

We couldn’t find this one even after a PAF. Will try again another time.

With the hidden creatures souvenirs almost wrapped up I was wondering how to get a few more finds to accumilate a few more souvenirs. Realising a few of my caching buddies had done this series I dragged the mini rats along with me as they were still on school holidays. We headed up here with the bikes for a fun riding in the sun.

The hides were alot of fun and challenging at times, the area was excellent for getting around by bikes and being midweek the muggle factor was minimal.

We finished our day coming home via Heathcote Rd where we grabbed the latest few caches in the FTF hound series.

Thanks to all the hiders for a great day out.

In our final week of school holidays we headed out fora days caching with the Rats.
Dad said we'll take the bikes and do a bit of bike riding... well it turned out to be a great day as we rode around the streets on a beautiful sunny day. The "many" series was alot of fun.

We finished our day with a few finds in the FTF hound series.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the fun day.

Found it. Tfyc

Found. Nice hide. TFTC

Not for me this one.

Find No.3079
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords and nice hide! That stuff is always hard to spot.
TNLNSL
TFTC BudoTom
21 July 2018 15:53

A five hour walk in company with Celtical netted the first 24 of the 'of many' series of caches plus one more. Staring at 'one of many' and completing the loop to '24 of many' then returning to the only dnf of the day '7 of many' where a more thourough search revealed what we missed on the first time around.
Having two pair of eyes was worth while as we worked our way around a variety of hides and cache sizes some cleverly hidden.
Well done to the CO for the series to date I have completed, tftc

With geodaughter 3 at preschool I asked the 3 boys what they wanted to do and their reply was we want to get the turtle.... 21 to get him. So back to the MANY POWER TRAIL. Monday when we first visited we managed to locate 17 caches (some not the trail ones). 12 down so 9 to go.
After reading that it was missing message cacher that had done so I could double check. Hint given and cache located.
#448

Well we were on a mission, me to get my world turtle, & lucky1955 to snare his dragon! So that meant a long walk around the area - 5 hours to be precise. Special thanks to the CO for some really well thought out cache hides, & a few really sneaky ones. Great little series, I'm looking forward to doing the others. Well we thought about taking the shortcut through the reeds, but they looked a bit high, & judging by the amount of frogs we heard on the way back, I'm sure we would have got wet if we had tried. TFTC

No luck here. L’chaim!

17 Jul 2018

Did Not Find ‘Thirteen of many’ (GC7R47W) with EverestHigh, MaxAdventurer & The Bebes.

Today, I teamed up with EverestHigh, MaxAdventurer & The Bebes to hunt for more Hidden Creatures (and caches), as we fast approach the final week of the geocaching June / July 2018 promotion.

We hatched a plan to meet up around lunch time and drive over to Prestons to tackle to ever growing “X of Many” series, plus a number of others along the way. It was a fun afternoon out and about in the beautiful winter sunshine and cached well into darkness to pick up as many as we could.

We were pleased with the result, edging ever closer towards the Dragon and, ultimately, the World Turtle digital souvenirs. With only a few Did Not Finds, and a few we had to skip over, we ended up with more than 40 finds for the afternoon.

A good excuse to venture out in the depths of the inviting urban forest, that is Sydney at this time of year.

Thanks For The Cache BudoTom.

"JordsAU*

Not there. I was with The Bebes who had already found it.

Neighbours called out here with a hint just as Flutterby Squishy arrived.

Today I took on the Prestons bike paths with geobuddies on the hunt for"to many"caches to complete the mythical creatures challenge.
It was a really enjoyable day out riding around looking for the caches, some were alot more challenging then others,we almost dnf'd a couple but mananaged to find all the hides in the end with the spot on coords the entire way to complete both the challenge and the series
Thank you BudoTom for the cache

Tftc. Finally got a smiley face here.

Found with infinity aka crows 154 and bonfire.

Out on my mountain bike finding the local caches. Thanks for placing them.

Cheers

#4658- Now that was tough. Two weeks ago thomo31 and I DNF'd this one. Today we were heading past and thought we'd take another quick look. We thought of two options- turned out to be the second, though it really took some finding. Thomo31 spotted it after a PAF confirmed where to look. Thanks

Found with WaywardWoman on our second attempt, almost gave up again but had help from a paf. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

OCW Brewmaker & GeodudeAU

The guys had already found this one but stopped for me to make a quick find - I was lucky lol

Tftc

OCW GeodudeAU on a special Winter's day. It was an enjoyable trail and the walk did me good. Managed 25 finds, and there is still more to return to do. Like others the neighbour helped out here. Last one, now to head home. TFTC

Out today with Brewmaker finding some of the caches along the Many Power Trail at Prestons and some others along the way. We parked the car at the nearby designated parking area and then headed off. Most of the caches were easy to find and accessible from or near the path. Some were very creative and most only a few took a little while to uncover. But there was quite a bit of walking involved and we didn't get time to finish the series so will be back to complete that task at another time.
No hint, ah, and this was a very tricky find. Searched for a long time, up and down, with no luck. Had given up just when the previously mentioned friendly neighbor arrived home. He saw the distressed look on my face and headed over to show the correct spot (and what to do to retrieve the cache). Damn - had looked there a few times but didn't have the correct technique, and the cache is not easily seen. Thank you 'friendly neighborhood cache-finding man'.
Signed the log and replaced it all as found. Then it was on to the next one. TFTC

The etrex was accurate, helping make a reasonably quick find. TFTC

found with gm10 and btm

found with u_c and btm

Found with u_c and gm10 and help from a local who knew about it accross from cache

Another nice quick park and grab TFTC

Thought this might be a bit trickier but used cache sense and walked straight up to it. Tftc

Tried briefly twice with no luck, even with some extra eyes.

After seeing so "Many Of" notifications it was time to head to Prestons. Many excellent and varied caches. This was a little tricky to find. Need a keen eye to find on the wire. TFTC

The last of these currently published is finally found.
I recall finding something like that which i thought the cache should have been attached to, but was empty. It must have been further along the fence as this one had a loaded cache attached.
No friendly neighbor to help but i had RS to point it out.
Thanks for the cache.

No neighbour came to help us!!!

What thomo31 said

No luck for us here today.

Will have to come back for this one

In Prestons to tackle the Of Many series. Parked where recommended and walked to start at the beginning and take them in in numerical order. Dark had fallen as we were searching at GZ and the torches were out. We had any idea what we were looking for when another torch appeared. It was Billy Dunk, geoson and geopup from across the road. They gave us a nod in the right direction. They’ve only been caching a few weeks. How did it start? They kept seeing people arrive here at GZ across the road from their house. One of the geocachers explained the game and they decided to join in and are really enjoying it. Nice one, BudoTom. Too dark for us to continue so we will save the rest for another day. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

This one was tricky.. very tricky. It took some time to uncover it and it seemed to end up in my hand before I even realised I was retrieving it. A rewarding find, thanks.

#1974 after finding Fifteen of many we continued on to Thirteen of many on approaching it started to rain once I got to GZ started to look around when a call from behind me said I know where it is. Soon had the cache in hand & I met billydunk

We signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache BudoTom

We then continued on to Twelve of many

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2012, 2017 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

Quick afterwork run around the Prestons area with the Hawksbury Gang. Things get done quickly when you're part of a team.

With today marking the start of the month long [Hidden Creatures](https://www.geocaching.com/play/souvenircampaign/hiddencreatures) mythical creature souvenirs guest, we set out for a caching run with phlphotos, alnic39 and JJCC around Prestons. After parking the car we set out on a walk, coming away with thirteen finds and four DNFs for the day. After a good search our eighth find for the day was made. With the cache in hand we signed the log then replaced as found. Both the cache container and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache BudoTom.

The following TBs came through for the mileage: Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Lord Frederik von Kürbiskopf.

OCW Mrs Aries today to get some numbers for my 3,000th find (nearly there).
This one took us a while to finally locate by Mrs A. We did the signing and moved onto the next. TFTC BudoTom.

Bit tricky but we got there.TFTC

Time to make a start on the Many Power Trail and after parking at Macca's I started at number one and visted the eight along the Camden Valley Way. After CVW it was onto the Ash Road caches. TFTC