Snakes of the World - Milk Snake Bowning, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 17-Dec-21. Waypoint GC9KN7N

Thanks for the cache. Added some goodies.

After the huge day yesterday (200 caches) was hoping for a sleep in and then a few more caches before heading home. Didnt get the first but did get the second (another 51). Glorious weather again and some beautiful country traversed.Much nicer tube able park off the road and take your time to find the cache. Still didnt take long and cache in good nick.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

TFTC, signed log as TT72. Travelling back to Sydney after visiting Rugby. Good spot to camp?

Had us fooled for awhile. Very cleverly placed. TFTC.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Staying a week or so in Yass, today we headed out mid morning. Fantastic weather today.We did alot of cache maintenance today, replacing broken containers, or replacing wet soggy logs. Also finding lids and making sure the logsheets were in the containers then ensuring the lid was on properly before moving on to the next cache. It is very hard for the CO to keep up with maintenance if nobody actually reports any. [B)]TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Over in the area heading for Canberra to attend the Easter Mega with tmann421Tons of caches done while here and this was one of them.Enjoyed the touring around and all the containers foundLog signed tm/ww NZThanks for the placement and the effort put into maintaining these hides for us to find.

In the area with woolwood9 today. Weather caused some frustration with rain off and on again today.*We managed to get the container found here!* SL *tm/ww NZ*Thanks for the reason to stop and I appreciate the effort in setting up these caches!

Found while attending the mega in Canberra. I had a great time caching and catching up with friends.This is one of the caches found today.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache.

Exciting times over the next couple of weeks as we takeoff for the Capital GeoBash in Canberra! Its going to be a flood of Sandgropers over east, with a host of West Aussies making the trek east for the event. Im travelling with fellow Cockburn Crew members Leg5 and Barnzy12, starting in Sydney and hitting the road to Canberra, before returning back to Sydney. Honourary mention to our fellow member, Cravo10, who couldnt make it after recently introducing a new geocacher to the world the week prior. Once in Canberra, the agenda is set, well team up with a host of Western Australians to conquer caches. Collectively, were hoping to make it the biggest ever weekend for cache finding. Following the event, the journey continues back to Sydney, with a mission to clean up caches and new Local Government Areas (LGAs), ensuring no cache is left unturned in this epic geocaching adventure. Something tells me that well need a holiday after this, well, holiday. We have commenced our raid on Yass. All logs have been signed as WA to save space, abbreviation for our team of cachers from Western Australia, who are cleaning up the series together. Cheers DARKSIDEDAN! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

Out and about again, headed around Canberra for the MEGA. Super excited my first MEGA and heading over with 2 others from the Cockburn Crew. Today we are out with a group from Western Australia and signing the log as WA to save time and log space.This is 15183, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for the caches we found.OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024Head over to Australian Capital Territory for Capital GeoBash MEGA - Canberras first ever Mega Event. Easter 2024 (GC9PNFB):5 day event at Canberra Park adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6km from the centre of the city. The mascot for the Mega is Gangles the endemic Gang Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may see or hear while in Canberra. The official website - geobash.ozmega.com.auACT has over 4700 active caches, power trails, and over 100 Lab Adventures. Heaps of challenge caches, hikes for geocaches for all levels of skills and fitness.

The Cockburn Crew are on tour at the Capital Geobash in Canberra - travelling from Perth to Sydney, Canberra, Sydney and finally back to Perth.Today was day 3 and we had an absolute blast, after an earlier night last night we got up early to head to Yass and the surrounding areas to cleanup a bunch of caches inparticular whereigos and our personal favourite the challenge caches. We stopped in Yass and completed some high quality caches before venturing back to the trails. We completed a huge number of trails, challenges, whereigos, traditional, multis, earthcaches, labs, virtuals and puzzles. It really was a great day for variety. We enjoyed caching in territory we havent been before. Weve filled our boots with some rare DTs and DTTs and generally had a great time. Thanks to the COs for a great day and event. Logs signed as part of team WA/WAC (WA Crew)

In Canberra for the GeoBash Mega, our WA group had planned to tackle this area north. Out and about for a full day of fun.Logs signed as WA. Apologies for generic logs today. Cache found with no issues. Cheers!

A big plan was hatched in WA to spend today hitting Yass and surrounds. Living off not much sleep the teams from WA met at 5.30am with very big plans for the day. Lots of laughter and antics we have really enjoyed the variety of caches. Signing as a team - WASome logs are delayed - Apologies for that- its been hectic trying to keep up! Many thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing this hide for me to find and adding to my adventures.

Part of the Sandgroper contingent that has come to the Mega to explore new hunting grounds. Its sure to be a great week with many finds and laughs with lots of great friends and maybe some new ones along the way. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Logged as WA. WA crew - Barnzy12, Lachlan 1.77, Legs5, Neva2old , meme28, Geotrakka, Cirrus_wa and I C Nothing

For day number five attending the Canberra mega, I headed off with the WA5 (I C Nothing, meme28, geotrakka, burns345 & myself) as well as some other West Aussies (Barnzy12, Lachlan1.77 & neva2old) for a full day off caching in NSW around Yass and the surrounds.Along with the many caches we found we also signed off on a heap of challenges that I will see if I qualify for in the future.The day finished off by heading along to event HQ to join in the evening festivities.Logs today were signed WA.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing Snakes of the World - Milk Snake for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8655 for me.

Day 7of my Canberra Mega adventure. Out caching with the members of the WA6 and WACrew The day looks to be another sunny day, so a great day for geocaching . Very happy to claim a smiley here. logs signed as WAThis is my 13310 find Thankyou DARKSIDEDANfor placing and maintaining this cache.

Found on a typical Autumn day with Roostaman,. . Another found while on the way to the ACT Mega event. Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN, ***Roostaman***

Found on a typical Autumn day with MrsRoosta.On the trek to the ACT Mega and a stopover in town.Not many muggles around and a quick find, thankfully. . Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN, ***Roostaman***

We found your cache today 18 March 2024 12:59pm , while enjoying another day in our beautiful countryside. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Reperio 14:04Day 4 of our weekend getaway to Yass for a caching run, and after getting a better night sleep, we were up again early to hit the trails. We managed to fit in around 100 caches before having to head for home in Orange, but we had a fantastic 3 and a half days away non stop caching. Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Pretty snake. An easy park and grab. Thanks, DarkSideDan.Last one today, I am walking the dogs here. We stopped for another walk in Yass, then headed home. Thanks for your interesting cache series.

Found with dan

After spending the night in Bowning while on my way to QOGM in Longreach I made an early start for a day's caching. I made this find at 06:57 this morning.

On way from Canberra to Townsville tftc

TFTC found with Davrie457

A straightforward find here today - thanks, DSD!

Quick find out in the country side. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Nice drive picking up caches in the country. TFTC

Thanks for the cache, needed some away from home time, just what the Dr ordered, caching

Easy find.

I was out and about and came across this cache to find, today. I’m slowly finding the caches, east from home. At the moment, I’m mostly focusing on the caches between Binalong and the ACT border. Finding this cache certainly has certainly helped with this mission. As I am catching up with my logging, I’m not exactly sure how long it took to find or remember what type of cache it was but I certainly enjoyed finding it all the same. Also, I have back dated this log to the day I found it. When I signed the cache, **it was either signed as JM or JohnoMawbs**. This was due to the size or amount of space on the logsheet/book. TB visit. I would like to thank the CO of this cache for placing it and for allowing it to bring the Geocaching community enjoyment. TFTC!

Find # 9153
Nice quick find.
Found out in the open and replaced where it belongs.
TFTC DARKSIDEDAN
15 April 2023 15:59

After doing some more challenge caches down the road, we went back collecting this series.

This cache was found and the log signed.

Tftc Darksidedan

Out and about with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc for the serie
Darksidedan

A great day out enjoying the many caches in the Yass area with VIC1 cachers. Some easy and some not so easy!
Thanks for cache *DARKSIDEDAN

Found with a team consisting of, McLookers, Maccamob, Team Crackers, micaparamedic, pprass and Moonb1, We signed the caches as Vic1 to save space. Today was an even better day and we again found almost all caches. Many logs were damp though.

Travelling with maccamob, pprass, micaparamedic, mcLookers, Muzza, Alansee and Moonb1 to try our luck at some of the many challenges and other interesting series around the area.
We really enjoyed the information on the cache pages. Many of these snakes we have never heard of before.
Happily we only read about them and did not encounter any during our searches.
To save room in the log book we signed as Vic1.
Apologies for the generic log but doing so many with lots of chatting and laughing makes it hard to remember them individually.

Many thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the hides a great informative cache pages

On an expedition today with maccamob, pprass, micaparamedic, Team Crackers, Muzza, Alansee and Moonb1. Log signed Vic1.
Thanks for placing the cache DARKSIDEDAN.

Found today in a group of cachers comprising McLookers, Micaparamedic, Maccamob, Pprass, Moonb1, Team Crackers and Alansee. All logs signed as Vic1. All caches found without difficulty unless otherwise noted.



My thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for the cache.

Found by Mary and David in convoy with McLookers, Alansee, moonb1, pprass, Team Crackers muzza and micaparamedic, logging as VIC1. Our thanks to DARKSIDEDAN.

Day 2 of our group assault on the caches around Yass which included maccamob, mclookers, micaparamedic, Team Crackers, Muzza, Alansee and Moonb1. Log signed Vic1.

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing the cache and providing us with a lot of fun

The cache had us stumped, which meant for a quick and easy find
TFTC

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An afternoon caching adventure towards Yass and beyond on this glorious day!
Picking off unfound caches on a scenic route towards Binalong was the main goal.
No DNF's were recorded this afternoon, and all the caches were in good condition!

Many thanks to DSD and Sui_001 for the cache hides

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Signed the log as **PLS** which includes **P** antspeople, **L** oci612 and **S** ebass19

Find#4180
Nice hiding place
Found with PLS ( pantspeople , loci612 and sebass19)
Thanks for the cache

Found with PLS (pantspeople, Loci612 and sebass19). #5. All good at GZ. Funny how hopping in and out of cars repeatedly doesn’t get old.

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In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

With FFLL#2 heading off for a hike today, FFLL#1 and I decided to go get some challenges and some cruiser stuff. We wanted a nice easy day today with the expected heat so we chose a couple small trails to do and just took our time wandering the back roads. We had a good day today, unfortunately a lot of the caches we found today are in desperate need of CO attention as heaps were complete mush and covered in black mould. We had a successful day all in all, we did replace one cache with the CO's permission after an extensive search resulted in no find and there were prior DNF's. We also placed a few temp small logs until the CO can replace the containers and logs.

Thanks for the fun day out FFLL#1, love the mini adventures we go on and thanks to the CO's for the cache placements for us to find.

Hatched a plan with Rapidlywild to head out to north Yass to attack a couple of trails while the other half of our team was hiking up some crazy hills. We took today slow and steady and found all caches we attempted except for one but with the Co's permission we replaced this one for them. There were a lot of wet and soggy logs on our journey which could probably do with some TLC as the plastic containers used don't seem to be water tight. Small replacement logs in bags were placed in containers where the old log book was just too wet and mouldy to sign.

After heading into Yass for something to eat we decided to continue our journey as the heat that we thought was meant to come had turned into a cloud over. So back on the trails and we had a successful afternoon of caching to match the morning run.

Sorry for the generic log.

Thanks for the hide DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for a fun day out in the country side Rapidlywild.

Cache 9500 on 30 Dec 2022.

Headed out this morning with SpecimenX to grab a few caches north of Yass which had been taunting us for a while. Lots of LBHs and dirt. We saw assorted wildlife on our drive - a few shingleback lizards, some red necked wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos, some sheep on the loose, butterflies, kookaburras, parrots and a rabbit! A fun morning catching up on news and 30 caches!

Unless otherwise indicated, all caches were found in fair order and in accordance with any hints provided.

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache and the fun!

Teamed up with AngelG27 to go for a drive in the countryside around Yass. Lovely cool day for caching! Be careful on the roads - lots of potholes and road damage from all of this wet weather we've had!

All caches we found were relatively easy finds with only a few taking a few moment longer for the search [^]

Thanks for the hide, DARKSIDEDAN

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in NSW & ACT and grab some old caches. TFTC.
Nice quick find.

TFTC

TFTC

We arrived into town today & are now camped at the RSL
So many new caches since we were here last, so headed out towards the snakes & other reptiles area.
A variety of cache types found, the road was a little rougher in places than we expected.
The high terrain caches we did not attempt.
Thanks for placing your cache.

That’s a pretty snake but I’ve never heard them called that before.
Thanks for the handy parking area for feathertop to leave the car while we added our name to the log at this one. Some of the other caches haven’t been as easy to park near, especially with the side of the roads being so damp.

Day 3 of my trip with CybergranV to Yass.
After the deluge...
Ridiculous stupid amounts of rain fell yesterday afternoon and evening. We left this morning to tackle the challenge caches north of the Hume with rather a lot of trepidation.
After turning off the Lachlan Valley Hwy we struck washed out roads, water had rushed across the landscape. Remarkably we had only 1 dnf at a creek crossing so a total of 66 caches this morning through here.
First caches were 5 trads in guard rails along the road, most welcome to find these
Good coords, clues and a nice spot to get off the road here
Thanks DSD

A quick find with Geoian. TFTC

A quick find once at gz. Road is pretty busy. TFTC.

Accompanying All7 TFTC

Found with 63ROOS..TKS

This cache was checked today by the Drovers who I asked to ccmhexk on the condition or the cache container and the logbook on my behalf. The Drovers have informed me that the cache is in good condition.

I hope that you all enjoy finding this cache.

Day out in Yass for 60 finds. Signed and replaced. Thanks for the all the good quality caches to find in the area.

In the area, picking up a few more of these caches.
Caches found in good condition. Signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, DARKSIDEDAN, for us and others to find.

Another quick stop on my way through to Young.

Cheers

Another day in Yass, but with no rain predicted and little wind. Turned out to be a good day for caching with even a few bursts of sun.
We decided to again head out of town on a loop. We learned about Snakes of the World, Turtles of the World, Lizards of the World and even a few flags. This was mixed with a number of Challenge caches and trad or two that we past.
There were a few high ts we managed to get and also a few that were beyond our TOTT!
It was all capped off with a mega multi!
A big day, but quite successful.
Great to meet up with Sui along the way, a prolific and very creative hider.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache DARKSIDEDAN.
**SKI Pair****

Found while exploring around the area. TFTH

#14521 - 9:32:00 AM; Out on a run towards Bowning with Sol de lune to top up our daily finds and pick up some more challenge caches and caches with other attributes. One DNF, with the remainder all found in good condition, including this one. Logs signed L.L10n & sdl or vice versa. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Out again with LuckyL10n for a caching run around the Yass area, probably the first of 5 days out way this way this week.

Once a GZ the cache was nice quick find an our names were soon in the log. Cache was replaced and we were off to the next one.

Thanks for the continuation of these series DSD......getting to know this area very well.

Quick find on my way to Boorowa. TFTC

Out Yass way for another morning targeting recent hides of all types. Found without issue, signed and replaced. TNLNSL TFTC

Out to get a few caches and this came up! Yay
GeoGlors abs DarzeeDi

Find #5169

Making the most of enjoying what's left of a short lived summer and rapidly diminishing daylight saving to make some finds. Many have been on my solved pile for some time and with prolonged work commitments due to COVID I've just not had the spare time to do much caching at all as I've been working crazy hours for months.

Today was the day I said 'enough', I need a break. I need to get off my butt, away from the computer and get some fresh air and exercise. I contacted my caching buddy to see if they were free and so a long and full day of caching was planned. Just had to make the most of it, hail rain or shine.

Straightforward find here today with Marmaduke Rothschild out the back of Yass and beyond.

And so it goes, just happy to pick up caches such as this one. Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for putting out and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment!

I got the geocaching bug back again after going out getting AL's to get my 4,000th milestone cache on 22.2.22 and I did it.
So Thursday night I decided to have a look outside of Canberra and go for a nice country drive.
I spotted this nice little series and checked out the challenges and qualified for a few YIPPEE. Checked to see if GeoGlors (GG) was free and woo hoo all go.
Did up a nice little spreadsheet mapping out the order emailed to GeoGlors.
Got up earlier than usual on a Saturday packed up eski of refreshments and snacks for Boston .... of course I was bringing my cute little geohound buddy GG turned up and off we went.
Turned off the highway onto Lachlan Valley way and GG said this was close but not on list just like the first one, hell yeah got to get it. Quite busy on the road so stealth was required. Had seen that Marmeduke and Contesta had signed log today so looks like we are on their tail.
This was number 2 for today and total of 4005 finds. Tftc DSD

Out with Contesta for a number of caches north of Yass after an early departure from Canberra. TFTC.

Chooo ooo [found] with Aquilus1 on a quick Yass run! Nice quick find here! Thanks DARKSIDEDAN!

Day 41 of our southern trip. We are Team "4 for QLD" - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Caching Boorowa to Yass, day 2.

We enjoyed the caches we found, yours included.

Almost a Park n Grab.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on February 19, 2022. TFTC, DARKSIDEDAN.

Day two of staying in Boorowa with hatzofff, grannysmith1947 and RoddyC collecting caches around the region. (Logs stamped 4 for QLD)
Special thanks to all the cache owners for the array of good quality containers and hides on offer, this made finding them very enjoyable.

TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Day 41 of our southern trip.

Moved a little north. Heading towards Yass and Canberra for a few days. Now in Boorowa for a few nights and caching out from here. Picking up some snakes an lizards and challengers and what ever else is around Oh and did I say challenges.

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signing/stamping as 4 for QLD.

Great series with varied types and interesting topics.

TFTCache DARKSIDEDAN

TFTC smile 13183 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan ? great caches, great day ,good weather, On our way home spending a few days finding caches in around Yass
signing as 4 for Qld
Thank you, DARKSIDEDAN, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Some caches around the Yass area was the target and this one was picked up along with ilook4geo. There was no problem in finding it in the obvious place and we were happy to add our names to the log before putting everything back as found. Thanks for this cache placement go to DARKSIDEDAN. There are so many snakes to be found and avoided!

We are staying in the area for a few days with goingplaces2 and are looking for a selection of caches to keep us going. This was one of the caches we found. All good here. TFTC.

As Sui has been busy putting out new caches south of Yass, I joined MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 on a mission to visit as many old and new caches south of Yass as we could. I targeted a few caches I missed on previous trips before joining up with the others and going to Jugiong. then came the series of amazingly 3D printed caches along the old Hume highway in the company of the owner. Always lots of fun. After a difficult attempted cache placement we continued on with more Darkside Dan caches around Bowning and west of Yass.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

35239.26 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & October 2019 Take a Walk A#408

**Albida**

Out with GreyHams for a little north of Yass caching for the day. With the new caches out the previous day and this trail looking almost complete it made for a decent trip out into the area. Add in the possibility for a FTF or two and it made for a good day out. Tankengine also had the same plan but got away a little earlier than us. We met up for the last few new caches and continued on for a few others in the area together before Tank headed home and we set of for the leisurely loop we had in mind. Thanks for your cache!

We weren't sure where to go today, but a bunch of new caches up north had us thinking, 'why not'. Of course Tankengine had other ideas and set off earlier than us so he got the nearly all of the FTF's for himself. After the FTF run we settled back into relaxed mode just cruising along getting all the not stupidly high 'death is imminent if you make a mistake' caches.

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A short detour off the road and then a quick find, thanks.

After a nice sleep in on a public holiday, fitzy_1965, Death_Killer and I headed out to Yass for a bit of caching.

We met up with Mighty Minions and Sui along the way and had lots of fun picking up the newer caches as well as some of the challenge caches that have been out for a while.

All caches were found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

26,830. Found with minniek today during an Australia Day Public Holiday run around north of Yass.

Without access to kayaks we actually had no caching plans for today, until we heard that Mighty Minions were going to be cherry-picking caches around Yass today. Sui may have been lurking around some of the caches as well. We quickly hatched a plan to visit this area that's been on our radar for a while, with minniek after the Challenges while we both wanted the new Snake/Lizard caches. Four Letterbox Hybrids sweetened the pie.

A nice sleep-in then we were on the road. This was the next cache on our list. Quick find at GZ once we climbed up there ! Signed or stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then we headed off to the next one.

Thanks DSD !! Glad we didn't encounter the cache's namesake here even if this one is harmless to humans !

Adventure Boys! Had a mega time!
Pick your quote below, cause it’s for you.

We found in peace

May the find be with you

I love the smell of fin in the morning

Foundiddily

This cache is _found_

Found town. Population: this cache

Mc Found (with cheese)

F to the OUND

foundaloonie

Found
Pound
Mound
Round
Sound
Bound
Hound
Clowned
Nouned
Towned


Curse your sudden but inevitable find!

I know geocaching

Live long and found it!

Danger, Will Founditson

Holy Foundit, Batman!

I love it when a find comes together

Resistance is Found it.

Found it, the final frontier

To the Found-it mobile!

_I_ am your found it.

Hasta la foundit, baby

Here’s looking at you, found it

Frankly, my found it, I don’t give a damn

Yippee ki yay, motherfoundit

The name is ‘It’, ‘Found It.’

Out caching with Wilbert67 for the weekend. Doing Yass and surrounding area. Grabbing solved puzzles and others. Thanks to all the COs for their hides.
TFTC

On a caching trip from Canberra to Yass with J+J.AU picking up the newest caches around and clearing the map filling it with smilies!
TFTC Wilbert67

A quick find in a potentially snakey area. However no milkshakes spotted here thankfully. TFTC DSD

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#16405 @1740 {FTF}
Heading home via Tumut on a 2 day road trip, MTB ride, overnight camp to climb Mt Jagungal.
I was going to return via Piccadilly Circus, however due to the lure of these new caches I returned via Yass. Cache easily found. TFTC.