Guard Quattro Forde, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By
Rapidlywild on 15-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44EAB
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Logs
I normally don't have a problem finding these "guard" caches, bur this one o can't find at all.
A quick and easy one before the school run. Found it quickly, TFTC rapidly wild!
Nice quick find and was able to locate without coords. Cache in excellent condition TFTC!!
A quick and easy find, a relief after a string of DNFs. Thanks for the cache Rapidlywild
Zipped out this way for a trad today and to tick another off the Guard list. Thanks Rapidlywild for the cache.
Almost missed it but got it on the end! Nice quick find on the way to work
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Off on a little road trip to Gundaroo for pizza to celebrate mother's day. But I decided I may as well leave earlier than required to collect some caches on the way.
Quick find on the way out. Found in the usual spot
TFTC
Quick find on the way out. Found in the usual spot
TFTC
A quick park and grab cache on the way back from clearing out bonnet caches this morning TFTC
Couldn't see it might come back at night when it's quieter and I don't have to be so stealthy
Found on a trip around town while at Canberra for a few days. 
A few good hides and not many muggles around here.
This one was missing, so with CO approval it has been replaced.
Cache condition is now good/OK here.
Thanks for the cache Rapidlywild,
***Roostaman ***
A few good hides and not many muggles around here.
This one was missing, so with CO approval it has been replaced.
Cache condition is now good/OK here.
Thanks for the cache Rapidlywild,
***Roostaman ***
Quick find with barb2e picking up some in the suburb. All good with cache. TFTC Rapidlywild
Decided to grab this on a whim after MTBing the Northern CT after work. I was at the campsite after dark, doing a night ride up the switchbacks past Oak Hill. Scared a few sheep that were in the dark nearby. At the top there was a nice orange glow fading into deep blue then darkness over the northern hills. Nearby, the suburbs twinkled away - I was the only soul up there. The ride to the cache involved sweeping single track, ripping down firetrails & scaring the hell out of some roos.
GZ was quiet, then when I started searching I had to wait for a bunch of cars and multiple muggles go past.
GZ was quiet, then when I started searching I had to wait for a bunch of cars and multiple muggles go past.
This one was good but kind of obvious because there is not much around but you do have to be careful because there are a lot of muggles here.
Our first ever Geogache, was a bit tricky with our 2 munchkins but some eagle eyes spotted it. Unfortunately we didn’t have a pen to write in it, maybe we will come back later.
Grabbed quickly between cars, easier to get than some other in this series as this road is not verybusy
Find # 4976
Found with sesblocker.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC Rapidlywild
1 June 2019 3:22 pm
Found with sesblocker.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC Rapidlywild
1 June 2019 3:22 pm
TFTC smile 4584 out and about with miss Millie geo dog Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment on my way to Albert
Another 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!
Another guard cache visited.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!
Another guard cache visited.
Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*
Had to move from EPIC to Gundaroo today to await the openingof Queanbeyan Showgrounds, after setting up we still had a full day to fill in so caching we did. Headed back towards Bonner looking at the caches along mulligan flat road.
TFTC Rapidlywild
Total Cache Finds 6936
TFTC Rapidlywild
Total Cache Finds 6936
Left Port Macquarie heading south to the Mega event At Canberra.
A few days stopping at the EPIC.
Today was the day we decided to visit some of the new outer suburbs concentrating on the UGC series.
We stopped also to find a number of JackaKid's caches, as well as another in the guard series.
Thanks for placing this cache Rapidlywild
A few days stopping at the EPIC.
Today was the day we decided to visit some of the new outer suburbs concentrating on the UGC series.
We stopped also to find a number of JackaKid's caches, as well as another in the guard series.
Thanks for placing this cache Rapidlywild
Found with nissan 65 on a few days caching in Canberra. We headed up monday night after work and stayed at our usual over night spot in Goulburn before heading out to Canberra. Returning home today. Thankyou to all cache owners for placing these for our enjoyment.
So I still need 130 or so this year to complete a challenge (avg 6 a day!) so there are not many spots left where I can grab up towards 100 in a day...
The weatherman was saying that it would start getting super hot in a few days, and I didnt fancy a 20km walk in 35 degrees. Today was max 21 and while it said it 'might' rain, in the end I didnt get a drop.
All in all it was a very successful day, the CCT trail, some real oldies, some others with interesting hides. All were found with relative ease, there is always one, right? Saw some spectacular views from the Fire Finder II cache, I saw this same mountain about 5 hours later near the end of the trail and it was hard to believe I had walked all that way... then I took another step and my legs/ankles told me that they believed it.
So, at the end of the day I have apparently done 31,00 steps, I have sore ribs, maybe a broken pinky finger from where I fell over right near the end, and I can barely move, but a lovely bath sorted me out.
Sorry for the generic log, I have almost 100 to log
The weatherman was saying that it would start getting super hot in a few days, and I didnt fancy a 20km walk in 35 degrees. Today was max 21 and while it said it 'might' rain, in the end I didnt get a drop.
All in all it was a very successful day, the CCT trail, some real oldies, some others with interesting hides. All were found with relative ease, there is always one, right? Saw some spectacular views from the Fire Finder II cache, I saw this same mountain about 5 hours later near the end of the trail and it was hard to believe I had walked all that way... then I took another step and my legs/ankles told me that they believed it.
So, at the end of the day I have apparently done 31,00 steps, I have sore ribs, maybe a broken pinky finger from where I fell over right near the end, and I can barely move, but a lovely bath sorted me out.
Sorry for the generic log, I have almost 100 to log
It was a cold, windy and rainy night and I'd collected 3 caches nearby and had got soaked and frozen. I had decided to call it a night and go home. But I had chosen to walk a different path back to the car and oddly enough the weather improved as I walked. The yucky weather had blown over. The stars had come out and the wind died down. I no longer felt icy cold. So naturally I thought I'd sneak in one more cache and this was on my way.
Having found several of this series before, I knew what to look for. Since it was a yucky night, there were no cars and no people around. This was going to be an easy and quick grab. Or so I thought. It turned out to be the hardest cache find of the night for me. There was nothing in the first spot I looked. I shined my torch all over and felt all under. Nothing. Perhaps my GPS was off? So over to the other side I trotted and repeated the search pattern. Although no cache was found, I saw something that I realised I hadn't seen in the first location and therefore hadn't checked. So, back over the road I went again. This time, I was relieved to finally have CIH. Phew.
TFTC
Having found several of this series before, I knew what to look for. Since it was a yucky night, there were no cars and no people around. This was going to be an easy and quick grab. Or so I thought. It turned out to be the hardest cache find of the night for me. There was nothing in the first spot I looked. I shined my torch all over and felt all under. Nothing. Perhaps my GPS was off? So over to the other side I trotted and repeated the search pattern. Although no cache was found, I saw something that I realised I hadn't seen in the first location and therefore hadn't checked. So, back over the road I went again. This time, I was relieved to finally have CIH. Phew.
TFTC
On Thursday evening I stupidly decided to volunteer to go out on Sunday afternoon/evening and place some advertising signs for the quilt show next weekend (one of my other interests then, sometime yesterday, I noticed that I only have 10 Canberra suburbs I have not found a cache in... and 3 of them are side by side over here... So - I decided that seeing that where I had to put the signs was sort of part way here - I might come caching over here afterwards... so here I am... a bit later than originally planned, because I stayed up later than planned last night, got up later than planned today, got less done than I planned today, and got away to place the signs a bit later than planned - so it was totally dark by the time drove over this way... which is probably the best way to do a pile of suburban caches
TFTC - walked up here from the probably missing one that I had ducked over to from the one I had parked beside... nice easy find - arrived and retrieved during a gap in traffic, found an interesting bracelet/fidget toy in there - left it for someone else and took a photo of it so I can work out how to make one (or more) for myself (good excuse to actually use some of the several packets of loom bands I got on special in a cheap shop - lol)
Replaced cache in the next traffic gap (not a lot of traffic at 8:30 on a Sunday evening, but still more than there once used to be)
then, sometime yesterday, I noticed that I only have 10 Canberra suburbs I have not found a cache in... and 3 of them are side by side over here... So - I decided that seeing that where I had to put the signs was sort of part way here - I might come caching over here afterwards... so here I am... a bit later than originally planned, because I stayed up later than planned last night, got up later than planned today, got less done than I planned today, and got away to place the signs a bit later than planned - so it was totally dark by the time drove over this way... which is probably the best way to do a pile of suburban caches TFTC - walked up here from the probably missing one that I had ducked over to from the one I had parked beside... nice easy find - arrived and retrieved during a gap in traffic, found an interesting bracelet/fidget toy in there - left it for someone else and took a photo of it so I can work out how to make one (or more) for myself (good excuse to actually use some of the several packets of loom bands I got on special in a cheap shop - lol)
Replaced cache in the next traffic gap (not a lot of traffic at 8:30 on a Sunday evening, but still more than there once used to be)
Thanks for the cache. Was trying to check out Jacka. Found with legocacher79, chakram and yengah. Was Yengah's first Guard rail cache.
Pretending to admire and catching pokemon while others retrieving the cache.
Pretending to admire and catching pokemon while others retrieving the cache.
Trust me to be on the wrong side of the road but no worries. Not much traffic in the middle of the day. TFTC
This was a little tricky, surprisingly there was a bit of traffic on a Sunday night, but with 3 of us, we managed to sign log and replace!
I braved the cold and wind (but avoided the rain) for a series of caching walks around Forde, some with (geo)daughter and some without. It is a rich caching area around here and it wasn't too hard to bring up a total of 17 finds and no DNFs.
Once you get the hang of this series they are pretty straightforward and my hand fell straight onto this one at the first touch. TNLNSL TFTC
Random draft log word for this cache: Opal
Once you get the hang of this series they are pretty straightforward and my hand fell straight onto this one at the first touch. TNLNSL TFTC
Random draft log word for this cache: Opal
