Coastal Walk #2A: Miners Beach South Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
By LHBfans on 02-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3A6AM

Second cache along our afternoon coastal walk, was treated to some spectacular birdlife along the path to this one. Took a while to locate the cache, well hidden, but as always; trust the coordinates. After replacing the cache, a magpie and a goanna picked a fight. We think the magpie came out on top.

Replaced rusted-out cache. All good to go now.

I will check this one soon.

No luck. If there was a wire that broke I can't see it

Tftc. The container was found easily but pulling on the wire and it came away from tube. Very corroded. Will need a new attachment. Put it back in its position.

TFTC went low tech and tuned in with the wire with red_ear_slider

Fun find with Portstevo, tftc, onwards on our coastal walk!

#5808
After a few years nibbling around the edges, we decided we needed to complete the fantastic Coastal Walk today. We were dropped off at the lighthouse, and walked up to John Downes Park.
We dropped in at the published coordinates yesterday, so had this one pre-solved for today.
There were a bunch of muggles not far from GZ, but as we approached they all moved off, for once. We followed the GPS, spotted Steve, then Samuel spotted the cache, hidden? in plain sight!
TFTC!

Solved this one and made our way along the beach before we arrived at GZ, after a bit of searching the area, we checked the hint, which led to nothing. After a bit of searching the area for the container, I put my hand in a spot I hadn't checked yet, and after a bit of digging through the sand I found the cache, SL and rehid it, not buried this time

TFTC

Found with laura001994.
Took us a while especially with the amount of muggles around but we weren’t giving up after walking this far tftc

Had a bit of a moment and there were many muggles but found it In the end ️

#5938.
We decided to take on this part of the coastal walk early on a beautiful morning. The coordinates were quickly calculated and then we set off on the beautiful trail. We spotted a monitor lizard on our way down. It took us a while to locate the well hidden container. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find. FP awarded.

Took a while to find. Thrill when I got it.

Found today after a little bit of help from the CO, and a DNF yesterday. I must be blind. TFTC

No luck here today

Took a little bit of searching to find even though it was sort of hidden how we expected it to be hidden.
Coords great for us too
Lovrly stroll
TFTC

Great little cache! TYFTC

Love this beach albeit a few nudie people around. Kids weren't phased seeing them. So happy for the find TFTC. We are attempting several caches along the coastal walk... this was our second find for the day.

Beautiful walk along the coast this morning. Lots of active whales. Love living in Port Macquarie! Thanks for this series

Found at 12:21:00 PM

Two from two. Gotta be happy with this. The coordinates were spot on which made finding the cache easy.

Thanks LHBfans

Found with SJG66 on a 4 day stay in PMQ, today we walked the coastal walk from Tacking Point back to the breakwall where we were staying. Thanks to all the CO's who have placed and maintained caches in this area, it made our stay very enjoyable.

Found with O319 on our walk from the lighthouse back to town beach.

Checked today. All good.

Another lovely section on this coastal walk "Sneaky" is an understatement for this hideout. It took at least 20 minutes to find despite spot on coords

Admittedly a non-exhaustive search today as Geokids 3 and 5 had been walking for over 5km but no luck. Close to home, will be back!

Thanks for the lovely walk!

An early start and no problem gather the info which plotted to a likely spot. We saw a goanna at the start who slowly moved off. A few locations to divert our eyes along the beach and then onto GZ where we took too long to make the find. We added our initials and re hid. TFTC.

A nice easy find TFTC

Well that was an adventure! We are visiting Port Macquarie on our Brizzy to Victoria road and this morning decided to walk from Tacking Point Lighthouse. It was very windy but we held onto our hats and made our way along the lovely coastline.

We made it to the first waypoint, gathered the appropriate info and were about to head off to GZ when it started to rain. Bummer! Dripping, we headed back to the car and drove to a more suitable location to get to the final. We’d encountered some other cachers out and about this morning and they had said to us that this one was tricky - I had other words for it after searching for about half an hour!

I had a bit of an idea of what to look for and I certainly wanted to find it sooner rather than later - my phone battery was down to 7% and rapidly losing power. My muggle friend Narelle and I looked EVERYWHERE. A passing muggle even asked if we were okay but we said we were fine. I was about to give up, when I noticed something that made me very happy. Within 2 seconds I had the sneaky cache in my hand. Phew!

I loved the location and frustration of this cache. TFTC LHBfans and for bringing us to a lovely spot

It took a while until I could find the little cache... It's a nice hinding place. Thanks a lot for the cache!

Nice adventure, clever hide! TFTC

Liked it and it was well hidden. TFTC

In Port for a holiday and the little one went back to the accommadation with nan and pop for a nap. So the wife and i went to find a few caches in this area and go for some walks along the coastal track. I left the wife at a nearby seat and i continued onto this one. A quick find considering the number of hiding palces it could have been. TFTC

Had to backtrack a bit because of Geodad being overconfident, but lucky it's a nice section to walk twice. Enjoying this series alot.

Took a while but found it with clue!

High surf today, cache in good shape tfth

We have travelled up from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Port Macquarie for our annual summer holiday, camping in our Jayco Swan Outback camper trailer at the Breakwall (Sundowner) Holiday Park. Today we went for a drive down to Lake Cathie and returned via Lighthouse Beach, collecting caches in the areas we passed through along the way. This was our 21st find of the day, and 92nd find of the holiday.

After gathering the required info from WP1 we set off along the walking track toward GZ. This was one of the longer stretches of the coastal walkway we have traversed and it covered various terrain types including some steep climbs and a sandy beach.

Arrived at GZ and started the search. Looked in various spots before spotting the hide and having CIH. Signed the log sheet then replaced as found. And with CW2A now done it only leaves CW9 left to complete the series. TFTC LHBfans.

Find #2183

After two years of searching each time we come to Port Macquarie for our holidays I finally found this cache. There was no whale carcass here but high risk of white pointers. In the end it was a little disappointing as it eas lying out in full sight. Buried again for next cachers enjoyment. Thanks for this cache and the challenge it has been over the last 3 annual visits to Port. Now to continue the rest of the series...

Have had the coords for this one for a while but never had the time. So coords in the phone and headed off towards the cache the beach was very empty only people walking as there was a increased risk of sharks in the area due to a recently beached whale. Cache was a good find and with a quick climb of a nearby rock found a sleeping snake on top and backed out carefully so as not to disturb then just the slow walk home TFTC

Easy find at GZ. Few clothing optional people around today. TFTC

More difficult than it should have been, found it eventually, enjoyable walk...TFTC

We are currently on a break from winter in Victoria and have taken the opportunity to check out lots of lovely places on the north coast of NSW. We got as far north as Coffs Harbour before turning for our very leisurely drive back home, stopping every 50 km or so and taking the opportunity to grab as many caches as possible as we go. The beautiful warm weather has returned after a few cool and windy days.
This section of the Coastal Trail was different to the first, but no less spectacular today. The scenery was outstanding but the whales were putting on a show with breaching and fluking. Even more could be seen blowing! Then we saw a big bluetongue lizard sunning itself on the track.
We reached GZ and began to search in all the typical places but it was Mrs SKI who spotted it and was able to retrieve it from the boardwalk. A very well camoed cache.
On to the next!
TFTC

This was one of many coastal walk multis we had worked out already but had not got the time or weather to make the walk to, but today we cleared up all our solved walks and grabbed a few others on the way too. A lovely walk around the headland to this secluded beach. Picturesque coastlines again. TFTC. A quick find.

In the company of pprass, we just got back from doing the new caches around Laurieton, bonny Hills and Kempsey. I thought, why we are on a roll I might as well do this multi, the last one I needed. Yippee, I have now finished all of the coastal walk caches. Great series of caches, TFTC LHBfans it's only taken me nearly two years to do it haha.

On a nice afternoon after a rainy morning I did this one. As I was expecting more rain, I had the car with me and decided to grab it from the other side. TFTC

An afternoon walk along the coast picking up a few caches and some great views.
Was a bit concerned over the distance to this one but the sums worked out. At GZ F spotted it first.
Good to add a mult to my finds
Thanks for hiding here
R

Nice beach walk to reach this one. Located the sneaky hide after a short search. Thanks for the cache.

Once again in Port Macquarie and attempted to find this cache. Over an hour searching on two occasions but this one has eluded me again. Coordinates check out but the cache is very well hidden. Have to wait another 18 months till I'm back this way again!

Nice hide. Good walk.
Greetings from Wales (Cymru)
TFTC

Very clever cache in a great location. Although we had to time our visit (with a 9 year old ) to avoid any wrinkly surprises

We did a maintenance run along the Coastal Walk series today. Log replaced here and all good to go.

The lovely walk continues. Less trouble with the maths on this one. Found by the smallest M in our team. Time for lunch! Where are those whales hiding?...

Good starting for a 9 km morning walk.
Weather seems to have cleared out and dried out most of the walk.

Cheers

Thought I was Robinson Crusoe as en didn't work,had to scratch name on last page,log needs replacing as seems full,tftc and the auto sum

Cache location was being well guarded by a sunbather of the minimally clad type. Hopefully will get time to try again

Gps not working. Searched high n low easy peasy when i found it tftc. Sandy all over lol

TFTC,easy find, good spot, i walk along here often, wearing at least shorts i might add. Another camo bison tube, just like my 5 hidden around Port Mac, we have the same taste in cache's.

Thanks for your note opa-shrek and I have adjusted the description accordingly.

I'm on holidays here in Port and this morning, decided to head down to Shelley Beach to do the Miners Beach section of the CO's Coastal Walk series before it got too warm. And I must say it was a very pleasant walk up and over the hill and along the beach. Stopping for #2B along the way, I saw there was just one naturist doing his thing on the beach below, so was then able to traverse the beach below without any uncomfortable moments. Once at GZ, a short systematic search of the area soon revealed the cache hidden away in much the fashion I had expected after taking advantage of the hint.

Thanks for the walk LHBfans and for placing caches here in beautiful surrounds.

I forgot to put in my log that the sign headed "Miners Beach Warning" near the posted coordinates is no longer concealed by vegetation and can clearly be seen. I guess NPWS has recently done a bit of clearing at the beginning of the track.

The original approval for the placement of this cache in the Sea Acres National park was extended by NPWS on 11 Jan 2016 and is valid for 5 years until 12 Jan 2021.

Another great walk and more awesome views! Kids loved climbing on the rocks and exploring. Only saw a few "naturalists" on the beaches...
Initially we didn't add one of our numbers correctly and pointed to an area which didn't seem quite right - checked our sums and realised the error. After a small search we made the find! Thanks again!!

Had the co-ords for this one worked out at home from photos we had taken of the signs, as we weren't quite sure which one was the right one.Enjoyed the puzzle and the adventure of finding the actual cache, glorious day in Port and wonderful ocean views, thanks for another great cache in this series.

Found with Bellies5

Found with bellies5

Found it TFTC

We checked out this cache today and it is still nicely in place despite three recent DNFs. Maybe the data was not collected correctly as the sign to be inspected has become a little overgrown. The instructions have been changed to make it clearer which sign you are to find. I have also added checksum information and recommend you do the calculation at the start of the track, and verify your calculation of the final coordinates against the checksum, to avoid disappointment later.

Looked for ages but couldn't find it

Had a really good look for about 20 mins but couldn't locate it.

Sadly time beat us. Worth the walk though.

TFTC

After working on Pprass's new caravan for the last 2 days, he took us out to find
some caches in the area.

Found the information, did the calculations, and enjoyed the walk to the cache.
Located the cache, after a short search.
Many thanks for placing this cache, LHBfans, for us and others to find.

Health check today; all OK and log replaced.

This is the second day of our holiday in Port Macquarie and with a cool day forecast, we decided to tackle a few of the nearby multis with the odd traditional thrown into the mix. We spent the day mostly walking along part of the coastal track, before finishing off the afternoon at the Koala Hospital and Roto House.

We had bit of a maths failure initially but soon realised our mistake when our GPS pointed us toward the middle of the dunes. After checking our numbers and then realising there was a checksum on the page, we soon had the error amended and continued to the real ground zero. Once at the correct location we spied the tell tale sign almost immediately. All was good with the cache. Thank you for having placed the cache LHBfans

Bit of a hike to this one...great views though (and i dont meant the muggles on this particular beach, ha)...thanks for the fun LHBfans

Found with earthly65 and brad1987 on our caching long weekend in Port Macquarie....TFTC

Day 2 of our caching weekend in Port. Found with earthly and robbieracer. Spotted really quickly after our stoll across the nudist beach

After a bit of searching we found it! Beautiful walk down to the beach on both ends of the trail, be prepared for a walk!
Left a sheet of stickers

Sorry previous log was on the wrong cache!!!!!!

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there LHBfans. We found your cache "Coastal Walk #2A: Miners Beach South" at 9:31:00 AM today,. This cache makes our find count 9904.
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We are trying to log at least one cache every day, so we can add to our streak of "Most Consecutive Days Cached", which we started on New Years Day 2014. Our route today took us to and past some really wonderful & scenic locations.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trek today. (Please excuse our boilerplate logs though.)
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks for the hunt today,
Regards
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Whew near the end of this lovely walk. Got muggled by a British tourist while we were collecting the information. He hung around to find out what we were up to so we had a good chat. The co-0rds weren't leading us nowhere useful, so after a while we said we were giving up and he left. One last go with the GPS back in the pocket and using caching instincts we found it. Geopartner had had his hand on the cache earlier, but didn't tug hard enough. Loving this walk. Thanx

Re did the maths after contacting the C.O & headed down to my newly calculated GZ & made a quick find, co-ords were spot on, last time it was simply a case of me stuffing up the maths (silly me). Nonetheless this is a really good hide, it took a few minutes to find the cleverly hidden cache & the clue made perfect sense.
TNLN, SL
TFTC LHBfans .......loved the walk & the scenery,
Cheers from CATONY

Did the maths after finding the required info & went to my calculated GZ but no luck, maybe I had a bit of "cache blindness" today. Loving the walk to all these caches along the coast.
Cheers from CATONY.

A very pretty section of the walk. A few nudists on the beach today. SL TFTC

This year we have a long winter holiday when we are travelling in the Pacific. We are doing sightseeing and geocaching. Now we will spend a six week period in Australia where we will drive from Melbourne to Murray Bridge and then via Grampians to Canberra, Sidney and Brisbane.

While staying in Port Macquarie for some days we decdied to do the Coastal Walk today. We started from our motel at 7.15 in the morning. We took the bus to Lighthouse Beach. The start was not good, we went off the bus too early and then took the wrong way. Finally we were at the start of the walk and for the cache serie. It was a beautiful walk with lot of really great views. We liked the first part of the walk best with all the amazing beaches and the sound of the ocean while walking. It took us 9 hours slowly walk including breaks before we were "home" again. We logged all the caches in the Coastal Walk serie and also a few other along the way. It was a sunny day with clear blue sky but in the sun it was too hot.

We liked the serie where some of the caches gave us brain excercise and some of them gave us a hard work when searching for the cache. Some of the hints were brilliant. We give the caches we liked best a fp. However we think that the D-rating is a bit low for some of the best camo caches.

Sorry for the copy and paste log.


Thanks for a great serie. Greetings from Sweden / Geparderna

We have tired to find this one a couple of things but every time we went for the cache container we have encountered a man with his jewels on display.
Today there were a lot of walkers but all were dressed.
Thanks LHBfans loved the view the water looked great

Found whilst caching with Lightsaberlodge
Loved the water
Thanks

Always excited to find the cache and this was another clever urban style one. TFTC!

After working out the co-ordinates the day before on a way back from the Lighthouse, I attempted this with Phatt.
Low cloud, blustery conditions, muggles wandering through, dark coming on and a GPS that was saying 6m in all directions, we had to give it away for the day. It was pretty dark anyway when we got back to the vehicle.

We will be back to attempt this another day when there is a little more daylight.

Another day,
another caching expedition
This time by foot !!
Yes dear readers, I have abandoned the push bike in favour of shanks pony to mop up some unfound caches

This bit of the Coastal Walk is a bit less muggly than the rest, but the sort of muggles you meet are a bit more eclectic than at the other caches in the series.
Along this lonely stretch of beach and headlands, it seems that there are way too many male muggles in their 'forties' or 'fifties' who for some reason or another have to congregate here and wander around naked [:o]

Well that at least explains the warning signs at the ends of the walk about calling the police about harassment on the walk [:o]

Trying hard to ignore the weirdo wandering past I continued my search for the cache at GZ.
Damned if I could find it [:o]
I persisted and between the random passings of muggles with their clothes on, I finally spotted the all too obvious cache
Cache blindness strikes again !!

TFTC and excuse to wander along the spectacular Port Macquarie coastline [^]

Effective 1 October, the caches in the Coastal Walk series will be renumbered. #1 remains the same; #2A is now just #2; #2B is now #3 and old #3 to old #9 become new #4 to new #10 respectively. I mention this so that if you are relying on posts made by previous cachers for information, the numbering they wrote about may be one off. I’m going through tidying up all the cache descriptions too, just to keep them fresh. Happy hunting.

Ok this tool way longer then it should've don't realise the minutes were going to change in this series... 20min search with little reception and we finally got it!! 2 down

A lovely early morning walk for us. Enjoyed watching a whale too. Bit tricky but we came up with the goods in the end. Even at 6 am there was a steady flow of muggles passing as we looked! TFTC and lovely walk...eatmorchikin & Stigglepot, Brisbane

Found on our afternoon constitutional in Shelley Beach area.

Nice walk on our way from the lighthouse. TFTC

Nobody around the whole area, we felt like Robinson Crusoe ... until the jet boat of thrill seekers shot across the water. TFTC LHBfans

Looooooong walk with the kids, but got there eventually.

Blustery day co ordinates wandering good view

1000 GAFF3 Had me 'going there' for a while. Glad I had the cache sheet with me. (And as mentioned on #2B, which I got before this one, HIGH tide can make a difference in the access.
I was a bit distracted while looking for this, as there was a very friendly wolf spider, who was playing 'Tag, you're it!' with the stick I was using to poke in different corners. Gave me quite a fright the first time he lunged at it
TFTCseries LHBfans.

Been to Port so may times but never been down to these beautiful beaches.