Looking for the eclipse - The Big Bang Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By AmethystPig on 27-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2NGYP

Thanks for the cache

TfTCache

Tyftc couldnt actually grab it because of the spiders but it is still there

The papers inside are all wet. Would be great to replace it.

I was after a nice quick trad for today's streak cache and have had my eyes on the NMA peninsula for a little while in the hopes that such things may be found there.Arriving at closing time was a good choice on my part, as the cafe had shut up shop and I had gz to myself!The cafe staff were still cleaning up inside so I wasn't prepared to do anything ridiculously outlandish lest they witness my antics through the window, but my phone camera wasn't picking anything up so I had to duck and check things out myself.It was there that I got a proper idea of the structure's composition and was soon able to identify the perch where the cache was placed.My name wound up in the logsheet and I enjoyed the remainder of my afternoon walk around here.Thanks to AmethystPig for placing this here!

Nice fast easy grabCheers

Found, TFTC!

Thank for hint

Found it

Thanks I found it with my 3 best friends my friends havent done it before so it was a fun little challenge

Thanks for the cache! ?? Saw some cute cockatoos while looking for the cache Found with TK21EST

Quite a lot of muggles around so had to wait for the perfect moment. Tied our shoelaces a few times and eventually got sight of the cache. Signed and returned to its place. Found with TC216.Thanks for the cache!

The cache is full of different logs and hence very messy with all the logs scrunched up in order to fit in the cache!

Great view - tftcsl

TFTC

Nice spot! Forgot a pen for the paper lig unfortunately

Nice hiding spot

Another yay

Nice!Finished up at the museum and decided to grab this one! Got to GZ and with the hint in mind, started searching, and we had the cache in hand!Nice one, TFTC!Coolabah OUT!!!

Found on a beautiful afternoon, following a visit to the Ancient Egypt exhibition. Too cold for any Muggles to be sitting outside, so was able to bend and hunt in peace. TFTC!

Nice spot for a rest

Had to get at least one cache while we were in Canberra for a summit. Way too cold to do more thoTFTC

I came out for a run with a work buddy to introduce him to caching. This was a quick easy find (at night). The 5th of several finds of the night.Greetings from Oxfordshire, England.Find number 1913.

Good place

Yep hint is spot on!!! I had a rough time searching as I was wearing two jackets and it was quite a lot of clothes. Just right for outside walking but not agile for caching or looking under things!TFTC

TFTC

Having a bit of a wander around after a fantastic visit to the Egyptian display. Spent a bit too much time feeling for something a bit more magnetic before stumbling on it. Kept an eye on the pollies the whole timethey need watching!

Im out after work collecting clues for a multi cache. I grabbed thus trad while I was in the area. Thanks for the cache, AmethystPig!

Over the view and learning about the history. My pen was forgotten but will PM proof

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Had to wait while dozens of walkers past by- TFTC

Found it after struggling to search stealthily! When I finally found it I discovered I had been sitting on top of it whilst taking my second break from the search. TFTC!

Nice simple cache in a pretty location

Ttfc

we got some lunch from the museum cafe and came down here to sit in the sun. thought wed better open the geocache app to see whats around and happened to be right on top of this one TFTC!!

Accidentally just sat down where this was, so this was a very nice lil surpriseTFTC

Found after a morning at the excellent Ancient Egyptian exhibition.

Log book needs replacing - its quite ragged.

Up in Canberra from Melbourne to attend the Capital Geobash over the Easter long weekend. Our last full day in Canberra before we head towards home tomorrow. Found after visiting the National Museum of Australia.Could do with a new log as its very tattered.TFTC

Thanks for the cache AmethystPig.Visiting Canberra over Easter to see my son and daughter-in-law, and to attend the Capital Geobash.With the family back at work today, I decided to do some 'touristy' things, so off to the museum. Enjoyed my visit and afterwards grabbed a few caches nearby.This was a nice quick find.

In Canberra to attend the Capital Geo Bash mega event. I attended the Queanbeyan Mega event a couple of years ago which is when I did a lot of the touristy things. This trip was more focused on Geocaches. There has been an abundance of new high quality caches published since my last visit so more than enough to keep me busy. Quick find here. All good. Thank you AmethystPig, for placing Looking for the eclipse - The Big Bang for the geocaching community.# # #14506 # #

Found it !

Found it quite quickly, but at first we were looking on the wrong seat. TFTC

Found!TFTC!

Log is quite damaged.

Got it TFTC ????

Found it with Deaf Team Thank you Beautiful day and wow

Since I'm in Canberra for Mega, I've enjoyed seeing many places as well as the warm weather.Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache ?? AmethystPig.

Over here for Capital GeoBash Mega. One of many hidden caches all over the city and surrounds for Mega Day weekend. Part of deaf geocachers today. TFTC

During the geobash mega.Thank you for the cache and hunt.

Found during the Mega event. AmethystPig, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area. ??

A nice quick find while doing the virtual that is close by. Thanks AmethystPig for placing and maintaining this cache

Found while out caching with The Booos a quick find here today TFTC

Found it. Nice and easy. The couple nearby thought I was seeing how the bench was made and commented, yes I'd like a bench like this in my backyard.

Found with Tweety2 and Martini.989 under the night sky.

Out for a night cache with Tweety2 & Tilda241 while in Canberra for Capital GeoBash. We approached this one after abandoning our attempt on a nearby trad when loud snores were emitting from very early GZ. So here we are and this one was a lot quicker and smoother. Admired the lights on the water for a while and moved on. Its very serene here in the evenings. TFTC!

After aborting mission on the last cache around the corner, this one proved a breeze.

A great find on this one with our little group Thanks GJ

#661 8:50 am ad lab #646Canberra capital geobash mega event trip As Im walking to the Patel steamer. I spotted a girl home in the tree and wonder if that was a cache when I brang my map out I spotted this one. Easy find. Thanks for placing this cache AmethystPig

This morning while on another Geobash tour we found this cache. Signed in as PS24. TFTC

Part of group from Geobash PS24

Big thanks to AmethystPig for placing this cache. ??Cache number 8861 on March 30, 2024

Found as signed as PS24 (PaddleSteamer tour) Capital Geobash fun! Thankyou

Out n about with m4yb grabbing some caches. Go nd with thee we big your group. Thanks for the hide & ?? AmethystPig

Megawat60 and I are at the Capital Geobash! Found this one as part of the PS 24 Tour. Many thanks!

Found whilst at paddle steamer tour tftc

Found with Team CCRuDS SL #5318 TFTC

Found with Team CCRuDS

Found, thank you.

There were too many muggles for a good search, but some advice allowed a quick grab. TFTC

In town for the GeoBash, and Mrs Varmint wanted to visit the museum. While she was inside, Pilot the wonder dog and I walked around and found this cache.Thanks AmethystPig.

Outnabout for some solo caching after travelling from The Great Leap Forward Mega event in Adelaide, and now at Canberras Capital Geobash. Found after the tour around Lake Burley Griffin. A great day out. Its always a great day for caching. ??TFTC AmethystPig

So many great caches to choose from during the Canberra Geobash. Today we enjoyed finding your cache along our travels on this beautiful sunny day. Thanks AmethystPig for your cache and for contributing to a great Easter weekend.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. On the Capital GeoBash Paddlesteamer tour first up this morning. What an awesome tour, fun and informative. A foggy start when we drove out the driveway but it cleared only 500m down the road. After the tour we stopped for lunch (missed out yesterday so knew to make sure today) joined with 80degrees, m4yb, megawatt60, and barb2e with lots of chatter and maybe even introduced a new cacher. We were headed back to Parliament house but nope never got past ANU before stopping at a couple of linear AL's in town before racing back for the munzee event and our prebooked roast chicken dinner.Found this with the tour groupl. log signed at PS24TFTC AmethystPig

Out and about with Paddlesteamer tour at the Capital Geobash. travelling with mummy and daddy and the rest of Team CCRuDS. Was a big walk with these caches today. This was quite fun and had a good chat with a muggle who was from the folk festival across the road.

Out and about with Team CCRuDS on Paddlesteamer Tour as part of the Capital Geobash 2024. Great fun was had during this tour, TFTC

Found as part of the Paddle Steamer Tour for GeoBash Canberra 2024, signed as PS24. Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for this cache done with the family. CJSigned as PS24

Out and about with ChauffeurJoe and the family with the birthday boy.Master 8 was the one who found this one quiet quickly.Another cache on another wonderful day in our Capital city.Found it, signed it as PS24, replaced it then on our way.Thanks LilDonna_

Finally we are in Canberra for the GeoBash.Today we started the day with a tour of the paddlesteamer PS Enterprise and then we hopped on the bikes and rode some of the lake.Signed as part of the tourThanks for contributing to our holiday AmethystPig

On the Paddle Steamer Tour for GeoBash Canberra Mega 2024With the cover of the rest of the group, a couple of use start a search.I was the lucky finder.So I signed the log for the group as 'PS24' and I also sign for me & D@geo with our own names.Out caching with D@geo & a group of about 10 other cachers.Thank you the hide AmethystPig

Found with gwd.aussie as part of the Paddlesteamer and National Museum of Australian Tour. The tour was a highlight of the Canberra Geobash Mega with the few additional smilies on the map a bonus. If not signed as d@geo signed as group PS24.Thanks AmethystPig

Found on our canberra journey. We wander through the land, grabbing caches and seeing the sights even occasionally catching up with friends A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered Thanks for placing them *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Out and about at the Canberra Mega with Honeysucker, we visited many caches today on Good Friday and thanks to all the cache owners for some awesome caches, and sorry for the generic log.Regards MrCoffee and the "Mega logs" Coffee Clan.

The beginning of a big day of bike caching around the Lake started off here at the museum looking over the water and looking in every corner except the one that was needed. Eventually cache found and we were off and running.

That was easy.The trip bit.Easter geocaching festival of twenty twenty four. This time it is the turn of Oz Mega GeoBash MEGA event in the nation's capital. It is time for a road trip across country to Canberra in the Sporty Pajero Sports. Freddo and Gridge98 traveling from Adelaide via a strange inland route that takes in scenic rural locations, dusty roads, punctured tyres, overheating batteries, various tools of the trade, special campgrounds, and lots scope for many many geocaching finds. Along the way we saw running emus, jumping kangaroos, wandering deer, dead foxes, herds of wooly sheep and stray steers.Arriving in Canberra we met our colleagues e.gregory1, featherwaite, team walron, courtney rose, davidwazza, e_smilie, and georode, signing as ABP, plus a huge group of other like minded excited mega geocachers attending event after event, and more events.Day one. Adelaide to Broken HillDay two. Broken Hill to WellingtonDay three. Wellington to CowraDay four. Cowra to BathurstDay five. Bathurst to CanberraDay six. Canberra to CanberraDay seven. Canberra to QueenbeeyanDay eight. Canberra to AdelaideThe generic bit.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Come visit the world's longest running annual geocaching event - keep the weekend free - 7th - 10th June 2024 Cant wait!! GCAK1D5 - Lameroo's Ludicrous Legwarmers

Found on our journey over the week here.This weekend was mega weekend and we headed over with Courtneyrose_ Freddo, Team Waldron, e.gregory1, Davidwazza and Featherwaite as part of our team called: ABP (Alphabet People), the log books were either signed with the name, ABP or our individual caching names.A great weekend away in the capital and a very well organised mega, it was nice to be back in the ACT caching once again over easter with great weather.Thanks for the cache

Found during the Easter GeoBash as part of the ABP team.TFTC

Found on a visit from Adelaide to Canberra to attend the Capital GeoBash Mega event over Easter.Today I teamed up with FeatherWaite, Team Waldron, gridge98, CourtneyRose and Davidwazza. Logs were signed ABP to save time and space on the logsheets.It was a productive day, focusing mainly on caches of interest, with a variety of cache types.The weather was fine and quite warm, in contrast to some of the other times Ive been in Canberra over Easter.Thanks AmethystPig for the cache.

Day 3 of our big Capital Geobash trip and our day started off with the fabulous Parliament House Tour, followed by an afternoon exploring the National Museum, and finishing with the tour of the NFSA. A quick find with no muggles around. TFTC AmethystPig.

While visiting Canberra for the week and attending the Mega we did a little sight seeing here.With the cache being not too far away I just had to wander over and find it.Nice spot for it with that view.TFTC

Found file out cycling around

Luckily for us it was very quiet here at 5pm on a Sunday afternoon. Great view too!Thanks for find #5797TNLN

Cant help spending half an hour at the spot just for the wonderful lake view. TFTC!

We did sightseeing on foot and picked up some caches as well. We love Canberra! TftCs! Frtau

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. Bt

Greetings from Tasmania, ALL7 pick me up at airport to ahead Aromoo, and via some caches on the way home..Nice spot the cache well.Signed the log with good dry..TFTC

Little bit tricky to search for this one sneakily, with the elevated dining room nearby. Cache was found pretty quickly, so fingers crossed nobody saw my retrieval.TFTC!

Very much enjoyed our visit to the National museum of Australia!!

found but forgot our pen haha