Opa's Place Beachside, New South Wales, Australia
By Cached on 09-May-10. Waypoint GC287T9

Oh my goodness!! From being on very different levels to raging, very off co-ordinates on my behalf, I found you!!!! Hooray!! Thanks for the hair raising hide

Coordinates spot on taking in the hint . Really nice views from here with a bonus of no muggles TFTC Cached

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It was fun but I dont tripped on and hurt my arm

Changed a blue face for a smiley face. Quick find this time. Beautiful spring flowers on the grass bank. TFTC

After the EC we walked over here for a quick find and great views. TFTC

I decided to take a short solo holiday to the beautiful coastal town of Kiama. It was supposed to be a relaxing holiday, but of course, the second I opened the Geocaching app, it became a geocaching holiday. Although, it was exactly what I needed! This was an absolutely beautiful location. I spotted the cache on my descent down the rocks and then decided to spend some time here just taking in the gorgeous sunshine and the stunning view. Sitting here with my legs dangled over the edge also made me think of my Opa, who is very much alive and probably playing golf right now, but I was reminded to be grateful for my grandparents and to tell them I love them.Thank you pez for the cache!

Tftc great spot on a roadtrip with tash2494

Quick find by Baggincash who has joined kimmy+co and I on our road trip along the coast. Tftc

Indeed nice spot! Be careful when rocks are wet

Good view , great cache

Very scary

Great view, great hiding place, easy find! Thank you

From the campsite we made a walk to this cache and the little blowhole. Thank you for showing.

Wir haben die Gegend erkundet und die Mnner waren dann so mutig den Rest des Weges noch zu klettern. Wir wurden mit einem tollen Ausblick und einem neuen Smiley auf der Karte belohnt Das Blow Hole war besonders fr den jngsten ein Highlight hier. Thanks for the Cache!

Great views here

Beautiful views from here! Enjoying my time traveling around new parts of Australia on this trip. Thanks for the cache!

After seeing the little blowhole work I just had to go find this cache when I saw what it is called. My dear Onkel Heinz in Canada was called Opa by everybody and this cache reminds me of him. Beautiful area, great views, pleasant to sit down and watch the ocean from there. My Onkel would have loved this place, I am sure. Thanks for showing + danke. MacPivi

TFTF. Bit a scramble whilst checking out the little blow hole

View was nice but I struggled slightly while getting to the cache as it was raining and slippery. Tftc

I have come to this spot to get drone footage of the whales every single day of the whale season. I did not know there was a cache here as I had never opened the app seems I was there for my other obsession (the whales). This is my absolute favourite spot to see the whales so it was lovely to get a find on this cache. TFTC. I have given this a fav!

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Awesome spot. I used to live on Tingira Cres. Some scary cliff drops here. Tftc

What an adventure!! Took my 10 year old son. Made him wait every so often until I felt it was ok to climb further TFTC best one we done yet

Really rocky place good find

1040 for the tribeOut on a 12km walk from Kiama station to Gerringong station that ended up being 16.2km due to my miscalculations and caching side trips, this cache being one of them! We didnt stop for all the amazing caches en route but that leaves us a great reason to come back in future - there is so much to see here!This cache is an amazing spot. Amazing rock formations, huge waves and cracking views. cache and logbook in great condition. SL and replaced as found.The whole tribe had a great day with coffee ??, lunch, sugar swimming ??? , amazing views, the occasional whale and a good workout with a train trip back to Kiama Thanks for the cache!

So beautiful!!

Found! Beautiful spot. Left a trackable for the next finder to move to a new spot

Lovely spot with a view of the ocean. Took a little bit but found it eventually. TFTC

DNF revenge after it was missing back in January. I came by back today and we had a quick find this time. Great views and rock formations. Thanks for replacing and bringing us to a great location. TFTC

Great place Opa! Saltspray blew all over us, but it was still awesome. OCW Brewmaker. TFTC Cached

Great place Opa! Saltspray blew all over us, but it was still awesome. OCW Brewmaker. TFTC

DNF revenge. I came by back and had a quick find this time. Great views. Thanks for replacing . TFTC

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Probably the best cache I did in Australia so far. Nice to sit in the cliffs and watch the sea waves on this windy day.

Tftc Paul and Lou visiting from The Blue Mountains NSW

Great location- TFTC - found by Max

Walked over from the little blowhole.
Awesome views from GZ

Thank you for this cache
R

TFTC! Nice quick find on holidays from the central coast with @jessdayney

It’s in a beautiful spot

Very windy but lovely spot. TFTC

#6313.
Thank you for replacing and maintaining this cache as it really is a special spot to walk to. We loved the views (in between all the little bugs flying around). Thanks for placing a cache here for us to find. FP awarded.

Cache replaced. Sorry for the delay. If anyone who lives closer than Bomaderry wants to take this over let me know

cache has gorn. will replace soon

Another DNF to add to our list today

Another DNF for today, lovely location too

Looked and looked but no find.

Had a good look.
No luck.

Had a good look. Saw suspicious looking pile of rocks in crevice but no cache today unfortunately.

What a beautiful view

Fun find, only a little precarious. TftC.

Awesome place! Primal seas. TFTC

It's up high

Normally I find caches on bush tracks or creek beds so to get out to the seaside from Western Sydney and do this walk was really great.

We had light drizzle and it was quite cool. The Little Blow Hole gave some good booms today.

This is a super spot to visit with the impressive rock formations.

On approach I knew this was going to be a 15 minute find. Up, down GPS bounce !

Studying the hint helped and the Camo popped out as well. Could easily miss this.

See the photo - one of the last finders was not a Cacher but was collecting Aloe Vera and found by accident. They reckon this whole Caching caper is a great idea !

I extracted a tiny one as well for home.

I left a guitar pick, golf tee and a marble. Funny thing there was a loose golf ball behind the cache.

Anyway TFTC and Fav Point !

Found it after having a little look, TFTC

Found it

Our 2nd find good hiding spot

Found it! Dyl&Gem&BabyCohen

Good spot! Toby and Josie

Found, spectacular spot thank you! Well
Maintained log, took and left a treasure.

Next time

Look at the view, the rock step formation. No muggels here.

Nice little find on a sunny morning brought 5 muggles with us TFTC

TFTC. Not for the young or unsteady.

Woo! We arrived with a 4 year old, but he had to sit and watch while mum did the scramble. Super Mum.

300 for me today! Thanks for bringing me here, great spot TFTC

TFTC

I’m so excited that I found this one. A Little Rock traversing so take it slow and easy.

Awesome quick cache

Given my geo-name, it was a no brainer for me to do this cache while we staying in Kiama this week. No problems making the find ... I had thought at my age, getting to GZ but it seems that the geological gods were thinking of us oldies when they built this headland.

Thanks for the hide Cached.

"Find Number 2101 found at 10:23. Today we had 3 finds and 0 DNFs. This was the 2nd find of the day.

Three things converged for a trip to Kiama. A blank day in my calendar, International Earthcache day and returning our granddaughter to her parents. We all agreed to meet up at the blowhole.

Having completed data gathering duties at the nearby earthcache charlicorn and I wandered up here to try to find this one. We both spotted the hiding place at the same time, but she is much more agile than I am so she retrieved the cache.



Thanks _pez for the cache.

Tftc

TFTC log to follow

Easy find GO MUM mum faced her fears and got all the way out

Great spot

Great spot! TFTC

Nice quick find, almost lost the gps to the rocks... but it was fun none the less. TFTC

Rock and roll

Thanks gramps

OCW the Bebes on this amazing Kiama to Gerringong walking track. A quick find a Gz with another great view. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and muggle friend

Doing the Kiama to Gerringong coastal walk.

A really beautiful location for a cache

Tftc

Well this was a bit of a walk around in circles for a while, but got it in the end. Thanks

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Nice place sit and relax

Nice spot. Though not for little ones.
Left you a red rose

Found. Difficult to find as it was hidden behind a rock.

Nice spot, short walk from the small blowhole which was very impressive.

Found -- 1:00pm -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *_pez*.

**Cache Condition:** Good
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:** None seen in cache today.

**The Cache**
We spent quite some time here today, over 1 hour at least. It is always great coming to the ocean and walking along the rocks. Sure noticed the difference this time, no longer leaping over the rocks, but taking things more cautious as maturity kicks in. But that didn't stop me climbing up the rock faces. My hands are sore now, those rocks sure are sharp. We found a crab deep in a rock crevice, I am bewildered as to how on earth he got this far up, how long hes been here and how long he will remain. Very much alive I might add. There were no long sticks to be seen anywhere so we were not able to save him as he was too far back for any hope. I have no idea how far the tide comes in not how high it will be here. I imagine he must be hungry by now. Even the tiny little shell thingys that are are perched on the rock faces and in holes everywhere were amazing to see how high they are up. The mind boggles. We found a largish cone shell and amazingly its resident was home - thats a first for me to see. So after a wonderful time wandering around we found the cache, that is what we were here for unltimately. Signed the log in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found. Thanks for bringing us here for an amazing adventure.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet*. Today our Scout Troop was hiking in *Budderoo National Park* to *Gerringong Falls*, so we dropped off one member of the family and proceeded down the mountain to Kiama to collect a few caches. What a glorious day it was for all outdoor activities. I was most surprised at how warm the weather was down here considering there was a breese.

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***Please respect peoples caches - money, time and effort that has gone into them.***

Found and another smiley to boost my numbers. Thanks for the placement of Opa's Place, *_pez*.
DustyJaperJet

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to search for the cache. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated TFTC

Quick grab on a blowhole visiting day.
Thanks Opa for the visit

TFTC

cache has been replaced. my gps had me within 6 metres of the original coordinates, which is good enough for me. (mine said S 34 41.259 E 150 51.645 WGS84)

Somebody has taken the box

apparently the cache is missing. with the coronavirus restrictions it may be some time until i can get up there to check this

We weren't able to reach GZ. We couldn't find an access, although we climbed a lot in the rocks. The coords seemed to be in a T5 region, over the edge. No way to climb down, much too dangerous. Either the coords are not exact, or D/T 1,5/2,5 can't be correct.
No hint which could help. So we gave up.
Bigerchen

GPS was leading over the edge too far for this cacher and I wasn’t letting the kids get that close. No way was it terrain 2.5. Remember 1 is wheel chair access.

Found with sicad69

We were looking for a place to enjoy a walk and a few caches today so decided to explore this area. Thanks for the cache and great view..

So much fun to find
Thank you!