Ring A Ding Ding Mount Pleasant, New South Wales, Australia
By homedg on 29-Dec-06. Waypoint GC101VM

Nice Walk.............. Sorry to see this one go
Thanks HomeDG for the cache

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I had been search for micro caches all morning, and this was a lovely find. I was a breath of fresh air TFTC

Took ages to find, I can see what hobzz means

What a fab view, thanks for bringing us here, took ages to find and wandered in and out of scrub, rewarded on the way home with a laugh as Jessies Dad had a leech on his foot and screamed like a baby in the car

What a sneaky hide... I know half the mountainside back to front now =P TFTC

Great place, nice cache! T4TC!
In/Out: --

Backlogging some old caches found long ago,
Another easy cache up here - Thanks

Did the long walk from the guide camp, top scenery, plenty of bird life and leeches. Log only, TFTC.

cheers,
Gary

On a caching adventure with some of the family who had not been caching before. Walked in from the gate track although longer than needed to be it was a great walk and thoroughly enjoyed.

We remember doing this walk many times before and not far from this spot in our youth (yuh that makes me feel old) we have abseiled off the edge at night and the view is spectacular.

TFTC

Nice walk in to this one and went a little further east like others to find the cache. TFTC.

Thanks. Great view and Cache 200 for Team Buxton.

Went the short way after visiting the lookout, thanks

My second find so not very well prepared for leaving items in cache. Raided pockets and backpack and could only come up with spoon. Too big to fit in cache so had to bend it. Looks very suspicious but no I'm not addicted to anything illegal! Took plastic soldier.

11:10am. No Muggles but slightly off GPS. Took the Joker and left a thumblette. TFTC

This cache revealed itself to me about 4m east of where the GPSr told me it was...
Great views to the coast, thanks for the chance to come here, TNLNSL.
By the way how is the rib.....

Our first of the day & a nice one to start with. Great views from up here.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

Well how do you celebrate our 28 wedding anniversary go caching off course,it did have a ring in its
name.A nice short walk great views and ring a ding ding a cache in hand...TFTC. homedg..

Put in a yellow wrist band & took a sew on badge. Took a while to find.

Found 11:25am. Nice walk and hide. Enjoyed it very much. TNLN. Thanks.

Found cache on day out with jkcourtz.

This one took a lot of searching before it was located. Up, down and round and round we went for at least 20 minutes. Nice views from up here.

TFTC

Great views here. Must have been blind last time I was here and didn't find the cache! Now I had it in hands within a few minutes.
TFTC Wilbert67

Great views and location TFTC TNLN

Lovely location for a cache. Walked in from the start of the track near Mt Keira Rd. So lush and green compared to the ACT, could smell the sea in the air.

On reaching GZ found the views fantastic, also nabbed a cache! Great place. Thanks for the views and the cache. ZZ7

After enjoying the lookout from the top we went for this one. Quick find.

Took TB
Left Patch

TFTC JM-Project

Searched for a good fifteen minutes, but to no avail. I'm sure it was there somewhere, but just hiding from my sight.

I count myself lucky to return home in one piece after tackling this on a wet day. On the walk back to the car I removed 3 leeches before they had a chance to attach themselves. I was almost in 4 pieces!

To think of all the years as a CUB Scout Leader and we would go on a night hike along this trail !!!!!!! It was 34' today but down in the gully it was very pleasant.
T TB L TB and a pen

Found on our way up the mountain thanks for the geo kid who can get down low and go go go

left turtle and travel bug
took geo coin

Nice short walk from the road on a wet and foggy afternoon. Found quickly. Took a bit longer to remove the leaches who had found our ankles to their liking. T: TB and key finder L: Geocoin and Yo Yo.

"Far from the madding crowd", we took a short stroll along a pleasant trail on a beautiful cool, overcast day. TNLN While we were signing the log, the fog rolled away to reveal a breathtaking view of Wollongong! Thank you for sharing this place, and for the cache homedg!

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Thomas Gray 1751

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Dropped: Triple Divide Peak (CA)" Green Jeep Travel Bug

We found this one with out to much trouble.
We will have to come back another day and do the Ring Track.
Cheers

great litttle cach , thanks for the hunt

With ill disguised relief - on the part of half of Altaire at least - we'd fled the muggle beset micros nearby to traipse along the forested track. Good to be able to search unmolested and in short order the cache duties were being conducted. Filtered views were granted us from the cache locale. No swaps today.

Another lovely cache location on our tour of Mt Keira. Love the bush location after the muggle encounters at the lookout.
The cache was soon found. No swaps.

Another drive by with a quick find.
No swaps. TFTC
Alpini
proud PLG member

Frippy nabed this one just after arrival at GZ nice veiw thanks....

Great views, nice easy find. Thanks

Found with Secretsquirrel-BJC. We enjoyed the Wollongong Invasion so much last weekend that we just had to come back and knock over a few more caches.

This was our last find in the Wollongong area before heading for home (Canberra). SS made the find fortunately, as where I was searching was nowhere near the GZ. TFTC

960(+9=969) with Captain Tomato on an encore appearance in Wollongong

Thanks homedg - nice glimpses of views and a fun hunt.

*Overall Experience: 3*
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

Rated: for Overall Experience

Well we didn't except to visit this one till a little later in the day, but MBO took a wrong turn which put us on the Freeway doh.. oh well might as well visit the Keria caches.
First one on the list..
I did my trick finding the cache , and watching the rest hunt while I filled in the log.. lol
thanks for the visit.

10th of 21 finds during the last day of our caching invasion to Wollongong. Found with Mtbikeroz, Tankengine & Mtrax.

Along the little track, then a quick detour and the cache was in hand. Log singed, cache replace and onward to the next find.

TNLN & TFTC.

Cheers,

A great weekend for the Wollongong Invasion with Sol de Lune, TankEngine & mtrax, and often teaming up with SecretSquirrel-BJC and Captain Tomato at times. A wonderful weekend of caches, views, sub-terranian and very clever hides.

Nice little spot high up with views too, Thanks.

Found at 11.20am on day 2 of our Wollongong Invasion! Nice views peaking through the trees gave us a hint of what was to come! Lovely spot, nice hide. TNLN thanks homedg.

Bewilderbeest made this find on our Wollongong Invasion weekend. A great area to enjoy the sunshine and birdsong. TFTC

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We heard a lyrebird. I didnt actually see it but we could tell it was a lyrebird because there were loads of different bird calls coming from the same place. The cache was good even though I didnt personally find it. McWeBiTe beat us here - but then they usually did!

Thanks for the cache

It was weird. Thats all I want to say, apart from:

Thank you thank you!!!

An enjoyable little walk down the ring track. We heard the lyrebird doing its thing, and as we were leaving we saw it foraging along the side of the road.

Thanks Homedg, no swaps today.

*Overall Experience: 3*

Rated: for Overall Experience

Wollongong invasion trip by the Canberra based McWiBiTe team.
McPhan, Winglen, BigOn, Tealby
Nearly missed logging this one, I haven't heard a lyrebird since I moved to Canberra, This experience brought back a lot of pleasant memories of bushwalks in the Bombala area. Pleasant little walk to an easy cache in great surrounds.
TFTC

Seems like the lyrebird was active for the whole weekend, entertaining the steady stream of cachers with its delightful song. They love the wet weather which was just starting after a clear morning so far.

Thanks homedg from the McWiBiTe team.

The most memorable part of this cache was the lyrebird with an amazing variety of different "songs" - including imitating the sounds of construction! I wasn't much help with finding this cache, but did enjoy the walk along the track. TNLN TFTC - 9th for the day.

Rated: for Overall Experience

1252. Pleasant walk through the bush to the accompaniment of a lyrebird going through it's repertoire.

TFTC and the look around this area.

Rated: for Overall Experience

After frustration at the lookout, it was great to find this one before heading home to Sydney. TNLNSL TFTC

this cache had good view and took

some finding


thax for the cache


paegle boy

We walked right past it on our way back to camp . Then we had to bush bash for about 200m. Oh well, we found it.....all in a days geocaching.
TFTC

It took a bit of looking to find, three of us. we will blame the cut down undergrowth .

We were obviously the first ones to use this part of the track today given the number of spider webs on the path - nothing like a face full of web to start the morning! The cache turned out not to be where we thought was most likely but some concerted effort and some ducking down and up and over and under eventually paid off with mr bloopy grabbing the goods. Danke!

nice easy find the listed co-ords took me past the first time past but giveing the gps a chance to stop and work its self out took me to the right spot.
tnlnsl
thtc

approached this one from the right angle and had no problems finding it.
left it a little better hidden than when i found it.

lovely cache with a lovely view

Only find of the day, together with OzVixen.
Took TB, LNSL

Well, found this one with Osa-y-Leon which was our only successful one for the day!

SL, TN, Left Yachtie TB.

Easily found - dropped TB

After enjoying the veiws from the top of the hill was a bit
disapointed by the trees in the why but enjoyed the walk
along the track.TFTC.
JABs

Found at 1250. A great area with a multitude of walking tracks to choose from. Took around 5-10 mins to find. Coords seemed a bit off.

TNLN. TFTC.

Found towards dusk by Mr Emu, GAFF3. After numerous trips to Wollongong over the past 5 years, I finally had enough time (and light) to take the long way around and visit Mt Kiera. Naturally I had to see which geocaches were nearby.

As I arrived at the GZ, some large animals in the bushes moved away. I thought they were kangaroos, but after reading other logs, perhaps they were deer. Would have been great to see one. The cache-hunt turned out to be a bit harder than I thought, but only because of my own assumptions about where the cache might be hidden. I was on the verge of giving up, and had widened my search a bit, when I spotted the container in it's hiding spot. It must have been the one spot in the whole forest where you could see the darn thing from - I felt unbelievably lucky! On a work trip, and without my 9-year-old son - "Demon Boy" - I didn't bring any swaps, so I "Took: Nil; Left: Nil".

I really enjoyed the great view through the trees and the smell of the bush. Thanks homedg for a nice cache in a great location.

This one was where we expected and the walk up from the gates and back along the ring track was very pleasant. I can't remember doing that section before but I have enjoyed many other walks around this mountain where I grew up. Thanks for the cache. Took a very cool geocahing tatoo and left a mini Trangia carabiner.

Forgot to log. Can't remember details. See Greenblob's entry. (The family that geocaches together argues forever.)

Started up the top of mt keira
there was a wedding and little parking
we decided to head down the bottom
This then turned into going to the scout camp? gizmo wasnt working goodly
We then headed to the bottom of Queen Elizabeth
took the ring track and might i say that is a MIGHTY climb.
Good work-out
left NSW Jamborette 2005 badge
took nothing
T4TC
greenblob

nice view from here

Every time we have been here there is always a lot of elderly lady bushwalkers setting off along one of the tracks and today was no exception. So if you where an older bloke into bushwalking wanting to meet that special lady this might be the location for you.

Took the long way there. But found it after all those steps. Love the forest approaching from below.
T Keyring
L Tape measure
SL

nice view

nice view

A lot of water on the track and the clue wasn't a lot of help, but I found it eventually. Great views!

Unfortunately, managed to get my first leech. Made good use of the first aid kit in the car!

One of these days we will do the ring track again.....enjoyed doing a tiny bit of it today.
thanks homedg

Very cool spot!

This looks like a lovely track. Got to gz ok and startled a large deer in the process. Once at gz the cache was found without too much trouble in a good hiding spot. TNLN Thanks homedg

Dashed up here after grabing two other nearby new caches. Brought BigDadB along with me and it was he who made the find. It's been a while since I've walked the whole ring track but it brought back fond memories. Thanks homedg. Great work!

Fun activity used to break up a long day at leadership training with scouts. You're all lucky that we didn't come prepared with membership forms and rover stickers.
We looked down first, but didn't find it till we started going up
thanks. Kobe

Spent the weekend at the nearby Scout Camp and dragged a few folks out for some caching (hopefully get some converts out of the exercise - got at least 1 by the looks of the logs!). The cache was quickly found, and the log book signed by all present. No swaps.
Thanks for the cache!
best wishes,
Wal

#276 in our quest for 300! The powerlines played havoc on our GPS so we used the phone a friend option. Nice one to start off our day TNLN.

I haven't walked this track for years, and this gave me an excuse to walk at least 100metres of it. Thanks for the cache. Greg

Nope, not today

The machine was all over the place, gave up after 30 minutes searching, then stumbled on the cache when returning back to the track! Thanks homedg

Left: Keyring

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Rated: for Overall Experience

Found it or rather stumbled upon it, some days you are lucky. Our GPS was of little value here, it couldn't make up its mind which way was north, south, east or west. Signed the log only as I had forgotten to pack some swaps. Thanks for the cache.

Found it this time and didn't take too long after a widened the search area. Done quickly from the car. TNLNSL.

Took the easy way in off the road but searched high and low (mainly low) without success. Had a bit of trouble getting a lock on GZ which perhaps didn't help.

dash up the track and running late between jobs looking looking huh huh bingo. tnlnsl and im out of there wish i had time for the views i love these ones but the job was calling tftc homedg

After the sweltering heat of the west today this was a welcome relief. The southerly had dropped the temp which made it good for caching.
Found the cache after a quick search. TNLN. thanks.

Nice easy find although had to keep a tight hold on the Gribblet.

10:49am
Too hot for long walks today, seriously! So, took the 60 second option, 60 seconds from car to GZ. Cache took a few minutes to find, it's not hard and no where near the "edge".

Took the stubby holder, left an electronic key finder and the TB.

Drove up to the lookout to have a quick gander and head down into cooler, lower elevations.

Cheers

A nice easy find on my way to somewhere else. I am not quite sure what all of the fuss has been over with this one!

Took a TB.

Cheers.

Unlucky today with this one. Searched and searched before coming quiet close to the edge. Will try another day.

Spent a long time looking around at the new co-ords without a lot of luck. We were just about to call it a DNF and thought we might have a look around the original marks and bingo there it was just when we were about to throw in the towel. Clever hide homedg. Exchanged one TB for another.

I was FTF and didn't have any undue difficulty in locating this hide. GZ was off by around 6-10m which isn't too bad under tree cover. The hide is a bit tricky because there are quite a few places to look, but I wouldn't say it is a case of haystacking at all. R.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 34° 23.863 E 150° 51.280
Distance From Old: 23.5 feet
Co-ords changed back to original

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 34° 23.865 E 150° 51.276
Distance From Old: 23.5 feet
S 34° 23.863 E 150° 51.280
as advised by Rowers

We eventually found this cache after rain and work kept stopping us. found the co-ords to be more S 34° 23.863 E 150° 51.280
Took smiley and left 2 Travel bugs to begin there adventures.

I can confirm that the Coords were about 10m off. We spent most of our time looking on the wrong side of the track.

Daaave.