Ridge to Rainforest Somersby, New South Wales, Australia
By bushgold seeker on 07-Apr-19. Waypoint GC85XD5

The beginnings of a really great trail. I must return here and do the rest of the trails some time, just so peaceful.Walked down for a quick find.Parked outside the gate so I didnt get closed in.Very quiet today, nobody is about.Thanks for the cache!

Creative hide and lovely spot. TFTF

Thanks for a clever hide. It had been put back the wrong way so was fairly easy to spot - weve tucked it back the right way. Found with scavenging scout.

Another nifty hide Spotted easily as it was hidden the wrong way round - replaced properly now

Found this after 'Not Firewood' nearby, which put us in the right mindset. TFTC

Nice little one

Nice location. Coming back to this trail in full. Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Completed my daily tasks, so down here for a few caches after work, really nice location and container, appreciate the extra effort bushgold seeker

Great geocache, incredible way of blending in with its surroundings!!

Cache check today. Cache in correct position and good dry condition.

It's been a long time between visits to Strickland SF ... I think the last time I was here was in pre-COVID times ... but I'm glad I'm back and I very much enjoyed the walk to GZ.

A straightforward find once I was there thanks to the helpful hint. This nicely put together cache is in pretty good nick with just one logbook now. Thanks for placing this cache here for our enjoyment bushgold seeker.

Cache check yesterday. There are 3 old log books in the cache.
The inner container is quite small. I will make a new log book and remove the old ones soon.

Another great hide TFTC

Great walk out here today. Beautiful spot for Geocaching. TFTC

Love these trails, and caches. TFTC

Found it. Lovely walk with my little family this afternoon. The kids liked the little waterfall and finding the treasure! Love the camo, you've done a good job with that. Thank you!

HAM AND WAM found cache #2 of the day, loving the camouflage for these two.

TFTC

TNLN SL TFTC

found on a beautiful autumn day, had a free day so took the time to find a few oldies in this area. thanks for thew cache, love the container work.

Cache check today.
All in correct position and dry.
Not much room left in log book.
I will make another and replace soon

Another clever container. Left the way I found it. Thanks bushgold seeker for placing Ridge to Rainforest!
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tFtC!

Found it great spot

TFTC. Loved this cache thank you for the creativity!

Lovely walking in this area today, thanks for the hide

Barely managed to dodge the downpours. So many places to check but chose the simpler first and soon had the clever container. Thanks bushgold seeker.

Work. physio, X Rays, Cache Time. What time does the Forest Close? We got locked inside one day, and we were at the gate with 10 minutes left, but someone locked it early. I will take the chance. Got to the top gate, and it was 3:55, sign says 5:00 close. Should make that easy. Off i go. Found the start of the trail easy enough, bit over 200mtr walk. Easy Peasy. Found GZ, had a quick look, noting there is plenty of hidey holes. Found it. TFTC.

The cache is back in original camo.
I have replaced the inner container.
All in good condition and dry.

Girllovessoccer101 found it 5/6/2022.
Good camo. Big log little log.

I have not been able to find a suitable inner container for the original camo container.
I have replaced original camo with a plastic screw top container but have left the original one next to it until I do find a new waterproof one that will fit inside.
All dry and in reasonable condition.
Please replace with lid up to assist with waterproofing.

I have been unable to find a new waterproof container to place in the camo container. I have put the broken container in a zip lock bag to assist with keeping it dry. Cache not in bad condition. I will replace when I find replacement.

First geocache in years. Nice walking tracks and an excellent state forest that I'll be visiting again. Thank you.

With a lot of rain in recent days I thought it was a good idea to do a cache check.
What I found was the inner waterproof container for the log books had a broken screw on lid.
I will have to find a suitable size container and replace the broken container.
The camo is holding out well.

Absolutely amazing camouflage, quick find, favirout point from me

Nice find lovely walk

Took the kids a while to find this one, great hide.

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Nice quick one to grab while on the trail. Nice camo for this one. Thanks!

Cache check and all good and dry.
I have added a laminated instructions to finder.

Such a beautiful cache; thoughtful, intriguing and well designed. I love it, thank you.

Nice short walk to a lovely crafted container. TFTC

Awesome container and hiding spot

Very well hidden, we found it straight away.

That was the best hiding container! So clever

Fun

Great little walk

Nice find

Gotcha - Found with a bit of searching. Tftc

Great container. Well hidden . Easy for kids to find.

TFTC

Very clever

Great hide

This Log has many things to hide.
TFTC bushgold seeker

A very quick find on this one while walking on the track beside the cache, good camo TFTC

A reasonably quick find whilst walking around the wonderful Strickland State Forest. I'm loving the creative hides out here! Dropped off a TB

Really good cache, look near the big logs! Recommend for all

Found on a day hike with Erina High School Masterclass students. Kids were very impressed at the clever design of the case. Thanks to Bushgold seeker.

Kinda bush bashed to get to the place. Ooopsie thanks for the effort

Take the tack ther much better bush bashing sucks

Yippee found it, TFTC

The camo had seen better days so I made a new bigger and I hope more sturdy one to replace it. Just arrived back from replacing it and all looks good.

Awesome job with the cache. Quick find with a great walk. Thanks!

Was hidden in plain site! Love the effort put into this. TFTC!!!

Found with shaneo58 doing some around the central Coast/Strickland National Park, coming down from Newcastle/Lake Macquarie in the morning, getting up in the low 20's deg later in the day. Nice walk to get to this cache, well constructed and good hint. This is the 5th cache of 12 for today. Log signed and caches replaced as found. Thanks For The Cache bushgold seeker
Cache number 2437 at 11:38:00 AM on Thu 13Aug2020

Found it.Down tackling caches in the Central Coast today with Bill Hill and this was one of them. Loved the cache and the beautiful walk to get there. A favorite for me. TFTC gold bush seekers.

Found

Done! H.D & A.G found 27.7.20

Found a while ago and signed but forgot about it - came here again with a couple butt pirates today!

Sooo fun, found with friends

wow by far the best cache .... great owner whooo , I've cached all the way to m6 sister's in s/a and not seen s9mething so cool thank you

Whoooo

Found it - Mel, Kyle and Sadie

We rock!!

The lid has come loose and I have carried out temporary repairs. I will return and correct the problem. Cache in good dry condition.

Awesome! Best one I’ve found yet!

TFTC nice little walk not too hard to find if you know what to look for.

Tiny secret log....nearly gave up

TNTF great camo!

After all the heavy rain this month I checked the cache and all was in good condition and dry

Favourite point from us for this one. . The kids loved this one.TFTC

Really good hide.
Logged the log
TFTC

Nice walk amongst flowering Gyamea Lillies. Great camo found by GeoJess and Taylapearce3. TFTC !

Great camo! Found easily with GeoJess and R2BEEF2

Nice day for bushwalking. Falls were flowing after the recent downpour. nice hide, tftc

Found with banj Ward TFTC

Found on a very windy Saturday morning visit to this beautiful forest. Fave point from me for the great location and nicely made cache, which is well maintained. TFTC

I forgot I have no FPs, but I will give you one when I have more

New water proof log book placed in cache container.
I have left the old log in position as well.

An easy walk in and lots of places around GZ to check. Very nicely constructed cache! And is that plumber's tape being used to keep the logbook dry? Awesome! I'm not sure I've seen that before but it's a great idea! TFTC!

Glad to get this as soon mutual sweep had me scratching and I’d just bombed over at the falls.

Having a Beagle show a bit of interest helped- looks like she may be trained up yet!

Really needed one for today’s date so we braved the weather and went for a short walk. Cache found great camo.

Found with bedlem2 got a break in weather

Found it, took awhile because we thought it was at the waterfall for some reason! The camo was amazing and we showed everyone photos when we got back

This cache was unfortunately published on a day when the geocaching website had gone into partial meltdown so notification emails weren't going out, and I only spotted it just recently when looking for something else. Anyway, better late than never!

With the weather improving this afternoon and at a bit of a loose end, I decided to drive up to the forest for an enjoyable walk out along the trail to GZ. The excellent camo had me fooled the first time I looked at it and it was only when I came back for a closer look that I made the find. I had the coordinates initially pretty much spot on but they went wandering around quite a bit under the tree canopy so I wouldn't worry about trying to get them any more accurate as you'll just end up chasing your tail.

After signing the log and returning everything as found, I made the detour from the bridge out along the side trail to the waterfall. Not much water flowing today unfortunately, I'll have to make a mental note to come back for another look after some decent rain.

Many thanks for this enjoyable hide; with the nice bushwalk, well-made camo and the picturesque waterfall it gets an FP from me.

Joined the_garbageman for this one after we finished Somersby falls. I initially parked in the wrong spot but after realising my mistake it was a nice walk to GZ , where the_garbageman quickly made the find. Thanks for the cache bushgold seeker tnln replaced as found sl

A quick find in the first place I looked after a short walk (I needed an easy one after Somersby Falls). My phone said 2m and my GPS settled after initially reading 20m but dropped to 1m. Can’t do better than that in this sort of bush.

A fun container. Thanks for the effort. TNLN TFTC

I did not receive a notification for this cache but found the listing by accident. The drive in was made more difficult by Telstra doing some work, council clearing the side of the road and other roadworks blocking off the lower carpark, but we had no trouble finding the access point. This is a very nice track and it did not take long to reach the vicinity of GZ. I did follow my GPS briefly off track but returned given the cache ratings, and found the cache about 13m before GZ. The bush is quite dry given the previous rain but wet enough for four leeches to find MrsFish, although not discovered until much later as they began to itch. We did meet two passing bushwalkers who had walked up from the arboretum with several more from their club to arrive much later, probably a longer walk worth doing someday. Thanks bushgold seeker for a good cache with top camo in a beautiful location, we did like it (but not the leeches).

I will return to GZ tomorrow and check the co-ords. I hope my GPSr is still accurate.
I visited the site yesterday and carried out multiple waypoint averagings. Things looked pretty good, 5 or 6 meters at cache location. The cache was in good condition. It did take some time for the GPSr to settle. One thing I did notice was that on leaving the cache my recorded track going in and on the way out did not match until I was at the small bridge. I will investigate further.
Today I returned and did some tests. Using an etrex10 I had 9 GPS sats and 7 GLONASS sats with a clear sky. At GZ the distance was 3 meters. The Geocaching app on my iPad was 8 meters.
Very happy with the result.

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