Turtles of the World - False Map Turtle New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 08-Mar-22. Waypoint GC9PMCR

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.Last guard on my way home - and last on this stretch. Another quick find and in good condition TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

TFTC signed as TT72. Found on our way back to Sydney after viewing a property in Rugby.

Given I couldnt be at last weekends events in Canberra, I made sure I was at this Saturday event (GCAV8M4). I did it as an overnight trip. I left straight after work on Friday and arrived at my motel. After my night sleep, I headed off for Bfast and then over to Fyshwick to find some caches over there. This also included a great Earth Cache. Next it was time to head to the event. Another nice fun event to attend. I also finally got to say happy bday to Toy Hunters. After the event I found a couple of nearby caches. From here I headed off to get lunch. After lunch I headed off to find some caches around Bowning along a quiet back road and a couple of others along the way to Boorowa. Now time to head home. It was a great overnight trip away. TB visit. A big thanks to the CO for adding this cache to game for the Geocaching community to enjoy. TFTE and TFTCs! My last find for the trip. Now time to head home. Thanks

A nice quick drive by grab. TFTC

#4939 Doing these on a motorbike is awesome when you can park right on top of GZ and pretend youre just having a break.Pretty sure I disturbed a spider or two here with my fingers amongst the cobwebs. This one being inserted rather deep.

we missed a couple. traffic is fast. another number racked up. Interesting moss on the tree. TFTC.

Nice easy park and grab TFTC

Tftc

This was a quick find for us during a work trip.

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 15204, 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.

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 and laughter we certainly took the opportunity to have fun and conduct plenty of photoshoots along the way.Logs signed as WA. The team consisted of Geotrakka ICNothing Cirrus_WA Neva2Old Barnzy12 Lachlan1.77 Leg5 and of course myself!Apologies for generic logs today. Cache found with no issues. Cheers DSD! Thank you for your Turtles of the World Series-added a FP!

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!

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

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)

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.

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 Turtles of the World - False Map Turtle for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8647 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 13231 find Thankyou DARKSIDEDANfor placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Reperio 20:20The youngest and I left Orange this afternoon to come and tackle some of the caches in and around the Yass area this weekend, and we managed to fit in a few finds before we made camp for the night. With the majority of finds being from power trails or shorter series, we had a great time picking them off one by one. Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Had a spare day off work today, so i thought i would drive out take tackle some of these trail caches in the area. And just find caches until it got dark or i got bored, whichever would come first. Turns out i ran out of time.Found a good 90 or so caches with a few of them being challenges that i probably don't qualify for. Thanks for all the hides from the various CO's for the caches i have found. A good 80% of them need some kind of maintenance as they are all full of water due to average containers that don't have any kind of weather sealing gaskets. IF they are really bad and unusable i have noted it in my log for that specific cache log.Sorry about the copy and paste logs, but with so many to log and being a cache trail this is going to get painfull otherwise!

Tftc. Great series of finds

TFTC found with Davrie457

Pulled up at GZ for a quick find and the log was soon signed. TFTC DSD

In our way home from a lovely day out cachin. Thanks for the cache

Had a fun but hot day today and found enough caches to consider the result for the day to be a reasonable one. This was one we found with goingplaces2. Log signed, all replaced. Job done!. TFTC.

We challenged ourselves today by even creating a list of caches to go and find. It was predicted to be very hot - and it was! We enjoyed the caches that were in the shade most, but still found the others as well, along with ilook4geo. This was a nice easy turtle to find and its log was soon signed and replaced as found. Thanks for this cache go to DARKSIDEDAN.

Moving on from Cowra and heading to Canberra for a few days grabbing caches along the way TFTC

A trip to Perth checking out some of the awesome places along the way in ACT, NSW, Qld and NT. Grabbing some old caches and missing LGAs. TFTC.
Nice quick find.

TFTC

So surprised to find this still here after the floods. Tha water from creek was up to the rails.
TFTC.

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Out for a Sunday drive in the countryside. Cache easily found. TFTC

Early morning start for a long day of caching in and around Yass. A nice mix of challenging caches and all good quality as expected. Just in time to get the numbers up a little so I can celebrate my milestone overseas next week. Always enjoy the company of J+J.AU.
TFTC Wilbert67

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.

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.

Found it. Thank yiy

Quick stop in the 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 with SGJ66 on a cold, wet and windy winter afternoon. Still better than sitting at home. TFTC.

Found with O319 on a 2 day caching trip. TFTC

The FFLL ladies had decided they wanted to go on a little tiki tour around Cowra and reached out with an invite, yes please It was a cold day however the rain held off and we were able to achieve our target area and managed to clean up again for a while. We completed 2 labs and a heap of trads and assorted caches which included an unexpected FTF.

A nice easy find here, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the hides DARKSIDEDAN And thanks to the FFLL ladies for a fun day out and about around Cowra [^].

We decided that it was time to go on a day trip to Cowra to look for some of the new caches that had popped up in the area since we were last there. Texted Rapidlywild to see if she was interested in joining us on for the journey. It was a pretty cold day with the winds but thankfully no rain which was a bonus. No DNF's for us today which was a great and all caches were found pretty quickly and we managed to get all of the caches we targeted with a couple of labs thrown in for good measure.

Quick find here signed and were on our way again.

Thanks for the hide DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for a good day out Rapidlywild.

fitzy_1965 and I made a last minute decision to head out for a bit of caching today.

Off to the Yass region to help fitzy fill in a calendar date. We are able to find the ones that we targeted and all found quickly and easily.

Thanks DSD.

28,110. Found with minniek during a Sunday afternoon run to fill in a Calendar day for me.

With so many caches up around this area, we decided to do another afternoon run to fill in a day for me. Whether it be an Australian Animal, a Lizard, a Snake, a Frog or a Turtle, we were happy to stop for the find ! We really appreciate the series that Darksidedan puts out, as they help us and many other Cachers with their various challenges. All the caches were found without issue, unless otherwise stated. This was a nice quick find once at GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then continued on to the next one on our list.

Thanks DSD !!

The cache was underneath on the ground, but okay. I put it back. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Great Northern escape 2022 Day 1. Townsville Mega section Day 1. Canberra to Canowindra. At long last the final afternoon of work was over and I hit the road to cache along the Lachlan Valley highway and Cowra on my way to Canowindra for the night. It rained on and off all afternoon and night, but I did not get stopped by it.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

35845.7 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Compass Rose Kola Peninsula A#330

**Albida**

#13525 - 9:33:00 AM; Day one of the Townsville Mega adventure with Sol de lune. The plan for the day is to cache our way north to Coonamble and camp the night. The weather intervened, so we headed further north to Walgett and a warm bed there. Collected caches along the way, including this one, which was found in good condition. Logs signed L.L10n and Sdl or vice versa. This was the first stop and a ice way to kick off the trip. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Day one of a road trip to Townsville with LuckyL10n and we managed a few finds along the road here to start the fun. No issues at all and the cache was soon in hand. Log was quickly and we off up the road for the next one.

Thanks for start to the trip DSD....

Day out in Boorowa to find new caches in the area. Nice cool day. Signed and replaced. Tftc

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
#nosuchthingas~ftf~

Chooo ooo [found] with dty73 and youban on a quick Yass run! Nice quick find here! Thanks DARKSIDEDAN!

Found with Tankengine and Dty73 on a trip around Boorowa. Kutgw

Tankengine, Youban and I had a free day for caching, so when we saw a nice little bunch of new caches up around this area we decided to go for a drive.

We picked up way more caches than anticipated and saw some very interesting sights.

This cache: Found

Was out for an afternoon of caching with Aquilus1 trying (not very well) to tidy up some of the SPRT series when new caches starting out. "To the car!!" I said before even knowing where the caches were because we simply were not having much luck on our other adventure.

Nice little head start given where we were so we powered along passing through Sutton, Murrumbateman, and seeing the lights of Yass as we continued along the highway talking about the famous McDonalds Yass sign which apparently AQ1 had never seen or heard of... which should be a crime. But once we got the Lachlan Valley Way it was down the business with some interesting navigational skills from the co pilot AQ1 we managed to safely collect all the new caches as an *FTF* without and issue before heading home and discussing options for Virutals and Adventure Labs

TFTC and the nice evening drive.

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*FTF* With Delta Response Team more later