Further down the track Salamander Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By raddog2 on 25-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3VE45

Unfortunately there was no response (or regular update) from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ngaambul - Matt

Hi raddog2,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ngaambul - Matt

After trekking down a almost non existent track at the end with Justontime, we found the old man laying on the ground but no cache to be found any where. A long way in to get a blue grumpy. Maybe the CO could check.

I accidentally logged the wrong cache here.Will fix ASAP to DNF.

The track was overgrown and indistinct in most places, I couldn’t get a lock on GZ and there were three spots that matched the hint, but no cache could I find.
The mozzies were after my blood along here at 1800, and it was hot and muggy, thanks for the hunt.

Thanks for the cache

Looked for 20 minutes with 3 people but no luck.

Half uur gezocht met 3 man. Niet gevonden

TFTC!

Well and truly off track. Very overgrown. ERMthe Worm found it quickly but after some bush bashing. Ttfc

Took a bit but Indi girl found it now yo find our way out

Too difficult to find. No clear indication based on description.

It was deemed that i would not find this cache. My phone went dead as i approached. There are no real trails to the actual gz. Mozzies outnumber the leaches, only by a few. Several places it could be, but i could not find it. I had read the logs earlier, and would of been nice to have them now, to look at some photos, but nope, phone is dead. I ended up fighting the leaches and mozzies, more than looking for the container, so i gave up. Another dead end trail that has dissapeared. I didnt mind the bush bash really, just everything else was against me today. Time to go home.

DNF

Bad

This is definitely on the track less travelled. Don't be fooled by taking the main track at the fork! Start of the correct track is not well identified. Bit overgrown, plenty of logs but the kids managed.
Take the time to poke around and under! Past pic helped but the co-ords are good.
Cache in pretty good condition. Log in sealed bag. Bring a pen. Added a few fun things to the cache.
TFTC!!!

This is definitely not marked correctly in difficulty. No luck

This one took a lot of searching and reading of past logs. Thank you for showing us this area.

This was a hard find .. when you get to the overgrown start of short road there is a large fallen tree/ this is a decoy but look around and you will see it carefully hidden

Found, took longer than expected

Look low

Find the track and a lot of logs, no cache

Found after a little poking around. Storm threatening and rain starting. No wet weather gear and two more caches to find. TFTC

TFTC from the Kayakviking,
up with a family group to celebrate an 80th birthday for a few days and had to scratch the GZ itch while looking for koalas! Distracted a couple of new geo-kids from their electronics so that was a win along with the smiley. Took a little scratching around but soon 2nd of 4 in this patch.
Cheers KV

Found! After a second attempt at finding the right track (it’s pretty overgrown) we looked around for a bit, and with the help of a trusty stick and google translate, Jaguar4037 and I found it.

I found this one with Breeze101. It took us a while to find the right track (it’s like a maze in there), and it took us a while to realise a fallen abour meant a fallen tree. The cache is only a few metres off the track, and make sure to check all the logs in the area.

Missed this one somehow

Thank you for the cache. But hard to find had to lift up a few logs

Found it just off track

Took a lot of scratching around and bush bashing through the overgrown undergrowth but eventually found the prize

TFTC

Thanks to King T for the find. Nice walk and flowers

Found it

The track seemed overgrown but we pushed on.
Leaf Curl Spiders we’re out in force, only out numbered by the Mozzies
TFTC raddog2

Nice spot dude

Looked and looked but no luck today

Looked for a good while. No luck.

Out today to clear the remaining caches in the area, this one could use a little TLC. TFTC.

In the area with the kids and my son realised this was close. Great hide.. had us scratching our heads for a little while. Tftc

Found it! Never thought there would be caches in my back yard, so close to home! TFTC, was a tricky little bugger but got there eventually

Walking further in the track becomes more overgrown. Glad I picked up a stick to clear the hundreds of spiderwebs. We cacme across an echidna on the way to this one. Searched a few placed at GZ before finding the hide. TFTC

My gps says 7m away when i found it..

A nice walk with the crew on our holiday. Out with Pitman Clan, AWTYOW, the junior geo-gangsta, JakeOnly, Dwight Shrute, Gabstar, KoolKid, Pitbull83 and the kid that asks us to write Batman on every log! TFTC

Quick find , out with the caching crew whilst holidaying up here. TFTC

Mr AWTYOW and the senior geo-gangsta were up ahead and nabbed this one. TFTC!

Caching walk with the crew on our holiday! TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Back in Down Under for the next edition of SuCos Great Australian Roadtrip!
Heading from Sydney to Brisbane in a HippieCamper, what a great fun...
We spent today around Port Stephens, hiking some walks and finding some caches, great day out in the nature.
This trails here are pretty tough, but with some good shoes easy to get through.
After having seen a huge Lizard here, we found this nice cache as well. TFTC

Second find of the day. Saw a huge monitor lizard on the way here! He was a little camera shy though! TFTC

Good hide

Lovely find in the bush - great excuse for a family bush walk. Left a shell behind for the next finder
TFTC

Another one found, Thanks raddog2.
Some maintenance needed here too.

Found a reasonable track to here. TFTC

found with banj ward tftc

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a sunny Saturday afternoon, tftc

Found

Reperio at 1050.

We happened to find ourselves in Nelson’s Bay for a few caches, and so with wanting to take the kids for a bush walk, we decided to visit these few caches along here. We had walked by this one to leave on the return trip, and took a little detour on the adjacent track to grab this one and walk back to the car. At GZ, the cache was very well hidden, and so took a couple of minutes to move the right natural camo.

Gratias raddog2.

Found today, this whole series needs maintenance, lots logs are wet and containers broken. Signed log and replaced. Thanks to raddog2.

TFTC,
1 of 6 for today. The container was in place but the log was wet.
We are spending a few night's in the area and wanted to complete this series.
While it was a good walk, it seriously requires some maintenance. However speaking to our friends we have learnt that the reserve has been sold to a developer by the State Government and has been surveyed for subdervision.
The interpretative signage was very interesting but the tracks are almost impossibly to find at times and we probably completed it the wrong way around.
Visited trackables.

A fast find here before finding the next
TFTC

A few places to look here but found eventually in the obvious spot

Quick easy find. Nice spot. TFTC!!! #1194

This one was a quick find, our second last find of today but our third last search - we didn't find "Monopoly" further down the track
TFTC!

This was a quick find once I was on the correct side of the hint object. SL TFTC.

No joy for me here either

Logged the dnf too quick. Turned around to head to the next cache and there it was. Bonus. Log is useable, didnt notice any cracks in the container. No longer at head height Tftc

Good find. Log was wet.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

After spending the last few days walking, hiking and riding thru the bush in search of the elusive geocache, we decided today to stick to caches we could either drive to, or which only involved a short walk. We'll just have to see how long that lasts for!
The plan fell apart really quickly when we got to this reserve. The paths we walked down to the caches here were all overgrown and very poorly maintained which made progress challenging. Lots of scratches on our legs as well.
The log was soggy but we managed to sign it
TFTC

On a family holiday and i came for a walk in the bush and I found this cache along the way. Sl thanks for the cache.

Cache is damp inside and log is damp as well.

After being sent out to salamander bay to fill in for work i found myself with some spare time, So i thought i would try some walking tracks with caches along the way. ended up with 13 finds for the day between soldiers point to salamander bay. a great part of the world, i can see why so many come here every year. Thanks for the enjoyable walk and nice easy caches Raddog2.

Found it

Good find

Found after a short search, the log was damp but still usable. TFTC

Lovely walk. TFTC

Find #1379
Continuing our Port Stephens efforts today, we managed 12 caches around Salamander Bay and Corlette, without a DNF (just!). Beautiful sunny autumn weather, but still the mosquitoes were fierce in spots!
We started with the sandy track caches, grabbing the full collection. Quite a nice area to walk through, although the tracks are getting rather overgrown in spots. This series of caches could all do with some (extensive) maintenance.
Good coords, we checked the wrong fallen arbour initially. Cache contents saturated, difficult to sign. TFTC raddog2

Today we went caching around Salamander Bay, and we found twelve cache's.

### ***TFTC*** ###

Contents a little damp!
Watch out for snakes!

Mozzies mozzies mozzies. Log is wet. TFTC

TFTC

Another easy find in this nice area.
SL TNLN TFTC

Looked at every fallen tree I could see for quite a while but no luck

Found with BillHill531 while out here buying a used car. We found a nice variety of caches today, mostly nice bush walks or wonderful views. I was mostly trying to clear my fifty kilometer radius from home. I ended up finding nineteen of the twenty one I wanted to find. And only one DNF.
Retured back along the "road" and took the track to this cache. I missed it, but BillHillfound it soon after.
Thanks for the great walk and cache!

TOMBI! got me to come up to Soldiers Point, to buy a car but while we were there we had to get some in his 50 km radius to clear up. Found about 17 caches for the day. Found this one fairly quickly. TFTC

Jonny

With black and grey mosquitoes attacking us as soon as you stopped, this one took a while to find, but it did eventually show up.

TFTC signed the temp log as the other is water logged.

Decided to due a cache run while heading to the beach

We have travelled up from Sydney to Port Stephens, camping at the Lemon Tree Passage Big4 Koala Shores caravan park, for our annual summer holiday. With yet more sunshine promised for today we decided to make the most of it and head over to Soldiers Point for some sightseeing, bushwalking, and caching. This was the 9th find of the day, 44th find of the holiday.

After finding "Behind the scenes" we continued following the bush tracks, within the Mambo Wetlands Reserve, to reach this one. Spent a while searching the wrong "fallen one" before widening our search to find the correct "fallen one", resulting with CIH. TNLNSL and then replaced as found. TFTC.

Find #958

Another bush bash! Thanks for the walk

Tftc

Took us a bit but got there in the end

TFTC

Tftc

Tftc

Quick find with tassie expat while up from Phillip Island. Tftc. Log saturated, unable to sign. Love the walk.

Up from Phillip Island for a mini holiday. I don't normally do bush settings in warm weather but caching is important lol Easy find. Log sopping wet...unable to sign. I have a pic if CO would like confirmation. TFTC

Found it

There were trees down everywhere but we managed to get to it. The log was wet but we managed to sign the log.

Container full of water, we drained it as best we could while trying to write on saturated log book. Easy find TFTC

Headed back to the Nelson Bay area, to pick up a few more caches.
We visited lots of lovely beaches & bushland, where we found a good variety of hides.
Many thanks for placing this cache, raddog2, for us and others to find.