Black Cockatoo - Open Air Gallery Walcha, New South Wales, Australia
By geono. on 31-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7X1DE

Another variety of cache. tftc

Found It!Another quick find here on the way out of Walcha!TFTC

Heading away for the long weekend to clear some counties and found this cache on the way. The weather is brilliant and the scenery wonderful. Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Making our way to Broken Hill for Mundi Mundi Bash. Today we moved from Inverell to Uralla. Once set up in the showground we headed on over to Walcha using geocaching as our guide. We found this cache today. TFTC geono.

While spending a couple of nights in Walcha was able to get out after the rain to find this cache.Interesting art works around the area. Thanks geono for the cache.

Spending this unofficial 4 day weekend as a caching road trip through central NSW picking up a few unloved LGAs. We really enjoyed taking in the sights and feel of the country lifestyle. Thanks for contributing to our lovely weekend.TFTC

Nice hide! TFTC

Not very easy tube isnt a very good clue

(3 of 6 today)Heading up to the Gold Coast, so decided to take advantage of the trip and grab some NSW LGAs for a challenge close to home.The long drive meant I went or Park & Grabs, and thankfully they were all in place and quickly found.Mind you, going through Guyra I realised I could increase my highest found cache - so I did!Finally stopped in Casino, where Ill pick up a find tomorrow. For now Im amazed Im still awake!###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###Interesting sculpture and a quick find makes for a fave from me.SLTNLNTFTC

Me and my younger brother (6) almost came close to calling it a day and coming back later until he found a new angle. Even found a trinket inside that we could swap for one of ours Thank you

I have a few days off and decided Ive never been to Walcha. So decided to change that and come and find a few caches.Stopped here on my way into town for a quick find.TFTC

Pretty easy hardest part was getting the paper out

Came to the outskirts of town for the cache and a waymark. Love all these large artworks too. A very clever hide, fav point from us. Enough room for a mini Feng Shui coin. TFTC

A neat hide, subtle but clever. Like that this is a robust cache likely to go the distance with being muggle proof and weather proof. This is the last for us in the town, time to head for another LGA.

On a travel to qld geo style and taking time To enjoy the smilesThanks

Great little hide, TFTC

Found passing through almost gave up but then spotted it thanks

Nice quick find. Stopped close by to make a cuppa and check out the sculpture.

Made for a quick find.

A quick ‘cache stop’ on our way from Goondawindi to Gloucester- heading south again.
Found as part of our 'north for warmer weather' trip from North East Victoria to Central Queensland, via Curtis Island! We have enjoyed the great variety of caches along the way. Thank you to all the COs who maintain them for us to enjoy.

That was a good one !

A reasonably quick find - like the idea. Great sculpture. Tftc.

3 of 4 Town entryways visited today. TFTC.

What an amazing sculpture, enjoyed visiting this cache, Geono. TFTC

Last cache for us to find in this beautiful town as we now make our way towards the coast.

Thank you geono

TFTC smile 15804 out and about with miss millie geo dog on a lovely day Signed and replaced, sign as GS1947 on small caches

Thank you, geono., for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Found

Having arrived in Tamworth last night to visit with family, Blkthunder and I have a day in Tamworth and Walcha to cache and sightsee before returning to Brisbane tomorrow… there may have been more caching than sightseeing…

Walcha helps with a crazy challenge in Brisbane… arriving with no expectations our whole morning was a pleasant surprise followed by delight after delight…

A nice quick find that we spotted on approach…

Tftc…

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in NSW and grab some old caches. TFTC.
A very nice welcoming icon.

found it )

also found a friend that i preferred not to see

Heading home after a few days exploring and caching around the Armidale area.
Loved all these artworks around Walcha, such a great idea and as a bonus they make some great spots for caches too
Thanks for the cache

Cache maintenance - all good here.

Stopped here on our way out of town. A nice quick find. Thanks for placing this cache

Found with Trainsport on a short visit to town. Easily found and signed. In good condition.
Magpyre

Found it.
Thanks

Quick find, not many places it could be

TFTC

Tftc
Quick cold park and signed

Found!

Quick find on our way home. Just a great spot for a days caching. TFTC

Strong magnets. Great series. Tftc

Found with my Dad and big brother on our Walcha road trip weekend....
***TFTC!!!***

#5072
We made a detour down Thunderbolts before heading out to Tamworth, Samuel spotted this before he left the car.... those are some strong magnets, I think I nearly lost a finger replacing it!
TFTC!

While driving up to this one, I spotted it from the car. We got to this massive statue, making a quick find after eventually getting the container out of its hide with its super strong magnets.

TFTC geono.

On our way to Toowoon Bay from Warwick for an event on 22/2/22, stopping at Walcha on the way.

Last night, we completed the Adventure Lab, today finding the bonus cache.....What a fun cache and adventure in town. Cute but tricky hide. Would never have guess the end of this tale!

However, today, as we left town, thought we had better find another cache. We found the Black Cockatoo in the first place we looked. luckily, we had a TOTT which helped us gain access to the log... Thanks geono.....

Sweet location and hide. Thanks geono. and fav point

Found with Bek76 and Gum62 TFTC

Found it with bek76 and MDT79

Found with Gum62 and MDT79 TFTC

Our last day in Walcha so we decided to head out in the car and find all those geocaches which are a little far to walk to. No trouble for us extracting the container today.

Thanks for find #2538
TNLN

Checked today to see what the problem with the cache was. It should be easily accessible now.

We went to Walcha for a caching morning. A quick find was had at GZ, but container was not retrievable with the tools that we had.

We sent photo to CO of issue at hand and they have allowed us to log the find.

Many thanks for taking us to all of these sculptures.

TFTC

Twas a bit tricky to get it out but a piece of grass helped!

A nice welcome to Walcha. TFTC

A nice place for a quick stop while I'm road tripping from Glen Innes back to Sydney
Very well constructed, as per usual Geono

Found while diving to Sydney with themonarchmoth

Quick park and grab TFTC

The cache has a new container due to the broken clips on the previous one. The size has changed from small to micro.

Walcha certainly loves it wooden sculptures! A quick find was made here and then we headed back to the craft shop - came out with a print and some lovely marmalade. Thanks geono.

Out and about in Walcha, trying to find caches I have not found as yet, and this was one of them. A reasonably quick find. TFTC geono

Another interesting carving. It’s hard to imagine the work put into them. Thankyou for bringing us here.

Nice quick stop along our way
TFTC

Always drive past, good stretch of the legs today. TFTC

Quick find with SJG66 as we headed North. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our way north.

A quick park and grab as we exit town. It was in the open so we recovered a little to at least pretend it’s ‘hidden’. TNLN TFTC

On a trip with teamMerlin and TARDIS 0061 into regional NSW a lot of kms were covered in a few days. Today we got to 13 caches found and a number of LGAs hadn't been to before

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache geono.

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Roadtrip - home. Well "half" way. I decided to add a few counties to my count on the way home. I am not going to try and do them all - I would take days to get home. Just going to the ones that are close to my planned route.

Thanks for a nice easy quick find after a long drive.

On a caching run exploring regional NSW and collecting some previously unfound LGAs along the way with phlphotos and TARDIS 0061. Another big day driving today with a total of 13 caches collected, covering 6 new LGAs. Signed the log and replaced as found. All caches and logs found are in good condition. Thanks for the cache geono.

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, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

full log to follow

Yes, found it.
Thanks

TFTC love the house next door!!

A nice easy park and grab at an interesting statue. Thanks for the cache

TFTC,
On our way south and glad to see another cache in Guyra.
Heading to Uralla to do the Adventure Lab and onto Gloucester for our second last night away this trip.
A good drive by, only had to place one foot on the ground.

On way out of town, I sat in the car while log was brought to me, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to geono.

Nice & easy. Loving these sculptures. Very unique!

Finished all of Walcha’s traditional caches! Thanks for taking us to some interesting places around Walcha that we haven’t seen before TFTC!

Find #16 (26/6/2020) on a trip around to Maitland, Armidale and back with JessYoung96.

Easy find and saw it as soon as we walked up to the geocache.

The statue was a lot taller than we expected and I do love the 'WALCHA' writing on the wings.

Great location and TFTC.

Found with theprodigalgoat on the 26/6/20 on the way to Armidale and it was freezing cold but we spotted it straight away
Easy find
TFTC

The art trail and caches made our visit to Walcha fun. TFTC

Tamworth and Amrmidale Trip March 2020. Day 5. I headed north with Fitzy_1965 along the New England Highway towards Tamworth. Today we moved north to Armidale, but not in a straight line. The day was mostly roadside caches, but they were all of differing levels of challenges, especially when you have to deal with Farmers Friends and Stinging Nettles at almost every cache.

We spent a bit of time around Walcha visiting some great locations with some very good caches in them. I was impressed.


Thanks for the cache geono.

28625.8 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2014 Compass Rose Immortality A#301

**Albida**

20,598. Found with albida33 during a meander up to and around the Tamworth and Armidale regions.

Day 5 of our trip. Packed up the rather wet campsite and headed out after breakfast for what turned out to be another big days caching. We aimed to cache our way up to Armidale. Next stop of the day, and we came up with a quick find. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then headed off to the next one.

TFTC geono !!

Thanks for quick find with Lonely Ra love the wood carving

Nice!

Easy found:)
Tftc

Stopped here on the way into town to visit nan and grumps for a xmas celebration. A quick find. TFTC

Thanks again geono.
I walked on a bit further to get a better look at the Langford mansion. Very impressive.

TFTC! Evie got!

Driving from Sydney to Armidale and broke up the drive with a few park and grabs. Normally I dred seeing black cockys as they usually mean rain but not in this case just a smiley. Duties done TFTC

Found tyftc. Challenging whitey wiskas to 1500 finds first before dec 31st.

Thanks for this fun series, a great set of caches =)

Nice little treasures inside this one.

A nice quick find, signed, and back in the car out of the wind! TFTC Geono

8831 Located by baby&Mrs gopher ( We also sign as bMg on small log sheets ) at 1130. The first of the series in the Open Air Gallery. SL Tnx geono

A really easy find. TFTC.

Found at 1:45 PM GAFF1.
Well that wasn't the welcome we were expecting! Where are the "wild rivers running" to start with!
If the name "Walcha" is aboriginal rather than Dutch then it just means "happy meeting place" - nearly all of the place names using aboriginal words mean that - I know 'cause I have been observing that over the many years of travelling this country [^].
Our first cache for the day after leaving PMQ at around 11.00am for a weekend trip to Uralla and Armidale - really looking forward to meeting up with our friends - Geono.
Thanks geono..

Tftc, outstanding carving, s/l cheers RIGBYinc

Haven't been to Walcha in years so with the help of my geodog Scruffy, we decided to find a few of the caches in the area ...

All Good .. TFTC ..

All signed, Thanks

Last stop for me on the Walcha trail,
and I caught a cocky by the tail
A quick cache find in the open air [^]
TFTC [^]

Found

Continuing on my long weekend adventure. This was the first cache of the morning on my journey south. I parked close to GZ and soon spotted the cache. I added my name tot he log, returned the cache to its spot, then continued on my way. TFTC

The artwork in Walcha is terrific and we are letting the caches lead us from one to the next. Another quick find was made here and all was in good order.
TFTC.