Googong's Gate Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By Tankengine on 10-Nov-12. Waypoint GC411E4

What a glorious day! We were a little confused but then saw the footpad in. This would be a perfect spot if it was spilling. tftc

Found while looking at the dam. Cheers

Couldnt find it family didnt want to go hiking

Tftc easy find

Found it forgot to bring been willl come on the weekend to sign it ️

What a wonderful way to spend a day! Great weather, good friends, a beautiful trail, excellent caches and a delightful Queen soundtrack care of the trail CO! Thanks for the Geocaching Queens - Toyhunters, Barb2e, Joolay, Seach4, GLISS, Contesta and aykayem for all the fun. Signed as GQ16. Popped up here to check out the beautiful views on the way home. Sadly this one had disappeared so we replaced with permission from the CO. Happy caching everyone!

Cache replaced with COs permission at the end of a great afternoon doing the Queen series with a few extra caches for good measure. Great fun and great company. Tftc

Find # 8543

Making the most of the opportunity to duck out for a few hours of caching fun as the Geocaching Queens for todays group. Had a go at finding this one on the way out along with a few others, seems it was missing though. CO gave permission for the cache container and log to be replaced. With Barb2e, Search4, GLISS, Nibbletricecrackers, and Aykayem.

Thanks so much for the cache Tankengine And of course for getting me out and about and enjoying this area too

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Couldn’t find it

Found this a while ago with SA. TFTC

Really good one! I little bit before where it says but good!

Missing

Did not find is it still here

Off roading was fun

Log in good condition. Wonderful view.
Thanks for the cache
️Team Begerah.

Great view of the dam TFTC

Great view! Thank you

Beautiful spot

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I’m visiting from Perth. Fabulous view. Thanks for the cache.

What a great viewing spot!!

Took me a while to figure out how to get into those bushes. Started looking for grass that looked like it could have walked on few times. Found a spot. But then saw some poops. Looks like a wombat made that post its bed
Eventually saw some opening between bushes (near a pole) that resembled a potential path.

Also, what are the chances for muggles to show up! Had to wait for them to take some photos and leave

Out today in the Googong area to get some caches before we leave Canberra. TFTC Tankengine

TFTC. An accidental find. We stopped here to take photos of the dam overflowing and GH questioned if there was a cache nearby. I looked at the app and responded that there was one within metres. Seconds later GH had it in hand.

I spotted the spillway overflowing while driving down the road. Pulling over, we headed up the dirt track and I ascended an obvious vantage point to get some images in the last of the sunlight (after a weekend of clouds). After a few shots I asked GHJ if there was a cache nearby... yep. I was standing on it!

Dam still spilling today when we came out for a look and grabbed this cache while in the area. Good view from here. TFTC.

Fluke cache find. Was out here to look at the dam flowing over and thought this would be a good spot to hide a cache

TFTC

Found

Found this cache today. Signed dsd or Darksidedan or AB or Adventure Boys to save space in the logbook thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Great cache

Wonderful view tftc

Great location. Tftc

TFTC

A straightforward find here, and a lovely view. Thank you Tankengine.

Emz54 and Hballs found while in early labour

Tankengine had some maintenance to do on his caches out this way. We had a window of opportunity in our busy day to come and fix the one needed as well as check on a couple of the others.

This cache: Pretty good views of the dam from here. We admired and discussed how these dams are made, before heading off for some lunch and much needed other work that we had to get done today.

Thanks for a great morning of caching and of course TFTC Tankengine!!!

Found

Surprising good views for such a short walk. Could have almost made this a drive-by.
Thanks for the views TS

Nice view is the dam wall

I was passing by and stopped for the find. TFTH

Cache 5440 on 31 Aug 2019.

After missing out on our caching mission last weekend due to me being sick, Fox in Jox and I got our stuff sorted and headed out to Googong today instead. It was a glorious afternoon, and I grabbed around 9 caches, just what the doctor ordered. Fox was nursing an injured leg, so I don’t think I slowed him down today! He got maybe 11 caches.

This cache: lovely view of the dam wall and spill way, even with our ugly mugs in the way! Quick find!

Thanks Tankengine for the cache and the fun!

Out with AngelG27 on the last, but sunny day of winter.

Nice view of the wall and slip. TFTC TE

Found during my adventures at the Clear Waters mega. Thank you for all the caches!

We started with ziggiau and me in the morning, Milo-Mike and NoTomorrow joined us. TFTC.

Nice view of the dam spillway

Awesome view, thanks wouldn't have seen the spillway if it wasn't for this cache.

#7685 13:35
Day two of the Clear Water Mega Event, we came over to Googong Dam to walk the Queen Power Trail with the Toy Hunters.
Upon completion we decided to drive back to the base camp and relax a bit. But it is very hard to drive past a cache that is close to the road. So I stopped, popped out and found this cache.

TFTC

So glad you investigated this lonely track Tankengine. Well, we guess the track isn't so lonely anymore. While out at the Googong Dam area today to cache on the Queen Tour as part of the huge MEGA event in Queanbeyan we decided to take this little walk. It was worthwhile for the view and for the cache.
Cheers and happy caching!

Day 2 of our Clear Waters event and Queanbeyan/ACT adventures started off with a delightfully sunny and fresh morning which allowed us to find plenty of well placed caches. We spent the morning in Googong before heading back into Queanbeyan to explore the city centre.

Amazing view of the dam, nice to see this perspective.

Thanks Tankengine for placing and maintaining this cache.

This morning I was fortunate to be invited along on a caching quest by the Ziggsta and Mavman. I wasn't the only stray they picked up with ozmilo joining too. Haha. Deciding to use real first names instead of geocaching ones, we came up with the team name of MEEL.

I had a great time walking around a number of traditional, multi and mystery caches in the dam area and getting to know our new friend MiloMike. Having sent a little lonely (definitely not alone though) the last 5 days, it was great to hang out with old friends and let my hair down a bit, singing along to Queen songs and chatting up a storm with the Ziggsta. Haha

Perfect weather. Best company. Beautiful location. Great caches.

TFTC

Visiting Canberra for the Mega Event and having a wonderful time touring the city with my host and sister Tealby, finding many caches in the process.
Picked this one up on the way home after a very exhausting day walking around the Googong area.
Many thanks for the cache Tankengine.

After completing the Queen trail, we stopped for this cache. Amazing views of the Dam.

Found with Ziggiau, NoTomorrow and Mavetju. To save room in logbook, we signed as MEEL.

Thanks for the cache.
# # #5200 # #

We parked nearby and made the short trek to this cache hide on our way to attend To Hunters tour of the Queen series of caches located nearby.
Thanks Tankengine for this hide.

Found today while at the Clear Waters event with my Mum and Dad and little brother! On our way out to the dam for the Queen series now....

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After a couple of hours at the mega and some lunch, we're off to to the Queen walk. A quick stop on the way..... I followed the phone to the guardrail, then realised it had stopped showing 'track up' and was going the wrong way, we corrected, bush bashed a little and had the cache.
TFTC!

We decided to come out here first thing this morning so I could walk up the incline whilst still fresh, so timed our arrival for when the gates opened at nine.
Thanks for the great view, how spectacular would it look if water was coming across the spillway.
Thanks for the cache, another tankengine for the Cacheopoly challenge at the Mega

3734 20 April 2019
Attending The Clearwaters Ozemega at Quenbeyan and grabbing a few caches and power trails around the area. Signing the logs 'A44' as requested. Out caching with The Neighbs.

TNLNSL
TFTC Tankengine

Find # 4486
Found with sesblocker, Aries44duo.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
We are staying at Queanbeyan showground for the "Clear Waters" Mega event. This is day six of our mega adventure.
As requested by the organising committee, we have abreviated our caching name to "TN".

TFTC Tankengine
20 April 2019 2:44 pm

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. Our team "LUCKY9" started off the day walking around Googong Dam targeting the Queen geocache trail, before then heading south through Royalla and visiting Michelago, and then heading north via Burra. A massive day caching indeed in great weather.

A small scramble up the road edge to reach this one, and once up there, spent a few minutes looking for this geocache until I finally found it. The cache and contents were in good shape. Thanks Tankengine. Great views!

Nice hiding place
Found on my way to Queen PT mega tour
Thanks for the cache

A quickie find in company after the Queen geotour. TFTC!

12296 Found and Logged 8:35:00 AM
Picking up a few cachers while in Quernbeyan for the Clear Waters Event
Great weather to be outdoors
Thanks for the cache Tankengine
Lgoody

Found after the Queen Tour while down for the Mega event at Clearwater. finding over 20 caches on the day. Thanks For The Cache Tankengine
# 1881 at 1:37:00 PM on 19Apr2019

Find Number 1842, found at 13:38. This was the 26th find of 35 finds and 0 DNF's today

Day 2 of the Clear Waters Mega trip with GeoSon NationalSteel. This morning we joined Toy Hunter for a tour of his GooGong Queen series, after which we tackled some more of the local caches.

Another hill! Just what we needed after the Queen Tour, but we managed it and, after a bit of a search, we made the find.

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log using the initials GT/NS and replaced the container as found

Thanks Tankengine for the cache.

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*

A quick find.
What an fabulous view of the spillway. Unfortunately, dry today.
TNLNSL TFTC

Thanks for putting this cache here or I would have not seen this massive spillway and general construction of the dam. TFTC Tankengine

A great Dam view from here! TFTC Tankengine!

Easy find with an awesome view of the dam and spillway. TFTC

Another long great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*

Very nice lookout here.

We found this cache after having just completed the nearby Queen geo-trail. There was no water flowing today but we could imagine how impressive it would look in full flow! We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Out with gregandjudi to find a few caches before the Event
at Henry Rolland Park. The last for the day and we enjoyed
the view across from GZ. Found, signed and replaced the
cache for the next finder...

Thanks again Tankengine.

Little Squirell

Found on the way to a Dam View. TFTC

Almost a park and grab in the way to the Mystery.

TFTC.

Out and about with Little Squirell.
My GPS was showing a couple of caches closer to town that had been archived, so we moved on to this one.
Good view across the dam.
TFTC

Yes, a nice "lookout" from here. TFTC

Traveled from Sydney to Canberra for CanCon (tabletop and board games convention) this Aust Day long weekend. Spent a lovely sunday morning caching around Googong dam - completing the Queen Powertrail and a number of other nearby caches. Had better weather (albeit drizzly at times) than the ~40deg day prior! Passed 1500 finds today - and have logged slightly out of order so that cache #20 of the powertrail could be my 1500th ;p Thanks to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining these caches

I visited Googong Dam to have a go at Toy Hunters "Queen" power trail so grabbed this one on the way past. Thanks Tankengine.

We”rocked”it

Found on the way out before gate close. Impressive view of the Googong spillway but it will take a lot of rain to get the water level up there again! Thanks for the cache.

Pick this one up after a morning paddle on the dam. TFTC.

After a paddle on the dam this morning we stopped by here to have a look for this cache. It was soon spotted in the obvious place and duties were completed before all was returned to its proper position. Our thanks go to Tankengine placing this cache for us to find.

#10162 @1035
On my way to today's mountain bike orienteering at Kowen Forest, I called in to Googong Dam to find all the caches on the northern end of the dam. A quick find. TFTC.

What an amazing view, I think I’ll have to come back tomorrow on my lunch break to take in some of this breathtaking area - TFTC Tankengine, I really enjoyed it!

Beautiful spot

Today was Googong Day... Aquilus1 and I wanted to clear out the half dozen around the damn, get the coordinates for London loft and maybe collect it. Unfortunately there was not enough time for all of that, but at least we cleaned up a lot of caches and now know exactly where London Loft is... we need it for our JASMER month challenge which we want to complete as mush as possible of before we go the States next month.

Cant believe anyone DNF'd this one, it stood out worse than dogs testicles... saw where it must be from 10 metres.... through scrub!

Having said that, I have DNF'd many a cache that was sitting in plain sight, so I cannot comment! 150+ in a day would make the most resolute of us cache blind

After a week of sunny skies and nice winters days around rolled today... grey, windy, wet and somewhat cold! But today was set aside for Googong and the general area with GreyHams to target some sort after caches that filled gaps in our jasmers, and with our America trip coming up soon we were still keen to continue on regardless.

We got lucky with the rain stopping so we're able to get around to the caches on our list, London lofts coordinates collected but will have to wait for collecting another day, perhaps a day when the sun shines - that would be nice!

Nice easy parking and then the short walk up the track, GreyHams ahead of me had it quickly spotted while walking in. Would love to see this when it's flowing well, that would be a sight.

Today is the 1st of July 2018 and I managed to find 157 caches for the day. It was amazing, we did so many caches with only about 10 DNF’s for the whole day. We spent a total of almost 12 hours caching and I was dog tied at the end of it all. There were some highlights for the day, Joolay got her 1500th cache find, I got my 3500th cache find and Kitty Katch got her 5000th cache find. We spotted an Echidna, a Wombat and several thousand Kangaroos during the day. Not sure exactly how far we drove but it was many hundreds of kilometres. I love geocaching so much and the friends I have made along the way make it all worthwhile.

THIS WAS A DNF FOR OUR GROUP. THE LOG AND AREA AROUND IT WERE SEARCHED AND WE COULD NOT FIND THE CACHE. THIS WAS OUR FIRST DNF OF THE DAY. WE WILL RETURN TO LOOK FOR IT LATER. IT SOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT WHEN WE TRIED TO LOOK UP THE DETAILS OF THIS CACHE THAT FOR SOME VERY ODD REASON IT DID NOT COME UP ON BOTH KITTY KATCH AND MY PHONES. WE THOUGHT THAT IT HAD BEEN ARCHIVED.

I have included one of the Geocaching poems that I have written. I hope that anyone reading it likes it. Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the generic log for this cache but with 157 caches in one day it would be too hard to write a different one for each cache.

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind

I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see

Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?

Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there

As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of 31st January 2018 my average was less than 70 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After 3500 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 90 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

We found this one this arvo after doing most of the old Cooma road series, Drove up the track and made this simple find, nice view but the slipway is very dry. Noticed a barrier board in the scrub on the way out, oops. Tftc.

Great location. What a sight even without the overflow going. TFTC TE.

Quick cache today.

TFTC... found with 3 and 6 year old, who needed a leg stretch. Pen not working well so left dirty smudges on very back page...

TFTC. TNLNSL! All in good order.

Wednesday 3 January 2018 - a perfect sunny Summer's day spent walking approx. 6km around the beautiful green slopes of Googong Dam (Queanbeyan side) to find 8 from 8 caches over 4 hours. We enjoyed the gorgeous native flowers in full bloom with good views over a dam with a very low level of water. Quick and easy find AND great view to revisit when the dam is overflowing. Worth a favourite point. Thx p2p. TFTC Tankengine

Down for the weekend in Goulburn, so we ventured out to Googong for find a few caches. The dam walk was enjoyable aswell as all the caches along the way. thanks for bring us here and for the caches. Found with Team lewin.

With the geo brother down for the weekend from Newcastle (aussieben) we decided on somewhere new to cache - googong dam! Spent the morning here and didn't disappoint. Most caches were in good condition and coordinates great. Enjoyed a great walk and series with a cool saturday breeze we all love! Thanks to all the COs today for their cache placement in a lovely area.

An afternoon to spare, let's go geocaching Googong. Great views back over the dam! Favourite added. TNLNSL TFTC

Spent the day caching around Lake Googong and surrounds. The day started off on a chilly note but by the it was pleasantly warm. No wildlife to report, but the stories we shared along the way were enjoyable. Apologies for the generic log, it doesn't detract from the fun we had.

TFTC

found while fishing with wink ink.my normal fishing and caching outing at this time of year .late log waited till got home to Dorrigo onmid north coast tftc.sl.

Gone fishing
Thanks for the walk

Tftc

Easy find thanks