Old New Rest Area Herons Creek, New South Wales, Australia
By Lonely RA on 03-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4WB3G

Tftc took us a little while to put it back so tiny!

TftcAnother easy find after a walk around the loop

Great hide

This was a lucky find. Our Mini campers were stumped for a while! This is our first micro find. Very cute!

Looked for ages no find

It really is micro

Good find. Not easy to extract log but succeeded. TFTC SL

Excellant hide. We cave to visit the beautiful old bottlebutt tree and was pleased to find a couple caches on our visit. TFTC

On the hunting trail with Liz & Bruce on 2023 Christmas adventure. Quick find here. Another great day for caching. TFTC Lonely RA

Out caching with Wollaston and stopped for this cache and were rewarded with a find after a bit of searching. Thanks for arranging and enhancing our enjoyment of the area.

Took a while but found it!

Took a long time but finally got there. Tftc. Glad I found it before mozzie carried me away.

Found on the way to the maze. Stopped here to admire the tree and find a cache I missed last time.TFTC

Awesome location! Loved it TFTC

DNF second attempt still no find.

A quick find before walking out to see the big tree.Thanks for the hide Lonely RA.

Yay ! Turned that blue frown upside down !That is a tricky nano in the shadowHappy to see it was maintained and so thought I'd come have a second crack at itTFTC

All good to go now

Cache has been replaced and is all good to go againHappy hunting

Hi Lonely RA,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 4 weeks) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 4 weeks to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ngaambul - Matt

Awaiting replacement cache container on order will attend and replace when received

I trust it is muggled as on previous dnf’s upon inspection cache was in place

Oh my goodness SS - what sort of a friend to Lonely RA are you? On 10 August you were in the vicinity and could have helped your mate out by checking on his cache!

"What a Bottler placed by - SquiresSquire & Lonely RA" - friends or just a co-incidence?

Tis a pity pprass doesn’t realise the cache is owned and maintained by a different cacher before making snarky notes.

No luck! Searched high and low but nothing obvious and not wanting to overturn the forest of leaves when I'm not even sure it's still here.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Pity that SquiresSquire didn't check on this cache when he replaced "What a Bottler" on 10/08/23

Had a pretty thorough search with Portstevo with no luck

Couldn't find anything with red_ear_slider

Searched everything magnetic, in holes, under surfaces, up high.
Nothing for us

Was out and about clocking some caches, thought we'd swing past and grab this but we ran out of light. So we will be back

Did not find

Great hide

Challenging but very cool

Couldn’t find it after looking for 10 minutes

TFTC!

best geocache i’ve ever seen

Tftc

Good find, lovely area

Came for the bottlebutt, left with a cache

Tiny!

Ivy found it

Pushed the Camry hard getting here! TNLN TFTC

On the way to see the grand tree. Tried for the cache while there. Nobody else in sight luckily as it took us longer than expected even though we had the right idea what we were looking for. Cache signed and returned. Thanks

Wick cache out with BissetNinjas checking out the local attractions and found it after a couple of minutes, was a bit away from Gaz but read a couple of comments and located it.

I was with Jeepish looking at the bottlebutt tree and we decided to do a geocache and there was a lot of bugs so I would pack some spray or stuff.

Tiny tiny micro geocache. Take a rest..

Thanks for the goecache. Thought it was part of the table

TFTC, very small but definitely there!

Found with nissan65. Took a while to locate this sneaky little bugger. Widened our search and their it was. Thanku for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Found with cullum68. After we widened our search, i hear found it and there it was thank you for the cache.

Took a while but someone else’s recent find kept us going

Micros are not my special talent. I thought this one was going to have a second DNF from me. Then just as I messaged the cache owner for an extra hint I tired again. Between reading a log about a 2 year old finding it and scratching my head about what could be so difficult, I swapped tables as suggested in another log and I found it! Very aptly labelled micro! I found the logbook quite difficult to retrieve so tweezers could come in handy.

Super disappointed but searched all the likely spots based on previous logs and the hint. Not even any muggles to make it hard will have to try again another time.

Attended and checked on cache

Cache is in location as placed

Had a good look for this one along with another caching family and no muggles but between six of us the cache couldn’t be found..

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

All good to go

Hi Lonely RA,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 30 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ministro - Matt

Cache checked and log renewed due to damage from recent flooding in area

Good to go for cachers again

Dayboro trip. Day 4. Another bright sunny day around Port Macquarie. I headed a bit south to Laurieton for an AL. This region was also affected by flooding, so some caches were not accessible. The final lab in the AL set was in a closed park. Then it was back to Port Macquarie for lunch and the caches around the service center. To finish the day a I did a themed series of caches just North on Blackman's Point road. Lots of fun.

No one about today, but after a careful search of both tables I failed to locate a cache. Plenty of Spiders.

Thanks.
**Albida**

Missed this one.... be mindful of the local when looking here

I went with Fitzy_1965 for a long weekend drive up the east coast to Port Macquarie caching along the way and visiting several new towns and villages. A highlight was a get together with Pprass & Kat after a few mega 4wd climbs in the afternoon. Day 3 took us back into the hills west of the coast from Pt Macquarie. One too many, but it was fun. A little caching around the outskirts of Pt Macquarie before finishing the day in the Port caravan park. Very civilised.

With people settling in for lunch, we had to give this one away.

Thanks.
Albida

Shame - we were muggled out here. Tried to search without causing any alarm but there was a bunch of people about. So on to the tree we go...

No joy too many muggles

About 10 minutes was needed to find this one

Took a bit too search. But found nicely. TFTC.

Like seen in previous logs, we had to swap tables to find this one. Thanks for it.

After an initial search with no luck. We headed down to the bottlebutt and found that cache. Decided to have another quick search before leaving. Thanks to pprass's updated coordinates we found the log

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Found With queenslandahz tftc

My inquisitive 2yo found this sneaky little hide. TFTC

On the way down from Coffs Harbour with the Family and Betty we were looking to do a little hike somewhere along the way and ended up choosing here on the fly. Betty got almost stuck with her car folling google to approach from the other side of the 'river' to this reststop. But once all hiking and caches was done we managed to safely turn and get her out again. More trouble than expected these two caches but also very nice here and happy to have com here

This one could hide to long while we had a bit before the short walk.

Thank you Lonely RA for putting the cache out and maintaining it.

Found together with the Flintstones Family. TFTC

Found this nice Cache together with Dino and Flintstones. Thank you for putting it out and maintaining it Lonely RA.

Found together with Fred.

TFTC Lonely RA

Thanks pprass for the new coords
Once we went to other tables it was easy find

Log was replaced end of May by MoSSau on my behalf

In the area for a 6 day June Long Weekend. This is our second day caching, having cached Friday, and now Sunday. We are camping at Ellenborough Reserve. No luck with this one today. It was getting dark, after a long day of cacheing, and geting very few. We searched every possible crevice, but not today. Decided to try the tree, and get that one, and it was pitch black when we got back here, so we called it a day. 8/12

No luck again

Log full

Log is full!

Found by JJS

Tftc!

Great place for a lunch stop, TFTF

No muggles today made this one easy to hunt for. Log is completely full and needs replacing. Squished my name into a little gap!

Took some time but persistence paid off. So tiny!!! Great fun for Baz & George.

Found with Bek76 and Gum62

Found it with bek76 and MDT79

Found with Gum62 and MDT79

Found

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Found just before rain started thanks for cache

After finding the cache at Old Bottlebutt, I made my way back to the car park and it took a bit to actually locate the wee container. We were visiting Australia for 2 months from our home on the west coast of Canada. TFTH

Bit tricky, but found it after reading the past messages for clues

Tricky find!

As we arrived the tables were occupied, so we went to the Giant Tree first. Later the muggles were gone and we looked after the cache. Nothing to spot, so we read the previous logs got some significant information and found the nano some meters away on the other table.
TFTC, redgecco

Attended and checked all good and still in place

Oops !!
Sunday lunchtime,
on Father's day,
was not a good time to head out this way [:o]

The place was packed with picinicers !!

No chance of a cache find here,
or at the nearby tree

Very hard find..

Micro indeed!