the tube St Helens Park, New South Wales, Australia
By tegator on 13-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13M53

Found with the sweetmanda on a day walking through The Dharawal NP. I had a target of 4 caches, which we had found. Then there were a couple more in this area for me to get, including The Tube. We parked on the bend in the road and then made the steady climb to GZ. I spotted something that might hold a tube, and then moved to the back. Wow! That is one long tube. All good inside there. Given that this cache is 17 years old, I'm sure the landscape has changed a bit. Though the tube and it's home look like they has survived the changes over time. Replaced and then back to the cars, where we said farewell after a good day out in the wild. TFTC

Located at 8:12am. #1542.Full log to follow. ! Baruch Hashem! TFTC! Much obliged for the placement Tegator!Kindest Regards, - Alephroom.

Tftc. Good find

Full log to follow

On a cache run with the team. After we made our way to GZ it was a quick find. With the cache in hand, we signed the log before replacing it as found. Both the cache container and the log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache tegator.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football

Another quick trip with the group for some of the caches more than 10 years old this was a quick find once at GZ

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache tegator

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Found.

Great spot! GPS led us astray initially, taking us up the wrong hill once we realised this and crossed the creek it was a fairly easy path to GZ. After signing the log, it was a much quicker, easier descent back to the Geo mobile! Tftc!

Catching up on logging all my finds since i joined in July. GPS made this harder than necessary, tftc!

A steep scramble up from the hairpin and I found the spot. Awesome cache container. TFTC

After finding somewhere suitable to park the geomobile we headed towards GZ. We soon saw a house and realised that we had crossed a fence line so quickly returned to where the wire fence was and headed along it to GZ. Worried the geokids may slip I kept my eyes on them and while heading to retrieve the cache container I slipped. Noticed trackable inside so took it to continue on its adventures. Thanks for the fun uphill climb we had fun.

We had to work for this one,making sure we kept a sharp eye on the geo kids- gravity not too kind to me these days, LT Work did the honours of retrieving this one. TFTC.

Great spot for a cache!!! I am a local to the area and love exploring. Dropped a little racer!

So nice to be out in the bush. Parked at the bend and made our way up to GZ. Upon arriving, a man (turned out to be the guy who owned the property on the other side of the fence) came over and told us we were on private property. We ended up explaining geocaching to him and he mellowed a bit and in the end was quite impressed by the length of time this one had been there. Impressive sized cache. Geo-niece was all over it with the clues. Great cache and great to see one that has lasted this long. Thanks.

After finding some other caches nearby I came to get this last one before heading home. I parked just before the corner and began my bash up the hill. The coordinates were good and guided me straight to it. A nice big container too. Thank you

Found

Tftc

Tftc

#5696 (6 of 6 today)

Well. I was hoping to head south today for a lot of finds. But the weather report isn't the best. What to do?
Decided to not go as far as originally planned, so only went as far as Appin and Cataract Dam. At the dam I can even try to avenge some previous DNFs.

Well, I did avenge the DNFs. Accumulated two more unfortunately - although one was somewhat expected. And I got to see out a thunderstorm in a shelter overlooking the dam wall. Good times!

Sorry for the slight delay logging - only just got power back after yesterday's "minor" weather incident. Well, at least we had no trees down near the house...
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So, should I go for a bush walk after the rain? And if I do, where do I cross the torrent raging down the side of the road?
OK, maybe not raging, but I don't want to step in it.

I'd parked a little past GZ, up the hill and noticed what looked like an easy uphill stroll from nearby.
Forded the waters and started to GZ.

Not too bad all things considered, and as the metres counted down espied a likely area.
Ended up approaching from the right direction for an easy find. Then got into position to make the grab.

Signed and replaced. Then the walk down and back over the torrent! All good.
Time for home.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Found with BeetleBro! So long! So strong! Love it. Left: 1x Superman pin. Took nothing. Thanks for the cache. Peace out.

Not a great day for GPS signal today, led me astray on the way up, taking me up what I found out later was the hard way, as it was pointing me in the wrong direction. Final location was a bit out, but pretty obvious location for a fun cache!

For a relatively short bush bash near to parking, we were surprised that this one hadn't been found for so long! TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

A tube in a tube!

Nice little pocket adventure to get to this one.

TFTC

Ah yes! it is a tube....a quick find after a bit of a climb.

TFTC

A bit of a climb but found it haha

Was quite a trek especially with my 2.5yo

A nice walk to warm us up. TFTC

Filling in time going away on holidays, this was a short detour. Then a wet and tricky climb for a find in the first spot I checked even if the hint no longer matches.

TFTC.

It is embarrassing it has taken me almost 10 years to get out here- I could see my geomates had logged this one way back in 2007 or 2008! Anyway, another not that far from home now off the list. TFTC!

Nice scramble and bushbash and a good size container at the end. TFTC!

This entry was edited by NationalSteel on Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 12:01:42 UTC.

Tftc! Great climb

What a lovely morning for a nice drive by cache.

Found it tftc

What a climb. Thanks

Tftc

Found it , mission to get but good hiding

Wow ..not a bad climb

Nice walk. No snakes and that is a bonus! TFTC.

Scrambled up the hill to a good hide thanks

This is one of those caches I put off and put off and put off.... Today it couldn't be put off any more and off we set scrambling up the incline. A quick look at round and soon had the cache in hand and after looking at the swaps and signing the log we started back down, some how lost the path and ended up at the creek bank but then quickly followed back to the waiting wagon. Thanks tegator.

Big hill. TFTC

Found it with Geo Daughter, nice climb up to it and a great area to hide it. TFTC

Found it with Geo Dad. Took a frog and left some toy soldiers. TFTC

Grabbed this one as we were heading home. A quick walk through some more bush and tube soon spotted. Duties done back on the road. Thanks tegator SLTN

Another bush bash for this one, feeling a bit worse for ware, done some biking, bush bashing, crossing cause ways, and here we are. Nice spot . TNSL TFTC

Loved the scramble up the hill on this one. Was staying at a nearby camp site and after finishing the camp decided to head out for a little bit of caching. Great container will have to try something like this closer to home. TFTC.

Finally found how to get to this region. Nice first find for the day.

found with twinturtles. lost a bit of skin getting there but got the prize and thats what counts

This was a nice easy find with terry tc... However there was a slight misshapp on the way to GZ when terry tc lost his footing halfway up the hill and spilt some blood to save himself. Took TB and left my TB seems like a cool cache for raff the giraffe to start his adventures TFTC

Found it! It's been just down the street this whole time!

Great hike to this cache, i have released the 1st of 4 bugs to race back to Adelaide, good location and fun to get to.

TFTC what a great location. Thanks for taking us to such a beautiful place.
Thank you for making caching more interesting by placing this cache. Not so much a tube as a down pipe!TNLN

Nice spot. Took nothing, left nothing. Had to run as it was getting dark! I like caches like this a lot. Thanks!

Nice walk with kids and dog. The set of wheels we took cause coincidently we needed. Replaced with deck of cards

Nice spot!

15/7/12
Nice climb fund easily
Took key ring left key ring
Speed team

The hike uphill wasn't too bad at all, and the description of the cache location made the find straightforward. I grabbed a trackable (my first!) and will take him north next week.

Not a bad walk up, left 'Y' and 'E' in the car and up I went for a quick find.

Steep climb up to GZ and a nice quick find of this fairly large cache, carefully made my way back down & managed not to slip over! Cache is well worth finding, don`t be put off the climb as it`s not that far.
TNLN,SL TFTC

found.. all the instructions and my gps were not helping at all. it was thru looking in the most logical place that i found the cache. twas a lovely day for a road bike ride too. those hills in and out of wedderburn are killers! had to stash my bike while looking for the cache in cleated shoes

TFTC.
Ving.

All that bush bashing is becoming a habit!! No worries I like a bit of adventure like this, great caches and solid containers so far Tegator!!
TFTC Wilbert67

Thanks for the cache.

Difficult find! A passer by who knew of the cache claimed it was no longer there but after a difficult search we were able to locate it in tact. Good find! Interesting cache! Mitchell, Anne, Elyse, Jan and Caden.

Ok this one looked interesting from reading the other logs I was prepared for anything got to the entry point and looked up and up and up spotted where I needed to be and in true caching style made a bee line for GZ needless to say a few detours were in order and soon had cache in hand did the log thingy and started the decent now coming down was a whole lot quicker than going up managed to end up on my backside twice slipping down the leaf litter definately my style of cache had a ball.thanks for thew adventure.

TFTC TNLN SL

found this cache with sgtsalem guiding myself and westmeadconcorde to the cache was a really fun ascent to the cache but was even better going down. lol tftc

TFTC

Parked the Caching Mobile at the bend, looking up the hill- wearing my work clothes i begun to have doubts... but as soon as my feet hit the hill all thoughts of fail were soon gone as i was focused on hitting another cache... my goal was the tube and no hill was going to stop me lol it looks a lot worse than it was and reading some of the other posts I was expecting something a little rougher. Had some assistance from a Geofriend and hopefully new CacheConvert lol and within no time was heading down the hill... mission complete

Found on morning run with RTEC+. Thanks.

Rod and Paul. Nice Morning.

lets just say that this cache is appropriately named,after finding a little spot to park the geo mobile
the up hill bush bash wasn't at all that bad,a very quiet and peaceful spot to do the cache business.

Left waistband/Taken tennis ball Geo pup will love it also retrieved sad DNF coin. TFTC....

Great to get back down this way again the first time since I went out with the owner of this cache Thanks for bringing us here Tegator nice work Deputy Dog and I loved the container, Left a DNF coin

Accompanied ruffasgutts4x4 for this excusion.
First for the day,,,, thanks for the hide ....
Nice container
TFTC SL TNLN

First find for the day. TFTC!

Last one for the day makes 13, most cache productive day ever

Did have a laugh at the content of this cache, TNLN signed the log and went home for a few relaxing beers.

Off to CeBIT tomorrow, may be able to pick up some free swaps

note to self: do not attempt these caches in the rain other wise if you dont injure your self you come out seriously drenched. finally bashed and splashed my way to the cache
took nothing left nothing

tftc

Found 13:30 Last one of 4 Tegator caches today. Again another good size cache. Wish I knew that there was a pack of castors in the cache. Could have brought along may pack that have been in the garage for 10 years, and than some lucky cacher could have repaired 2 chairs. I do get a laugh at some of the items that end up in caches. TNLN TCTF.

A much less demanding scrub bash this time. Great cache. Thanks.

1895.11 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 07 March Signal A#89

Albida

Nice to find a cache in the area were you don't have to risk injury to nab it! Thanks Tegator..... TNLNSL

The second of your hides for the day, this one was an ejoyable bash through the bush. Thanks Tegator.
TNLN

The cache was hidden in a very cleverly constructed container and hidden in a very sneaky location. Unfortunately when we discovered it was half hanging out of it place of residence. Possibly dislodged from it’s location by some of the local wildlife. We added a little lubricant to the thread on the lid before closing and returned the cache a little further up to prevent accidental discovery by muggles from the nearby houses.
The contents of the container were many and various with very little room for any more. It was very refreshing to see how full it was.
Thanks again tegator for the adventure.

While one was doing the caching duties a car stopped and asked the geowife it every thing was ok.
JABs.

1st for the day...nice easy find...thanks teg's
tfth

This one proved a little frustrating as for some reason the gizmo locked on telling me it was 14m away just after I entered the bush. It was till I rebooted it and then give it the boot did it finally tell me the actual location. Only to find that this had been a busy spot today and all the travellers were gone. TNLN Thanks.

Drove past an iffy looking parking spot and ended up approaching from slightly further afield. Picked a likely path to the top and there lay the tree. Bewdy I thought, a climbing we go. as I prepared for the perilous ascent the wife spotted the end of the tube in the bottom of the tree. Bugger.

Took 2x travellers, left mozzies cozzies.

TFTC!

This was an interesting cache container. Found it without too much trouble, breaking in the new gps.

I loved the cache location, mainly as I could look down at my new car, yes I know that is vain, but its new (well to me anyway).

We passed a few locals and their dog on the drive in, and again on the drive out. They probably thought we were a
bit strange.

TNLNSL.

Thank you.

BUSH, BUSH and more bush. What a great place to hide caches!!!! This find was made easy because of the very good description given...It was almost a drive by as we could keep an eye on our car the whole time...
TNLN SL

Found by Pi and XU9J4.

Easy find even though both GPSr's were pointing several mtrs past the cache. That is certainly one long cache container. Pencil was broken and there was no sharpener so I donated a sharpener, sharpened both pencils and put the sharpener in with the log book.

Looks like we walked pretty much the same path to the cache as others have as there is a nice geocacher trail developing. It's pockets of bushland like this one that make these semi-rural areas so attractive. I doubt most people who live in the Campbelltown area have the slightest idea that we have access to such rich and diverse bushland on our doorsteps. Enough ranting.

T: Bear Memories TB.
L: Endian Geocoin (4).

TFTC,
GPS.

With a new surf break posted in the local area I chucked my steamer in the back of the car, waxed my board and bolted the malibu to the roof-racks.
Didn't end up catching any waves but got "Tubed" just the same.
Gnarly one Tegator Dude

Left a couple of TB's in the cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

This certainly is a loooooong cache. It would have been easier to get to if I hadn't parked at the bushfire station and bush bashed over. I really should have had a look at a street directory, oh well!

Cheers.

2:43pm
Have to agree, thats the longest cache I have ever seen!

Saw no ostrich's floating past, but I am sure I saw a yowie on an inner tube, hmmm, why was I not quicker in getting some pics? Maybe next time.

Took a TB and a compass, left a whole bunch of stuff that could fit, including a CFG.

Cheers

What a strange morning, left home and it was bucketing down with water washing across the road and I am sure I saw an Ostrich floating down one of the creeks. On reaching the cache location luckily the rain had stopped. Then spotted the cache and started to withdraw it. Well it kept coming and coming and it turned be the longest cache we have ever found, it was so long one we would have to wonder how he got it in their in the first place.

Left Compass.

dropped TB and Coin

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