Turtles of the World - Eastern Long Necked Turtle New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 25-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9PMJH

Quick park and sign. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

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.Time gif a quick trip to Boorowa to collect a few more. Some guard rail caches in the way - got these right as I approached them all on the correct side of the tiad. Added a new log here as the last was full,TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Heading home from Canberra, this was a nice convenient place to stop. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing and maintaining the cache for our enjoyment.

TFTC, signed log as TT72. Travelling back to Sydney after visiting Rugby.Log is full.

Got it. Log full. TFTC.

#4937 Giving Geo2 a run out to Boorowa today I stopped off here to warm up after finally clearing the fog.What do you know, a cache only 20 metres away.Found the container, signed the log and continued on my way. TFTC.

Nice easy park and grab TFTC

the turn off for Young. Madrabbitoh had missed this, so i had a man look, and found it. 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

We decided to stay another day in Yass and start on some of the trails in the outer lying roads. I am still kicking myself for not bring the ladder, again on today's run three caches not able to be attempted.Total Caches Found 15922TFTC 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.

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

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 15179, 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.

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.

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!

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 - Eastern Long Necked Turtle for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8658 for me.

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***

Pulled off the highway for a quick find and log of the cache. TFTC.

We found your cache today 18 March 2024 1:18pm , while enjoying another day in our beautiful countryside. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Reperio 13:53Day 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

Tftc

On a trip from Orbost, to Brisbane, via Canberra, and stopped closeby to check if this was road towards my destination, and lo and behold a cache 25 metres away, grabbed pen and signed my name, replaced as found, Thanks DARKSIDEDAN, all is in good condition

Nice PnG heading through. First time weve seen the spot muggleless in many many trips. A good smiley to get checked off, TFTC

Recently, I discovered that I needed a lot more caches that have D/T rating of 1.5/1.5 so that I could claim a Challenge Cache. Those ratings are not of the kind that I would normally target, but today, I did. Having not picked up as many as I would have wished while doing the ES series, I turned my attention to a group of DSD's caches that I knew would be true to their rating. This was one of them, and I thank the CO for placing and maintaining these caches. All logs that were found were in good condition. SL

My first early morning find on the second day of my solo cache raid around greater Yass, a quick find, thanks.

Quick leg stretch on my way to Dubbo. TFTH.

Second last find for the day as i was nearing my accommodation. Currently on my way to QOGM in Longreach.

A straightforward find here today - thanks, DSD!

Quick pick in the country. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Nice drive picking up caches in the country. TFTC

At our turn off, where are the caches taking us. Thanks for the cache

No evidence of the turtle.

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!

Spent some time caching in the area.
Signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, DARKSIDEDAN,
and for us and others to find.

Tftc

Find # 9150
Nice quick find.
Still heading back home from the Rutherglen Mega.
TFTC DARKSIDEDAN
15 April 2023 15:46

Out and about with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc Darksidedan

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

This cache was found and the log signed.

Tftc 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.

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.



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. First for the day for the group. 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

Catching up with very late logs for caches that we found on our trip in April and can't recall the details

We formulated a plan a month ago to meet up with alansee, mclookers, maccamob micaparamedic, moonb1, muzza and pprass to try our luck at some challenges and also any other series and other random caches that were around before heading to the Rutherglen Mega event.

Thanks to the cache owners for placing and maintaining these caches for us to find . We signed as Vic1 to save room in the logs.

Good caching weather today, so we worked our a short day's run with goingplaces2. Had a good morning and each log found had two more names added. TFTC.

Came along on a much cooler but windy day today, along with ilook4geo. We found a lot of lizards as well as some other fun caches. This was one that was easy enough to find and both names or initials were added to each log to mark our visit. Thank go to DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache.

The cache was guarded, 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#4176
Nice hiding place
Found with PLS ( pantspeople , loci612 and sebass19)
Thanks for the cache

Found with PLS (pantspeople, Loci612 and sebass19). Solid start to the day. All good at GZ.

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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.

Heading up this way with a quick stop of course.TFTC

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 9497 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

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.

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
Thanks DSD

This is the turtle we are most familiar with in the Goulburn River, and is the totem for our local aboriginal mob.
However we always knew it as a tortoise, not a turtle.
We were taught at school that a tortoise has legs and a turtle has flippers.
This creature has legs, not flippers.
Whichever way Feathertop and I are both pleased to have our names added to the log.

Accompanying All7 TFTC

Found with 63ROOS..TKS

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

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

Pulled over and got out for a quick find. Log signed and on my way again. TFTC DSD

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****

A quick roadside park and grab on a day of power caching. TFTH

I decided to take an early mark after a work day at home so that fitzy_1965 and I could head out for a bit of caching.

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.

28,096. Found with minniek during a post-work run to fill in a Calendar day for me.

With so many caches up around this area, we decided to do an 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 !!

#17625 @1715
An after work drive to catch up on podcasts and top up my find numbers for the day. Cache easily found. TFTC.

#14517 - 9:17:00 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

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

35839.1 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 El Dorado Guatavita Compass Rose A#376

**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~

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 caching trip around the Boorowa area. kutgw

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

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