Boambee Beach Dune walk #14 Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
By brad1987 on 20-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DBB6

Found it thankyou nice trail could only do a few through ad I dont have premium hope I can get it soon though!

Fourteenth find on this lovely sunny day! Planning to go all the way to Sawtell. Lots of chirping birds, rolling waves, and the odd train is all i can hear.This Pandanus tree is amazing! Definitely use your geosenses instead of gps for this one. Tftc

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DAY 7

After much planning, saving and extra mods to the 4WD we are finally on our way to Longreach to take part in the QOGM festivities. A short stopover in Coffs Harbour visiting relatives has us enjoying the mild weather, the great scenery and not to mention a cache or 2.

With Toormina our base on every trip to Coffs this series has taunted us on our map. We have always wanted to tackle it but time has been against us. Not this time however! The fit Triton set off from Boambee Headland Lookout and worked backwards towards Boambee Beach access car park where the other team member picked him up.
A pleasant day to walk along the old trail in the scrub with plenty of shade to keep cool. A few bush turkeys, watching from afar keeping their distance while going about their own business.
All hides easy finds with good coordinates.

A 3D print we haven’t seen before.

Thanks blissbaby for the series placement.

We started this series last year when we were up here and have come back to finish the series. Having only 1 car we walked along the beach and then headed inland. A lovely walk mostly in the shade and much quieter than all the activity on the beach. TFTC. We were looking in the wrong place initially but eventually found it.

Found it, coolest tree so far !!!!

Great series in a beautiful part of the country
Really enjoyed the 9k walk in beaut sunshine
Full log on #1
TFTC

10:32
We had been looking forward to this walk, since we planned a visit to Coffs!
As suggested we set out fairly early with extra water and hoping to ride the trail. Perhaps the most disappointng trail we have attempted. The trail is non-existant in spots, doesn't have any markers, is overgrown and unmaintained, which is a real disappointment, as it could be a real tourist asset for the region.
Our bike riding soon came to an end when there was no further trail! We pushed our trusty treadlies through prickles, grass and sand to complete the trail. Whilst many of the caches were wet, the majority of coordinates were spot on and made the finding of the many Micro's imitating the listed Size of 'Small' that much easier.

Thanks to blissbaby for adding this series to the gameboard.
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We've been holidaying down in Coffs Harbour for the week. When we've been able to get to geomonsters out of the pool at the resort, we've been out and about exploring this beautiful part of the world.

Today was a little cloudy and marginally less windy, so Sandra dropped me off at Boambee and was to be picked up at the other end of the beach.

Spotted a likely location from along the track and there it was.

This was number 16 for our trip.

Thanks!!

#3315

Found the keyring had finally rusted off and the container was amongst the leaf litter. Have replaced with new container today as log was mush. Was going to change co ords but new waypoint was within 4m & my phone was saying 2m with original ones so didn't feel it was necessary. As others have said, follow your geo instincts it will lead you in the right direction.

yay

Disappointing trail, many wet logs and some containers in poor condition, needs a maintenance run.
Thanks for the cache

Yes follow your nose not your signal. Tftc

Today I walked from Gallows Beach to Sawtell Lookout. Doing this walk and caches #2 to #18 of the Boambee Beach Dune Walk series was a distance of 8.2km and took me 3.5 hours. I found #1 way back in August of 2015.

This cache took a while to find as I was trusting my GPSr rather than my geosense. As soon as I believed my gut the cache was soon in hand.

T4TC and thanks for the BBDW series.

Found in place, log dry and good to go.

Boambee Beach Dune walk #14 was transferred from earthly65 to user blissbaby

It was hard we dnf it we went back and fourth‚ up and down

Looked but could not find it took a while to get there because we were walking along the beach

On our walk out I don’t recall many spikes and pricks to the skin because we followed the trail or what resembled it. It was only when we had to leave the trail to find a cache did we look down at our pants and find all sorts of prickles.

In fact after each find we paused and removed whatever spikes were hanging in our pants. That would be the cue for me to joke about the humongous spike in my pants but I was getting poked from every angle. tftc

That’s different

Nice tree TFTC

Boambee Beach Dune walk #14 was transferred from brad1987 to user earthly65

Well I made that harder tham it had to be, look in the obvious place not the gps here. Riddell is the last name in the log so not convinced the previous two finders actually did so but thats not really my problem . Glad to be finishing off this series with a few finds.

Found

My GPSr was 10m out,
Apart from that...perfect and easy find.
Wanted to stop near here and take a photo of the beautiful specimen of a pandanas tree ( aka cabbage palm)
TFTC

Drove along the beach and did this cache DL TFTC

Tftc

Nice drive along the beach with Going places 2 TFTC

Today we wanted to continue with this series, which we started on a previous visit to Coffs Harbour, so we went out caching with twista747 who lives in the local area. Of the 16 caches left in the series for us to find, we were successful with most, but had to DNF 3 and did not bother to look for one, which had too many DNF logs for it to be of interest. It was disappointing not to be able to complete the series.
Individual info had been added to some of the logs where it is appropriate.
Thanks go to brad1987 for the series.

Found by MeeeeeeeEeeeeeeEee. Yeah baby,

TFTC! Found with KearnsAU by geo Dad. Easy peasy find! Trail of prickle glory

Spent the day walking from Coffs to Boambee doing this series, at times the path was hard to find, boots and socks very necessary. Several logs wet and not possible to write on. We soon caught on to the style of cache and hide Many thanks .Nearly gave up but found on return to path

TFTC

After about 20 minutes here couldn't find it there's a lot of broken branches here

Just returned from my holiday and catching up on the logs from my fantastic trip. All good with this cache as I work my way south to Sawtell. Signed log. Thanks

Generic log used, TFTC and the series. A nice bush walk along the back of the sand dunes with the sound of the ocean and occasional views of the beach.

This didn't take me long to fund and sign tftc

Great little spot

Took Nothing Left nothing sl

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

11 found so far. from Germany

Like other logs here, this will be a generic log for the entire series.
We started the day at 930am on the Sunday of the June long weekend, with the intension of finding all 22 today. The day didn’t start out too well as we couldn’t find #1. Grrr. Went strait to #3 and not knowing what exactly we were looking for, we went on and found a few more and realised the caches were the same. Co-ords were all spot on and loved the trail. Felt like we were in the middle of nowhere with the occasional beautiful ocean view. Oh and the occasional plane to remind us where right next to the airport runway. I was surprised to find not 1 spider web and no snakes today. Lol. We did however find a well camouflaged lizard in a tree we were looking in. Got a fright when I saw him. Would have been about 2ft long. Found all caches ok in a roundabout 5 min time frame, except #23. We looked and looked as you can image, but finding nothing. Checked logs and found the last 4 were dnf’s. Oh well, called our friends to pick us up as we were exhausted. It was 3pm at this stage, long day but had a great day geocaching. Dropped us back at our car and deciding to go back to #1 and find it, which we did. So a great day with 21 finds and 1 dnf. Awesome series and TFTC’s !!

We went out for the day, learning the ropes with Mystery Sleuth. Gorgeous day for a dunes / beach walk, searching for caches.
No muggles around, but plenty of thorns attached themselves to our socks!

TFTC, lovely day had by all!

Out with Got It Good who were visiting Coffs Harbour for the weekend and learning about geocaching.

This will be a generic log for the series with a few exceptions. This was a lovely enjoyable walk with finding a geocache every few hundred meters or so and with it being like that before you knew it you were at the end. Most were fairly quick and easy to find exept a few of them.

After finishing the series we walked back along the beach and the beach walk felt like it went on forever and I was warn out. But it was a great day out and we all had fun in the sun.

Find:316

Thanks for the series Brad187

Thanks for the cache

We had been wanting to do this series for a while but last time we were in the area a couple were disabled and the puzzle in #2 pointed to one of the traditionals. We had a bit of spare time this afternoon and headed off. It was a hot but pleasant walk. It took us a little to get our eye in for the type and style of hide but after that most came out OK as we generally found the co ords good but a couple took a little longer. Some of the logs towards the end of the trail were a touch damp and one had a couple of drops of water which we drained out. We saw a number of black cockatoos and goanna on our way. We DNF'd the last traditional as per the last couple of finders but made it to the final. A fav pt for the series. TFTC.

Find No: 4982. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Woolgoolga, Back Beach this morning for a body surf, into Coffs this arvo to have a look at some missed ones and some new ones, thanks for the cache brad1987!!

Thanks for the cach! Number 135

Completed Maintenance on the entire trail with summerr123. Replaced all containers and logs as the last containers didn't hold up to the weather. You are now looking for camod bison tubes.

We walked along this track finding the Caches quite quickly. The Caches were all, almost right at the CoOrds.
It was a warm day so it was a nice relief when we emerged at the Southern End of the trail. Then we went Inland once more for the Final Cache before setting out on the 6km Beach Walk back to the car park.
Thanks to brad1987 to setting up this trail.
TFTC brad1987

T4TC

Another quick find on me delightful beach side stroll
The "dunecare" people are doing their best to clean up the area and replant the native vegetation
Meanwhile the local rednecks are still doing their best to set fire to the place, and drive their 4WD's over the dunes

I wonder which side will win ??
Given the enormous amount of work it takes to restore the dunes, compared to the damage one moron in a 4WD can do in 10 minutes, I think the answer is obvious

'Bout time the local council closed this beach to all vehicles

Before it's too late [:o]

TFTC and the whole series !!

We had seen this power trail appear on a previous visit to Coffs and have been itching to do it since then.

Our Geocaching Daughter & her Geocaching Partner residents of Coffs were also itching to do them but I had made them promise they would wait for us so we could do them together.

We now had our opportunity as we had been to Sydney for our Church Conference and planned to make the morning available on the way back to knock these over.

What was more exciting for us is that our Daughters partner has a 4WD so we planned to attack them from the beach. We knew that it would mean we would have to cross more vegetation but the thrill of beach driving overcame that.

This will be a generic log with a few side notes.

We had an absolute ball going for & finding all these caches even with the spiky plants and spiky seeds that attached themselves to us in the hundreds.

A nice variation in hide location here just where I would have put it!!!

Thanks Brad1987 for a fantastic trail on this beautiful beach!!!!

Tftc

Headed out late this arvo to start this cache run. Found a few of the logs saturated and hard to write on and others damp. Found and logged... TFTC

Found on way back to Coffs

things all in tacked signed log and off again...

This trail was a good part of my coming for another visit to Coffs Harbour. I likely would have at least gotten started on it last time I was here if I realised it was a little more terrainy.

I parked near the 4WD access to Boambee Beach and soon had set out along the trail. It started out nice until I come across the billion things that kept getting stuck all over my shoes. I think this slowed me down considerably every five seconds pulling another dozen off my sock so it did not hurt to walk.

Either way this afternoon I found #1, and #3 up to #18, I could have kept going, but likely would have end up having to walk back up the beach in the dark. So had set my cut off to 5.30pm, and made it back to the car just around 6.30.

This trail is very well put together, and really does get you working for those smilies.

TFTC

We set up camp at Coffs Harbour & this morning we wamted to takle the Beach walk. We had pprass drop hubby off at #24 & I started walking from #17.
The coords were all great which made for mostly easy finds, I found #17 the toughest but saying this we had a DNF on #1.
This was a pleasant walk amongst the sand dunes which we completed one way in just over 2 hours.
#24 will get a favourite for the track
Thanks for placing this cache brad1987

Found with earthly65 who revisited the first half with me as she had already done it...parked a vehicle at each end of the trail we found was the best way to go...enjoyed the shady walk through this trail...a fave point for the trail...thanks brad1987

Found with robbieracer66, caching here in the rain as it is cooler....new containers are very tricksy to spot....thanks brad1987

Finally over halfway there and no going back now. (Still wish we had of brought more water. It's got to be 40 degrees today).

Found on a caching day out, in & around Coffs with 'Nudge74'

Decided to tackle this trail today with 'Vaggfam'

Found easliy

TNLN

TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 19.924 E 153° 07.105

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 19.931 E 153° 07.100

Distance from original: 49.9 feet or 15.2 meters.
New container and position. Happy caching

Tftc with geojaegar and krazykrissy

…And another one down. Beer o'clock yet?
TFTC

A good little hunt in the bush

Finding boxes on Boxing Day. TFTC!

This one was a problem,couldn't find it and had to walk away without a find ,however on the way back took another look and there she was.TFTC.

This one took a little longer as there were so many potential hiding spots!

Gotcha !!! Found with Pprass using his trusty steed. TFTC

Thanks for the hide

Found at 12:36 PM in the company of Temingi GAFF1. With good company it didn't feel like this part of the series took very long at all. Just glad that we drove to the other end and then worked our way back.
Thanks brad1987.

A quick find of the cache but MrBobbiesgirl had already took off for a headstart to #15. We soon caught up and continued on together. TFTC brad1987.

Found this one too in the company of geono. TFTC

FTF! 2 of 12 FTFs of today.

Another good hide. Heaps of bluebottles on the beach today yet people where still going in the water. Sometimes people don't think very smart. TFTC

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