012 - Mid North Coast Wander - Bird Tree Batar Creek, New South Wales, Australia
By Mid North Coast Mob on 30-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3P1A6

Find#2598Have been planning a trip up to Kempsey to have a look at the slim dusty series. After my birthday yesterday I wanted to grab these caches with Shaneo58 today. A beautiful walk on a rainy day Log and cache in great condition TFTC

Found with deni_f on our way up north. TFTC MNCM What a toothpick

Found with cullum68. Thank you for the cache

Parked just off trig Rd and walked round to the bird tree. We did this as part of a training walk with 20kg packs on as we are finishing off the bibbulum track in WA in October. Only 345km and we have completed the 1008km walk. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Out today exploring and always wanted to see this tree. Got mixed up with the hint with a log supporting the track. After find the hint made a quick find tftc

Streak Day #4005 - Out on a geocaching jaunt with Dave8153 and ws_cachers. Most were a quick find. TFTC

Found today with Dave8153 and Snoopy1976. TFTC

28/06/24This is find number: 9798Streak Day: 3116In the area this week and had some time to come out and find some of this series today. Found with Snoopy1976 and ws_cachers.Thanks to Mid North Coast Mob for placing and maintaining this cache.TFTC

TFTC. Quick find at GZ. OCW MF428.

While visiting the bird tree. We decoded to check if there were any arround and yep! #danimel

They is my 30 cash

Tftc it was fun

Great cache thank you

Beautiful walk good find

Tftc we did enjoy the drive and the photo opportunity.Tftc Paul and Lou travelling with Savannah from The Blue Mountains NSW.

GAP YEAR BIG LAP - PART 2: THE ROAD TRIP - Day 8 Back on track again after a slight detour back to fix something on our boat (which featured in Part 1 of our gap year trip last year) which is now on the hardstand for sale at Gold Coast. After staying in Grafton, then lunch in Kempsey, heading for Wingham tonight, this time we made sure we didn't miss the bird tree turn off. We had tried to approach from the forest tracks when camping at Coopernook a few days ago but it was too hard to figure out which track to take. Much easier with the highway sign but even then a bit vague near the end. The trees along the walk are amazing - really huge! No signs really indicating which was the "Bird Tree" but we guessed it must be the big one with all the dead limbs full of hollows that is inaccessible due to danger of being hit on the head. Looks like the warning sign has already received a hit from its own warning. Are all the hollows how it got the name of bird tree? A bit hard to see from this distance whether any hollows are occupied. Benaroon was really the more impressive & the cache was soon found with no-one else thankfully around. Under the edge of the track before the boardwalk, we were confused about the sleepers at first. Thanks for maintaining this huge series. It's been great to find just the small few we had time for while in the area. ^3745 @ 1425hTFTC Mid North Coast Mob ????

We always seem to ask "I wonder if there is a cache here" once we are out adventuring! And covered by tree tops!!

Driving between Brisbane and Sydney a lot Ive always seen this sign but never driven in. So glad I did! TFTC.

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

a short series up to the bird tree
beautiful forest
TFTC

WOW!
We are tiny, aren't we.
Thanks for the hint and
Thanks for the cache

Found during our June Long Weekend Geocaching Retreat (with the GR8 team)

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A GR8 adventure with seven other GR8 geo-mates, during our King’s Birthday Long Weekend Geocaching Retreat, as we drive the Mid North Coast Wander. Such beautiful country up here. What an effort to keep this series going for us to enjoy. Thank you to all involved.
Love the Bird Tree and all the others in the area.

Wow! Giant of the giants in this forest! SL as GR8. TFTC

It’s as per hint now, GR8 mob, On this kings birthday long weekend tour along the Mid North Coast Wander series, group find includes Team Canary, Brewmaker, EverestHigh, Calypso62, and ziggau.
A challenging series of 200 caches made fun with this group

Day 2 of our Mid-North Coast adventure with our GR8 mates.

A monster of a tree. TFTC

Day Two of the MNCW series with the team from Sydney (signed as GR8). Roads are rougher, but landscape is amazing and varied. The trees here are phenomenal, a real valley of the giants. So glad that these trees have been left in place.

Logged as GR8 for the Geocaching Retreat 8 cachers.

Magnificent trees on this walk. Cache returned to its rightful spot.

TFTC

Found on day out with family and friends

Found it

Sort of felt like something was going to jump out and bite my hand but it was an awesome hiding spot!

What an awesome area, cache found with GeordieRoger. Thanks for the cache

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With a trip planned for the Coorabakh National Park on Saturday for some geocaching, I took the chance to head up that way a day early, finding a few caches on the way.
A nice quick early morning find.
WOW this tree is awesome...and some of the other big boys...and even some of the stumps.
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Made it to this tree and the others around.
Plenty of fungi too.
Road up is surprisingly good.
Mrs Froglipz left an earring.
STL TFTC

TFTC Well that's a big tree.

Lovely rainforest walk to find this hidden gem

Good hiding spot

A great spot.

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Found it. What a great spot just. Also the log book was wet but you could still write on it with the led pencil provided.

Thought we would try and find one of the Brothers on our way back home from a day at Port Macquarie. Instead, we found this cache. Thanks MNCB

Great spot to look for geocache

Impressive tree and wonderful forest. Thanks for the cache Mid North Coast Mob.

Found on a lovely day out

Odd how caches become soaked like this one - PEOPLE PLEASE CLOSE THE LID FULLY AND MAKE SURE THE PLASTIC BAG IS NOT POKING OUT!!!

Found in the company of Key_Tat and Viper_101... found while out chasing the Wonder souvenirs... thanks for bringing us here. We might get this series finished one day... sorry for the copy/paste logs... TFTC.

Found in the company of Key_Tat and Tatt2squared... Thanks for placing all these caches, I like finding the trads. TFTC.

Found in the company of Tatt2squared and Viper_101... thanks for placing all these, had a lot of fun today finding caches and taking photos... TFTC.

The log is soaking wet and unsignable... sorry, don't have a new one sorry.

Easy find. Badly in need of new log. Completely soaked. Pic attached

Log soaked, unable to sign. Tftc

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity. Thank you for the information. We could not sign because of a very wet log.

Log is absolutely drenched. What a spot though. Thanks for the excuse to come and see the birds nest. Monster of a tree. TFTC

On this long weekend we started the Mid North Coast Wander series. We did only 47 caches in Middle brother NP and Coopernook state forest because of some car issues but we will be back to finish the series. We really enjoyed the track with some nice lookouts.
Thanks Mid North Coast Mob to bring us on this track and all the interesting place.
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At GZ quick found. Those trees are so big. It's just crazy to see that here. +1FP
We could signed the book, too wet !
TFTC

Found with Bek76 MDT79 and Gum62 TFTC

Found with Bek76 and 8Fam TFTC

Found with MDT79 and 8FAM TFTC

Pretty wet useless log book. Needs updating

Found tyftc. Having a week caching our way from newcastle to brisbane. Find #1/1546

Cache was open full of water and dirt

Tricky.

Log book soaked, unable to sign took photo instead.

On a bit of a holiday walkabout, no big caching plans, but decided on this one and gee it was a beautiful tree and surrounds. Thanks for bringing us here. Tftc

Wow! For years I’ve been driving along the highway seeing the sign to bird tree but never been up. So amazing!!
Tried to inscribe my name in the logbook but it is far too wet. Have pic for proof

Headed out here today to grab this fabulous cache. What huge trees. I have always seen the sign to this tree but never ventured here til today. The log book was wet but I wrote on the first page (couldn't turn any pages without ripping them off). Have a pic too if needed. TFTC

With the creation celebration promo on i was going to be struggling to find caches around home to get the required number of points. Then as a coincidence i had to travel north for work. So i looked at the map to find some high favourited caches on the way There were a few in this area that i stopped and grabbed on my travels. Log was soaked managed to sqrawl part of my name on the back page. TFTC.

Found it

TFTC, geokid got this one

Found

Lovely spot tftc

Beautiful spot

Found

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My way to 200 on a day! Log in details following with the last one.

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Now THAT is a serious bit of tree as are some of the neighbours [^] SL: TFTC

Fifth day into my journey North to Brisbane and I have collected my muggle friend who wanted to see the Bird Tree. A detour was made and after a very long time (much longer than it should have) I finally had the cache in hand and the log duly signed.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Found it
Tftc

When we stopped at the parking for the Bird Tree, there were two other cars there. We saw the occupants of one of the cars having a lovely picnic in this pleasant spot, and the people from the other car were just returning from a little walk and were about to leave. Thus, it looked like we would have the place to ourselves to conduct the search and have a look at the tree.

We took a leisurely stroll along the walking trail, following the compass towards GZ and taking in the sounds and fragrances of the forest. The forests here in Australia are more fragrant than most other forests I have walked in before -- great for the olfactory sense.

Eventually, the path led us down to a large tree with a boardwalk around it. How wonderful that this very large tree was spared and is now a place to bring people to admire it. There are also a few very large trees that survived logging in a previous century in the forests around Wilderness and Knysna on the Garden Route in the Western Cape in South Africa. The is specifically a "Large Tree" that can be viewed.

There were no birds to be seen in this tree today, though I suspect they are around at certain times, and that has given the tree its name.

I followed the suggestion in the hint and located the container. Shortly after signing and dropping off one of my signature small wire dogs we heard some voices, and noted another group of people coming down the hill. I quickly stowed the container and then had a better look at the large tree.

One of the members of the group explained to the others that the last time he had been here there had been lots and lots of noisy birds nesting in the tree. He was also a bit surprised that it was silent today.

On our way back to the car we came across another family who had a dog with them. I don't get it: there are clear signs that dogs are not allowed here, yet some people seem to think that the regulation doesn't apply to them for some reason. Not only do dogs pose a problem for the wildlife here, but this one was also seriously disturbing the peace with its incessant barking!

Found on a fun weekend. TFTC

Lovely walk to a beautiful old tree. Such a lovely spot TFTCSL

This is just a brilliant trail,this is what I've been saving all my favorite points for.send pictures to my brother in Sydney to make him jealous,he often caches with me for this sort of thing.TFTC

An enjoyable but very wet caching day today, picking up one of the remaining sections of the MNCW.
Gosh, that is one magnificent tree, fav point for location. Cache was found quickly and rehidden just in time before some muggles showed up.
Thanks for the cache Mid North Coast Mob

Loved this spot
A fav from me
Today I started this series completing just this first section of caches over Middle Brother Mtn.
The day was fantastic with great locations and some magnificent views seen along the way.
Im really looking forward to returning to this series soon
TFTC

ound while enjoying the north coast wander series. Tftc tnln

Spooky guarding by spiders

Found and put back in original spot

TFTC found with colemanclarkefamily

Thanks for sharing info on this tree as we were wondering about it’s name.

We started this series back to front from our earlier base in Wauchope, and now that we have moved on to stay in the Kendall Showgrounds we decided that it was time to start at the beginning. A scenic drive is a great way to explore bits of the countryside we wouldn't otherwise have visited, and it's great to pick up caches as we go.
Wow, what a magnificent giant. It's wonderful when you come across pockets of these incredible trees that have escaped the axemen.
TFTC TNLN

TFTC smile 3272# Out and about with miss millie geo dog

Out for a family caching day to boost our numbers. Started with brunch at bent on food then off we go. Tricky little bugger. Took us a while to locate but got it in the end.

Wow, that is some tree!

5306. Found with Relish64 while in the area. Another random sampling exercise for us with this series and a quick find, although this one was on the to do list.
Yep a very impressive tree!!!! and a tricky little hide.
TFTC.

A little tricky, bit found when I stopped and reread the clue. Beautiful old tree, thanks for placing this cache here, otherwise I may not of ever seen it.

Lovely drive coming back from camping at coopernook. Amazing tree, came out with nudge74 who just visited this time. TFTC