Mickey (Mantis) Garlandtown, New South Wales, Australia
By Youban on 05-May-19. Waypoint GC87B19

Out again today to try the Bug Series on Phyllis Park Drive and then collect a few remaining caches on the way back from Moruya.Coords on caches were generally very good. Some we found easily and others often took quite some time, but we enjoyed the themed containers. We had one DNF, but it has been missed or overlooked by a number of recent cachers, but with no DNFs logged.Another good day caching.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Youban.**SKI Pair****

Reperio 11:04Day 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 and then continued down the coast. Found most of the caches we searched for, so it was a great day out. Enjoyed finding these novelty containers.Gratias YoubanAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Tftc

Easy quick find SL TFTC TNLN

Found. SL. TFTC

Today we were back in the car, after the rain last night we were not sure how this series would pan out. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the ground and road were in very good condition. We were thankful that the coords were spot on and the hides (themed) made it very enjoyable. Again a few Fav points given.Note, not sure if it is the rain or condensation, but most of the logs were wet (bar 2), or had water in them making the signing of the log problematic as when signing the ink bled throughFav pointTotal Caches Found 16385TFTC Youban

Back on the mainland, after nearly 3 months in Tassie. So nice to have avoided all the excessively hot weather.Another nice hide in this great little series.Thanks Youban for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Cache 10889 on 14 Jan 2024. Heading down the coast this weekend with TikvaNZ to attend two geocaching events, grab some other caches and generally catch up with other cachers! A great opportunity to get out of the bra and enjoy some new sights and vistas. My first time to the coast this summer! This cache: after a yummy BBQ breakfast, TikvaNZ and I decided to grab a few more caches before heading up the Clyde. Tackled this series, and found all eleven of them, mostly fairly easily. Very cute containers! Thanks Youban for the cache and the fun!

#21498 @1125A weekend trip to the coast with AngelG27 to attend the 20 year aniversary of the first earthcache. After this morning's breakfast event we visited a few Moruya caches before heading back to Canberra. Cache easily found. 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!

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.A nice mini p/t with a fun themeTFTC

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.Cheers

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

Out again today with LittleBoss2 to knock off as many of these as we can. Another clever series. Thanks again Youban

DNF

This bug series was a enjoyable drive-by down a quiet road occupied by a few locals. One local even stopped to ask if we were ok, as parking on this road doesnt give a lot of space for over taking. Once we got the gyst on what this series was about the caches became easier to spot, find and log. Tftc. This cache: spent about 20mins looking, logged as DNF then went to complete series. Eventually after finding others came back and started searching again. Eventually found on the ground covered by debris, so signed log and placed praying mantis in a spot where it probably should be.

Drive to south coast find few caches and visit friends house for cuppa ..
COOL CACHES...beautiful full sunny .. tks
fav for you .. wink...

Found with SJG66, log very wet. TFTC

Found with O319 on our day caching around the.

Caching down the south coast for a few days. TFTC.
A great series. I do love larger than life insects. Found all but one. Nicely done. Now to scrape all the alive insects off me.

Easy find

Found it while on holiday at Tomakin

These are great!

Fun,TFTC.

Headed to Moruya with fitzy_1965, Death Killer and my_name_jeff_1 for a weekend of caching.

With what turned out to be perfect weather, we had a great day caching as Capital Crunchers with albida33, Sol de Lune, Smittengranny, Joolay, kitty katch, barb2e & cosmonaut97 (plus a couple of muggles).

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

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. The first day we met up with others at the botanic garden before caching through the coastal region north of Moruya. We even attempted some first finds in the afternoon, but were beaten by Tankengine who seems always to get the jump on them. The day ended with Dinner at the golf club with Tankengine, Dty73 & Youban.

Our next target was the Bug series along Phyllis Price Drive. Only one gave us and issue and after a hint at dinner was found on a re-visit. A fun collection of camouflaged caches.

Thanks for the cache Youban

33206.41 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Chinese Dragon 2 A#203

**Albida**

On a trip to the coast with a group from Canberra. Caches signed as Capital Crunchers or (CC). Tftc

Found during a family weekend away. Signed as capital crunchers. TFTC.

What a great day today. It was a quick decision to come down the coast to enjoy the weather and do some serious caching in the area. This series was on our list and what a great series it was.

This is really a fun series. Really enjoyed the difference and variety. Very clever.
Thanks for the cache Youban

25,164. Found with minniek and a group of Canberra Cachers heading down to the Moruya region for a weekend of fun caching.

With travel for caching an option again, a group of cachers from the Canberra and Goulburn region - known as Capital Crunchers or CC in logs - planned a trip to Moruya for what turned out to be a beautiful sunny weekend with many memorable caches and moments. We were also rewarded with a bunch of new caches being published while we were there - cool ! My thanks to my caching companions and all the cache COs for a very entertaining and enjoyable weekend. Bring on the next one !

We now started another of the trails which we wanted to knock off. Quick find of the well set up cache. Log signed, cache replaced as found, then we continued on our way.

Thanks Youban !!

An invasion by a group of ACT cachers to Moruya area to grab (quite) a few caches.

Onto another series now and most caches were found without issues. A bit of long grass in sections, but all was good and our name was soon in the logs.

Thanks again Youban....

I am down the coast for a weekend of caching with a great mob from Canberra. My apologies for generic logs but today we found 60 caches and are now all sitting around chatting.
It was a challenging but incredibly successful day. Huge thanks to all the COS for the placement and maintenance of these caches. All logs were signed either with individual names or as Capital Crunchers.

Found on a cache trip to the coast with the Capital Crunchers.

Thanks for hiding this cache Youban

Replaced log. Cheers

Good hide, fits right in. TFTC

Micky mantas was found by myself- first find for me, the geo mum today.

I said to the kids… we are definitely going back to find the stag at the end now we know what we are doing!

Again we appreciate your efforts- super cool!!!!

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Having completed the "BUGS WAY" series yesterday, we couldn't resist trying the "BIG BUGS WAY" today. We were probably hoping for bigger bugs - easier to see and catch. While not quite what we hoped for Phyllis Price Drive proved to be a great location. The big bugs were all very cleverly hidden and aptly named. yet another outstanding Youban series.

Thanks Youban for creating this excellent trail.
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Mantis is all good. Tftc

I was determined to take the Mickey here [:o)]
But damn !!
Mickey took me instead [:o]
I spent a goodly 20 minutes scratching around to find him [:i]
But find him I did,
Just before I as about to give up !!

TFTC !!
Another toughie found [^]

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Find Number 2083 found at 11:36. Today we had 20 finds and 0 DNFs. This was the 4th find of the day.

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

Having found the previous ones in the series so easily, I was surprised that I could find this one. I read some previous logs, but they didn't help. I was almost at the point of hitting the DNF button when I spotted it. Not where I expected it to be.

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log and replaced the container as found

Thanks Youban for the cache.

TFTC

#5948 13th for today

Logs may be stamped as "Kayak Cachers".

It was going to be quite warm in Canberra today so I decided to escape the heat out at the coast for the day. Moruya was to be the focus today and it was great to see the area green after a long drought and a difficult summer. It didn't start well with about 7 DNFs. I did not know what was going wrong. Some, I guess were bushfire victims, but not all. Once I found a few it got a lot better. I was enjoying it so much I missed lunch and was still caching at 6pm when my tummy began to rumble & I thought it was time to head home. The trip back up Clyde mountain was in thick fog, but there was no traffic. I was spoilt once I got to the top as I got to see one of the most spectacular sunsets almost all the way back to Canberra. All in all, a great day out at the coast.

I had trouble spotting this one. He blends in so well.

Thanks Youban

Tftc. GPS had us going around in circles here, could have been the mozzies sending it haywire!! But as Mrs Jaybeem circled, I heard the cry of ‘here it is’.

queenofscots & bobstaf have been geocaching & sightseeing for the past 2 1/2 weeks with over 30 other cachers from USA, canada & puerto rico....... we left auckland on 11/8 aboard the celebrity solstice......cruised around new zealand and over to tasmania, finally arriving in sydney, australia, ......

now it's time for the two of us to say goodbye to our friends as we continue to explore southeast australia .......so we pick up our rental car at the sydney airport as our adventure continues .....driving on the opposite side of the highway will add to the thrill......while we enjoy our final week at a time share as we can explore the beaches & 'bush' before returning to virginia

look right....KEEP LEFT....it's my job to make certain so that we don't craash...... & we now have 'sim' cards in our smart phones so that we can be 'smart' enough to find some geocaches along the way......sooooo off we go, hoping to see some kangaroo and more.......TCTF, queenie

grabbing a few caches near our time share......and i really hate the flies

queenofscsots are taking a land/sea tour of New Zealand and Australia. We are having a great time exploring these great counties. This week we arse in Australia and exploring the bush.
Thanks to Youban for placing and maintaining this cache. Without their work this game would not be possible.
Caches should be fun and creative, not evil.
Exploring the world one cache at a time.

Finally a weekend away and where better than Moruya. We've come armed with lots of favourite points as we know we are in for a good time. Now to get down and buggy! Mickey looked right at home in his hide. Fav awarded tftc

Ahh! these bugs have a very good life! After finding each one we looked forward in anticipation, along with ilook4geo, as to what the next one would be like. Each one had a log to be signed and all were very good camo. Thank you to Youban for such a fun series of caches. Actually this one eluded us for a while, but eventually appeared.

Had a very good day out today with goingplaces2 and found a lot of fun caches. Some were harder to find, some imaginative, some were easy, but all were very enjoyable. Lots of lovely bugs to be found in this part of the bush. TFTC.

Nice easy easy find. Tftc.

Almost got me!! But I persevered and got there in the end, your cache holders are tops!!

Fabulous insect caches.TFTC

We originally thought of cycling this series, but the road would have been a bit too hilly for one of us. I'll let you guess which one. TFTC

Found with cullum68 and Nissan65 whilst completing the mystery at the museum. TFTC

Found whilst collecting for the mystery at the museum. A lot of effort put into ur caches much enjoy doung your caches. Thanku for the cache

Found with cullum68 while doing mystery at the museum heading south thanks for the cache

Spending the day caching around Moruya with muppet95 we stopped by to look for the caches of this bug series,some hides were a little tricky then others especially with the sun setting quickly searching for the last few by torch light,which sometimes I think can make things easier.
A very enjoyable and series before hitting the road back home
Thanks Youban for the cache

Spent the day in Moruya with Bonfire7. We had a successful day outdoors, finding caches in the various trails in the area. I walked away with 60 finds and 0 DNF's! All coordinates were pretty spot on (<5m variance on average). All cache containers were well-themed and consistent, which made for a very pleasant day of caching. Thanks For The Caches Youban!

On a road trip once again brought be to this new series. The days a little cold and a drizzle of rain in the mix.
I enjoyed the finds, some were a little bit harder than others, the gps reception played havoc as well today.
All the caches had a fun theme. Thanks for the efforts made in creating the series.

The long weekend had arrived and off I go as part of the Canberra geocachers invasion for the SST series and any others along the way! A great weekend of camping, caching and socialising with a great bunch of people!

Wandered in and made the find after going round a couple of times [^]

Thanks for the hide, Youban

This one was quickly preyed upon. TFTC.

Great little series. I love the effort put into the containers. Thanks Youban

*FTF* with Tankengine.

I was already on the way to the coast when this came out, I didn't really want to be doing them in the dark and the geofamily was just wanting to get some dinner and the geocats just wanted out of the car! So I had to wait until morning while the geofamily slept in. Tankengine sent me a msg asking if I was going for them and we worked out a time to meet up.

Now we were on a roll and found these caches more like the usual Youban style. Some were a little harder than others, but all found in the end. Tftc Youban!!!.

Chooo ooo [FTF] with dty73 on a lovely day down on the coast! The day started off coolish, but warmed up nicely, and by the end, I was in shorts and a T-shirt! I saw these caches published yesterday afternoon, so decided to come down early this morning, to see if I could find them! (I also made sure to pre-vote yesterday). dty73 was already down at the coast, so I arranged to meet her here, and work on finding these together!

We had no idea what to expect with this series, but by now we started to get a feel for it! All the coordinates were actually quite good, I'm sure any fluctuations were caused by the tree cover. But in the end the GPS kept bringing us back to the GZ area! Thanks for the cache Youban, and thanks for your company dty73, it was a wonderful day!

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