MM #1 Woronora Dam, New South Wales, Australia
By homedg on 18-May-10. Waypoint GA2194

Multi cache?

Grabbed the info the previous day and sussed out GZ on a drive past. Today after rain most of the night we were thinking we probably should have gone to look for it yesterday when it wasn't so muddy. Surprisingly, getting to GZ wasn't a problem if you take the right route. Looked around a lot of likely hidey holes, one in particular, but there was nothing there. Moved to a bit different spot and quickly found the cache. Coords were good, just a bit slow getting there. TFTC homedg

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We stopped at the posted coordinates and initially started looking for the cache. We then read the listing and realised that the cache is a multi and not a traditional as listed. We gathered the required information, calculated and then plotted GZ, determined that it was along the way we were heading very soon so we stopped in Appin for the shopping we needed, found another couple of caches along the way and then located this one. Due to the rain Mrs Shifter got a bit wet searching for this one while Mr Shifter took a work phone call and waited in the car. Cache is in good condition.
Thanks for the hide homedg.

This was a bit of fun. Logged as both a GA find and an archived GC find.

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I was just happy to be a passenger for this one. I enjoyed the wander in with LL and Sdl and was more than happy to see my name go in the log book.

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Back in the area today after my DNF a couple of months again and headed down to our calculated GZ. Had a look in few spots before the cache was spotted....lid, full of rubbish, but with the log book in good shape. We signed the log, replaced the cache and headed back to the car and were on our way. Enjoyed the GZ area, a bit of rock hopping is always fun. Still believe the cache is a multi not a trad, but that's another story...

Thanks HOMRDE....

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#GA964 - 14:20; A plan was hatched a few weeks back to head up to Sydney to the football with Sol de lune and Boot65 and today was the day. It was a 4:30pm start, so we made an early start to include some caching on the way. After an early setback due to a bridge out along our preferred route, we made our way to Appin after a detour through Campbelltown. It was a little over a year ago that Sdl and I made our first attempt on this cache, thinking it was a trad. We gathered the required information back then, but decided that GZ was a bit far off our planned route. After our arrival at GZ today, there was evidence of the recent flooding in the nearby creek and we weren't sure whether the cache may have been swept away too! Deciding to continue the hunt, it was Sdl who eventually turned up the cache, safe and snug in its hidey hole. TFTC homedg

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Off to the next one in the GPS...

Arrived at the co-ords and searched for 5 minutes before reading the listing...oh, it's a multi, not a traditional. Turns out GZ was back in the wrong direction for us, so will have to wait for another day.

Any chance you could change the cache type from Traditional to Multi.

Thanks anyway homedg......

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Unfortunately there was no pen in the cache and I forgot to bring one.
Has it really been that long since this was last found.
Sue watched from the road, the embankment was too steep for her.

Finally after 2 years I was able to trace this one down! It was not the coords, they were spot on! I must have missed the obvious on previous attempts?
TFTC Wilbert67

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2950!

Another fun GCA multi, just make sure you want to go about 7kms south for the find.

TNLNSL. TFTC.

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Toriaz wanted one GCA cache today on our Appin trip because it was to be her hundredth. So we stopped at the monument on the way into Appin. Toriaz did the required figuring and we set off. We parked, walked down to the site and looked about. No cache. My GPS said it was in the middle of the river. The logs said the cache hadn't been found in over a year. Mmmmm .....

So we went and did other caches. But we checked the coordinates and found one number was wrong. So back we went. We started searching, this time in a much more sensible place. I was looking in a place obvious for a cache hide but found nothing. Toriaz was searching a little way away. She found nothing. She came over to my search area.

"Have you checked in there?"

"Yeah, everywhere."

Of course, that's when she spotted it, almost next to my big toe. Okay I felt stupid. But Toriaz was exultant. She had found her hundredth GCA, a cache MIA for over a year, and she had revived it! There was a kind of synchronicity in the world at this moment, as if all of nature wished to share in her exultation, too, and in great echo of pathetic fallacy, we heard an elephant trumpet across the creek. At least that's what Toriaz said it was.

Hope no one steps in it!

Thanks for the cache.

My 100th GCA cache .

We had to take two goes at finding this one - getting the data we needed at WP1 was easy enough, but I wrote down the coordinates wrong, so our first look for this one in the morning was a failure. I later looked at what I'd written down & saw my mistake, so we returned in teh afternoon & found it easier to find when we look in the right area.

Strangely enough we'd noticed GZ on our first trip & commented that it was the kind of spot we would have chosen if this was our hide, not the area we'd been looking in. Pity we didn't look harder that time! But I guess then we might have done something embarrassing like comment on how out the coordinates were or something equally embarrassing .

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Homedg,

I was mtb riding in the area and thought I would make a dead easy find on this cache as I had done it before it was moved to GCA.

Rode down to the hidey hole to discover some interesting people had decided to set up their own little archery range with the target area within a whisper of the cache hidey-hole.

I had heard on the mtb grapevine that this was going on in this area but this is the first time I have seen it for myself and I was a bit shocked as they were firing arrows right over a well used riding track. Decided to just ride on and get out of the area as quickly as possible, will have to come back another time.

Cheers,
Michael.

*FTF*
Light enough traffic meant I could stop at WP1, and then I headed off on the trek to GZ.
A quick and safe walk from the nearby intersection (easy parking there) meant I found the cache in no time for a FTF.
Although first to find as a GA cache, this one appeared to have previously been a GC one, unsure if it moved GZ or just listing sites.
Nice little spot though.
TFTC