Freshwater Beach Cache Freshwater, New South Wales, Australia
By zargfinders on 16-Oct-11. Waypoint GC361N8

It is with sadness that we are archiving this cache. It was a really fun one but, after nearly 8 years, it has gone missing and it's too hard to remake. So goodbye Freshwater Beach Cache. At least 286 people were able to find you!

OCW morty8888 who suggested I do this one, which he had previously found, because it was a very clever cache with lots of fps. No luck and we think it's been muggled. Oh well I did see a photo though.

Couldn't find

Searched everywhere, not to be found

We came to spend the arvo at the Aquarium, only to arrive and find that it closed 18mths ago.... so what else should we do?? Go for a meander along the esplanade and find a cache. Interesting history. The homeless man was in residence but didn’t offer up any assistance. TFTC xo

So frustrating - next time!

Will Sydney's summer never end this year? Here we are late in May and there is no sign of it.
Another lovely warm sunny day just perfect for caching, so Ms Atalanta and I took the ferry to Manly and headed north, picking up caches on the way.
This was our fifth of six.
TFTC.

Out caching after a footy game. Loved the cache hide. Tftc

Tftc
Loved the camo high muggle area but made the sign

Very exciting. Introduced my friends to geocaching. Love the effort put into it, looks like it actually belongs and camouflaged in sight (kind of).
Don't look on the cliff, it's deffs in a easy to reach and near the sandstone benches.

Great camo forgot pen photo proof

Photo

Is it supposed to be between to half logs near the pole?

Cool hide thanks
Lucky to have seen that style before
On scooter today and no pen.
Have provided pic without giving too much away.
Tftc
Boom

11 April 2019 at 10:35

My son used to live at Freshwater, and so, when I began geocaching, naturally I went in search of this hide! Without success. On my second attempt, I got lost in the circular and/or one way streets and ended up somehow at Manly.

That was all a couple of years ago, and I think I've grown a bit in geo-wisdom and geo-experience in that time. Also, I've chased a number of amazingly creative Zarfinders' hides and so had some idea of at least what NOT to look for. And I can now read a map.

Anyway, today I decided that this sad face on my virtual geo-map needed to be smilified. I came, I saw, I conquered ! All in about two minutes!!

Another awesome hide, Zargfinders!! And a great excuse to take in some sea air. Thank you.

With hatzofff for a few days caching around Sydney. We stopped by to collect your cache.

Now that just does not look quite right, does it? No, it does not indeed!

Log signed and replaced on 2 April 2019 at 3:57 pm. TFTC, zargfinders

Out with RoddyC today. Tricky find.

TFTC

TFTF. This one has taken a few attempts due muggle presence and being a clever hide. Eventually got this one after a family sunset walk as dusk was drawing in. Kicking ourselves that we should have got this one sooner

Good location - took us a bit of lateral thinking.

Amazing hiding spot, it took me a while

It took us some time until we found something unusual but we were able to find it. Tftc, it is a beautiful spot!

Thanks for another cunning Zargfinders cache! We searched a few obvious spots, then expanded the search a little and saw something that didn't look quite right. Aha! The views from here are really awesome too! Favourite awarded. TFTC!

Another zargfinders' awesome camoed cache. We searched the obvious places first, came back empty. Extended our search a bit, what's that doing here? Ah, there it is. Thanks for the cache!

No muggles this time! TFTC!

What a beautiful start to Boxing Day, coming down here and having some sun, sand and surf. It was pretty crowded at Freshwater but we got lucky at the carpark near the cache. Some surreptitious searching whilst taking some photos and something was spotted that seemed out of place. A great cache, a fav from us.

Fantastic cache, took a fair bit of rummaging around but kept my feet out of the bushes and no bashing here. Thanks for the cache

**Hi zargfinders**

*today we walking from Dee Why Beach to Freshwater Rock Pool, this Cache we found verry
quickly. It is an nice Loggbox*


>thanks for the Lokation and the Cache

>all the best from Team Diddyhonda
Geetings from Germany NRW Bochum

Found pretty easily with Nikis09601. Had no pen but took photo for evidence of find for both of us. Great camo. Now time for a swim.

Our first cache together! Thanks for bringing us to this spot, we met a lovely French man who does yoga there regularly and pointed us in the right direction. TFTC!

Loved it. Took a few minutes to find and then a lot more to figure out where the log was watched a dramatic surf rescue with a helicopter and jet ski just before finding.

I THINK I’ve spotted the cache but regrowth of the bushes mentioned in the hint means I actually would have to rummage. Too many muggles so will try another day.

Very creatively hidden.

We missed it the first time but found it now

Found some time ago with geocachingmaty.

There were some muggles at GZ taking selfies, but as we spotted quite a few discarded glass bottles over the wall, we started grabbing them and that was the perfect "cover" to disguise what we were really doing.

Didn't take long before we spotted something unusual, had a little feel and... bingo! Absolutely brilliant camo, loved it!

Plenty of other bottles left in the bush for the next finders to hide what they're doing, if needed...

TFTC!!

Looked everywhere, couldn’t find it

Finally! This is the closest cache to our house and we have tried it four or five times and have even unknowingly found it before but today we figured out the camo. We’re getting more experienced in the tricky Zargfinders ways. Thanks Guys!

Really nice spot! Was sitting with caching assistant on the rocks below as the tide came in and started breaking just below our feet. Spent a while looking in all the cachey places but couldn't find anything. I Notice the last find is over 6 months ago - I had a day of DNF on every cache in the vicinity so not finding it today means nothing.

Great camo. TFTC

This was my favourite beach as a teen growing up on the area, nice to bring my kids back today as we live 4 hours north.

A beautiful spot for the cache, and an ingenious Camo, so fp from us. TFTC

So good!!!

#4537 (6 of 6 today)

Decided to go for a gaggle of caches today after a few days of only one find. But where to go? Only one viable area close to home (ie within a 30 minute drive), but I'm saving that for later this month... Decided on Queenscliff and surrounds. Went for six and found all of them. HUZZAH!
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Finished the afternoon here. And there is a muggle on the phone right near GZ.
Waited him out and started the search. A few likely spots were espied, fingers quested where eys could not go, but nothing. Hmmm. Checked the hint. OK, that helps.

Then I spotted it. Obvious when you know. One of the best of its type I've seen.
Made the grab and completed signing duties. Then replaced off back to *The Hademobile*.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Nope

Awesome cache!! Ingenious hiding

Ingenious hidey place!

Found it ages ago (last year sometime) but for some reason wasn't marked as found. A genius hiding spot!

This is a good one! We discovered it last Monday, but it took us a few days to be sure that it was indeed the cache. Tonight, we took along a tool to open it and - voila - the smallest lookbook in our history.
What a beautiful cache. Congratulations to zargfinder for making it!

Really good hiding spot! Quite tricky. First found geocache.

Wow, just wow!

Here with coffeegirl29 but to dark and couldn't find ... back in the daylight for another go

Nice camo!! Found with The Solomon Gang tftc

I was going to give up, because of so many muggles in here, but after some time I decided to pretend to be a nature fascinatist While talking dozen of pictures of everything nearby, I finally saw something odd TFTC
Fav point for this cache, cause it brought me to this beautiful beach!

A beautiful sunny day ! Perfect for geobiking along the coast.
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We found it quite quickly, we have already see this kind of cache during the day. very clever camo The view is amazing.
TFTC

It was hard and sneaky and somewhere we had already looked.

Went to see The Duke since we are frim Hawaii. I climb up the rock nectbti his statue.

A super windy day and my favourite cache thank you

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Couldn't find

Super cool camo. We really enjoyed this cache. Dismissed the hiding place initially, but went back for a second look and there it was!

Great cache. Needed a tool to open it
Tftc

Great cache container. Awesome location and views. TFTC zargfinders

Very lovely

Found something we think was the cache but no logbook found within. Maybe we just couldn't open it. Had fun in the rain anyway

Given the recent DNF, decided to check on this cache during my morning walk. Cache was indeed there - though hadn't been replaced correctly, so repositioned it.

Cache is ready and waiting to be found.

When we saw it was by the Zargfinders we thought it would be good and we weren't disappointed, it was great . TFTC fav point

A great hide

Have it a good shot but no luck today

I'd been going to attempt this one quite some time back, but there were a couple of muggles right on top of GZ so I walked further down the path and waited for them to move off. They did, but before I could get back, a busload of seniors pulled up and they all set up camp there. I did take a quick look as I went past, though, and thought I saw what the cache's camo was.

With today's heat, I decided the harbour might be a good place to be, and when the southerly arrived around lunch time I wandered from the Manly ferry wharf up to the cache. It must have been too windy for muggles, for I had the place pretty much to myself. My previous guess for the camo turned out to be right, but the ends of the bushes where they've been trimmed back are razor sharp and I gave myself quite a gash on the arm when retrieving it.

Of course, nothing ever quite goes to plan. After extracting the logbook, I went to sign it, only to find there was no pen in my backpack, so I put it all back and wandered off in search of a pen shop, eventually finding a supermarket way down in Albert Street. Pen bought, I returned, the only muggle being a woman sunbathing face-down on the far seat so I was able to very carefully extract the cache again and sign the log. Yay! At least I got plenty of exercise today.

Many thanks for the hide, glad to have been able to finally tick this one off.

TFTC

Great camo TFTC

What a camo. TFTC. Love these cheeky ones!
-Regards: CacheSnatchers

Replaced log sheet today so plenty of space for many more finders!

Wonderful camo - seems we are slowly improving in our geo-sensing as it didn't take too long Tftc

Next to find be aware the cache log is full, you may squeeze your signing in somewhere. I have contacted owner to replace.

#59
WOW!!! After trying to use stealth with searching the area and coming up empty handed in a few hiding places I saw something a little odd but not totally out of place.
Absolutely awesome cache, two thumbs up one of my favourites.
TFTC??

GREAT CACHE TFTC

Excellent cache one of the best
TFTC

We think we found the spot but no special tool to extract. Or maybe we were in the wrong spot!

Just as we were walking away ready to log a dnf I just tried one more unlikely spot, and bingo! Well done on the hide, TFTC.

TFTC.

Super super sneaky hide,

First visit to Australia, visiting our oldest daughter who lives in St Ives, Sydney. What a wonderful country! We are having the most beautiful weather. Reminds us of South Africa, our homeland.

Thank you for the cache and bringing this wonderful place to our attention.
Such a beautiful area.
Thanks for the adventure and the totally creative epically setup well organised.

A picture is worth a thousand words - confucius

Best regards ...
Greetings from South Africa.

Many thx
Joined strandlopers w&e

I don't think I would have found it by my self needed hubbies logic

Another clever hiding spot! Past clues are helpful.

Great camo. A reminder to expect the unexpected. TFTC

Awesome cache. Was not expecting the find. We spent a while looking, thinking that it was somewhere else. TFTC
Cache: #58

I got confused by the other logs. Something distracted me. It's hard to get the clue as a foreigner. But after I found it, the clue made sense. Wonderful!

Fantastic cache!! Cold winters afternoon, still a magical view. TFTC.

TFTC great concept, stealth required as had to wait for breaks between groups of whale watchers.

Very small and sneaky hiding place

Super camo, beatiful view

Tftc!

Got distracted by something I thought was the cache. Got there in the end. Tftc

Great views and super camo! TFTC zargfinders!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

enjoying the view with Connie the Crab #21

Checked on the cache today and it wasn't too bad. Cache was easy to open but added a bit of lubrication anyway since we were there. The cache note is quite soiled and the log sheet is a bit dirty, but it's still easy to write on, so we left them as is.

Took me 1.5 hrs to fjnd it and was about to give up but then wooohaaa!! Found it. Very well camouflaged! I have to say this is the best cache I have ever discovered. TFTC!

We found it FINALLY!! Saw this last time here & didn't think to move it. I dismissed once as I couldn't budge it. Very hard to open. Lucky geo husband persevered. Needs cleaning & a bit of lubrication.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Came back after some time for a quick easy find. TFTC.

Came back after some time for a quick easy find. TFTC.

Found! Nice camo

On a company event at the beach and introduced a colleague to geocaching with this cache. Didn't bring a pen but took a photo. TFTC!