Binary Clear Creek, New South Wales, Australia
By Becon4046 & Alwyn255 on 08-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4J9H5

Thanks quick one

fitzy_1965 and I organised a group to do the walk around Peel Common.Our group included: Contesta, domsky, FurfacesLL, youban, tankengine, dty73, GLISS!, Joolay, kittykatch, tikvaNZ, isopeda, barb2e & smittengranny.Day 2 started with a group effort around Mt Panorama only had two cache to find on the lap but was great to hang out with the others before departing ways.Once the lap was finished, we all went our separate ways before heading home.All caches found quickly and easily unless otherwise stated.

Find # 124316/7/2024 18:46Caching adventures continue, plans were hatched, word got around, and with some trustee like-minded souls we assembled at the cemetery start line - KittyKatch, Joolay, fitzy_65, mimmiek, TikvaNZ, isopeda, dty73, FurfacesLL, domsky, Youvan, Barb2e, Tankengine. Signing CBI24 for Canberra Bathurst Invasion Always shenanigans in a group as you never quite know what might happen but its guaranteed to be fun!All caches located, retrieved, signed, and replaced.Thanks opted-out user for Binary

Bathurst Invasion by a group of Canberran cachers. We are signing as CBI24 (Canberra Bathurst Invasion 24).There are barb2e, Kittykatch, Joolay, FurfacesLL, DTY73, Tankengine, Youban, SmittenGranny, Contesta, Gliss! Domsky, Fitzy_1965, Minniek, and me.We all have been solving the puzzles ove the last few weeks in preparation.Plan for today is mainly Peel Reserve and a few around town.TFTC

A weekend of fun with a group of Canberra cachers. The weather was beautiful, cold and clear with little wind and it was a perfect day to be out walking and exploring and enjoying a winter weekend in Bathurst. We signed the logs as CBI24 ( Canberra-Bathurst Invasion 2024)Thanks for all the adventures and efforts to create some fun hides for the Geocaching community. Domsky

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#22653. Parked on the side road, and crossed the main toad to make a quick find. TFTC.

Quite quiet on the roads, but as usual, a car goes past just as you are signing the log book. TFTC.

Catching up with some cache finds I failed to log in the field last Monday, thanks.

Found while OCW the Brintz crew in Bathurst and surrounds.

#11382 15:24
The first day of geocaching in the wider area of Bathurst with Team Canary, Brewmaker, Noodles21, Ziggiau and Rainbow Spirit. After meeting up for breakfast in Leura, we drove to Bathurst via backroad finding caches in Mt Victoria, Wang, Sunny Corner, Dark Corner and Palmey Oakey,
Logs were signed with the team name BRINTZ.



TFTC!

Solved this awhile ago and found on our way to Bathurst. TFTC

An easy find on a day where it barely rained.

Tftc becon4046,
Day 2 of our geo tour from Bathurst.
Taking a drive on the road less traveled today. Expecting some great scenery and plenty of caches.
Thanks to everyone involved in creating caches and trails for us to enjoy.
Made a quick find here, thanks for the puzzle.

Fun cache to solve and a neat container TFTC

Out caching with jennyfromthefarm today for a cache loop tftc

We have travelled from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Bathurst for a 9 day holiday, camping in our Jayco Swan Outback Camper Trailer at the Bathurst NRMA Big4 Caravan Park, and plan to collect some caches & Adventure Labs in the Bathurst and surrounding areas.

Today we went on a cache collecting loop drive up Sofala Road, then along Pymonts Lane, and returning to Bathurst via Limekilns Road & Marsden Lane. Took a slight detour, off Sofala Road, for an interesting visit to Peel Cemetery. Finished the day with a few finds around the Kelso area. This was the 18th of 30 finds for the day (day 4), and 68th find of the holiday.

Another puzzle solved by the family's chief puzzle solver before leaving home, and a nice quick find at GZ today. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thanks Alwyn255 & Becon4046 for the puzzle & cache.

Find #4288

Found it

The start of a fabulous adventure. Kicking off a NSW Discovery holiday with nibletricecakes and k8tybee by starting with a group invasion with kittykatch, joolay, smittengranny, barb2e, and onieferret around Bathurst tackling many puzzles and some strands of the TRLT trail. We signed the logs as "Capital Crunchers". Thanks to all the COs for placing these caches for our enjoyment.

Out for a weekend of caching with some great friends from the Canberra caching crew. Awesome fun with Onieferret, Barb2E, Smittengranny, Joolay, K8TYBEE, Kittykatch and GLISS! Signed the caches as Capital Crunchers. Thanks so much for all the fun. Thanks for the cache!

A weekend geocaching trip with Barb2E, GLISS!, Joolay, Kittykatch, K8TYBEE, Nibletricecakes and Smittengranny. The weekends finds were signed as Capital Crunchers.
What a great weekend of finds.
Thank you

Avoiding Covid places and needing a time out so hitched a ride, armed with hand sanitiser, we went out for a weekend of caching with the Canberra caching crew. Great fun with Nibletricecakes, GLISS!, Onieferret, Barb2E, Joolay, Smittengranny, and Kittykatch. We signed the caches as Capital Crunchers. TFTC!

Had to have help with this one. All good with cache.
Found with Kittykatch, barb2e, Smittengranny K8tybee, Nibletricecakes, Onieferret. and GLISS! caching as Capital Crunchers. picking up some around the area. TFTC becon4046

Caching trip to collect TRLT caches with a group of friends from Canberra. Caches signed as Capital Crunchers.

Thanks for hiding this cache becon4046

Quick find before heading back into town.

Travelling as part of Capital Crunchers from Canberra on an "Invasion " of Bathurst. Our main object was as many of TRLT as possible as well as some extras along the way. Thanks to all COs who have added to our enjoyment of this great weekend. Logs were signed as Capital Crunchers or CC.

Good find on the way back to town after a loop of TRLT trail. Signed as Capital Crunchers. Tftc

Found tyftc. this trip for july school holidays in and around Bathurst, Find #2084

This one was gone. I have replaced the cache with one a little larger and more firmly attached.

No luck at this one

Had a long search for this one, but unfortunately we were unable to locate the cache.

Thanks anyways becon4046

We are enabling our caches as travel is now allowed. Please remember that Covid-19 lives for up to 3 days on plastic surfaces. Keep yourself and others safe by using hand sanitiser or gloves.

We are shutting down our caches while the Coronavirus lock-down is in place. We want to protect every finder as current information indicates that the virus can linger on plastic surfaces for up to 9 days. Many caches are near people's homes and we cannot encourage anyone to spread this virus.
Stay safe and heed the doctors advice to stay home if you can.

Day 3 in Mudgee and our last. Today was for picking up the middle sectioon of the TRLT series before moving on to Bathurst. A more enjoyable day as the wind had eased and this section of the road has been graded. A long day as we had to get to Sofala as this will be the end point from Bathurst.

TFTC becon4046
Total Cache Finds 9198

Not successful in our search for this one. Thanks becon4046

I was in two minds about finding this cache [:o]
One mind said "find the cache"
The other said "you've got zero chance"

The ones had lined up though,
and I zeroed in on the cache

TFTC and an easy puzzle [^]

Love these puzzles! Solved it last week and now we're out to find the finals. All good!

Caching with oldmorty and marj01.
(Log signed OMF to save space).
Thanks Becon4046 & Alwyn255 for placing this cache for us to find.

OCW frazerdaze and marj01. House sitting at White Rock for a week has provided an opportunity to do some geocaching runs around Bathurst - mainly TRLT series indispersed with a number of trads and puzzle caches. During the day we saw lovely scenery, lots of sheep and cattle, a few foxes and one deer in the forestry area. We even encountered fire persons doing a burn off which included two of the caches we were chasing. Please excuse the generic logs and thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches and adding to our enjoyment. For expediency all logs were signed OMF.

On a big weekend caching with oldmorty and Frazeydaze and logs have signed OMF.
Would like to thank all cache owners, for making and maintaining the caches.

Out on a caching roadtrip for a few day over the holidays I stopped in here to look and find this hide.
It sure has been a really enjoyable scenic country drive.
With so many finds I appoligise for my repeated logs.
Thanks to all the CO for placing their caches along the way
Cheers
Bonfire7

After overnighting in Bathurst, we are looking at some of the TRLT series today.

Easy puzzle, cache not so easy to find.

Log signed and cache replaced at 5:38 PM on December 17, 2018. TFTC.

Found with RoddyC whilst exploring the Bathurst area.
TFTC

Loved these puzzles in the area. Worked out as many as we could but doubt we will have time to look for them all but we will do our best. Thanks for the puzzle and the cache.

Half of the team doesn't know much about codes so did well to work this out on her own. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

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Day Two of my Bathurst run. Collecting some pre solved puzzles and traditionals on the route. Gorgeous fresh morning! signed log as S15

#1852 I had plans to go somewhere else this morning with the intention of knocking of a few more hide dates & hide months which I had plugged into the GPSr but then the call from alnic39 first for a puzzle to be solved then did I want to come. Always fun with adlib caching. My GPSr came preloaded with caches but they are only trads and the newest logs are from March 2017 so that is much so have to follow alnic39 only a few times did I have coords so I had to follow Al around then at the end had to get a list of the caches we ended up doing.

This was the 20th find for the day & it was another solved the puzzle from a few nights ago to add to the list of solved caches to get while in the area today. A nice quick discovery. It was interesting using the AN39 app for solving puzzles for a while

We signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Alwyn255 & Becon4046

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2012, 2017 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

another good puzzle that I could do. Out and about with geocaching friends. then I went up the road to find the TRLT cache that I could not find on the last two visits! TFTC

Spent the day outdoors collecting puzzle caches that I had previously solved. Great weather for it as I made my way in and around my new town. A range of interesting puzzles out there to be solved and I'm looking forward to hiding some of my own. The caches I found today were easy enough with the help of my partner. Thanks for the caches

Found with dlturner and kazzacosmo

Found another one on our trip

Found

F(H)ound It! #2107 - @ 12:15 PM

Day 2 of a 4 day georoadtrip with Miz Wacket and the geohounds - after staying the night in Millthorpe we are heading to Queanbeyan today.
A passing ute tooted and waved to us while we searched for this one. It was like they were wishing us well. This comaraderie made up for the awful stench of rotting roo nearby. Thanks for the cache Becon4046 & Alwyn255

Nice quick find, thank you for the mystery cache! : )

Found as part of a weekend away with Hoojar. We headed up towards Gulgong the first night and camped near the start/ end of TRLT (@ -5 degrees ). The next day we made it through some nice historic places and great rolling countryside to finish up at Sunny Corner after a feed in Bathurst. The next day a few more finds before we headed home. Plenty of roadkill spotted, not many cars and not too much trouble at each cache. Thanks to all those cache hiders .

The opportunity finally arose that Steeba and I both had a free weekend to go caching. We quickly settled upon the northern half of The Road Less Traveled series. We drove to Gulgong via Mudgee after work on Friday, camping just before midnight at the suggested TSR nearby.

Saturday we made our way via the caching trail, and the odd additional cache, to Bathurst for dinner, then back onto the trail to Sunny Corner where we again camped for the evening.

Sunday we turned our heads for home, via a few additional cache stops in Portland and Wallerawang.

A fantastic weekend away, with excellent country to be seen and company to be had. We enjoyed the caches that we found.

Thank you to all of the cache owners, and sorry for the boiler-plate logs!

Cheers

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Found with O319 on our winter long weekend get away. TFTC!

14065. Found with specimenX during another run around finding the southern half of the TRLT series plus any others as we could squeeze in.

Another big day out with Caching Wench Number 1 starting with an early departure from Canberra, with perfect weather for our ramble along those country roads for many many finds. We found all the caches to be good sized containers and nice hides. Next find of the day. Quick find at GZ with the torch as the sun had gone by now. I had DNF'd this one last month so it was nice to make the find this time. Signed the log, returned the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks Becon40406 !! !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

A last minute plan saw Fitzy_1965 and I heading off to make another attack on the TRLT series and whatever other caches we could nab on the way Lots of laughs and perfect weather made for an all round enjoyable day cruising around the countryside caching with over a 100+ caches in the bag!

Had this one solved ages ago - easily converted to determine GZ [^] Swung by on the way back to Canberra from our geomission. Found the little bugger after a few moments of searching. Fitzy was happy to turn this one into a smiley!

Thanks for the puzzle & hide, becon4046

Solved but just couldn't find it at GZ. Maybe next time....

Tftc

Quick solve of the puzzle and grabbed along the TRLT trail today with drobbonz and kiwisteve2. TFTC

TFTC another smiley for today, sliced the puzzle earlier and were in the area for a day of caching

TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

It nice to finally tick this one off. Each time we have passed this one has been missing. Quick find this time around.
OCWF SL TFTH

When I first came across this cache I felt a certain inexplicable compulsion to solve the puzzle and claim the prize. Ironically, this was the third attempt at making the find.

On a day trip to Bathurst.
Its been a long full day with a variety of caches.
Thanks to all CO's who placed them.
SL TFTC

Always fun in a group. A full day of geocaching in and around Bathurst.
Thank you to the cache owners. SL

We stayed in Bathurst over night , we have been solving puzzles in preparation for out trip. An early start after big breakfast. Good to see good weather after all the rain we been having. After a little search the cache was found. TFTC

Second day of our weekend around Bathurst/Lithgow. Again lots of puzzles and lots of fun. Some tricky and a few DNF as well, but overall very happy with the results. J+J.AU as my caching friend made a big difference, thanks guys for having me along once again!
TFTC Wilbert67

Managed to find both caches and signed both logs, it seemed fitting given the cache name!

TFTC

Sure, this is supposed to be a mystery cache, but having found the cache on the way north with Canary, it's even a bigger mystery to us, now.

Toriaz and I looked for the cache not too long ago. Admittedly, we looked at night time with flash lights. However, there aren't too many places to hide a cache on this structure, not even a nano, and we both gave it a thorough look, as well as using our hands to feel. Nothing. Toriaz wrote our DNF log. We wondered whether it was gone. But then there were more finds. What did we miss?

We were heading north with Canary today to find another cache. But we decided to stop here again. Canary said the find was easy and even gave us the colour of the nano. He waited in the car while Toriaz and I went to look again. We both found the cache instantly.

Now, when I say, "We both found the cache", that is not to say that we both spotted the same cache at the same time. What happened, instead, was that we both said "I found it" in the same instant, within two seconds of reaching the spot again, but we had each found a different nano. I found the nano of the colour Canary described while Toriaz found another, about a foot apart.

So having been unable to find anything after an extensive search, we now instantly found two caches without even trying. That's the true mystery of binary for us: two caches for a binary cache. Maybe not so mysterious!

We decided to sign the logs of both caches and added Canary's name to the one he hadn't signed, just to cover ourselves. Thanks

#4,065

This was a very strange find, as bikerbuddy has described. Was the universe trying to tell us something, by making us miss what should have been an easy find here last time, but compensating with two containers to find this time.

We wrote our name in both containers, and added Canary's name to the one he hadn't signed the previous day, so we're covered. Unless containers keep multipying around here

Thanks

Two for the effort of one!
see Baktrak log
Thanks for a nice cache

Certainly binary! I'd done the numbers back home before this western jaunt. We searched for a while before finding a cache and then found its darker predecessor a metre away. Signed both to make sure. Thanks again becon4046.

An afternoon touring the outskirts of Bathurst finding solved Mystery Caches.

Another quick solve and find.

TFTC.

We discovered all those many a couple of days ago.

We have solved all the interesting mysteries before we started our trip to the Mid Western Region of NSW.

Day 1

We started the day in Meadow Flat, followed by Sunny Corner and Dark Corner past Palmers Oakley.
We loved the hilly nature along many peaceful Gravel roads. Many smilies were forming on our map.
We finished the day in Bathurst.

Day 2

We started all fresh again in the morning. Leaving Bathurst, we were able to get going about faster along the sealed road.
We reached Sofala at around lunch time. We couldn't believe that about 40,000 used to live here. It really seemed that the city stopped developing in around the 1850's..
We continued towards Hills End and Windeyer through dry grassy land in 47 degrees heat.
We spend such a beautiful night here in Windeyer in the caravan park. We booked one of the train accomodation where you got to stay in the train back in time. What a great experience. We really liked Windeyer as it seemed so far away from all the city rush. Te locals were very welcoming and were happy to see us in the pub next door for dinner.
What a great community living were it seems like everyone knows everyone.

Day 3

We left Windeyer after a big breakfast. We travelled along Hills End Road until we reached the turn towards another Gravel road. There wer many animals to watch and it got even hotter and hotter.
This day ended in Mudgee.

Day 4

We took a look at Mudgee city today were we searched for a couple of caches and ten continued towards Rylstone.
After we continued to the Wollemi National Park which a good friend recommended us to go. Here we climbed on the top of the mountain and simply enjoyed the stunning view and the tranquil nature.
After, we traveled towards Kandos, Capertee, Cullen Bullen, Portland and Wallerawang back home to Sydney.

We hereby would like to thank all owners for this great interesting tour. We got to see many historical places and sometimes felt like as if we were living back in the the 1850's, which is a good thing.

Thanks
Team sissifalke

Replaced the cache. Ready to find again

I visited this back 2015 under different name, kamfindit and now I have a new name....
Found it with ALL7 in 2016

Accompaines ALL7, Solver puzzle at homework a while ago, before go to Bathurst and Mudgee...
Good spot, sign the log as no trouble...
Thanks for having us here...

Kamfindit and i from Central coast and we stay bathurst and Mudgee for week....we love puzzle homework with kamfindit... enjoy drive around and good weather ... hide well.. Thank

Out today with Paul the Hippy. Thanks hippy for driving me around grabbing these caches. We had a great day, even when I got a little grumpy at the end of the day. Woke up after spending the night at medow flats. Had a lovely time finding the ones towards Sunny corner. we even went for a walk and grabbed a few which werent on the series. Got to sunny corner and checked out the old tennis court and dance hall.
After sunny corner we continued to dark corner (great with names out here). Visited acouple of cemeteries and continued down the road until it turned dirt. This was our favourite section oof the series as no cars and felt like we were in the middle of nowhere.
Past Mount horrible we went, thinking why is this called horrible and then onto the tar again. Completed a few puzzles and then back on the series.
Following the black top we went, here the pull offs were better then the second section of the series. Loved the town of Peel, where we grabbed a puzzle and acouple in this series. Got to wattle flat and was exhausted. Had fun with the blackberries in the dead center (NOT). Finally made our way to sofala. Lots of history here and visited another cemetery for a puzzle. Thanks for all the caches, lots of hard work went into these and really enjoyed them. Cheers mr_roo

A find made with Mr Roo, on a days travelling through the area doing a few caches on a series known as the road less travelled, which soon became a busy highway of a lot of traffic. TFTC TNLN

[font=Comic Sans MS]Hi there becon4046. We found your cache "Binary" at 10:52:00 AM today. This cache makes our find count 11981.
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Today was "Puzzle Day" With all the rain lately we have spent lots of time in the caravan solving puzzles. As this was our last day in Bathurst we just had to go out and log all the ones we have solved - - we have been up and down this road so many times in the last week the car almost knows where to stop all on its own.

Today we ended up logging 18 and (DNF'd 3), although not all the finds were puzzles.
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Coordinate Accuracy: We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
Cache Condition: The container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Smiley Badge.
Thanks for the hunt,
Regards
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After being so happy to finally find Ben Chifley, and to them discover that out solution to Bathurst Blues was also correct (another find$, we were brought back down to earth with a DNF here. I've since checked my solution, and don't think I made made a mistake, so maybe we just didn't spot it in the dark.

Another puzzle that was fun to do and resulted in finding the cache and getting a smiley. TFTC.

Today was the day to complete my biggest cache run to date. From Mudgee to Gulgong and then follow The Road Less Traveled series and the surrounding caches. I started nice and early at 7:30am, and didn't finish until 11 at night! On the way I saw plenty of lizards, the first snake of the season and smelt many rotting road kill during the day, and at night I had the live kangaroos, wombats, possums and probably all the flying insects banging into my head when I had the torch on.
Over all the experience was worth it and great big thank you to the CO's who put all of the caches out there.

The binary bit was easy to solve, but then I figured something else had to change to give a good gz.

Reperio!

As I was staying at Mount Victoria for the weekend, I had one day free to do a spot of caching. It was suggested by more than one person (my wife included) that I should visit the TRLT series...so I made a plan to try and find as many of them as I could today. This was another puzzle solved on the side of the road today, and managed to pick it up en route to the next cache in the series.


Gratias becon4046.

With Rats and the mini rats wanting to use the upcoming Mega as a significant milestone we were starting to look around for some quick numbers when this powertrail popped up. The timing couldn’t have been better and plans were soon hatched for a trip out west.

Teaming up with Mizmaz we had a comfortable 2 day drive through some spectacular countryside and under perfect weather we found this cache and many of the other caches that neighbour this new powertrail.

Thanks for the cache

The mini rats have officially completed our first powertrail. Helping Mizmaz and the Rats we went in search of some quick numbers. We had a lot of fun finding the caches and camping along the way, except for the cold overnight temps in Sofala.

We didn’t sign all the logs as we are using the Melbourne Mega as our 1000th find, but we did enjoy the experience and the beautiful country side. Thanks for the caches and to everyone that hid them.

Bonus detour drive-by while doing the TRLT powertrail. Normally don’t include puzzles while on roadtrips with a specific agenda but these were easy enough to do at home and come prepared. Will include a few more in the series when I head to Bathurst end of next month. Lucky to spot this tiny container which was almost lost in the long grass when I dropped the lid.

Winter weekend in Bathurst and Surrounds with Sol de Lune. With the puzzles solved we headed out along the B road to collect them. This was the last puzzle for us so we grabbed this one and moved on.

Thanks.

20203.51 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Compass Rose Daybreak A#211

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Bathurst/Orange weekend trip August 15 with Albida33....

Last of the solved puzzles out this way for us, and a quick find once at GZ. Still have 3-4 to go, but they will have to wait to the next trip....and for us to solve them!! Cache is all good.

Thanks for the fun becon4046....

A nice easy find on a beautiful mid winters day.
Quickly solved while near GZ.

TFTC

Nice and small took more time to get it out and sign it then find it cheers found with brooka13

Another find today TFTC

The cache has now been replaced.