#11 American Pit Bull on the Dogs Head Trail Mindaribba, New South Wales, Australia
By kingfisher_au on 04-Jan-19. Waypoint GC7RHTP

Good condition. Cheers

Thanks for the sticker!

We had this day planned for a month and had prayer all week for fine weather we could not had asked for better. Arriving at cache 1 about 9:30. We settle off KAZ444 had done some of those in 2 previous visits however I needed them all. We got a good system going and began tick of the caches we stopped the flow to do the AL in Paterson. Driving back to get the mystery bonus we saw another caches looking at stage 2. I tooted. We did have trouble finding the bonus and sure enough Mr Felixii caught up to us. We stopped for lunch and chatted and swapped Tbs. I must admit we felt like we were in The presents of Royalty once we heard they have over 40,000 caches. Wow We continue to run into them around the dog head. They stopped for the multi we didnt.I was in shocked when I read their log to hear they run into trouble. Just before 4 we ran into the cache were it is harder to park so after missing a few we decided to call it a day and drive back to Newcastle. We will return I still have 9 mystery to solve. Thank you for all your hard work placing this trail and maintaining it. All my logs will be the same except it I need to tell you about a problem which I will put first. Thanks.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Well we set off for a drive in the countryside today. We noticed we were logging behind WRAACie & kaz444 on the same date. At Paterson we were doing the AdLab and a car tooted Mr Felix whilst he was collecting a stage so we thought there may be some cachers about. Sure enough we caught up at the AL bonus. We even swapped a few TB's Lovely to meet cachers out on the hunt. We then continued to see WRAACie and kaz444 at stops along our route.We got to #99 of the dogs head series and Mrs Felix said just 1 more before we head home. But of course things went awry as the car was on such a lean that she couldn't get back in and had to get Mr F to move to more level.... WET ground. OOps. Yep we were stuck, 4x4 back and forward digging up the verge. [B)] Mrs Felix name was mud, literally. Lucky for us a P-plater stopped in his Hilux and was able to snatch the GeoCruiser from the mess.The highlight of our day was the multi at St Annes Gresford and seeing that amazing bridge.TFTC kingfisher_au

I parked the geomobile in the driveway opposite and crossed the road to the cache, seemed a safer option here. I noticed ute about 100m down the road and it looked like there was someone inside. This cache had several amusing stickers inside, about using million dollar satellites to find tupperware in the bush. That tickled my funny bone so I took one.As I drove off the guy in the ute waved to me - wonder if he knew what I'd been doing!TFTC # 5892

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can’t believe how many there are on the same road !

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 38.805 E 151° 35.401

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 38.802 E 151° 35.401

Distance from original: 18.3 feet or 5.6 meters.

S32° 38.802' E151° 35.401' roadworks have impacted its location

checked today cache in great shape

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Thanks for doing maintenance.
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out on the trail today to finish off the maintenance needed thanks to Alnic39 for his assistance on some of the caches around the nose of the dog, so Currently around 130 plus have been replaced, and with roadworks been carried out I suspect that will require a few more but as the dog head trail sits its back in its entirety, intrestly replaced caches towards his neck this morning only to find the road blocked with water again this afternoon enjoy

needs to be checked

We had hoped to find this one today but alas it wasn’t to be. All I manage to find today was an empty Ziploc bag.

Thanks anyway kingfisher_au

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After a big day caching yesterday it was nice to sit in the back seat and put my feet up while Mr Minion sat in the front with Hayley while she got some driving hours up. decided it would be good to grab a few caches while up this way . I have done a few caches from the other side of the dogs head , so it was good to start the right way today . the co ords are excellent making for quick finds. Thanks for the cache kingfisher_au tnln replaced as found sl

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

Found with rainygirl74 - TFTC

Did on the return run for better parking opportunities, found, signed and replaced.

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TFTC smile 13474 out and about with miss millie geo dog and muggle twin sister great caches, great day ,good weather now On my way home to QLD spending a few days finding caches in local area after 2 weeks of rain and catching up with relatives now its time to walk the dogs‍

#4683
That's another smiley gained with Rama497 on the famous Dogs Head Trail.

#1,436
OCW this weekend with Calypso62.
We are up here to attend a couple of Geocaching NSW events.
Whilst here we attempting the Dogs Head Trail.
Quick and easy find.
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A breed with an unfortunate reputation that should be inferred on a select ownership and breeder group, and not the pups themselves. A quick park and grab as we drive around the local area today. TFTC

Tftc found with earthly65 and Indigo blue

Needing some caches for the reach the peak souvenirs the family headed out for a picninc. Got the ones south of Patterson and a couple DNF due to not being able to park and a couple missing. A nice series and drive around the area. Found today at 11:38:00 AM cache TFTC

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Left Sydney with It’s_Dozzie and GeoMonkeyGirl then met with EverestHigh to tackle the Dog’s Head Trail.

I absolutely love dogs ! Large, small, young, old, I love them all. I’ve worked with dogs, volunteered with dogs, had close to 50 as foster pets, plus a few as permanent family members too. All different breeds and all wonderful.

There’s still a few breeds on this trail that I didn’t know.

Such a fun power trail, if the caching wasn’t enough to keep me entertained the dog photos certainly were.

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Found. TFTC

#10021 09:50
A two day road trip to conquer the Dog Head Trail together with The Bebes, Everest High and Eagle Eyed Monkey Girl.
Full log will be placed with cache #197 (Standard Schnauzer).

There were a number of trees with forks, but it took not long before The Bebes found the right one!

This was cache find 12 of our road trip. TFTC!

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Day 1 on the Dogs Head Trail.
Will write a generic log until the final cache.
Thanks for the cache

Pretty spot in the rain tftc ??

Found with Robbieracer66 and Indigoblue1 tftc

Nice treasure collected here as well as the cache find. Thanks

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Spending the day with 3Ferrets today and decided to find a few more in this series. Looking forward to getting a few more souvenirs today too

Cache in good condition. Logbook dry, signed logbook without drama and put back where found. Dropped off TB.

Thanks for the series kingfisher_au and maintaining all the caches. Stellar effort

Found it with PCE today. Tfth

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No 11 for the day

Good start to the dog's head trail. Tftc

Kids are having a blast and it’s a great road trip

Found

We travelled out to the Bolwarra-Paterson section of this trail today, and managed to find every one of the 23 we attempted! Every cache was in excellent condition, and we had a great day even though it was really hot. TFTC!

Maintenance run this afternoon, this cache has either of the following maintenance done
1. log replaced
2. new bag
3. container replaced
4. water emptied
5 moved back to the original position
or all of the above

Another quick find along the Dogs Head trail. Log was damp.
Thanks for the hide kingfisher_au.

Log is very wet and needs air drying. Was unable to sign.

Thanks for going to the effort of a phenomenal geoart/puzzle trail in beautiful areas of the country. TFTC

Dog’s Head Trail by Kingfisher_au

On holidays in Nelson Bay and due to head home tomorrow I decided to do some more of the DHT. Starting back where I left off I worked my way from #11 through to #46. All caches were in great condition with the exception of #31 which for some reason is waterlogged (and log can’t be signed) even though plastic bag and cache seem intact. Thanks again for the trail Kingfisher_au. A new biggest day for me and a big start to 2021. Happy New Year everyone!

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Staying overnight in Maitland tonight, hopefully the first of many visits.
Set out to look at the green county and make a start on this trail.
All caches found in good condition here.
Thankyou for hiding this geocache kingfisher_au
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Attempting the dogs head while camped nearby. Sorry for the cut and paste posts.

Thanks to kingfisher_au we found your geocache at 12:22 p.m. on the 24 November 2020. This is #6079 for us.

We spent the weekend camping in Broke. On Saturday we headed out for a round of caching. After having 'done' Braxton, and a few other caches, we headed for the 'Dog Trail'.
Realised we would only be able to do some of them, we started from #1 (which we did not find) and then continued until we felt it be time to head back to camp.

Attempting to complete this awesome trail over a few days for my 60th Birthday Week. Today I had the help of my geodaughter, we successfully completed the task. Such an awesome trail, can’t believe how much work has been put into having this available for us to do! I feel bad placing a cut and paste log, but after a fullish day of birthday caching, I can’t see me logging all of them in one night! Thanks Kingfisher!

#230

Thanks for the entire trail! The thought and placement of each cache is a great way to burn a few hours searching for caches!

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Well 2020 has been a relatively slow year on the caching front due to COVID-19. If it wasn't for that it would have been a trip to the USA and Geocaching's 20th year celebrations.

However the crew got back together and The Rats, Hoojar and I teamed up for a few days caching up around the Hunter area. First it was to finish off some of the older OZGM series caches then up into the Watagans for more. Most of Saturday was spent tackling the great Dogs Head Trail then on Sunday it was down into Newcastle city for some great caches.

This was another find on our trip.

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COVID has really put a dampener on this year’s caching ability, but it hasn't stopped my enthusiasm to get out and find a cache whenever possible. So, it was with excitement that I was keen to catch up with Steeba and Hoojar for our first caching weekend of the year.

We targeted a number of powertrails in the Central Coast and Hunter region over our 3-day caching frenzy. The weekend threw up a bit of everything, including a plethora of finds, mountain bush bashing, coastal caching, weather that varied from beautiful to bizarre, sleeping under the stars, some close calls with the flora and fauna, lovely local hospitality and most of all, a great time away with my mates”.

Thanks to all the C.O’s for placing and maintaining their caches for us to find. Apologises for the generic log but with so many finds I couldn’t personalise every one of them.

After a chilly night and another early start we tackled our biggest day, the “Dog’s Head” trail north of Maitland saw us meandering through the picturesque countryside. It was here we found some cleverly crafted containers which added to a great day. By time nightfall we’d met up with Big Matt & MV for a lovely meal at the Paterson Hotel.
Thanks

With restrictions starting to ease in our Covid World, it was decided that 2020 caching really need to kick up a gear, and so a plan was set in motion for The Rats, Steeba and myself to head to the Newcastle and Hunter region. There were a few trails, power trails, and Lab Caches that would be hitting our radars, along with a milestone for The Rats. We headed off on Thursday evening and turned for jome on Sunday afternoon. A wonderful long weekend was had, and our cache finds topped 450 for the trip. All in all it was a great success.

The caches were excellent. Some indeed were amazing, and favourite points have been awarded. The company, as always, was faultless. The weather was varied. We had sun, rain, wind, colder, warm, more wind... A bit of everything! We managed to find a few nice spots to camp, and enjoyed the company of Big Matt and Marcus Vitruvius for dinner at a local establishment on Saturday evening.

Please forgive the boiler-plate log, I assure you it is no reflection on the caching experience of our few days away. Thank you to all cache owners for their hides.

Cheers

First leg of the Dogs Trail today with leannem59 (mum), dad also tagged along as chauffeur along the road. Did caches 1-61. Such a windy day, all caches in good condition and quick finds. Great scenery along the road as well. Thanks for organising! We will be back sometime soon to continue the trail.

#11 for the day. I love pit bulls, so it’s a fav for me!

Started Dogs Head Trail today with my daughter Nicole Masson and my hubby came along as our driver. Very windy day but the scenery was great, everywhere is very green and looking lush. We completed #1-61 and a few “other ones” on our way home. Very enjoyable can’t wait to come back and find a few more.

I have to admit I’m more of a cat person than a lover of dogs but today I set out from Port Macquarie to find the dogs head trail. Who knew there were so many breeds?! What a picture perfect, gorgeous day to be out caching. Paddocks were full of calves, lambs and baby goats, with stunning mountain backdrops. A good mix of hide locations in all sorts of containers made the trail interesting. Finding suitable parking on the side of narrow roads with 100km/h speed zones not so fun. Attacked 1-110 and the mystery eyes today, so will return another day to finish the trail. Thanks kingfisher_au

Found with shaneo58 doing some around the Maitland Area, Getting a late start due to an appointment, getting windy during the day. got a bit of a start on the doghead trail and an AL as well This is the 20th cache of 28 for today. Log signed and caches replaced as found. Thanks For The Cache kingfisher_au
Cache number 2483 at 4:26:00 PM on Thu 27Aug2020

Find # 6067
We are loving our journey around the Hunter Valley. Weather is superb, albeit a bit windy.
TFTC kingfisher_au
19 August 2020 12:59 pm

Another quick grab. Tftc

TFTC Find#184

I was in desperate need to get away this weekend for some quiet and stress free time for myself, so I decided to go for a long drive up here to grab some select caches and camp out in the Barrington Tops NP. Just myself, my coffee and a small stash of food, with a bit oif rain... and sleep in the back of my Xtrail... should be a relaxing time...
Only to get rear-ended by a young driver on a quiet country road!
While my car was still drivable, the rear hatch-door was jammed shut. I was determined to keep my Zen state of mind and still go camping (It was a 4hr drive back home). I'd just have to climb in by the rear passenger door.
It got dark, so at the campground I made a hot drink, had dinner and read a bit before going to sleep earlier than usual. So I naturally woke up after my normal hours of sleep AT 3AM! TOO EARLY TO CACHE OR DO ANYTHING!
Hours later when the sun started to rise I continue my caching run. All was good for a few hours... and then I noticed my left-rear tyre go flat! My spare is beneath the luggage floor, beneath 2 drawers FULL of heavy camping gear, all of which I had to remove through the rear passenger door!
Fast forward a bit, the spare tyre on the car, the flat one back in the car, with all the rest of my stuff, and then I noticed my front one was flat AS WELL! No second spare!
The closest town 20km away, no tyre change store open until Monday, I could only try and keep it inflated with my little foot pump and top it up where-ever safe to stop, for the 300Km drive home.
Got home safely, despite heavy rain for the last hour and emptied out my car to get ready for the repairs.
AFTER ALL THAT I STILL KEPT MY COOL!
BUT THIS WASN'T WHAT I CALL A RELAXING WEEKEND!
Thanks for the caches.

Cache in good condition TFTC

TFTC with Kayarna_

Found with kb997. TFTC!

Found it. No 11.

Found it on a road trip. TFTC great series

I joined a trip to Maitland with Aquilus1, dty73, Tankengine, Barb2e, Kitty Katch & Joolay. The weekends main game was to do the dogs head series, but along the way we did some old caches around Sydney and did as many Maitland caches as time allowed. The return journey was via some old caches and some challenges that may or may not be met one day.

Day 2 was the dogs head series and three other series around Kurri Kurri. The R&D caches and many other Maitland caches are absolutely fantastic containers showing great creativity with new tools.

Thanks for the cache kingfisher_au

29132.23 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 July Signal A#37

**Albida**

Found with and signed the Capital Crunchers who are: dty73, Tankengine, Joolay, kittycatch, Albida33, Barb2e.

A four day caching trip up around Maitland collecting a number of caches of interest to suit everyone along for the fun. A lovely area, very scenic, green and lots of historic locations. Also some great caching to be done while in the area as well as on our way there and home.

The 'Dogs head' was a main focus of the trip, and took us the the best part of the day along with a few smaller trails and a few as we passed but a lovely scenic area to spend the day in. Most caches were straight forward finds, a few took a little search and others are great 3D printed designs or LARGE! Great trail through a great area, thanks for the cache kingfisher_au.

Chooo ooo - FOUND - on our Maitland/Dogs Head invasion! Signed - Capital Crunchers! (Joolay, KittyKatch, dty73, Aquilus1, Albida and barb2e).

We have a great long weekend from Thursday to Sunday caching all around Maitland and beyond. We found some power trails and many cool places as well!

Thanks for the cache!

A caching trip away with Kittykatch, Joolay, Aquilus1, Tankengine, Barb2e & Albida33 - the Capital Crunchers Gang!!

Ah the Dogs Head. This was one of our main aims for coming up. Most of the caches were found straightforward, some not so much. But all in all this was a good trail. Apologies for the generic log. Tftc Kingfisher_au!!!

Found today with the Capital Crunchers on a trip to Maitland.

Condition Report:. Good and dry
Log Book: lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache kingfisher_au

Nice and easy TFTC

Found with Dave8153. TFTC

06/06/20
This is find number: 4107
Streak Day: 1633

Decided to head this way for the Long Weekend with Snoopy1976 to do some caching, Completed this series over the weekend.

Thanks to kingfisher_au for placing and maintaining these caches

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TFTC Change of plans saw us caching for the day. Enjoying the country drive.

Found with My Dad (DJANT) and my Brothers (dart16 & Jedi Anakin) I have my own account now and am trying to catch up to the boys Thanks Kingfisher_au for all the caches.

Finiding a few whilst travelling in the Upper Hunter
detailed log on #1 GC7RF8B
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Fork me, an easy early morning find.

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Kingfisher-au [^]

Caching in the company of GrumpyBump, on our slow, meandering way to the Mega event in Millicent, S.A.
A quick find, in the expected spot.
TNLNSL TFTC

Today I did a nice cacher tour along the Dogs Head Trail. The weather was nice and warm. I always parked in safe places and preferred to walk some steps. On the way I was always happy about the beautiful nature and the many boxes.

Thank you
Team sissifalke

Tftc. Tnln. Full description of the days activities at gc7rf8b

TFTC kingfisher new log writer. Hope to be on our way to Kurri Kurri tomorrow. Will finish Dog Head today before moving to you our other caches.

We camped at the rest area in Branxton with wazza9 and Nana Nel and ventured on this trail together. We did the majority on day one which proved to be a good move as the rain came in for day 2. We enjoyed the hides and information about the various dogs, great job on putting out this trail. Thanks to kingfisher_au for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

TFTC,
I joined Liz and Bruce & Nana nel for 2 days caching around the area. Our primary goal was to complete the Dogs Head Trail but there are plenty of other caches to try and complete across several towns.
Great to have such a variety of caches.
Thanks to Kingfisher_au for providing a trail where we could work together with other cachers and enjoy each others company while building numbers and learning about so many different breeds.
Not for me.