Swamp View Kelgoola, New South Wales, Australia
By
odlids on 20-Jun-06. Waypoint GA0478
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S32° 50.435' E150° 12.038' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 237982E 6362912N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 745 m |
| Local Government Area: | Mid-Western |
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Zone Name: Wollemi National Park (Click here for zone Details)
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This cache is in an area marked as a warning area.
Zone Name: Wollemi National Park (Click here for zone Details)
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Logs
After breakfast and before lunch I took the climb to admire the view and find this cache.
What a view!!!
TFTC.
What a view!!!
TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Goodness. I had no idea that all these caches even existed. I found this with Shufflehop while staying in Dunns Swamp as part of the "Never the Twain Shall Meet" cache and was befuddled as to how to access and log this guy. I found a whole new database. Woo Hoo. This cache involved an excellent bush bash and rock scramble. Fab fun.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found with BoabTree- neither of us knew about “GA” caches before this 
Rated: for Overall Experience
The 2nd cache to find for GCWPFX, arriving at GZ while Wazza9 was checking his GPS I sesrched an area that needed some attention and there it was. Great views, signed log and replaced. Thanks to Odlids. Now off to find GCWPFX. 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Was in the area camping for acouple of days and thought once I got here I would go find some geocaches. This was my first. I walked from the campsite up the road and then head bush. Up I went and made a quick find. After signing the log enjoying the view I then went off to the next ga cache to get the gc TFTC
Pleasant walk! I think I found the steepest part to ascend here, picking my way up but got there in the end! Swamp view is an understatement, what a view! Fantastic spot here! Very windy day and had to be careful when signing the log so nothing blew away! Well worth the challenge and a very memorable cache! Found a much easier way down, and armed with the second set of coords, found the third cache. Had to back track as my phone went missing at one point in the scramble, but all good in the end. A day ended with much satisfaction, a hot bath and bubbles. Thank you for the huge adventure! 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Second geocache find and the kids loved going bush armed with a GPS. Spectacular views. Just be wary of the drops around the pagoda rocks - particularly on the descent.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Great views. Full log at GCWPFX Never the twain shall meet.
Rated: for Overall Experience
On our way back from Long Cave I managed to convince the geoteen to deviate to this one. A heck of a climb via our route but we got there in the end. As mentioned in the log for "Never the twain" we came across some orienteers nearby but they didn't come for the cache. A nice little hide and we grabbed the clue and signed and replaced.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Rated: for Overall Experience
An early start to get this one with baby Nicola first up at 6am and me needing to get her away from everyone else so they could keep sleeping. Griz4b came out his their tent and we headed up the mountain together - following a roughly checked route from the day before.
After a long steep climb then traverse we made it to the cache - it was well stocked and had a nice view of the pagodas. I think the trees might have grown a bit because the "swamp" (aka dam) was only partly visible.
Thanks for bringing me up the hill! Nicola fell asleep on the way back down... obviously she wasn't working quite as hard as I was
After a long steep climb then traverse we made it to the cache - it was well stocked and had a nice view of the pagodas. I think the trees might have grown a bit because the "swamp" (aka dam) was only partly visible.
Thanks for bringing me up the hill! Nicola fell asleep on the way back down... obviously she wasn't working quite as hard as I was
This time peter_mcc was the one calling me out of my sleeping bag to get up for the cache. And it was certainly worth it! We loved the views along the way, and the climb was a very pleasant one. Many thanks odlids!
Rated: for Overall Experience
An early morning assault on this one as Jumbuck still stayed asleep. Great views of the swamp from this elevation
Rated: for Overall Experience
Slipped out of camp early for the run up the hill to catch the sunrise.
After a lot of scrambleing I made it to the top but the sun was already above the horizon. After some photo's and a drink it was off in search of the cache. At 6:15am the log was being signed just over 30 minutes after leaving camp.
A truely amazing area. With all the wind last night there was a carpet of wattle blossom on the ground and the bees in the tee-tree made for a nice walk back down the ridge to camp.
TFTC
After a lot of scrambleing I made it to the top but the sun was already above the horizon. After some photo's and a drink it was off in search of the cache. At 6:15am the log was being signed just over 30 minutes after leaving camp.
A truely amazing area. With all the wind last night there was a carpet of wattle blossom on the ground and the bees in the tee-tree made for a nice walk back down the ridge to camp.
TFTC
The "Rock On" cache I found earlier on my bushwalk around Dunn's Swamp had been all to easy to grab.
This, the second cache of the two I was after, was not going to be such a walk in the park I feared.
It's up there said the GPS !!
I trotted through the scrub below the hill until I met a great sandstone wall.
Hmmm, over there looks like it might be possible to climb
And so the next 40 minutes or so were spent climbing up 20 or 30 metres then wandering back and forth looking for the way up the next 20 or 30 metres, etc, etc.
Finally the top of the ridge was reached and a scramble along the ridgeline for a couple of hundred metres bought me to the rocky pinacle where the cache was hiding.
More fantastic views and a nice dry cache to find.
I took the "Unite for Diabetes" travel bug out of the cache and will move it on.
Strangely enough I seemed to have picked the steepest side of this 'pagoda' to climb. I walked down a gentle slope through light scrub with no clifflines on the way back down.
Now where's that 'Unknown'cache that's lying around here somewhere. I've scrambled up two hills today, I hope it's not on top of another one.
This, the second cache of the two I was after, was not going to be such a walk in the park I feared.
It's up there said the GPS !!
I trotted through the scrub below the hill until I met a great sandstone wall.
Hmmm, over there looks like it might be possible to climb
And so the next 40 minutes or so were spent climbing up 20 or 30 metres then wandering back and forth looking for the way up the next 20 or 30 metres, etc, etc.
Finally the top of the ridge was reached and a scramble along the ridgeline for a couple of hundred metres bought me to the rocky pinacle where the cache was hiding.
More fantastic views and a nice dry cache to find.
I took the "Unite for Diabetes" travel bug out of the cache and will move it on.
Strangely enough I seemed to have picked the steepest side of this 'pagoda' to climb. I walked down a gentle slope through light scrub with no clifflines on the way back down.
Now where's that 'Unknown'cache that's lying around here somewhere. I've scrambled up two hills today, I hope it's not on top of another one.
So many ways up the hill and all of them fun. Best if you go up soon and follow the ridge. Fairly easy find and then off to Never the Twain.
Thanks, Rathard
Thanks, Rathard
This was an easy stroll through open scrub to where we spotted a straightforward route up to the top of the hill from which we had very good views out over the Kandos weir area. It’s spectacular country and is always a delight to visit. Today the lowering and “rain any minute†clouds made the whole scene quite atmospheric. The cache was nicely hidden and took us a few minutes to find. We made no swaps.
