Lord of the Rings Adventure Part 3 Mines of Moria Mitchell, New South Wales, Australia
By Alwyn255 & Becon4046 on 16-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2KCDH

Sorry - no time to maintain the cache and it is fairer to other cachers if I archive it.

I looked for this one in the dark on a previous trip to Bathurst, and couldn't find it then. Tonight I was staying in Bathurst for the night, ready to head to Orange in the morning. My hotel was just down the road from here, so I thought I'd try searching for it in daylight this time.

Came in by the closest gate and made it to GZ after a short walk. Looked for about 10 minutes, but couldn't find anything.

Out for a weekend of caching from Goulburn to Bathurst and surrounds with The Rats and Steeba.

Despite our best efforts we were unable to find this cache.

Cheers

We had no luck here today, couldnt find what we wanted.

No luck for us here today.

No luck here.

Found but very water logged and broken

Nice quick & easy find while stopping for a quick break to stretch the old legs ... stop revive survive - cache! Heading home to Sydney from a weekend camp in Mumbil. TFTC

I parked by the nearby highway and slipped through the fence. I found the cache and its contents spread about. There was a partly eaten bar of soap, so it appears this might have caused an animal to break into the cache. I returned all the contents and log, bar the soap ( intentional pun), but the cache is cracked and needs replacement. This needs an urgent visit from the CO. TFTC Alwyn255 & Becon4046.

Found the best gate and had a lovely walk to gz. Cache was very exposed so I used surrounding camo when I replaced it. Took TB and also took out the foodstuffs that were in there! (don't want to attract an attack by 6-legged locals )

TFTC

We were driving past and heading to the mountain when I noticed this one and it was too close to not pull over, so I did for an easy find.

Found with geohubby. Dropped travel bug from england off to see more of the countryside. Tftc.

Found

Ftc

Found it!

Slips are no longer required - the final puzzle will become an ordinary cache soon.

"I got a butter menthol!"

Found

Caution! It's desgusting

Awesome...the eye of Moria.

Very quick, easy find I absolutely loved the camo! I have never seen it done like that before. Tftc!

Enjoy the lollies

Took the shortest route to get into the reserve and soon had cache in hand. TFTC.

found.nice n easy with the roos around.with Ash n geo brats

TFTC

Cute

We left you all a Smile & a cute turtle
Totally love the camouflage attached to container

tftc

TFTC hectic camo brah

TFTC

Day 78 of my trip to Brisbane.

Sixth day on the road, except I'm not on the road today - I've decided to have a day in Bathurst. Today, I wanted to drive around Mt Panorama, and pick upm the caches. This ended up not being possible - there arfe workers everywhere, getting the track ready for an event. Oh well, I'll drive around it, pick up a few if I can, and go see what else there is to see in and around Bathurst. I'm a bit late with the logging, I'm home now, and have five days of caching to log. Have I made 1000 caches on the trip? Today's twenty gets me to 974.

No 11 of 20 today. Thanks, Alwyn255. Nice one!! Shall I go over to the minesand get some gold? Nah, I'll stay here and get the cache instead.

Cache all good but there are no slips of paper with the necessary codes to solve Lord of the Rings puzzle.

TFTC Alwyn255

Got there and saw it straight away TFTC

Easy find

Found early morning on the way to work at Evans Plains. A quick find and the cache is in good order. Noticed that there were some bush regen workers just over the hill in the reserve once I got back on the highway but they were out of sight from GZ. Many thanks Alwyn255

Tftc

Nice one guys!!! A great find!! Although there was no clue!!?? :/

Cheers

Good find on a nice sunny day!

TFTC

Tftc

Nice camo job was all good on the inside of cache. Thanks guys. TNLN SL.

Tftc gotcha took TB

Spare time while mrs frebob went swimming TFTC

Great cache...it took me a second to notice the lid!

Kids enjoyed finding this one

Easy find. Clever lid

TNLN TFTC

Thanks for bringing us here, we saw kangaroos, finally, tftc!

Parked at the gate toward Blayney and had a nice little walk to the cache, and saw some kangaroos! (Roo View nearby doesn't lie!) Great camo TFTC.

Can't see why it was not found - it was sitting out in the open at GZ. It even still had code sheets. It has been replaced by a slightly larger version that is fully hidden. Please replace it's camo.

quick find tnln tftc

Apologies that this one is still not there. Heat, rain, illness and injuries have all prevented us from replacing the cache. It will happen very soon.

There seem to be some problems here - we will check it out as soon as possible.

# 3876 Found and logged at 8:15:35 AM
One of 4 caches for a day , O my way home from a week of caching in the Orange Bathurst area
Thanks for the cache Alwyn255
Lgoody

It was too good for us today

I was hoping to pick up another in this series on a stopover at Bathurst on our road trip this weekend. I looked & looked, aided by bikerbuddy (a previous finder) but couldn't spot the cache.

Couldn't find anything within 10 meters of my GZ? Maybe another time?
Wilbert67

A nice walk in a an area being reclaimed into nature.

Found cache out in the open. we recovered. Picked up TB. Tftc

Quick find after a short stroll TFTC left TB

Easy find pity about the water in cache, tried my best to dry it out in the sun for 15 min. Cache was empty apart from the log and co ord notes so topped it up with some goodies.

Found at 5:25PM on the 23rd of April by Ray and Maya as we head for Gosford. We are staying the night here and have spent the rest of the day caching and exploring the city. Had a great tour of the city. TNLNSL TFTC. The Nomads.

Nice spot. The logsheet was very wet yet the hints for the final cache were dry. Sometimes it doesn't work puting logsheets in bags
TFTC TN LN

Picked up this one on the way home from out west.
TFTC

Easy find after a stroll through the long grass
The gate to Moria almost begged to have rhymes said to it
TFTC

Trip home continues in Bathurst.
Dodging the storm now.
TFTC

Found, while visiting Bathurst to see in the New Year.
No log book in cache.
Took a clue to final cache, have that as proof of visit if required.
TFTC

I wandered into the mines in pursuit of another ring
My stroll took me past the greyhound track.
The things you find out in the bush around Bathurst
With the cache found and clues gathered I strolled off toward another cache
As I strolled a couple of doggie owners turned up to race their hounds [:o]
TFTC.

Yep found this on a dark murky night in a town I certainly dont know..
And yes I had a very flat gps phone with the torch about to go flat, I also just about missed it.
Walking back out the araea I was wondering why I could hear sprinklers and found dog boxes, lots of russtling and what appears to be a track...... Is a dog about to start chasing me.

Fount it, TFTC.

Find # 4155 on a couple of more trips around around town.
Another quick find and then on the road again.
TNLNSL TFTC Alwyn255,
Roostaman.

Well and truly into lets get home mode by now so was looking for a drive by. Drove straight past a couple I think and before I knew it we were heading out of town so had to stop for this one. Would have liked to get a few around the race track but time was against us. I'll have to come back.
Thanks Alwyn255

Great Book, Great Movie, Great Cache, TFTC

This was the fourth of the five Lord Of The Rings caches we found today. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find of the well hidden cache. One more to go and then we can look at the puzzle. TFTC Alwyn255.

A nice short walk to this one to stretch the legs. There were people at the nearby greyhound training area but not close enough to notice us at the cache.

Thanks Alwyn255.

A nice walk to this one, past the skippy cache guardians.
TFTH
TNLN SL
#842

Nice quick find this morning whilst out caching with Rogpol.
Didn't realise the greyhound practise track was still in working order...and very good working order too!
Perfect weather for a stroll.

TFTH

# 390

What a lovely spot!

Found it No. 4399 ... quick find ... TNLN ... TFTC Alwyn255

Quick find. Collected the required info. TFTC.

TFTC

Found with geofamily

Bit of a cheat here as I was with in 30 meter of cache so hopped the fence and grabbed the cache, then read the cache description and found out there was an easier way in.

Thanks For The Cache
Found with TeamBooo, Booo Booo and Booo's Dad
While on the way home from a geotrip to the Australian Capital Territory for a few days

Found with geo family thanks

On a rare dog- and child-free trip, Black Bunny wanted to get as many caches as he could, while the getting was good.


Thanks for the cache, Alwyn255!

A nice walk to GZ with just a cacher to grab this one this morning and a quick find at GZ.

thanks for the cache Alwyn255

All was quiet at this gate to Moria, TFTC

Nice easy find. TFTC

Too hot to be walking in the bush. TFTC picked up GC

Another good find by the geokids. The long grass is making this a challenge. Picked up the travelbug Piggywan. Geokids planning his next location. A beautiful afternoon in Bathurst.

Dropped off some TB's.

Actually found this cache in its previous spot but missed logging it. found it today in its new location. TFTC X 2 Alwyn and Becon.

After trekking through the long grass, this was a nice easy find to start the day well.
Summer might present some hazards here.
TFTC Alwyn & Becon

A nice walk among the gum trees,not too difficult,TFTC.

#26 in my quest to find 60 caches in one day to celebrate my 60th birthday.

A fairly easy find, as the GPSr lead us straight to it, thanks Alwyn255.

We didn't find this one today.

Strange. New log paper & a FTF honours place which I signed. Thought it was too good to be true. Just passing by on my way to Adelaide. But I didn't get there. Car broke down in Griffith.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 25.339 E 149° 33.466

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 25.372 E 149° 33.461

Distance from original: 202.3 feet or 61.7 meters.

Moved away from the roadside and inside the reserve to make it safer

S33°25.372
E149°33.461