The Black Swan Kooragang, New South Wales, Australia
By Mayfind on 28-Aug-11. Waypoint GC331WE

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Hasn't been found in 2 years and no maintenance, this cache needs checking or archiving

Can't find

Do believe this has Been removed due to the road works

Found my first trackable!

[Blue]This cache was found at around 09:48 and brings our overall cache find tally to 9207.

This cache took me way longer than it should have! I made the find with the traffic whizzing past today.

Thanks Mayfind for the cache. [/Blue]

Drop tb

Easy find

Hrltj

Baby swans are there now great time to come and grab this cache

Loved the place of this cache!! We were lucky and see 6 baby swans with their parents. Tftc

easy park and Grab, No sign of the black swan today

After helping my sister pick up some cupboard inserts in the morning, we headed off a little later then usual to my uncles place, so this cache, with no detour at all was chosen to be found. Every time we drive past I say there it was, pointing backwards, so this time , we pulled up earlier as the road has a large dirt shoulder and I walked the two hundred and fifty meters to the cache. When I turned around my car was following me, which was weird, but after quickly finding and signing the cache it made for a very short walk and we were still at our destination nice and early.
Thanks for the nice quick park, pond and grab cache!

Cool

Tftc
Quick sign
I remember this spot before the slag and pollution

Another warm sunny day, so we headed out to pick up some caches in the Newcastle area.
With a good variety of hides, we were kept busy all day.
Cache was found quickly, log was wet & slimy, so added a new one. CO should check.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Mayfind, for us and others to find.

No swans, just drizzly rain but found the cache.

Late entry. Found this one easy enough but traffic was a nightmare. No swans today. TNLN. SL. TFTC.

High traffic times add an extra element to the search. Swans are beautiful as always, I used to drive past here every day and look for the babies. TFTC

Found without difficulty TFTC Mayfind. Not sure what the Hint is all about?

TFTC

TFTC I located GZ but the Black Swan & Cygnet had flown the coop. I thought "Oh boy! George....?" Then decided I didn't have a Clooney! Finally, as a keen Backgammon player I decided to "double ya odds" and then I found it like "where half a bird in hand worth" is found.

Quick find. No swans today. TNLN TFTC

#134 - Cherie and I attempted to find this on her last visit to Stockton, at 1am, in the pouring rain. We didn't have a whole lot of luck then, as you can possibly imagine. In daylight, with blue sky, it was a whole lot easier! No swans to be seen, but being able to tick this off our list was reward enough. TFTC, Mayfind!

Nice quick park & grab. No swans today! No birdlife at all! SL TNLN TFTC Mayfind

What an awesome place. I loved it there. It was the end of my bicycle tour and I enjoyed it. Thanks a lot for it!

We have driven past here so many times but knew the traffic would be a problem. Today it was not too bad so we parked well off the road and ran the gauntlet crossing over. The site of GZ was a lot more noticeable than the swans, no sign of them or the nest now but there was something in the distance that could have been a duck or swan. We logged with no traffic around then scrambled back to the car as the lines of cars travelling way over 80km/h tore past. Thanks for a great cache.

Tough spiky find in an extremely high muggle area.

Saw the baby swan nearby.

A shame about all the pollution around here. Cool view of the non stop cal loading though.

Thanks for the cache!

On the way to Stockton, quick detour and signed the log. Thanks Mayfind.

Found it! Didn't check obvious place -.- totally should of done in day time due to nearly walking into swam -.- haha

Found on my way to Brisbane. TFTC.

Thanks, good one for the family.
Found with theboudans

Thanks. Watch out for the ants nest.

TFTC

tftc!

TFTC

Found it. Thanks.

Certainly a busy little bit of road, no swans today but plenty of motorists who probably thought I was finding some relief and not a geocache.
Thanks for the hunt Mayfind

At 5pm on a Wednesday this road has a crazy amount of traffic for such a small road. After a quick find the problem was going back the way I had come!

Found by Mary & David at 1210. No swans in sight today, but we reckon we could hear some off in the reeds. A novelty for us to see mangroves with their primeval roots, and the different water view over the road. A much softer aspect with the gentle rustling of the reeds. Found the cache after a short search. Our thanks to Mayfind.

Holy dooly we have spent a lot of time looking for this cache previously but today found it very quickly by accident not we thought it was so pleased to now tick it off the list...
Thanks Mayfind for the geocache
TFTC
#122

Guessing weekend traffic a bit lighter than usual but probably still looked pretty strange darting across the road towards the thick reeds. Understood the clue as soon as arrow settled for a quick but painful find. Hate these Georges!

TFTC. Field position log. Full log to follow.

Mr Mayers couldn't find it but Mrs Mayers found it pretty quickly! Good hide. Thanks =)
P.S very smelly area

329
R: 2 /5
T: Bike

It doesnt help looking for this one when you are 80m away from GZ. This was a quick ride, stop and grab after an adventure on Ash.

After a failed attempt to gather these caches on wednesday, 88jaz88, Patches108 and I set out. We went through Jesmond, to the UNI, Wetlands, Sandgate...had a quick stop at the floodgates and across to Ash Island. We had a fantastic time caching around the island...loved the scenic views and slightly rough trails. The places geocaching takes you!!! We had a brief lunch at the northen most point of our journey then continued on. I also admired the historical side of the island. We then jumped onto Tourle street where Jaz was swooped by a Magpie. Funny times!!! After that we headed to Army View where Patches and I both got a flat. We changed them under the bridge and continued on up it. Once at Stockton, we headed south on the cycleway and unfortunately Pat got two flats...one on each wheel what is the luck?? Jaz and I then decided it would be best to cut our losses so we rode out to get a few. We met back up at the ferry at 2 and went to the local bike shop (CFN) where they helped replace the tubes and we were on our way. At this point it was getting on 3 o'clock and we decided to make the dash home via a few unique areas. After a ride through carrington, islington, broadmedow via the small powertrail, I was back home.

Thanks to all cache owners for their time and effort in placing these awesome caches and showing us some great areas.

TFTC Mayfind

#254

Upon getting close to this cache, 88jaz88 got swopped by a magpie. We thought this was hilarious until the magpie went for us too, We found this one thiss time easily, after DNF'ing it last time, looking in the wrong spot.

Thanks for the cache Mayfind.

After a delayed start due to someone sleeping in (me), Cccritter7, 88jaz88 and I set off on our big trip. We headed through Jesmond and along the freeway. We stopped for a cache at the wetlands, then continued along to the Sandgate Cemetery. We picked up 2 caches along Maitland Road, then turned into Ash Island. We managed to pick up all the caches in Ash Island, also admiring the amazing views. We then headed to the Tourle Street Bridge, and headed along towards the Coal Terminals, picking up a cache along the way. We continued along towards the Dinosaur bridge, and picked up the first in the series of caches on the bridge. We went underneath, and after finding it, both Cccritter7 and I developed flats. We luckily were able to replace them, and continued up to the bridge, and along. We found the rest of the bridge series, and headed for Stockton. Unfortunately, after we found our first cache along the way, my back wheel had gone down. I pumped this up, then discovered my front was flat too! It looked like I had ridden through a patch of mutant cat-eyes when we pulled them out. I then walked the bike the 3-ish k's to the ferry terminal while the other two grabbed a few caches in Stockton. We reunited at the terminal, hopped on, then hopped off again in Newcastle. We went to a nearby bike shop, had my tires repaired, then we discovered 88jaz88 had a flat too! After having everything repaired, we followed the bike track from civic to Islington, picking up several along the way. We then got into Broadmeadow and onto the bike track, and we headed back to base. Unfortunately, I still had a way to go, but it was plenty of fun. 54kms, 5 punctures, plenty of caches and tons of fun!

Found it - TFTC

Logs below explains our adventure !

A quick stop and grab. TFTC!

SPIDERS EVERYWHERE! Ugh.

After my fellow cacher got distracted by the numerous frogs around her and trying to take pictures we eventually grabbed the cache, with some ants crawling all over us.

TFTC

The warmer weather def brings out the spiders, tonight we have had nothing but spider encounters.

Found this cache after first finding a baby green frog, which I was amazed how little it was. I got a little side tracked. haha Eventually got the cache in the end, open the log book which was filled with ants, signed and placed back. TFTC

2345 GAFF1 After a DNF in April it was nice to stop by and reprise the previous effort.
Cache dry and intact, but left a cut-down pencil.
Another for the Night Caching thesis book mark.
Not too many muggles tonight, and the parked geo-mobile covered most of the search.
Brought through for mileage: 3 Bros, Aust Light Houses, BEAGLE BIXBY, B 2 B ingot, Homer J TB, Iconic Bridges, Just Monkeying Around Oz, Little Moo, Lulu the Ladybug Travel Tag, PAP, Play Well, Trackabulldog, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, and trackable shirt.
TFTC Mayfind

Very very sneaky hide
Crump and kyle 11/8 2013

Beauitful little warm day today, drive to visit Stockton for munzee area... Easy to find but full little ants inside cache, shake all ants gone... Hide very well thanks

nearly didnt find it in the dark

Found a few days back

Woooo

Tftc

Yeee haaa 2nd find of the night. Nicely hidden

Took 1 trackable. TFTC. Traffic is crazy

Cache replaced. A victim of clean up Australia think! No swans today.

Mayfind

Had a 5 minute search with the geo-son early on Saturday morning whilst on the way to pick up a relo from the airport. However, there didnt seem to be any obvious place to look but around the lomandra and we had a plane to meet so lwe eft empty handed.

Spent about half an hour trying to find in the 'lamandra' which I suppose would be a version of 'bush'.
Am wondering if on Clean Up Australia Day, if the cache was found and removed? Could a cache check be done please.
TFTC and stop off in this area

Whilst at Denman for a week long work conference I found this cache. Return trip to Newcastle in the extreme wet to head home. Being from Nth Qld I was surprised to see weather like this here.

TNLN

TFTC

Dipped TB's

We found The Black Swan after a long and fun day of caching.

Accurate coords, nice grassy hide but no Black Swan to be found. Just traffic!
TFTC

Quickly found, lots of mosquitos everywhere, tftc

Visiting the region, so today we wanted to find a few caches in the Lemon Tree Passage Area.
This is one we found on our way there.
TFTC Mayfind

For some reason couldn't find it today under the watch of some guy who pulled over right next to us and started eating lunch.
However, along the route, I saw a bird that was quite unusual. I thought it might have been a black swan? It was quite pretty. Unfortunately I didn't snap a picture.

Hopefully we'll be more successful next time.

Took longer to cross the very busy Rd than it took to find the cache thanks

This one was quicker to find than acctually crossing the road.

TFTC.

What looked like a disgusting piece of water, actually holds a lot of wildlife, so looks are deceiving . There seems to be only a single swan there this year, oh,,, and a cache, SL, thanks for giving us a better opinion of this area

Quick find

Quick find after work whilst visiting Newcastle.
Heading to Williamtown Airport
Nice hide, good clue
TFTC

When I pulled over at the location, There was a Highway Patrol Muggle booking a Motorist, He wasn't
happy that I stopped so close, Waited for them to move to retrieve the Cache. TFTC

Quick find but not easy with all the traffic. No swans today

midnight incursion, no traffic. hiding plain sight, I like it.tftc

Quickie thanks for the hide,cheers.

Found it No. 6575 ... just followed the geo trail ... TNLN ... TFTC Mayfind

A quick easy find.
Thanks

TFTC, SL , nice quick park and collect. Cheers:)

Bushy

Bushy

Drive past here everyday to go to work and never had the time to stop and tick this one off the list TFTC

No swan today (luckily)!

A quick drive by. The swan was home but disinterested. Took nothing, left 1953 halpenny. Thanks Mayfind

Found at 2.25pm GAFF1 in the company of Robmc. Well that was an unexpected find! That swan must have it's ear plugs securely planted.
Thanks Mayfind.

That swan must be stone deaf! It is still nesting, but we had trouble talking near the edge of the road from all the traffic.
Interesting to see though.
Thanks, Robmc.

So now I know what a George is. TNLN SL TFTC

No swans but loads of cars.
Loads.
So I squatted down and had a look.
That didn't help so had to stand.
Ouch, ooh, ouch, found it
Thanks for placing this cache.

High traffic area and not sure who George is but we found it

ETA - thanks Mayfind for the clarification on George. We couldn't believe it went over our heads lol

This entry was edited by teamFletcher on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at 01:27:17 UTC.

Quick find with not much traffic around. Did not see any swans today. TFTC.

Another work directed find lol

Thanks for the cache!

Nice quick find but long wait for a break in the traffic.

Thanks.

Geokid said thats not spikey...... Until I made him go in after it lol

TFTC

Found during night caching on the way home from a family lunch on Boxing Day. No swans in sight but they probably blended in with the night. Got a few spikes retrieving this one. Will inspect the damage to my arms when I'm home in the light. TFTC!

No swan today - amazing to think this busy road is a safe quiet place to raise your brood. Took a while to find so resorted to the clue. No idea who George was so wasn't much help - but he must have been a prickly chap. Thanks Mayfind.