28th of 50 Must See Places - ST PETERSBURG North West Rural Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Sol de lune on 20-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3Q0HQ

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.

Ty

28/50. Never been to Russia. TFTC

Apparently better than Moscow.

found on a circuit to complete the 50 MSP before they are archived. Parked on Uriarra Rd at Denholm Gate, and walked in to start at #24. Did the circuit to #46 and then a side track to #50 which I has missed when doing the first half of the trail. Fauna - ants, grasshoppers, flies, a couple of wallabies and a crimson rosella. Flora: pine trees, blackberries (just ripening), the usual. People: one mountain bike rider and one blackberry picker. Points to note: the entire 2nd half of the trail is not touched by the development and still easily accessible. All caches found, and in good condition. Spot on Coords and my new GPS made the job of finding very easy!

Thanks Sol de Lune for the cache, the series, and not archiving them in November when you said you would!

#4514 @0859
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've not had the pleasure of visiting St Petersburg.

My tally of places visited so far is 6/50. TFTC.

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.

#496 So with the 500 finds target so close now, I resumed the "Must See" series. Today was a tad warmer and somewhat windy, but still perfect caching weather. I was more organised today and managed a 1730 start. I was soon ticking off the caches and even managed to finish a tad early. Thanks for the series SDL.

Christmas has been and gone, boxing day over and done with. The streak is still going and it was time to head out to finish off the 50 places series that I started so long ago. I decided to park up on Uriarra Road and wander in towards number 24. I needed to pick up caches 24 through to 45 in order to complete the

Had no issues with any of the caches along todays walk, I was going to do separate logs for each however its too depressing to state that I've not been to any of the locations outside of Australia and only a couple of the Aussie ones. I have been to the Sydney Harbor Bridge but none of the others so I am going to use generic logs from here on in

Thanks for the cache placement SDL

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)

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.

Finishing the second half of the 50 Must See Places with Chakram and her brother today. Getting to the the second half of the track was very hard though, as there is construction going on right through the middle and it is all fenced off. We had to park in the car park along the river and then walked on tracks following the river before in order to get around the construction which added a few more extra kilometers to the series.

Haven't been to Russia yet, but when I do, St Petersburg would be a must. TFTC.

Doing the 50 backwards after failed attempt to do it in order due to very large never ending fence blocking access. Never seen so much temporary fencing before, must be a very precious road it is protecting. Worked out okay as caching with Legocacher who had already done the first 25. Getting to the the second half of the track was also very hard due to said fence and involved some bush bashing to get to formed tracks. Once on the tracks normal caching continued. TFTC.

On the to do list.

Out with a mate and the dogs

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

[green]If I were to pick my 50 Must See Places, I reckon 46 of them would be in Australia [^] Another would be in Japan, but can't say that St [blue]Sumbloke[/green]sburg holds much interest for me. 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

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 started dropping swaps and picking up others to try to even out the caches, but I lost my notes on what was where when my phone battery died.

I haven't visited St Petersburg, but I probably should some time (my real name's Peter).

I am currently working with a Russian lady and love hearing her stories so it would be great to visit and get an appreciation for the real thing. We keep joking about a Russian roadtrip .
Thanks Sol de lune

Thanks sol

Great idea ready for a day of geoing. Found with bluewattle and snickersallan.

Found with geo buddies Bluewattle & Fit02, TFTC

Found with Snickersallan and Fit02

Long time ago I visited St. Petersburg. Especially the gardens are impressive..recommend to visit!

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 been to this one too!

29 of 78 for the day. Great series of caches. Fun day. Haven't been there. Thanks Sol de lune for this series.

Was up for a challenge to do this along this track TFTC.

Thanks for the cache Sol de lune.

Tnfc

Loved it! Check out the semi drunken selfie taken during my visit for a snapshot of this must see city. Thanks Sol de lune.

Thanks

#2,555

Bikerbuddy & I drove to Canberra today specifically for this series of caches. We hadn't had much time for riding lately, and thought this series would give us both a fairly easy ride & some good caching.

We had a great time, found all of the caches, bikerbuddy had an easy ride & I got very tired.

Thanks Sol de lune

We dropped our bikes and wandered a short distance from the road for Toriaz to make another easy find. 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 @ 1:55pm 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 28th of the 52 attempted with 1 DNF, taking 4hrs from start to finish.

And another different type of hiding spot.

Have I been to this location: No

If not, would I like to go to this location: No

Thanks again Sol de lune

This entry was edited by allrounder on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 10:41:07 UTC.

27 of 52 caches found with allrounder and Shadow!

No desire to go to Russia at all!

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. Have read about Catherine the Great bit not visited St Petersburg. 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.
Thanks for placing this series Sol de lune

Found 5:37 pm. TFTC. I'm watching those kangas

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

Found at 14:38 - TftC

Out early on the bike to finish the 50 Must See Places. Started on 23 Jan, so around the world in 16 days, not 80. At about #24 - Gallipoli, I spied someone lurking behind a pine tree. It was none other than Mamaduke Rothschild (aka another Canberra Bushwalking Club member who has been won over to the dark side of geocaching). We combined well till I reached my finish point. But I'm sure I got back to my car quicker than he would've. TFTC and TFTS, Sol de lune. I appreciate all the effort and $ you've put in for my enjoyment - especially the colour coordinated caches with matching pen and log book. This series gets a favourite from me, at #1.

Found with JohnnyBoy

Starting to get hotter, but we decided to continue on. We were over halfway after all.
Found with Carrumel and Dan.

Good Find

My son has been here - he loved it. I'm just out collecting as many as I can in one day - today did 29 - not bad for 70 years old (IMHO)

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

Warm day, nice stroll, quick find. TFTC.

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

Thanks for the series
ciao, die Limbacher

TFTC

great series! Ta.

Here's the tenth one. The breeze from coasting was lovely and cooling. But why are we still sweating? Stopping and walking around to find the caches is very hot.

To be continued.

No 10 - temp getting hot and no longer thinking of the complete loop , but still having fun

TFTC

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 12:25 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.

TFTC. Found on Monday.

#487

Quick find with Darkmadviking,
TFTC!

Veni, vidi scripsi.

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.

My thanks to Sol de lune for the cache.

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.

Have not been there.

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.

No trackables were found in any of the series

The meeples haven't been to Russia

St Petersburg has held a fascination for Mrs y’stassie who, as a teenager was an avid reader of Dr Zhivago and War and Peace. St Petersburg in the snow has appeal. Don’t know when we will get there but it is on the list.

Another quick find in the obvious spot.

TFTC, a great series so far.

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…

They have just cut down all the pine trees on the other side of the fence for some reason around here. Why they have done that I have no idea but if they had held off a little longer they could have sold a lot of them off as christmas trees.
TFTC

Called Leningrad under Stalin's regime, besieged by the Germans during WW2, St Petersburg has an amazing history going back for centuries.

tftc

#975 - 09:40; The twenty eighth 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! Again, St Petersburg is probably a bit on the cilly side for me, but who knows. TFTC Sol de Lune

Tftc

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.

Geocache #565.
Found on Sunday, 8th September 2013 at 8:25 AM.
Conditions: sunny.
Current streak #39 days.
Today's finds 29 of 82.

My 464th 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.

If we weren't here for the caches then this would have been a great run on the bike. This is another of the places I have been, on a Scout tour in the early 90's. A wonderful city with some beautiful architecture. TFTC

Cache # 28 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.

A wonder bit of down hill. Well needed rest for my legs just cruise

TFTC

this is high on my list of places I want to visit. Apparently it's better to see Russia in winter as the smells are supposedly not as bad.


TFTC

Adults now starting to get tired, we will finish the series today.

One one many today with Jumping Sprinkbok

Today I did 19 of the serie, starting in heavy fog and finishing with a beautiful blue sky and sun. 2 hours and 45 minutes! TFTC

Found and logged
One of 55 caches for the day while completind the Must See Places on day 5 of August Ceocaching Callenge
I had forgotten how cold and windy it can get here
Thanks for the series Sol de lune
lgoody

Been trying to catch up on way old caches for ages. TFTC's everyone your cache hides are certainly appreciated and Happy Caching to you ALL!!
Regards, GrimRaider

Found[Time to Find: 6 min]

Found today with GrimRaider, DarzeeDi and ACTchil. Lots of my academics are from Eastern Europe and tell me that St Petersburg is the most beautiful city in all of Europe. I would love to make it to St P one day and perhaps take that boat trip to Moscow. Need to earn some more money first though...working on it haha. TFTC

KittyKatch has deemed that we WILL go to see ST PETERSBURG some day. I hope that they have lots of translators or that the iPhone or Android apps are really easy to use! Oh, we won't be going there in winter either!! TFTC SDL
Cheers,
GrimRaider.

Went out with ACTchil, KiityKatch and GrimRaider to grab the rest of this set, a good 4 hours. tftc Sol de lune.

started this series a few weeks ago with Darzee Di, KittyKatch and GrimRaider. got lucky with the weather today tftc Sol de lune

GSAGC #594. I was in Canberra for an International Team meeting so planned to tackle the 50 Must See Places series of caches on Friday 2nd August. Had hoped to finish all 50 in one day but started out a bit late so decided to go in reverse order to give myself a Uriarra Road bailout option.

I began with #1 & #2 then jumped across to Another Extra, An Extra, followed by #50 to #17 - 38 in total and a new daily record Had to call it a day at this point but I returned for an hour to complete the series before my Sunday evening flight home to Perth. I thoroughly enjoyed this series and was most impressed that all the co-ords (with just 1 exception) were absolutely spot on. The containers were also of a good size and easily found. Whilst the scenery was somewhat bland, I enjoyed the invigorating walk through the rolling hills of the Molonglo Nature Reserve.

I've not visited St Petersburg yet but a Baltic cruise is definitely on my list I've also rewarded this series with a FAV point and Scout Pathtag 01 at the 50th of 50 Must See Places - Zanzibar. Bravo Sol de lune for the great effort that you have put in to this very entertaining series of caches. However, I suggest that you subtitle this series "Scrambles through the Brambles"

Haven't been to Russia either TFTC

Our 6962nd overall find.

My usual partners in crime had already completed this series so with a work trip on Friday, I decided to stay an extra night and complete it before heading home. The weather forecast all week didn't really have me too excited and as I woke this morning to the sound of rain I stayed in bed a little longer.

I kicked off the day at 8:20, the sun was shining I could see blue sky and best of all there was no rain. As the day went on I had rain and a bit more rain. The best bit is that only one cache was a bit damp and it didn't take me too long to get the feel for the hides.

The saddest thing was that I realised how many places I still need to visit!

Thanks Sol de lune for the cache and the series.

Been to Moscow, but not here

So many places to see, so little money.

SL TFTC

We decided to travel to Canberra from Melbourne to stay with friends largely to do this series of caches! The weather has been glorious - sunny, partly cloudy, windy. GeoTeens (including WildBaconLord) and I rugged up in layers, packed loads of snacks, and set off for Stromlo.

When we arrived at the suggested carpark, there was a car already parked next to us. WildBaconLord asked if I thought it was another geocacher, to which I replied that I thought it unlikely. In the end, it turned out that we were following Squick around the whole circuit!

While we had plenty of time to find this series in one day, it became a two-day adventure. We had found twenty-seven of the caches when the Samsung Galaxy had trouble acquiring satellites. In the process of trying to get our location, the battery jumped from 49% to 17%! I was *not* a happy camper [>:(] We took the shortest route back to the car. Once we could see the car, GeoTeens decided to take the direct route cross-country, while I followed the path. Needless to say, they beat me

On the following day, we came back and found the caches in reverse order until we got back to where we started. Once we had completed them all (back at number 28) we took the same short-cut back to the car, and had a picnic lunch by the river. It was a lovely couple of days with very picturesque scenery. Our hearty thanks for Sol de Lune for assembling and maintaining this wonderful series!

We were visiting Canberra from Melbourne and spent two days collecting these geocaches.
It was cold, but we warmed up a lot as we walked! We had lots of snacks, but I was still hungry
The whole series was great! TFTC, Sol de Lune

Logging retroactively, TFTC

~Al-Kemyst

Another place I have never been TFTC

this was never on my list but since my wife is half Russian it was bound to be put on it. Will get there one day

SL TFTC glad its down hill for a while.

We had completed the first dozen or so under very different conditions being the middle of a hot summer. Today we headed out just after dawn and parked near number 3 and headed across to our unfound ones. We saw lots of grey roos and a couple of brown ones in a number of locations and then came across a herd of cows. All finds were generally quickly found but with time running out we had to cut the top of loop short. Hopefully we will get back to complete again. Certainly lots of places we would like to go. TFTC


This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Friday, 28 June 2013 at 11:18:46 UTC.

330. A walk was planned to start and finish this series awhile back, alas due to the weather it kept getting pushed back until today, when the series were finally finished!
Arrived at the parking to find two other cars, so figuring there were other cachers about we hurried off to the 1st cache and sure enough, a signature dated 28/06/2013 was found!
It turned out for the majority of the journey we were following in the footsteps of Hanjac; what a pity we never met face to face but I did come back to a note under my windscreen wipers

Along the way we battled against blackberries, endless cow pats & cows themselves, water and muddy tracks - but all in all none of these fazed us against completing our goal of visiting the 50 Must See Places ... well at least their caches

Loved the series and the walk along the way, would never have come out here if it weren't for these!!

Added "1st of 50 Must See Places - Paris" as a Favorite.

TFTC and the series Sol de lune

A hole part of world I still have to discover. There are much secrets still behind the formaer iron curtain.
TFTC Wilbert67