Sausages of the World - Bregenwurst Bowning, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 12-Jul-22. Waypoint GC9XTQQ

Pretty much a 24hr run down mainly around Yass with The Rats- nice weather and daylight savings.TFTC!

Out for a 24hr caching run with steeba. We spent much of our time caching around the Yass area in an attempt to grab some numbers.Thanks to all the COs for your hides.TFTC

TFTC. Heading back to Sydney after being at the Woolfest in Boorowa. Great weekend!

Travelling back to ACT from east Gippsland VIC and Wagga, this cache was along the way. Hume is one busy hwy. tftc

Nice quick find as the weather started to turn.

TFTC

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 15923TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Accompanied with ALL7, great enjoyed trip to Yass over night at motel..Good fun TFTC

Accompanied with 63ROOS, enjoyed trip to Yass, Crookwell, Gunning, Goulburn for catch up caches tks

Day 7 of my Canberra Mega Adventure. An early start to caching today, met up with several other WA teams. Logs signed as WA. TFTC

Over from the West to enjoy my first Mega.Out to fill my grid and find some high favourited caches. Lots of laughs catching up with old friends and making some new friends along the way. Signing as a team - WASome logs are delayed and out of order - 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.

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 15178, 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.Logs signed as WA. Apologies for generic logs today. Cache found with no issues. Cheers!

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 Sausages of the World - Bregenwurst for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8659 for me.

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)

Found with Moonb1 Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN .

Quick grab. Signed AlisThanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

Found by Mary and David at 15:20. Wouldn't fancy the addition of brains. Snug and dry with plenty of log left. Our thanks to DARKSIDEDAN.

On my way to the Mega, day three. Leaving Cootamundra and making my way across to Goulburn.Doing odd caches along the way.It is not a good idea to really read about what they put in the sausage you are eating.Thanks, Robmc.

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

Today we moved to Yass, staying for a few days.We chose to cache around Bowing this included the ALThis was a great way to visit the area,Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for hiding this cache.

TFTC smile 18378 out and about on a lovely day having a great time finding a few caches on our way to Canberra today signing as 5 for Qld Hatzofff Snickersallan ? RoddyC Imbunda ,?grannysmith1947 what a great team we made and lots of laughter and fun Thank you DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache for our enjoyment

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

On a campervan trip across Australia from New Zealand. An easy find here and a little rest for the car. 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

Quick find while out in the country side. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

A straightforward find here today - thanks, DSD!

Nice drive picking up caches in the country. TFTC

Thanks for the cache

Guarding the main road.

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.

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!

Quickly found. Tftc

Quick find with SJG66 TFTC

Find # 8323
Nice quick find as the coords were deadly accurate.
TFTC DARKSIDEDAN
13 February 2023 12:20

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.

I was getting hungry (Hungary?) so stopped for my first of two sausages. TFTC

An early 5.45am start for an 8.00am rendezvous at the Burrinjuck Dam boat ramp for a day's caching in and around Burrinjuck. Arrived right on time, a little trouble making way through the boomgate, but all good in the end. Unpacked our yaks, a most convenient parking spot right at the water's edge. Interesting to see how SA and SC's portables would go, damfangled origami. Most presently surprised in the end how well they actually performed.

Paddling in perfect conditions across to Cave Island, the hardest thing was making land. 'Caveisland Cache' (GCA2QAD) quickly found and signed, and after a little exploration we continued onwards across the way to our next destination.

A number of motor boars/skiers zooming about now, but super impressed with their behaviour and willingness to give us a wiiiiiiiiide birth.

Made good time, the sun warming up the day, and the pleasant conversation continuing. Before we knew it we reached the dam edge and were climbing up the short rocky slope. Quickly found the right area and 'The Magazine' (GCA2MJN), the log also promptly signed and replaced. Investigated within the man made cave, almost dying of indigestion. Damn delicious peanut butter sandwich, ate it way too quickly.

Back into the yaks and the 2.5km or so paddle back to our starting point. Took about 2 hours return for the journey, a fantastic trip with good friends. Once back we packed up our gear and made plans to continue on to the remainder of caches in the area. Paid our entry fees for the day ($15.00) off we went.

Skirted the dam edge, picking up caches here and there. None presented any issues, the scenery colourful with blooming trees, bushes and algae. One cache was discovered on private land, a quick, pleasant chat with the land owner had us remove the cache at their request. Once we had reached the dam gates, unfortunately you could go no further, a real shame as the views would have been awesome.

Goodbyes were now offered as the return trip was to be taken individually, a good number of challenge caches no doubt the task ahead (it was for me), mixed in with a few others types inbetween. Continued back to the highway, a quick detour on the way. A disappointment at 'Challenge Cache Series - Elevation' (GC8ZQDE), not for the first time, my TOTT just not high enough. Hopefully one day third time lucky.

One or two more on an extremely busy end of holiday highway before Yass, the final cache 'AHH #9' (GC9Z94N) interrupted with a quick sighting of a healthy back snake just inside the long grass edge. It bolted off somewhere and I moved on another 25 metres or so, before then continuing into the long grass. No more reptile interactions were had, and the cache was eventually found 16 metres out.

Back home around 5.30pm, unloaded the gear and had a well deserved icy cold beer!

A fantastic day overall, most enjoyed my first time to Burrinjuck. Thanks of course to mountainsbeyond, StarsAlign and SocialCacher for making the day the day it was.

TNLNSL TFTC

After a wet and difficult day yesterday, today was bright, sunny and cold. I decided a short road trip to Binalong and back to Yass would be a fun way to get some caches for the day. The caches in Binalong were a challenge and the field maths for the multi too much for me, but I managed four others before getting some caches along the Hume. My next area was Yass valley way from North of Yass back to the Barton highway. One was missing in that set and two in tress I could not climb without a ladder. I then grabbed one last one on the Barton Highway before heading home for a late lunch.

I felt very exposed at this location and I am glad there was not too much traffic on the Highway today. The cache was found quickly so that was good.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

39363.8 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Compass Rose Corvo A#190

**Albida**

Found on the way home with Tankengine and Youban. Tftc!!!

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

Busy highway .Scary stop .Still a smiley face is a smiley face. Kutgw

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

Sausages of the World - Bregenwurst
3321
22 September 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.

Nice easy one

A fun find in the fading daylight during a numbers run with fitzy. So wet around here !

Thanks DSD.

28,424. Found with minniek during an afternoon/evening drive grabbing a few caches.

We (well - I) needed a few caches today to keep up with an ongoing self imposed calendar challenge, so we headed out for an afternoon/evening run around north of Yass. Familiar roads led us to each cache on our list, and we even visited a cemetery that we hadn't visited before. By now we were heading home, but some convenient guard caches let us/me get to our required number for the day. This cache was a quick find once at the actual GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed on to the next one.

Thanks DSD !!

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

Cache 9079 on 30 Jul 2022.

Out with TikvaNZ for an early morning drive to get some caches for the day. Met up with Tankengine, DTY73, Aquilus01 and Youban in our travels and has a fun morning grabbing some FTFs and other caches along the way.

Thought we we in for a chance at FTF for this one but the first finders had not logged online before we got there. Quick find.

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache and the fun!

#18159 @0820
A morning mission with AngelG27 targeting the new sausage caches hoping for a few FTFs. We were 15 minutes too late for this one. Cache easily found. While signing, Tankengine, DTY73, Youban and Aquilus1 pulled up behind us. We then joined forces for the rest of the morning. TFTC.

On a dash to the Coonabarabran for family business with Just a cacher and decided to grab a couple of caches on the way.

A quick stop here to sign the log and a *FTF*.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN.

On a trip to the Coonabarabran with Black Bunny and we decided to grab a couple of caches on the way.

A quick stop here to sign the log and a *FTF*.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN.

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