CHK CHK BOOM Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia
By MADSTARS on 22-Jun-09. Waypoint GC1V1CD

Came with a previous finder, and still unable to locate

CHK CHK Boom Boom...

Funny cache at the time....

I will leave this canon vacant for a local cacher to use for their own hide.

Madstars

Found on a drive around town on a nice warm morning. Had a long look for this one. No doubt it could easily go missing with lots of locals so close by. TFTC,
Roostaman.

TFTC quick easy drive by very impressed with undercover lawn bowls thanks for the hide

Nice, TFTC

This entry was edited by ADAcache on Sunday, 10 July 2011 at 05:34:08 UTC.

Was glad to find something a little bigger than a nano on one of these. TFTC.

A bit tricky but didn't take too long to find. TFTC

Easy find. Lots of drunken muffles watching thru their beer glasses

Glad the bowling club wasn't pumping tonight, easy to find with no real muggle trouble, looked right at the back of the cannon first time round and man was it rusty in there.

Tftc

Nice hide.

BIT RUSTY THE OLD LADY

Our 3rd cannon cache to date. Definately the easiest and biggest. Loved finding it so quickly as it was exactly where it said it was. [^]

I am waiting for someone to hide an ammo box on a gun. I'm even starting to dream of it. Clear skies!

PS, MADSTARS, if you want a laugh, see the cache GC1T2YH Fully Sick by Zytheran and click click zoom on the link.

I wish I thought of that

RSL club on ANZAC Day thought we wouldn't have a hope but found it quick. TFTC

Ben & Mel

Diffculty Reach hand hole..i get long stick to get cache... OH PHEW!!!!!... hide well... thank

Don't know if it was there as my arm would not go in as far as I wanted (unless I was in the wrong spot).

Had a good search before resorting to the hint, which confirmed I had to do what no sensible person should....
TFTC!

Had a bit of trouble with the bowlers nearby but I think they were too busy bowling.
TFTC.

Second attempt at this one. Brought the kids with me this time and let them "climb" all over it

Reperio at 1150. Another one of these contraptions that geocachers love finding caches on...not! Luckily the cache was found in a couple of minutes, which was great. I'd love to find out the ratio of anti aircraft caches hides out there.

Gratias Madstars.

nice and easy find, tftc

It took a bit of searching, but eventually it popped up TFTC

Good fun find. TFTC SL

A quick find on a little caching outing for The Burners Family. Thanks . Oh and we love cannons!!!

Found with Rogfa after a nice lunch at the Junction Inn

Nice wander around the corner from the lunch at the Junction with Lodessa, watching the river in flood slowly slide past. Very pleasant thanks MADSTARS

Found on a mammoth day's caching of 124 caches in 17 hours around the Maitland and Port Stephens area with The Rats and FarmerFrentzen.

At around 10:36am we arrived here and parked under a nice Jacaranda or two. We've done a stack of caches on these types of guns but as FarmerFrentzen had visited once before without success today he was able to lay his hands on the cache almost immediately. TFTC!

#4732 Found this cache as part of the Rats, Steeba & FarmerFrentzen blitz on the Port Stephens area. I think the word is pronounced Booooom! and since F.F had been here before but was unable to retrieve it then, we knew exactly where to find this one.
Thanks

Found during a 17 hour caching spree with The Rats and steeba that yielded 124 finds.

this one had previously eluded me so it was good to finally make the find today.

TNLN and thanks MADSTARS for the cache.

We did hate cannons until we found this cache. Quick find. Mr. Morgan stuck his hand in the spider hole! LOL TFTC SL

This entry was edited by morgans2320 on Sunday, 07 November 2010 at 17:01:43.

After quite a bit of searching and trying to not attract too much attention from muggles on their way to melbourne cup parties, we found cache. It was quite interesting to get up close with this amazing piece of machinery. TFTC.

Easy find. TFTC Love the name of the cache.

This was looming as a hard one with the amount of muggles hanging around in the park plus the white leghorns next door.

The poor old thing is suffering from a bit of rust and we were hoping that the cache wasn't in one of those spots. Luckily the clue made it fairly straight forward.

Doing some caching after attending a wedding with fitzy_1965.
Oh no, not a .... yep!
Luckily fitzy has done tonnes of these and came up with the goods quickly.
TFTC!

2821 - Visiting the region with ACBC 66 for a wedding....

Heading up to Nelson Bay for some R&R this was a quick stop. I sometimes struggle with these types of hides but thanks to the great clue it was a quick find - thanks guys !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Did not like the look of this one as I drove up. It didn't take long befoe I was having a look at the hint. After that it was in hand fairly quickly as the hint is quite concise!

TFTC!

XC on business in Raymond Tce.. Had time for a couple before work... Ick.. and gun placement.. I hate these.. But grateful for the clear hint making it a quick find.
Signed log and replaced before too many muggles around.
TFTC #1225

We found this morning and ran into Team Rocket at GZ. Good to meet other cachers in the field.

Our iPhone decided to conveniently stop working while we were searching for this cache (Yeah, thanks Apple...) so we had to man up and do it the old fashioned way. Great cache, and also, our first time bumping into other cachers in the act! Hope we didn't hide it too hard for you guys!

We met our first fellow cachers today! Hope you two had a lovely day and are enjoying your holiday.
Lots of possible places for this cache to hide in, but eventually we went for the one that just felt right.

Cache found easily thanks to the clue - I wouldn't mind a dollar for every one of these I have searched for a cache! (not for every one found though!). The roofing next door is pretty amazing!

3 from 3 on a beautiful sunny day in the terrace

Found with waldenclan. Tnln tftc.

Found with The Bearz. Being smaller and quicker, they managed to find it before me. 2nd one I've been beaten to today.
Sl
Tftc

Clue was a little misleading, but didnt take long.
FOund it and we were on our way

Thought this would be more difficult, but guess we got lucky when we put our hands straight onto it within seconds. TFTFC

Easy find although had to be carefull of some yahoo muggles at the bowling club and some workers near to the cannon. TFTC

Might wanna come collect the old log! Its getting a bit damaged with age. New log is all good Clearing out RT today I often dislike nanos on guns, but this micro was not as nasty and quickly found. Cheers from Sydney!

Rated: for Overall Experience

What a blast.

Nice easy find for jnr wobbly.

The wobbly dog enjoy lazing under GZ while we signed the log.

Thanks Madstars.

Nice hide. I've never been to this part of The Terrace before & I've worked here for a while! Thank you.

Had a look at this earler but no luck finding the cache It was at night and those pesky bowlers were out and about.

Came back today and found it easly!! I am sure it wasn't there the first time as I looked in there at least 4 times before.


Log was full so I left a new sheet in there as well.

TFTC

A bit of looking was needed for this one even after reading the hint. Found it pushed well back.
No ball rolling muggles around as it was almost midnight but the lights were burning bright.

TFTC

That was an easy find today while on my way to Newcastle.
Thank you very much for this cache!
Greetings, Colonel Dago from Germany

A nice easy find (with the hint) - lots of nearby bowls-playing muggles who didn't pay any notice to us. TFTC.

Found and signed all while the ladies were playing an afternoon tornament at the nearby bowling grounds.

Found it No. 2638 ... quick find ... TNLN

In town for a family gathering, and caching was great excuse for a trip down memory lane and to show the GeoKids where Mr Simia spent a lot of time visiting as a child. Mr Simia found this one @1107 after following the hint and description.

Thanks for the Cache and Thanks for the trip down memory lane.......

Initially had some trouble but in the end it was in the first place we looked. TFTC

i normally cringe at finding caches on cannons, but this wasn't too bad at all!! found pretty quick with virtually no muggles TFTC!!

fasnionbly late, but i did find this one, i actually put my hand on this one before others found it.

An easy find with not many playing bowls. Next stop Pie 4 Pi day

Located quickly after the Pie 4 Pi Day event.
Mrs Shifter located the cache and then led others on a looking spree on other areas of the gun, til others had located the cache,
TFTC

The crew all went mad trying to find this one.
Another black container!
TFTC

Each gun cache I do gets slightly easier, still had to check most of the hidey holes before finding the right one

TFTC

Right where it should have been (thanks for the accurate clue). Was impressed by the shade over the bowling greens, almost makes them indoor rather than outdoor rinks. TFTC

Blimey they don't cater for the city bowlers like this?? Raymond Terrace must be raking in some serious doh
Yep just another gun - damn I'm tired of these but at least there's an accurate way to find the sneaky hide.
Worth a look TFTC

logging, found ages back

good hide,

MILESTONE 50 found caches!

cool gun. had a good search before reading the hint... exactly where It was supposed to be.
Log is getting good and worn out.

TFTC.

Mrs cruiserdude found this one.
Was one of several for the day
SL

The Bowlers were in force today.
But they were more interested in the game then us GeoCacher's

#4 SherpaDog Attack. Luckily there were no muggles around today so we quickly grabbed cache and were on our way. TFTC SL

#4 SherpaDog Attack, Not another canon......, what can I say !!!!!
Just where it the clue said it would be
SL TFTC

took a little bit of looking p.s. wear shoes if the spiders dont get you the bindiis will

Got there early th beat all the muggles at the Bowling Club who would be wondering "What the hell are those idiots doing?'

Ah, I hate these cannons!! So many places to hide a cache!
We found it after about 5 mins of searching and using the clue, lol.

Nice cache and impressive indoor/outdoor bowls

Signed log in canister found by Liam

#3 of a 14 day find.
Signed log.

Happy New Year!

Needed stealth due to the nearby game of bowls. Cache was deep in, so a bit hard to retrieve.
TNLNSL TFTC

Boxing day was a wet day so there was no one around to get in the way.
Following the clues the Cache was quickly to hand,
Signed the log and we were on our way.

Yay cannon!

A nice quick find. Wow - check out the awesome roof over the adjacent bowling greens! TFTC.

Had this one quickly in hand and completed caching duties, now just to put it back. That was easy said then done as while completing the log school kids avvived on the grass area near GZ watching us while they waited for more of them to come from every other direction. We moved away from GZ taking in the rest of the park area only to have the kids race to GZ and climbed all over it. When the teachers called them back to the grass we went back in taking a few pics while Connar was posing for a pic he was able to slip the cache back into position and we were out of there just as the buses pulled up to collect the kids.


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 2.55pm GAFF1. We are getting better at finding 'em in cannons and found it in the first spot we looked, however we know what could happen the next time we look for a cache in a cannon!
Interesting to see that the whole bowling green has been covered - could just about be called an in-doors rink.
Thanks MADSARS

First find for our day of caching. We were surprised that the bowling greens were empty but that did make things easier. I like old artillery pieces as well and it is shame that this one is starting to look a bit shabby. A nice spot with a good hide. TFTC. [ Cache 119].

Two s found this at 3.30pm

3rd find for the day

TFTC

maverick222

1640+40=1680

Thanks MADSTARS. I love the name of this cache!!!! Great hunt and lest we forget!

Found eventually under the staring eyes of bowling muggles. Just as well we had the geokid with us and he was able to reach the cache. It seems it must have been dislodged and moved by someone shoving a can of crazy string into the opening! Signed log and moved on. TFTC

I reached as far as I could left and then right but alas no cigar. Hopefully it hasn't been pushed too far in!

Left the kids with grandma and headed out for a late night cache hunt around the Terrace with Missy 18. Another great piece of history.
TFTC

Originally found by "lily,adian,briley".

Thanks MADSTARS for this great cache.

Left the kids with grandma and headed out for a late night cache hunt around the Terrace with Missy 18. Another great piece of history. TFTC

The second cache in the drunk and disorderly series for the night. Quickish find a a canon cache.

Team McWinTrex has had some interesting times with canons. This time the cache was found easily, by BigON, always a relief with these ones. Thanks MADSTARS.

UH OH .... another late night find after the event thats a little hazy
I remember a can (in fact several )...... but this one was an aerosol can stuck in the hole on the cannon but it wasnt the cache apparently
I vaguely remember having help on this one.
Thanks MADSTARS

Found as part of the McWinRexOn team, surprisiingly quick artillery find. I haven't see a bowling green under cover before.
TFTC.

Despite the gloom radiating from McPhan about another exciting canon cache, we decided to give it a try anyway. With the BigON sensors at full charge it turned out to be a doddle and the log was quickly signed. Thanks MADSTARS.