HOWZAT!!! Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia
By
minigaf7 on 19-Dec-11. Waypoint GC39DDZ
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I have booked with my Doctor for a tetanus needle tomorrow.
This cache appears to have been placed by one of a group of kids that temporarily got the caching bug. They are complete rubbish. Silly containers, unreliable coords, not very enjoyable places to visit etc.
If CO is going to place more I would recommend loaning a GPSr from someone to at least get accurate coords and possibly visit a few more caches to get an understanding of the game. Finally, place in the presence of an adult who may be able to assist in all of this. No fun searching aimlessly for things such as kinder surprise containers. End of rant.
This cache appears to have been placed by one of a group of kids that temporarily got the caching bug. They are complete rubbish. Silly containers, unreliable coords, not very enjoyable places to visit etc.
If CO is going to place more I would recommend loaning a GPSr from someone to at least get accurate coords and possibly visit a few more caches to get an understanding of the game. Finally, place in the presence of an adult who may be able to assist in all of this. No fun searching aimlessly for things such as kinder surprise containers. End of rant.
Caching in helensburgh is now not on my to do list due to this run of caches that just are not accurate or not there.
Crappy location.. rusted ara, Dangerous for kids... DONT GO TO THIS ONE for you own safety...
Crappy location.. rusted ara, Dangerous for kids... DONT GO TO THIS ONE for you own safety...
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Second DNF on my first leap day caching! Second try today to find one!
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Second DNF on my first leap day caching! Second try today to find one!
Still pouring rain, 10 mins try, reading the logs back in the car! As they were all so awful and nasty, the second look was brief only, all under pouring rain, pretty wet to the skin! Grabbed a few snails, but better hurried off to the leap year event in Wollongong, at least to find that one! Damned, what was that biting me at the legs, back in the car: A leech!
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[green]The Arkaroo - who loves the mountains and the waters.[/green]
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Caching Team:
* The Arkaroo
Travel Bugs visited:
* Arkaroo's Treasure (TB38AN6)
* Blue Desert Drive (TB3ZQ7E)
This was pretty terrible. spiders and rust everywhere i thought i was going to die
Not a very rewarding/enjoyable find.
Also, Kinder Surprise containers are not waterproof!
Also, Kinder Surprise containers are not waterproof!
terrible place for a hide. broken the first rule of geocache placement: don't place it if it's not worth visiting. TFTC.
Yuck! The log is sopping wet and all those rusted sharp metal edges, and the long wet grass at the GZ makes this an unpleasant cache. Thanks anyway.
Almost a case for a tetanus shot after retrieving this one, but alas, managed with no blood drawn. Easy find... just need to look in the right place.
In the midst of the many after school/ work activities going on around the place, I managed to locate the cache after embarrassingly having to phone for assistance 
. TFTC!
. TFTC!Reperio at 1045.
Happened to pass by this one on the way to The Rats 10 year anniversary/ 6000th cache find event, and after a 5 min search, the cache was found. There was a game going on nearby, and did manage to hear a Howzat! during the search...but it was not out...so I guess that answers the question!
Gratias minigaf7.
Happened to pass by this one on the way to The Rats 10 year anniversary/ 6000th cache find event, and after a 5 min search, the cache was found. There was a game going on nearby, and did manage to hear a Howzat! during the search...but it was not out...so I guess that answers the question!
Gratias minigaf7.
Very good GPS reception. Very specific hint. Logs say it is very easy. We searched but could not find. Maybe needs to be checked.
Ok scratch that. Decided to search a bit longer. Finger managed to find it. Tftc
Grabbed this one just before the Helensburgh event. I'd have to agree that the coords were a bit off but Indiana's hint makes this rather easy.
The difficult could reduced to 2.
Thanks
The difficult could reduced to 2.
Thanks
A very quick find with The Rats and F@ on the way into the event. I think the difficulty level is more of a two star. The co-ords are a little out, but nothing dramatic. I doubt that this container will prove to be waterproof in the long term.
Cheers
Cheers
#12 I found it pretty easy but may be hard for others also the cache got muggled just after i was there funny that
44# found around 2 minutes
This entry was edited by mrwhiskers76 on Friday, 23 December 2011 at 02:39:36 UTC.
This entry was edited by mrwhiskers76 on Friday, 23 December 2011 at 02:39:36 UTC.
