Crack of Doom New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
By cranksters on 30-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4RDZC

Found better things to do on Melbourne cup day and this cache was one of them but after much searching came up empty handed so it was a DOOM day disaster.

Has disappeared.

Had a look around, but couldn't find

Not having much luck though day. No find, spent a long time looking but nothing

Great find! Left travelswithmum.com business card took nothing!

We just wanted to admire the Australian animals at the Blackbutt Reserve at Newcastle. But the GPS showed us some caches which were moved in the park. So we have connected both. The hiding places were partly a bit further away and so we had to look in the undergrowth for the containers. It was not only quite hot on this day, but also the mosquitoes were quite aggressive. [:(!] That's why we canceled the round.

Many thanks to the owner for the care of the containers of the Moorhelmi's from Germany

While I have been in the Blackbutt Reserve a few times, it was a little while ago. So after finding a challenging cache 'north' of here, I went walking on some trails, and some direct line bush walking to find the GZ. No muggles in sight. Soon found the cache, with good coordinates. Dry and intact. Found @ 1700
Left: one of my frequent swag, a Correct Site Marker - surgical marking pen.
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TFTC cranksters

Nice hide

Found it! TFTC!

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TFTC great hide took maracas left a couple of little animals

Nice

Have walked down the main paths a tonne of times, but never detoured down this path. Interesting location
TFTC.

Found it

Enjoyed walking around here and going off the beaten path. Found this one and signed log.

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Found, Left treasure, TFTC

Great

Good trek off the beaten path

Easy find

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Thanks for taking us out to a beautiful part of Newcastle

Found this about a week ago, just getting around to logging now.
It was a nice afternoon for a bushwalk except for the mozzies! Had to abandon the others we had planned on doing they were so bad!

That is a big hole! I've never been to this reserve before. Nice find

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Quick bush bash and found with Jonsey TFTC

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Easy find good condition
Bring bug spray

Found with steam Koala Maurie was not home

#907
Out for a walk around Blackbutt reserve today with Bad Jedi to pick up some of the caches in the area and this was one of them.
Followed the walking trail which started off in a bad state but was easy nearer the cache took a couple of minutes to locate the cache then after signing checked out the remains of the mine subsidence.
Thanks to cranksters for this cache and the chance to explore this wonderful part of Newcastle.

Much nicer walk
Didn't understand description and title though

Found it with my 5 year old sister. She loved the little comb

GPS struggled. Logged it. Moving on.

Well that was easy ...

We arrived and couldnt find it for awhile and concluded that it was stolen. After another last ditch search we found it a little extra wander around will help you to find it.

Ants all over magpies all around.

Tftc! Lots of red ants on cache tho, be careful

#410

This one took longer than it should have. GPSrs had us about 6m out so we widened our search. Resident magpie flew down to investigate when we found the cache. Not afraid of humans at all! SL TNLN TFTC cranksters

Accompanies with ALL7, great enjoyed out for a day with prefect sunny day..
great walked on track on national Park area, good spot, sign in as no trouble...
Thanks

Accompanies with kamfindit, Beautiful full sunny today... we drive to Swansea and Belmont for day...
Hide well thank

Good spot!

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TFTC we had a very curious magpie checking the contents of cache with us. It really loved the marble

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Found in the first place I looked. TFTC

Nice quiet part of the woods (except for the cockatoos) TFTC!

Found on our second trip, a long way from our first attempt. Left a gear carabiner.... Tftc

We were searching for the wrong kind of crack for a while till we eventually saw it. Loved watching the cockatoos playing above us. Left a toy.

Found today, good spot..... watch out for the crack

Interesting description quick fine. Tree cover had us walking around a bit

Tftc

Cool crack

No luck, between iPhone and a Garmin 650 we couldn't get a decent stable position

Nice one

Show my two boys The whole and explained them not to play around them tftc

Another one we found, while spending the arvo at black butt with the geo family, tftc

#4313

Mrs C wanted to go out caching today and this was one of the ones on our list.
Completing the other two caches nearby this one was next. I made my way from the carpark and made a quick find.

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Quick find

Found it, LSSL, TFTC

TFTC 1351#

Thank goodness for mine subsidence fears!

Found It

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Found it.

TFTC. Tiki Sasquatch and Co!

Team oooss feat ash Millsy and jay

Found on the way home from work. Thankfully the southerly had kicked in by time i had left so it wasn't as hot as it could have been like it was in the middle of the day. TFTC

I was expecting a lightning struck tree for some reason, yet in the end it was something else entirely. I found these coords to be better for me today: S32 55.888 E151 42.080.

Followed the track from a nearby cache. Then near the mining remains I headed bush. It wasnt hard and was pretty clear. Got to gz and read about the mining. I then found the cache in a lovely little bit of bush TFTC

Il y avait trop de moustiques mais c'était bien

Found it - and the mosses found us!

Lol the things we do to maintain a streak. Day #29 of a targeted 100. Ran in the rain - thank goodness it was a quick find. At least the rain kept the mozzies at bay. Cache was completely in the open so I left it in place but added some light cover - cache still visible if you're looking for it though unlikely to be seen by muggles though. TNLN TFTC

Yay! Found it.

Phone nearly out of charge, but that's 4 today. Happy new year

Today we mad a tour through the blackbucket reservat.
The cache was easy to found.
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Nice easy find

Surrender your hand

Quick find very very sneaky hiding.. Good cache whilst walking around BlackButt
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#170

Leaving early this morning with Jfindit we decided to find a few caches in the Newcastle area as there had been some new additions in recent weeks, we decided to do the caches that were in Blackbutt reserve some creative caches here thanks for the find sltnln

Total Caches Found 5969

Left home bright and early this morning in company of the xPhenoms to beat the early morning exodus up the thin black line this time. Travelling North to Newcastle and around Wallsend area's to try and find some caches and have some fun

Thanks for the great cache cranksters

After 20mins.

Introduced a friend to geocaching while our parents were on a bush/navigation day. TFTC

8809 + 1007 = 9816. Found during a visit up to Newcastle.

Staying nearby I went for a wander through the Reserve today. Fifth find for the day. A bit of a bush bash - but got there in the end. Signed, returned and off to the next one.

Thanks cranksters !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Well off the beaten track so no muggles today!
TNLN, TFTH

The picture pretty much gave it away

Fun find!

My boys reckon it was 'very hard' but we found it after about 5 min.

I must've missed the crack. Found the cache though

Stay on the track.

Our first find ! Great!

Found it great fun TFC

Found, nice hide.

Sneaky one

Great find fun bush walk. Photo was a good hint.

Its definitely not in the crack of doom but its on the track to the crack of doom

Found something that looked like a crack of doom but nothing inside, 5yo not happy with our first GC adventure!

TFTC loving this bush walking

Struggling a bit but used the photo as a reference. And realised we had walked past it on the way down. Good spot.

Poked around for a bit, but couldn't find it.