SideTracked - WAITARA Waitara, New South Wales, Australia
By fdsawq on 22-Sep-18. Waypoint GC7Y404

Really small, had to look twice to see where it was

Nice quick park and grab while avoiding after school muggles

Fifth sidetrack cache for the day. Nice quick find. TFTC

TFTC!! A lil out of place when I found it, should be good now though. Paper running low space though

Out today with Brewmaker and Calyposo62 who both had already collected this cache but they came for the train ride. Never realised the background name of Waitara always thought it had an aboriginal background rather than Maori.After getting off the train while doing a "circuit training" walked to GZ to find the cache exactly as the hint.TFTC fdsawq

Found at night with teamhump33s keen eyes finding it quickly

Found at night with team_chicken. Log was full. TFTC!

Found cache seemingly dropped, so not sure exactly where to replace it, but did my best. Thanks for the cache!

Seemed hard at first but found it after looking in the same place twice! Good laugh

Bit tricky to find but we got it on our second attempt!

Well hidden. But definitely here.

Not here cant find it anywhere,

Got side tracked to grab this one, on an early morning with a plan for a long bush walk up north. Nice start of the day, tftc!

Tftc

Very nice

Thank you!

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 13413.Out on a days caching with Team737 and Mighty Minions. This was a quick grab, I was worried the cache had fallen into a hole and the spotted it. Thanks fdsawq for the cache.

#7954After rain and cold called off our 6hr walk, we headed into urban Sydney for whatever we could find with Mighty Minions and BigMatt.On our way to another cache, Big Matt spotted some lush parking right near GZ, so we pounced! Thanks for the cache!

#7955As rain thwarted our plans with Mighty Minions and Big Matt today, we all decided we could put the time to use and work towards the souvenir. We were planning to do a little train lap around the place and nab some caches, but the trains were down (just our luck!) Instead we cruised around and collected whatever we felt like grabbing and had a great day! end copy paste Quick find by Matt here! TNLN SLThanks for placing and maintaining this cache fdsawq

Hard to find at night but good hiding

Despite the two previous DNFs, I managed to find this one in the first place I looked. It was barely nestled in a hiding spot where I was concerned that it would fall out in some heavier rain, but it's clearly stood the test of time.TFTC!

I tried the surrounding areas and the tree but couldn't find it. Might try again in daylight.

Didn't find it, someone must have mistaken it for garbage and threw it away

Was a fun cash thank you

Fun

The difficulty depends on the previous find. Pretty easy find for us.

First find

Very exited for our first geocache. My 5 year old says good luck to all the others!

Really helpful hint TTFC

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 WAC to save time.This is 15494, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to fdsawq 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.

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 8. 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)

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 WAC to save space, abbreviation for Western Australia Crew. Cheers fdsawq! 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!

Nice, quick and good hint! Perfect coordinates as well. Sorry didnt have pen.

In the area and saw the opportunity to grab this one. Replaced as found. TFTC

Yay

took some looking and encouragement from Mr Crow, but i found it. not a good day to be training on the nth shore line. oh, and its raining. TFTC

Quick find on my way to Magpies down the road. TFTC

found while trying not to be early to a friends place. unfortunately the GPS is incredibly accurate so it did not take long to find hahaTFTC!!

Found on a cool Monday night with a slimy guardian. TFTC

Tftc

Cool spot! And a pretty cool container! Never seen one of those before TFTCPS : hi to the person that found this here earlier today, sorry we missed you!

Nice spot

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 38 - Hornsby - Sydney, New South Wales (50 km)Vera jsem to zakikla a dnes bylo od rna nebe zcela bez mrk, ostr slunce a teploty a do 35C. Uf. A to jsem mla v plnu odlov dalch pr starch keek, ke kterm se vdy deru kovm. Rno jsem si odlovila keku pmo u hotelu a jela do vilov tvrti na prohldku krsn vily z 50. let 20. stol od slavnho architekta Harry Seidlera. Vilka krsn, celou jsem ji prolezla, shldla dokument, nafotila a vyrazila dl ke star multikei z 2001 Frog Hollow. Opt nastalo velk hledn v ternu zcela zbyten, neb keku jsem nakonec nala na vodnch souadnicch, kdy u jsem zcela zmoen sluncem odchzela. Njak mi ty star keky dvaj zabrat. Pak u jsem jela do Sydney, kde dnes a ztra spm u kamarda. Jela jsem ovem ze severu, tak jsem toho vyuila a stavila se jet u jedn star tradiky, kde jsem ovem box stejn jako kaer pede mnou nenala. Msto bylo jasn. A pak dolo i na odlov t nejstar australsk keky Lane Cove, neb tento park byl hned vedle. Takovou euforii jako zdoln keky Frying Pan ve m tato ke ale nevyvolala. Asi je to tm, e je to virtulka, a jak chyb ta krabika, tak to bylo jen o vyfocen ani ne moc zajmavho msta a njakch potech. Ale co, nejstar je nejstar. Tm jsem se v tom vedru zcela vyerpala a jela do centra Sydney a strvila velmi pjemn nedln veer v hospod s kamardy, pivem a vnem.Today I visited Rose Seidler House near Hornsby and continued my journey to Sydney and made a few stops at the old caches. First I found Frog Hollow and than moved to Lane Cove and found the oldest cache there. Near was another old cache but there is no container more. And my journey finished in the centre of Sydney where my friends live. We have together a nice sunday evening in the pub. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

Fun and easy

Thx

The 33rd geocache we have found tftc

Got to GZ and there was construction everywhere and I thought I hope this hasnt gone. But no its still here.

Thanks for the hide

Got it,even with all the workies about and no pen so took a pic instead. Hope that's OK? TFTC greetings from Scotland

Quick stop here as we head south... grabbing a few missing lgas along the way. Tftc

Out in great company today - just as well, as one of our lateral thinkers discovered it out of position on the ground. Replaced for the next brave searchers. TFTC!

TFTC.I found the cache on the ground. Hope I put it back in the correct place. Out geocaching with Mighty Minions and 2 Pods today on this glorious spring day. Im visiting from the Hunter Valley

out caching with techsavvy9 and 2pods today and we stopped for this cache, we searched for a while before techsavvy9 found the cache laying on the ground. replaced in the logical spot. Thanks for the cache.

This was my second ever cache and I brought my whole family to Find it. It was very enjoyable and I loved it.

After a successful afternoon tracking down 6 years of unloved on caches, we still had some time for a few more caches. Hardest part of this caches was finding somewhere to park the car during peak hour! Once at GZ a quick find was made. With the cache in hand, we signed the log, then replaced as found. Thanks for the cache fdsawq.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, BEETLE BUG RED, Ein Knopf auf Reisen, Travel Bug Origins - Deutschland, Shaneypoo the Grasshopper, TILTA of Doghill, Wally Gecko Travel Bug, Zombie-1, PDXJim's Geowoodstock XII Official Event Trackable, Beginner Blog Trackable

Full log to follow

A quick trip to Sydney to meet up with RoamingHowie who was en route to QOGM.
Day One: An early morning flight from MEL. Then, passing through as many LGAs as possible as we drive up to Newcastle, finding various caches along the way.

Upon arrival we wondered if this would be behind the construction fence. But all good. A quick find.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, fdsawq
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Day 6. A last minute plan had been hatched to make my way to QOGM. Very little planning had been done but a very rough outline was in place and it was going to be a day by day trip.

OZHockeyChick was flying in this morning for 3 days of caching around Sydney and Newcastle including Frying pan!

A relatively quick find here in a likely location.

Thanks fdsawq for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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Found with Bestie

Found with bestie

Didn’t find it

After a while of searching, I had a look at the previous posts but I still could not find it

Camo is missing, found the container under leaves. TFTC

Found It!
Stopped to find this one while on my way to the nearby sidetracked event. Waited for a couple construction workers to leave and then soon found the cache!
TFTC

Found, with shaneo58 doing a few caches along the northern line after coming down from Newcastle for the day, on this excellent winters day, After getting of the train, we headed to GZ, but found barricades in the road so had to go around the block to get to it , making a quick find.

Signed log and Cache replaced as found.
**Thanks For The Cache** fdsawq.

This makes the 1st cache of 6 for today making a grand total of 4155 at 10:23AM on this Thursday the 3rd of August in the Year 2023

Another train trip from Newey with BillHill531 targeting stations on the North Line. Nearly got really sidetracked with this as they are doing construction around GZ nearly blocking it in. A quick find today. TFTC fdsawq

Tftc

Inside tree lol

I found in tree

Went for a long walk from home and picked up this as one of my expanding radius after years out of the game. Thanks!

A fairly straightforward find. At first I found some black tape in a shape that implied it came off a cache, but with no cache attached, which had me concerned! But a bit more searching and the cache was spotted!

All in good nick, replaced as found. TFTC!

Great quick find. TFTC

Hi there, found it on way home from work. Nice spot.Thank you. Regards SilverDory.

Awesome Find. Had a laugh. Had fun finding this one. Found with Chucktanoy

Great find. Fun challenge. Found with curlyjow.

Simple, but effective. Glad it wasn't under the pair of boxers hanging from the tree

managed to quickly grab on my way to school in the morning loved the underwear and bottle details even if not purposeful LMAO stick was useful in taking the logbook out since it was quite comfortable

Hard to find as I didn’t wanna touch the dirty undies handing nearby

You found very hard to found

Found it! A bit tricky but quite easy once you actually look.

Log replaced (thanks for the temp one, binliner!). Cache on

A nice find, had to avoid some workers doing things in the area. TFTC

This one was nice after a few unsuccessful recent hunts. TFTC

Container is in place and secure. However, regrettably the log appears to have gone walkabout - had a check around the base without unearthing anything. Replaced with a piece of notepaper which I signed. Should easily last a few weeks. TFTC fdsawq

That's fun

Thanks for the cache, it was where I suspected it would be, along with some bonds undies and a bottle of grog which I wasn’t expecting. Thanks again!

Yay!! My first!! Thanks

Cache check: GZ is accessible and container is in place. Cache on!

Came along with goingplaces2 and found the container here. Log was signed and replaced with no muggles around. Happy to have found this one. TFTC.

Happy to add this SideTracked cache to our collection. There was no problem in finding it with ilook4geo and adding our names to the log. Thanks for this cache placement go to fdsawq.

Found with Freddy’s friend tftc

Found with Loganthebogan

Replaced log. Cache on!

Expected where it would be. No log in cache, but claiming. Will lodge maintenance report.

Logbook not present. Needs maintenance

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

A quick stop on our way out to visit Grandma.

Cheers

Found quickly but there was no log in the container. Took photo and replaced. TFTC