Puppy's Burnt Pine, None, Norfolk Island
By richlink on 29-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19R9T

Logged as VIIPERS on another beautiful Norfolk Island day. Dont forget to slip, slop, slap. That sun bites!Thanks for the cache.

So many wonderful view points and well cared for reserves. And now its like Norfolk has been a myth or has at least has been in the imagination mirrored by faded school lessons for so longnow the dream to visit Norfolk Island is real! The holiday suddenly looks busy busy with a schedule of tours, events and 70+ caches to find. From the first step on the island everything has been fabulous. Cache found quickly and logged as VIIPERS - a crew of caching buddies from Vic and Tassie ( who include cybergran V, SciFiRulz, Riddell, icybeetas Weirdobiker) TFTC and the fun.

Thank you richlink for placing this cache here, which was found in the company of the Viipers, a visiting group of five teams from VIC and Tassie.Thanks endeavour3 for maintaining it to keep it in this wonderful game we enjoy.Viipers team comprising Val, Ian, Icy, Pam,Evelyn, Ronice and Sylvia in absentia.A favourite point for the fun and friendship

Found by the VIIPERS. There may not be snakes on Norfolk Island, but now there are VIIPERS. We are V(al Cybergran V) I(an icybeetas) I(an Riddell) P(am weirdobiker) E(velyn SciFiRulz) R(onice Ronice88) and S(ylvia Riddell who is with us in spirit.)Stopped at the parking spot and went for a little walk to find the cache. icybeetas told us that on previous visits he had been to this reserve for the Fish fry dinner, however the one we attended on our visit was held elsewhere. TFTC

A group of geocaching friends consisting of Val (cybergran V), Ian (half of the team Riddell) Ian (icybeetas) Pam (weirdobiker) Evelyn (SciFiRulz), Ronice (Ronice88) and Sylvia (half of team Riddell) are touring Norfolk Island with the aim of finding every cache here. This was a quick find of a cache in good condition and the log signed as Viipers to save space. Thank you richlink for placing and maintaining it as it enhanced our visit to this beautiful island.

A group of caching friends are visiting from the mainland and enjoying the scenery while caching. The log was signed as team (viipers) who include cybergran V, SciFiRulz, Riddell, Ronice88, icybeetas and myself. We are looking forward to the 'fish fry' evening while we are here on the island

Another great cache on the island- love the views here Here on our second visit to Norfolk to renew our vows on our fifth wedding anniversary and finding a few caches on the wayThanks for the cache

Another beautiful coastal walk, thanks for the adventure.

A lovely walk after the morning tea event. Tftc

Enjoying two weeks on Norfolk Island always wanted to visit, now Im here! And theres caches of course! A lovely spot and good to see an old cache still in play and still being discovered!Beautiful place, thank yourichlink for placing this game piece here, showcasing this lovely area and contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy. Happy trails!

Found 6/9/24 on an afternoon walk. TFTC

Magnificent TFTH

Found this cache on a visit with the Qantas Pathfinders charity. Beautiful weather and the weather has been exceptional. Another country to add to the list even though we are still in Australia.

Nice stroll down the hill towards split rock. Tftc

I thought it was really scary, because of the cows but we did end up finding it.

Our first find on NI, and our first for quite a while. Excellent views. CheersBundy

Found this one easily

#7514- My first for the day while heading to the northern part of the island. An easy find, but some workmen were not far away and wondering what we were up to. Waved and we were on our way. Thanks

(15 of 17 today - including 1 Adventure Lab)Another fun day out with the Woof Patrol (aka **Calypso 62**, **Jackscruff**; **Goldberry17**, **FunFurMe**, **creativechookie** & me).Today we decided to tackle the west side of the island, starting in the south west and working our way north towards this afternoon's event. And didn't that work a treat.A combination of fascinating history and breathtaking views - and in one instance a breathtaking slope!###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###Snuck away from the event for a few minutes to grab this one.Round and round the rugged rocks this ragged rascal ran. Well, that's how it felt.Made the find and signed, replaced and was back before anyone else noticed*.SLTNLNTFTC* OK, lots of people noticed

We spent a fun and productive week geocaching on Norfolk Island, as well as seeing the spectacular views. We also did several tours and other activities on offer, which highlighted different aspects of the island life and history. Thanks for this cache.

Found it with goingplaces2 & ilook4geo while on a 7 day epic trip with 33 other caches exploring this beautiful Island. Thanks to the CO for the cache.

#14438 17:05With only a late afternoon event at Puppy Point, we made the most of the day by ticking off the mini power trail and the central north side of the island.A quick and easy find. TFTC richlink

OCW EverestHigh. TFTC richlink

Found just before the Puppy's Point Meet'N'GreetEvent. ?? Having an awesome time geocaching on NI with friends. My first organised Geotravel holiday. ?? TFTC richlink

Found before my event. Great spot. TFTC

Found it. TFTC

Found with friends

Pretty valley

Found with MummyPenny on a morning run around the NW corner. Thanks richlink.

Quick find whiles attending the nearby event. Signed as G8 and as 4Rods.TFTC Richland.

#7604 NI Day #4Having rounded up all the caches around the Cascades area earlier in the morning, it was time to work our way up the west coast. Arrived slightly early to the event here to make a find at this cache. Some nice sunset views from the picnic area.TFTC richlink

Great view and facilities.cache found and replaced as per.Thanks richlink

My buddies: bella at waggy & the 2079 coupleGorgeous sunset Thank you richlink, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo

Found this cache during our GeoAdventure week after arriving to attend the event held here. Easy enough to find with other cachers around. Thanks go to richlink for putting this cache into play.

Headed to the 100 acre wood area with ADI and headed to Rocky Point. Crossed paths with Crash and Harveyt a few times in this great forest before heading up the coast for more. A quick find. We completed the signing duties and re hid, TFTC

Found with Ris768 while travelling on Norfolk Island TFTCLog 3297Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache richlink

Had Duncan with us!!

Found with Deep_99 SL #5424 TFTC

A conveniently placed event meant that there were many finds here today.

Great spot - thanks for placing a cache here.

OCW frazeydaze. After dodging the cow pats and finding the large rock it was CIH.TFTC

Found with oldmorty. Had to watch my step with a few fresh cow pats around.Thanks to the CO for the cache.

We're here for our week long Geo Adventure tour and today is the first full day. It's been a really busy day, this morning there was the island tour then there was barely enough time for lunch before we did a glass bottom boat tour on the lagoon. Now that was relaxing and lots of fun with our entertaining skipper. Now this is a Geo Adventure tour so after the boat we set about the serious business of geocaching.Our group of friends came here to Puppy's Point for our first cache. Our different devices were pointing us in different directions but it wasn't long before we heard the cry, found it!TFTC # 6004

TFTC Great sunset spot

TFTCLovely spot

Nice park, off I wandered down another hill having just gone to Anson Bay. No cows today, or puppies. Great views.

Day 5 of my Norfolk Island adventure. I can understand why people want to live here . Its a little bit of paradise. Wow so much history on the island, Im enjoying my wandering seeing the sites . Some logs signed as N2OThis is my 12113find.Thankyou richlink for placing and maintaining this cache

Found with my nieces while exploring this length of coast up to Anson Bay. The view from here is lovely, especially at sunset! (Photo from the other night.)

TFTC Enjoying our stay on the island

Stopped at this beautiful location, on our way up North-West.Walked down to GZ, where the cache was soon located.

Oh so many rocks. Tried to do it without using roaming but had a quick look and then redirected myself. First NI find.

A quick find after a small trip off the reserve. Thank you

T-Tech and I are visiting Norfolk Island for our 40th anniversary. We arrived from Brisbane and are staying for 2 weeks at Endeavour Lodge, and plan to get some R&R, see all of the sites, learn the history, and gather every cache here so we can claim the Se Dun Challenge Today we headed up the north-west coast to Anson Bay. Heading south again after the walk down to the beach and we visited the 3 caches in Selwyn Reserve. A bit of a wander to this one but the cache was quickly found. We checked out the views before we drove off. TFTC, richlink.

Over with IolantheK from Brisbane celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary [^]Out for another day of caching up the north east side of the island this time.Nice easy, Cache is dry and in good condition [^]TFTC richlink

Found with the Canberra group on a nice afternoon. Signed Dem CBR for the Canberra Group. Tftc

Looked under the wrong rock. How exciting to be at Norfolk finally. This has been the plan for so long. Lovely to be here with Contesta, barb2e, Strangetrousers and IPlod65, signing as DEM CBRThanks for getting me out and about richlinkThe following TB's visited LEGHPD-Signal the Frog Trackable BrickGTGWRQ-Tracy the geoTrack Triceratops TagSGA9MZ-Odee's signal Geocoin - Apr 2006CC4MNG-Waterlily Sherpa Geocoin

Find # 10433Day 2 in Norfolk, here for a week of caching fun with geofriends Joolay, barb2e, StrangeTrousers, and iPlod. Zoom zoom zooming around in Kermit (green not red) Logging as DEMCBR.Fantastic weather, warm and sunny after chilly temps when leaving home. This was a quick and easy find and here at Puppy's today. Thanks so much for the many caches richlink and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light

# 8905 Today I joined iPlod65, Joolay, barb2e and contesta on the first full day of our Norfolk trip. It was just stunning out there today and we're starting to be able to find our way around. This morning was an orientation tour which helped a lot and was just great.Some logs signed collectively "Dem CBR".A quick find here.Thanks richlink for the Traditional Cache

TB drop

On holiday in Norfolk Island with StrangeTrousers. Beautiful Island. TFTC

Tftc. No pen but beautiful spot

quick find with jacko

Very easy

During July my wife and I took a break from Melbourne and spent a wonderful week on the Island - the first time for me (but hopefully not the last) and the second for her. Such a delightful place! I took my GPSr, with the traditionals downloaded (I don't really make the time to do puzzles or multis) and figured I would find a few as we went around the place. I never had any intention of finding all 41 of them, but somewhere around day 5 I realised it was actually feasible.

In the end it was a close call - one quite tough-to-get-to cache (Bird Island) I had to visit twice after not reading the description before my first visit and discovering it is really a multi and then stuffing up the calculations so I had an almost blind search for the cache; another (St Barnabas) was out of its hidey hole so took three visits before I found it among some fallen leaves nearby). But I got there and managed to claim them all.

In the interests of saving the limited data on my phone, I only look placeholder drafts during the week and am completing them back home, a month later. So with all due apologies, they are going to be pretty generic for the most part. But I will add comments about those that I particularly remember. No matter how detailed the final logs, I want to say a big thanks to those who have placed the caches and those who continue to maintain them. I had great fun finding them and they really helped make sure I saw as much of the Island as possible. So - a big and sincere TFTC
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This was actually one of the first places we visited on the island as we drove a bit randomly looking for somewhere to view the sunset on our first evening. I wasn't in caching mode then so it took until quite a few days later to get back here and find it.

Lovely quick find on a very breezy morning. Some cows joined in the search. Tftc

TFTC first Norfolk cache. 20 June 23

Exploring the north west corner of NI today. This was our first find. TFTC

Cache guardians for sure, near miss with our face!

Found just after the cyclone tftc

OMG. We found the cache guardians home with our faces and got a bit freaked out. Big. View was fabulous, thanks for the hide.

Found with Just_Jess! and ktbrwn1. Stunning views in the area, our whole group loved it, especially the muggles. Spotted the cache guardian just in time, in fact a whole family of them. Left a unicorn pencil for future finds. TFTC

Family trip with Geogeneve and ktbrwn1. There was definitely a cache guardian! Watch your head!

What a great place with a large number of large rocks. All good TFTC

Miss Belle found this one wedged in tight. No fairy ring to be found though…we’re now off to 100 acre for a picnic.

Found and left a Travel Fairy Ring Tag.

Left the Travel Fairy Ring Tag in this cache for the next cacher.

Bit of exercise, away from the danger zone (thank goodness). Easy enough find.

TFTC
Day 3 on the Island and still fighting the elements. A heavy fog abounds and the ground is ultra slippery.
We managed 18 caches and a few stages of the Lookouts Adventure Lab caches today.

Our 3 day caching in Norfolk Island, quick find, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO.

A very quick look with a big rain shower coming in. I saw a possibility but no luck - my first DNF on NI. TFTC even if I didn’t find it.

On 15 October 2022 a new batch of prisoners were shipped out of Brisbane to spend 7 days incarcerated on Norfolk Island. It has now been 5 nights and countless days into their sentence at Ocean Breeze Cottages.

The prisoner had been here on a previous occasion. Equipment failure seems to have meant the prisoner was looking fruitlessly deep within the bush. Returning to the spot the cache blocking guards agreed to a short 15 min release. The prisoner was please to quickly locate the item and return to the guards without raising their suspicions of any escape plan.

Found after a helpful hint from Pandsa, thanks for the assist!

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity. Great views from nearby cliff

Found! TFTC!

What a beautiful spot to visit! TFTC

Norfolk Island Adventure
But which rock
J&J

Smile

Found it

Norfolk Island Adventure
But which rock
J&J

Pulled up on the way to Captain Cook and strolled down to make a quick find. All good and TFTC

Found
SL. TFTC

Find Number 2499 found at 13:42. Today we found 6 caches and 2 lab caches. We had 2 DNF's.

The second day of our Norfolk Island Holiday. Today we took the Pitcairn Settlement tour in the morning and drove around the Island, caching the afternoon

Hmm... Lots of rocks, mostly large. I searched for quite a while and was on the verge of calling it a DNF when I spotted something suspicious. There was the cache, hiding under a large rock. Who'd a thunk it?.

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log and replaced the container as found

Thanks richlink for the cache.

Norfolk Island and Sydney trip, Day 5, Norfolk Island, Mt Pitt walking trails, Anson Bay and surrounds.

TFTC

Time to head to Norfolk Island to celabrate our 70th birthdays. When we were here before we were not geocachers, this visit will be spent gathering geocaches and revisiting our favourite places. Our appologies for the generic logs it does not take away the enjoyment we have found in the fantastic places athey have been placed and all the different styles of caches that we are enjoying,
SL TFTC

It is a rainy Sunday on beautiful Norfolk. Geo day planned. Thank you for the caches, taking us to special places.

Another find on a drive around the island.TFTC

Gotcha - Found with a lot of searching. Tftc

Found by iamapom at 13:17 on 27/4/2022. Thanks to richlink for the Traditional. This is Iamapom’s find number 2486. Greetings from Melbourne Australia.

First day on Norfolk
familarising ourselves with a drive around
and grabbing a few caches
had a DNF on a traditional a bit south
had to stop for a find
wandered down the hill a bit
no worries here
thanks for the cache richlink

Found with Mum and Dad and Samuel on another rainy cache day!

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