HILLVIEW (2) Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia
By Havago on 29-Dec-09. Waypoint GC22CYK

found the spot but the cache has been stolen again

This cache has been stolen twice now, so no point replacing it. [:(!]

TFTC nice view

Great little cache, unfortunately lots of rubbish at the site, but stunning view!
left an american dime (10 cent coin) in the box.

second cache on the my Muswellbrook day trip. The walk up the hill was quite disappointing with garbage, discarded white goods etc. strewn everywhere. Nevethelss, a nice view and the cache was in the expected place. Took coin and left key ring and purse. TYFTC,

Had fun getting up there. Very nice view but it was so cold and windy

Found good easy find found a bracelett left pokie money good luck

Great views of Muswellbrook & surrounds. Very cold & windy up there today. Signed log, TNLN.

In the Hunter for the weekend to visit the grandchild at school on grand-parents day in Scone. Why not pick up a cache while we are in the area?. Drove right to the GZ and quickly picked up the prize. TNLN signed the log and were on our way.
A very nice outlook from this vantage point over the surrounding countryside.
TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 32° 16.364 E 150° 54.570

Coordinates changed to:
S 32° 16.366 E 150° 54.568

Distance from original: 16 feet or 4.9 meters.

Cache container and log book has been moved a few metres to a new hide.

Cache has been enabled.

Found it by accident about 2 days ago under a rock in the location specified. Its still in action

Ooops, i didnt know what it was or what the rules were. So, i took it with me and im in newcastle atm.
Sorry Havago, will return it asap.

OMG those little cactus were savage. The shoe really was on the other foot, for once I had thongs on and Luke had shoes. Man did he laugh. Those spikes still had plenty left after going through a thong. All that and no sign of an easy cache....

We drove the Geostar right up to GZ. Beautiful views from up here. Unfortunately for us the cache was no where to be found. We located a pile of georocks but no container.

Sorry cache has been muggled.

Reperio at 1215. After grabbing a bite to eat, Darwinian and I drove up to the car park coords, ate our lunch and then headed over to GZ. What a great view. Searched around a little before spotting the cache, and then realised I had a few too many cactus spikes in my shoes...Once they were removed, it was back to the car.

Gratias Havago.

A great view and an easy find.
The souvenir card is a good idea if you can sustain the supply. There were four or five left when I put the cache back. [^]

Took a card; Left multi-tool

Great view of my old home town. TFTC

Dropped in to this one to pick up the trackable.

Cute little fellow.

I am going to take him to one of my favourite caches in the area which just so happens to also be by Havago.

Approached GZ and was a little shocked to see that the previous location had been exposed. A quick search around the original location revealed a suspicious looking object that hid the cache.

Still a very good cache.

Jamthom8

Nice view, pity about all the rubbish. Dropped off Lambzo critter to enjoy the view. TFTC.

Good spot for cache, SL took TB.

Dropped in 12 Memento Cards for this cache.

Our 4692nd overall find.

A nice spot to sit and have your morning tea. It was a bit windy today so it was a quick find and then a sit in the car and enjoy my pluto pup. It's amazing how many holes you can see from here.

Thanks to Havago for the cache. *Overall Experience: 3* http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

TNLNSL

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found on a sunny, but VERY windy day. It's a great cache, well hidden, a probably would be much harder to find except there are not a lot of alternate hiding places close by. It is a shame about all the rubbish left lying around or dumped by grots! Drpped off the Searching for Sushi TB and took the little hot rod TB. Thanks Havago for the very fine cache.

Returned to drop trackable.

Operation: HAVOC in Barrington Tops

Cache Hunter: Zalgariath of Sydney
ICD^ Location Number: 041210#7/27
Mission Status: SUCCESS #1413
Hunt Time: Approach 10mins – GZ 3mins
Muggle Factor: 0 (Nil)
GAFF^^: 1 (Unassisted)
Swaps: Nil
TB Visited: Jumbuck Finger
Cache Status: Good Condition

Report: Already gaining an appreciation for Havago Caches, two from two beauts so far. Even having lived in the Brook for 2 years I had never come up here. Today after an aborted attempt to get the 2WD Ute up the muddy track I walked up the muddy slippery hill to avoid getting bogged! On a dry day you'd just need to watch the ruts and a 4x4 would have no real issues making this a DB. Great view from the top, a GCA Trig nearby if you are interested in such things and a well hidden cache. Great to spend some time in my old town again. Cheers!

“ZAL” Medals Awarded to Haveago: “!!!!$$$****”
GZ – (!)x4 (Great Location)
Sneakiness – ($)x3 (Well Hidden)
Overall – (*)x4 (Top Cache)

^Improvised Caching Device, ^^Geocaching Assistance Find Factor

Rated: for Overall Experience

Introduced my mate Matthew to geocaching. Found it after a bit of a search, under our noses all along! Swapped croc for the marbles.

Hide has been repaired. No need to relocate at this time but old cryptic clue no longer applies

Hide needs repair. Cache may have to be moved a couple of metres.

great views of the surrounding country side.
nice quick find by mrs A/D thanks for the cache
regards angel dust s/l/t/n.

Windy day. Nice afternoon find for the kids.

Finally found it after wait for the muggle left which he stayed for his lunch grr... but worth to see view. No swap. SL. Thanks Havago

very well hidden. not a byson tube but a small container

Very clever hide. Almost didn't find it.
Found this one with the help of nici160, not quite sure why she thought it was a bison tube though...
Ran into some muggles that we knew so we had to wait around for a while chatting until they had to leave. Then someone drove up in a ute while we had the cache out in the open, so we had to quickly stuff it in nici160's handbag and return it after he had gone.

Took earring left marbles. TFTC

Toowoomba 10.2. A great place to see the town from. Track is a bit rough for a lookout, but the handrail indicates they expect some visitors. Thanks.

4000.26 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 4000 Finds Achievement A#179

Albida

I headed out with the intention of grabbing this one but when I saw the dirt road I decided against it. Given the amount of rain we have had and having been bogged once already this trip I was a little gun shy....! I'll grab it next trip TFTC

Found it. The kids were very excited. GPS was spot on. Left screwdriver bit. Thanks

This was our first time Geocaching so it was an exciting find. We took the Travel Bug, and left a lovely pair of earrings and a necklace. Thanks for the great hide and views of the town and surrounds, have lived here all my life, but would never have witnessed the great views if we had not been searching for this cache. We signed log book too, now to move TB on...

Yeah! Action team and cache no 2!

Great views (if you ingnore the flytipping) and would never have come here otherwise

Thanks!

Found it quiet easily had to watch out for Muggles on Bikes. Left Travel Bug.

Found the Trig then took the short cut to this one. The only muggle was a magpie. Good views of the district with mines aplenty. Thanks.

The Geoboy enjoyed bouncing the old 4x4 up to the top to find this one. Nice view on a crisp winters morning.

Took: TB

TFTCSL

Dropped Dutch Lion TB

GREAT VIEW OF THE TOWN BUT VERY WINDY ON DAY WE WERE THERE TYFC

6.50pm
TFTC - Found with Anderka
Ywurry
ps: sorry for VERY late log… been out of the inter-webs range for a while…

18:50 (found with ywurry): Great view of the town lights... can only imagine the view during the day. Easy find. TNLNSL TFTC.

P.S. Sorry for the late log... have been off the net for a little while.

Parked the car at the foot of the hill, and trekked the grandkids up the track to the top (they'll sleep tonight)
Took Canadian GC
Left a teddy bear
TFTC
greynomads

Dropped Canada geocoin.

found cache quick and love the view ! took Geocoin ! many thanx for showing us this great view

Dropped Coo Coo set free Geocoin

Picked up The Katoomba Sisters ready for new accommodation further north.

Katoomba Sisters Geocoin placed by Havago

Easy drive to the top and a quick find. A very extensive view and I could see quite a few previous work sites including Bengalla Mine which was just cow paddocks when I was there in the early '90s. Bit of a blot on the landscape these days. Thanks Havago for bringing me up here.

I don't know what other cachers were talking about. I drove right up to this one easily in a low slung Subaru. Nice views from GZ Thanks for the diversion.

revisit to move on some travelcoins

Dropped of Geocoin- JMCz's Geocache America 2007 Geocoin #9

Sadsack geocoin dropped in by Havago

Great spot - very hilly. Stopped the territory with about 500 metres to go.

I think we took the roughest track up there! Lucky we had a patrol, a Cruiser couldn't make the track we used to get there. Fairly simple hide, found in a minute or two. Co-Ordinents are smack on. TNLN. TFTC.

Nice drive up to a nice view.
Took nothing, left a Pokemon keyring.

Wow - there really are some great views from up here. We were glad that we were in the 4WD to get up to GZ as it was quite a bumpy ride to get there. There really was only one obvious hiding place and sure enough - there it was. Took some photos of the great views as well as the great looking Stina! on tour Geocoin. Signed log - TFTC

Hey thanks for the hide and the view was great i think the gps did not know what it was doing as it took us right around the base and then straight up gave the land cruiser a run for its money on some of the ledges and climbs but we made it to the top was not to hard to find just got out of car walked over to it and pulled it out of the hideing spot but it was a great view.

Thanks heaps
THE FLAMING ACES

Definately gret views from up there!
I could see the thunderstorms approaching
Left a geocoin behind.
Cheers, TFTC.

Thanks for the view.

Found It.
heaps better with a working GPS signal.
drove all the way up and put my hand straight on it after doing my home work.
didn't get the FTF but enjoyed the cache all the same.

Thankyou haveago.

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

First time our new VW campervan has been ‘off road’ but “no worries†it coped with the incline and we drove to within 10 metres of the cache location. We were second to sign the book and lingered to admire the panoramic view.
Pity about the garbage though. TFTC

FTF for (mrs) Riptide while I was still checking my GPS. Managed to drive right up to cache. Great views of the area.

Australian Flag coin visited!

Trying for my first FTF on the way home from QLD.
The wife and kids were frazzled, and due to rain, we couldn't drive up to the GZ.
so after abandoning the family and going for a bit of a walk, i finally got there.

I found HEAPS of rubbish. If anyone tried to clean this place up it'd look like Bengalla open cut coal mine on the opposite hill.

but I came up empty. maybe it was the clouds throwing out my GPS, maybe it was the family on the bottom of the hill, but I just couldn't spend the time here like I wanted.

great view from up here, and a trig point (minus the discs and plaques) on the way up.

damn. I really wanted this FTF.

[This entry was edited by darth trader on Saturday, January 02, 2010 at 1:58:04 AM.]

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