PTPT #17 Black Cockies Wellington Park, Tasmania, Australia
By MakkyBrown on 28-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3BKBZ

TFTC JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans living in Tassie GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it

Thanks for this, long weekend walk with the kids

I love the extra info in these PTPT caches! Great effort, much appreciated. This was a very quick find. TFTC and TFTS!

A day out conquering the dragons lair. TFTC a fun addition to a great place to get out and explore.

All good here as we make our way to the dragons lair. Tftc

No cockies, but massive black caterpillar ! Thanks

Nice quick find on the way out from the dragon's lair. Cache in good condition. Thanks MakkyBrown

Quick easy find. Out for a walk today and picked up a few easy caches along the way.

We forgot to bring a pen with us took a pic of cache but don’t want to leave spoilers. TFTC

Thanks!

Foundd

Found at 12:08. No black cockies to signal bad weather.

Nice and easy
TFTC!

5th find of the day. Good walk.

Gorgeous day for a walk and thought it was time we came back and grabbed some of these. Quick find. TFTC.

Nice quick find. Amusing note in tye log before Mr (I think it was at this cache, logging a few days after find) I wonder if this person has now joined tye caching club??!

On the cool and windy but dry day of Monday, 6 September 2021, i decided to finish off this most fun trail with the best views through the trees ever and on a very friendly and well maintained track [^]
PTPT #17 Black Cockies, was found and it's log was signed at 11:27.

As i was SL, two Parks and Wildlife workers were driving up this track to tend a fallen tree near the hide "Dark and Gloomy". They stopped and chatted for a bit, being friendly people, like all Tasmanians [^]
I mentioned about the tree and how it was lying over the road etc... A few laughs were had and then they were off to clear the track

The cache and contents were good and dry.
TFTC MakkyBrown

TFTC. NICE.

Found him. Many thanks.

Tftc Makkybrown. Cache and contents in good condition.

Geo sister found this one didn’t take long.

Tucked under rock!

TFTC didn’t have pen so photo to prove

It became somewhat of a challenge to discover the hide with out the aid of my phone as i was nearing gz.
This one was super easy, with the large stone right beside the path quite obviously burying something upon it.
I've seen black cockatoos most times i've been out on the mountain, they must live here permanently.
Thanks makkybrown for adding to the ptpt series!
Sorry for taking so long to log them!

Nice and easy. TFTC

great cairn

TFTC,
On my way to Dragons Lair Event.
Thanks again,
KingSmev

GZ very easy to spot on the approach. A busy day with joggers passing by. TFTC!

Today gridge98 and I headed to the Hobart to do the PTPT trail and collect a few other caches along the way. A great day out, this cache was found along the way.
Apologies for the late and generic log.
Thanks for the cache

Today Nettieknows and I headed to Hobart with the MTBs to hit up the pipeline cache trail. We had a lot of difficulty early on finding every second cache then managed to find all of the in the second half. Overall a great day out with 23 finds

TFTC

TFTC

Very quickly spotted by TaurusSix

Great hint easy find nice size.

Set of on this cache Journey along the PTPT track, what a great easy track to walk. It was a busy track with many runners and push bike riders at the start of the track but once I got to the hut then I didn't see another person. Just the time out I needed. I relied on the hits a lot as the GPS wasn't great tree coverage and a overcast day. With 18 Finds, 7 DNF, 2 not attempted due to difficulty and 3 along the trail that had been archived. Thanks to all the CO that have placed caches along the way.

Found Took fly toy left 2 poker chips and red D6.

TFTC found with rachb

Found with c@chetracker TFTC

Found! TFTC.

Today we decided to collect a number of caches in Wellington Park with a route taking us along the pipeline, to Wellington Falls, up Mt Montagu, across the Montagu Thumbs to Cathedral Rock and back down to the pipeline. 27km and 9h of hiking, it was tough but the views and the caches were worth it.
The hint helped us find this one pretty easily. TFTC

Today we are in the area from Mt Wellington.
Here we wanted to make the serie from the pipe trail.
This was an wonderful path with excellent caches. We must not search too far in the bush and mostly we find them very quick. Also the hints was great.
Two container we give a new logbook. By the Nr. 22 we end our tour, because the wether changed.
We had a lot of fun and we give for the first and the last cache from our trail an thick point.
Thank you for the caches and greetings from Germany send Moorhelmi

Had a great walk along the Pipe Line Track. The weather was cold and wet and the fog was heavy all day so no view but that didn’t stop us from thoroughly enjoying our day.

The GPS was struggling under the thick canopy so we relied heavily on the hints.

Thanks to all the COs who have placed caches along this track.

Coming down to Hobart to visit the newly relocated Hancock Clan, we needed to decide on a good target for the day. The Dragon’s Lair looked right up out alley, so we walked the majority of the powertrail to reach it. A few DNFs along the way, but a great place for a power trail.

The gps signal was highly dodgy in places, so the hints came in very handy indeed!

Please excuse the generic logs.

TFTC

An enjoyable day out caching with Delloro who was staying with us for the weekend. The target for the day was The Dragon's Lair and it was a nice bonus to have this trail of caches to find en route! TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Nice

Tassie Trip Day 107 - Today was a good day for a ride on the bike and after deciding to do the Pipeline Track it was finding a place to park and found somewere that was ok but not the correct spot but alas I went on my way and the track was started.

Making my way further along the track and noticing the sky changing as those fires in the west affect the sky today it was another successful stop and a quick find and again proceeded further along the track.

Thanks MakkyBrown for bring us here and adding to this wonderful power trail in what is a lovely area to ride a bike and enjoy the track.

16th of the day... looking forward to finding the rest

Out on a cold morning to get a few of the pipe line track ones. TFTC

Found on our dragon lair adventure with tas32.
No:18

Kinda rode pass it a little. But found in the end.

TFTC

Eighteenth cache with HATGILLIE on our dragons lair geocaching day.

found it without looking for it TFTC

No shortage of black cockies in Taswegia
They make a lovely noise as they fly around
But watch out when a flock settles down for a feed near your campsite early morning !! [:o]
There is always a 'sentry' keeping a lookout for danger.
And the noise that one cockie makes is really, really, really, really .... annoying

TFTC.

No cockatoos but a black fly toy in the tub

Found.
From NZ.

18 February 2018 19:56

TFTC MakkyBrown

TFTC! Gotcha, next...

I was able to see the cache from the distance, si made sure it was covered a little better when I left. TFTC

Another one bites the dust

Another cache on my bike-ride power caching day. I got close to GZ and started looking (leaving the GPS on the bike). Came up empty handed and went back to the bike to discover I had been a bit keen and was now 15m away from GZ! Moved along the track and found the cache easily! TFTC

Didnt see any cockies here today but saw a snske lazing about. Not my greatest find for the day.

MakkyBrown thank you for the cache.

Out on a days caching with EeePees and Lil Rafa

A nice quick find.

Found at 5:29:00 PM
**TFTC**

A small cairn, but one no less. Thanks for the cache

Hi MakkyBrown, thanks for this cache. No black cockies seen right here, but we did hear some earlier this morning whilst on the WellingtonFalls walking track.
Found on a big day out with jnr ep, Lil Rafa and AlbyDangles as we cycled back down the PTPT.
#530 @ 1730hrs Saturday 25th March 2017.

Read more on EeePees' day here: [Hyperlink](https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=7effb3f9-377a-4f27-9f37-3ebe940d1d25#)

Twenyfirst stop on a very long day of geocaching, with a little bit of dragonslaying thrown in for good measure, with EeePees, jnr EeePees and AlbyDangles. Nice easy find thanks to the hint. Thanks for the cache MakkyBrown.

Good description.

This was funny one before we even got here, upon looking at the next cache back at Day of the Dragon we were informed that the next cache was call Black Cock and it was only when one of us looked on a smart phone that it was in fact Black Cockies! And would you know it it was at this cache where spotted a baby tiger snake as we searched for the cache.

Now I hate copy and paste logs with a passion on my caches but today I am going to do the same, so how do I justify this faux pas with myself you may ask? Well its a power trail and even with all the caches being just a little bit different but all at the side of the trail it was starting to be all a bit the same (ride for a few moments search for a cache ride on) but having been planning to do this series for a few years now I was glad to be asked to join the group today by Goose of Goose and Egg, it was Bear of Smiley Bears idea to start with so its all his fault. I have been up this trail a couple of times before, once to the JABs Event '4 K a milestone of Stories' where I walked up the trail on my lonesome since the original planned event had to be changed due to JABs having other commitments on the day, the second time was another event 'Dragonology Picnic Party Event II' where I was surprised to get a lift to GZ and then after a great day finding the far caches of the trail and also the Dragon with the help of Swampy and his trusted helpers I got a lift part of the way down since the 4WD drivers had a spare seat and my feet were hurting more than I was prepared for.
So this time it was the bike ride to the top that I had spoken of to Mrs rat many an evening where we had said 'we will do that one day' so a big thanks has to go out to Bear and Goose for getting us to do it, we all know what 'we will do that one day' plans are dreams! Well today we had a dream come true with a great ride up the Pipeline with good company finding that provided that little push we needed to do this ride.
So to today's ride it was a 9.30 meet where we all turned up and got ourselves and our bikes together, after a bit of chat we headed up to hill with most of us pushing our bikes till the turn to the East, we rested here while myself and Bear headed off to look in on a nearby cache but with both of us getting the wrong idea and not wanting to hold up the whole group we headed back to the junction with not so much as a DNF as a DNL(Did Not Look) so it was 10.15 before we all got on our bikes and started up the trail.
This is when the static in my head started and everything rolled into a ball as we made our way up the side of the mountain enjoying the ride, the views and the caches. Having now done this trail three different ways I would say they all have there merits, driving had speed on its side, walking had the better views and the time to enjoy the sights and cycling is sort of the best of both worlds with us getting back down about 15.30. We are already planning at least two return trips to grab this cache or that.

Thanks to all the cachers who have hidden this fine trial, you have made for a great day out until next time.
Found on 24/01/2016 at 11:26:54 AM

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [url=http://coord.info/GC32Z5B]Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher[/url] By [url=http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795]Sven&Cup[/url]
Multi [url=http://coord.info/GCKGZ5]CoaledHearted[/url] By [url=http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663]CraigRat[/url]
Unknown [url=http://coord.info/GC1DVB0]Men In Black Holes[/url] By [url=http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045]SG-3[/url]
Letterbox [url=http://coord.info/GC5NCYM]Rolf's Letterbox[/url] By [url=http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842]membsec[/url]

We had been wanting to the Pipe Line Power Trail for a couple of years now but, for one reason or another, things had not come together nicely until today. Arrangements with smiley_bear and stainless-steel-rat (and Mrs Rat) were made and we met at the car park at Neika at around 0930 for our cycling adventure. The skies were overcast but it was still warm which made perfect weather.

The six of us had a fabulous day riding up to the weir (where we had out picnic lunch) and back, finding all the caches were looked for, thankfully no DNFs for us today. We returned to the car park around 1530 for a celebratory drink and the obligatory box of shapes.

Thank you to all the geocachers who have placed caches along this very scenic and somewhat historic track for us to find and enjoy. We are already discussing a return visit.

On the Garmins limited display, it was listed as 'black cock'! We were unsure what we were in for until we checked the smartphone and found the full name.
No trouble finding this one, we spotted the location easily. TFTC

A great day caching was had by our party of 6 (Goose and Egg, Mr & Mrs Rat and Smiley & Bear) with no DNFs. A bike ride up the pipeline track with perfect weather conditions. TFTC.

Travelling around Australia and spending a few months in Tasmania.

It was lunchtime before we set off with a plan to tackle some of the PTPT trail. Geobikes on the back we parked near Wallaby.

We arrived in the drizzling rain and decided to have our sandwiches before we set off. 12noon before we headed up the trail and in light drizzly rain. Over 4km we rode and bumped into about 7 muggles even though its a weekday.

We took lots of new logsheets but next to no new cache containers 'big mistake' but off we went for 5 hours before we returned to the geo cruiser.

The weather cleared and after 2 hours we actually saw some sun! Most caches were easy finds especially with the hint but some took an age! [xx(]

A fun afternoon. Cache was in good condition.

TFTC MakkyBrown

TFTC

Quick find. TFTC!

Seeing this lead to the Dragon's Lair we picked these up on the way back as the Lair was the main objective but nice to have some many caches in between to help deal with the distance. A few wet logs and a few of the micro tubes are cracked from being under rocks etc. Would have thought the T rating on some would have been certainly more than 1.5 due to the distance. TFTC. Thanks for the series.

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Friday, 03 April 2015 at 04:45:07 UTC.

Got about 4km down the track today before the weather and lack of appropriate wet weather gear made us turn back. TFTC

It was a huge walk for me to reach GZ after catching the bus to the Fern Tree tavern. Thanks again MakkyBrown for the cache and for showcasing this lovely track.

Our little group were heading for home after a successful mission to the Dragon's Lair. Seeing as the rest of the group had found most of the caches on the trail already, dabom81 and myself took off ahead to see how many we could conquer. After searching for the cache for a while we finally had the beasty in hand. We signed the log and then replaced the cache as it had been found.

Thanks for the cache MakkyBrown

Doing a numbers count before a milestone. Log to follow.

Whilst on a holiday visit in Tassie with IolantheK spending some time with membsec we made a beeline for the PLT after completing Dragons Lair we collected the caches all the way down the track to the road [^]
Nanos in the bush Argh!!!
Not the easiest find but we managed it [^]
The cache is dry and in good condition [^]
TFTC MakkyBrown

Got it

It was time for a nice stroll along the Pipeline Track, so Jimbo and I thought we'd grab as many caches as possible between "Wallaby" and the end of the track (just before the landslip area where the gate is usually locked). The weather was a bit unsettled, but it turned out to be much better than forecast. I really love this area, with all the wildlife and a few great views along the way.

Note to future cachers: All of the PTPT caches we found along this section are only 1-2m from the edge of the track, so you do not need to "go bush" to find them.

Easy find. Spotting rocks that don't look "naturally" placed is becoming easier now. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Escapee33 on Sunday, 16 March 2014 at 22:25:38 UTC.

Back to an easy one and I was happy to be able to leave a badge. TFTC. Angus the great GeoWestie assisted by grey nomad Carer Lis Brown en route from Bundaberg Qld to Perth WA via all of Tasmania.

Found with omaster on a walk along the track at Mt Wellington. Perfect day for it, really enjoyed the caches here. TFTC

Found with aeiral_tennille on a lovely walk on this trail in Beautiful weather. Most of the caches were in great condition. TFTC

Sweet, easy find tftc

Cache found quickly, thank you for this hike Return will be done in the rain Haha

Found it on an absolute cracker of a day, great walk up to Wellington falls. No black cockies unfortunately

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Found on a perfect winter's day. TFTC

Beautiful cold day, great enjoyed stroll on the easy pathway for PTPT series as long long way walked return for six hours.. Easy to find very well thanks

Found on a ride from Neika along the Pipeline Track. Thanks!

no cockies this time and thankfully no snow .. TFTC

Quick find on day 3 of Tassie Tour with Jyetara, quick find on a 13 km round trip up and down the trail.

Today was the third go at competing the PTPT series. All now found with the exception of one (PTPT Tiger Snake that currently has 8 consecutive "Didn't find it" log entries). We were in the area to visit Wellington Falls with Sue&Peter so it was very convenient to complete the PTPT series (almost).

Fortunately the cache was quickly found. Thanks MakkyBrown.

Found with Malitas, She was onto it but was scared to move things because of creepy crawlies. TFTC

Replaced cache with a larger container/log. Location of cache is about 50cm above were it was.

Hint has been updated to reflect slightly different location.

Log is full and didn't have a replacement, so next along could assist by installing a new one.

Appreciated the not too difficult hide. TFTC MakkyBrown

The pipeline track series was started November 2011 and, apart from a quick search for a few at the start, we had not got stuck into them. The best way we reckoned was to take the bikes, which had not been ridden for about 2 years, so they were dusted off and away we went. Things did not go as planned because we could not find the first one, nor the next one previously unfound. But after that finding them didn't prove too hard, but on the return ride Peter discovered his front tyre rapidly went down. The repair kit was opened but all that remained in the glue tube was air. An attempt to replace the tube failed because Peter did not have the strength to unbolt the nuts with his small shifter. Rather than push the bike the 6 kilometres back he decided to ride the bike and put up with the consequences.

The tally for the day was 25; easily our most for one day. We enjoyed the pipeline series and will go back for the one at Wellington Falls and put in a new PTPT cache. And also to search for the one we overlooked including on the GPS and who knows there may be another one or two put in by then.

This is a big effort as the bananas approach the 500 mark and a reconnaisence job was required to determine which one would be the significant one.
The dragons lair.
So up the mountain we go to discover how hard it can be.
This was No 492 and now B1 and B2 discover how dark it gets at night on these trails.

Found on a great afternoon walk with treefroggirl.

TFTC.

Found by Kangaroo Girlie... using the hint helped... TFTC

Didn't see any black Cockies, did see lots of black crows (disguise perhaps)

Quick easy find on what is probably one of the best day walks round Hobart, TFTC

Day 2 of our escape from the NT trip, seeking some relief from the tropical build up

The black cockies we have up in the NT are pretty cool with bright red in their tail feathers.

TFTC

Firstly, may I say, Horus, you are a grumpy old man!! Secondly, CraigRat, i'm hoping it was currawongs rather than kurrajongs!!

I also found myself being followed by a currawong to this cache. I think all the black cockies have migrated to my garden in Kingston!

Nice specific hint made this a quick find. TFTC!