Mountain Moving Tallwood, New South Wales, Australia
By tanitag79 on 15-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10YV5

Geocache has been destroyed and cannot get to replace.

Couldn’t find. Cattle have been grazing in the area.

The cache needs maintenance. See my found log for details.

We saw the mine from a distance, although we hadn't read the cache notes at that stage and wondered whether it was going to be a large regional dam. The area certainly needs some water, it's so dry.

We did a quick search when we arrived but found nothing. We eventually turned the correct rock, but discovered that the "cache" was now nothing more than a vomit bag which is disintegrating. The lid of the old container was still in place, but the cache has obviously broken under the pressure of the rock at some time. The cache needs maintenance. Thanks

#5,442

Another minor detour on our way to a multi. This one is in very sad condition. All that is left of the original cache is a lid and some jagged broken plastic around the edges. At some point someone has added a vomit bag, and this is almost decayed away, breaking up. The log is wet & disgusting. The remaining cache contents are in bad condition.

Needs an owner visit to replace the container, or archiving if the owner doesn't want to maintain it any more.

Thanks

Found with Justjessie. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our winter long weekend get away. TFTC!

T FTC but it needs attention very damp nice drive to find this one

Tftc

Moving the mountain was easy enough and found the little treasures

Tftc

Out touring around the countryside with drobbonz and kiwisteve2. Made the find pretty quickly. Log was very damp. Tftc

Cache container moldy inside and out. Log wet. Could do with a check-up

Found as part of an Orange and surrounds geomission with fitzy_1965, AngelG27 & Sol de Lune (signed as FASS to save time & space) Top weather, great company and lots of laughs meant for an epic weekend of caching all round!

A bit of a bonus cache for me and AngelG7 as fitzy and SDL had found this one previously. I reasonably quick find but the container is quite mouldy [xx(]

Thanks for the hide, tanitag79

Fitzy_1965, SpecimenX, Sol de Lune and I (logged as "FASS") headed from Canberra to Orange and surrounds for a caching blitz over the 30-31 July weekend. We logged around 1000kms in the Geo-Jeep, selecting those caches that Fitzy had not previously found. I scored around 130 caches for the trip. The visit was characterised by blue skies, very green paddocks, lots of water off and on the road, a fair amount of mud, and good company! Still plenty of caches to collect and scenic spots to explore on a return trip. Thanks to my fellow travellers for a fun weekend, and the COs for all their efforts in putting out and maintaining the caches.

50th for the day at 1330 (55th for the trip). SDL and Fitzy had found this one, but Specimen X and I had not so we stopped enroute to another cache to make the find. The Cache was not in good condition. It had mold inside and out and the log was wet. Will submit a separate NM log. But we did enjoy looking at the nearby mining works as we drove past. Thanks tanitag79!

I crawled around untill I got the right spot. Thanks tanitage79 FTC.

Nice drive out of the way TFTC

TFTC

Found it. Be careful of snakes. 12th October

Nice drive. Wouldn't have ever come out this way if not for the cache. TFTC

Wow impressive area around the mine loved coming here thanks

SL TFTC

quick find tnln tftc

TFTC. Field position log. Full log to follow.

6731 + 842 = 7573. Found during a great weekend caching in the Bathurst region with Sol de Lune.

Heading out of Orange now. A quick find for this one - always happy about that !An impresive Dam for sure ! Signed and we were off to the next one !

Thanks tanitag79 !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

An interesting area....and a view of the 'dam'......

Once we reached GZ the cache was actually quickly found and the log signed and we headed back to the warmth of the car...and more caches down the road..

Thanks for this one...

Got to this one and went ok a guard rail. Lucky for me the coordinates are pretty good. Found with alittle searching. What a big mine TFTC

Lots of rocks but we eventually found the right one - TFTC

Took a while but found it in the end. Enjoyed the view. TFTC

The hint says to crawl under a rock if you can't find it, but which rock? There's certainly a lot here!
TFTC tanitag.

Didn't have to crawl under a rock, Nice Cache, TFTC

One we entered the coords right (ie stay away from the bared wire fence) the booty was soon ours. Cheers!

Very long grass was troubling us today! As I was trying to get the phone going to read the clue..... geoson casually said "found it". Another for the kids on our afternoon drive. TFTC

Great views of those 'mountains'. TFTC

We were cautious near the cache but no blue tongue. Nice views of the mine from here - thanks.

Just doing my bit for the 29th.
Not much to see today as the rain was pelting down.The grass was long but I found it in the end. TFTC

Lovely warm and sunny day to do some caches today after waking up to freezing early morning at Blayney with -0.8 degrees in our caravan brrr brrr!!...took us a while before Ms Bushies2 found it. Thanks tanitag79.

tongue smiley face for the blue tongue lizard wrapped around the cache

The Grass was long and the Blue Tongue wasn't too happy being disturbed !

Bathurst 11. The road looked very remote, and no one passed y while I was here. The grass disguised the rocks well, so I had to poke around a bit to get the right one. Thanks.

4544.7 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 WDD A#114

Albida

Are they the tailings? quite unbelievable. Had a nice quick find.

Sl TFTC

hey nice hide bro and thanks!

Nice look at the cadia mine, never been here before!

thanks for the cache, it was fun.

Good one.

Taking the long way home after a training coures finished early. Quick easy find. Big dams for a big mine.

TFTC

Found this one eventually after spending a bit of time looking on the other side of the road. I felt so silly after finding it.

This one was a quick easy find. That certainly is a large tailings dam isn't it!!! and the moving mountains near by are just huge. They have certainly processed some ground looking for that elusive precious stuff ah.
Thanks for the cache.
TNLN

Doing a little moving nearby and stopped by for the find - all in good shape.

TFTC

Found It! didn't realize this dam was soooo big.

Took a Sunday Drive to find this one. Havn't previously been in this area. The scale of the operation is impressive.
Signed the Log and:-
Took: Stress Ball for the Geo Dog once he spotted it!
Left: Koala Bear

Thanks tanitag79

no 2 of 4 for a late night drive.no view tonight TFTC
JABs

Nice drive in the countryside. I think they will do well out here. This place is a gold mine!!!
TNLNSL TFTC

Found it ! Nice Cache. The scale of the opperation near by is just mind blowing. TFTC. TNLNSL.
suzukifreak_1

The landscape looks one hell of a lot better following some rain; unfortunately one of the grey nomads feeding on the lush greenery left his legs behind on the barbed wire fence - not too far away - long slow death of starvation I would guess! Grots took nothing - full of crap - always keen and kind to others they left a stress ball and pencil sharpener. Not that you can stress- out finding this one - sinch, unless environmental vandalism, caused by dirty bloody big mines, upsets you! 3rd find of the day.

Found easily as we looked over the valley. It's so amazing the size of it all. Just makes you wonder what will actually happen to the area when all resources have been used up!!!!!

First find of the day and second find overall. What a difference the right datum makes! Left a keyring and took a bird. Thanks tanitag 97.

our first find for the day. Great hide fun find!!

WHAT AN AMAZING SIGHT.
Took stapler, left
(a) GOLD foreign currency coin
(b) Gold olympic cycling badge
(c) Gold 5-leaf broach,
and a couple of animals.
Thanks for the cache and something so very different on a back road.

Found this one at 2135 when mother fnished work. Another ftf for the routers glad to say no muggles.Took TB left parott.Thanks heaps tanitag79

Dropped off geocoin whose goal is to visit mines.

Wait, Mohammed, here it comes!