Towered Over Mardi, New South Wales, Australia
By Shifter Brains on 29-Sep-08. Waypoint GC1GQJB

#8294After 5km or so walking for a nearby trail, we limped into Tuggerah for lunch and an errand, then decided on a car-based afternoon. A major smash on the M1 has the highway completely closed in both directions, and any road nearby is a carpark with diverted traffic. Let's go bush!Quick find here. I was a bit disappointed there wasn't a trig up here though! TFTC!

#8294After mowing the lawn this morning, its time for some caching. Decided to hit this new series for a nice walk and a bunch more T3s for the stats! Beautiful day for a walk, not too hot, but nice and sunny. end of copy paste Were done our walk now, and to avoid the massive highway accident weve come in here for some oldies.Bit of water in the container, but log dry. TNLN SLThanks for placing and maintaining this cache Shifter Brains

Nice drive to get there

Cool cache. Kids loved swapping. Beautiful area too

Love a swap, good cache for a quick drop by, tftc

Good find

Great

Happy Star Wars Day!

Very easy find! In a great spot

Pretty dry and Barron making for a nice quick find in a quiet place

I've been meaning to grab this one for ages. Now that the roads have dried out, I took a detour on the way home and made a quick find.

Took a day off work today for mental health thought I would get out on the bike and have a ride.
Checked the app in-between rides and what do no I’m parked no more than 20mts away from this cache.
Cache is dry and in good condition TFTC

This was our first find. Thanks. Will definitely be looking for more.

Found it on my birthday.
Left some goodies, took nothing, emptied out a dribble of water.

Thank you!

TFTC

We are going for a drive through the state forest because... why not. Finally decided to grab a few of the caches along this road.

The local mountain biking group is certainly putting some effort into these tracks. There are some fancy new signs at the trailheads that weren't here last time we were up this way.

We got a bit confused and searched in the wrong spot for a bit before finally deciding to trust our GPS. We found the cache but at the cost of a number of minor injuries from the spiky plants.

Thanks for the cache!

Nice spot

A busy spot, even on a drizzly week day. Thanks Shifter Brains.

Damaged container replaced and contents refreshed.

Ready to be found.

Due to work and family commitments, and the weather we have been unable to check this cache. If should be done by the end of November.

We will be going out to check and maintain this cache in the next couple of weeks.

To help stop the spread of COVID-19, the NSW Government has ordered everybody to STAY AT HOME unless you are: shopping for essentials, receiving medical care, exercising or travelling to work or education.
While some people would regard geocaching as a form of exercise, we feel that this activity is NON-ESSENTIAL, perhaps involving unnecessary travel and therefore should not be undertaken during this time of crisis.
Who knows how long this current lockdown will last! Right now, every one of us has an important part to play in helping to keep our families, friends and the wider community safe in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, by STAYING HOME. Unfortunately, the situation is not improving and there have been an increase in the number of finds on our caches.
As a result of the health authority’s directive, we have decided to disable this cache and respectfully request that you do not seek out and claim a find whilst this cache is disabled. If you do log a find it WILL be DELETED.
Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to bringing our caches back into play after the restrictions are lifter.
Regards
Shifter Brains

Fun find!!

Easy find! Needs maintenance, very wet. TFTC

Found by Ms4. Good find. Needs repair. Very wet.

Bit wet, couldn’t write a log. But fun find!

In the area to check out the MTB tracks, the Ez boys saw the “downhill” sign so we headed up for a look. Realised there was a cache nearby so we stopped and grabbed it. Cache was out in the open so was an easy find. Covered it up a bit better for longevity. TFTC. A very busy area today with the sun shining.

Found with shaneo58 doing some around Mangrove Mountain, coming down from Newcasle/Lake Macquarie in the morning, getting up near the 20's deg later in the day. On the way home, The coords kept changing, probably due to the power near here, GZ was about 10 meters off. This is the 4th cache of 4 for today. Log signed and caches replaced as found. Thanks For The Cache Shifter Brains
Cache number 2430 at 3:09:00 PM on Thu 6Aug2020

Found it today with Bill Hill 531. Coords about 7m out but search and you will find. TFTC Shifter Brains .

Great spot, cheers.

Found it nice and easy, TFTC ️ found with R2BEEF2 and GeoJess

Lots of trail bikes to dodge! Found with Taylapearce3, GeoJess and the Mad-Dawg. TFTC!

TFTC needs maintenance

Hard to find. But worth the adventure

TFGC found 25th Jan 2020

Found it

TFTC, TB found

Found TB here but wasn’t logged here

found with banj ward tftc

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a very warm Saturday morning. Picked up two TBs to move further along on their travels. Visited TBs, TFTC

Haven’t gone geocaching in years. Great motivation to go for a hike!

Easy find

Gee mountain bikers are an arrogant breed. Took a couple of minutes to find. Some signs of moisture in cache. Dropped 2 trackables. Would have been a good spot for a fire tower. Tftc tn.

Easily found on a cold winters day. TFTC.

Trying to clear up the today. An easy find.

Found with bedlem2

Found by myself! After parting ways with Mighty Minions, I headed out to this cache alone. I do not remember how to do this by myself anymore. Eventually after walking in circles, swearing and ricking though the dirt I found the cache in an obvious spot, a little away from my circle of footprints. Finally! The log was moist and hard to sign.
Thanks for the cache!

TFTC

TFTC. Pretty easy cache

Deeper than you think. Gps doesn't play ball here. TFTC

Okay, one of the wishes for the end of 2016 has been achieved, now to see if I will be able to make 4,000 'cache' finds by the end of the year. With this one, it will be 'just' x 20 to go!
The track was a bit rough in places, but I may have come route from an unusual direction. The Nissan Dualis was able to get there tho! Parked beside GZ, and within a minute I had the cache.
Found @ 0240, GAFF1, dry and intact. Good coordinates, and was able to leave a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
Will add a bookmark for the Night Caching Elective #6, and I think I have picked up a Favourite point with caches found this Christmas morning, so will leave here.
Through for mileage: 12-12-12 Multi Event - Auckland, New Zealand; 15 Years of Geocaching 2000-2015 Geocoin; 2014 Geocaching NSW geocoin; 3.1415 Pi & Ice Cream Slice; 3Brothers-NSW; Auckland NZ '13; Bridge2Bridge Travel Ingot; Cache Critters - Baa, Neigh, & Oink Geocoins; CII-35Z; CITO - Upper Swan, and Beyond; Discover Me & Animals: GCookie; Flash Mob XII GCookie Geocoin; G Cookie Earth Cache 10 Year Celebration Coin; GCookie FIZZY coin; Geo-NSW 2015 Waymarks coin; GeoNSW 2016 Geocoin; Hello Cocky TB; IconicBridges2012; Kengu; NZ Mega 13; NZ Mega 2013 Spare Key; NZ Mega Auckland 2013 Signature Trackable; Oz Mega 2014 GCookie; Qld Mega 2015 GCookie coin; Raunchy Rhino; Spindoc Bob & Friends Coin; Suzie@2431; and Transaustralia.
TFTC Shifter Brains.

The bush was quiet here today, perhaps too quiet?... The Jazz mobile lapped up the rough trail, and I soon had CIH, thanks.

Thank you so much, third one for today, took some pirate booty and left a treasure.

Easy find when you follow the coordinates. First time finding ones for our friends with us

Our first find!

First find TFTC

After finding the Wizzzard's Watchtower, I decided to seek a different tower. The road across from where I was on Red Hill Road didn't look passable in my Corolla so I set out on foot for the 500m hike to GZ, only to discover a couple of hundred metres in that it joined onto a much more substantial track. Doh!

As I approached the tower, my heart sank as I saw a technician's van parked at the base of it. Fortunately the cache is well back from the tower so I was able to conduct my search without fear of being watched, and soon spied the hiding place.

Grabbed the Big E's TB before leaving. Thanks for an enjoyable hide.

TFTC , new to this

Yey we broke our hudu
Left a TB
TFTC

Pic of TB at cache

Fun day drive to few caches at Yarra on the way to home..
Turn to stop cafe van to order Latte YUMMM..
Wow nice view around of kids crazy fun...
Then drive back to three caches closer... Easy to spot and sign the log with no trouble..'
Thanks

Walked in by the tree top adventures, next time I will bring the bike. Had a nice walk in the bush. Got to gz and the cache was in the open. SL covered it up and oh forgot to go up to the tower TFTC

TFTC the "bubbies"

Listening to Gormenghast flood while driving in Australian bush - what a contrast!
Cant get used to this day behind thing when logging - wish they'd fix that!
TFTC

Left some plant info cards and some lollies took a bat

We were at a loss for what to do this weekend and Mr minion said,Let's go find some geocaches.Well you don't have to ask me twice,so I loaded up some caches and of we set.This was the second for the day and we were really enjoying the scenery out here,A nice easy quick find and on to the next one.thanks for the cache Shifter Brains tnln sl

Found it. Thanks for the cache.

A fun adventure today, through yarramalong and cedar brush creek, and looping back through kulnura and jilliby state forest. 30 or so caches and lots of fun in the 4WD. Not a bad effort with 2 kids in the back (3 and 1).

A quick find. Sadly kids were fading at this point and it was time to head for home. TFTC TNLN

Co-ords are good, not too hard to find. Walked up to the tower thinking there might be some views, but not so much. Sat and had some lunch in the 'picnic area' behind the tower, well there's somewhere to sit at least. Awesome tower, and good to see solar power used (at least I assume that's what the big panel is).

Took nothing, left a glow-in-the-dark bat and a keychain, signed log. Thanks for the cache Shifter Brains!

Plenty of bike riders today. Had to wait to calm down a bit to get to the cache. Thanks Shifter Brains
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This entry was edited by Kavaju on Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 10:49:58 UTC.

Out on a geo-mission of sorts with Opa-Shrek today, with this cache in our sights. We pulled up at GZ making friends with a bunch of dogs pleased to see our presence and their owners trying to wrangle them into line. One of the dogs was clearly wanting to be a geodawg as he bounded about the bushes near GZ. When they continued on we went about our business and had the cache soon in hand. Thanks much for the fun!

I headed into Ourimbah State Forest with Mumma-Kel this morning chasing a TB that was in this cache ... I needed it in order to be able to solve a particular puzzle cache that has eluded me for months. As we pulled up with the tower in sight, we were surprised to be greeted by a mob of excited dogs out for a run in the forest with their mistresses ... one of them must have been a geo-dog, trained by jfindit, because he headed straight off into the bush towards GZ in search of the cache ... and got pretty close too! Once the ladies and their dogs moved on, we were able to make the find about 10m from where our GPS units were directing us ... and there I eagerly took control of the Grendl TB while Mumma-Kel did what had to be done.

Thanks for the cache and for bringing us into Ourimbah State Forest, Shifter ... I really enjoyed the drive from Yarramalong Rd to Palmdale Rd, although in the wet it proved to be a bit hairy on the downhill run at the Palmdale end, where the clay road base had turned to mud.

Been in this area before on the MTB..
Pity the Co-Ords are slightly out.. But after a few passes with the Etrex30, and a LOT of Scratches, we soon had CIH.
Another Shifter Brains find.
Thanks Shifter Brains..

This entry was edited by SteveKlippy on Saturday, 06 June 2015 at 11:13:05 UTC.

Great geocache, easy find at the top of the mountain. Lots of good swaps.

Found. Took a key ring and trackable. Left hot wheels and lots of other small goodies for the next person.

Our last day here so picking up a few we have missed. Going a bit further than expected. All dry.
TFTC #1148

I was in the area to look for another cache but after spending about an hour walking up and down the forest road I could not find the way in so Towered Over was the next closest. Drove to GZ and after a short walk made the find. Lots of small swaps, left metal badge TN SL and returned cache as found. It has been a long time since I have found a Shifter Brains cache and this one was in a good area. TFTC.

Left I love Finland travel bug took ten Kenyan shillings.

Easy one and you don't need a 4x4 to get here

Found it with jtmooore and COG072 didn't have app at time to log

Pretty easy spot. Found with COG072

Makes for good drive into the Ourimbah state forest, found with jtm00re

Great find, quite for such a beautiful day

Dead on with the name

Nice and easy great scenery

Quick find

Awesome

Looked and looked, finally we called it quits and stood around looking glum, when our dog started keenly snuffling right at our feet. Found it! Good job dog.

Find #1531 - 4 for today. Found on 12/07/2014 5:10 pm
Nice and quick one. Thanks. TNSLLN

tftc

Tricky little find...found with sweetnublets.

Quick park n grab

Finally got a day out with mate auszxplorer06 to do some caching, as life had been getting in the way...... The day started off beautifully, the sun was out and it was warming up after the terrible weather we had been having...... But then sure enough, the day went south and it got cold and rainy again..... Didn't stop us though as we managed to push thru the wetness for a geocache day fit for a queen(s bday)

All in a days work. Loving our adventures

Tricky find

Missed it walking downhill then spotted it walking back up. TFTC TNLN

Enjoyed the forest and the cache.

Found along the tourist route on the way into the Yarramalong Valley.

TFTC. Field position log. Full log to follow.