Brooks Bushland Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
By Tankengine on 23-May-10. Waypoint GC291DW

Thanks for a cool cache. Wrote in log no swaps

Worth a stop. TftC.

Found with Curloo. Thanks for the hide.

Out for a stroll with Jondub in Brooks Hill reserve. Found in good order TFTC

Found with ConcreteGnome. TFTC

Found with ConcreteGnome. TFTC

Found with ConcreteGnome. TFTC

Found with Geostrom.Lovely walk. We also found a chatty shingle back on the path. Tftc.

Als wir die Nacht auf dem Parkplatz geschlafen hatten, haben wir bei einem unseren morgendlichen Spaziergang diesen Cache gefunden.

Up in Cambera for a few days over Christmas, stopped for the night at the rest area. Quick easy find tftc

#4428 My last find in the reserve before heading over to Kowen and unleashing the eMTB. No problems with the cache here located in the likely spot. Thanks for showing me this trail.

Nice trinkets

Good one!

I was in the area checking the track for our walking group to do on Sunday (30/08) and decided to grab the caches while I didn't have the group with me. As I was timing the walk, I had to go back once I had completed the loop.
A great spot, and it's good to see caches of this size - far too many micros around! TFTC, Tankengine

TFTC - this is a fun one. Kids enjoyed swaps.

Stopped in here on the way home from a little trip to Bungendore with an Argentinian pal of mine.

I didn’t realise there was a bush track leading from the rest stop! Made it the short hike to ground zero and had a bit of a look at the surrounding area after signing the log…certainly a fascinating spot. Thanks Tankengine!

Decided to head out early on my trip to the ACT to visit my kids and grandkids and take to long and easy way by picking up some caches along the way and use the time to clear my head and get some more fresh air. I was able to take my time and do this as normally my muggle missus would be with me, but she’s visiting one of our other kids and grandkids in another state!
After leaving Tarago and picking up one other Random hide from the PT series through here, I needed to stop somewhere to actually prepare and eat my impromptu lunch. So as I was driving along, I spotted a rest area, so I peeled off and prepared my meal. While it was warming up, I opened up the App, and low and behold, there’s a hide nearby! On further looking, there’s actually a walking track that does a circuit! Ok, a nice walked while my lunch is simmering. I headed out after reading the nearby sign, soon came into the GZ where it was then necessary to go off trail. The GPS wasn’t too happy, and I had to circle around a bit until I finally located the hide!
Signed and replaced as found.

TFTC

Found with SA a while ago.TFTC

Drove down to this one to be a little closer, after completing the others in this reserve.

Helped with the cache maintenance and to place a couple of new ones too. It was nice to get into this area as I have driven by so many times and didn’t even know you could walk so far in here. Tftc!!!

Found It!
Rather wet here today but after a short walk I got to GZ and soon found the cache!
TFTC

Tftc

Found and signed pretty easy find thanks for cache tankengine

Beautiful walk to GZ. All in order and great to see an original log going back so long!

Found it

Quick stop for toilet and cache on way to Braidwood. All in good order with cache . Tftc

Lovely walk to break up the day riding the bike. TFTC!

Tftc tank engine, nice morning for a stroll in to collect this one, nice load of goodies for the kids here.

Lovely walk along the track to this great large cache. Thank you Tankengine

All good here - a nice quick walk along the track from the Rest Area and all good with the cache too. TFTC

TFTF

Found

Quick find after stopping for a rest on my way to Kowen Forrest. Thought I’d check for caches and my instinct was correct!

Woohoo! What a treasure trove. Our kids loved it.

Found on the way back home after looking for caches near Captains Flat. Possibly the largest TE cache container I have seen! Thanks, Tankengine.

More to come

I’ve been close to this one many many times. Today I took the time to stop and take the short walk for the fast find. TFTH

On my way back from a 2nd day in Bungendore I thought I'd stop at this little cluster of caches.
What a pleasant surprise.
I has also stopped raining for a moment.

TFTC

Tftc

Was a nice stop and walk thanks.

Tftc

Swedes on vacation in Australia. Found together with LBTW and in order to save space we logged as team LT. TFTC. Greetings to from

Found together with Threefoot on holiday, we logged as Team LT just to save space in the loggbook. Greetings from Sweden . TFTC

This is becoming a weekly advent after archery do some caching with Briony33

TFTC

Found with wink.inc

My gpsr showed a slightly different location but it was an easy find. Tftc.

Great find! Nice and easy for the kids. Left some good treasures for the next finder.

Interesting walk. Cache in good condition. Thx

Awesome little walk with an interesting mine shaft from back in the day. Great for families

Stayed overnight here before caching after seeing the oils. Bloody hell its cold. Quick find. Tftc.

This cache was found quickly and is in good condition. The sun is setting and there's snow in the air, in fact it snowed at perisher this weekend. Needless to say the walk uphill was appreciated, warmed Genghicat and I up a bit. I don't think I've ever been so thankful to get back to a car. Tftc

A delightful bushland stroll was discovered here
Away from the maddening traffic
Cache found

Well that was the warmup !!
Time to head for the bench

A very easy day walking in the beautiful Autumn sunshine as we are recovering from a few minor sporting injuries. Walked approx 12 km over 4 hours enjoying the picturesque bushland. Loved the walk along the ACT/NSW boundary in particular finding the reference tree engraved with 'CT' for Commonwealth Terrirory. We have been wanting to find this tree for some 8 years and today was the day. The tree is well over 100 years old so we sat down for lunch nearby and admired the much much larger trees around us second guessing their ages.

We also saw a train go by (much to our surprise) and then saw a beautiful ancient train tunnel near a 'modern' aqueduct, an old bee hive and lots of bees wax, wrestled a snake in the higher country with great views over Bungendore. Then dodged flying mountain bikers along some of the trails and saw an old sheep dunking structure - yep - another great day in Canberra's wild west.

This cache was the last find of this group of caches after walking along an old road that somehow looked like the old Kings Hwy with old road fenders rusting away and the road slowly disintegrating. We found some letters carved into the cement structure at the end road and are curious as to there origins - C.S.C.C. .?AKEVIEW H?? - interesting. TFTC Tankengine

12506 Found and Logged 12:15:00 PM
Picking up a few cachers while in Quernbeyan for the Clear Waters Event
Great weather to be outdoors Caching
Thanks for the cache Tankengine (F=14007 H=772)
Lgoody

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
Thanks for the placement

Another great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*

Slowly on our way back to Sydney after attending the MEGA
Good short walk.

Found on the 2nd day fo the Clear Water Mega. Cache OK . TFTC

We just completed a 5km walk finding 4 caches. Very pleasant exercise for us seniors. TFTC

Found during an evening stroll.

Nice little walk. Worth the stop. Don’t take the wrong turn at the fork like we did. TFTH

**# 22901** Found on another perfect Spring caching day with MrsRoosta.
A short trek around south of Bungendore today.
A few good hides and more nice countryside along the way and back again.
Thanks for the cache Tankengine,
***Roostaman***

Found on our 2018 mega trip with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache Tankengine,
***MrsRoosta***

Following a Bungendore brunch (there's a TE title opportunity), geopartner, geohound and I stopped for a nice stroll through the reserve, collecting three caches.

This one was found quickly - nice big container. TFTC TE

Bungendore bound after attending Clear Day event at Queanbeyan. After finally meeting the legend who is TE, how fitting that the first cache I find is one of his! Obviously an early one...an easy find

In the area for a ftf. Wow spotted my first very big redbelly black snake for the season. It was about 2meters long. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

My first ever geocache! Thanks for the adventure

Was out caching with mattyu94 and after grabbing a FTF and a couple of extra caches nearby in Kowen Forest we decided to come out a bit further to Brooks Hill and find the caches around here!

We started off by parking at the nearby rest area and it was a very short and quick walk to this cache! Ahhh absolutely love these old-school Tankengine containers with the custom paint on the lid! You should bring them back for places like this

Interesting piece of camo that was concealing the container, we soon found out where it probably came from when we walked a bit further along!

Thanks Tankengine!

Nice big cache. Great location. Tftc

Nice walk
Thanks

Great little walk

#2400 On my way home from lunch, I usually drive right past here. Today I stopped and walked the final 100 metres to GZ. Cache was in great shape. Thanks again Tankengine.

Found, what a nice spot! Met a lizard. Thanks

The Omnia new year's party took place near Bungendore so I set off early and sought out five geocaches on the way. This one was a straightforward find, being in an obvious hiding spot, right on the coordinates. Thank you Tankengine for installing and maintaining this cache.

Stopped for the night and grabbed a couple of caches. Quick find. Tftc.

Quick easy find using my torch.
T4TC

Quick find on a cold afternoon. After a bit of bushbashing we found the cache safe & in good condition. Kutgw

Tftf nice walk and easy find on our way back to qld from the snow

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Thanks a lot for all of Aussie caches! I must say that Australia is really beautiful and one of the best country for holiday! Me and my girlfriend enjoyed 52 days long travelling (from Brisbane to Brisbane via Cairns, Darwin, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Gold Coast), sleeping in our car and of course geocaching here!

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**AyAmalin**

Dropped off TB.

Just what we where looking for, a place to drop off a TB. TFTC.

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A top spot TankEngine! I will google this place for the history

TFTC Tankehgine,
Meeting you at the Goulburn Invasion and talking about hide quality was great. This one is a good hide.
Left home yesterday on a long trip, about 8,000 km's to the Red Centre Experience GC6825Z and back.
The trip their is broken into 3 stages, home to Philip Island for the National Riley Rally, Philip Island to the Grampions to do some bushwalking, Grampians to Alice Springs for what we hope is a Mega Geocaching Event.
We are staying for 2 nights in the general area and today was all about locating and experiencing some local caches.
Visited a group of trackables that will part way with me in Alice Springs.

Had lunch nearby and decided to come back and complete this cache. Arrived at GZ and soon located the container, signed the log and replaced. Thanks to Tankengine.

Thanks Tankengine for the cache. It was found in Good Condition

This find brings my total number of Finds to 3358.

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Lunch in Bungendore, and a little time before the afternoon meeting, so I stopped at the spot and decided to grab these caches.

Cache is in good condition. Easy find.

Thanks:) nice hide

Tftc

Scanning the geocaching map for someone interesting for an outing, I spotted a back road running beside Lake George with some caches along it. I've long found the area around Lake George fascinating, but had never been along here, so the way forward was suddenly clear! Heading back towards home with some time up my sleeve a little stopover at Brooks Hill made a lot of sense - and made for a lovely little loop walk.

A nice easy find and terrific to find a good sized and well placed container. TFTC

Found with Trodectus. TFTC Tankengine.

Found while taking a walk around this reserve after having had afternoon tea in Bungendore. TFTC

Found on my scenic drive home from canberra. Tftc

TFTC out with MGROCKS for the day

Great place for a stroll TFTC Tankengine

Found on a caching stop-off trip on the way back to Canberra from Bateman's Bay. Wow, what a cool cache. Thank you Tankengine

As easy find. TFTC

After seeking some caches in Bungendore, I decided to stop in and pick up a few caches here on the way back to Canberra. An easy find - and a huge container! TFTC, Tankengine

Lovely day for a walk in this reserve. I found the cache dry and hidden. I left a travel bug with big miles to cover.

Quick find. 2nd on our way to Batesmans Bay. TFTC

Quick find on our way to Batemans Bay. Thanx