'Flightless Bird' Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
By kalmlittleexplorers on 10-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1VPJD

Cache container muggled too many times.

Will make this a new one.

Container had been changed, and hidden very well. Hopefully it will last much longer. It is in a different spot but co-ords will still be the same.

Checked today and it appears to be gone. Will get back in the next week hopefully and replace it.


It seems this one may have gone missing. Have been away and unable to check but will get there later in the week and check it out.

This entry was edited by kalmlittleexplorers on Friday, 23 July 2010 at 00:22:54.

Well it looks as if some geocachers haven't been able to find this cache recently. So we thought we'd go and take a look to see if it was still there. When we got to the location we started looking for our cache (for the second time). It wasn't where we found it last time. We thought it might have been moved by some muggles so we looked around a bit more, but still no luck!

Didnt find searched Wall but couldnt find maybe this cache has been muggled??? checked on way to Sanctuary point aswell as departing...??? Not sure

Had the place all to ourselves (Ace7 and I ) But no sight of the cache. Found a few hidey holes but no cache. Might have been muggled?

A nice easy one on the way home.
TFTC TNLNSL

This was our 4043rd overall find.

Found at about 7:06 PM. After a quick wander from the last cache this one was a quick find in an iconic location.

Thanks to kalmlittleexplorers for the cache.

TNLNSL

Nowra invasion weekend with other cachers from Canberra.
We must have passed this spot about a dozen times today, and the geokid kept asking could we stop. Finally we did, and he helped find the cache.
Happiness all round!
TFTC.

Nowra Invasion 10. Back in the morning after a car was resting here when we passed last night. Otherwise, no problems this morning. Thanks.

3799.24 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Australia 1 A#160

Albida

I think we passed by this cache about 1/2 a dozen times during the weekend but finally got a chance to visit it, none-one really in the CP or near GZ so we could search in peace, found quickly by junior ABDC and found with the rest of the invaders for the day, Tankengine, Marcus V, Fitzy and ABCD

Reperio at 1150. We had drove past this spot a couple of times on our trip through Nowra, both seeing it lit up at night and in the daylight, but we stopped by here on the way back home to see what we could find. With 7 of us on the prowl, it wasn't long before the cache was found.

Gratias.

2468 - Day 2 of the Nowra Invasion - our group down to five including mtrax, ACBC66, Tankengine and Marcus Vitruvius started the assault on Nowra...

Coming into town we stopped at this landmark - no surprise there is a cache here really ! The group make light work of finding this one. This place brought back a few memories !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Well, after some bushbashing in the outskirts of town, we came back in for some easier terrain ones... This is a very interesting location! Especially seeing that one of our party has had numerous sorties in these beasties! Thanks kalmlittleexplorers!

First cache of day two of our Canberra invasion of Nowra. We tried this last night at 10 pm but there was some dude parked in his car in the visitor centre car park. Today it was easier.

Nice lighted helicopter and a nice little cache. Found with Mr Roo. SL TFTC

Passed through Jenna TB

Found quickly with blackbunny after the dinner of the nowra invasion. TFTC

Just loved being under that flightless bird and the history of it most interesting,found cache quickly..TFTC..kle....

Found it after some crawling along the wall.
Took an orange star bottle, left a pin.

This entry was edited by The Vikings on Monday, 14 June 2010 at 02:18:05.

Found at 1840hrs whilst taking an evening walk around Nowra.

Our very first cache! Yahoo! Had a great time with the Pirates of PATE on hubby's birthday.

searched all along the carpark side of the wall without any luck. Saw lots of places it could be but have to mark it as a DNF.
Wassa

Found it OK. TNLN TFTC Tavurvur

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! that was close we where looking for agears to find it. Well it was ciose it was wherth it like walking arond like we where looket quwite suspishes [?] . It did look like we lost something and codent find it.But was the last time we looket and we found it. I think it is preety good for a teem thait douse;t have a GPS. [^]

T star L kawarler

A nice easy find close to the motel. Impressed later on in the evening when the flightless bird is lit up! Thanks

Popped in nearby to use the facilities and we guessed that there had to be a cache here. We were right and it didn't take too long to find as we were fortunate enough to be the only car here at the time. Signed log, no swaps today. TFTC and the memories for Jim. Jim used to worked up the hill and recalled the day this flightless bird came in too hard and shattered it's skeleton - he tells a funny story about how the crew members had to climb out of it rather than step down as the legs had been bent upwards from the impact. I guess those were the days, still it's good to see that this bird has come home to Nowra to rest - and it looks really cool too. TFTC

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Found quickly. Didn't the flightless bird used to be a plane? I grew up in Nowra back in the 60;s 70s.

Found it No. 2604 ... how handy were these ... TNLN

Interesting history

Interesting History

Found it - took travel bug Nifty Fifty.
TFTC

Just a note to drop off the Nifty Fifty TB (AD6C3V)

On a campervan road trip around the South East of Australia after attending the Megga event in Wagga Wagga.

This was one of the caches we found on our journey.

TFTC

Found with the whole gang. Took horse left shoelaces and stickers

Thanks for this easy find, first for the day.
I always have to smile when you get near GZ and realise the significance of the name of the cache!
TNLN

Cache run on the way from Auckland to the Megga Event in Wagga. Two flightless kiwis quickly found the cache T4TC.

Found with Moneydork Red Ingana ADV and Tofska.

Was expecting to see a kiwi or two here, and oddly enough I did.
Nice memorial but seems the weather is slowly winning the battle.
TFTC

smallest Iroquois I've seen

A nice quick find by Pohutukawa after walking across the bridge. Cheers Gav [5010]

Awesome spot for a cache. What a bird.

Stopped on way home for this one, found easily. TNLN. Thanks

13th find for the 4th day, at 1020hrs, and 50th overall find of our 35 day trip to Tasmania and the Mega Event. Driving south over the bridge, keeping my eye on the road, I spotted this one straight away, straight ahead. A black flightless bird. But, I could not stop, so continued on till I could do a U turn. This became a right turn, then a left turn, then a U turn, then right, left, back across the bridge, left, U turn, right, then across the bridge again, then left. I hate some of your roads down here. After all that, I found that my flightless bird was not within cooee of GZ. Oh, that flightless bird!!!!!!. Mrs Bundy had spotted it previously, and she gets the credit for finding the cache itself.

Get me out of this town.

Cheers
Bundy

Easy find, dropped off a bug we've held on to for way too long!
Left GC - super cachet SCJ433

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[This entry was edited by Kris 'n' Simo on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 3:18:38 PM.]

Easy find in a busy location.

Collected the GC MB62XV
Left the stars

Wow, our first cache find in Australia! Nice spot - visited the Info Centre as well. Left TB, took bouncy ball. TFTC.

Great spot near our Motel, thanks

A quick find. TFTC

Nice spot just out side or motel
TNLN
Thanx

Great spot for a cache...
took - CITO tag with Hippo
left - pirate sweatband
TFTC-SL.

[This entry was edited by OzMudfrog on Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:55:02 PM.]

Visited the bird to pass some TBs through on their way from Melbourne to Sydney and then OS.

found on our way home

Passing a couple of trackables through to send on a big adventure.

"So there you are..."
Found on a power caching tour of the Shoalhaven.
Mozzies were giving me grief again. That will teach me for going out on a humid evening.
A quick log and off I went.
TFTC

Visited Cache on my evening walk to pass my geocoins through the cache closest to my home with the hope they may return some day

Had a couple of goes (and we were lucky enough to get some help). Our second ever find. Thanx.
TNLN Signed log.

We ran into two different cacher's at this one. When we arrived Moo&Woo where searching for the cache. We had a quick search and decided that since it was Moo&Woo first caching attempt we'd send them to The Great Divide for an easy find. After they took after slowdad realised he'd dropped his keys, while we were looking a couple walked past and asked if we'd found the cache, then they pointed us in the right direction. We then hurried after Moo&Woo to see if they found the cache and to give them a good hint for this one. I'm glad to see they found it.Kat

Today was the first time I'd met another geocacher in the wild, then bam we run into 2 other teams. It never rain but it pours. Now It'll probably be another few years before it happens again.

Had to give up the first attempt as there was a guy taking photo's of the bird. 2 days later found after a bit of a search. TFTC

This was no. 2 of 11 cool chopper!!! TFTC

In town for work, this cache was directly across the road from the motel I was staying in. TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Found at 12.00

Very easy. Took geowife all of 5 mins to locate, me I was still looking.

Took Took lamb.
Left TITO (Trash In,TrashOut) Geocoin CTRHNN

Bit tricky. Thought by all the previous activity we might have a landslide on our heads! Many heads and hands still took awhile to locate this cache, were looking east instead of south! TFTC

The bird is back!!

We have replaced the cache with a slightly smaller container in about the same location. It is a bit more well hidden this time but it is there.

Have fun.

Spent a while in the hot mornings sun looking for this one.
Alas it wasn't meant to be. Maybe another time when we're passing through.

It appears this one has gone missing. We are away for a while so will replace when we get back.

Thanks pirates for checking it out for us.

Dropping of a GC to start its worldwide adventure

At first i saw a hole that looked suspiciously like it used to house a cache... but I was soon proven wrong.
Cheers.

As always seems to be the way Chip found this one whilst I was looking in all of the wrong places!

Cheers

Picked this one up on the way home from work at 4am. Luckily its well light by street lights however it is still well hidden. I looked for a while with no luck but found it in the end.
A very clever hide. Thanks.

Found by Mary & David at 0815. On our way to GZ we wondered whether we would find a penguin or an emu. We were both wrong. Had to wait for a couple of muggle bike riders to leave, then we pounced. Collected 'JIMBOBWE's - World Traveler - Painting for Cache Geocoin'. Our thanks to kalmlittleexplorers.

It was a bit busy around the bird's carpark when I first arrived, so I went nearby and got some information.
I came out later and the coast was clear. I have a freind who used to pilot one of these.
Thanks, Robmc.

We drove past here for years when we lived in Nowra. Looked around for a while but then found it in a fairly easy location. This bird was placed here after the bypass made the other winged one nearer to the air base less visited. TN but left a coin. Hoped to swap it with another coin but guess someone forgot to log a find, no other coin here. Thanks for a good hide.

This was a nice quick drive by...almost no need for the GPS and very few muggles this afternoon...Did not spot Moo Coin in the cache today...TFTC

Found at 11.10am GAFF1. As we approached this cache we were guessing that there was going to be a giant emu at GZ. So with a laugh we und the cache in a surprising location. The gardeners must know about this one considering the new wood chips that have been layed on the garden.
Thanks kalmlittleexplorers.

Picked up a couple of travellers to join us on our northward Halloween geohunt
Martha & JMCz’s Four Elements Geocoin #3

A Halloween Geo-Day was our task,
Ham, cheese, biscuits we even took our flask.
Team Mick-Dyana and Fifi’s Fantoms joined under the sun,
To travel north hunting treasure oh we would have so much fun.
Muggles a plenty we did not care,
To break our daily record that was our fare.

This was our first stop in many, lots of muggles on their two wheeled machines. We left a TB 'Martha' and Four Elements Geocoin. Gr8 cache thanx.

Dropped off Moo Geocoin

Nice to have a large drive by cache.

a nice find, no TBs or Coins in cache
TFTC / TFTH / SL

FlyingPigSquadron has landed! Quick find just 20mins after Latanzi!!! - sorry we missed you. Took Rose compass geocoin left small car - like Latanzi didnt see aus flag micro coin TFTH&C

A quick after work cache saw this one in the bag quite quickly at 7.30pm. This one could prove quite tricky in daylight.
Took animal planet frog and left LG's Compass Rose Micro coin.
Didn't notice Aussie Flag Micro, perhaps it's just waiting to be logged?

the council guys did find it, had a look then put it back....thanks.

Found without too much trouble. TNLN Thanks

Dropped in to the GZ on the way to the inlaws. Had some intel from shane which put us on the right track and after waiting for a few mugglers to move on we had the cache in hand. TFTC

T- nothing
L- card

There has been a lot of council work around the cache area in the last few days, but the cache is still in its hiding place ready for someone to find. Thanks to all the fellow Cachers for letting us know what was happening in the area.

An easy find, but made complicated by the watering system.
As I was walking away, a council truck arrived with gardeners who then proceeded to mulch the garden. I hope they didn`t disturb the cache.

Found in the dark 4th Sept. Took marble, car and geo coin and left army man, cat and toy car. Thanx Netty 33

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This is our second time to The Flightless Bird as the pirates had to board this cache and grab some booty to take on there adventure in the morning.

Took Coin

VMT

KLE

Found this one at night on my way down the coast. Easy find. Only problem was the local drunk that decided to take an intrest in my car while i was looking. He soon moved on when a 2 metre tall bloke (thats me) came out of the garden with a maglite...... gotta love the maglite. TFTC Greg.

Found easy left two geocoins for next visitors tftc

A nice quick find, even with someone parked right near GZ.
TNLN Thanks

Found our second cache on a beautiful day in Nowra!
TNLN

We brought along some borrowed kids to find this one. I couldn't believe we missed it before.

Have been planning a trip to get this one for some time and today was it. So out my front door i went and picked it up, its nice to have a cache so close cos its easy to show new cachers what its all about.
To start I thought it had been muggled because there were some treasures on the ground in the open. But then I found it safe n sound. So there are a few extras in the cache now curtesy of whoever left some of their stash behind.

TFTC CLE

tftc was a good easy find

Got interested in caching a while ago and have been going at half hearted, now the little one has got more patience and can crawl around I've got no excuse.

Saw this was on the way to to where I was headed, so I logged on and copied the co-ordinates to my trusty iPhone. Well, I thought it was trusty, it actually had me about 200m away. I could see that where I was standing was not going to produce a cache so I thought I could guess where it would be and then I spotted Strawberry Muffin stepping out of the bushes haha.

TFTC TNLN

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Found on another fantastic sunny afternoon with some time to kill, thought I had gone unnoticed by the plethora of passer's by till I saw a fellow cacher walking in my directions as I came out of the bushes, Opps.

TFTC

T-Cupcake necklace
L-Stuffed frog, freddo tattoo & a marble.

Found 7:40am. Glad I was this early. Could be busy once the visitor centre opens! Took Geo-coin. Thanks.