Australian Animal Series - Brolga Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 28-Jun-22. Waypoint GC9WMVT

Reperio 11:24After completing the 50k ultra at Kosciuszko yesterday, the legs were a little stiff, and so kept most of the cache finds today close to the road. With the rain starting up as well, I slowly made my way back to Orange. Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

After staying overnight in Bowral, we headed south, with plans to stay in Yass tonight. We had time to detour into the ACT to look for a particular challenge cache. We then continued on towards Yass and stopped for this cache along the way. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The log was quite damp but still usable. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache.

Got it! I'm glad I didn't read the other notes first, or I might've been too scared. I didn't see a snake today!

There seems to be a black snake Gardiner it

We saw a large black snake in the grass at the fence post. Had to bail on this one. Will come back another time.

Snake!! (Were ok)

Find# 12306Nice quick find.Thick grass made for good camo.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Quick find with SJG66 TFTC

A quick find. Log signed and replaced as found. TFTC

#20883 - 1:46:00 PM; Another solo mission today, this time along Sutton Road to the Hume, then back home along the Barton to top up my daily finds for today's date, tick off a couple more caches for some personal challenges I'm working on and collect some newer caches as well as some others which have been around a while. Unless otherwise indicated, all were found in good condition and replaced as found after adding my name to the log, including this one. Apologies for the largely generic logs. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Found. TFTC

Found under the watchful eye of some very suspicious and disdainful sheep. Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

Great HideThanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cacheJames0116Saturday, 20 Apr 20242:45:07pm AEST4538

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Staying a week or so in Yass, today we headed out late morning. What fantastic weather for another run around Yass. Mr Felix came across a sleeping possum in a fence post today, who did not want to give up the cache. Another good day.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

On the road again.... homeward bound via Yass ..bye Canberra thanks for your Mega shenanigans..this was one of my cache pitstops on the way home.

Heading home today and the weather has changed. We need the rain though. Yep dead kanga. With Alansee and signed Alis.Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

Found with Moonb1 Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN .

We are now camped back at Yass for a night.After lunch we took a drive down to Murrumbateman finding caches as we went.Found some really creative caches today.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for hiding this cache.

In the area with woolwood9 today. ????*We soon had the container found!* ????SL *tm/ww NZ**Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit*Appreciate all the work put in on these series DARKSIDEDAN - I certainly know more about Snakes, Lizards, Australian Animals and Sausages than I did!Dead Kanga here but will soon stop stinking.

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.??????

Find 5075 on April 1, 2024Thankfully this wasnt under the nearby dead kangaroo. All is well with the cache. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Find 468 on 1 April 2024Found on our way back to Ballarat. Caches was easy to find but there is a dead kangaroo.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Another day out in Yass. Got around 30 caches for the day. Signed and replaced. Tftc

We didn't see any animals, but we did see the cache.T4TC

On our way to the north, TEMBO! and I managed a stop here and visited the cache. We didn't See the animal.Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for hiding and maintaining the cache.T4TC Filser1

Easy enough find but the grass made it a bit harder. I was also Being watched by the local muggles

Caching from Perth to Canberra via the Nullarbor. TFTC.Everything is very wet today except for cache. Nice.

Surprisingly it took a while to turn up...thanks.

Grabbed this with Baristayan and ToyHunters on the way to Yass…and this was a rather significant find given it was number 9999 for ToyHunters!

They can certainly get quite large and ungainly these brolgas. Thanks! Now into 10,000 for the great man…

We were accompanying toy hunters on his 9999 find! How exciting!
Thanks for the cache

Find #9999 with baristayan and buckoraider before we headed off to 'Burden of Sisyphus' for the big milestone. My media assistant baristayan had the terrific idea of taking a photo of me with my 9999th cache with a bunch of toys because, well, I'm the Toy Hunters! This was a quick find. TFTC DSD!

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.

Thanks had no idea

A quick park and grab while passing through the area. TFTH

A quick find here today, thanks DSD!

Our for a day of caching around Murrumbateman. Lots to get, however focusing on the more challenging caches such as tree climbs. Also picking up ones close by. TFTC

Picked up from home late morning for an outing around Murrumbateman with a small group of friends. We were mostly targeting the harder higher caches that are better to retrieve in the drier weather.

There was a group of four caches, all in a row, that none of us could find but as they were recently replaced by the CO and RapidlyWild then we assumed that they were just too clever for us to locate them.

Quick find. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

After work finished at 830 am. decided to spend the day around Yass and Murrumbateman for a few caches. TFTC.

A day out picking up some caches around Murrumbateman and Yass. Long grass at most, but often with cacher trails which helped. Cache found all OK.

Thanks

Out and about with FFLL#1 and ALL7 to pick up some countryside caches. Was nice weather today and we managed to get our names in all the caches we attempted. There were a couple we didnt attempt due to their placements but thats all good. Logs signed as FAR (FurfacesLL, ALL7 and Rapidlywild) for those which we all needed, otherwise it was individual names.

No issues with this one, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache placement DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for a nice day out FFLL and ALL7.

Last minute change of plans meant Saturday was now free. So plans were made with ALL7 and Rapidlywild to go and collect a few caches that had popped up on the map. Actually there are heaps to do but getting the time to do them is rare.
Weather was ideal for caching which made for a pleasant day out in the countryside.
All caches we attempted we found including a couple we could see but valued life a little more to attempt. So no DNF's for us today which was nice. All caches that were found were signed with either FAR (FurfacesLL, ALL7 Rapidlywild) or individual names.

Thanks for the hide DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for the fun and laughs ALL7 and Rapidlywild.

The end of the week came around and there were a few thing going on in the day. During the morning I went caching out to Murrumbateman with Smitten Granny. We started at the show grounds and then did a few along the highway including one very impressive tree climb. After Lunch a trip to Albury for a specific D/T cache started. Joolay, Kitty Katch & I set off around 2pm and pretty much drove non stop to Albury. There was a little time for a few caches before dinner and one after dinner. Tomorrow will be a walk and a forest explore for several puzzle caches.

With the various DNFs, I wanted one more for the morning, so a bit of a detour and we found this one quickly before heading home for lunch.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

39253.10 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 10th Anniversary Compass Rose Pyxis A#338

**Albida**

Another find, another series and all about one of my favourite Australian birds. And at a very appropriate time heading into Christmas.

"Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like warhorses prancing
Up to the sun the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies bell-birds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day."

An Australian Christmas Carol called Carol of the Birds, that we used to sing many decades ago when gathered around our piano.

Thanks for the cache and the wonderful memories it evoked DSD. Take a FP Oh yes the log was signed.

Chooo ooo [Found] with dty73 and youban on our Whittlesea Mega trip down south! - Quick find here! Thanks DARKSIDEDAN!

Found with Youban and Tankengine while heading to the Whittlesea Mega.

Quick find and sign. Took longer to get the bag out of the bottle than find. Tftc!!!

Out with Dty73 and Tankengine on a trip to the victorian event. Stopped and grabbed this one on the way. Kutgw

My post lunchtime caching trip day 4 with cyberganv continued as we moved back towards Yass.
Quick find.
Thanks DSD

Just had a short sharp shower of rain and now the sun shining again giving us time to add our names to this log before feathertop and I drive on to the next one, thanks again Darksidedan

A quick find in the long grass and all in good condition. TFTC DSD

On our way home again with ilook4geo and caching as we went. Found quite a few and signed each log. All except one were in good condition and we were happy to add some more smileys to our caching map. No problems here with container or log. Thanks go to DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache.

While heading back out of Yass with goingplaces2 this was one of the caches we found. All was in good order. TFTC.

Found with 63ROOS and Beautiful full sunny today .... We enjoy drive around and Love it.. tks

Prefect weather with ALL7, awesome series runs at YASS as last one on the way home..log signed TFTC

A quick park & grab whilst heading back to Canberra. I do not recommend this approach however, would of been a lot easier heading towards Yass instead as there was no turning lane coming the other way, lucky it was after peak hour traffic!

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
#nosuchthingas [ftf]

Australian Animal Series - Brolga
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19 July 2022

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In the spirit of reconciliation I would like to acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

On a nice winters day with a cold breeze in the air me and IamCoust did a geocaching run around Yass and Murrambateman, driving on quiet unsealed roads picking up parts of the snake and lizard series which dot the landscape out here. Most caches were easy to find so it was mainly a numbers game which was both pleasing and tiring at the same time.
Some caches we considered very near peoples properties so it was a quick get in, get out before being spotted or interrogated. Overall a very enjoyable day. TFTC

An early start to a cool and windy day with Green-Martian tackling a few of the recently published caches out and around the Murrumbateman/Yass area. We targeted a mixture of finds, following a basic route weaving back and forth along the back country roads. Most finds came without issue but the odd one here and there presented a challenge in one way or another. In that regard, any interesting or specific details relating to the find are added to the end of log. Regardless, at the end of the day there were about 60 successful finds, 1 DNF and 1 other we were not well enough prepared to tackle.

As the morning went on the numbers grew, and so did the surrounding clouds. In the end, after a solid 6 hours of caching, as the rain began to fall, we called it quits for the day.

Thanks again GM for a great day out, and the CO’s for all their hard work and effort. TNLNSL TFTC

Left work early today and headed off for a weekend away with fitzy_1965.

With not much between here and our destination, we decided to make a find early.

A nice quick find here today.

28,322. Found with minniek as we headed off on a weekend adventure.

This afternoon we headed off towards Victoria for the weekend, with our aim of getting to Hay this evening and camping there. When this obvious green icon appeared just after we left we took the opportunity to grab at least one cache today. A quick stop and find. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed off up the Barton Hwy again. Thankfully there was a break in the traffic at a convenient time.

Thanks DSD !! Yet another of the Australian Animal Series ticked off.

#18085 @1700 {FTF}
Out for an after work drive to top up my find numbers for the day. Surprised to get a FTF here. TFTC.

Published

**FTF is still up for grabs, as I was with the CO during placement.**

Of course I couldn't give up, my weekend off for any other reason than Geocaching. With four Geo-events at Canberra and a bonus friend’s party Saturday night meant that is where I'm headed. It was a great weekend full of fun, dancing, catching up with friends and finding many Geocaches along my travels. This was one of the caches or events, I found (or DNF) or attended at some point over the weekend. TB visit on all found caches. I would like to thank all CO's of the caches I found, for allowing them to bring me and the caching community enjoyment. TFTC's and TFTE's!

I was on my way home today and DSD decided on coming with me to place some caches along one of the ways home. Obviously, we were in separate cars so we could split up so we could go each our way home afterwards. While we were together we mainly focused on the main roads and after we went our own ways, he focused on back roads. This was one of the caches, we placed together, on this day.

For this cache, I was very surprised that no one had placed a cache here. This is because there is plenty of safe, hidden parking from the main road as well as a great view of part of the old road. Certainly, a great spot for a cache. Thanks, DSD!