Fathers Day 2012 Wilton, New South Wales, Australia
By steeba on 02-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3VYF5

This cache is hidden in a water catchement area that is zoned [Special Area: No entry](https://www.waternsw.com.au/water-quality/catchment/manage/special-areas/restricted-areas?fbclid=IwAR2q4dJDi3sfCuhAmbd2bG_7VoaZVICy0Ash4MfmVtVl2Rj5hkQEi-5rHes). There are large penalties for people found in these areas, ignoring the restrictions for Special Areas.
After discussions with representatives from WaterNSW they have requested that we archive these caches. Upon discussion the only geocaches allowed are in the public access areas and can not be placed in the bush surrounding these areas.

If you would like an idea of the areas affected by this catchment area, you can find an interactive map [here](https://www.waternsw.com.au/supply/Greater-Sydney/system?fbclid=IwAR2AQb-OlLrdK_WooJap_V2HMFpla_lpcJJ2RtJHRegjjt8q6TsVjsLCUp8).

Please do not attempt to remove this cache, WaterNSW will arrange a time that all cache owners affected by this will be able to be escorted to remove their cache. A suitable time will be advised in the coming weeks.

In order to further discourage people from seeking these caches the listings will also be locked.

Regards,

Matt - Ministro

Out with the geofam (Macka4867, Gundrills & KnightJR) to get some more caches. TFTC

A day caching with Geofamily. Finishing off the mystery at museum event. TFTC.

Out with the geofam to get more clues until complete! Let’s just get some caches!
Signed G, K, M & P (Gundrills, KnightJR, Macka4867 & Panda_Girl65).
TFTC

Out with geomfam. (Macka4867, pandagirl and knightjr). Spending the day Getting the rest of mystery museum caches in the Gong area. Great day for caching.TFTC

Looks like there could be some issues with the placement of caches in this series, including this one. A find could potentially lead to a fine for being in Sydney Water catchment. Until this issue is resolved I'm disabling the cache.

Tftc

Dropped in on this one today post Mega event. The cache is all ok, but could do with a new logbook. Still all ok to find.

Found during the 2019 Gong Mega signed the cache DSD thanks for the cache and the adventure. I got 2nd in battle of the labs

some others and I found this cache whilst out and about. I am now catching up from some geocache logging after the ozgeomuster and the rest of the weeks full of geocaching. TFTC co's. i apologize for all of the generic logs

Out for a big day of caching on this fine Tuesday with Djant, Jedi_Anakin

Thanks steeba for placing the cache this one is find #397 for me TFTC.

found before the event today

Nice cache in a good spot. Classic hide. Tftc.

Found whilst attending the OZGeomuster

Found. The log needs replacing, completely full

OCW Shoes Jnr and Little Shoes, while at the Mega. Logged as The Shoesx3. TFTC

Found on my way out of the area after today’s event finishing off OZGM19. I think my last for today for now as my ghost and asthma is starting to play up.
TFTC
1829

OCW Sensible Shoes and Little Shoes, nice quick find after a wonderful weekend at the Geomuster signed as shoes X3

OCW Sensible Shoes and Shoes Junior. Quick find on the way back from the ozgeomuster. Signed as Shoes x3TFTC.

Found with FUF009 while in the area. Tftc

Found with Maccamob and sometimes pprass today. A nice day for caching.

Found with Gazkersh and littlemissleft (Mum and Dad)

Finding the last of the caches along this road before heading towards home. This one needs a new log...or did when I visited it. TFTC steeba.

Found on our trip to OzGeomuster. We found this one on day 5 of our trip. Mr & Mrs Fergzter managed to get away from the Event nearby and make a quick find here today. TFTC

Tftc

With help from gc

Great find

We are over from NZ for the Wollongong Mega and are enjoying all the great caches in the area, Tftc!

While attending the OzGeomuster Mega Event, we took some time out from catching up with many of our friends and socialising to find a cache or two.

We had no difficulty in locating the cache and with our name added to the log book, we continued on our way.

Thank you steeba for placing the cache and for maintaining it for everyone to enjoy

TFTC
Which we found in the 3rd day of the 2019 Wollongong Geomuster.
This is our Fifteenth find for the day so far.
We signed the original logbook in honour of all dads to the sound of the raucous wattle birds at this lovely location.

Found while at the mega.
A good geo trail in to this hide by now
Thank you for hiding this cache steeba
R

Last day around the mega and tidying up some loose ends today with Karicka before flying home tomorrow.
Thanks for placing these.

As we approached this one, we saw a car pull up about where we thought the cache would be. Surprise, we met another couple of caches near go. TFTC

Found with Gazkersh and littlemisslonglegs. Great hide!

Travelling between sets of Adventure Labs at the nearby Mega, this cage was on the way.
TFTC, Stevens.

Found with Canberra crew while attending the Oz Geomuster. TFTC

Been having a great time at the Mega but now to get this series. Out with Kittykatch and Nibletricecakes to find them today. TFTC

This is my last day of caching at the Mega Event, so I thought I'd capture the ones near the scout camp. Tftc.

Finishing the Jamboree series with Ju before heading home today and this was another find along the way. It probably took us longer than it should of with Ju even standing over it and not noticing, but we got it in the end - TFTC

Thanks steeba for placing this geocaches 7219 find for me. CITO was first on the list after listening to Cully's talk. The next plan was to find our final GEO art, followed by the dam lab cache. Anything in-between was a bonus.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Kiwi Caching Chicks are in Aussie! We are Nosynel, Infoferret, Jude_E, (thedbees, graciesgpsfun some times) and Ethness. Over from NZ for the Ozgeomuster and trying to do as many caches as we can in the time we have here. We signed as KC or KCC. Once we finished the adventure lab based at the lake we visited this for a second more thorough look and found it. Thanks for the hide.

Found with littlemissleft and littlemisslonglegs
Thanks for the cache
We are finding some great caches while at the Mega.

A group of five of us from Auckland, New Zealand have embarked ourselves upon Australian territory to while away the time here at the MEGA and to gather up some old caches and see the country wile we’re at it.

All logs while in Australia were signed as NZ MEGA 2020 to save space. We are FMZ, Agazo, rustynz, harisree and myself.

Found after a wee bit of a hunt.

Signed KC for Kiwi Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. TFTC

The GeoFamily and I are off to the Gong for the OzGeoMuster. We got up at sparrow flatulence, and set off in the dark. Mrs Mister JD uses Mister JD with me, but the kids have their own ids, AM_MMJD and Su_MMJD. Dawn didn't appear before Goulburn. We ate at the dreaded Maccas, and on we went to event GZ and about 8:30, where we met our geocaching friends. Hugs, chats, milling about. Then off for a day of geocaching with our mates. Day 1, we collected four and had a great day. Day two saw us with 12 caches and a lot of fun. Today, we've arranged to meet up with our mates at the fmega event site for lab caches and to do th Jamboree series. We got 15 lab caches logged, with the battle of the labs all solved but unlogged because the app didn;t want to play. No worries, we had the fun. The kids loved all the labs except the zombies. We elected to start at the dam end for the Jamboree series. We fond all of them, even the disabled one.

I'm sorry about the generic logs. The lurgy has got me.

First today. We have competition between the kids to find the caches. Good fun, and I don't have to bend my aged joints.


Find no 1 of 17 today.

Thanks, steeba

With a dying battery I had to make the last few finds on the Scout series leaving the engine running and the phone on charge while I ran over to hunt in the likely GZ areas. Flying half blind this took a little while to hone in on but a simple find in the end. Great location around here and surprisingly on my own despite the other Mega cachers around! Cheers Steeba!

At the Gong with Mum and my sister and Mister JD.

At the Gong with Mum and my sister and Mister JD.

Find # 8307

Found while up at the Gong event.

Not feeling tired, I was interested in a walk down n up this road under torch light.
I would have drove it but alas the gates were locked.
To break up the walk I done every second one down n the rest on the way up.
With all the noises coming from the dark bush made it for an interesting n sometimes on edge caching experience.


TFTC steeba

Day 44

Day 10 of our “mum and kids adventure” holiday saw us head into the Gong for some lab caches and normal caches. A quick find here as we headed back to camp cleaning up a few missed caches. Many thanks.

This series of caches has been staring us in the face throughout the Mega, so Team NZ Mega 2020 just had to knock them off before the closing ceremony. TFTC.

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Sooo after getting part way through the trail, we have in and decided to drive down and do them in reverse!! Awesome birdlife in the area! Tftc

Out adventuring with Joolay and Kittykatch on my first full day at the Mega in Wollongong. Such a diversity of caches today, with CITO’s Puzzles, Trads and even the odd Trig. Thanks everyone for the awesome day!

There's been a few Father's days since this one was placed - I hope they were all as memoriable. TFTC # 14,137

Found as part of the Kiwichicks today - working our way up to and Back from the DAM LAb groventure. TFTC. Good one. An after dark find.

Day 4: A group of Westies (rustynz, harisree, Gorby, FMZ and Agazo - temporary Westie visa holder), are in Australia from NZ to attend the OZGeoMuster MEGA in Wollongong. All logs have been signed NZMEGA 2020

On our way to the Dam, collecting a few caches along the way, and some of the Lab caches that are hidden too.

Thanks for the hide steeba

Found this one with team NZ MEGA 2020 as we were passing by along the road here - while in the area for the GeoMuster mega event. TFTC!!!

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Here for the MEGA, to see a buddy in the Gong and of course running around(biking in my case) to pick up this series. All well placed and generally easy to find as that tell tale geo trail beckoned the cacher! Pretty fun watching everyone peering at devices, muttering and having a great time. TFTC

Found with Lee 737, Oliver 737, Samuel 737 and Beary_Unicorns, signed as Team 740 (Team 737 + 3). Thanks for the cache.

#Find#: 2259#
Found on: 7 July 2019 09:50
Buddies: PelDroedGwin, Maxadventurer, Everesthigh
Muggles: none
Weather: sunny
Cache condition: good

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Nice area for the cache.
**TFTC steeba TNLNSL**

OCW MaxAdventurer and Everest High and Boogierogue. Doing the power trail by the Oz Mega. Tftc

We found it sitting on top of a rock. We put it back where the hint says it should be. OCW BR, PDG & MA. ? TFTC

Some mixed emotions here - a happy time caching while mourning the recent loss of my own father.
Thanks steeba.

Found whilst on holidays in the area. Thanks for placing this cache here

Hi.
I enjoyed escaping from the camp this morning to check out the dam. I wasn't sure if I'd bother caching but after a nice walk along the dam I decided why not. So I found 14/15 caches on my way back to camp. The one I didn't get was because of a picnic there. I also added a page of waterproof paper to a couple if cages with full log books.

Thanks for the caches.

It's MEGA weekend, this time up in The 'Gong.

I joined the usual suspects, Aquilus1, dty73 and Tankengine for a few days of merriment, labs, geoart and a few select oldies and cool D/T. I was unfortunately a little late to the party only arriving after lunchtime on Saturday, but everyone was so happy to see me and had had an absolute ball doing the lab caches and the jamboree power trail...I was kind of sad to be interrupting their fun.

Anyway.... so many labs, so much geoart and so little time... but we made very good time on Saturday afternoon, being joined for a few hours by Loci612 in the every so roomy car.

Fantastic dinner and then back to the trivia for fun times... with DIP & CHEESE! At the end of the night my big beautiful cosy bed was waiting for me untouched!

The Sunday morning was targeted oldies and goodies, then the completion of the geoart.... had to have that one saved for posterity on my map. I couldnt resist cleaning up the rest of the regulars on the Jamboree trail before a last minute night-cache-in-the-day with jm383.

It all had to come to an end so I started the long-enough-to-be-boring drive back to Canberra.

Thanks to all the organisers and CO's... I had a ball

The afternoon light was spent heading down to cataract dam and collecting all the caches along the way. Very impressed with the dam itself but also with the long standing history of the scouts here.

Thanks for all the cache placements. ????

Found with Djant and dart16

Dropped by during the OZGeomuster weekend. Great location. TFTC!

Went for a morning drive with Noikmester to pick up this cache series. TFTC!

Nice quick find TFTC

I managed to get a few days off work to head up to the Wollongong Mega and to make a relaxing time of it by spending a few days around the area. Lot's of great caches, great lab caches and awesome views across Wollongong made for a very enjoyable few days and I hadn't been in this area since I was a small kid so couldn't remember anything.

In between lab cache adventures today I also made my way along here while also waiting for others so we could do the labs as a group.
Thanks for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Down from Brissie for the OZGM, grabbing a carefully compiled list of caches along the way while enjoying all the spectacular locations the Illawarra has to offer.

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Log signed at 12:01 and cache returned as found. Thanks for the smilie **steeba**. This log is trackable.

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Found at 9:26:00 AM with DogboyOz

Went to find some caches along the way to the flashmob event at the lighthouse. We got distracted by these caches and ended up doing a few before DBO got boed.

Thanks steeba

Trip to OzGeoMuster 2019 Mega weekend in Wollongong. Great chasing the lights around the Gong. TFTC steeba

#3170-3178
With a little time to spare before the flash mob event in Wollongong, we hit the scouting trail in front of the camp down to the dam with Banj Ward and the beary_unicorns, logging as Team 740 in the physical logs. No problems, all caches were found with very good coordinates, and impressive geotrails..... TFTC!

Found today while going out for todays cache drive down to the flash mob. Had a very Fun Time today. TNLNSL

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Found while enjoying the *2019 OzGeomuster - The Gong*. OCW *Throsbyonchurch* who found the cache previously. As we were down here for the lab cache we stopped to sign the log for me. TFTH.

Another good hide in this nice park. TFTC!

Well we arrived late last night stayed in Sydney then it was time to head towards the Mega event we left early so we could get a few puzzle caches prior to an event its so great to be getting a letterbox cache or two as we don't have many in New Zealand. thank you so much for the great puzzles letterboxes wherigo's great geoart. We really enjoyed the area so nice being off the motor way and seeing great countryside. really enjoying the Mega over the few days. sorry for the copy and paste Thanks for the many caches loving it. always great to come across a traditional in the mix. nice quick find here today TFTC after attending one event now to start on a few more traditionals as we work our way towards the mega registration. great trail .

OCW IP, PDG & EH. TFTC steeba!

Found today with my brother and dad on the way to the flashmob event

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Quick find. Yes another one. Nice to camp out here for the muster. Tftc

Find #60 on our geocation to the Mega at Cataract Park via Canberra for a couple of nights.

Had to have a bit of a search here before unearthing the cache.

Thanks

This was find #13 for the day and the clue didn't really help here. And to make matters worse, our GPS's were playing up as where we eventually found the cache was about 10m away from where we had GZ to be. Thanks for the fun

Easy find TFTC.
30th cache of the day for me including 25 lab caches!

Found with Jedi _Anakin , and dart16,
Thanks for the cache steeba
This is my 1013 find

A quick easy find. TFTC

Out for the day at the mega, so grabbed a few caches nearby. All found OK.

Thanks,

On my first visit to this great dam, and a wander around the grounds during the mega, I found this well hidden cache. Loved the container.

Caching with Tatt2squared and Key_Tat... enjoying the area during the OZGM19 Mega... thanks for placing the caches... signed as Team Tatt or stamped as Viper_101. TFTC.

Caching with Tatt2squared and Viper_101... having fun caching during the OZGM19... thanks for placing the caches, really enjoying the area. TFTC.

In town for the OZGM19 Mega event, caching around the area with Key_Tat and Viper_101. Thanks for placing the cache and adding to our Mega experience. Signed as ‘Team Tatt’ or stamped with our individual stamps... TFTC.

Was in the area for the OZgeomuster19 with GreyHams, dty73, and Tankengine, although GreyHams was only able to join us for some of the weekend. Not a lot of time but still managed a good amount with the Adventure Labs, Geoart, some oldies, lots of good sized containers, and some good DT caches as well.

Nice area to visit and some great targeted caches along the way, of course being a mega weekend it was heaving with geocaches and we met many along the way at caches, many times stopping at caches with many cars and caches at a time.

Canberra had a mass group attending and was always good to bump into many along the way, as well as back on site. Loci612 joined us for a large amount of the geoart and lots of fun times by all. Always good to have the backing of our friendly community!

Thanks to all the CO's for your caches, unless noted otherwise all was found easily and in good condition.

Found while attending Oz Geomuster 2019, TFTC.

Attended #OZGM2019 July 6-8th 2019
Generic Log to follow…….
The Stumble’s met up with Gr8cahes whilst having a dismal attempt at solving our first ever Lab cache. Instantly they became our new best friends and helped us to complete two of them!
We left camp both days to collect some real geocaches. All in all, we spent the 2 days travelling around the area including Bald Hill and the Sea Cliff Bridge. Whilst we didn’t collect a huge number of caches, the fact that we were spending time in great company and met sooooo many fantastic and helpful cachers along the way made the weekend worthwhile. Its always nice to put a face to a cache name!
All caches attempted were successfully found except one and it was fun watching Daniel jump in and out of the car like an excited kid, racing off to claim the find. Some were really easy to find whilst others took a bit longer or required the skills of a monkey to locate!

Found while attending the OZ Geomuster and doing a lab cache. great place overlooking the dam wall. TFTC steeba

Found with Firesafe while attending to OZ Geomuster 2019 - Mega Event. A great weekend with many caches found. My apoligies for the generic log.

Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache.

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

Found with dty73 and Aquilus1. We came down to the Wollongong area to attend the mega! And of course, we did a few other caches while we were down here! This was one of them! The weather was perfect, indeed, t-shirt weather during the day! This was especially nice, as rain had been forecast! We had a great couple of days down here. Great caches, great company and some nice meals! Not to mention very nice accommodation down at Bulli! Running into other cachers and swapping pathtags was also part of the fun! Thanks for the cache steeba, and thanks for the company dty73 and Aquilus1! Oh, and thanks dty73 for all the driving - mammoth effort!

Teamed up with Natalie247 and Hinemona from NZ, and called ourselves Trans tasman team signing as TTT. Picking up a few near camp. Lovely area. Nice to add to our days tally. Good hide! Tftc

### Mega OZGeomuster 2019 The Gong ###
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Weve completed this small power trail before weve visited the mega event.
Thank you for the nice caches
Team sissifalke