Bald Hills No. 11 Hernani, New South Wales, Australia
By groovydoo on 13-Apr-14. Waypoint GC52D4F

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.

Trust the hint. Nice colour for the cache.

Log signed and cache replaced as found at 11:39 AM on April 16, 2023. TFTC, groovydoo

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

Took a little scratch. Different shape than what I was expecting.

Today caching and travelling with RoddyC.

TFTCache groovydoo

Sneaky! Great cache

No luck today in finding cache

After a good long search by both Crookedpete and I, neither of us ended up locating the cache and had to walk away defeated.

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.

Time for some high elevation (for Australia anyway) caches. Some unloved on offer here, but no find. The hint helped narrow the search, and we felt the cache should have been obvious.
The road crew has pushed some branches and dirt up against the large tree. Perhaps the container is MIA under this?

Pete

And that's a wrap. Great weekend exploring the mail box caches at Tamworth.
Will need to come up and clear some more trails off around the area.

Nice hide! 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.

Thank you Groovydoo this is another special spot.

Very clever. TFTC

Couldn't see this one for looking even with a ridiculous amount of verbal hints from the co. Eventually the penny dropped. Tftc

My turn to find one. Yeah for me. TFTC

My geo hubby found after had been searching for awhile

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

Huge big loads of branches down around tree, maybe its been lost under em

Found tyftc. On a trip to the coast to improve our D/T rating. Find #2012

Tftc. #50

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 8903

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.

It took some time before we sorted out the right spot.

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 #7483}*

26/1/20 Find #3351
A road trip long weekend with Fangsoki, PPrime and Crew153, staying in Dorrigo. After a bit of a search, we read the correct hint, not PPrimes supposed hint, and a little looking later Fangsoki managed to find it and put us out of our misery.
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 it 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.

replaced log sheet

Found cache upside down in table drain, log book waterlogged. Have place back where I think it needs to go but CO will need to confirm

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. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

No idea why, but this one took me a little while to find.

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.

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

TFTC groovydoo
Find 5919 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.

This one took the longest by far, after 15 minutes of finding nothing we checked the hint, it still took another 10 or so minutes before we finally located it... buried under 4 inches of leaf litter.
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.

Another neat hide, thanks 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....

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Find #1858
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.....
Another quick one, thanks.....

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

Found a very wet log, unsignable. Like #7 we took it with us to dry out. Replaced it later when it had dried in a spare plastic bag we had, but the bag is a little large to fit comfortably in the cache so it may end up damaged in time. Thanks groovydoo

Found on a rainy caching day. Tftc. Log is soaked

TFTC smile 3222# out and about with miss millie geo dog on my way to Hunter Valley for my nephew wedding

TFTC and the series.

Having failed here before,I needed to make amends,so ducked in here with brother on way to hillgrove and Armidale,found today quickly and away we go.TFTC.

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Find No: 5366. 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 cache as we continue our journey. TFTC

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

Hit our milestone yesterday.our dorrigo adventure will be our most successful since we started. The cache was soon in hand.

Was almost going to replace, but found it, still there

Oops only my second on the trail and I've had a failure,dashed if I could spot it.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

Enjoying the drive in this beautiful area. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Had to drop my son half way between Coffs and Armidale. Not without some cache. Wanted to do 14 but the storm started too early. Thanks for all the caches groovydoo.

Thank you for bringing us to this beautiful area on our 3 day trip to Dorrigo & surrounds. TYFC
This is our 2nd Day. We are enjoying Today even more than Yesterday.

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

A good find was made. Full description at number 12 in the series. Tftc tnln

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. Anyway still light when I was looking for this one but spent a bit of time searching here before I stumbled upon the cache right before my eyes. Thanks Groovydoo.

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.

A cheeky hide this. Wasn't expecting it after starting with #12. TFTC TNLN

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

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 09:29:27 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. 264 on 10 April 2015

Boy it is so green around here, nothing like dry brown Adelaide where we are from.

TFTC

6477 Caches Found

AAfter leaving Stanthorpe and the end of the Mega Event. Heading home hoping to pick up a few caches along the way. What a wonderful drive Fantastic cache in a great location. Thanks for the great adventure

Thanks for the great cache groovydoo(8D)

A lovely, skool bus free, morning on my drive to Bald Hills
Number 11 took about as much time to find as it does to load a couple of skool chids on board the bus

TFTC

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

Unable to find this one today.

Tim smashed another one

12.45 sunday nice hide ..thanks groovydoo

In the swing of the likely choices of hides by now. Easy find 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 after a quick search with Aussie_Rover89, touty78, scoots Beki & NSWLone Rovers

TFTC

There was a very dead roo at GZ, fortunately a quick find, TFTC groovydoo, this completes the Bald Hills series for me - loved it. SL.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Found itTFTC

Found It - - Quick Find TFTC -

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Found at 3:02 PM GAFF1. Well the numbering sequence is a bit odd isn't it? This one was found at a distance of 8 metres, but caching intuition made us go to this spot and the uncamoed camo was found quickly
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

must be at the end now ,getting hungry.sl.tftc.

Thanks for the cache

Lost track of logs by now. Not often I do so many in one day.

TFTC
Magpyre

Crikey! we're going to need our glasses for this trail. Nice hide!! TFTC groovydoo.

Number six. I think I'll lose count soon.

Thanks for the cache, groovydoo. Signed the log and the geocoins visited.

Yay, another ftf.....thanks for the new caches groovydoo

Thanks groovydoo

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