2nd of 50 Must See Places - PYRAMIDS OF GIZA Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Sol de lune on 20-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3Q0FZ

Well, the end has come. It has taken a little longer to get out and collect the caches, but today was the day.

A fun series that a few people managed to find. Number 1, Paris, was found the most - a total of 324 times, while number 38, Prague - was only found 231 times. Bit of a difference.

All caches, along with the attachment system, have been removed, with only one cache not found.

Thanks to all who visited the area and found the caches.....hope you enjoyed your walk/ride.

Another DNF. Searched high and low at GZ but nothing. Thanks anyway

Ty

2/50. Would love to see the Pyramids, it's on my must do list. TFTC

This entry was edited by lachhowarth on Sunday, 08 February 2015 at 01:46:36 UTC.

#4498 @0654
I learnt, via the Geocaching Canberra Facebook Group, that this series was soon to be archived, and therefore, became my #1 caching goal for this weekend. I parked near the first cache of this series and started out at 0645. I arrived back at the car at 1102 having completed the series, plus the extra one and another nearby cache. As I neared the end the temperatures were getting quite hot, and I welcomed each opportunity to be in the shade for a few seconds before moving on. Overall, well worth the effort as I'm planning on doing the Canberra100Challenge in March (just 50km for me). As I'm new to Canberra it was good to see more of the countryside, and the Australian fauna - just birds and insects today and a few Kangaroos.

I visited the Pyramids of Giza in 1989. I went on a camel ride there. At the turning point the guy demanded more money. I refused, so he started to lead me out into the desert. I made as if to jump off, and when he realised I would have done so, he turned around.

My tally of places visited so far is 1/50. TFTC.

3rd of the night so far, tftc

Did a suite of caches on the last day of the year along the 50 Must See Places power trail in an attempt to round out a middling year of geocaching - big plans for 2015, but not giving up on 2014 just yet! Met fellow cachers Liz and Bruce en passant and they were a team clearly destined for great things, particularly as they extended some cacher chivalry and dropped us back to our car on this warm Canberra day. Thanks for the set, we'll return one day and finish it off! TFTCs

With the end of the year looming and Brucie not needing too much of an excuse to push hard for our next major milestone the decision was made earlier in the week that if possible we would attempt this series to give us the numbers we needed. The day proved hotter than we expected but the walk was delightful. We did try a shortcut at one stage but ended up thwarted by a high fence. We saw one black snake, plenty of roos from extra large size to medium and lots of crickets. The hides were good and on most occasions we found them without any problem. A couple of the under rocks ones threw us till we read the hint. Happily I can say that many of the wonderful places on the list I have been fortunate enough to have visited in my many years of travel. A great series with a theme particularly close to our hearts [^][^] A few more caches were also found closeby to the series. Near the end of the trail we met up with a couple of Victorian cachers which was a lovely way to finish off. Thanks to Sol de lune for placing this cache.

I decided a while back it would be cool to hit 500 finds before the end of the year, but now just a few days out I found myself about 40 cache finds short. Time for a power trail ! Realistically, I have only two evenings to hit the mark - I'm still working during the break, and NYE is already spoken for. So I headed down to Coppins Crossing to give it my best shot. Luckily this evening was cool and being near the summer solstice, there was plenty of daylight left. I didn't hit the trail until about 1800 and was soon counting off the finds. I spotted a pattern in the way the caches were hidden which made the search a bit quicker - although not always easy. I think I found 25 in this run. I'll be back at it tomorrow - weather and opportunity hopefully permitting completion of this series. Thanks SDL for this series.

I did this entire series with my geomum and geodad. We started around 10 am and it was almost 5:00 pm by the time we got back to our geocar. All the caches were in good condition except for a few that weren’t hanging. When we first arrived at the start of the series we thought that it was not possible to do this series. We were going to turn back when we noticed the recent log entry the day before saying how it was possible to do this, so we decided to give it a go. It ended up being a bit of a disaster. We were forced to jump over one fence and had to turn back and come along the same path back to our geocar. It was not possible to do this as intended as we couldn’t find a trail from the last cache back to our starting point without being blocked by fencing, so we ended up having to cycle all the way back to the starting point. Maybe someone with local knowledge is aware of trails that are not on maps and can lay out a few waypoints to help other cachers.

I am 9 years old and I managed to do this series. So, while it’s possible, it’s a lot harder than it appears on the map due to the construction and the fencing. I think the only reason we were able to complete it is because it was during holidays and no one was working at the site. This trail is now more suited to our geofriends artemidorus1 and midmy7 who are regular cyclists.

Sorry for the cut and paste log. Thank you for placing this fantastic series of caches. Hopefully this series will not be lost to the construction.

Found the ENTIRE series today 1 through to 50 and then the extra one as well

I brought my bike down and started the ride at 9:30 am. I was not confident that I would find every cache in this series as due to the previous logs the nearby construction seems to have proved difficult for some people, and the series was talked about being archived a few months ago.

However to my surprise I did not have much trouble at all and found every cache in the series in about 4 hours

Thanks for this series, alot of work has gone into it. All caches seemed to be in good condition apart from a few that were missing their hooks and are no longer "Hanging" but they are all still at the correct coords.

Have barely been to any of these places as I am still quite young. So sorry I don't have much input Hopefully one day. (sorry for the generic logs)

Woo hoo, finally managed to complete this series

Great fi d tftc

Ventured down from Sydney to complete this great series with geo friends Bluewattle & Fit02, TFTC.

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Hoped to find the series in order but we missed Paris. Onward and upward

We hope to be able to see Pyramids of Giza one time as well.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic!

Been wanting to do this series for a month or 2 since sum bloke and gumby mac alerted me to the fact the cache series was to be decommissioned due to redevelopment of the area. Went yesterday with geo teenage daughter and her friend _JLM__ . Unfortunately we cannot comment on the 50 gorgeous places around the world as none of us have been to these locations. However Stromlo was fantastic. Pity it is being redeveloped. Perfect to ride your bikes and enjoy some beautiful bush land in a part of Canberra I haven't been walking/riding in. Unfortunately my two companions didn't have much stamina and we were on time constraints so only did first 5. I will see if can enlist some other geo friends with a little more staying power and allow a day for a picnic and a lovely bike ride through the wilderness before it is bull dozed. Thanks very much for the cache, a lot of fun

Good find on a day out with my best friend

pleasant (insert the word exertion somewhere here) day spent geocaching with chakram and Legocacher79 doing the second half of the 50 must see places. was mislead that the terrain was flat!!! started at the first three caches but were soon thwarted by construction fencing which we went around and did the second half of the loop.

Out geocaching on the Monday Public Holiday with Legocacher and my brother who was up for a visit. No workers around, all quiet and able to find and log this cache. TFTC.

Never been to Egypt but seen heaps of docos and would love to go one day.

Easy to find and a lot of fun riding around here on a still sunny day! TFTC.

Enjoyed myself walk around the loops - took 6 hours to complete - saw many kangaroos, birds, river - the weather is very nice for me to walk... Signed the log. Thanks SDL.

Went for a caching hike on a nice Sunday afternoon with Gumby Maca. Realised we weren't alone when I noticed a travel bug on the window of a car in the same parking area.

I haven't visited the Pyramids of Giza (yet).

[green]If I were to pick my 50 Must See Places, I reckon 46 of them world be in Australia [^] Another would be in Japan, and now that you mention it, those Pyramids of Giza might rate a visit Exploring the Lower Molonglo with [blue]Sumbloke[green] provided a great opportunity to ponder other destinations on our planet, whilst appreciating our own locale. [blue]Thanks for the series Sol de lune

No problems with finding #2 in the series. We haven't been to the pyramids but its on the bucket list (along with most other places in the series!)
Thanks Sol de lune

Found with AnnieG27 - the start of the journey.

TFTC - Found with HypoHippo3000.

Cache is back in position and ready to be found....however the series may still be archived in the coming months.

If you are thinking about heading out to visit the area, you should look at doing so sooner rather than later......

Cheers,

SdL

Unfortunately, the end is nigh for this series.....

With the construction going on it may not be the place to go walking.

This first two caches (no's 1 and 2 ) are no longer in place and the rest of the series will be removed in the coming weekends.

Unfortunate....but that is progress for you.

# 2 not there I hope the rest are

Second one of our 50 Must See places today with Geobuddies, Snickersallan and Fit02. Very disappointed to find that Number 2 had been muggled as well. Here is hoping that the remainder of them are still there. [;
)]

Unfortunately this one looks to be muggled, searched high and low with geo buddies blue wattle and Fit02.

This cache was quickly found. I visited the Pyramids of Giza as a child in 1967. There was no development around the pyramids and we had a camel ride in front of them.

On a bike this was a lot of "fun" ... the paths were not fun to bike because of the ongoing reconstruction....

Decided to do this cache trail after the Haunted series the night before. Dug out the trusty MTB again and spent about 2 hours out in the reserve... the afternoon followed a pattern of: memorise landmarks from static maps on the phone, pedal a short distance, stop, get off, find cache, SL, check phone... and repeat over and over

Well what a wonderful series of caches. We did them with our two geokids aged 3 and 1. Caches easy to find and the 3 year old loved finding them before mummy and daddy did! The geoparents loved discussing the places that we had either been to or would like to visit. We felt quite pleased that we have been to 23 out of the 50 already which we felt pleased with. Yep we can tick this one off as well.

Cold grey afternoon trapsing around with the dogs, TFTC

Found with the geokids. TFTC

3 of 78 for the day. Great series of caches. Fun day. Haven't been to Egypt. It's now a bit difficult. Will try when safe. Thanks Sol de lune for this series.

Found with Swifty on a nice day out.

Pyramids are indeed a great place... but it's actually pretty close to the city so for the best photo opportunities, do some haggling and rent a camel and guide to take you to the best spots for that awesome photo. It's worth it.

Found with PNLE on a very pleasant Sunday morning walk.
Have never been to Egypt, maybe one day...

tftc note coming later

Thanks for the cache Sol de lune.

Thanks

I have not visited the pyramids so must add them to my bucket list. Thanks Sol de lune.

So far so good

#2,529

After walking to the first cache, we got out our bikes and headed down the track to this 2nd one. After finding the cache in a hide very similar to the first, we realised this trail had been set up to give catchers a nice day out.

Thanks

This was our first cache of the series we did by bike, since we walked to the first prior to getting our bikes off the rack. We passed a woman who was walking two massive dogs just before we arrived at this cache. I swear that she could have ridden either one if she got tired of walking. We dropped the bikes and found another easy cache, just like the first. Thanks

Found on a cycling caching adventure with Liv81 and allrounder.

Thanks for putting all the caches out there Sol de lune, we had fun!

Found @ 11:34am with Shadow! and Liv81 as we attempted to find all of the "Must See Places" series (including the two extras) on bike in what turned out to be quite warm and muggy conditions. We did them in order so this was 2nd of the 52 attempted with 1 DNF, taking 4hrs from start to finish.

Have I been to this location: No

If not, would I like to go to this location: No but pyramids are cool!

Thanks again Sol de lune

This entry was edited by allrounder on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 10:20:34 UTC.

2 of 52 found with allrounder and Shadow!

Not sure if I want to go to Egypt...

TFTC!

An overcast day was ideal for walking this series even if it was a bit humid. Started fairly early and had them all in hand except one by 1pm. The exception was No7 which is now within the bounds of a construction exclusion zone. The cache may in fact be a goner? Thanks for an enjoyable walk. I doubt that any finders of this series will ever be fortunate enough to visit all these locations. I am fortunate enough to have seen several but not here. TFTC

I commenced my walk starting at No. 21 heading towards 1. After dropping the car at the recommended parking area, Bill was taking his bike & riding from 50-22. He couldn't get his GPS to work so he walked to meet up with me. At number 7 the gate was open, Bill returned to get the car & we completed the rest of the series in air conditioned comfort.
We enjoyed doing the series, all caches we found were in good condition.
This is the top of my list to go to, one day when all is peaceful
Thanks for placing this series Sol de lune

Found 2:46 pm. TFTC

Found it.

Was up for a challenge to do this, the 2 of 50 but I am watching car rally today and can't caches of half way damn.

[195] Thanks

Found at 12:55 - TftC

Tftc, 48 to go

quick find

Must go!
Great View!
TFTC!

This entry was edited by geogypsy! on Saturday, 08 February 2014 at 00:21:36 UTC.

#6 for the day. Not been there.

This entry was edited by BeveJo on Saturday, 08 February 2014 at 01:04:41 UTC.

TFTC

Nice easy find and a great start to the day. This series looked like a good one, and exciting to see all the places on the list.
Found with Carrumel and Dan.

* Haven't been here yet, but it's on my list. Would love to visit the Pyramids.

Two down, forty-eight to go! Thanks for the cache!

Trees like pyramids

#2

A couple of hours on Australia Day afternoon was the perfect time for a trip 1/3 of the way around the world. Armed to the teeth with my trusty geo-pencil and geo-iPhone hooked up to a monster 15,600mAh Hyperjuice Plug (battery pack) (golly the GPS usage by the phone sucks the power), I tripped backwards from the 15th Must See Place to the 1st Must See Place. I'm beginning to appreciate the $ investment the COs put in for our enjoyment. TFTCs.

Found on a ride around the world with the geokids. TFTC

Attempted this trail as I needed to get some caches as I hadn't been caching for a while. TFTC

Another found to achieve our aim - 100 caches in Australia.

Thanks for the series
ciao, die Limbacher

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.

Before we left Canberra we wanted to take a walk and at the same time pic some caches. The weather was a bit grey so our choise became this trail. We only did a part of it (1-23, 46-50 and the two extra). It took us 2,5 hours and we walked 8,5 km.

We found all cache on our way, some of them on the ground.

We had visited a lot of the places in the list. For some of them we agree that it is a "Must see place" and for others we do not agree at all.

Pyramids of Giza is rellay an amazing place and also the Valley of the kings.

Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Sweden / Geparderna

Put in wrong co-ords into GPS so I was about 70m out until I realised my error.

Thought I'd beef up my cache tally and meaning to do this for some time. Took 4.5 hrs by
bike and that includes all 50 and Ranger range/ All rivers Run/ and the Two extras.
Not sure how long these will last as civilization is quickly incurring on a few of these caches:-(
This series had the lot, Hills, rocks, nasty bugs, quick finds, harder finds, colour coded caches,
one or two with broken lids, one or two fallen off the wire, and for tall or short people.
A pleasant start at 7.15am to get out of the heat and by the end happy to finish:-) Cheers.

A quick find and we are off on our round the world race.

TFTC

2013-12-17 09:54 With a few days here in the ACT to spare I took a look at the map and thought, that looks like a series. Sure enough it was. Set out this morning with the aim of completing all 50. Made it through them in about 4hrs15mins. It was getting quite warm out with a forecast of 30 so once the 50 were complete it was time to get out of the sun. My thanks to Sol de lune for the series.

I decided I wanted to increase my cache total and this looked like an excellent way to do that quickly - except it's hot. I met another geocacher on his way out - he had just done all 50 today. Thanks Sol de lune.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Pulled into the pyramids on the way back. Didn't get all the fifty today . We will be back. TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

#3 today

Flies suck

Wanted to do this loop and had thought to do it Tuesday 26 November but a quick check of weather changed my mind and am so glad as it was quite warm enough this afternoon. Thought I may have to break it into two parts but am pleased to have completed it in one go. A great chance to try to get to know Little Red Riding Hood (my new GPS) a bit better and I did but the clouds this afternoon set her off a little, but by then I was well on course to understand Sol de lune's methods. At first I wondered about the indicator for the hanging mechanism on some, but soon realised its importance when trying to replace the caches. Was actually taking more time to open, sign log and to replace it, than to walk from one cache to the next. (Well a little exaggeration maybe - but I managed to improve that eventually.) If I didn't find the caches quickly I realised that I had presumed that I knew where they were and soon rechecked and discovered I was at the wrong spot. Not surprising that some tracks are starting to show as people try to avoid the blackberries. I think it is going to take more time to complete this logging process than it was to walk the circuit as I try to strain the brain for comments on each location that we are fortunate enough to have visited. Many, many thanks for this wonderful circuit Sol de lune.

Giza: Have not had the good fortune to have visited here.

The focus of today was the 50 Must See Places series. I had seen it on a map of Canberra and thought that I might do it in my holidays, on the way back from Port Macquarie. So today was the day. It was an excellent day for it to, with mainly sunny skies but not too hot and a cool breeze.

Haven't been there, but they look magnificent.

My thanks to Sol de lune for the cache.

While we would love to visit the pyramids, mainly from an historical point of view, with the current political situation this visit would be well down our list
Another quick find and off down the track againtrying to avoid the flies.

Set off around one PM after a late start to the day. Good walk! Remember to take sunscreen with you, the meeples are a bit pink after three hours wandering around in the sun.

Haven't been to Giza yet either

I set off with the intent of finding all 52 caches in this series. My aim was to complete this mission in under 5 hours. I wanted to find 10 per hour, or there abouts. A bike mount for my GPS had arrived in the mail just the day before, so I had to test it out. My bike hadn’t seen daylight for ages, but it should be OK. The weather wasn’t looking too good after the snap cold that had just set in, but I was ready to take a chance. I grabbed my beany instead of my helmet. The sky was dark with grey clouds, and at 8.28am I set off. Finding some of these caches reminded me of hanging picture frames on my wall, not sure why. Anyway, after cache #9 I sheltered from some rain under a tree for 9 minutes. Between cache #16 & #17 the brakes on my bike needed adjusting, luckily I had some basic tools. Then it was the bike seat, it became loose. Had to tighten it. At cache #22 more brake problems. This repair delayed me another 8 minutes. Cache #34 took me the longest to find: 15 minutes, but most caches were found within afew minutes. At cache #48 my GPS ran out of juice. Lucky I had a spare set. Cache #52 was logged after 4 hours and 15 minutes. Total distance according to my GPS was 14.4 kms. I enjoyed every second of too. Except for the thorns. And the uphills. Oh yeah, top 50. I won’t log each cache individually, but if you need a place to stay in Christchurch, New Zealand, Airport Birches Motel in Russley is the place. I stayed there in 2005 and the service and location are the best you’ll ever find. Thanks again Sol de lune for this series. Now I just have to jump back on my bike and do this another 51 times…

Never likely to visit the Pyramids. A great day for a ride through.

Haven't been to the pyramids. One day maybe.

Did this one at the end of my day here LuckyL10n on the big his special 1000 caches day.

Great day to be out the sunshine enjoying the caching and helping to get LuckyL10 celebrate his special event day.

this series is wonderful- going to send out fellow cachers with their bikes to do this.

Thanks Dol de lune.

Two down

#949 - 07:15; The second in the series completed after an early start in the hunt for find number 1000. Having been abandoned by my fellow cachers mastahdemoli and Canberrachick and with Rapidlywild and specimenX running rampant in the Riverina I was doing it solo. It was a beautiful morning and just me, the roos and the birds while I headed around to see what I could see! While I would love to see the pyramids as well as the Sphinx, things don't look too flash over in that part of the world just at the moment, so probably be quite a while yet before I get there. TFTC Sol de Lune

This entry was edited by LuckyL10n on Monday, 07 October 2013 at 07:44:57 UTC.

Sry but haven't been here either.

A great day to go riding the some of the tracks of Stromlo. Plan is to find all fifty in this series plus any other nearby whilst enroute. Thanks Sol de lune.

TFTC

Geocache #538.
Found on Sunday, 8th September 2013 at 6:11 AM.
Conditions: clear.
Current streak #39 days.
Today's finds 2 of 82.

My 437th find for The Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition 2013. With just over a week of the competition remaining, I had some leave owing and decided to take it for a geo-adventure in the Australian Capital Territory and Canberra. What a way to celebrate Canberra's centenary, as well as the Federal election!

Officially day one of my trip and the night before I made the plan to tackle the 50 Must See Places power trail to begin with. I set off from my hotel at about 5:45 AM and left the car at the suggested parking site to start at number one. Once at GZ, it was a quick find and I soon had the CIH and log signed. TFTC Sol de lune.

"JordsAU

An early morning start for us and Delta Response Team and with four of us on bikes we had a great day riding around. It's a pity that this area will no longer be available caches like this but I am sure other will replace them.

Here we hatched our plan for speed as we had a deadline for one of our group today - TFTC

Cache # 2 for today,

A Plan was hatched with JuSoJaRa and Diamantina Stars to go out for a day of Power trail blitzing. Thins included the 50 Places and NRL series. A 6.30 pick up meant we had a nice early start.

Off off and away. Around here we begun our leap frog tactic. We would all look then 2 would stay to sign the log while the other two would go on to the next one. We then caught up to help with the search and moved on again while they signed the log. Nice quick finds

TFTC