Hat Tree Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia
By farmer--brown on 16-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GEJ7

Found with RM Don't look for the tree.SL TFTC

Well That was different, no hat to be found or a tree

Gpsjumped around a bit, eventually located and signed.

Yep no but cords spot on , many thanks

Continuing on with my well earned 2 week break and after staying in Rochester, Hay then White Cliffs for the night it was time to do a very big 9hr 800km detour to get me back on track as all of the roads north of White Cliffs are closed due to all of the recent rain.Im heading to Cunnamulla so to be able to head west again.For all of the trips I have done up this way this will be the first time I have travelled on this section of the Barrier Hwy.Not much traffic at this time of the morning so it is nice and easy to pull over to look for these ones.It is also great to pull over to break up the drive and to also find a cache.No tree left so hats here either but was able to locate the cache.Thanks farmer-brown TFTC.

Been working around Canungra for a couple of months and on the road back home to Manda in Adelaide. Wa raining too much to hop out when I went past a while back so stopped here for a quick cache grab on the way past.No tree but cords are spot on. Cache in good nick but in need of a new log.TFTC

TFTC - witching hour find

The tree is long gone but thankfully GPS had us right on it TFTC

With FiveTays-TT TFTC

TFTC

#19582 - 11:20:00 AM; Day three of a road trip taking the long way to Adelaide from the National Capital with the geohoney. Spent the night in Cobar, and after an early caching run around the town to collect a few more we were now on the road for Broken Hill. After reaching Central Darling, I had a couple of park and grabs loaded in the GPSr to cross another LGA off the "to do" list, including this one. The initial search was fruitless, but reading an earlier log and the hide was soon located and the log signed. Didn't have any spare logs with me, as the logsheet here is starting to fall apart and should be replaced. TFTC farmer--brown

A quick find here, cache is all goodHeaded over to the Capital GeoBash in Canberra, ACT with Freddo over 5 days, travelling through the central part of NSW before caching around the hinterlands. A nice few days over with great weather.Thanks for the cache

No tree but the cache was soon spotted in a SPOR. Tftc

Freddo and Team Waldron headed to warmer climes around Broken Hill, Cobar, Bourke, Cunnamulla
and Charleville.

After a cold start in Broken Hill the weather improved once we got further north. Sadly our last night in Broken was wet which, pardon the pun, put a dampener on things.

All up it was a great week away and lots of caches were found with only 3 dnfs.

Thanks to all who placed and maintained their caches. The occasional cache was damaged and we refurbished it and we also left new logbooks as required.

A quick find.

TFTC

Found at GZ. There is no hat tree any more.

Freddo and Team Waldron are heading north for a long delayed trip to the caching fields of Cunnamulla. This cache was found on our journey. Caches were fixed where necessary. Fresh log books added. Containers refreshed.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

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Found It!
Not sure where the tree is. I searched a nearby bush but didn't find a cache. Then I eventually found it on the ground amongst the grass and under some rocks.
TFTC

No, not a fan of this one. Coordes had me in the middle of a grassy area without any obvious trees around. But I did manage to find it. TFTC.

#12111 12:12
Together with my son, I am on a camping trip from Sydney to Broken Hill and back. On our 3000 km journey over 11 days we have seen some wonderful little towns, beautiful landscapes and many interesting geocaches.

The next leg of our travels: Cobar to Broken Hill. Of course we used geocaches to stop for a stretch of the ol' legs.
Parking on the road shoulder towing a camper trailer is a bit hairy. The hat tree was not what I expected, but another cache done!

TFTC.

While travelling through the area we picked up a few caches along the way and this was one of them.

Caches and contents were very good.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found the rest

Hmm...no hats ... had to go back to car to read previous logs and get GPS for this one. Long wet grass made for wet boots.

We are on a 2 month trip from Portland via the Mundi Mundi Bash to a wedding in Brisbane and then out west for QOGM in Charleville.

Today we are travelling from Wilcannia after staying at the caravan park for hot showers, flushing toilets and to top up the water tanks. Its the first time we have had a chance to find some caches so we enjoyed this stretch of road.

Thanks for contributing to the fun farmer--brown

Quick find. TFTC

We had planned a road trip to Queensland to visit family in 2021, but our travel plans were stalled due to border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the world was trying to get back to a semi normal state, we decided to have another go at getting away from the cold and head up north for some sunshine and warmth. After spending the night in Hillston, day 2 took us out to far reaches of NSW, stopping to grab a few smileys along the way to break up the straight roads. A lot of wildlife came across our path some literally, plenty of emu, birds, and sheep with lambs to keep us amused. Our apologies for the generic log, but thank you to all the cache owners for the placements.

There are not many hats here, they must be popular and people are keeping them. SL TFTC

And then it was hats. TFTC.

Just passing. Heading west.
Mrs. Froglipz left an earring and a ?? sticker.
STL TFTC

Another park, cross, run a further 70 metres then find and log. The hats are looking a touch sad and the whole concept of the tree looks like litter. Not sure it’s a good thing anymore. Tftc

Slowly making our way to Broken Hill and Silverton trying to avoid Covid and the localised flooding around the country.

Managed to grab this cache with the caravan on tow.

TFTC farmer--brown

#16270 @1530
Day 3 of a 4 day road trip. Today was Broken Hill to Cobar. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Not many hats here now on the dead tree but up further, the next tree was interesting….undies…who comes up with the idea to leave used underwear on a tree???
Found cache in an unexpected location, shattered.
Thanks farmer--brown for the placement.

Classic, there are also more trees we saw with Bras and clothes. Interesting on this trip. TFTC.

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Reperio 09:42

As we headed home to Newcastle from Broken Hill today, we stopped by to grab a few caches along the way. This was another one we missed grabbing on the drive to Broken Hill a couple of days ago, so we made sure to grab it today.

Gratias farmer--brown


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

No hats tonight

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Farmer Brown [^]

Tree has died so I think the cache moved out .Easy find but it is only in a plastic bag. Kutgw

We started towards a tree we thought was hat tree but saw a bra and mangled mens briefs so determined it was the underwear tree. So we looked and saw the hat tree nearby. Gremlinkid #1 found this one. TFTC.

Found it

Found

Found with 94dego94

Not the best condition no actual container

Found

Found with 94dego94

Day 7 of our road trip already, today we leaving Broken Hill for a long drive to Dubbo. Not that many caches on the way and that's good, because 40° does not make good caching weather!
TFTC Wilbert67

Another early start from Broken Hill for our caching trip with Wilbert67.
Trip so far has been quiet good except the COVID-19 that made us do a trip diversion.
Now travelling to Cobar and picking up caches along the way.
Thanks to all the COs for the placements of their hides.

This cache was a little more out in the open and needs a bit of love. Sorry nothing with us to help with that today.

Stopped in here as part of our Great Western County Hunt. It has been a truly incredible trip, as I managed to pick up the last four counties I needed to fill in my NSW county map. A super exciting thing to complete. Thanks for enabling our crazy adventures. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find and now off to the next one. This one is just a bag. TFTC

Found

West New South Wales trip 2020. Day 3. I was joined by MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 for a trip planned to go from Goulburn to Forbes, Nyngen, Cobar, Broken Hill, Wentworth and Balranald. Today we left Cobar having found all the local caches yesterday. It was a long straight drive to Broken Hill with a few caches scatterd along the way, plus a dual multi in Wilcannia along with a short sharp outback rainshower. We ended the day with an evening tour of Earthcaches around Broken Hill.

Along the road to Broken hill we made several road side stops for caches, some at decorated trees.

Thanks for the cache farmer--brown

30033.5 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 March Born To Cache A#375

**Albida**

Headed out on a 10-day trip to outback NSW with fitzy_1965 and albida33.

Day 3 saw us head from Cobar to Broken Hill via Willcania where we had lunch. It even rained for about a minute there. In logs we signed as MK, F65 & A33.

Quick find here today.

21,473. Found with minniek and albida33 during our September Outback Adventure Tour.

Day 3 - We drove from Cobar to Broken Hill, finding many interesting caches along the way. This was the next find of the day, and it was a quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then it was off to the next one.

Thanks farmer--brown !! Well this stretch is a flurry of activity after sitting in the car for a few hours !

Found hat tree. Couldnt find container.

Easy find at GZ. Thanks to someone placing a plastic bag here containing a damp log but water proof paper so I was able to sign it and therefore I can claim it. TFTC SL

Found the cache while traveling in western NSW in June 2020
My logs are a little late sorry for that
all is good


TFTC farmer--brown

GeoJoe_

TFTC farmer--brown ,
Variety of things here, replaced a few hats that had fallen off

Here is a blurb about us
We are trying to get a badge ,the author ,from project GC for writing found log files of 100 words or more. Once we get this badge we will stop writing this. We are also trying to get badges for adding photos to our found logs .
We started caching in December 2019 and by January 2020 we were hooked. As we are on the road full-time, living in a caravan for almost 2 years now, caching fits in well with this lifestyle. It is taking us to places that we would normally not have gone. When we move to a new place we also look at what caches are in the area and how many days we will need to be there in order to get the caches we want.

We are in Cobar for a few days and will try to get some caches in town and surrounding areas. We hope we can make a few smilies here to add to our find tally. We are looking forward to the variety of hides we will encounter. Thank you for your work in placement and ongoing effort for maintenance of caches.

Trackables that are with us are

*Worldwide traveller
*Nomads esu
*Bushie love
*Morepork
*Signal tag
*Miss jen
*Geocaching road trip 2015
*1500
*signal the surfing Aussie


Will be dropping a few of these when we find a cache that is big enough.

Our own personal Trackable " Cache the World " has the code #1WDM83
Its mission is to be discovered by cachers all around the world, please feel free to discover it and mention where you saw its code.

Once again thanks for the cache.

Brett and Judy.

Time for a little trip in to the outback of New South Wales. A bit of a holiday and if you are on a holiday you cannot drive past a cache without collection some on the way. I had my Geo Chauffer driving me around to collect some cache.

This cache does NEED a container it was there but was only a bag with the log. I did not have anything to put it in sorry. I did not need a hat as I had my own so did not take one, thanks anyways.

We found the cache, signed the log, replaced it back in its little hiddy hole, then on with our adventure to find the next one. Now we have logged it.

Thanks for placing the cache her guys. LilDonna

Travelling from Broken Hill to Cobar today, slowly working our way home to the QLD border, reasonably good to pull off while towing the caravan.
TFTC farmer--brown
Total Cache Finds 9228

A quick park and grab. Cache is just a plastic bag with log sheet in it, so could do with some CO TLC to give it a proper container.

Thanks for the cache farmer--brown.
Found on 12/3/20 at 11:25 am.
Find #10920.

As per found log, this one is in need of a container. It currently only exists of a sheet of paper in a zip lock bag under some rocks.

TFTC & the break - we like how the GZ isn't at the most obvious feature, which will keep it from getting raided.

Quite a few dead things surrounding this tree so getting this one was tough. TFTC!

Easy find

On the final leg heading home from the 17th National Caravan Rally in Albany.

Thank you

With GreyHams we set out on a new adventure, driving from Adelaide to Sydney via broken Hill and Bourke... with side trips in all directions as the caches lead us. Four days with a number of target caches along the way, although shires, oldies and virtuals were our priority with many others of interest too.

From the lush green of South Australia into the dry outback of NSW, contrast, scenic and interesting. With GreyHams trip planning we traveled along easily as he drove and navigated and chattered! Never a dull moment through the stark and barren land which was completely fascinating.

So many odd locations to be seen, as well as emus, kangaroos, birds, a desert horse and so many teeny tiny little goats! So many goats... I did love those goats! The dry and barren made way for more substantial lands as we drove closer towards the end of the trip, the trees returned, the hills and finally those little goats... Yay!

About 2500km, 29 shires, 4 virtuals, a number of oldies and some nice walks and places visited along the way. The locals and little towns memorable, the lands and rivers dry and sad but a great trip as we traveled along from cache to cache.

Thanks for your cache to help guide us through our travels, apologies for the generic log, If I had more to add its below this.

Another odd spot to add to the fun.

No container

No luck today for us.

Found whilst making our way home from Mutawinjti.

Cheers

Stopped for a few caches on our way to Broken Hill. Only managed to find 2 of the 4 themed tree caches this wasn’t one of them. Tftc

8494 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1145. Found the container near the fence.Returned to where the GPS'r gave us ground zero. Dead branches with small pile of rocks. SL Tnx farmer--brown

Trees obviously like dressing up around here.

Found - easy peasy!

Couldn’t find the cache here either. The RSM also seem to have graded through here.

Caching around Australia with my son frisky puppet and my sister Aunty Kimbo this Traditional was on our list for this Monday. Thanks farmer--brown for placing the cache.

On our holidays traveling around Australia and this one was one of the caches we grabbed while in New South Wales. We made a quick stop and found Hat Tree thanks farmer--brown for the cache I do like finding Traditional’s. This is find #1773 for me and I found this one with my fellow travel mates Aunty Kimbo and Josew. On a wonderful Monday.

I found this one while travelling around with my sister Josew and my nephew Frisky puppet. This is find #14 thank you farmer--brown for cache.

A quick find. Rain here.
No swaps this time.
Log book half ish.
Container good condition
Tftc

Found tftc

Found during the early stages of a drive from Wilcannia to Taree. Many thanks farmer-brown

Short search. TNLNSL TFTC

Love the idea of hiding a cache near these trees. Quick find, signed log and replaced. Thanks to farmer-brown.

TFTC,
Returning East after a week at Broken Hill with time to grab the caches along the road here.
Visited trackables to track my trip.

Found by Mary & David at 1250. Mary has worn many hats in her career - nursing, mortar boards, and pretties to curtsey. Our thanks to farmer--brown.

Day 4 of the trek to the Queensland Outback Geocaching Muster. Todays leg from Broken Hill to Cobar. Managed 10 finds for the day with a few DNF's with missing caches. TFTC.

TFTC collecting a few caches on our way to WA and the Canning Stock Route.

Another stop on a rather long boring stretc.
H. Ta

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late and generic log, something I am notorious for. Thank you farmer--brownfor adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Catching up on some very late logs.
After leaving The Drovers in Broken Hill micaparamedic and myself carried on toward Yowah for a catch up with friends, of course grabbing the occasional cache along the way.
This was our next after leaving the Bear Tree and was quite a bit different. We often wonder why these things start and how they seem to grow. This one has an off shoot in an undie tree as well, we didn't check that one out too closely.
The cache was again a nice easy find right where the GPS was pointing and the log book now contains our names.
Thanks yet again farmer-brown for another tree stop to break up our drive.

Traveling home via Snowtown, Broken Hill, Cobar, Dubbo, Forbes, West Wyalong &Temora, finding a good variety of cache types and hides. I visited some interesting historical towns and bush locations, which made the round trip well worth the drive.

I did as much maintenance as I could, replacing damaged containers and full or wet logs.
Signed and replaced.

Many thanks for placing this cache, farmer--brown, for us and others to find.

This one was an easy find. TFTC!

Found on the way to Cobar.TFTC

Found heading to Broken HILl

TFTH

Found while slowly making my way to Cobar from Broken Hill. I found the changes in the country along the way really interesting. Shame about the massive numbers of feral goats though - they really are having a big impact. Thanks farmer--brown for the cache.

Day three of our daddy/daughter outback adventure. This was a quick park and grab. I’ve appreciated all these breaking up the driving today. It’s a bit of a monotonous drive otherwise. TNLN TFTC

Have to see the tree caches were a bit underwhelming. Maybe their glory days are past.

Found on way to Cobar. Love the themed trees. TFTC

Find #6 of 7 caches found for the day

Thanks farmer--brwon for placing this treasurea that we found today. On our way to Wilcannia with the big box trailing behind. (caravan in tow)

The total count for the day was 7 consisting 7 Traditionals

Grand Cache count = 377 total consisting of 356 Traditionals, 14 Multi, 5 Mystery and 2 Earth

**# 17675** Found on the NSW outback leg of our 2017 escape trip.
Another fine Spring day for a drive westward further into the outback.
Not many muggles around today, and a good quick find here.
Thanks for the cache farmer--brown,
***Roostaman***

Thanks for the cache! : )

Geobet&tor TFTC

The hats were a little light on this visit. I wished we had bought some of Ians many caps to add to the small collection.



thanks

Ian & Sue - Team Pathfinder uses T.P. to sign smaller logs.

A meandering tour in outback NSW after spending some time at Cobar.
Thanks again farmer--brown.

Found at 1017. A quick find on the side of the road. TFTC.