2023 Bluies Xmas Bush letterbox Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia
By WaywardWoman on 10-Dec-23. Waypoint GCAH7MZ

Had a great stay at lake Wallace overnight, up early and making my way home caching via the blue mountains.TFTC Wilbert67

Cache check. All good! Restocked for Xmas. Cache on!

#14868 13:10A quick find along the Great Western Highway. The little pull-over parking spot is used as a rubbish dump for fast food wrappings. An impromptu CITO might have been in order, but we had to drop off gavingo4 at the car 10 minutes earlier so we had to keep on moving.OCW Brewmaker, gavingo4, Martin Cousins and EverestHigh.TFTC WaywardWoman.

Thanks for the cool cache. S'pose it's Christmas in July. The kids loved the stamps and trinkets. As a bonus, we found the largest tick I've ever seen. Accessed via the chain gate at Wilson Way lights. Beware the tall grass.

We are on another short (three day) caching holiday in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains, staying for two nights in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains. Hoping to collect the new Adventure Labs, Letterbox, Traditional, and Puzzle/Mystery caches that have appeared around Penrith & surrounds since our last visit to the area back in May 2023. Will also be returning to the lower Blue Mountains for some new caches and to attend a Winter Solstice Event at Mount Riverview, and a Post Winter Solstice CITO Event the following day at Cranebrook. Photos will be uploaded to logs on our return to home base. This was the 6th of 11 finds for the day (day 1), and 6th find of the holiday.After finding "Fun Science Facts #2 - Atomic Bananas" we did a turn-a-round a little further up the highway to start our journey back down towards Mount Riverview, and this was the next cache we came to. Parked the geomobile at the recommended location on the side of the highway, which we remember parking at for a solved Mystery/Puzzle cache some time back, then headed off down the bush track/road to GZ for a nice quick find on arrival. Stamped & signed the logbook, swapped a trinket, then replaced the well stocked festive cache as found. TFTC WaywardWoman.Find #6856

zI usually am driving past and remember that it's there too late to pull over. Not this time. TFTC WW

Found It!Looked in the wrong tree at first but then a quick find once I looked in the right one. I wondered how this cache got published so close to the puzzle final location nearby but then realised that the puzzle had been archived. Another solved puzzle that I never got to find.TFTC

#7769The weather has given us a break, so were back to boots on the tracks rather than tyres on the road, still chipping away at some challenges and other goals as we go. It was generally cool, a few light showers didn't really slow us down a lot, bunches of leeches in spots! We went from multi to multi today, looking for old caches and "3's" as we went.A new letterbox, always worth a drive to rest the legs after some higher terrain caches....Thanks for the cache!

#7769A wet week at home, and still a wet weekend in the Blue Mountains to come by the looks, we need to at least get out and do some caches! Decided to head down to this area and nab some of the newer unfounds nearby, mainly targetting D/T 3s and oldies, and whatever else nearby! end of copy paste FLTFThanks for placing and maintaining this cache WaywardWoman

Heading home from my SES conference I spotted this letterbox and had to stop.After a short walk and search I found the cache. Unfortunately I didnt have my stamp with me. The best I did was pick up a tick at GZ.TFTC

Found this great little cache on the way down to the gym! Easy find I. The first place I looked. Tftc!

Quick park and grab. TFTC

Tftc - Been looking at this one since XMas and have always driven too far before thinking about it. Finally stopped with geoson and got the reward.

A bushbash to celebrate Christmas in February, an awkward one to find parking but this is well hidden away from the public

Our first find for the day on our way to Blackheath after meeting at Blaxland Maccas. OCW Brewmaker and Martin Cousins. TFTC WaywardWoman

We beat a path to GZ. Found a well stocked stash. Lots of goodies. TFTC

#10270 (5 of 5 today)Im after a few caches for my calendar today, and wondered on a good target. Im heading down to the Illawarra tomorrow, so south wasnt an option. Then I realised that I havent been to the Bluies for a while. A quick look at the map revealed some likely targets around Lawson & Blaxland. That sounds like a plan.In the end I snaffled five hides - none long bush walks due to the heat. And I came across a few of the usual suspects in the logs, who had been here before me today.###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION ###Parked at the recommended spot and thenWell the previous finders didnt beat *THAT* good a path to GZ earlier today, as I still found myself wading through long grass and using my hiking pole to check for wildlife!Walked in a familiar area - although last time I approached from the opposite direction. Once at GZ I checked a few spots before finding the right one.Added my name to the list of the victorious and beat a path - literally - back to the car.Time to head home before I melt any further.SLTNLN TFTC

So many good places to hide this one around but found it fairly quickly.TFTC

I love these letterboxes. Great theme as well. Parked just to the NW and walked in. TFTC

After completing the Florabella Pass walk our group of EverestHigh, Brewmaker, JG1972, Mighty Minions and myself split and went in different directions.I'd decided to try and increase my Letterbox cache tally so headed northward for this one. Luckily I'd read the cache page (always a good idea in my opinion) so I knew where to park to walk to the cache. I didn't really like the look of the long grass, bit snakey looking but I walked in any way. No one's been walking there dog here this year.The hint made for a quick find. Lots of Christmas goodies here. I didn't take anything as it's a bit far off, 339 days to be exact.TFTC # 5769

After holidays out west I returned to the coast for a few days now back visiting my mum at Warrimoo,armed with a list of chores I made a sneaky detour and find after an early morning bunnings trip.A very lovely Chrissy cache,have another fav Thank you WaywardWoman for the cache

Thank you waywardwoman for a lovely Christmas 2023 wish, with a letter box cache so close to home. Funny, I was thinking of setting a letter box cache nearby just last week and as usual, didn't get around to it.

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Is this still active?

26 December 2023This is find number: 9027Streak Day: 2931Found Today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find today while passing through. ThanksThanks to WaywardWoman for placing and maintaining this cache. TFTC

Streak Day #3820 - Out for a Boxing day drive with Dave8153 for our cache of the day. Quick find for us today. TFTC

Merry Christmas to all of you, wonderful geocachers all over the world. Visited this cache on Xmas Day while theres a sunny break in between wet rains TFTC

Found with daughter, SIL and GeograndkidsTFTC

Visiting Kooleen and Raincatz for xmas, and decided to go for a quick afternoon cache with the kids. A dash around the house to find some swaps, and in the car. Easy find that the kids loved. TFTC!

Frazeydaze and I stopped off to grab a handful of caches on our way to Blackheath for the Christmas break. This was our last cache and we each helped ourself to a Christmas trinket to hang at Blackheath. Been a bit lazy in this department this year. TFTC WaywardWoman

What a lovely cache full of Christmas cheer.Thanks WaywardWoman for placing this cache for us to find.Happy Christmas for 2023

A real Christmas cache for sure. Parked at given co ords and walked down to gz. All quiet in area. Signed and replaced. Fav. Tftc

After a Santa visit my grandson and I came here to find treasure!!!TFTC.

Easy little park and grab. The cache is in good condition. Signed and replaced. Thanks WaywardWoman for placing the cache and merry Christmas to you.

Found with rogerw3. Out and about this morning doing some caches, and was able to pull in on the way back. A short walk to GZ.A great Christmas Letterbox full to the brim with Christmas Cheer! Signed log and returned as found. Thanks for the Christmas Letterbox WaywardWoman.

Lovely cache, filled to the brim with lots a Christmas goodies. Thanks for a great cache.

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FTF @ 10:13amTook a quick break from work to indulge in a little pre-Christmas caching. Quick walk down & a quick find. Thank you & merry Christmas Namaste

2tf @10:33amAfter realising a new letterbox had been published, I made a quick dash here, but when I pulled up, toriaz had already made the find, so 2tf for me. Tftc waywardwoman.