LIPT No:53 Koonawarra, New South Wales, Australia
By mccauley4 on 24-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4NYYZ

Found by the oyston family summer Ethan ruby Rebecca Justin

fitzy_1965 and I headed to the Lake Illawarra area to do some caching with friends for the Canberra long weekend.We signed our group as SHI (ShellHarbour Invasion) which consisted of Kittykatch, Joolay, contesta, ispoeda, Tankengine, dty73, fitzy_1965 and myself or if most had already found we signed our own names.It was a great few days away and lots of caches found. Thanks to the CO's for placement.

Looked for a while but no luck.

About 12m off. No log so added. Looking forward to a warmer weekend enjoying the lovely Wollongong area with Kittykatch, contesta, ispoeda, Tankengine, dty73, fitzy_1965 and minniek. Signing Thanks for getting me out and about mccauley4

Chooo ooo [Found] on a quick trip down to Shell Harbour with dty73! Found with a bunch of other Canberra and local cachers! Signed SHI (Shell Harbour Invaders) cache about 10m out.Thanks mccauley4!

Find # 1219825/5/2024 16:18Caching adventures continue and trying to tick off as many on the solved pile as I can. Headed across to the coast for the long weekend to meet up with a few other CBR cachers. The main target is the SES series, having worked on these puzzles last year and gradually made the solves. Some with help and others straightforward. Either way it was an enjoyable series, generally. Now its time to collect. And of course with so many others to choose from in this area, its a busy weekend.Always shenanigans in a group as you never quite know what might happen but its guaranteed to be fun! The group consists of Joolay, KittyKatch, isopeda, minniek, fitzy_65, dty73, and Tankengine. Signing as SHIAll caches located, retrieved, signed, and replaced. Log sheet replaced as old one disintegrated.Thanks mccauley4 for LIPT No:53

Tankengine and I drove down from Canberra leaving at 6:30am Saturday morning and joined our friends (Kittykatch, Joolay, contesta, Isopeada, minniek and fitzy_1965) and we had become part of the Shellharbour Invasion Team (SHI). We could only stay one night, so up early Sunday for a quick bite to eat and more caching before we had to leave everyone to head home again. We had a fun time caching, logging many finds and a couple DNFs, enjoyed a lovely dinner at the very busy club at the great event on Saturday night and most of all hanging out with great friends. This cache: Found this one pretty far from the coords. And the log is mush. Added an extra piece of paper. Tftc!!!

Long weekend with Contesta, Kittykatch, Joolay, DTY73, Tankengine, fitzy_1965, and MinnieK with the main goal to finish the SES series. Signing as SHI - Shellharbour Invasion. The cache took a dive. The contents was mush, so we added a fresh log sheet. TFTC *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Looked for a while, saw hint and photo but no luck

Couldn't access the map location for this one so wasn't sure where we were looking.

Enjoyed this cache on the first caching adventure of 2024. This one took some time but was a great find. TFTC

Found. Unfortunately dont have a pen on me. Took a pic for proof. TFTC.

#10036 (9 of 11 today)Go big or go home! So went big! Today is the only calendar day where I have under 20 finds, so looking to break this barrier. But why get one when I can get... well a lot more.Headed south to Dapto for today's finds, but looking to be back in Sydney for a 5:30 event I couldn't totally go to town. So started with a short bush trek, and then some other quicker finds for a total of ten, before the event made it eleven.###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###Quick find in an area the lantana and thistles seem intent on moving into.Beautiful container, but the plug is broken and not doing its job. Log too wet to sign, so signed a leaf instead.SLTNLNTFTC

Found it! Very wet needs update

Nice!

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Nice one

Cash found unable to sign mashed up wet log sheet

No luck

Needs new note book! Very cute!

Found but geocache is broken on the bottom and everything is wet.

Out on a Lake Illawarra SES clean up mission today. Lots of great Rats caches to collect on a perfect summers day.

Found this one quickly and then understood the hint. The container is worse for ware and the log is soaked.
SL TFTC

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Followed the narrow geotrail out to have CIH, it’s missing the cap, or snapped off should I say

Dry cute cache

#11709 10:00
A day out with Everest High to do a loop around Lake Illaware to find the SES caches from The Rats. When close to our route, we also picked up a few other caches.
It was a great day out; very hot but the cold seabreeze made the drive very pleasant.

Another cache that needs some maintenance. Log is wet, lid is detached,

TFTC

Found but log is wet, lid is detached, needs TLC. OCW It's Dozzie. TFTC

Found ️

Very nice cache

The screw is cracking a bit but this was such a great find!! One of the best on this track, and the clue was spot on! Tftc!!!

Nice clue

Found it! The vegetation has gone a bit wild so wear long, thick pants or suffer thistles in the crotch like I did, haha.

Good camo TFTC

After a second trip to this spot I found the actual cache, and what a cute camo! Log is brand new and totally dry, thanks for the cache/s!

Thanks for the cache, such a cute spot now council has cleared a bit of the scrub. Couldn't sign as unfortunately the log was soaked. Took a pic for proof if needed.

Edit: Changed 'found' to a note since being informed by cache owner that what I actually found was a previous cache that had been missing(!) so I'll soon be revisiting this spot to find the new/actually cache. Thanks to CO for quickly getting in contact and clearing things up!

Yessss so stoked to find a trickier bush bash type one. Cute container. Tftc

Nice new cache. Thanks for replacing. Puppy was very interested in it.

Replaced cache container. Good to go again

Had a look today and its gone. Will need to source another container

????

No luck

Missing

Found it after some looking, cache was broken and the container was not where it was meant to be, as we found the top part of it elsewhere, didn't have anything with us to fix it so we tied it all back together with some vines and put it all back where it belongs. A bit of duct tape will do the job.

Awesome cache though

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Great cache! Tftc

Awesome find

Found with the geokid on a lovely spring afternoon bike ride. Log was a little bit damp, I think if you return it to it's position with the coordinates at the top it should help with this. TFTC!

Well enough off the track not to be noticed. The container is broken. I fixed it as best I could but a strong wind could dislodge it. TFTC

TFTC. Great hide

In the Illawarra to visit Mr Gaztek's mother and gathering a few geocaches before we return to Sydney. We found the object that the hint referred to but it is in very sad shape and had no contents. We inserted a new log and propped it up as best we could. After we left we looked at some previous logs and believe the 'innards' may be under that tree separated from the original container. Could use some attention. SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

My girls loved finding this one. Thankyou for such a creative hide.

Nice hide in plane site. My trusty geopen decided to stop working. So I’ve snapped a photo for proof of find. Nice walk along this track to snatch up a few finds. Highly recommend doing the walk

Yaya!

Found, needs maintenance. Left container under tree.

Needs some tlc, starting to fall apart from weather. Tftc

It’s a bit broken but still a fun find!

This was an awesome find, thank you.

Sorry, I havent had a chance to check on this cache. Will place back online for now, if the next finder could send me a photo of their findings, i will make arrangements for maintenance accordingly. Thank you.

Back up for now

In pieces on the ground. Dubious as to whether the cachers before me even found it, or the previous one. No signature in this one.

Will check on it soon

Found both a snail and a big spider in the cache. Gave us a fright
Still, TFTC

Never has geocaching been so terrifying. There is a hole in the cache which made it home to a gigantic mean spider that jumped on me when I retrieved it. FINDERS BEWARE! TFTC

Tftc left ️

Found BUT A MASSIVE SPIDER

TFTC!

Find No.5227 while based in Kiama for a couple of days. We are on a mission to complete this SES puzzle art and a few other caches on our way. Nice quick find for us. A real live spider had taken up residence, so we served him/her an eviction notice.
Found with sesblocker.
TFTC mccauley4
21 September 2019 13:59

Quick find.

With the geomutt tftc

Quick find with Ris768 thanks mccauley4 for placing this cache

Log 2032 Streak Day 932

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4172 on streak day #2572 TFTC

Visiting from Orange, and a perfect day for a walk along the water. TFTC

Such a pretty place. Thanks

Nice quick find, returned as found. Took nothing, left something.

TFTC

Out finding some caches around the lake and this was nearby, loved it. TFTC

While over from Tassie to attend the Gong OzGeo Muster 2019 myself and Goose of GooseandEgg we managed to polish off few series and grab some other random caches in our five days on the big island.
We flew out on Thursday night and arrived back in the apple isle late on Tuesday night, thanks for all the caches.
We normally try and get some old caches or D/T's we are missing but this time it was more about a couple of series and catching up with a few fellow cachers.

Found on 08/07/2019 at 4:17:00 PM

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

While over from Tassie to attend the Gong OzGeo Muster 2019 myself and Goose of GooseandEgg we managed to polish off few series and grab some other random caches in our five days on the big island.
We flew out on Thursday night and arrived back in the apple isle late on Tuesday night, thanks for all the caches.
We normally try and get some old caches or D/T's we are missing but this time it was more about a couple of series and catching up with a few fellow cachers.

Found on 08/07/2019 at 4:17:00 PM

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

Day 88 Mainland trip - OZGM
We headed out caching with the Tassie contingent of Tassie Trekkers, gooseandegg ad stainless-steel-rat and this was one of many caches we found today. Another one found while doing the SES series. A long day but a great time was had by all. TFTC

Circumnavigating the lake today with whitewebbs, Tassie Trekers and stainless steel rat collecting the SES puzzle series and anything we were close enough to grab. I would love to do this path by bike but as we didn't have any with us we walked.
Thanks mccauley4

Staying at Cataract Park for the OZ Geomuster with whitewebbs, gooseandegg and stainless-steel-rat we found these caches and this was one we found.

Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Found it during The Gong event.
TFTH

10:46 am #7606
Found while exploring the area with great friends.
Cheers mccauley4 ??

Unfortunately, we haven't come equipped to complete this trail. We would love to come back and bring bikes to do so. Looks like it would be a fantastic series to complete. We managed to grab a couple in our travels whilst visiting. Thanks for the cache and reason for a future visit.

Caching day with Geofriends during Oz GeoMuster 2019, thank you mccauley4 so much for placing it for us to have fun.

Here at the Oz Geomuster, Found your cache today. mccauley4, thank you so much for placing it.

The journey to the mega resulted in a lot of driving, with a few select cache finds, due to the distance I had to travel. If only there was time to find them all! Once at “The Gong” as there are so many caches, yet again, sadly, only some could be attempted. Thanks for placing the cache mccauley4

out and about with AussieBen for the Mega Weekend doing lots of caches in the area thanks for maintaining

Found quickly.

TFTC

Georode

Down to the Mega early and eager to get started on ticking off all the must do items, including the SES series. I have been working on this series for a long time on and off knowing that one day I’ll be down this way. I am so excited to finally get it finished!

Bonus traditional for the day.

Thanks for the cache. Out caching for the day with kingfisher_au. Down for the ozgeomuster , thanks for bringing me here.

Out and about as the sun goes down! Here to visit a ‘Gong’ buddy and attend the MEGA Yippee Left a TB

TFTF

Accompanied ALL7 TFTC

I hate spiders so it’s lucky the other half of the caching team is braver than me. TFTC?

Very nifty. TFTC

Quick find with FreedomFinder and the Geograndekids. TFTC

Spiders!!! Big huntsman had chosen cache to have thousands of babies in! But great little cache.
TFTC

I got a bit of a scare with this cache. After getting to the GZ i located the container, grabbed it, opened the lid and cape face to face with a huntsman spider.
The spider ended up being highly tetchy and unwilling to move due to the egg sac it was guarding.
I was able to slip the internal container out and found a second fully grown huntsman clinging to it.
This one was more willing to move and i was able to sign the log.
Using sticks i was able to put everything back together and replace the cache with only the one nesting huntsman left in the lid.
Thanks.
#262

Be careful when opening. This hairy fulla gave me a small fright.

Found earlier this year.