RAAFmines - Bunker 2 Rathmines, New South Wales, Australia
By jonignite on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC42D98

Must be gone

Had a good look no luck

Found with My Dad (DJANT) and my Brothers (dart16 & Jedi Anakin) I have my own account now and am trying to catch up to the boys Thanks for the cache.

Will have to come back to this one as im pritty sure where it would have been with no luck in finding the cache. C'O can you please get in touch with me about this one. Thnks

DNF for this one, had a good look all around GZ, also looked at previous logs for hints. Came here with previous finder, the log would have been well alight in the bushfires, but not even a hint for plasic was found.. jonignite.
Attempted to find this at 9:01:56 PM on 13Feb2020

Favourite so far! Such an adventure!
We too heard tigger calling!!

Found it. Nearly gave up but heard Tigger calling me. TFTC and the history lesson.

Awesome cache, had an awesome time having a look around the bunker with my friend.
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#3479
The kids had been at a mates place for lunch, so after a good feed of sausages headed out for a few caches we've missed over the years. With a looming bushfire a few kilometres in the bush we headed in after consulting the RFS app. All good.
This is a very cool spot - the kids (and me) loved the bunker, and explored it after we had found the (very good condition) cache, with a pristine original logbook. TFTC jonignite

Amazing spot.

Lovely walk!

Parked right near track and walked in. Cache log signed

Found with bedlem2

Fun find for a 4 & 2y.o

We set up camp at Mannering Park and were well positioned so we could head out and do some caching. We teamed up with the Snakepiters and enjoyed the find in this scenic area. Thanks to jonignite for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Back for the second day to finish off the Oz Geomauster Art. Success now to pick up the remaining traditionals in the area. Mixed success with a few DNF's
TFTC jonignite
Total Cache Finds 5901

catching up on some VERY backlogged logging while in isolation. found with banj5150 (banj ward), log has been dated back to when it was found. tftc

Found with Beary_Unicorns on an early Sunday morning. Visited Dux Guts TB.Tftc

Had problems finding a track in so went cross-country-not difficult. TFTC

A quick find on the cache and then to explore the bunker. Thanks for showing us this interesting, historic location. TFTC

clearing out some caches in the area and having a little extra time , So I stopped for this cache as well. It was a nice walk along the track to quickly find the cache and then I couldn't find the bunker. Lucky I had a better look as I wasn't disappointed it is pretty cool. I love the history of it. Thanks for the cache jonignite tnln replaced as found sl

Out and about with Tassie Trekkers finding more caches around Lake Macquarie as we are still in the area after attending a very fun OzGeoMuster over Easter in Morisset. We had a nice walk to GZ and found the cache easily. Thanks for sharing the history of the area. TFTC

While still staying at Morisset we travelled around the area with whiteebbs collecting a few caches and this was one of them.

An easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Today’s is the 2 second of April but yesterday I found it my put his thing down and so I put my thing down for yesterday sorry about that but nearly about to quit until I found it very good hiding spot

Tftc

Found while at mega. Thanks to those who placed caches even if they are bloody puzzles and thanks to those who helped with the answers. Interesting walk directly off track. Might have to come back for a bit of an explore .

**# 20804** Found on the start of our mega adventure to ACT, NSW, QLD and beyond.
Another fine warm morning for a drive around Morisset and Wangi Wangi with lgoody.
We found more of the OZGM series and other nearby caches.
Not many muggles around today and a good variety of hides.
Thanks for the cache jonignite,
***Roostaman***

#11022 Found and Logged with Roostaman
One of 20 caches for the day while in Morisset for the Oz Geomuster
Thanks for the cache jonignite
Lgoody

Quick stroll into the bush. TFTC

Good spot

Having a caching day while NON geocaching wife is away.
Thanks for the cache

Fascinating place although the bunker is slowly being consumed by nature. Love old historic sites like this (Favourite Point). Logbook and container in excellent condition. TFTC

Liked the walk into GZ and the interesting bunkers, they were full of water today. TFTC

Hmm lunch

Nice location never knew there was bunkers out here

I have been trying to clear my immediate area of caches. however there is a lake between me and the caches over this way and i never seem to come round here and find them. seeing that this hadn't been found for a while i decided to come for a drive after work and clear these couple. parked near the start of the wire rope barrier on the main road and walked through the nice bush to the GZ. Found quickly and took a quick look at the bunker. TFTC

Once we managed to find the right way into the bush, we took the Geo-4WD all the way down to GZ. Found the cache, and signed the log. We also had a quick look at the bunker, trying to imagine the people having to work down there.

Found with Megron62 after visiting the Catalina Memorial at Rathmines
Yet again surprised what is in our backyard and we have no knowledge of it.
Have also visited gunning placements/bunkers at Wangi Wangi about 12 months ago.
Who knows what other treasures we will come across.......
SL TFTC

Found with Deheaps after a bike ride at Rathmines. Thanks jonignite for taking us to the place. Never would have known about it. Very interesting place worth a visit. Bunker was full of water. Co-ords for the cache were spot on, a little distance from the bunker structures. Used a 4WD track to get in, and although there had been rain, was easily accessible. Dropped of TB Poppy to visit other places of war significance. Please take care of her and log her travels as she continues on her magnificent journey. SL Many thanks.

Loved the location. Growing up around here is never knew this existed. That's caching for you! TNLN SL TFTC

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Next one on the days adventure with kamfindit today. We had fun grabbing as many caches as we could together. This one was a wet walk from the main road down to the gz. Once at gz we made a quick find TFTC

In morning little raining then stop, enjoyed few caches with Mr_roo for Belmont and Redhead area...
via stop few caches on the way to Belmont..
Enjoyed walked on the little muddy track to GZ..
sign the log as no trouble..
Thanks

Found it, very nice walk in from the road to a place we probably would never have known, thanks for bringing us here and for the cache.

FOUND ON THE WAY FROM HAVOC COTY AWARDS

After the conclusion of the COTY Event, we had just one targeted cache to do to put a few smiley faces around the area visited today. We met up withe some fellow cachers and ti wasn't long before we had the cache in hand. All signed and returned. No issues with the cache - all in good order.

Found at 3.35pm on 19th December 2015. TFTC.

Found it

Found with DiscoverOz. Whilst under fire.

Happy international geocache day

I live in the area & didn't even know the bunker existed! Thanks.

Cool cache location. Not where I first expected to find it.

After a treacherous paddle to Pulbah Island and back, I stopped in here to find this cache that has been on my list for a while.

I approached from the south and took a 4x4 track which turned out to be too steep for my liking but I kept heading north to the roundabout and turned off the road just before the guard rail/wire and found a path that took me right to it without being too scary in my 4x4.

A great location and interesting history. TFTC

TNLNSL + favourite.
thanks for keeping it alive.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Big box but good hide. Wear closed shoes

Very interesting. Thank you

Quick find. Coordinates were excellent. Cache in great condition. TNLN TFTC

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We parked just before the road barrier for the round about and saw a 4WD track going parallel to the road towards the round about and followed it, soon after I realised it was not going where I wanted it to go, so with a small boy on my shoulders I headed off into the bush towards the cache. It was pretty easy going and I soon found I had over shot the cache and was on the track we should have taken in. Fortunately we found the cache pretty quickly, as we had other plans today. We had a poke around the bunker, which was much bigger then I expected and followed the track out the easy way.
Thanks for the bushwalk, interesting location and nice sized container!

Found at 10:40 AM GAFF1. We have been here before and this time we were glad that the cache was not amongst the bunker stuff as it has certainly become a lot wilder over the years.
We are again dismayed though as to why a bunker would be placed way out here and not closer to the lake? There is a lot of shooting from over the bush line going on - hope they can keep to their targets, so we are out of here just in case!
Thanks jonignite.

Good one TFTC

Total Caches Found 5714
Finds today 8
DNF'S Today 1

Out and about this morning in the Warners Bay, Toronto and Rathmines areas trying to finish off the 7 Souveners of August in less than perfect weather. Thanks to every one involved for bringing me to this beautiful part of the East Coast

Thanks for the great cache jonignite

Found this one with the geopooch. Great little piece of history.

Found it easily after a slippery walk to GZ in the rain. Interesting piece of WW2 construction. Thanks.

Found with ewokchester wally_iv and waltons_vi...would of loved to explore this bunker but it was a weeee bit flooded! Picked up a trackable (dolphie) while I was there as I was FTF out of our geocaching group !

Good Cache easy find

Found with ewokchester, hani09 and wally_vi.

Picked up trackable. Local history that I didn't know about. Nice

Nice walk. Had to park out on the highway (low 2WD), enjoyed the walk in. Swapped out TB. SL TFTC

Even though it was raining I had to get out of the house and find a few, nice area to do it in too, took TB, TFTC jonignite!!

Decided to grab a few caches today as the weather was so nice. Had been here before to find the cashman's cache and yes the bunker was as full as ever. Would be great to see what this would be like dry. Had a few TB's that needed to be dropped and it wasn't until I got home and was about to log this that I read colleda's entry. I grabbed ( brr it's cold out here )from a cacher in Sydney who had given up caching, so I thought it really strange that this was the first cache I had found in a while that was big enough to place it in. Dropped another 2 TB's in as well. Great spot.
Thanks jonignite.

Interesting bunker, pitty its full of water

Good to see this one is up and running. Mrs C gingerly drove her geoForester to GZ.
We had left a TB here previously and the hitch hiker (Brrr It's Cold Outside) has disappeared. Sadly, we believe that some cacher has kept it because it was so cute. Took the opportunity to let the geokittens out for a walk on leashes which they enjoyed, especially rolling in the dust and grass. Thanks for taking on this one jonignite. TNLNSL.

Enjoyed finding this tucked away. TFTC [:o)] A Scouts Australia Competition

cool but I wish the bunker was not flooded

Such a shame this is full of water, would be wonderful to see explore. TFTC [:x]

Geomum parked the car, opting not to tackle the track in. I think it was a was a wise choice. We found the GZ quickly, not where we expected it to be. We checked out the bunker, as my Pa had served at the Air Base at Rathmines during the war, it was quite personal to me and we had some quite time to reflect and give thanks to those who served.

Drove all the way up to the cache in our 4 wheel drive you can to if not in wet weather and have a car with higher clearance TFTC

Another quick find into wangi... although our driver nearly had an incident with a pole! Once the log was sign I decided to have a look at the bunkers. I'll definitely be back out here in the day time to have a closer look.

Interesting area, might need to come back for another look in the day! Pretty quick find!

Parked the car on the road and managed to trek it to GZ. Pretty easy find with good coordinates. Will def be coming and checking out the tunnels in the daylight as I scared of the dark and wanted to get out of there as soon as I signed the cache. TFTC

Tftc. Found with Kano555

Quickly found after following the geotrail, nice to finally get this one. Found with WebbyHRT. Tftc

I was able to drive right in to this familiar spot and find the cache easily.
TNLNSL TFTC

Nice quick find especially when you can drive to it. TFTC

Found it with TroubleGrub and thisisreallyfunny

Driving around in the area so saw this and went for it - TFTC
With Thisisreallyfunny and LukeV

Found while on our way to Toronto for a spot of shopping.
Had found the previous cache in this location (which I'd taken the long road to find), so took a closer, quicker and easier rout this time.
Quick find in the same location as the old cache.
DARN, forgot to bring the TB's from the car (had forgotten to check the cache size) - cache big enough for lots of TBs.
TNLNSL
TFTC

1200 GAFF1 Had come down to the area specifically for A24 (DNFed), so was glad I had a Find here. Nice spot. Covered a touch more. Dry and intact
Brought through for mileage: 3 Bros, Aust Light Houses, Beagle Bixby, B 2 B ingot, Iconic Bridges, Just Monkeying Around Oz, Little Moo, PAP, Play Well, Trackabulldog, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, and trackable shirt.
TFTC jonignite

great little track in nice walk here today tftc

Been here before. We drove part of the way this time and enjoyed looking around again. Didn't plan or want to go swimming down there though in that spooky place. Thanks jonignite.

Cache was an easy find, and was in good shape. Bunker was really interesting, but I didn't have the right footwear to explore inside. I left the 'Duckie the Duck' trackable, this isn't really a nice place for ducks but I was thinking more of Daffy Duck and his commando exploits.

Thanks for the cache!

Phone was giving me the right direction but not distance. Looking in all typical spots found it. Tftc

loved it so cool sadly full of water. hard to explore it . bit of the beaten track. but still happy we found it.(my real smiley ).

Our 6882nd overall find.

I remember being here before. This time Shell and I visited together. With all the rain I wasn't willing to drive in here so we walked in along a soggy track. The cache was quickly found.

Thanks jonignite for the cache.

Passing by on way home from Toronto so we ran down the presently muddy 4x4 track to sign the log and renew the find status for this cache. Nice and dry, only the one Trackable present which I'll move on. Whoever has taken all the others really need to log their retrieval correctly. It's making a hell if a mess, I'm starting to think groundswell needs a mail-out education program on Trackable logging !
Thanks for keeping this cache alive john.

[green] - Found It on Tuesday ... at 4:10 PM ...
TFTC! - jonignite ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 633


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Very good spot - must check out the bunker. TFTC- LEFT TRACKABLE

quick spot of offloading with the Scouts and this cache popped up close by, had a quick look around, surprisingly high Muggle activity, no find today, we will return.

Went bush bashing to get to this one, the first one of the day.
Probably not the best route, but was fun anyway.
TFTC

Nice revisit to a site I have not seen for decades on a nice sunny day. Trail in not muddy at all. will try power line on way out, with geo pooch running behind. Thanks, jonignite, for reinstating this cache.