NTSBPT 17 Shoal Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By subi-two on 22-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3Z4FP

Time to go.

TFTC, good hide, quick find.

Found earlier today

The squad

The squad

Found it. Lock book is wet. Container is broken. Sorry don't have any paper to replace it.

Cache needs maintenance
Log wet
Tftc

Tour Koalita Nelson
Portugal and argentina in the same journey
Another great Sunday in incredible spots and tracks

Tftc and owners
3 caches of the track not available

Tour Koalita Nelson
Portugal and argentina in the same journey
Another great Sunday in incredible spots and tracks

Tftc and owners
3 caches of the track not available

Couldn’t find this one.

This one was a bit harder. Overgrown cache is damaged and wet log.

Found and cache is damaged and wet log

This NTSBPT trail was close to our camping, thus a good walk to see the area. The caches do need some CO attention here and there.
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Thanks for this cache

On our short walk straight through the beautiful forest from Shoal to Fingal Bay we searched, found and logged this cache.
                                                                       
Thanks to subi-two and all the best from Biglailo from Germany
                                                                       
Dienstag, 10.03.20 . 5878

Thanks subi-two for the cache. It’s #1192 for us. We found your cache on 15 February 2020. Enjoying the loop.
Hint should now add “and surrounded by bush”

This one was very tricky, but the hint is ultimately accurate; it’s just that the passage of time between the original placing and now has seen native plants grow around and above the hide. Trust the gps!
CC

Up at Shoal Bay for a weekend getaway. Decided to do the complete series over 2 days. Found with GeoJess. TFTC!

A lot of recent rain has caused the eucalypts to thrive - thus the cache is more obscured. Cache container is slightly damaged. TFTC.

Today i take a walk on this trail . The flies are drives me to fly into a frenzy. Thanks for showing this park. TftC

Spending a few days in the area, took on this walk to find this series, shame that some have been archieved. Quick find, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO

TFTC,

In the Bay for 3 nights with Nana nel and undertook what is left of this trail today. We had 3 DNF's and there are a lot already archived.

Not enough information available to complete the final so after collecting all we could, we contacted Team MavEtJu who gathered all the information 10.07.2016 to form a partnership so that we could all log the final. Due to the tides, he couldn't reach GZ then and so it was agreed that we would add his name when we were there.

I will use another caching site to create a way for others to reach a conclusion, fave fun finding my trail to the end.

Enjoyed a great walk and visited the final on 07.11.2019

An easy find, we must have been looking in the wrong place a couple of years ago. TFTC!

TFTC

Was hiding in the overgrown bushes but we found it. Thanks.

Out for a walk with the family and cache grabs for the Museum mystery.
TFTC

Out caching today chasing some clues for the current souvenirs. Thanks for placing the cache subi-two.

Chasing some Murder at the Museum with beckNmonts today in the area. TFTC subi-two I really enjoyed it!

Container damaged and water logged.

OCW PelDroedGwin

A lovely weekend away in Shoal Bay

There’s no better way to explore than stretching the legs to go caching.

Started looking on the wrong side of the oath before PDG got a clue from the image gallery

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found with Banj Ward TFTC

Completed this series with Beary_Unicorns early Sunday morning. Tried to get it all done before the temperature became too hot, but no luck. Visited trackables, tftc.

Had to do a bit of rustling but found it pretty quick.

While holidays visiting Nelson Bay. Saw this trail and will start it. Don‘t know how fare I will get... we will see
Hard to find the rock..... but I got it!
Besten Dank!

Thanks for the Cache and greets from Switzerland!

TfTC

Think outside the box

Happy do an excuse to do this trail!
TFTC

Enjoyed the walk along the trail with my muggle friend. Thanks subi-two

TFTC

Found a damaged cache container with wet logs in published location and intact second container close by. Signed intact log and returned as found. TFTC.

Found it today with my friend, TeamIndiJ02. Very nice walk, we found 25 caches!

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Find #2257-2281
It's unclear why we haven't done this trail up until now... But this year, with school holiday on, and hiddeb creatures to find, a 35 cache power trail became very appealing. We did the trail with a new cacher TeamIndiJ02, we logged all finds as 737/Indi. We had a great walk through the national park today, managing 24 on the PT itself. The trail needs maintenance, the list of missing caches is lengthening, and the logs are pretty scrappy these days. Thanks for your efforts in setting it up....
The container is broken, and contents getting damp...

Easy enough find but the cache container is somewhat damaged. TFTC.

Tftc.
Recent clearing in area... But still here

Today the kids wanted a bushwalk so we set out to do the 12 to 24 part of the NTSBPT series. A lovely walk with a side trip down to Wreck beach for a picnic lunch. Thanks for placing these cahces, we'll be back for the rest another day

Another quick find.

16 out of 25 found today. Tfth.

Another one down and I keep heading down hill. Tftc!!!

Today I took on this trail on my mountain bike,I had a great time exploring around the area,The unexpected hills hurt at times but the ride back down them was alot of fun.
The day was a success with only a few DNFs towards the tail end.
Thanks for putting this great series together
TFTC

Got up early to tackle this series while staying in Shoal Bay at the end of our holiday fromUK. Good hints and a lovely varied walk. Thanks for settling the series.

In town with Bluewattle for a Re-Union and thought we'd do this power trail during our free time. Nice quick find for us here today.
TFTC subi-two
Found March 2, 2018

TFTC found with Snickersallan

Found it. This one was considerably tough. Plenty of rocks to look under. I was up in bushes down in the grass but could not find it. I can guarantee you many a stone was turned this day. Haha.

Some of the little paths where it looked like foot traffic had been threw me off quite a bit. Eventually after taking a bit of time under a tree in the shade with my bottle of water I turned around noticing a suspicious rock. Boom! Found it.

TFTC

Found after a little searching

This has got to be one of the nicest areas to go geocaching in. We have friends living nearby so we were very happy to see this trail with a great selection of caches. It was not too hot so we trecked the ups and downs and even saw 2 dolphins frolicking in the shallows as we continued with our cache hunt. There were a couple in the series that we think are missing. Thanks to subi-two for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Terrain is starting to get a bit steeper.

Tftc

Up here for the weekend and I wanted to do as much of this series as possible. the weather put a hold on my planned morning walk with the family to find a couple. This was sort of a good thing as i had targeted this section of the walk for us to go on. i decided to come and do this section whilst the little one had is afternoon nap. i was surprised to find it a lot hillier than i thought it would be and was grateful we didn't do it in the morning as it meant i didn't have to carry him on my back. Made a quick find and noted down the numbers. TFTC

TFTC. That hill was deceptively steep!

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After that climb iGizmo sent me to the wrong side of the track. Panicking. All good after some clear thinking. TFTC.

We are off on our bikes to work on the trail today after two very windy days. Today it is a bit lighter so we decided to give it a go. So far so good.
Still puffing from the climb up here. Glad we weren't ride the bikes downhill here, we would have killed ourselves catching air on the whoopie-do's!
TFTC

Found it too a little while! Look in the bushes

Walked the trail today, great walk on a beautiful fine winter day. TFTC

I came up from Sydney last night and stayed with a good friend in Elermore Vale so I could get a early start up to shoal bay for a day of caching on the power trail.
So here I go. Let's see what I can find today. All caches that I found were in a good condition there were lots of logs in many of them and finding where to sign in order was not always easy.
I love the day of day it did take hours and lots of walking. Tonight will be a early night back at Elermore Vale with my dear friend and some reds. Thanks for the effort you went to to place all these caches and to maintain them.

Took me awhile to find this one. Eventually I found the little hide. TFTC

Before heading to Sydney we took the opportunity to hike this trail which led us thru the forest and part of Shoal Bay.
It was a pleasant walk with a few ups and downs, didn't meet much folks out there.
Luckily we found all caches except those already logged as DNF by other cachers and the bonus whose coordinates can't be determined as some numbers / caches are missing.

**Blinkies**

Tftc

Tftc. Loved this series. Tnlnsl.

Found it

Tftc

Back in the area to find the rest of this series that I didn't have time for last year!

No worries here. TFTC.

Ladybug6

Good spot

Cracked. Needs replacing wet wet
Tricky one

Replacement maybe needed

Tftc! Cache is badly damaged and has a large crack in the container. Some TLC is needed.

Found it TFTC

Found it but not in the prickly bushes TFTC

It took a long while to find the right rock, but found it.

As we planned our trip to Newcastle, a lot of this nice round in Nelson Bay. Today we went on a very hot day with our bicycles and could find containers for containers. Unfortunately we had DNF's at No. 4 and No. 25 to No. 28, so we could not determine the bonus. Too bad, would be nice if the round was complete again.
It was hot and with the bicycles the route was not easy, but the environment was nice and varied. Great views of the sea and the birdsong accompanied us constantly. [^]
**For numbers 1 and 35 give it a favorites point.**
> Thank you very much for the containers of the Moorhelmi's from Germany.

Found it

TFTC this one took a while. Vegetation very lush.

Checked a few spots before coming across the right one.
SL TFTC

TFTC!
Logged as NickElse

TFTC!

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Could not find it last year when I did most of the series and almost gave up this year to but on last pass found this commie rock

Tricky hiding spot between the bushy trees

Thank you for the terrific series.
Just up from Canberra for a lunchtime cruise with friends.
Great place to be.

Sorry subi-two I normally have my bag but not this trip as caching was an after thought. Problem cache is cracked (squashed by the look of it) water has entered turned log very black. Both need replacing.
Cheers
2N's TFTCs

Took half a minute longer than it should have GPS out swinging and not on the job. SL TFTC

TFTC

*Live logging*
Found with sesblocker.
Great coords made for a quick find.
A looney muggle ran up this hill.
TLNLSL
TFTC subi-two ?

TFTC

Nice one

TFTC