Congregational Church Broadmarsh, Tasmania, Australia
By ausandaus2 on 27-Feb-14. Waypoint GC4Z9AY

Church and grounds now privately owned

You may want to check this. As the new owners have a fence around the property. We spoke to them as they wanted to know what we were doing.
I suspect the GZ is just behind the fence now.

A nearby barking dog almost had me heading off as he was creating unwanted attentions. Reluctant to go into the grounds, a reach and poke and a prod soon had the cache revealed. Again, well done on a very creative hide.. thanks..!!

This was another interesting location. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC

Met up with EeePees today for an afternoon of geocaching in the Brighton area. We had now commenced the 'park and grab' part of our afternoon. Parked outside the entrance to the church and as EeePees had already found this one, I decided to leave the GeoGSP in the car so I could hopefully find it quickly without being pulled in different directions - however, unlike his normal good habit of just sitting in the car quietly if he can see me, the GeoGSP was expressing his displeasure at being left in the car......so I was having difficulty focussing on finding the cache. There was an obvious area for me to look but I'd had to return to the car to throw more snacks at the GeoGSP, as I headed back to GZ EeePees pointed out something obvious and there it was. Another very cute, themed cache, love it ausandaus2! Thanks for putting a cache here, a favourite from me.

GPS took us to the GZ, but then under thtrees it went haywire. We struggled to find this one. Phone a friend and cache was in hand. Thanks Ausandaus2

Nice find. TFTC!!
Find #291

Tftc I do hope the planning permit isnt for this church.

This one took a while and I don't think we would have found it if we hadn't checked the logs while there.
Noticed a planning permit on the fence for the old church here but even though it was fairly old it seems nothing has happened here. Pity as we have seen some great conversions of these old churches.
Thanks, another great hide on this road to Elderslie that Mrs Beetle had never travelled along before.

Came out to do some caches we have been meaning to do for ages before dragging ourselves off to do the grocery shopping. Urgh!! Nice quick find. TFTC.

Came out to do some caches we have been meaning to do for ages before dragging ourselves off to do the grocery shopping. Urgh!! Nice quick find. TFTC.

Not quite sure whether we agree with the difficulty rating, but gave up after about 30 minutes

Took me ages to find this one because I took the hint too literally. TFTC.

TFTC. Great hide!

Ugh, hate it when I overlook the obvious. TFTC!

Took the hint a little too literally but when the details didn't match up I scratched around a little further and then found the faith that I was looking for! Cache is in good condition too.

Found it thanks

Second time lucky. It was so easy! TFTC

Checked after the DNF and happy to report that the cache is still in the hide.
The large pine trees in the area may affect GPS signals but the hint will take you right to the cache.

DNF

TFTC

Something has us heading the wrong way to start with. But once the clue and hint matched it was only a matter of getting on ones hands and knees to pray to the heavens above and soon the cache location was given up to us. Dr James spotted an old bird nest sitting on the ground and left for others to discover as well..
JABs.

Found!

TFTC!

We had the patience and found it Easy find TFTC

Today we grabbed some smilies as we headed north and this was one of them. An easy find, liked log book.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

Thanks for this cache ausandaus2. Out on the road with AlbyDangles this evening. Hardly had time to put the seatbelt on after leaving the golfcourse, when it was time to undo it. Alby got really confused here, as he'd found it before, but in its previous location. All good, faith restored, found, signed, and replaced, seatbelt back on and we're off again.....
#176 @ 1915hrs Mon 7th Feb 2016

Australia Trip, Day 26 of 49
Tasmania Trip, Day 10 of 12
On Cache tour with Theatralis.

German Log:
Heute mittag waren wir im Bonorong Wildlife Park und haben Kängurus gefüttert, Wombats gekrault und Selfies mit einem Koala gemacht. Den restlichen Tag nutzten wir für eine Cacherunde von Brighton nach Mole Creek. Dabei machten wir auch den Trail auf der Elderslie Road.
Dieser hier war mein absoluter Liebling auf der Runde! Er bekommt einen Favoritenpunkt von mir! Sehr passend zum Thema!

English Log: (translated with Google Translater)
Today at noon we were in Bonorong Wildlife Park and have fed kangaroos, wombats cuddled and made selfies with a Koala. The rest of the day we used for cache round from Brighton to Mole Creek. We also made the trail on Elderslie Road.
This one was my favorite on the trail! He gets a favorite point of mine! Very fitting to the theme!

TFTC
The last Rooney
Greetings from Munich, Germany!

Found it

This was day 63 of our trip out of Sydney to visit the southern states of Victoria and Tasmania and was day 21 of the Tasmanian part.

This was a nicely hidden cache and we did have some faith and were able to find the cache quite quickly. Thankfully there were no muggles around to hinder the search. After the log had been signed the cache was replaced where we found it. Thank you for bringing us to this area and for thank you for placing this cache for us and others to find.

Found the little begger this time ) Thanks for being so quick to replace the cache Clever hide and lovely log book another fav point given TFTC

We're half way through our six month stay (til the end of March '16) from the Kurrajong area, (Blue Mountains) NW of Sydney, to tour in the caravan and also visit our kids and grandkids in the Huon Valley On four previous visits before this visit, we were muggles, so we have a whole island of caching fun ahead of us!

Travelling around Australia and spending a few months in Tasmania.

Now staying in Campania, after all the rain yesterday today was such a pleasant day although still cool.

We loaded our lunch, jumpers and bicycles and headed off to explore new areas.

We managed to find your cache whilst in the area. Quickest find of the series but pretty sure its not where it should be. The 'logsheet' will suffer water damage if left where it is.

TFTC ausandaus2

Left the geovan at Kempton, while we wandered around the country side exploring your beautiful state. We did well today, 10 out of 11 plus one abandoned Happy that.

After our first DNF under the pine trees, were approached this one with trepidation. After using he clue, (GZ was a tad to find with the GPSr) we turned over every rock, log and blade of grass, before widening our search. Finally geohub found it on the ground. Signed, and hid a little better than found, will contact CO ad advise.

thanks ausandaus2 for the hide.

Pleasant day and up early to go for a drive on FTF chase. A very nice area to drive this morning. Good location and surprised ourselves with quick find. Nice log book.
TFTC

We checked this one after a DNF and the cache is missing.
The hide is no longer viable so the new replacement cache has been moved about 6-7 meters from the original. The coordinates have been changed but as a good satellite signal is hard to get in this area the hint will take you to GZ. You do not have to enter the property to retrieve the cache.

Coordinates changed from:
S 42° 38.072 E 147° 06.838

Coordinates changed to:
S 42° 38.068 E 147° 06.832

Distance from original: 36.1 feet or 11 meters.
The cache has been moved about six metres from the original hide.

Spent over half an here, going over everywhere as the gps was jumping around. But we've conceded defeat on this one, maybe have another look later on.
We're on a six month stay here from the Kurrajong area, (Blue Mountains) NW of Sydney, to tour in the caravan and also visit our kids and grandkids in the Huon Valley
On four previous visits before this visit, we were muggles, so we have a whole island of caching fun ahead of us!

Got it. Very clever cache container. TFTC

Geohubby found this one pretty quickly. And finally we hit 170 caches! Thanks for this series ausandaus2, a beautiful little valley with some great history. Time to head home after another fun weekend caching

another great cache for our 170th tftc

Another great cache love the fun surprises

Very nice hide.

This formed our turn-around point, but once again a memorable cache hide awaited our complementary "ooh's" & "ah's". The lovely old church appears to require some additional means of support. [Blue]Find # 1954. Thanks for the cache, the history lesson & the enjoyment ausandaus2 TNLN.[/Blue]

A nice easy find. I do like the hide.
TFTC

With the lords help this cache was christened TFTC TNLN log dry

TFTC, took a little while to find as the cache container had been a bit buried, but was certainly surpirsed to find the container.

Wow very old church - very impressed to see - still good building... excellent cache and signed the log. Thanks ausandaus2.

Tftc.

Found this one as well after a bit of a hunt. The coordinates could do with being updated. A more accurate location would be S42° 38.071', E147° 06.830'.

Found myself stopping at the first church as per a couple of other logs and then realising that it is not GZ. Continued on another few hundred metres and found the correct church.

Very appropriate and original cache container.

TFTC. Please do update the coordinates for others though.

Arrived at the correct church and check the most logical spot. Nothing. Spent half hr checking every possible spot as gps kept jumping then decided to check first spot again. Bit of a dig and there it was it had just been buried a little. Gr8 cache but a little damp. Log was all dry tho. A fav point for originality

Catching up on some logging. Out for a lovely afternoon of caching with WKC. We've been waiting for an opportunity do this series for awhile and today is the day. We know understand why Gooseandegg enjoyed this series. Another great container. TFTC.

Clawed by the cub. TFTC.

Found while out and about caching on a beautiful winter's day. TFTC.

An original cache container, very appropriate for this location. Thank you for the cache and thank you for the series. We've never been out this way before and probably wouldn't have but for caching.

I dropped my grandson off at school and took a short drive out into this very pretty little valley. This was my second stop, although I did pull up at the Anglican church first. There must have been quite a community to warrant two churches of this size. I loved the new and appropriate container. TFTC.

After being alerted to some problems with one of our caches at Kempton, we then undertook a full maintenance run of all the caches at Broadmarsh. The original container for this one was damaged and so we have now replaced it with a new and different one. Original log still ok.

A quick find at a lovely old building. TFTC!

Love your way of thinking! Our last find on this stretch, but one more to find this afternoon- in Bagdad. A very enjoyable series and well planned. TFTC

How appropriate that the ravens are cawing as we stand looking at all the flowers on a recent grave. TFTC

Cache zombified. Out today picking up caches around the Pontville area. Gps had me a little off to start with but soon had the cache in hand. Cache and contents are in good order. Another one of those sites that you are most likely to drive past and not even really notice it is there. Thanks for a reason to stop and look. Tftc.

We stayed overnight in Hamilton last night and decided to drive the alternative route to Hobart. Well, no regrets at all. Nice scenery and, very interesting history and a couple of interesting caches too. Looking for this cache we found and empty Smarties tube first with, I thought, a plastic bag inside. That turned out to be a cobweb and an angry black spider. Shook out the spider and took the container for recycling, maybe to replace another cache. On with the hunt and not much longer after that we found the container. All good! TFTC ausandaus2.

After an appointment in Hobart yesterday, we headed home early this morning but allowed sufficient time to look for for the four caches on the Broadmarsh Road. It was quite nippy as the sun rose but there were promises of a good day. This was the last of the four caches along this road. Againa accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks for the cache ausandaus2 and for the tour of the area. One day when we have more time, we must return and explore deeper into the area.

Tftc!

Last one for the day. Unfortunately we didnt get the third in this series due to muggles, one for next time. tftc

Hi ausandaus2
Not being religious, this was a quick visit!
Logged the cache at 1355hrs.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

If not for the cache here I would not have known that a church was here. Another great hide. TFTC

Published

Quick find and a FTF @ 18:25 Nice one TFTC

Enjoyed this series. Being quite familiar with the area it was nice to stop and look at the buildings we normally drive past. Thankyou for showing us some history. Tftc