Lay down your guns North Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By bbayjohn on 05-Apr-09. Waypoint GC1PHKD

GZ a bit off

Fun and good hiding spot

Good spot! Thanks heaps !

Accompanied with ALL7, enjoyed day at here B.B. for few weeks to catch up.. Prefect weather feels warm.Nice spotted and sign the log with good dry.

TTFC

Good cache for beginners, pen is missing and not in the container that is described

Found it after a few minutes. Little tricky and have to look well.TFTC. Forgot my pen so took a photo of log for proof.

Found it. Was going to drop trackable but too small.

Tftc.

Tftc.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Our first visit to ACT in that time.We headed out this morning hoping to beat the predicted rain, but it eventually caught up with us. We tried searching between the showers but eventually it was continual and we headed home to the warm dry caravan. TFTC bbayjohn

An opportunity arose today to head from Canberra down to South Durras to find [Earthcache I - a simple geology tour of Wasp Head](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCHFT2_earthcache-i-a-simple-geology-tour-of-wasp-head) with Wollaston, HansandLinda and Honeysucker. Of course I couldn't pass up such an offer. We headed off, only stopping occasionally and had a very enjoyable day in the sunshine while back in Canberra the weather was less than friendly. Thanks for find #6059TNLN

TFTC bbayjohn your cache Lay down your guns that we found today. The Canberra Mega is over but we are staying in town for a few more days. We went out with Honeysucker, Wollaston and MeAndDe to Batemans Bay. The main aim was Earthcache 1 and Honeysuckers 19,000th find. We stopped at other caches on the way and on our return. This was one of themFind Count: 19535

Found while attending the Mega and out with HansandLinda, MeandDe and Honeysucker. A great day out. Another great day for caching. TFTC bbayjohn

Found on our canberra journey. We wander through the land, grabbing caches and seeing the sights even occasionally catching up with friends A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered Thanks for placing them *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

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Thanks so much for the fun find

Found It!The coordinates seemed a little out here but after a bit of wandering around I soon found the cache nearby. About 10m to the NW if anyone is wondering.TFTC

On the way to the coast to join the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Cache with barb2e and Contesta.TFTC

On the way down the coast for the event at Durras today with isopeda and Contesta. Tftc

Find # 10990Hi ho hi ho its off to cache we go Another day of adventures with like minded fun loving geocaching friends - barb2e and isopeda.With a bit of a plan in mind, and a collection of TOTTs to assist us in achieving our objectives, off we went. Headed off down the coast to join in the Geocaching NSW celebrations for the oldest earthcache in the . Howzat!! GCHFT2 Earthcache I All finds were a group effort. Quick easy find at Lay down your guns here today and cache in good condition unless otherwise noted.Thanks so much for the many caches bbayjohn 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

One more after the event on the way back to the motel. My GPS had me closer to the road, but my geosenses sent me uphill to a camo that revealed the cache.Then my pen decided to give up, but after scratching my moniker in dirt, it finally worked. Thankfully, I didn't have to go back to the car. TFTC

Parked over the road at the petrol station and walked over to this one. GPS what a bit off and it's apparently no longer a Systema container but other than that cache was all in working order; signed the log and replaced as found, TFTC!

thanks for making us stop in Batemans Bay

Cache was out in the open, so I rehid it under the rock. Thanks for the cache bbayjohn!

Under a log on the way to the gateMark + kara

Tctf

Didnt have a pencil like I thought it did so couldnt sign it

Out first one! Hint:

Hint is very misleading...searched under all rocks... buy easy find after reading log.

Nice hide

Found it however not in the container it said it was in nor was there a pen or anything but paper in it also not under a rock but under a tree but it was still fun.

Found this cache behind a tree (:

A final cache for the day, perhaps.
Plenty of useful information in logs.

Thank you for hiding
R

TFTC last day in Batemans bay stopped to look at the new art under the bridge very nice also hint should read log next to tree on path to gate

Looked for ages. No luck

Looked everywhere could not locate

Mr P and Mr 7 searched for this one while I was in the Ute with a sleeping Mr 2. They couldn’t find it and they checked a few spots.

To wet to log but good hide.TFTC

Log to wet to sign

TFTC.

The site the cache was placed on is no longer here. Which is a shame it was an interesting story to it.

It looks to me like the area has been cleared. Cache was tossed about amongst chopped branches.

Needs a proper water-tight container and some maintenance. And perhaps some looking into the security of the cache’s location.

Couldn't write on it, It was all wet and soggy. Needs maintenance but good hiding spot.

Y

Wet and a bit gross

Hahaha

Definitely needs replacing but great find for our few days on the far south coast

Found it! This one needs replacing for sure, smells gross. Left a card for proof of visit!

TFTC! #10 for today’s adventures!

Lots of muggles, but there all busy swimming.. not sure why is overcast and cold!

Trying to find all the Caches in the area while camping in Batemans Bay for a holiday for a week with Short_Tea! Travelled from Sydney and Short_Tea is from Port Macquarie! We’re Covid free, don’t worry!

Signed as BB & BJ!

quick easy find lots of cars tho

tftc, left a card as a log

Found tyftc. Jaunt in and around Batemans bay today. Beautiful day. Find 3/3211 log needs replacing please accept photo as log

Quick find, very gross! Needs replacing

#14612 @0850
A weekend trip to the coast, mainly to compete in a rogaine near Batemans Bay, but sandwiched between caching there and back. A quick stop here. Easily found. In desperate need of maintenance as others have said. TFTC.

**28/02/2021** 15:15

As many logs suggest, this cache is in a disgusting condition, sodden and very smelly. It is desperately in need of owner attention.

15:14
We couldn't help but wonder where has February gone as we added the date to logs of caches we found around Bateman's Bay this afternoon.
Having read some previous logs, we gloved up and squeezed our name in!
We agree with all the previous finders - certainly not a place to introduce anyone to the caching game!

Thanks bbayjohn for placing this cache so long ago.
28314

Grosss

This one was tricky but we found it!

Found but definitely wasn't touching it as like last poster said it smells like poop and is absolutely wet

Found but didn’t sign. I think there is fermented poop inside. TFTH

Last day camping at Murramarang so set off to get some finds. Found this one lying out in the open so returned it to match the hint. Log was saturated but tried to sign it anyway. TFTC.

Found it. Not worth it. The cache stinks

Found it but was unwilling to try and sign log as the inside of container smell as if someone deficated in it

Hmm

Found

In a jar that has leaked and full of water

Found but damaged with water

Found it, placed it back into a container

Wasn’t in container and had water damage

Quick find, cache was only in a plastic bag with log, couldn’t see the container anywhere. Tftc

Found after a quick look but absolutely saturated and impossible to get log out or write on.

Fairly quick find, but log is wet and in need of a good few hours in the sun. TFTC

F(H)ound It! #3627 @ 2:55 PM

Miz Wacket and I and the geohounds are heading up the coast on our way up to Sydney.

Searched the wrong area at first and then saw GZ for a quick find.

Thanks bbayjohn

Found on the way to Fishemans Paradise with ZimbaW and the geopooches. Thanks for the cache!

Night time find. Be careful of roadworks...park safely. Thank you

Found it, pretty fun at night

Found last night on my first geocaching adventure. Be stealthy with this one

Night time find

Found! Night time cache run- thank you!!!

Quick find... wet log

Very easy and log is soaked

Found.

Fairly easy

Found with briony33.
TFTC

Found with Reduvious TFTC

We found it under a pile of rocks near a tree

Yep this one needs a bit of work as the temporary container won't last long.
Quick find close to the busy part of town.
TFTC
Ironbark.

found it!

quick find but cache is in urgent need of repair. TFTC

Found on our way to Gunderoo. No container, just a plastic bag with a saturated log sheet.

Cache definitely needs some TLC

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Thanks for the cache, needs maintence however as notepad very wet. Found with mattt579

Good little location

Day trip to the coast. #3 today.
Added a new piece of paper so hopefully others can sign while this one waits to be given some love and attention.
TFTC

Not this evening. At least two of them around gz :-/

Container missing
Easy park and grab

As the others said, no container and log book is soaked. We signed the stump.

TFTC
Great cache.
Greetings from Jeffrey’s Bay in RSA.
Needs maintenance.

Container is missing and plastic bag with log is getting wet. CO or next finder please bring replacement.

Signed soggy logbook. Container is missing.

We soon found this one after having pulled off the highway and parked up. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

We found the logbook and pencil no container. Unable to sign log. Placed near short post under rock.