Bengello Walk 13 Broulee, New South Wales, Australia
By Youban on 30-Dec-18. Waypoint GC81R2Z

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Reperio 07:18Day 4 of our NSW south eastern caching tour, and Master Vitruvius and I travelled from Batemans Bay to Eden. The biggest factor of our travels today was the wind. Often blowing so hard it was a challenge to both get the log signed and hang onto zip lock bags. The journey along the coast was fantastic. With rain threatening to arrive early the next day, we aimed to get as much done as we could, and so concentrated our effort on ticking off the caches along Bengello Beach. Found most of the caches we searched for, so it was a great day out.Gratias YoubanAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

The wind died down overnight and we woke to a beautiful sunny morning with the barest of a breeze. So it was onto the bikes and out to the Bengello trail to see how far we could get. We ended up making it to the entrance at Moruya Beach with plenty of finds and a couple of DNFs. Coordinates were generally very good, and the hides well set up and in good condition. Towards the end there were some really interesting containers which we appreciated.Riding the trail was not as easy as well-formed pathways but the bush very interesting, broken up by the occasional excursion over to the beach.We made it back to camp by lunch time, both a bit worn by the ride and the rough countryside we at times had to cover to get to GZ. In the later afternoon we headed out again to find a couple of other caches close to camp.A great series we enjoyed, so we will be back in the next few days to work on those remaining.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Youban.**SKI Pair****

Accompanied by ALL7, Nice weather was partly cloudy with little showers, then a little while later, it became fully sunny, we travelled to Broulee to run a series of heaps of caches. Some drove, some walked, and some biked. Some **(WOW)** excellent ones are interesting, look at clever ones on the drifferent types of caches in different ways. Love it. Signed the log by the stamp of us. TFTC

Accompanied by 63ROOS, Nice weather was partly cloudy with little showers, then a little while later, it became fully sunny, Some drove, some walked, and some bikes...Poor My car hard work drive to dirty road all the way but goood fun...(WOW) excellent ones are interesting, look at clever ones on the drifferent types of caches in different ways. Love it. .. Fav for you.. wink. tks

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Staying at Broulee Caravan park, and today we got the bikes down after a long period of not being able to ride. A cool but sunny day doing the Bengello walk.Total Caches Found 16283TFTC Youban

This one was so hun I loved it

3rd of 6 not found todayThe plan was to have another look on the return journey but we detoured on to the beach and therefore ran out of time to stop and look again. This DNF definitely should not imply it's not there.

Out for a day of caching on the South Coast with Steeba and The Rats, aiming for a few series and finishing with the 20th Anniversary Earthcache Event.Hot day for a walk, bet we will be wishing for a sea breeze by the end. Let's see howany of this series we can knock over.Cheers

Out for a days caching with steeba and Hoojar. We had a lovely day on the south coast. This was one of many we found throughout the day.TFTC

Headed down the coast for a day mainly to celebrate the Wasp Head event with The Rats and Hoojar but found plenty of caches along the way for a nice day out.TFTC!

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The GPS was making it hard

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Out again today with LittleBoss2 to knock off as many of these as we can. These are new containers to us. Thanks again Youban

A day out caching with Bogonghazy. Quick find. Thanks for placing the geocache

Thanks for it

Tftc great

Found this cache although nature was doing it's best to stop me from finding it.

A day of walking along the tracks between Broulee and North Moruya Heads for a whole bunch of caches. Pleasant walk through the forest and only light bush to have to walk through, some really good cool caches in this area. TFTC.

Found with Jondub. TFTC

Found with Curloo. Thanks for the hide. This one is missing the inner lid.

A wombat (or something) had had their way with cache and bits were all over the place. Rehabilitated but the little cap is missing - TFTC

Nice hide

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A couple of days at the coast.
Cool, but beautiful and sunny; definitely warmer than Canberra.
We made our way down yesterday, stopping along the way for a few adventures and a couple of caches, a pie in Braidwood for lunch then we set up camp in Tomakin for 3 nights.
An awesome place to stay, and right by the river, we have a spectacular sunset (see photos).

Today we tackled this awesome series.
For many years, we used to stay at Mossy Point in the summer and run/ride this beautiful trail. We would make our way to the airport and watch the “cigar” plane take off or land.
Today, we also watched a skydiving plane take off and then paused on our walk to watch the parachutes, skydivers land.
In later years, quite spontaneously, our son flew us in a small 4 seater plane to the Moruya airport, and we picked up a FTF (unexpectedly), just 50 metres from the airport!

Today we were on foot, and it was a long walk.
About this series. It is beautiful and awesome forest/beach trail.
The care in creating the hides is lovely; none of the hides are “hidden”. All out in the open but invisible unless you are truly looking. Most were quick finds, however 2 or 3 took us somewhat longer.
Our name is in the log for all.
We say a big thank you to Youban for this awesome series.
Now onto the bonus final…

East cache that had us confused for a few minutes. TFTC

TN-LN

Thanks

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Catching up with some very late logs. This was found while staying in the area and grabbing just a few for the day, while out on our bikes.

An easy enough find at GZ. Enjoyed the trail.

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

Quick easy find
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found it TFTC

Great cache

Watch out for the log. We found it had fallen out of its tube & it was found at the bottom of the pipe. TFTC.

Log jammed in the container. Unable to log.

Really enjoyed this trail and appreciate all the effort the CO has put into hiding interesting and creative containers. All the coords were pretty much spot on which helped in this bush setting.

All attempted were found and logs signed with the exception of one DNF logged separately. Unsurprisingly some of the logs were damp but still able to be signed. TFTC and the series Youban

Found number 13 only 12 to go.

Off to the south coast of NSW for a week.
Doing a few of these with the gkids. Found all but one of those that we did. Nice.

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Back for the second day - walking the rest of the Bengello walk with the geopooch and finishing off the rest of the caches. Lovely walk amongst the bush and back along the beach again. TFTC

TFTC Great day for a walk and cache.

Found it with Silence49 while on travelling

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Too cold for snakes here today... A quick find, thanks.

Cache in good condition but your tree has a big white X on it? Could be up for removal? TFTC

Found it and put cap back on (Was off when found)

Found. I think the lid has come off so log container has water in it.

C.P

Log saturated unfortunately

Did not look, too close to red belly black snake

Camping at Bateman’s Bay. Excited to see this trail. Jumped into the car, with the geopooch and headed south. What a beautiful walk. Thanks for bringing us here Youban. We’ll be back to finish it another day. Thanks for placing all these caches to find.

I decided I needed another solo geocaching holiday to detox before uni so I thought the Bengello caches (the Bengello Walk and all the other nearby series') were a great excuse for holidaying at Broulee! Bengello is a stunning area, with a great mix of lovely vegetation and awesome ocean views. The weather was hot today but super blue and lovely, and (for the most part) pretty shady! Started walking at 7am (I didn't get a good sleep) from my accommodation and got back at 3:30pm, with 55 caches to boot. Great to spend Valentine's Day spending time around my true love, geocaching!

The caches in the Bengello Walk series were all found within a couple of minutes each, some instantaneously but some after a bit longer (but that's all about luck, I reckon finding speed would be variable for many people). Unfortunately a vast majority of the logs are quite wet, some unusable, so maintenance is required. I noticed that caches with clues for the bonus tended to be more wet than caches without the bonus (if you've found you the series you'll understand this difference). Speaking of clues, I forgot to look for clues in the first seven caches so before I go back to Canberra in a couple of days I'll need to revisit the area to grab the numbers and the bonus, plus attempt two DNFs within very close walking distance. A lovely series with some funky containers. TFTC Youban!

easy find tftc bb and bj

My battery died, but we found it with Short_Teas phone!

Signed as BB & BJ!

Gets easier the further you go

Great container with easy access. This trail is a lovely way to spend the morning meandering through the forest. Tftc

A quick find. I have done a longer log on number one and 22. TFTC

X marks the spot

Got it

The log was wet but with waterproof paper. Don't know if our ink will last though

With ACT residents no being able to travel to an area around the capital including the coast, it was time to plan a trip. There was a good sized group where we were going to base in Moruya for three days. I traveled with Sol de Lune and Smitten Granny. Others were Cosmonaut97, Kitty Katch, Joolay, Barb2e, fitzy_1965 & MinnieK. Most logs were signed Kapital Krunchers. We had a great weekend of lots of caching in fantastic weather. Day two was more caches around Moruya, we were joined by My Windy who was also holidaying on the coast. We started with south of the river with a walk and then down to the heads for the low tide caches. After lunch it was North of the heads and surprisingly there was enough time to finish the Bengello walk and the airport caches.

After walking from Pendragon to the coast track for a third time, we worked out way south back to the airport for these remaining walk caches. One DNF along the way.

Thanks for the cache Youban

33272.107 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Australia 2 A#22

**Albida**

A weekend down the coast for our group from Canberra and this was now day 2. Most logs were signed as Capital Crunchers....

Having left the main group for a while, Smittengranny, Albida and I set out to finish this walk and series. Found all but one of the caches. A neat walk that wasn't too taxing at almost the end of our day....and it was great to finish the series.

Thanks for another Youban....

A great group of cachers from Canberra known as the Capital Crunchers have come down to this area for a long weekend of fun and caching. This is Day 2 and we have been blessed with the weather and the multitude of incredible caches .

Sol de Lune, Albida and i have left the main group and are attacking this trail as the group has completed the list of caches that we were targeting today.

Wow now I understand a conversation that I had earlier with dty73.

Thanks for this trail Youban. SL

Easy find, peaceful walk!

Log and cap replaced. Good to gp

Found but log wet and couldn’t retrieve

Last one for today excellent local path made walking in lockdown fun this one was to wet to write on. TFTCs

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Quick find, good spot, log is wet

Found it! Gps accurate
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Great find:)

Took a couple of circuits to spot this one. Cache in good condition. Tftc

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Found

A nice quick one this time around. TFTC

I really enjoyed this trail. This walk was on my to do list while in the area for a few days. I got a bit lucky with a few rain free hours which let me get to #14 before having to turn back. Great series and clever once I figured out what I was looking for. TFTC.

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Ride or walk - we chose the first option and enjoyed one of the best geo trails we have experienced. Cleverly constructed, well hidden caches with clear mystery numbers kept our focus. We were asked a couple of times by passing muggles if we were OK!!

Thanks Youban for creating this excellent trail.
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A recent fallen tree branch has made that one a bit harder! Tftc

We found the caches on the Bengello Walk. Thanks for the nice walk ????

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Tricky to find..gz had me.other side of path

good spot

Wow

Found

It’s well hidden now that another tree has fallen down

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In the area for a few days away pre Christmas, any excuse to geocache really. Took the bike and the geodog and peddled from Tomakin to the numerical start of the trail.

I usually hate micro caches but this trail was fantastic. The creativity of the containers was excellent, coords were great and caches were easy to find when you knew what to look for but well hidden if you weren’t looking.

The clues for the mystery cache were easy to find even if you weren’t looking.

Unfortunately we weren’t able to log the mystery today as it’s closer to the Moruya Heads end. Geodog was running out of steam and I didn’t want to make her do another 6-8km (it was already an 18km return trip).

This is easily the best series I’ve done. Well done Youban.

TFTC

Found it

Maintenance run. Cache repairs and new logs placed. All good to go

Easy find lid missing and paper wet

Part of the container is missing.

Find Number 2095 found at 13:22. Today we had 20 finds and 0 DNFs. This was the 16th find of the day.

Friday bridge was cancelled, so I decided to head South to grab some caches.

The removable part of this one was missing. Obviously muggled. I found some paper in my wallet to use as a temporary log and dropped it into the tube. I don't know if there was a clue in this one.

Thanks Youban for the cache.

Found. TFTC