River Park Balranald, New South Wales, Australia
By Richie3Blue3Geokids on 08-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4JBFF

Plenty of looking and two devices. Caching eyes mustn't be awake yet

Sprinklers even wetting the cache. They are everywhere. Water is plentiful!! Found on the Mega Capital Geobash coastal loop via Adelaide - Barrington - coast to Mexico City loop. A lot of caches and white line fever was sweated out. Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Took a bit of looking but persistence finally won!Day 2 of my travels heading across from S. A. Mega 2024 towards Barrington Tops before making my way to the 2024 Canberra Geobash. Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for placing this here, contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy.

Hay To Sherlock, stopping along the way where suitable with a caravan on.There has been many new caches placed since we were last here, taking us to some interesting locations while touring the area.Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for hiding this cache.

Finally. Didnt take too long at all.How did we miss it?Cache creep? Dont know! Anyway it has been a great journey watching the river grow and contract. The birds are still singing, even a kookaburra cheered us on.Thanks for placing and maintaining this nano for our entertainment. Now to move on to our next challenge.

DNF here for us today

Using two devices we were able to get a more accurate location ... previous logs also helped narrow the focus. TFTC

Looking at previous logs we had our caching hi intensity eyes on alert but found it straight away TFTC, lovely spot

Caching on my way across the Nullabor for the 6th time in the last 18 months. TFTC.
Looked for this one once before but this time found out straight away. I am sure I looked there before.

Found it! Took 2 attempts and a 2nd set of eyes.

No, too clever for me. Got me to stop between Mildura and Hay. Thanks for that.

This is the 3rd time 2e have been obviously our geocaching nemesis. We will have to come back. Rained heavily overnight but so far clear skies on the way to Adelaide.

Nice quick find thankfully, as we head out of town. Tftc

[Insert Nano Rant Here]

Thankfully, as visitors without a lot of time to search for things for ages, at least this one was found pretty quickly.

I found your D2.5/T1.5 Micro Traditional called River Park on 4 April 2023. It was find #17607 for me. Thank you Richie3Blue3Geokids for placing this cache for our enjoyment in the wonderful state of New South Wales.

Rutherglen Mega Trip. [^] Day 2 - Getting there. Balranald to Wagga Wagga. The town so nice they named it twice..
Anymules and I made our way east through New South Wales collecting caches.
Today's highlights were many lab caches and quite a few quality caches that earned favourite points. The low light was the Hay Plain with vast distances of driving with NO caches.

Took a lot of searching but Anymules finally found this Spawn Of Satan.
You know the drill - the rant goes here. Did you even consider the kitten.



**SA’s Leap Year Event GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024.**


***Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for putting out this cache and maintaining it for our enjoyment. ***
Logs prepared and published through GSAK.

Tftc!
We searched a while but finally we found it!
Best regards from Switzerland
J&U

Took a bit but previous activity assisted. Log hard to extract. Nice spot by the river.

Cache is there in good condition
Spoke to a previous finder to double check
TFTC #bloodynanos

Came to give it another quick look. No success today. Lots of insects and beautiful kookaburras singing. River is high but I imagine cache is safe

I think it may have been washed away with all the water around at the moment

This time a half hour search with Pacman. Could not find.

We are on the road travelling up through central Australian and down the coast of WA. Geocaching has taken us to so many great places in this beautiful country. I was happy to grab a few caches along the way and this was one of them.

Stopped off a made a quick find here, while staying in town.

Thanks for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

Not today, even with a second set of eyes and a good search .

Found while caching in the area

Find Number 6524
Took a while to spot but spotted the moment we got to the right angle
We had to get tools to open the cache maybe a check is required

Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for placing this cache

TFTC

Found while visiting the area

Found, but can not open. Tftc

Found It!
This one took a bit of searching but I eventually spotted the little thing. But then things got worse. I went back to the car to get some pliers to open the lid with, and while there I dropped the nano down the gap between the centre console and car seat. Been magnetic, it stuck to something down there and didn't just fall though to the floor below. 30 minutes later, having removed the seat from the car, I finally got my hands on the little thing again! Signed the log and replaced the cache before reassembling the car seat to continue my journey east. Bloody nanos.
TFTC

Nice place
Thanks

Tried again and bingo

Nice location to stop, however no luck finding.

After a weekend at the Bathurst 6 Hour it was time to head home grabbing some caches along the way TFTC

Found by Mary and David at 11:45. We're not keen on nanos. A gang of council workers opposite doing some serious digging, but their parked trucks were between them and us. After some searching, D spotted it. Replaced the log with a new one. Our thanks to Richie3Blue3Geokids

#13072 - 1:45:00 PM; Day 5 of the Wang Mega tour with Sol de lune. Finished off "The Turtle Series" this morning and collected this cache as we started our journey east for Narranderra, where we plan to spend our last night away. Decided to give this cache another go after DNFing it at least once (2017) and maybe twice before. Looked like bringing up the hat trick today as we reached the point where we considered abandoning the hunt. Decided to give the geosenses one more go and lo and behold, spotted something worth a look! Very happy to add our names to the log here and turn the frown upside down at last!. TFTC Richie3Blue3Geokids

Heading home after both the Wang Mega and a road trip out to Mildura with LuckyL10n. Arrived at GZ and started the search....taking about 10 minutes to come up with the prize. The usual story here....though it was difficult a first, but once found you wonder how you missed it??

Anyway, it's another on in the found column for us.

Thanks for the cache....

LTF

Found a range of caches as I headed to Mildura today. Was lucky to locate this by chance in the first few minutes, could anticipate this taking a lot longer, so I call that a big win. TFTC!

Heading east so stopped for another in Balranald... not many left to find now...
TNLNSL
Thanks

Co-ords are about 5-7m off on this one. So after searching in all the wrong places I was on a high when I found this one.

No need to traipse access the dirt or get close to the water.

Log book has a few spaces left however it is very close to being full and will need to be replaced soon.

Nice views of the river. TFTC

A tricky hide. TfTC

good find

Pretty cool smallest one to date. No room left on the log.

#15495 @0700
A weekend caching mission with ZQX, Fox in Jox and AngelG27 from the ACT to SA. Today was picking off a few counties on our return journey. This took us a few minutes to locate in the dark. TFTC.

Found it with team FATZ! Full log to follow.
Just before 7, it was still dark. Found a small patch of empty logbook on which to write.

Cache 7845 on 14 Jun 2021.

Road trip! At fairly short notice, TikvaNZ, Fox in Jox, ZQX and myself decided to head west from home in the ACT to South Australia this long weekend to tackle some of the On Your Bike wherigo series and other interesting caches along the way. We only have four days, so we are being fairly selective.

Today we head home from Balranald via Griffith to pick up a few more counties and interesting caches. Unless otherwise indicated, all caches found easily in accordance with the hint .

This cache: started early and a tricky find in the dark, but ZQX spotted it after a few minutes.

Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for the cache and the fun!

On a 4-day mission to SA with Team Amigos (TikvaNZ, ZQX and AngelG27 and me).

An early morning start under torchlight, after a night in Balranald. Quick find by the team. TFTC

After a lovely stroll along the river we made it to here but then went oh no, a nano on that.
Luckily a pic in an earlier log help is narrow down our search area.
Log sheet only has room for 10 or so more finds
TFTC

No pen so took pic instead TYFC

Amazed to find this, and not what we expected. TFTC

Too hard for us. We are only short, so if it is higher that 5 ft. We haven't a chance

Where is the park? Spent some time here, searching the whole structure, but no luck today.

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to attack some of the caching trails down in VIC/SA. With the boarders slowly staying open we thought Easter might be a safe time to try since the QLD boarder was still too fragile to attempt going to the MEGA and it also looked like it could be rather wet there.
Our team “The Mob” consisted of GoodLook, LíB, Rapidlywild, The Drovers, feathertop and ourselves. This team ended up being very productive and some new friendships were made. Always a bonus in my book. All logs were stamped with “The Mob” to save space and time.
After completing all the trails, we had set out to do and a couple more for good measure it was time for this mob to go its separate ways.

On our journey from Mildura to Wagga slowly making our way home we picked up a few caches along the way to break up our journey.

No issues with this one, signed and replaced as found. Cache log was not full, still place for a few more logs. Not sure what people are talking about.

Thanks for the hide Richie3Blue3Geokids and for the fun Rapidlywild

For the first time in a long time, it was road trip time. With COVID-19 keeping everyone at home for so long, the borders were finally opening and the feet were itchy for a decent caching trip. Plans were made with FurfacesLL to do a 10 day road trip across to Mildura and Loxton to do a heap of caching and we were excited. Across the 10 days we racked up over 4,300km in driving, multiple hotels/motels, brought home enough red dust to create our own sand pit in the back yard and collected over 1800 finds between us. It was a massive trip and lots of fun was had.

We teamed up with GoodLook, FeatherTop, The Drovers and LiB and signed most logs as "The Mob". There were a few caches which were signed as individual team names as some teams had already completed said caches, those will be noted individually.

Our target caches were the Turtle Series, the Paddle Steamer Series and the On Ya Bike wherigo Series, heaps of other caches were also collected along the way but our primary target caches were completed which made us all very happy and very tired geocachers.

With the Turtle done, the PS Series done, the On Ya Bike done, the TdU & TdF done as well as the Riddlers done, our targeted caches has been accomplished. With the teams now split and it was back to FurfacesLL and myself, we had heaps to choose from. The drive from Mildura to Wagga today, so long drive with not many caches, but we got what we could. Once in Wagga, we met up with The Drovers and did a spot of caching before dinner and retreating for the night.

Took a few moments to locate, but wasnt too difficult. Not sure why people are saying the log is full, cause it isnt... there is room for atleast another dozen names on the log sheet.... [?] Cache signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the hides Richie3Blue3Geokids And thanks FurfacesLL for a trip to remember [^].

No joy for me today, either the hide beat me or the cache is missing.

3rd try for this cache
Resorted to ph a friend for hint
Log book is full
Left our mark but Earthlight also took photo as proof of find if required
Tftc and lovely river view

After several dnf was back today with The X-Trailers. Found 1st place we looked. Could swear not there last times. Log is full just got stamp on. TFTC. River view was great

Cache log is full

Tftc too tricky for me

Nano tftc

Too good for me this morning. Only had my eyes, phone GPS that kept dancing and 5 minutes.

After walking away from this one we managed to phone a friend and get a little advice. Back again for once last attempt and this time with an extra stretch it was finally cache in hand! Phew. Glad to have this frown turned into a smile. Thanks for the cache.

Sadly no luck for us 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.

This has been a nemesis cache for me and was ready to walk away from it again today. Thanks to clues from PAF and standing on tippee toes this one now has my name on it. TFTC

Took a while

Not too difficult a find. Cache OK

Not tonight for us, all we found were killer mosquitoes

On a road trip to South Australia with Joolay and barb2e We signed all caches as Border Busters or BB.

Thanks for hiding this cache Richie3Blue3Geokids

Nice find at the end of the day. Travelling with Joolay Kittykatch Tankengine and dty73. Tftc

Got to love caching trips! On the way to South Australia with a few friends to pick up some nice caches. With a small team consisting of KittyKatch, Joolay & Barb2e along with Tankengine and I we had a great second day of the trip. So many interesting places and some great caching too.

This cache: Sneaky bloody cache this one. Looked low, looked high and didn't even think to look there! Pretty good spot actually because it isn't the "expected" place you would hide a cache. I liked that it was blending in well with its surrounds, but without so many finders this could have taken a whole lot longer too! Especially as it was showering a little, my coords had me a little ways away too. Tftc Richie3Blue3Geokids!!!

Eagle eyes of dty73 bought success.
On a road trip to South Australia now the border is open with Kittykatch, Tankengine, barb2e and dty73. First day of our trip and loving the beautiful green fields and cool day. Awesome day to be out.
TFTC Richie3Blue3Geokids

No find on the whites today.

Hard find but got there!

Clever find had us hunting. Found with Manshee.

Gps going mental, too much metal here

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

Day 7 saw us heading from Wentworth to Balranald. In logs, we signed as MK, F65 & A33.

Didn't take too long to find.....but easily could have taken a lot longer.

Tricky, very well camouflaged

Found it on a sunny but cool day after a brief search. Fairly obvious to experienced eye. TYFTC

We had a good search around but no luck at all here today.

Thanks

After attending an event in town we headed out with 4Moule under the cover of darkness.. With 3 kids under 6 in tow and torches we weren't very stealthy. Under the watchful gaze from a pair of suspicious eyes a few houses up we were finally able to locate the cache (with some hints from a previous finder) and made a hasty retreat back to the cars. TFTC

We were so happy to be in the area again and have an opportunity to turn our previous dnf into a smiley. A joint search with ww2_nut and a previous finder who enjoyed watching us scurry around in our attempts to find the cache, with him knowing exactly where it was. The dogs barking with our arrival drawing a neighbour out of the house we made the find and were off on our way to find another. Thanks for this very tricky hunt! It definitely was a sneaky little hide!

As we wander the great land seeing the sights, this is one of the caches we have done.

Thanks to Richie3Blue3Geokids for placing the cache for us to find.

After dinner and a couple of beers at the pub I didn’t feel ready to catch up with some work so decided to go for a walk. This wasn’t the closest but I thought I better save the easier for tomorrow. Arrived at the structure and started looking. I have found a few of this CO’s caches around Corowa so was expecting something a little different. Tried a few obvious spots and then just started feeling and to my surprise within less than five minutes I had the container / far more traditional than I was expecting. Signed the log TE5 and replaced as found. Always good when these are located quickly.
TFTC

Easy find while passing through town.

Got you after a few attempts. I’m happy now. Great cache. Just need to keep looking. Thanks.

Found it on our oz trip in November 2019 Adelaide - Cameron Corner - Macedon - Mount Gambier - Adelaide. We had a good overnight camp @ PAIKA Station before we logged this cache.
We were quite happy to find this one as we are still greenhorns - maybe just lucky!
TFTC the swiss oz travellers.

Thanks kids for a great hide. Some times the hardest ones to find are the so obvious ones. just needed to open my eyes. Thanks. A beautiful town.

No luck here today, had to give up because of a persistent muggle.

I’ll try again soon.

Yep nano is correct, second time we have attempted this one, this time success.

After finally escaping Melbourne and arriving into Balranald yesterday we decided to spend the day exploring and, of course, picking up a few caches. This cache was one we had looked for previously, obviously unsuccessfully, however on this occasion we managed to locate it by widening the search and poking things that *didn't look right!* It was nigh on impossible to enter our names into the teensy log "book" so I just wrote WX and left it at that.

I think this one deserves to be added to my bag of favourites because it was annoying!

TFTC

On our travels from Brisbane down to Mount Buffalo we searched and found som Geocaches. Thanks to all owners for the Caches.

No luck here this evening.

No luck with our search today. We had a good look to no avail. Oh well, maybe next time we pass through. Thanks for the hunt anyway.

Didn't have much time to look so will leave for another day.

01/05/2019

On the way to Western Australia - detours and doing the caches.
Signed the log as Stamp or "EV"

Thanks Richie3Blue3Geokids for organising the cache and hunt [^]

We tried this one on our way to Sydney last weekend without success and had another go on our way home today. We searched for over half an hour but sadly didn’t have any light bulb moments like previous finders. Saturday we thought we had it when we found a mini first aid kit but no go. Today we looked for every kind of nano we were familiar with, but you are just too clever for us. We really didn’t want to give up, but it is definitely time to get on the road.

As we had no luck finding this cache two weeks ago, crane2 and I came back and searched for over half an hour, but we just can't find it...
Must be a really clever hide!!!

Found with Mr Cupcake, Shandyk, Dark Moon 31 and Snappy Tom Cats as we head to Queanbeyan for the MEGA!! TFTC.

Found with Guz's Travellers, Mr Cupcake, Darmoon 31 and Snappytomcats on our way over to Queanbeyan Mega. TFTC