THE GATEKEEPER Bowraville, New South Wales, Australia
By Sunsetbay4me&Howlingwind on 22-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1K27V

This cache is being archived. I will take the travel bugs and re locate them. They will be taking a long journey. They are in good hands.

Headed down to the Nambucca area with batdos and earthly65 to pick up some of Nudges new caches. got to gz and property owner yelled from her veranda that cache was no longer there. No container in sight

Did not have to relocate after all.
Thanks for your patience

Current location has become less than safe. Moving to spot nearby.

Found whilst in the area for the Coffs Harbour round of the World Rally Championship.
Great spot... probably the best stocked cache that I have ever seen!
Left 2 trackables.
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

We were so happy this is is our first find alone happy old time travellers heap hoorah

Easy one, thanks

Found this one quite easily after missing the driveway the first time. A big "thank you" to the property owners for allowing complete strangers to drive up their road in search of another smilie. Took nothing but left a small button, nice little collection of trinkets in there now. Thanks sunsetbay for the cache

Easy find after an afternoon harvesting pecans at a neighboring property. Thanks.

Quick find on the way home from a swim up the road at wyora. TFTf

Found it[Time to Find: 17 min]

Glad cache guardian was not still guarding the cache...tftc sunsetbay4me

Large snake skin guarding the cache...glad it was long gone...TFTC sunsetbay4me

FAVOURITE so far!
TYFTC!

A quick lunch time find. Pity I hadn't shut the toolbox in the ute though !

TFTC

Found it a good hiding spot

Found during lunchbreak whilst out at Bowraville

SL TNLN

TFTC

Found just before the rain started again. No wonder it's so lush and green here. TFTC sunsetbay4me.

Found by Geocahche Dad (Glenn). Grass was very loing but still an easy find.

TFTC

Found today while riding with Parklanda. Twice I've been to this area, and both times I have been dumped on by heavy rain, drenching me. All part of the fun. tftc, tnln.
Cv.

Nice one, tftc!

This entry was edited by Xaibagh-fam on Friday, 16 December 2011 at 08:53:20 UTC.

Very pretty place!

Very pretty place!

Nice and easy! Tftf

Found after trip to missabotti markets. A little overgrown but easy find. TFTC

Great cache, found with muggle niece. Took American flag key-rings left assorted toys. Found 6:15pm

TFTC Nice easy find. We pass this place frequently on the way to our favourite waterhole for a swim. Retrieved geocoin CCBQRQ and a travel bug 9GMQKT. Might take these up north as visiting Brisbane soon. Also found a "Access Control" travel bug and key GCY5RJ which belonged in the Brisbane area too. States it's not meant to be removed from this area so not sure how it ended up at Bowraville! Shall return to it's rightful home this week!

A trip down memory lane for Chip, a drive to a new area for me!

Cheers

What I especially love about this cache, was not just the great views, but the view of the hill with the two humps to the west. When I was less than 1 year old my parents built a home out on that hill by their own hands. It was called Brandywine, after the Hobbit. Unfortunately I moved out of the place when I was around 5. But I still can remember the orchard we grew from seeds, the masses of trees and ferns planted around the house, the most gorgeous flowing deep swimming hole, the driveway that flooded in heavy rains, and the geese that used to chase me to the gate where I would sit upon it calling for help from my parents. I haven't been back there for over 20 years. I was visiting a friend in the area and the trip down memory lane was great.
Cheers for the cache.
Dropped off a traveler.

This entry was edited by Chip846 on Monday, 03 January 2011 at 18:01:05.

Found this cache on our way to Bellingen for the night. We had to stop down the road from the cache to let the dairy cows cross the road to be milked. The cows looked pretty happy and why wouldn't they with all the green grass around. We pulled into the driveway and quickly found the "gatekeeper" after a quick search we soon had the cache. Dropped off a "let the animals roam" geocoin. Many thanks for the cache, this is such a pretty area and we really enjoyed the drive.

What a great day for a drive in the country. Blue sunny skies and a cache to find. Life couldn't be better. Well, you could add some cows crossing the road for their milking. Yep, them too. We thoroughly enjoyed our drive to this cache today. Thanks for bringing us here. Found quickly, clue makes sense, and a lovely stash in the cache.
Took: US flag and cars,
Left: Lanyard and bouncy ball and #2 DKS key trackable that can now go anywhere
Also dipped some trackables for miles, thanks.

What a lovely spot, the cows were very interested in us.
TFTC

An easy find on a Sunday. Looks like bowraville race day was occuring. TNLN. SL

1pm Visiting partners family home in Bowraville.
Lovely place.
TNLN TFTC

Found at 2.55pm GAFF1. Now we understand the name of the cache. No one seemed to be at home to interrupt our search, however there were a lot of ants about in this incredibly humid day that suddenly decided to jump all over us as we touched the camo. The hills here are so picturesque and green! So different to the Vic scenery that we have come from.
Thanks Sunsetbay4me&Howlingwind - nice names btw!

FlyingPigSquadron has landed!
Thanks Gatekeeper for maintaining this cache and allowing us to enter your lovely property.
Took Hogwild TB and left red car. TFHC&H

Thanx gatekeeper for maintaining the cache. Left Aussie frog took nothing

Out of the couple of Caches I did today this one was the best. I enjoyed cruising through the country side checking out the scenery. About a kilometre from GZ I spotted a 1.5 metre Black Snake on the road ahead. I moved over to the other side of the road to miss him but oops he decided that he had to make a bolt and unfortunately we clashed. There was nothing I could do and 4x4 vs. snake never turns out well for the snake. The last I saw of him he was sort of wiggling into the grass near the side of the road. I checked for him after the Cache but was unable to find him.

Sorry

Turned up the drive and parked at GZ for a very quick and easy find.

Thanks very much to the owners of the property for allowing a Cache to be placed there.

Took: TB
Left: TB

TFTCSL

We dropped off a Travel Bug in this cache!

Found on this rainy day, yes this area is Green, it's nice to get into this real countryside- just far enough away from the busy Pacific highway roads.
TFTC
T:ThongKeychain
L:PandaBear

We had some business in Macksville so we decided to go the long way home via the cache. Today is a stunning day, the valley looked beautiful.

TNLNSL. T4TC.

Scenic drive through some beautiful countryside had us a joint ftf with fact4 a long way from home. Thanks for bringing us out here.

We're sure NSW is greener than NZ after this lovely drive. Another FTF with gjdjb. TFTC

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