Duck On In Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia
By Jumpedin2it on 14-Mar-09. Waypoint GC1NKZF

This cache has been offline now for a while so it is finally time to archive it. We have now placed "Duck On In II" in the vicinity.

Checked this one out today. Its gone. Ducked out somewhere!!

Will leave this for a while before replacing or might even archive it.

We pulled up and the local army called CHARGE!!!!! - Well that is Mr Simia's story and he is hell bent on sticking to it.....and it sure did take a bit of coaxing to get him out of the car.

Thankfully a muggle pulled up not long after and distracted them and he finally got out and joined the team to hunt this. After about half an hour and with a pending engagement we had to abort with no cache found.

Mr Simia is sure those ducks and geese were laughing at us as we pulled away.

Dropped a few of my daughter's geocoins in to collect some miles.

nice quick find, although walking around in that ducky mess made the car stink like duck poo for the rest of the trip home =/ TFTC!!!!

Was a little more exposed then expected, chucked a couple of leaves on top before I left, still pretty clearly visible if you're looking though . The main shock was the GIANT huntsman that come sprinting out of the hiding place when I tried to return the cache . TFTC!

pi day pies were done, so we came over to this cache.
fond it pretty easily as there were a nujmber of folk allready surrounding the cache!

Bit wet under foot but new log nice and dry.

Watch the mozzies they could carry you away.
TFTC

Located quickly after the Pie 4 Pi Day event.
There were quite a few ducks around, but they ignored us as we had no food for them.
TFTC

New log book put into cache. Back in action again.

Grabbed this to dry it out for a few days. Should be back on Saturday.

Nice quick find, not sure how the water got in but the log was pretty damp

The rain was an issue for the muggles as there were none but it wasn't for the ducks as about ducks descended on us when we arrived. Cache was quickly found. TFTC

Deputy D0g (previous finder) showed us what to do at GZ and he really has a way with the birds too.......well the ducks at least TFTC

logging, found ages back

Got Him, a lot of muggles here. must be the ducks on the pond.

A few muggles about today, eventually got to it.

good hide,

After a bit of confussion with GPS doing funky things due to the weather,
Youngest cruiserdude found the cache.
Had a bit of a girly dance as he picked up the cache as there was a huntsman spider on it that he didn't see.

Took Small bullet casing (from the look of it), Left gold priate coin. SL
TFTC

Was greeted by the hungry hawd of ducks as we pulled up

#7 SherpaDog Attack. After being stalked by the many ducks we grabbed the cache, signed and got away, before they surrounded us. TFTC SL

#7 SherpaDog Attack, Hard to do this one with out being spoted the cache Guardians dont miss a thing....
Nice Easy find
SL TFTC TNLN

Dodged thw ducks and found the cache. Left nothing but picked up the Krasser Flitzer TB and will drop off at the ""Between bored and dammed" site. It's only a couple of K's north of the airport so maybe somebody heading OS via Newcastle Airport might pick it up on their way through.

As soon as we stepped out of the car we were swarmed by ducks and geese charging at us. Shortly realised they werent interested in us but someone else had left a heap of bread right where we'd parked. After feeding the ducks and chasing them around for a while we went of to claim this one. Left TB, thanks for a fun cache

[This one was interesting, number 6 for the day teamed with Rocky Cruiser. ] Look for sign pole without a sign line to tree

#6 of a 14 day find.
Found wit Gilly7982
Took $100 note keyring-Left Shell/Ferrari Keyring!

Happy New Year!!!

A rather dismal section of the lake. There was a guy giving his horse some harness racing practice laps. TFTC. TNLN.

Cache found easily, and in good condition.
No TB "Lost" in cache.
Left spinning top.
TNSL TFTC

Dropping in some of our new Geocoins to get their journey started. Will be dropping them off down the South Coast and Canberra over the next week.

Guess what we forgot the bread!.
They were not too happy (the ducks that is!)
We found the cache whilst surrounded by a thousand feathered friends.
I'm sure sure they guard the Cache in payment for food.
Great Cache thanks!

a fowl place....

Great cache. The ducks sure do love the bread.

Prettiest ducks ever. Thanks!

Got quite a surprise to be greeted by so many big birds - they were very inquisitive and not the least bit shy. Found the cache quickly before quacking off. TFTC.

Found this one on the way to Hawks Nest to drop off my eldest. The duck were behaving themselves this morning.

Team Casho’s Boy weekend of caching up north.

With the girls at home the boys decided to go a caching.

Armed with a list of lower end caches. No disrespect to the caches or their owners there were many wonderful caches, locations and things to see in our travels. We just set up a search for those with a terrain level of around 2 – 2 ½ for this trip to build up our numbers heading towards our 1000th find in our first year. As this was the case many of our logs would just read easy find so to expand on that we are including a run down on bits of our trip in all logs.

Trip
Wollongong – Raymond Terrace – Nelsons Bay and home via the Central Coast area.
Visiting relo’s while in the area (I know a major waist of caching time).
Found not only our 900th find but also out 950th, on our way to the big 1000.

Things we seen
Views, fireworks, kids jumping their bikes off the end of a wharf, a kangaroo, a koala, crabs by the hundreds, lizards, a crock, a turtle, kookaburra, aliens, ducks, dogs, boats, tankers, a weather station, the Coast Guard, police, ambulance and the fire brigade and that was just for starters.

Removed a box of matches from a cache in a bush area. Not such a good idea I thought.

Got bitten by mozzies, invaded by school kids while trying to return a cache, did some 4 wheel driving, got busted by muggles, introduced my muggle family to caching, collected some travellers, found some new and interesting hide styles and carried out maintenance on several caches while on the go. On the way home had to take the long way due to a fatal car accident on Picton Rd. Stopped to help a driver who got a puncher as a result of the accident. Seen his car fall off the jack while we were passing by, legs under the car (all ok there thankfully). Kids got paid for our assistance as I would not accept the money. This detour proved longer then it should have due to the 3 new caches in Appin last week.

Our thanks to the girls for allowing us to cache without then (not that they had any other choice) and the many cache owners who placed the caches we attended.

We look forward to catching up with fellow cacher’s at the Geocaching Association of NSW Nurragingy Christmas Party GC1ZCCX December 12 2009, were all going well this will be our 1000th find.

Looks like the Oz Wagga Wagga Mega Event (April 2-5, 2010) GC1Y5R has just hit the MEGA requirements and we can’t wait to be part of it.

Merry Christmas
Happy and safe caching.
Team Casho

Found at 3.05pm GAFF1. As we aproached GZ there was a large flock of various varieties of ducks and geese that came rushing over - so much for being stealthy!
Thanks Jumedin2it..

The Ducks were not all that interested in our bread at the cache today as they had just been given some grain. A quick grab in the rain. TFTC

The area was quiet when we arrived and we grabbed the cache quickly. We only had a couple of ducks abuse us for not feeding them. TFTC Jumpedin2it.
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Logging through a GC and a TB for mileage.

Nice quick find on the way back from our camping holiday at South West Rocks.
Loved the ducks and geese.
TFTC
Cache #413

Lots of geese and ducks, very windy, contents of cache almost went swimming but kids were quick enough to save it.

TFTC

maverick222

1638+40=1678

I pulled up and three geese came running over. Being a little reticent about geese, I wondered whether I should just DNF and not even get out of the car. When they realized I had no bread, they quickly melted away. Whew! It was nice that I even saw a gosling.

Nice spot - thanks Jumpedin2it

Second last cache for the day. Ducks were happy to see us... til they realised we had no bread. TNLNSL TFTC

A quick find while Big Matt and Molly looked on from the shelter of the car. Molly was mesmorised by the number of ducks waddling about a mere meter or so away on the other side of the glass.

TNLN and TFTC.

Pt. Stephens Invasion.3. Back to RT on the way to Maitland. Nice big pond. Huge birds, some were not ducks. Thanks.

2775.83 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Tracks A#100

Albida

The forth cache in the drunk and disorderly series for the night.
It took Red Tag a while to realise there was water nearby. I think the ducks gave it away..

I don't quite remember wrestling a huntsman with bare hands but there was indeed a big spider near the cache, and I was keen not to step on him or hurt him, so I offered him some encouragement to move on. But I don't mind the comparison (below) with Lara Croft, no matter how ridiculous that is [:o)] thanks McPhan. Thanks Jumpedin2it.

OK time to own up ..... I was a little tipsy after the event and cant recall a great deal but this cache is showing up in my field notes on my oregon as 'found' so one can only hope I did.
(From the look of Tealbys log I am fairly confident
Thanks for the cache Jumpedin2it

Found as part of the McWinRexOn team, A late night visit revealed the caches hiding place and it's little? friend.
I'm with McPhan on this one, any huntsman appearing between my boots is in for a very bad day, courtsey of two by size twelves.
well done Winglen.
TFTC.

I have a vivid recollection on this trip of seeing a large furry spider sitting in the torchlight between Mrs Winglen's dancing shoes. It wasn't moving anywhere, which was boring. That was, until Mrs Winglen gave it a prod with here finger to wake it up! That was a bit jaw-dropping - rather her than me! Somewhere in amongst all this excitement we found a cache and signed a log. Thanks jumpedIn2It.

Did you notice that I didn't stoop to mentioning that this was our 66th find of the invasion weekend - as digitally recorded by our Kiwi companion?

2167. One of the cache few finds this trip not signed with the LCP. Probably as it was off listening to the sound of running water. Anyway I came back to see Mrs Winglen wrestling with a huntsman with her bare hands. No wonder I've likened her to Lara Croft.

TFTC and the torch-lit fight scene.

Rated: for Overall Experience

must be time of night as no ducks to be seen, time to break out the flash lights for us, but with all the lights at our disposal we soon had the correct GZ in our sights,found with Tankengine, Tealby and Sol de lune on our caching invasion from Canberra

Part of our Newcastle/Port Stephens invasion from Canberra...
Nite time quackers!
Nice spot, even in the dark!

Another cache I visited twice in two days - and on the second visit I still couldn't locate the cache immediately - my excuse was that it was dark. Definitely no ducks on it for us on either visit - they were obviously tucked up in bed. TFTC.

Very quiet only 2 spiders their to meet me

I've not seen a bunch of ducks an geese better fed, there was not tussling over our bread!!!
Found with help from Keegan and Leigh, Keegan had to fight off the angry goose for this cache!!

Found @10.55
Left echidna Magnet
Took ??? Nothing to take
Lovely little duck pond
Easy find once you got your bearings

TFTC & C

The ducks and geese seemed pleased to see me so I left and bought a bun so my wife could distract them while I found the cache. TFTC.

DUCK ATTACK !!!!!!
There coming from all direction sir. Dig in men
Sir there calling in air support.
Grab the CACHE and run.

LOL I should have found this one before Moneydork, but I went to another tree, and by then it was too late Cheers Gav [4059]

Nice pond. TFTC

TYFTC

Ducked on in and got it! TFTC.

Nice spot. TFTC

When we pulled up the entire duck/bird population thought the silver bullet was food on wheels ! they came from everywhere.
the cache was found quick after the ducks posed for a few photos ! thanx

I stopped, the ducks went off in the other direction, cache found, logged signed, and cache replaced.

Thanks for the hunt.

Well the ducks weren't a problem tonight, but the GPS was telling me to have a swim, so I just had a look around and found a likely hiding spot and found the cache without getting wet.

Thanks Jumpedin2it.

The ducks were quite disgusted that we didn't have any food to share with them.

Quick find. Lost TB not in cache. TNLNSL.

T4TC.

An easy find. Spent more time keeping The Cash Maam away from chasing the ducks and geese than finding the cache. TFTC.

No travel bug in cache as stated on listing. Lost?

Rated: for Overall Experience

A good find for the girls, muggles at site feeding ducks, TNLN, good spot. TFTC

We were a bit apprehensive about the geese but a family arrived just as we did and they were armed with plenty of bread. We headed bto GZ as the geese headed away.
Nice easy find
TFTC

Plenty of geese guarding this cache. They all ran towards me as soon as I stepped off the car. When I returned to the car, they all crossed the street together, bringing traffic to a stand still. TFTC

Last find of the day, as soon as I opened my car door I was assailed by a swam of honking birds who no doubt thought I had food, Don't feed the birds people. Found after a short hunt, no sign of the TB BTY. TN Left Superman Keyring.

Found at 1405hrs

Just how I like them, drive up get out find cache, sign log and off to the next one. Thanks

TNLNSL & TFTH

Coin dip

Found on the way home from work. What should have been a quickish find took a little longer. Obviously with the Urban Cache Pirates out and about some owners might go to some extremes to protect thier caches, but to post a gaggle of guard geese is going overboard I'm thinking. TNLN TFTC

2263.

Decided to go for a run with the dogs this afternoon and thought - why not run to a nearby cache. I grabbed Molly and Kostya and off we went.

Well when we were almost there, Molly decided to Duck on in and Jumpedin2it (the pond that is.) She slipped her collar and took off into the pond to swim with the ducks.

Once I got her under control we found the cache easily.

Thanks Jumpedin2it for the cache

Took: some water from the pond and a whole heap of mud
Left: Nothing.

2:23pm
Easy find one the muggle that turned up at the same time as us wanted to stand next to GZ and take pictures of ducks.

Cheers

Quick find after a Wifi stopoff at the Golden Arches for local caches. The Geese looked very hungry, so were not happy at us for forgetting the bread.

TFTC

An awesome cache

2100 Gave the birds something to think about.
Nice 'drive-by' cache. Am sure I left something - but didn't have the cache sheet to write it down on.
Thanx
PS Brought through some coins for mileage: Baa, Oink, Coocoo, Unakit, and B2B ingot.

There were certainly a lot of waterfowl here - not just ducks. A brief search son turned up the cache as there weren't that many likely candidates.

Found it No. 1526 ... ducks everywhere .... TN and left Chinese Coins

Fun spot. We always take visitors to the Terrace to this spot as the ducks etc are amazing!!

Well don't the geese and ducks meet or is that attack you when you open your car door, until they find out you have no food for them. Nice spot and I did take the teens to the golden arches for breakfast
SL TNLN TFTC

Took a detour off the highway and spent about 20mins looking but couldn't find it. Geokids were disappointed.

Found this cache lying on the ground.Replaced it nearby where I thought it should be.(Easiest cache I've ever found)

Like others said - very much out in the open, but made it a nice and easy find

Had some mugglers nearby, they seemed to be preoccupied with fishing though.

I was getting bored so gave JABs a tickle with a stick. The reaction was priceless and the boredom soon disappeared.

TFTC

Code1 decided that this was too good an opportunity to miss and poked JAB's with a little stick while he was retrieveing the cache. The resulting leap was hilarious. TFTC.

Ok was watching my back incase the ducks got freindly but was not watching enough and before I know it was stung by not the bill of an animal but but a stick from Code1.
JABs.

Way out in the open, too open for me, but C'est la vie. As I was signing ther log, muggles turned up, and the kids started to want to feed the ducks. It was a real problem, as they were hanging round really close to GZ. I contemplated replacing in another location within 10 metres, until a call from Mrs Bundy. She had seen the GPS that the muggles were carrying, and deduced correctly they were cachers as well, after the same cache.
We had a chat, and after we all signed the log, we went our seperate ways.

Found at 1335 hrs, number 8 for today.

Cheers
Bundy

Yep got it, bumped into some other cachers while we were there.

AWESOME little hide that one.... I like ones that make you think...hahaha

It is funny how you get used to people hiding caches and then someone just does something different. Nice

Thanks for the Rayo caches 'Jumpedin2it' we need more cachers like yourself hiding them. Its like a breath of fresh air. Keep up the excellent work.

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

Good to see someone else putting some caches around RT. I dropped in after performing some maintenance on my nearby cache. Had to wait for a muggle and kids watching the ducks. Took a GC. TFTC.

p.s. logging my Geotalk Coin through

Wandered around your lovely little town collecting caches..thank you for the tour...T Sun Catcher GC ...we own one ourselves and will post a photograph of them together

I had to trek about 300 metres, only to discover a parking area -right next- to GZ... -_-

Took nothing, but dropped off a Geocoin-ellipsoid thingie...