BEN HALL became a bushranger why?? Cobargo, New South Wales, Australia
By njvl on 02-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2HNF1

Unfortunately there was no response (or regular update) from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ngaambul - Matt

Hi njvl,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ngaambul - Matt

Couldn't find this one at all. Searched quite a big area too. Think this one may need to be checked.

No luck here. A old burnt tin was found, maybe this was the cache? Reckon this ones long gone.

Searched all around gz,there gas been a fire so maybe destroyed.

No luck for us today. Searched for 10 minutes and then searched a little more. Thanks for bringing us here regardless.

Unfortunately the container appears to be missing, also had a good search in the wider area, checked hints and previous logs for clues.

Johnny Depp Won !!

Tftg

Good find for the kids

Found after a short walk around the two trees, thanks.

took us way longer than it should have but TFTC

TFTC. Got to listen to the music of the folk festival while searching

LTF

Took a while to find this one, as we were looking for a bigger sized container and the GPs was jumping.

full log to follow

Stopped by this one and a reasonably quick stop soon had the cache in hand

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache njvl

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2021 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Easy find with ConcreteGnome. TFTC

Easy find, with geostrom. Beautiful well kept area.
Thank you.

As we continued our Adventure to Cooma today we stopped off and collected some caches along the way. With the cache in hand we signed the log before replacing as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache njvl.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Vanlith The Youngling, Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), teamMerlin's Football, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, Merlin's Steed

On way to Cobargo while on holidays in are. Nice easy find for 2nd in awhile.
TFTC

Easy drive by. TFTC.

Unfortunately bushfires don’t take any prisoners and everything gets destroyed in its path. Sad to see this cache size is more a micro, but SL at 7.58am on Easter Monday as we make our way back home to Victoria. #7873 TFTC njvl

Thanks for bringing me here . Nice camo . TFTC

Great location and backstory!
We found it

On holidays and travelled from Bermagui to Tilba Tilba for a Devonshire tea. On the road again to Merimbula and it’s always great to find some geo caches along the way.
Thank you for the interesting story of Ben Hall. TFTC

Most dead centre of town
You will end up here if you find those dangerous caches near the roadside!

Quick easy find tftc

Thanks for the hide!!

good geocache

I did actually need a hintX TFTC

First cache found ️

awesome story & cache!! Tftc!! )

Still dont know the answer to that question but we found the geocache easily enough.

TFTC! Had a lovely day out with a few tricky finds along the way

??

Found it

Thanks for the adventure

We replaced this one as the area has been burnt out. We placed at small container at gz. Our thanks to njvl for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Not sure if it’s still there as this area been damaged by bushfires

TFTC I thought it would be harder

TFTC coords 12m out!

found it with rob! tftc

NFF!! Cool big tree nearby TFTC

Spending a glorious weekend down the Sapphire Coast as part of the Canberra Invasion. Whilst the invasion meant the chance to catch up with many cachers at events and at different spots (and a delightful excuse to celebrate Lovetherabbitohs 18th birthday), I spent most of the weekend on the hunt with the CGI crew: Fitzy_1965, DarzeeDi, Minniek , K8TYBEE , GLISS!, GSC2000 Lovetherabbitohs, B0tmun, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1. Thanks so much for keeping all the caches alive and making this weekend a possibility! Tftc

Out and about with nibletricecakes and the Goulburn/Canberra crew. Scouting the coastline for treasures... my first big caching weekend! TFTC

One of many many caches found during our SST caching invasion - thank you !

Headed to Wallaga Lake for a bit of an invasion by people from Canberra & Goulburn. A group of us convoyed for most of the long weekend. The group known as CGI (Canberra Goulburn Invasion) consisted of fitzy_1965, darzee di, nibletricecakes, k8tybee, GLISS!, GSC2000 and my geokids Lovetherabbitohs, b0tmun, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 3 now all packed up and ready to head home but not before finishing the SST series and any others along the way. All caches were quickly found. We certainly loved the variety.

This weekend a few of us from Canberra and Goulburn decided to travel down to Bermagui and do the SST series and some of the other traditionals, camping at Wallaga Lake Big4.
Today was day 3, final day of our adventure and what a great adventure it was, loved the company, lots of laughs and stories making it a successful fun long weekend. We signed log as team CGI (canberra Goulburn invasion) and we all enjoyed ourselves, we all had a great day. Tftc njvl

With Tankengine we made our way down to this part of the coast, there would be many other canberra cachers out and about in the area as well and on this day three we often cached with many of them. This was an area I have been wanting to come visit for such a long time for the trail of caches and was so lucky to have fabulous weather and such good company for the three days.

The caches are very different and interesting with a mixture of hide types, styles and difficulty to keep things interesting. I just loved this area with all the lakes, inlets and waterways, the coast... spectacular. A beautiful place to visit.

Day three and this cache: On our way home but not for some time as there was still plenty of caching to be done along the way. Caught up the AG27, BL27 and TNZ earlier so we went on to finish the trail with them as well. Easy find today.

#11179 @1100
Travelling with AngelG27 and BobL27 for the 'SST Bermagui Invasion'. Day 3. Cache soon found with Aquilus1 and Tankengine. TFTC.

The long weekend had arrived and off I go as part of the Canberra geocachers invasion for the SST series and any others along the way! A great weekend of camping, caching and socialising with a great bunch of people!

I wandered in for this one before realising I didn't need to do that at all! Easy find at GZ after I realised what side of the fence it was on!

Thanks for the hide, njvl

Cache 5234 on 10 Jun 2019.

This was a long awaited and planned geocaching mission to the south coast with a few other Canberra cachers. Bobl27, TikvaNZ and I drove down Saturday morning and picked up a few caches on the way to the main goal which was the SST. We picked up 19 caches Saturday and 70 on Sunday. Such good quality caches and so many different hide types have made caching this trail a real pleasure. Today we are aiming for the last 30 caches before heading home.

This cache: quick find!

Thanks njvl for the cache and the fun!

Foun d as part of Capital Crunchers on this long weekend during the Canberra Invasion of the South Coast. We had a great time and our main target was the SST series but gathered smilies at others and this was one of them.. TFTC SL or stamped it as Capital Crunchers

Found with Smittengranny, Kittykatch and Grimraider caching as Capital Crunchers. Down the coast heading to Bermagui for and caching catchup. TFTC

Market day in Cobargo today.
Cold wind was a little off putting for some, but no for BonEm and myself.
We enjoying meandering up and down the high street, buying a few knickknacks.

This was a nice easy find,
Cache and log book were ok.
We stayed on and browsed through the cemetery a while longer.
TFTC

Found on a trip to Cobargo with Lpud to visit the local shops. TFTC

Back then the justice system was sometimes a bit more like 'guilty until proven innocent'
And the victims of the system didn't have 'ambulance chasers' to turn to to gain recompense for damages !!

So of course Ben turned to the darkside !! [:o]
To extract revenge on the evil empire !! [:o]

Hang on !!
Ben Hall was a character in Star Wars wasn't he ??
No ?? [:o]
You mean that this plot line has been around for years ?

Ben's cache found on a drive to Narooma today

TFTC.

Another night cache. TFTC.

Thanks for teaching me about Ben Hall and for the cache!

Cache and log good. I left a fish fridge magnet. TFTC njvl.

Quick easy find
TFTC

Find Number 1739, found at 11:24. This was the 4th find of 7 today

Today we set off home following a few days in Pambula for a mid-week break.

I wasn't sure which side of the fence to concentrate on, but I got lucky first time. If I had read the hint it would have made things cleared. My fault!

The cache was in good condition. We took a trackable, left nothing, signed the log and replaced the container as found

Thanks njvl for the cache.

It was lovely to read some history of this area. Cobargo and its surrounds are very beautiful, and we took a short walk around the nearby cemetery, just absorbing some of the history. Thanks for this stopping point on Our geocaching Drive today. We have had a lovely holiday down south, and will begin our drive back to Brisbane tomorrow. We have enjoyed caching in this area.
Thanks
Domsky

Last cache out of town and back on the road to Wallaga Lake. GPS initially put me inside the fence and I thought I’d stopped in the wrong place. Dropped off the fire dragon travelbug.

TFTC njvl

Found

This cache was a very quick find as we saw it from the car as we arrived. The cache and contents were in good condition. After signing the log, we replaced the cache and added natural camo. Thanks njvl for the cache.

??

Found it awesome find

TFTC

We actually placed this 10 years ago and have restarted geocaching

Found

Found while doing the SST series. This area had so much history, a walk thru the cemetery to cache. Tftc

Day 4 had me starting in Mollymook and heading down the coast back into VIC and ending up in Bairnsdale. Enjoyed the winding forest roads a bit too much before being stopped by the authorities. 20 caches in total, and that's after a GPS malfunction. Saw a lizard and a Wallaby so not a lot of wildlife today.

11th find and a quick impromptu pull over here. A quick find, a cute lizard under the cache. Looked around for some of his legless friends but no joy.

Thanks for the cache

#2469

Since moving from New Zealand I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
The caches I’ve found in Australia so far have for the most part all been in great condition. Keep up the good work.

After returning from travel a week ago I find my feet still itchy, so here I am driving, caching 3 hours or so from home. Actually a daytime drive turned into a weekend

Happily Cache found in good condition quickly as dark settles in
Tftc

Since having issues with cgeo i am heading home but will return another time to clean up the area thanks for the caches

Found on my around the Area. Easy find.

Overnight trip around the SST with Seemyshell and Brewmaker. I was really impressed with the wide range of unique styles and sizes. Another huge selling point on these were the interesting names for the caches (instead of numbered), which makes it easier to remember each location and find. Thanks to all the Cache Owners of the Sapphire Coast (namely dghoffy and elysium_au) for injecting the greater area with good quality caches. Thanks For The Cache!

On a two day road trip with Seemyshell and Muppet95 searching for caches around the Sapphire Coast. So many various hides along the way. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches in such a beautiful area to visit. TFTC

TFTC
Heading south from Sydney with Brewmaker Himself & Muppet95, with the idea of two full Caching days around the Sapphire Coast. Found this Cache as part of our two day adventure...
Cheers
Seemyshell

Heading into NSW on a relaxing few days away sightseeing and caching, not trying big note ourselves on what caches we get or don’t get while here, but to enjoy each others company.

Thanks to the CO for the placement here.

Quick find by the cemetery. Nice place. I do like cemetery’s. So does my mate, Groot. There were some great flowers growing nearby too. Tftc!!!

Nice hide and location .
Had a brief look around the history of the cemetery.
Many thanks for the New Year’s Day find .

gave a lift to a tb.On our wonder down to the Vic, mega at Alexandra. . 2557 so far for us. Thanks for placing this cache njvl, without cachers like you we wouldn't have a hobby. Signed log. took nothing, left nothing

Found a trackable which didn't show up in the trackable inventory. Well anyway
TFTC.

Trackable grabbing time!

Some very interesting graves. Tftc

Tftc

Found with geo wife Kezza 1211 and Rogerz1956 TFTC

Found with Geohubby TB142 and Geo Friend RogerZ1956. TFTC

dropped off a couple of TB's to move on knowing they would fit in this cache

Walked a while from oval !! Could drive !!

.

Found as we wind our way from Melbourne to Canberra the long way around picking up some stray map zones for a challenge cache as we go. Being dedicated caches we never take the shortest direct route to anywhere, except the next cache of course. A quick and easy find and we were soon on our way again. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Nice location and container soon found today. SL TFTC

Two weeks in Australia for holidays with Kirdec.
Day 11. Time to come back to Melbourne. Last day, we drived from Sydney to Narooma, and today from Narooma to Lakes Entrance.
Of course, we do some caches on the way.
Mostly, the caches were found without difficulty, thanks to all the owners for their work.
Greetings from France.

Day 11 in Australia with Junkys.
Time to come back to Melbourne. Last day, we drived from Sydney to Narooma, and today from Narooma to Lakes Entrance.
Of course, we do some caches on the way.
Mostly, the caches were found without difficulty, thanks to all the owners for their work.

-----------------------------------------------------

Strange story here, big cemetery with lot of free places and One cache quickly found !

Thank you njvl for the cache and greetings from France.

Kirdec

Grabbing a few caches while starting out return trip from Eden.
The story about Ben Hall was very interesting. The whole South Coast and Monaro has a very interesting history with bushrangers, the Hall, Gilbert and Clarke gangs being some of the worst (not necessarily in that order). There are a number of caches associated with bushrangers - maybe finding them all will become a goal when I retire and start travelling! TFTC njvl.

Thanks for the history lesson. We knew some of the facts but it is good to be able to read all this information. Cobargo is such a lovely town for a stop. Kutgw

Cache was a bit exposed so I made the quick find,i gave it a little more natural camo,
TFTC

After spending a couple of hours catching waves, the clouds started to let loose, so after a quick lunch i set off to find geocaches instead. I have a goal to beat my previous max yearly cache find count, and today was the day i should match my previous record.
31 finds total today so my total caches found this year is 2059.
A nice and quick find to help reach my goal.
Thanks for the cache.