Forgotten Highways - Link Road Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia
By Nudge74 on 12-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7R494

Found it! TFTC!

We are on a one week holiday road trip from Sydney to Brisbane to Sydney, with pre-booked accommodation at the Ingenia White Albatross Holiday Park in Nambucca Heads, the Big4 NRMA Treasure Island Holiday Resort on the Gold Coast, the Blue Dolphin Holiday Resort in Yamba, and the Big4 Leisure Tourist Park in Port Macquarie. Planning to collect some caches around our accommodation stays, and also stop-off for some targeted caches along the M1 Pacific Motorway route. Photos will be uploaded to logs after our return to home base.Today we drove from Nambucca Heads to Biggera Waters on the Queensland Gold Coast, starting the day with some more Nambucca Heads caches, then collecting numerous caches along Giinagay Way, before heading northward along the M1 Pacific Motorway. Stopped for a break at Little Italy, where we completed a five stage Adventure Lab, before continuing on to the Gold Coast. This was the 5th of 17 finds for the day (day 2), and 16th find of the holiday.This one was next, as we drove north along Giinagay Way, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC Nudge74.Find #7174

TFTCA quick dive off the main drag during a meal break, to grab a cache for a souvenir.All is good at this one.

TFTC. Quick grab

Cache is obviously still there as it has been found recently removing the maintenance required. If the cache goes missing however, I am not in the area any more to maintain the cache. if some local cacher is happy to adopt it, I am happy for them to do so.

TFTC What a very busy intersection!

Felt awkward doing this one as so much traffic is looking right at you.My wife said you look so suspicious it's a wonder the police don't come.Anyway cache signed and replaced. Took five minutes but sometimes you can't see what is right in front of you.TFTCIronbark.

Quick find TFTC

TFTC

A quick find after a short walk to GZ. TFTC.

In the area this weekend for a wedding. Today was out day to explore and find some caches.Cheers

Last full day in Nambucca Heads, so doing an arvos caching, with mixed results. Glad to find this one! TFTC

We are now heading north to avoid the coldest of the winter weather in Victoria. Today I was grabbing some of this series, as I meandered my way to Coffs Harbour. Thought this was a great way to tour the old highway and would be a great alternative but I can't say they were my favorite type of caches, as who like to have to find a micro in the bush.

Found after a short search, once at GZ.

Thanks Nudge74 for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

On a round trip. Sydney - Nambucca Heads over night - Dorrigo for lunch with friends then on to Tamworth for some music. After two DNF's in Nambucca I thought I was losing my cache touch so glad to find this one. TFTC Nudge74

TFTC!

Tftc

Found with nissan65 on our way to an event at Sawtell. Thankyou for your contribution to geo caching

Found with cullum68 on our way to an event in Sawtell thank you for the cache

Quick park and grab. TFTC

Thought this one was going to hard to grab but turned out to be a quick and easy find.

Tftc

Had a quick look here, no luck again.

Gotcha

Nothing here. Should have checked the logs first

Looks like it is missing

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No luck, but did find a very obvious spot for a cache that was "empty". Might need a check-over from the owner.

No luck here today gave it a good look with long grass and heavy traffic, I can just imagine the passing conversations

Found -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *Nudge74*.
Headed up to *Port* for a quick visit of my sibling. I have been keen to tackle this series as it looked like a great drive and I hoped it to be easy so I could keep time with my estimated arrival. Even if my arrival was not quite to time I figured I could grab the remainder on the way back through. This series didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed the drive and finding the caches.
We signed the log in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found.

Found along with another smiley ╰☆☆ ☆☆╮ too. Thanks for the placement of ***Forgotten Highways - Link Road***, *Anissa288 and Nudge74*. All logs signed, sealed and delivered.
DustyJaperJet

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to find the cache, well, not much help was needed, *Throsbynchurch* had things well under control. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *DustyJasperJet*. TFTC! Your efforts in placing and maintaining this cache is much appreciated.

Find No: 8172. Visiting from Newcastle, staying at Woolgoolga, came down today with earthly65 and Robbieracer66, couldn't believe it, we ran into geono. at the BP Service Centre, thanks for the cache Nudge74!!

Tftc found with grubfred

Found with Bek76 and Gum62 TFTC

Found with Gum62 and MDT79 TFTC

Found it with bek76 and MDT79

Found today on our drive north. TFTC.

Found it

Keeping an eye out for all that wriggle we quickly grabbed this one, signed as GGs
Tftc

Beautiful tftc

Watch out for fauna.

Vertically challenged had to feel for this one as could not see there . Tftc

After being locked up in the caravan yesterday getting cabin fever, we managed to get the washing done today and headed out around the Macksville area. We were abut six into our caching day when the heavens opened up, so we headed home stopping for fish and chips for lunch. By the time we had finished the skies cleared so we headed out in the other direction towards Valla Bch for a few more. Nice day with the 'Bloodhound' AKA Geowife managing to bag a few of the trickier ones without my assistance. It's about time she pulled her weight caching.

TFTC Nudge74
Total Cache Finds 8873

What a glorious sunny day for some caching and we thought we would travel down to the Nambucca area to put some more smiley's on our Geomap.

A quick find was had at GZ. Many thanks for bringing us here. TNLNSL TFTC

Found with theprodigalgoat on the 26/1/20
Found as soon as we got to the location
Nice easy quick find
TFTC

Found with JessYoung96 26/1/2020 on a journey to Port Macquarie.

Really easy find as we had done these ones before back in and around Coffs Harbour. But nice find and good location nonetheless.

Apologies for my finger in the attached photo, we were in a rush and time-constrained to get to Port Macquarie.

TFTC.

Very early morning find , before heading back to Brisbane for work.
Tftc

On my way back from a quick trip to Brisbane (from Canberra). A nice easy find, thanks Nudge74.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

A nice easy find TFTC

No luck today.

Geocaching with Magpiecottage to finish Mystery at the Museum, beautiful Saturday on the coast.
FINALLY found this time!
TFTC, Nudge74, SL,
My find # 279

TFTC, Nudge74, TNLNSL.
My find no. 860

I'm starting to dread this type of hide, it brings on the worst cache blindness. [xx(] It should be easy....like where else is the cache going to be... ? But after looking all over I still hadn't found it. Eventually MrG decided he'd better lend a hand and no, I didn't purposely wait till he got to GZ before saying 'found it', it just happened that way. This hide blends in way too well. TFTC Nudge74.

Found tyftc stop #14 mystery at museum

No smiley here impossible to be stealthy here in the day time

Hoping to find a couple of caches today although parking in a truck could be a challenge,no worries here.TFTC

I think it took as much time to cross the road each time as it did to find the cache. while all the caches so far in this series have been small, their placements have been varied which is nice. tftc

easy find. thanks

Another easy find

Not successful in our search for this one. Thanks Nudge74

Last day in Nambucca Heads of our driving caching holiday, and the only day that I have gone caching here. I only had an hour free, so had to collect as many as possible. Ended up being an hour and a half, with 6 find, 1 Earth Cache and 1 DNF.

Fortunately the only car to pass me was as I was parking. Otherwise I wonder what they would have thought with seing legs behind the sign.

Thanks for the cache Nudge74
Hunter

Looked at every hole, post.. nope

cache camos well!..
thanks for another one nudge74

Found with my friends, the Youngs.

Found in heavy rain. Persistence pays. Not too difficult to locate.

I haven't forgotten this highway
It is the only version of the Pacific Highway I have ever driven along
The new motorway is new since me last visit to Nambucca,
and I am in no hurry to try it out [^]

At least the olde and familiar road is so much nicer to travel now !!
And so much better to find caches along [^]

TFTC

Travelled down the coast to venture out with friends to wander along the old highway and some byways. We completed it over two days with ozglory joining us for the first day out and only bobbiesgirl and I on the second. Great weather both days made for 2 great days of caching. Thanks so much to both COs for placing this series for us to enjoy and remember the not Forgotten Highway!

Due to the weather starting to look a little ominous and traffic getting busier, we finished our day yesterday at the Valla Beach Intersection. Today, leaving ozglory behind as they had already finished the series joojoo57 and I came back today to finish it off for ourselves. This time we started at the southern end which was the obvious choice after some of yesterday's adventures . Again, the generic nature of the found it logs in no way detracts from my enjoyment and appreciation of the time and effort that goes into placing these trails.

Found at 3:20 PM GAFF 1.
These clear plastic tubes are sometimes a bit tricky to spot! Also getting to these roads with my out of date GPS map is a bit of a challenge as well.
Thanks Nudge74.

Found with nudge74 on way home from work TFTC

Making a last minute run to get that blasted turtle. Thank goodness for all the new caches. 3463 11:19:00 AM Nudge74 without cachers like you we would have no game. Thank you. TNLN SL

Out & about on a sunny day perfect for finding a few caches. Log may be stamped Coongoola or small logs signed CG. SL

Thanks for placing this cache Nudge74

Tftc

Took Nothing Left nothing sl

Have made camp at Macksville rest stop. We headed back north to do another section of the forgotten highway. We had 1 DNFs a number of FTFas well. Co-ords seem to be quiet good. I can imagine all the hard work that went into placing this series & then the frustration of waiting for them to be published.
Thanks for placing this cache Nudge74

Found it

Found it

Got a FTG thanks

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