Just up the hill from the stream Sackville, New South Wales, Australia
By
teamMerlin on 22-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9622
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S33° 30.288' E150° 52.179' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 302114E 6290717N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 38 m |
| Local Government Area: | Hawkesbury City |
/150.86965,-33.5048,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
2016/17 Summer Scavenger Series cache
A nice easy traditional cache released for the Summer Scavenger Series. Off-road parking is available just near the cache.
You are looking for a regular sized sistema container.
Hints
Oruvaq gur ynetr gerr ng tebhaq yriry |
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Decode |
Logs
Found this cache with Sophoutloud last month but forgot to log. This is a place we drive past quite regularly but until now we hadn’t realized or had the time to have a look and see if there was a cache around. Can see this one was a bit buried until recently but is all good
Rated: for Overall Experience
Definitely been down this road before. But today was the day that we had time to stop and collect. Hanks to the last finder for digging this one out it was a pretty simple find and we were very glad for that as it was a very hot day! Didn’t want to spend to long out of the air conditioning!
Rated: for Overall Experience
I had driven past this location a few times but needing some GCA caches for this months game, I stopped. I almost gave up as it was well and truly buried and on first glance there was nothing there. All good with the cache though. Another nice sized box.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Parked near the road, and after a quick look around soon had cache in hand. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC
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After coming this way yesterday & completed some homework at home for a couple of multi and a Unknown or Mystery caches and today it was very hot again and unable to do yard jobs so came this way to complete some drive buys caches. this was the eight of them.
Also, today I wanted to find this cache for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the cache, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it. TFTC / TFTH / SL
Also, today I wanted to find this cache for the Journey or Destination - Game Period: 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
It is sometimes said [citation needed] that the game of geocaching is not about the destination it is about the journey. This game is about the choices you make in the experience of the journey or the destination.
On your entry to the game you will be asked to create a playing field with a number of ground tiles. Your playing field is a grid 20 x 20 ground tiles making a total number of 400 possible steps you can take on your journey or destination. You choose whether you want to find and follow the path or whether you wanted to meander around. A playing field is unique to each player so there is no benefit in teaming up to beat the system through brute force.
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath. There are a number of different ground tiles that will be revealed when you click on your playing field. It should be noted that there are no punishments for clicking a tile but there will not always be the reward you were hoping for as you reveal each tile.
1.Dirt. The ground beneath the ground tile is just plain old brown dirt.
2.Dirt with some points. The ground beneath the tile is brown dirt but it has some points associated with it.
3.Concrete. The ground beneath is part of the pathway that will lead you on your way to your destination but has no point value.
4.Start. A concrete ground tile that has a blue map marker.
5.Destination. A ground tile that has a green map marker.
Meandering around and avoiding the path will accumulate points that will be used to place on you the ladder of wanderers. The more you stay off the path the higher the number of points you will accumulate and it will be your journey that will be the determining factor in whether you place into a prize winning position. You are free to select any ground tile to click on; they do not need to be next to each other.
Trying to find the path may mean you strike out on the dirt until you eventually come across the path and as a geocacher who can't say that this isn't a tried and true method. Once you find the path however will you try and follow the path as it changes direction around your playing field? Do you go North, South, East or West to try and find the next concrete tile along the path? If you head one way are you heading towards the start or towards the destination? When you do happen upon the destination tile then you will automatically be in a winning position.
At any point you are free to change from the journey to the destination and vice versa but you won't be able to regenerate your playing field. You are also free to keep playing as long as you have qualifying geocaches, accumulating more and more dirt tile points and placing you higher and higher on the ladder.
Qualifying geocaches fall into two categories. Finds and Hides.
A qualifying find is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia
The geocache has a hidden date prior to the game commencing
The geocache was logged by you on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period
The geocache was physically found by you during the game period
The geocache is not owned by you unless it is a moveable geocache
The geocache has not previously been found by you during the game period
The geocache is one of the following types:
Burke and Wills, Moveable (you will qualify only once for a find on a moveable geocache), Traditional, TrigPoint, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
A qualifying hide is a geocache that meets the following criteria:
The geocache is listed at Geocaching Australia, The geocache has a hidden date after the game has commenced, The geocache was published on the Geocaching Australia website during the game period, The geocache has a container size of regular or larger (Note: A regular geocache has a volume of 1 litre or more), The geocache is one of the following types:, Moveable, Traditional, Augmented Reality, Beacon, Gadget, Multi-cache, Night Cache, Podcache, Reverse, Unknown or Mystery
The game tracking mechanism relies upon your honesty when logging geocaches as found or hidden.
The games administrators will undertake verification of a statistically significant number of logs.
Players who continually log inaccurate information will be disqualified from the game. The game administrators decision is final.
The game administrators will subtract qualifying hide or find geocaches from your tally if they are found to be not genuine.
The game administrators reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
Don't forget to claim your limited time game trophies, if your qualify, while the game is in progress. Once the game completes the ability to claim your trophies is lost for ever.
So, A BIG thanks for the cache, I must say a very interesting one and the location of it. TFTC / TFTH / SL
Rated: for Overall Experience
I was heading out to Lower Portland for some caching with some friends. I stopped here for a quick look on the way out to see them but didn't find it in the short period I searched for.
After our day out and about, I came back to this one to get a cache on my own for the day. After wandering around in circles a few times, I finally located something I hadn't searched under, and of course I found what I was looking for.
Cheers
After our day out and about, I came back to this one to get a cache on my own for the day. After wandering around in circles a few times, I finally located something I hadn't searched under, and of course I found what I was looking for.
Cheers
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA2337 - 12:10; Day two of the Macquarie mayhem cache hunt with Sol de lune and andrewbt. After a big day one with 56 out 59 finds, we were optimistic about another successful day two. A few cold ones, a few logs and a few more claims for the States of the Nation game set the scene for a good night's sleep and a spring in our step as we packed up and hit the trail again today. Hope the CO's are enjoying all the Karma points rolling in as we get through our logs 
. Crossed the 'stream' in both directions before we reached this cache for a nice quick find and sign on the way past. TFTC teamMerlin 
. Crossed the 'stream' in both directions before we reached this cache for a nice quick find and sign on the way past. TFTC teamMerlin Rated: for Overall Experience
Another good size cache and quick find as we continued on our tour around the area. Haven't been in this area since I was kid (50 years ago - yikes!!) so obviously things are a little different.
Thanks for the cache and the reason for the visit TeamMerlin....
Thanks for the cache and the reason for the visit TeamMerlin....
Rated: for Overall Experience
Probably the quickest find today. Out of the A/C and into the heat. Find, sign, recover and back to the A/C. Aaaah. Thanks teamMerlin.
Rated: for Overall Experience
All is well here! Heading towards some high point puzzles but making sure I get the others along the way in case they meet a criteria. So many cashes so little time! Cheers!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Went a little way up the hill after crossing the stream by the Sackville Ferry. Pulled into the side of the road out of the way of the traffic a nice large area here. Found the spot that I had to crawl into so I could get the cache and sign it. Signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache teamMerlin
Rated: for Overall Experience
Late log. If my kids found it, then I must have too.
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Found with dad ans zoe and Blossom showed us the way. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Driving around the area picking up some caches with Lucky1955.
Found on the way to the event at Tizzana. Great way to spend Australia Day.
Found on the way to the event at Tizzana. Great way to spend Australia Day.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Nice quick find nestled in natural camo. Log signed and returned as found.
TFTC Team Merlin
TFTC Team Merlin
Rated: for Overall Experience
I was very pleased to see this cache name for my scavenge points and it was a nice easy find this morning. Thanks teamMerlin
Second to sign the log as I passed through Ebenezer
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