Bald Hills No.4 Hernani, New South Wales, Australia
By groovydoo on 13-Apr-14. Waypoint GC52D3J

BEWARE OF THE ELECTRIC FENCE:

At Armidale today for two nights and caching in the area. Some target caches that need our names in them.

Got a bit of a shock.

Today caching and travelling with RoddyC.

TFTCache groovydoo

We have started our homeward journey from Canberra after the Mega, and after overnighting in Bathurst, and our first of two nights in Armidale, today we hunt high altitude caches. Bald Hills Road circuit is our target.

The electric fence was active here!

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 10:44 AM on April 16, 2023. TFTC, groovydoo

TFTC

Out and about caching today while visiting Dorrigo for a couple of days. Due to the number of caches, I am doing a generic log. Found the cache and signed the log. TFTC

Instead of heading mega north to Townsville for Easter, Seffnjarah and I planned a long weekend road trip south to Armidale and surrounds.

Another early start out of the swag at our preferred roadside camp site just out of town. The plan today was to cache along the Waterfall Way chasing unloved and high elevation caches with an FTF thrown in for good measure.

Still laughing quietly to myself about Seff's encounter with the electric fence here. At first, with all his carry on, I wasn't certain what had happened - a swarm of killer bees, a nasty brown joe blake, an unbalanced cheque account perhaps? Nah ... just an electric fence. Glad of some light entertainment here after a long day out.

Many thanks groovydoo

Pete

With most of the caches on the passenger's side of the car, Crookedpete had been delegated to jump out and find the caches we had passed so far (only requiring the odd assist here and there). As we rolled up to this one the cache hiding place was obvious so he kindly dispatched me to take my turn at making the find on this one.

The cache was dangling in plain sight so the retrieval was easy and I signed us into the logbook, although the paper was considerably wet. Nothing left but to replace the logbook and be on our way.

# POW #

I stagger back, stunned, unsure what has just happened.

Had I just been kicked in the guts by a ninja kangaroo lurking in the long grass? Was I just shot by a cranky farmer sniping from a grassy knoll? Or maybe a giant pelican-sized wasp had swooped down out of the trees to sting me?

As my senses slowly returned and the pain subsided, I looked down to see the wire I had brushed my arms against while replacing the cache.

As I write this log, I now see mention of said electric fence in a previous log and the cache page description. I am now having evil thoughts about my passenger Crookedpete. One suspects that he had ample time between caches to read the cache description on this one, and noting the electric fence comment, innocently suggest that I be the one to put myself in harm's way. A wolf in sheep's clothing lurks within. Your time will come Crookedpete... your time will come...

TFTC

TFTC, very wet though

Found it with bek76 and MDT79

Found with Gum62 and MDT79 TFTC

Found with Bek76 and Gum62 TFTC

On our way to Armidale for a few day's caching and picking up the ones along the Waterfall Way as we go Had to take this little detour.. Thanks for the cache.

So appreciated the hint on this long grass rainy day

Neat. TFTC

Watch out for the the electric bit of the fenceline. The cache isn't on it but its possible to get zapped if not careful when retrieving log. I had a bovine audience while I was logging it.

TFTC.

TFC

Another great find. Thanks for hiding this cache for our enjoyment groovydoo

To touch or not to touch, great views

Found tyftc. On a trip to the coast to improve our D/T rating. Find #2007

A nice easy find TFTC

Tftc. #43

Left Grafton this morning heading to Tamworth to meet up with DiMorgan for the 29 Feb Souv. Stopped at Ebor and noticed this trail nearby. Setup the caravan at the Pub and set off for these. Nearly at the end and the heavens opened up on us. We were planning on doing the other trail but decided to call it and headed back to support the local pub for a few light refreshments.

TFTC groovydoo
Total Cache Finds 8910

I was on an Australia Day long weekend road trip with Pprime, Fangsoki and 1MinniMoo and we had targeted caches in the area which would help us to qualify for a number of challenges.

A good variety of different containers. No worries for us here.

TFTC groovydoo

With Fangsoki, Crew153 and 1MinnieMoo we have hit the Dorrigo Plateau for the weekend - having arrived yesterday we set out for day two through the early morning fog, next up here. Between us we had no issues finding this one.

Thanks groovydoo for entertaining me at this location.
*{Overall find #7476}*

26/1/20 Find #3344
A road trip long weekend with Fangsoki, PPrime and Crew153, staying in Dorrigo. Day two and we were starting with the Bald Hills Trail before heading to Ebor. It was a nice quick find on this one.
Thanks for the cache groovydoo.

1MinnieMoo, Pprime, Crew 153, and I were in the Dorrigo / Ebor Area grabbing caches. This was our second day while in the area.

We enjoyed all of the caches in beautiful area - and appreciate the effort the cache owners put into the caches.

TFTC groovydoo

Found TFTC

Found while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421.
Enjoyed the trip around and all the great hides.
Stamped TM/WW NZ, or if in pen our full names

Another very nice find today with woolwood9.
*Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!*
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.

Thanks groovydoo for another good trail of caches.

Long weekend....time to get away. I left Brisbane yesterday after work and eventually made it to Grafton. This morning dawned raining with low cloud cover. This put a damper on my original plans for the day. Instead, I lounged around for a bit and had an extra cuppa or two before setting off. As the weather had begun to clear, I decided to follow this trail of caches. The cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

replaced cache container today

Hmmm, so the last cacher says they "Found it" but it is on the ground on the other side of an electric fence. I spent ages going up and down the fence, getting zapped multiple times, trying to find this cache on the ground to attempt a retrieval.

Sadly, got sick of being accidentally zapped, so, we gave up, gunna need a replacement I feel.

Found out on a caching day around dorrigo and surrounds, with the main aims the bald hill and deer vale road caches. sorry for the generic logs and thanks for the cache. cache is laying on the other side of the fence, i wasn’t able to retrieve it so it is still there i’m afraid. thanks anyway

Heading North for a short holiday and collecting some caches along the way.
Thanks for placing it for us to find.

TFTC groovydoo
Find 5912 logged from c:geo.

Staying around Dorrigo for a few days, camping and geocaching.

Time to attack the bald hills trail, most caches located after a short search, however a few took quite some time.

Another quick find, three bulls watched us in keen interest as we signed the log.
Thanks for the cache

Our caching list for today was brought to us courtesy of groovydoo! Thank you for so many caches to be found.
This Bald Hills run was an easier series of caches to find and the countryside is really lush and green. Our name was noted in each log found and all the containers were in good condition as were the contents.

Up in toowoomba there is a starship puzzle series geoart I have completed and many of the hides are like this one. There ya go, don't say I never give out hints, haha!
Thanks for these caches groovydoo!

We have been staying at the free camp in Thora with our caravan and using it as a base to cache around Bellingen and Dorrigo to as far as Ebor. Fabulous countryside and we have loved the creative hides on this series which quite often took some time to find. Thankyou groovydoo for placement of this cache and sharing this special spot with us.

Found with my Dad and little brother on our Australia Day weekend adventure....

### **TFTC!!!** ###

Find #1851
Continuing our journey out into the sticks now, we managed 11/12 of the Bald Hills Series. The long grass gave us some tense moments, especially as a misunderstanding in my bag packing left me with only shorts to wear.....
Quick one, no probs - TFTC

Our final find of the bald hill series. Thanks for placing them. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

this was a spontaneously action to do the Hill trail. it tooks a while to found all the containers we needed around 45 min - 60 min by car but we made it:) TFTC and maintenance the trail

Decided to do this circuit today
TFTC

Cache was gone, replaced. Electric fence was installed after cache placement!!

If this is a fence post hole hide similar to others we found today then its gone. Was the electic fence there when cache was placed. Just speculating that it may have been spotted by whoever put the electric fence (wire) there. Thanks groovydoo

Looked and looked everywhere

TFTC no smile DNF woe is me think it's in the trees but can't find woe is me

Today on a caching/maintenance tour with Groovydoo. 2 trails and some single caches on a nice sunny day. 35/41

Thanks for the tour and the cache groovydoo

TFTC and the series.

TFTC

Tftc

Find No: 5359. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Woolgoolga, yukky day so thought we'd head for the hills, had a great day, great picnic lunch and 30 caches in total, thanks for the cache groovydoo!!

Found with shrimp 92 .Beautiful day for caching. Thankyou for the cache

A quick grab as we continue with our journey. TFTC

A quick park and grab as we explore this beautiful rural country side. TNLN SL TFTC

No problem finding this cache.

Just enjoying this drive more and more,well done for creating this Groovy,andTFTC.

Tftc

Tftc

Weekend geotrip with ZO33 down in the Dorrigo Area.
What a glorious area with many beautiful natural attractions and plenty to see.
Thank you for placing and maintaining geocaches

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 20.201 E 152° 27.255

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 20.202 E 152° 27.258

Distance from original: 16.9 feet or 5.2 meters.
Post has rotted and fallen over. new cache

No luck here

After the disaster of the last cache, I managed to make this one spectacular. After a short search I went over to a nearby post. As I went to look into the top of the old post it gave way, taking it & me into the drain below much to the amusement of geoHubby. There I was (In a very unladylike position) crying for help, only to be met with mirth. I was convinced the cache was in the top of the post which (if it was there) was nowhere to be seen. I apologise Groovydoo for not mentioning this when we saw you. It completely slipped my mind.

Our second series of caches for today. Enjoyed this series more than the other Deer Vale ones - maybe it was just that it was more open country. Thanks so much Groovydoo for the effort you have put into the series. Great way to see the less travelled roads of Australia.

Nice easy finds along the trail. TFTC

No Find here and it stunk of dead animal.

On a day trip form Coffs To Armidale and took a slight detour to see how many of these Bald Hills caches I could find. Started late and ran out of light after a couple of caches, and of course had no torch so that added a bit of a challenge. I count this cache as a lucky find as it was now fairly dark and after searching unsuccessfully for the cache in the likely places I dropped my pencil and low and behold there was a little micro on the ground (couldn't find my pencil). I replaced the cache where I think it should have been Groovydoo but you might like to check on it sometime.

Decided to have an impromptu weekend away from Newcastle after the floods, so what better time to have a crack at gaining some stats for GC4K8YK NSW Altitude Challenge? It was however made more difficult by very limited reception, which meant all we had on the phone was the map with 30 closest caches and no information. A good test of 'cacher's instinct' - we only had 1 DNF which was pleasing. A fun day out with the kids, recommend the growers markets 45 minutes down the road too - great coffee and waffles!

We really enjoyed the Bald Hills series (as drive-by series go). Some inventive hides, with reasonable variety, and good coords. Nice views, cows on the road. Happy times. Thanks for all the effort.

This was our only DNF of the series. GZ seemed obvious enough but could not seem to lay eyes on it. Sad face!

Found as part of our run through the Bald Hills mini power trail. While we don't normally go a lot of D 1.5 T 1.5 caches however we enjoyed the county side on our way through and thought the rating on some could be lifted a little. These all qualified us for the NSW altitude sickness challenge. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC. Thanks for placing the series
TFTC more d2 than 1.5

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 09:30:03 UTC.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one of the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH GroovyDoo [^]

TFTC, groovydoo, SL

Out caching with geodaughter (geobunnybutts) to get the Bald Hills Road series. Had lots of fun along the way.
TFTC, groovydoo, SL.
My find no. 268 on 10 April 2015

Spotted what we thought was the cache as we pulled up which turned out to be correct. Fits well.

TFTC

6483 Caches Found

Not this trip anyway.

Thanks for the adventure groovydoo(8D)

I have given up looking for the skool bus .... it isn't coming !! [:o]

[blue]The silicon chip inside me GPS,
Gets switched to overload !! [:o]
So nobody's gonna go to skool today,
Weekends going to make them stay at home.
Geocaching !! I understand it
This cache is as good as gold
And I can see no reasons,
'Cause there are no reasons,
I need me GPS to be shown

Tell me why,
I do like Sundays
Tell me why,
I do like Sundays
Tell me why,
I do like Sundays
I want to cache, aaache, aaaaaache,
The whole day down[/blue]

TFTC with a song in me head [^]

What a great series. I saw these when they were first published but this is the first chance I've had. Thanks groovydoo...

Found it with geodad Whitey Wiskas --- All Good .. TFTC ..

Found with Geoson Geoff511. TFTC Thanks groovydoo

Thanks for the cache.

Part of cache lying on ground, gingerly replaced but not sure it will last long!

11.30am sunday did a small repair to this one,,thanks groovydoo

Dismissed without checking until everything else had failed. Geocaching can be really easy if I'd just open my eyes and try the obvious first. After reading other logs afterwards I could imagine this would have been a lot harder with the camo intact. tftc groovydoo

Found after a quick search with Aussie_Rover89, touty78, scoots Beki & NSWLone Rovers

TFTC

Quick find on a weekends caching with Touty78, Scoota Beki, Lonely RA and NSW Lone Rover Crew. TFTC

Found on weekend caching with Lonely RA,Aussie_Rover89,NSW Lones Crew,and Scoota Bekie..Tftc

Found with 2 1/2 Crew Members in Attendance at the last of specific camps.

TFTC

Found with the gang

TFTC

Gotcha !!! TFTC

What a good fit, TFTC groovydoo, SL.

TFTC

Found it TFTC

Found It - - Quick Find TFTC

TFTC.

Found on the ground and the camo is cracked. Replaced in the obvious place.

Found at 2:27 PM GAFF1. Another cache that was just lying on the ground - however we think that this one was interferred with by humans!
Thanks groovydoo.

Today we drove from Ebor to Port Macquarie.
It had snowed the previous night & as we arrived into Ebor there was still evidence laying around in the shady areas.
It was an early morning start 7am & -1degrees. We spent as quick a time at each cache as possible, hurrying to get back in the warmth of the car.
All the caches we found were in good condition & some wonderfull & scenic locations.

Thanks for placing this cache groovydoo

having a good day with grandson,he has this one pretty quick. sl. tftc.

Thanks for the cache

And now for something completely different.

I pointed Trainsport in the right direction and he checked the offending structure carefully and found nothing. Said it was not there and headed off to a nearby tree to see if the GPS was playing tricks. I decided to double check his location putting my trust in the GPS for this occasion and quickly found a very sneaky cache. Trainsport had never seen one like this before.

TFTC
Magpyre