Boambee Beach Dune walk #19 Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
By brad1987 on 20-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DBBH

Nineteenth 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. Saw a black snake that raised its head at me, then slivered off into the grass. Was a bit spooked. Tftc

Found tyftc

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.

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.

Found it, not to hard

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

11:41
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. This is a Micro!

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.

I wandered down the beach a little and then headed up into the dunes again. This was a pain to find. Walked past it numerous times before spotting it. The sun must be getting to me...

This was number 11 for our trip.

Thanks!!

#3310

Doing a spot of maintenance before it gets too hot to walk the trail. Log was a but wet but its the type of paper thet copes ok with that, replaced the o'ring and had a snack while waiting for the paper to dry a little in the sun.

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

Tftc

Nice fresh new log, thank you for the exercise. I walked in from boambee side and started here ans did the next 2 closer on my way back. That’s 4 kms I think. Tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 20.469 E 153° 6.714

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 20.476 E 153° 6.717

Distance from original: 45.5 feet or 13.9 meters.

Tree has fallen so this was replaced and shifted a little way away.

Great location. tftc

Boambee Beach Dune walk #19 was transferred from earthly65 to user blissbaby

Log is soggy

Found it after looking at the photos. And were stumped on how to open it.

A weeee dram

Added fresh paper

Was almost going to DNF this one till I looked down and there it was on the ground couldn’t sign paper mache though. It’s now back up in tree

Don't believe it but we found it!!!!
Was on the ground but chippymick 64 will hang it back in tree....wooppee chookee!!
Log to wet but piccie will have to suffice....with it rehung TFTC

Boambee Beach Dune walk #19 was transferred from brad1987 to user earthly65

it is very sandy

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.

Sad to say we had to DNF this one as it simply managed to elude us.

Individual info had been added to some of the logs where it is appropriate.
Thanks go to brad1987 for the series.

Out for a day caching with toad and peach. Tftc

Found by Peach! The log is very wet.

Found yippee

While we were in Coffs for the week we thought that we would try to smash this power trail out with geohubby, geokid and fellow cachers, we figured that we better get a start on it and with geokid we thought that we would need two days to get through it.

After a number of unsuccessful attempts at finding the last few caches, we were hoping to turn out hit rate around. But when we started to go looking geokid wanted geodaddy time, we decided to give up for the day and to try again another time.

While away in Coffs Harbour, we thought we would give this power trail a kick start and see how many we could cross off the list. We solved the coordinates for the two mystery caches and plugged all 24 into the GPS.

We headed to the beach, and thought we would start at the southern end to work our way back up to Coffs.

After a number of DNF's and Geokid wanting some Geodaddy attention we were not very hopeful. It seems our luck for this series had run away. No find for this cache even with a previous find by others.

Will have to return another time.

We would never have visited the lovely beach had it not been for this cache.

TFTC.

Quick easy find

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

Yep another DNF
2 gps and iPhone
30 min
We give up
TFTC but DNF

TFTC and the series. Generic log used. Returned today to finish of this series. I parked at the south end and trecked up the beach until cutting across the bush to #15 and then made my way south. These last 10 caches were certainly harder than the first 14. The track steadily got worse and practically disappeared around #21. One DNF at #22 despite over 30 mins searching. I found 4 caches on the ground and replaced them best I could near GZ. One cache was different to the rest and was buried beneath sand and covered with a log.

Too hard for me I looked and looked but it must be looking at me.

Sneaky sneaky sneaky

Took Nothing Left nothing sl

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

16 found so far. TFTC from Germany

No luck

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:321

Thanks for the series Brad187

Log replace. Very wet. Thanks for the cache

Great find thanks for the cache

Quick find Tftc

Tftc

Fifth and final find on our little beach adventure. The wind and rain is now chilling us to the bones. Time to go back to our campsite for hot milo and marshmallows!!!TFTC

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: 4987. 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!!

Found during a very windy afternoon on a walk in from Boambee Creek. Completed the north half of the series last year and now have knocked off the southern quarter. This was the last cache of the afternoon before we headed out the beach and turned south into the teeth of the gale. We will have to finish off the rest on a future trip...preferably on the bikes at low tide and with a tail wind! Many thanks brad1987 for another great family outing.

Thanks for the cach! Number 140

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

Looks like me plan to split this series into two halves was a good idea
Here I was at number 19 and enjoying the early morning cool and a day that had brightened up to produce a warm, but humid day

I really thought I was going to get wet today
Didn't happen

So I trundled happily along find caches at every stop

TFTC

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.

Coucho90 spotted this one from a distance before I even got up near it to search!!!

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

Everything in place ,signed log off to #18 !!

After my time out here last night I was half thinking about just leaving these and maybe doing them on another trip. But the pull to complete what was still here was just a little to strong.

So 7am I was in the parking lot down this end of the trail and the weather while very grey seemed ok. I set out along the beach starting at #19 and working my way back towards the car. Somewhere around #21 the sound of the waves gave way to the pitter patter of rain drops on the leaves.

Needless to say by the time I had found the rest and returned to the car I was dripping wet. Luckily I was slightly prepared for this and was soon back to the hotel and a nice warm shower before heading off for the drive to Armidale today.

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

Loving these shades ones at the moment. Thanks.

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° 20.462 E 153° 06.709

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 20.469 E 153° 06.714

Distance from original: 50 feet or 15.3 meters.
New container and position. Happy caching

Thanks for the clues or we would of been chasing our tail for this one

19? Really? We just got that many caches? Been good fun so far. TFTC

Finding boxes on Boxing Day. This one took us a bit. When we finally found it, coords were about 15m off. It's only about 4m from the track at most, but our gps pointed us further in than that!

Legs are starting to get weary,its going to be a long walk back.TFTC.

GPS seemed to be a bit patchy around here, and I didn't have time to keep searching. I will return, some time!

Stumbled across it (10m closer to the path than my GPS was telling me it was) as I was leaving the GZ. D

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

Thanks for the hide

Found at 12:18 PM in the company of Temingi GAFF1 at a distance of 9 metres. This one turned out to be a bit tough as there were many spots to search within a 10 metre radius.
Thanks brad1987.

We arrived at #19 to find Bobbiesgirl with the cache in their hands, easy find for sure! And another convenient bush signing seat that we were more than happy to make use of. TFTC brad1987.

Gosh!! how much further!! Must be getting near the finish now surely. Enjoying the trail immensely, found this one in the company of geono. TFTC

FTF! 7 of 12 FTFs for today.

A great cache. TFTC Brad1987

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