WLS #38 Wilton, New South Wales, Australia
By ozgeomuster on 01-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82JVR

Time for this one to retire.

As other DNF

Same as others it is not there

No real finds for 4 months. No action on the NM for 6 weeks. time's up!

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2 sets of eyes searching with no luck

As StrangeTrousers posted it has been a while since we were at the OzGeomuster and getting a chance to now play with the artwork and pick up the puzzles that we had worked on as a group prior to the event and due to time constraints picked up the other fun things on offer like the Lab Caches back then. It was another great day in the sunshine with a Garmin in my hand and exploring places. We had a go at CacheTur and having just got a new phone I reverted to using its map feature. Going to spend a little more time using CacheTur for planning my upcoming caching days. Ditto what ST mentioned about Picton Rd – scary. Loved that ST had a “hight enhancer” – ladder in his car for our travels and that it got put to good use at the end of the day. Had never seen a koala fence before so that was something new to come across whilst down there. Big thank you to everyone for all the work on the caches and puzzles and a special thanks to ST for all the driving.





Thanks anyway ozgeomuster

It's been quite a while since the OzGeomuster at "The Gong", but collection of these solved puzzles comprising the Lighthouse series has been outstanding. Today CC & I made the short journey from Canberra back up to Appin/Wilton to grab these caches. It was a lovely calm, but warm day hitting about 29C for most of the afternoon. We tried to use CacheTur's routing to gather the caches, but it quickly became apparent this wasn't going to work as we drove past places we know caches were located. It seemed to make no sense, so we quickly abandon this reverting to our GPSr for the next closest. We didn't enjoy the caches along Picton Rd so, much, the traffic was scary. We had to duck across the road on a few occasions, which wasn't all that fun. Not too many misses today. Sorry for the generic logs, puzzles were solved as a group before the Mega, so I can't remember too many details, but we had quite a few fun evenings of puzzle solving.

Thanks anyway ozgeomuster

Definitely not here despite 2 pairs of eyes looking and expanding the area.
Needs maintenance please

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

Four DNFs and 40 finds here tonight. With all the DNFs in the same street, looks like it's been attacked.

Part of our night time incursion into the depths of the Wilton area. Teamed up with my grumpy partner in crime to brave the freezing gales on our quest to complete the Mystery at the Museum challenge.
We searched high and low and around and around to no avail.

SL TFTC

TFTC

OCW PelDroedGwin

Having sat on the answers to this fun geoart trail for too long, today was the day we finally managed to get out on the hunt. It also worked well to coincide with the Mystery at the Museum challenge.

An interesting puzzle to solve.

Our first DNF of the day. We searched around but found nothing. Given the previous log suggesting that the neighbour knows it to be missing I think this one needs a CO check please

TFTC

No good today.

Out picking up a few of the Wollongong Lighthouse series. A great puzzle to work on.
Thanks for the challenge.

This road was our nemesis today. The owner of the property behind the bus stop came out to tell us that the ‘brown vegemite size jar’ that used to be under the rock that was still there was gone. He had seen it and people looking for it, but didn’t know what had happened to it. He was very friendly. TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. ????????

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH OzGeoMuster [^]

TFTC!

Been out and about caching now to catch up on logging. TFTC

some others and I found this cache whilst out and about. I am now catching up from some geocache logging after the ozgeomuster and the rest of the weeks full of geocaching. TFTC co's. i apologize for all of the generic logs

Thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this geoart! While I plotted the shape & wrote a lot of puzzles from back home in Brisbane, it was a team effort all around. I was very happy to finally get onsite and see it in the field.. thanks to:
Kyzabra for numbers 1-4
Burgo for number 7, 18, 19, 56
Seemyshell for the final placements and coordinate collection &
MizMaz for local support fixing them up as best we could!
I grabbed all the art, (except the challenges under my geoname) over the course of the weekend! As usual. My fav part of mega geoart is bumping into other cachers in the field

Enjoying my time at the OZmega and having a look at the Wooloongong area.

Caught up with AyKayEm and we hatched plans to do as many of the Lighthouse series as we could this afternoon, before returning to camp for the talks and talent quest.

We decided to go out and do some more of the series this evening and were merrily on our way when we confronted by a barricade on the other side of Appin. Oh no!! Disaster!!

In spite of numerous large signs warning not to, someone who should not have been in charge of a fully loaded B-double, but was, decided to take one through the Broughton Pass, getting it stuck and wrecking the narrow bridge guardrail. As there is a tight hairpin bend at each end of the bridge, the wonder of it all was that he managed to get the truck to the bridge to damage it!

What that meant for us, was to go halfway to Sydney and then come back down on another road to reach the caching area. It involved an extra 55 km each way as well as the extra time and petrol.

Cursing the idiot driver, we did the looong detour and eventually ended up on the same side of the pass as the caches. We visited 16 caches tonight before again taking the looong detour back to camp, creeping in sometime after 3am.

TFTC ozgeomuster??

I was up here for the OZGeomuster, went to the CITO with echocage1, then we decided to head out and find a few of the lighthouse caches before the late afternoon seminars. After the seminars, and the evening talent show, we decided to head out for some night time adventures, and find some more lighthouse caches. We didn't get far before we had to "do a youey" and go the rather long way around to get to the area - thanks to some idiot who thought it would be a good idea to ignore all the large "No heavy vehicles beyond this point" signs, and somehow manage to drive a B double around the hairpin bend and onto the bridge, where he got stuck, and destroyed the gaurd rails in the process ... (and as a result, the road was closed for the night, and for at least another day or more, meaning I also had to take the long way home from the Mega as well). We had fun, until we eventually decided we should head back to camp and get at least some sleep - we arrived back at camp after 3am (oops? lol)
TFTC - Sorry for the mostly generic logs, but (as far as finding them went) these were mostly generic caches - lol
(I did scribble some notes for a couple of caches, so I am including those at the end of the log, where relevant ... )

This one wasn't generic ... We searched and searched, in, on, behind and around the private bus stop, in front of the house with the barking dog, and no container was to be seen. I was going to log a DNF, but after talking with the CO (one of the OZGM organisers) the next day, and describing the suspiciously empty "likely spot" I had found during our extensive search, she confirmed that there had been trouble with some of the locals in the area, and it had probably gone missing, again, and gave permission/suggested we log it as found

K C N & I were trying to find as many of this series as we could in a limited time.
I think we over thought this one - climbed up / couldn't see or reach anything..... sigh, such is life !

### Mega OZGeomuster 2019 The Gong ###
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We’ve solved many mysteries prior attending the event.
We’ve encountered some difficulties but we’ve got help from some nice cachers.
Today was the day! We’ve stated early and were able to find all of the lighthouse tour caches

Thank you for the nice caches
Team sissifalke

Today we were out try try and get all the lighthouse series and others finished before we head back home tomorrow morning after enjoying the 3 days of the Oz GeoMuster. It has been an awesome few days. This was the 16th find for the day. Thanks for the fun

Find #95 on our geocation to the Mega at Cataract Park via Canberra for a couple of nights.

This was #16 of 54 for the day. I attracted a bit of attention from the local dogs so i hope their owners don't notice the people coming and going here.

Thanks

Found while at the OZGM with Jedi_Anakin, Dart16 ,
Nice collection of caches TFTC

Found with Djant Jedi_Anakin at the OZ Muster 2019
TFTC

OCW Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior. All puzzles solved before the ozgeomuster, found at the ozgeomuster. Signed as the shoesx3. TFTC

OCW Sensible Shoes and Little Shoes. All puzzles solved before the event. TFTC. signed as shoes x3

I always like a bit of geoart, and particularly am a fan of those utilizing multiple cache types. There was a good range of caches within each type too, showing a lot of effort had been put into the cache design. So this was a clear must grab while attending the OZGM. Did not take too long to grab these, with the traces of increased foot traffic over the weekend lending a hand for a couple of hides. TFTC!

Found while attending Oz Geo Muster 2019, TFTC.

Jess.daphne and I have had a great couple of days caching around the Gong as part of the OZGM. This is our first international Mega event and I'm looking forward to many more in future. Thanks for setting up this series and for maintaining the caches for everyone to enjoy. Tftc from Team Jeje.

Found today with Injeanious sometimes logging as Team JeJe. We are over visiting from New Zealand for the Wollongong MEGA event and are really enjoying some of the great local caches. Today we are grabbing some of the lighthouse series and enjoying meeting other cachers along the way. TFTC!

Today team novo x3 on day two of our OZGM2019 mega area tour, doing some select caches from the Stanwell Tops and Thirroul areas, then down to Kembla Grange for a group assault on an Adrenalin Addiction cache, and then finishing the day on some more Lighthouse caches as we slowly head home. It was a great way to start the school holidays!

Wow I did not realise there were so many variations of the 20c coin minted! I was really keen to acquire and collect all of the x35 2019 $1 coins when they were released late last year ...but even grabbing $100 worth of them from the bank never garnered even one! But at around the same time (in an unrelated effort), I did end up with both a Moun10Bike v2 and v3 coin. If I had the choice of the x35s and the Moun10Bike coins ...I would chose the latter

For the puzz, I had to resort to the hint and even then I got stuck with one of them. I gave up in the end as nothing I tried worked. Fortunately though I was good with the others as it turned out

Today I sat in the car while the geokids took it in turns collecting these ones this arvie. Although it took dad to find this one lol. TFTC and puzzle, ozgeomuster.
#980

Last day of the Mega event so it’s fitting I finish off this series. Had about 20 to do and the effort was sped up thanks to Muppet who knew the locations much better than I did.
As I thought of the first haul I had for this series there were many questionable GZs but I still managed to safely get the smilies... kind of.

TFTC’s

Only a few more to go for the afternoon run before heading back to camp for afternoon tea and to prepare for the evening activities. Cache was located very quickly.
Thanks for the hide ozgeomuster.

Pulled over and found the cache in the obvious spot as per the hint. Thanks for the cache

Was waiting for Fred out the front of All Jolson’s restaurant when Lord Rusts coach came rumbling past at speed. Something must of spooked the horses as there was no coachman... Lord Rust certainly didn’t look happy.

OCW Shoes Jnr and Little Shoes, while at the Mega. Logged as The Shoesx3. TFTC

#3327
Had to return today as there was still quite a lot of unfinished business around Wilton. Thanks to all the puzzle creators who provided countless hours of entertainment
TFTC ozgeomuster

found with geomonster10... catching up on my logging

Found it as part of Team NZ Mega 2020 TFTC


***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

On my way back for the second day of the OZGM mega, i had to stop and find a few more caches.
This morning the sky had cleared so well have a good run today.
Thanks for the cache.

I’m over in Sydney for work and managed to add a couple of days to hit the OZGM.
Teaming up today with Gunnie69 and Ghostgums, we made our way down from Sydney to Wollongong, collecting a number of solved puzzles and other caches on the way. Teamed up today with Sharkiefan as well for today’s run.
This was one of them.

Many thanks to ozgeomuster for placing and maintaining WLS #38. Apologies for the generic log. Log signed as GGKS

Found on approach to the bus stop. We love the" chewing gum" tree.

4052 7 July 2019
Attending the GeoMuster at Cataract Scout Park and doing some caches around and about with The Neighbs.

TNLNSL
TFTC ozgeomuster ?

Kiwi Caching Chicks are in Aussie! We are Nosynel, Infoferret, Jude_E, (thedbees, graciesgpsfun some times) and Ethness. Over from NZ for the Ozgeomuster and trying to do as many caches as we can in the time we have here. We signed as KC or KCC. Thanks for tje puzzle and cache.
#4279

Thanks ozgeomuster for placing this geocaches 7163 find for me. Others went to the flashmob. Us four are continuing.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

A quick find. Signed KCC or KC for Kiwi Caching Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel, thedbees, Graciesgpsfun and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. TFTC

Found it with grub fred. TFTC.

A group of five of us from Auckland, New Zealand have embarked ourselves upon Australian territory to while away the time here at the MEGA and to gather up some old caches and see the country wile we’re at it.

All logs while in Australia were signed as NZ MEGA 2020 to save space. We are FMZ, Agazo, rustynz, harisree and myself.

Found with Beary_Unicorns on, Kingfisher.au Aussieben, Banj Ward, Team 737, signed as Team BLAKR, TFTC

Found with Bani_ward, Beary_Unicorns on, Kingfisher_au , KingRa007 and Team 737, signed as Team BLAKR, Thanks for this series and all the puzzles.

Find number 4565

Out caching for the afternoon and had a nice quick easy find.

Thanks ozgeomuster for placing this cache.

A fairly easy puzzle to solve.
A very quick park and grab.
TFTC

In town for the OZGM19 Mega event, caching around the area with Key_Tat and Viper_101. Thanks for placing the cache and adding to our Mega experience. Signed as ‘Team Tatt’ or stamped with our individual stamps... TFTC.

Caching with Tatt2squared and Key_Tat... enjoying the area during the OZGM19 Mega... thanks for placing the caches... signed as Team Tatt or stamped as Viper_101. TFTC.

Caching with Tatt2squared and Viper_101... having fun caching during the OZGM19... thanks for placing the caches, really enjoying the area. TFTC.

found with the geofam while in the area for the Mega Event thanks for the cache

The lighthouse series was today's aim. Paul_the_Hippy and goingplaces2 came along too. We hit our target and finished the series with no problems and had a lot of fun too. Cache retrieved, log signed, job done. TFTC.

found with the geofam while in the area for the Mega Event thanks for the cache

Down in Wollongong for my first Mega. Chasing caches with my camping Geoson start Log the geoart TFTC ozgeomuster. #1405

Day two of our OzGeomuster event weekend and this series was the target. Off to a very foggy start as Kyzabra, Ghostgums and I left Sydney, we swung by the event site to pick up sharkiefan, the fourth member of our hunting team for today. [^]

With a mapped plan of attack, we took took to the road and quickly ticked caches off the list, completing the entire series in a little under three hours. We only had a visit from one local, who was an elderly guy and very happy to come and chat with us, as he asked "is this the game thing I have heard about".

Thanks to all the hiders who put the caches in place, the puzzle makers, the WherIGo compilers and anyone else involved in this GeoArt. A job well done and a great morning on the trails.

To conserve log space, we signed each log book as GGKS (Gunnie69, Ghostgums, Kyzabra and sharkiefan).

Cheers ozgeomuster folk.

Here for the OzGeoMuster with 3Ferrets. Out and about today, little bit overcast but still lovely to see this beautiful city. Log book dry. TB’s visited. TFTCSL Thanks ozgeomuster

Found during the Mega Weekend.

A Fantastic event, seeing many friends, and making new ones - Bumping into cachers everywhere we went - a great time. First time in a swag too.. I now want my own!

It was my second mega - but the first one where I stayed on site

Caches were found, and with the exception of one or two, most were easily found and in great condition

TFTC!

found with gm10

found with btm

Went out to hit the geo art and get a few smilies. All caches were found with a few being harder than others and with a few exceptions the puzzle solving was done and enjoyed. Great series and thanks to all who put in for the end result.

In town for the oz geo muster 2019 The Gong. Enjoying the town. Enjoying the caches. Thanks for the great event and cache.

Thanks ozgeomuster for the cache.
Found at 2:34 pm on 7/7/19.
Find # 1736

Headed down to the OZGeomuster 2019 The Gong Mega Event early Sunday morning, with an overnight stay at a farm B&B in Wilton on Sunday night, and then returning home on Monday afternoon. We will be concentrating our efforts on collecting the Wollongong Lighthouse Series geoart placements located around Wilton, after the Family’s chief puzzle solver managed to solve most of the geoart puzzles (without seeking or accepting any assistance), but will also see how many Lab caches we can complete. This was the 43rd of 47 finds for the day, and the 43rd of 79 finds for our Mega weekend.

Spent far too long looking in T2.5 locations and finding nothing, until a passing car of cachers gave us some helpful information, whereby it was then a quick find in a T1.5 location. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thanks ozgeomuster for the puzzle & cache.

Find #3224

TFTC
Part of the OZGeomuster, I went caching with real Geofriends, and found this series. A good assortment of containers, nicely placed.
Cheers ??
Seemyshell

Out for a drive to finish off this series after running out of time and light last night

Thanks ozgeomuster for WLS #38

#3814

#3181-3202
On the lighthouse trail again this afternoon, Team BLAKR consisting of Aussieben, kingfisher_au, Banj Ward and the beary_unicorns and us. Another quick 21 finds to the weekends bag, we only stopped as the kids were tired and it was getting dark.... TFTC!

Found today while going out for todays cache drive down to the flash mob. Had a very Fun Time today. TNLNSL

### ***TFTC*** ###

Find # 8212

Found while up at the Gong event.
Solved what we could as a team before the trip up. But I had to go out n find "the Light House art" alone.

Did have the occasional meet up with others out in the field. Thankfully some of those were when the caches became elusive to find.

Thanks to those who gave me a ton of help with the Wherigos. Much appreciated. One day I might get the hang of them.

TFTC ozgeomuster

Day 43

Found with going places 2 and I look 4 geo at mega. Tftc tnln

out and about with AussieBen for the Mega Weekend doing lots of caches in the area thanks for maintaining and your contribution to the game

Found today with my brother and dad after the flashmob event

### ***TFTC*** ###

Team NZ Mega 2020 is out today getting as many of the Lighthouse Series as possible.

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Found with Gunnie69, Kyzabra and Ghostgums. Log signed as KGGS or GGKS.

The day took an unexpected turn and I ended up going with the guys rather than sitting around getting bored waiting around, after a communication snafu with my moody travel buddy.

These puzzles were all solved at home except for some of the wherigos where i was just a lucky tourist.

I was grateful for the ride as some of the parking spots were not safe but we were able to grab the whole series.

The morning was great fun with laughter, jokes, lollies, a pair of ripped jeans and catch ups with other cachers.

Thanks for the interesting puzzles, the series and the weekend. Tftc

A dog started barking as I arrived which obviously alerts everyone round. Goodness knows what the neighbours think with all these visitors pulling up and taking off over the weekend. TFTC # 14,102

This is one I was really glad to solve! Took a lot of flailing around before I had the right information source & numbers that made sense. TFTC. Log signed as Kiwichicks.

Day 3: A group of Westies (rustynz, harisree, Gorby, FMZ and Agazo - temporary Westie visa holder), are in Australia from NZ to attend the OZGeoMuster MEGA in Wollongong. All logs have been signed NZMEGA 2020

After attending the Flash Mob event, and finding a few more lab caches, it is time to start the Wollongong Lighthouse Series of hides

Thank you ozgeomuster for all the hides and bringing us here

Found this one with team NZ MEGA 2020 as we were passing through completing the lighthouse geoart series. TFTC!!!

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Out with the Kiwi Caching Chicks gathering the lighthouse series while attending the nearby OZGEOMUSTER. Had a great time over the weekend of the event. Logs signed KCC (or KC) for Kiwi Caching Chicks (thedbees, nosynel, Jude_E, Infoferret, GraciesGPSFun, ethness). TFTS(eries).

#9336 - 5:03:00 PM; Originally planned to be overseas this weekend, but a change in travel plans meant I could head up to the 'OZGeomuster 2019 The Gong' Mega instead. After a productive day yesterday, andrewbt and I started off today by wrapping up the 'Mystery at Cataract Dam' Adventure Lab and then set off to do the 'Tour The Gong' Adventure Lab and Coffee & Caches Wherigo and any others that we close along our route. After completing the 'must do' list along the coast, we headed back up the hill to continue the Wollongong Lighthouse Series until sunset, which we had started on our way to the Mega yesterday. All were found in good order and were signed LL & ABT or similar. We were eligible to claim all of the challenge caches we encountered as part of the series. TFTC ozgeomuster

Day 2 of the OzGeoMuster 2019 Mega weekend in Wollongong. After swinging by the mega site and picking up sharkiefan, we made our way to Appin to tackle the WLS series. It was a morning of great fun and frivolity as we made our around and grabbed the caches in the series. When completed we headed back into Appin, grabbed some lunch at the local bakery. Then it was time for us to make our way back to Sydney and grab our flight home.

Signed the log book for ‘GGKS’ for Ghostgums, Gunnie69, Kyzabra and sharkiefan, to help save logbook space on the very busy weekend.

Thanks ozgeomuster for putting out the cache to make a great a great mega weekend!

Went out caching today with ilook4geo and Paul_the_Hippy. Managed to complete the lighthouse series with only the occasional one that took a bit longer. Met quite a few cachers along the way, which was really good. Logs were signed or stamped and we moved on. Thanks to ozgeomuster for placing this series of caches.

Find No: 7791. Shaneo58, Mrs Grub Fred & I attending the OzGeomuster 2019, thanks for the cache ozgeomuster!!

Tftf aroha from nz

Day 2 of Ozgm19. Tackling the lighthouse series with purplecacheeater. Awesome weather. Great music. Lovey scenery. Tfth

Found with Beary_Unicorns on, Kingfisher.au Aussieben, King Ra, Team 737, signed as Team BLAKR, TFTC

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 2228#

Found on: 6 July 2019 16:35

Buddies: ADI, SEMIK, Yin~Yang, Moneydork

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



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QAEPAG on the way collecting the WLS series.

**TFTC ozgeomuster TNLNSL**

Here now at the Oz Geomuster and out grabbing the event caches and few of the others TFTC ????

TFTC!

TFTC

OCW Immy 25, Coastblue and GZed. Cache# 1088 TFTC

Streak Day #2186 - Out with Dave8153 completing some of this series.. Quick find. TFTC