WLS #1 Wilton, New South Wales, Australia
By ozgeomuster on 01-Jan-19. Waypoint GC86BDV

Time for this one to go. Thanks to everyone who took the time to find it.

Well after some reorganization of our intended travelling it was decided to make the return trip to the Mittagong area and with it the WLS series was on the radar as it was soon to be archived with only a few not solved and some that have already been archived it was now the day to see what we could find.

This was a great Wereigo and enjoyed it in the end with a little help form another cacher who helped with a missing one and the rest it was time to collect the smiley however at the GZ indicated and extending the search nothing was found.

Thanks ozgeomuster for placing this series however it is a shame it has to be removed from the map.

Not found with the_garbageman on a crazy day doing the Wollongong lighthouse series and tour the gong lab caches.

Seems to be missing.

***WLS TO BE ARCHIVED***
Thank you for looking into our lighthouse series but due to maintenance issues this series will be archived on the 31st of January 2020. 
please ensure you find and sign the logs prior to this date. All caches will be collected after the archive process. 
if you are still having issues in solving the series please refer to our hint site at https://ozgmpuzzle.com
Good luck and happy caching.

No luck here

Vodka bottle still ther no cache

#6732 (7 of 9 today)

Time to head south again for a few quality hides - and some others. Decided I'd start with the higher terrain caches first - being some in Dharawal National Park. Parked just before the locked gate and decided to start with the Victoria Road Trail and then move to the Jinnga Track - man that one is steep!
Once I had the three there I decided that the 10B Management Trail could wait for another day.

Grabbed another in the NP before going for a few more of the Geomuster Lighthouse - only found three with one DNF and collected more info towards the solution to another.

Then two more bush track hides before heading home. Big day, even if not in numbers.
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Interesting WhereIGo. Amazing how familiar with the songs but unfamiliar with the first word I was. But got there in the end.

The find was a little too obvious, and with signs of life at GZ - a new empty vodka bottle and packet of smokes - not sure how long it will last.

Completed signing duties and replaced.
Time to relocate for a few more...

SLTNLN
TFTC

Been working on this series for a while as we knew we had a trip to cootamundra coming up and we could spend the day on our return picking them up. Loved solving these. Thanks for the effect that has gone into them.

Been working on these puzzles. Today is the day to collect.

#10 and ironically the final find on my morning Wilton WLS cleanup.
A quick and easy find.
SL TFTC

Logs stamped as "Kayak Cachers" being the team of StrangeTrousers and CBRChic.

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.


TFTC ozgeomuster

#5737 48th for today

Logs stamped as "Kayak Cachers" being the team of StrangeTrousers and CBRChic.

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.

Last one for the day. A quick find.

Thanks ozgeomuster

My first whereigo cache and it was good fun! TFTC

We were on our way home from the Queensland Oz Geo Muster and decided to go via the coast home. We had camped near the start of this series and Diane noticed them in the morning. Being quite early we decided to try our luck at a few as we had the answers from before the Mega but did not get this far afield.

We started off well and decided to keep going until lunch time then start heading south again.

We were very happy we did as we managed to collect 47 of them with 4 DNF’s

We thank ozgeomuster for all the effort in setting up the puzzles and hiding the caches and apologise for the generic log but with so many caches found in a short time they blend into each other but we can say we did enjoy each one.

Number 1 done and dusted. 1st ever whereigo completed

The Lighthouse was looking a little bare after the ones I had photographed earlier in the day so the Stumbles had a plan. TFTC!

The Stumble's went out today on an impromptu cache day to clean up this series we started earlier in the year whilst at the Mega.
All up, we had only 3 DNF's and 1 muggle not too impressed with people "Pokémon-ing" near her house! Lol
All caches were in good condition and logs signed as "The Stumble's"
Thanks to the cache owners for this series

Found a few we had not logged. so a late log.
Thanks.

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.

Another fun one to solve

TFTC

OCW the Bebes to clear the lighthouse that we didn’t get the chance to do at the mega. Tftc

And so it came to pass that the DDTs re@ched the last of this series of caches. What can we say? It has been fun, but now it is tie. For us to,say goodbye to the Wollongong Lighthouse Series - we don’t imagine that we will ever be able to find the DNFs! Thanks to all hiders and those who nudged us in the right direction when required.TFTC

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

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH OzGeoMuster [^]

TFTC!

Did a bit of a run this morning up around Wilton to try and finish off the series. Managed to get through most of them pretty quickly which was great. TFTC!

Out and about caching and catching up with 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

### 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 to 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 30th find for the day. Thanks for the fun

Find #109 on our geocation to the Mega at Cataract Park via Canberra for a couple of nights.

This was #30 of 54 for the day. Another fun Whereigo - really enjoying these as i'm new to them.

Thanks

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

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.

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

Caught up with AyKayEm and we hatched plans to attend the CITO event and do as many of the Lighthouse series as we could. This afternoon we did eight of them 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 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 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 long detour and eventually ended up on the same side of the pass as the caches. We visited 16 caches tonight before again taking the long 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 ... )

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

Streak Day #2188 - Out with Dave8153 on the last day of the mega completing this series. Quick find. TFTC

Last find of the mega, and easily my favourite puzzle of the series - listening to some of this music bought back a lot of memories. An easy find, I drove past GZ to U turn at the end of the street and by the time I was back cathylmorgan already had it in hand.

TFTC ozgeomuster

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

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

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.

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 21st of 32 finds for the day, and the 68th of 79 finds for our Mega weekend.

After some T4.5 fun at the last cache we next came to this one for a much quicker & easier "park & grab" find. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thanks ozgeomuster for the puzzle & cache.

Find #3249

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!

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.

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!

I actually could not get the cartridge to play the audio on this new iPhone that I just got last week. Judging by the lack of similar note logs here, I'd say I must be doing something wrong I ended up gaining the coords by other means but a good 15min search failed to show anything up anyway, even after consulting the hint. Kinda a big fail with this one! Bit of a shame about the finish to the day but overall an excellent haul, picking up twelve caches.
#984

Found during the Oz Geomuster mega.
Had some help with some of the puzzles.

SL TFTC

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

8 July 2019
This is find number: 3501
Streak Day: 1299

Found with Snoopy1976 while attending the OzGeoMuster. Thanks

Thanks to ozgeomuster for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

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

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. #Find#: 2311#

Found on: 7 July 2019 16:23

Buddies: HUNbat

Muggles: none

Weather: sunny

Cache condition: good



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QAEPAG on our way doing the series.

**TFTC ozgeomuster TNLNSL**

found with geomonster10... catching up on my logging

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.

Find #1188
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

Trip to OzGeoMuster 2019 Mega weekend in Wollongong. Great chasing the lights around the Gong. Thanks OzGeoMuster for putting out the cache to make a great a great mega weekend!
TFTC OzGeoMuster

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 2:17 pm on 7/7/19.
Find # 1732

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

#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

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*7 Jul 2019, Found @ 5:12 pm, Find # 9451.*

After completing the coffee tour, it was now time to get back to the Lighthouse series to see if we could complete it.
Most were fairly straight forward and quick finds but there were a couple here and there that prove to be a bit tricky mainly because of the coordinates.
In the end we were able to sign all the logs for this series and now have a Lighthouse beaming with smiles.

**Thanks to ozgeomuster for placing this cache.**

Find # 8229

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

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A very quick find

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 after a communication snafu.

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, some of the parking spots were not safe but we were able to grab the whole series.

The trip was great fun with laughter, jokes, lollies and catch ups with other cachers.

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

7 July 2019 @ 8:26 pm
Caching buddies: yin~yang, SEMIK, Moneydork

A huge thanks to you, ozgeomuster, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot, thanks to your efforts.

Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo

Back up here today to complete the lighthouse series. Nice quick park and grab here after passing a very troublesome cache and remembering that from yesterday. TFTC # 14,091

Log signed as Kiwichicks. Looked in the wrong place at first, then Jude E realised the error of our ways, and directed us to the right spot. Log signed as Kiwichicks. Whilst she was signing the log, I spotted something nearby to check out. This turned out to be a long lost skydiving camera, which Jude is trying to reunite with it's owner. TFTC.

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).

found with gm10

found with btm

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!

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. Lots of walking as we misentered the coordinates. Duh!

#4267

Thanks ozgeomuster for placing this geocaches 7153 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.

Find # 5057
Found with sesblocker and Aries44duo while attending the OZ Geo Muster at Cataract Scout Park this weekend.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC ozgeomuster ??
7 July 2019 11:05 am

4046 7 July 2019
Attending the GeoMuster at Cataract Scout Park and doing some caches around and about with The Neighbs.

TNLNSL
TFTC ozgeomuster ?

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 #1. Apologies for the generic log. Log signed as GGKS

Tftf aroha from nz

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

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

TFTC

OCW Immy 25, Coastblue and GZed.

TFTC!

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

#Find#: 2311#
Found on: 7 July 2019 16:23
Buddies: HUNbat
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

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QAEPAG on our way doing the series.
**TFTC ozgeomuster TNLNSL**

Staying at North Wollongong for the OZ Geomuster. Today with frazeydaze and miss morty a start was made on the Wollongong Lighthouse Series.

We enjoyed the variety of puzzles and hides. Cache and contents were in good condition.

TFTC ozgeomuster.

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.

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.

7 July 2019 @ 8:26 pm
Caching buddies:AIphaDeltaIndigo, SEMIK,moneydork
Having a blast collecting smilies

Tftc?? ozgeomuster

Caching with Moneydork, yin~yang and ADI at the OzGeomuster. TFTC

Down in Wollongong for my first Mega. Chasing caches with my camping Geoson start Log the geoart TFTC ozgeomuster. #1377

Signed KC for Kiwi Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. TFTC

We enjoyed completing the WherIgo cartridge at home and we came to the Mega with the final coordinates. Today we went to look for the cache. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks ozgeomuster for the cache.

Caching with oldmorty finding caches belonging to the OZGeomuster Wollongong Lighthouse Series. We had a lot of trouble with this one yesterday until we ran into chooknchunk who pointed out that we had the wrong coords. Thanks chooknchunk and thanks to the ozgeomuster team.

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. TFTC.