Turtles of the World - Southern River Terrapin New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 01-Mar-22. Waypoint GC9PMG8

Out today for snakes of the world run and others along the way. thanks to DARKSIDEDAN and other COs. for the caches. Many of the caches along the run very damp and some cases soaked. A handful of caches the lids had not been fully replaced. Maintenance was performed where possible. I have replaced caches upside down where possible ( if water gets in at least theres a chance it can get out again. TFTC

Today was the day I was aiming to achieve three things 1000 caches in 2024, 7000 caches all up and 200 caches in a day (my previous record was 121). Easily achieved all three in 13 hours between 06:00 and 19:00. Was a glorious spring day on the back roads around Yass. Most logs signed TE5 30/9 to save timeGood park here. Black kite soaring over as I signed the log.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

TFTC, signed log as TT72. Caching on our way back to Sydney after visiting 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!

A quick stop and grab on the way to Rye Park. TFTC.

#4941 My last find this afternoon before making my way back to town for an event in Garema Place.Thanks DSD for your cache placements today.

Nice easy park and grab TFTC

never realised so many turtle species. had to go 100m west of this one to safely park. some drivers jyst travel too close. a lonely sheep and very early lamb in the paddock today. TFTC.

Nice easy find. Tftc

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 15201, 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.

Please excuse online logs not necessarily matching the day the log was signed; Ive lost track of things. Theres 2 alliances from WA at mega. Unbeknownst to us prior, we are using the names WA6 (them) and WAC (us). Our name comes from Western Australia Crew, largely because 3 of the 5 members are part of a long standing alliance called Cockburn Crew, based on the LGA in which they live. Today there was some uniting to hit Yass big time. Everyone chooses to cache as they do and this proved to be an awfully large alliance to manage. Some big players uniting for some big numbers. Theres plenty of other Western Australian cachers at the mega but across the two alliances theres 10 people. Its been exciting having maps with hundreds upon hundreds of caches waiting to be found. Of course months of preparation went into solving puzzles and trying to track the hundreds of challenge caches. The biggest challenge for me personally has been the large number of caches requiring some sort of tool to access a cache hidden well above the ground. I appreciate you cant find them all but I do like to try to clear an area when I visit and that hasnt always been possible.Of course, theres been many COs whove provided the caches for us to find, largely lead by ALL7 and DARKSIDEDAN. Challenges caches are going to take days to log due to the number of checkers its going to take to prove qualification. Thanks to you for this cache and the opportunity for some fun.

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!

Day 7 of my Canberra Mega Adventure. An early start to the day to meet up with several other WA teams. Logs signed as WA. TFTC

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!

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.

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 Turtles of the World - Southern River Terrapin for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8651 for me.

*In the area with woolwood9.* ????Really happy to be back on this trail. We soon managed to get the container found here! ????SL *tm/ww NZ**Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the reason to stop and I appreciate the effort in setting up these caches!*

Over in 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.??????

Yass Day 2, staying for a few daysat the showgroundsWe chose to do a circuit that included snakes, lizards, birds flags & a few challenge caches.A large variety of DTs completed today.This was a great way to visit the area,Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for hiding this cache.

Spent a big day caching. Not sure what the count is - I still have many to log. Li e how many caches are out in this area now. Thanks for placing them.

Reperio 14:58Day 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

Day out in Yass and surrounds. Cloudy and cool afternoon. Able to come away with 35 finds around the area today. Signed and replaced. Tftc.

On guard, or in guard? Thanks.

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!

Another easy park and grab. Thanks, DSD.

TFTC found with Davrie457

Tftc

Let the cache L’s take you away, Thanks for the cache

A quick couple of caches to finish off my day before heading back to town. TFTC DSD

Find # 9158
Nice quick find.

TFTC DARKSIDEDAN
15 April 2023 16:21

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

It’s Easter and the Rats are either, on our way, in town or heading home from Rutherglen after a great caching adventure.
Thanks to all the cache owners who’ve contributed to the vast variety of caches we found this trip.
TFTC

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,

TFTC

A quick drive-by grab. TFTC.

We had planned a caching trip with Wilbert67, We started caching in the dark and ended the day in the dark. We travelled Yass and surrounding areas, so many caches have popped up since our last visit here,
The morning looked promising however it changed as the day went. sunny, windy, drizzling, The chilled went straight true us. The roads were quite muddy and some of the way the the road had big rutts, caution was taken not to get stuck along the way.
We did traditional, multis, wherigo letter boxes, mystery and challenge caches.
We always have a great day with Wilbert,
Thanks for you company,
Thanks to all the COs for their hides

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.

Last stop on my trip 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****

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.

28,109. 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 !!

#17630 @1745
An after work drive to catch up on podcasts and top up my find numbers for the day. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Back on the busier road again, heading home. All good here. 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

35844.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 10th Anniversary Compass Rose Vela A#339

**Albida**

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

Found with Tankengine and Dty73 on a trip around Boorowa kitgw

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