SST - The rock Bega, New South Wales, Australia
By dghoffy and elysium_au on 22-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DDVE

Time for this one to go

Add me to the list. There has been some slippage here and it may be covered.

We will need to check on this.

Didnt find

DNF went over the top and along at street level but couldnt find. Some very long grass to wade through, I wouldnt do it if it was summer - as I didnt find it I may have been on the wrong track, if a climb is involved could we consider changing the level to something other than 'easy'. I have two artificial knees so I choose the caches marked easy as I assume they are easy for able bodied people. For me they can be a fun challenge but anything that involves climbing is far from easy. It may have just dissapeared though.

Couldn't find it little to hard for my first cache

Found the remainder of the log, will send through photos. Thanks for the series!

Log qas water damaged, very clever hide

Not necessary to climb to the top!

Yey

Easy find

Nice easy find, the kids had no dramas.

Ocw the Bebes as we travel around Australia. We picked this one up on our way through to Tathra. A quick find and not hard to reach. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa

Visiting Bega for the day.

Interesting markings on the rock and a perfectly blended container,

Tftc

Fun find

Grass is very long, be aware for snakes… I assume it is half way up the bank where a fatso like me can’t reach…

Found with O319 on our weekend in the area. TfTC

Quick find, with SJG66. TFTC.

Day 8 and my last day in Bermagui before heading home. Goal today was to complete the SST series (Minus my DNF's), majority left are south around Tathra and Bega plus grab any others along the way.

Spotted this one quickly, waited for a break in the traffic to grab it.

Tftc!

TFTC found with Davrie457

Tftc

Awesome camouflage took me longer then I care to admit. Next time boots not thongs haha

Found this one when I didn’t have a geocache account, I did it with my family and now I’m going back and logging all the ones I did. Great hide

Really liked this one

If I had followed my instincts from the get go, it would have been an easier find, oh well, at least I found it. Thanks.

With Alsume 1305 7/5 tftc

Found with 4maal at 1:05pm. A quick find as we headed to Tathra.
Thanks dghoffy & elysium_au

An easy find once we had the right perspective. Cool camouflage.

Find # 7382
Nice quick find. Nice camo!
TFTC dghoffy and elysium_au
18 January 2022 19:40

Found it with geostrom, she did the climbing. High speed muggle central.

Found with ConcreteGnome nice hide, needs maintenance. TFTC

Not a lot of parking but good find. Good camouflage, very rocky

We where in Bega for a book launch, so a few caches after breakfast was the decision. A wander around Bega and then a few on the way home. Thanks dghoffy and elysium_au

It is so there!!! Easy find, probably uncovered by the wet weather. Blends in well. TFTC.

It isn’t there

Drove up Kate last night and stay d in Bega for an early parkrun this morning. Used these few caches as a bit of a warm-up.
TFTC Wilbert67

We happened to be travelling in the wrong direction to the suggested approach, but that was because we had been planning our day differently, and had come to Bega via the Doctor George Mountain Road today. It wasn't a problem, though, because there was a safe spot to pull over and park.

I approached the cutting and started scanning the area for a possible crack or crevice to hide a cache. It didn't take very long to recognise the hide, but I attribute that to some experience in finding this type of cache. A very neat application of this concealment.

I found it but almost didn't see it. Well done to whoever hid it.

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very good find

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This one took a little longer but was our favourite yet!

With BomEm, on a drive down the coast
BonEm made the Nicely themed find.
TFTC

A nice quick park and grab with Lpud. TFTC

Sunshine and an opportunity to go caching, what a great combination. After parking the caravan at the Bega showground (where we will be for a few days) we were out finding caches. Got this one. Scenery beautiful. Our thanks to dghoffy for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Good one tftc

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Log replaced

Very clever hiding spot! No paper left though! TFTC!

Loved this cache. Great camouflage, great find. TFTC

Fun find. tricky

First place I looked...pity I didn't find it that first time. Only a few minutes later though...tftc.

This is the last day for picking up more of this fun series, along with ilook4geo. We realise what a lot of thought and preparation has been put into the cache placements and names as well as the apt camo used on so many. Each log had both lots of initials noted on it before being replaced as found.
Many thanks go to dghoffy and elysium_au for placing and maintaining such a worthwhile series of caches.

Out and about caching again today with goingplaces2 and it is good to be able to claim so many smileys while heading into Bega and surrounding areas. TFTC.

Almost gave up. Great hide!

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Very rocky

Woo hoo!

Spending a glorious weekend down the Sapphire Coast as part of the Canberra Invasion. Whilst the invasion meant the chance to catch up with many cachers at events and at different spots (and a delightful excuse to celebrate Lovetherabbitohs 18th birthday), I spent most of the weekend on the hunt with the CGI crew: Fitzy_1965, DarzeeDi, Minniek , K8TYBEE , GLISS!, GSC2000 Lovetherabbitohs, B0tmun, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1. Thanks so much for keeping all the caches alive and making this weekend a possibility! Tftc

Out and about with nibletricecakes and the Goulburn/Canberra crew. Scouting the coastline for treasures... my first big caching weekend! TFTC (and trail)

One of many many caches found during our SST caching invasion - thank you !

Headed to Wallaga Lake for a bit of an invasion by people from Canberra & Goulburn. A group of us convoyed for most of the long weekend. The group known as CGI (Canberra Goulburn Invasion) consisted of fitzy_1965, darzee di, nibletricecakes, k8tybee, GLISS!, GSC2000 and my geokids Lovetherabbitohs, b0tmun, death_killer & my_name_jeff_1.

Day 3 now all packed up and ready to head home but not before finishing the SST series and any others along the way. All caches were quickly found. We certainly loved the variety.

Sorry for the generic log, some with an added comment - this weekend a few of us from Canberra and Goulburn decided to travel down to Bermagui and do the SST series and some of the other traditionals, camping at Wallaga Lake Big4.
Today was day 3, final day of our adventure and what a great adventure it was, loved the company, lots of laughs and stories making it a successful fun long weekend. I just loved the different caches and ability to park safely and enjoy the experience, some a little harder to find than others but found in the end . This was one of the cool caches and it is all in the name. We signed logs as team CGI (canberra Goulburn invasion) and we all enjoyed ourselves, we all had a great day and all said how much a fantastic series it was. Tftc dghoffy and elysium_au

Found on a long weekend away. Signed as Canberra Goulburn Invasion - CGI. TFTC.

Sorry hoffys, but this is going to be a generic log, as I have trouble keeping up with the youngsters I cache with, let alone making notes for individual caches. It will however save you reading every log!
Weeks ago it was decided to resurrect the idea of Canberra Invasions. I had not previously been involved in these adventures but enthusiastically signed up and this is our second this year. What a fabulous time we had. The main targets were the Event on Saturday night to celebrate an 18th birthday and the SST series. Both were achieved as well as some extras thrown in for good luck.

Thanks to all the COs for the effort they put in to creating the caches we found, but especially to dghoffy . What an incredible set of caches. I especially loved the names allocated to the caches - wow what great imaginations you have, and this spilled over to the creation of the caches. Well done d! It was wonderful not to have a series of mint tins or sistemas and their placement was great too. Evil at times but so much fun! I especially appreciated the fact that there was always good parking on roads that can be busy - glad it was a winter long weekend not one in summer.

All caches were eventually found, sometimes with a little bit of help - thanks to the COs and GrimRaider and were signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers. Brilliant series so thanks again and it was great to have you share the weekend with us.

#11242 @1445
Travelling with AngelG27 and BobL27 for the 'SST Bermagui Invasion'. Day 2. Cache soon found. TFTC.

Cache 5198 on 9 Jun 2019.

This was a long awaited and planned geocaching mission to the south coast with a few other Canberra cachers. Bobl27, TikvaNZ and I drove down Saturday morning and picked up a few caches on the way to the main goal which was the SST. We picked up 19 caches Saturday getting warmed up for the main day today, Sunday. And such pretty views from so many cache spots.

This cache: another appropriate container!

Thanks dghoffy and elysium_au for the cache and the fun!

Found with Capital Crunchers Team. Fabulous fun on the trail. TFTC

Found with Smittengranny, Kittykatch and Grimraider caching as Capital Crunchers. Down the coast heading to Bermagui for and caching catchup. TFTC

Found with AngelG27 and TikvaNZ on a lovely long weekend down the coast. Great caches and good variety, some tricky and some easier. TFTC

12593 Found and Logged 10:07:00 AM
A quick find while camping at the Bega Showgrounds for a few days
Great weather to be outdoors Caching cloudy dut no rain
Thanks for the cache dghoffy
Lgoody

Here was a fun find at Dwayne's place,
on the way into towne
Up I scrambled and on high,
spied the cache where I wasn't

Another scramble and in the right place,
I picked up a Dwayne and found the cache

TFTC ... fave dance time for this one

Quick park and grab. TFTC.

The kids nailes this one in seconds. I was surprised once I saw the container that they were so speedy. Tftc

Tftc the log is running out of space

Stopped by on the way down the coast to catch up with some friends.

Cheers

I love such Containers, thank you!

Tftc

Fun find

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Ros2288 found it! Be careful if the traffic here.

This was particularly hard as this is our first one but we had fun searching for it!

Jsson and myself went for a trip to find caches in the BFH and SST series. We logged as IJ. A lovely sunshine day with some clouds and a light breeze.
We found many nice and partly challenging caches during our road trip.
Thanks for placing a cache for me to enjoy and find.

A trip with Ingabo to the BHF and SST serie today.
Many thanks for all the caches.Some we have to search for a while.
We wrote IJ stand for the first letter i our alias ( Jsson, Ingabo)
TFTC!

Nice spot on a beautiful day. Had fun scampering up and down the rocks. Thanks.

We were fortunate that we have seen many of this cache container and despite this one blending in very well to its surroundings, we were able to make a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks dghoffy and elysium_au for the cache and the enjoyable series.

We had fun

Great hide traffic is an issue though.

Love these kinds of hides! TFTC.

Find Number 1612, found at 10:19

With the current Groundspeak promotion encouraging caching for the numbers, GeoSon NationalSteel and I decided to try for all 100 finds in a two day weekend. The only significant series that neither of us had found was the SST, so we set off down South to try our luck. With 50 caches found yesterday, we needed another 50 today to complete the mission.

I searched low and NationalSteel searched high. "What's that there?" he said, pointing down. "I've looked there, that isn't it". So, he ignored me, came down and showed me the cache Arrgghh!

The log was damp but useable, otherwise the cache was in good condition. We signed the log using the signature GT/NS and replaced the container as found

Thanks dghoffy for the cache.

G&T had planned a raid on the SST series in the hope of ticking off the required 100 finds for the Hidden Creatures souvenirs. So we came down and had a very successful weekend, with 50 finds on the Saturday and at least 60 on the Sunday, and only 2 or 3 DNFs overall. We completed the SST loop, although we skipped a few here and there when we missed a turnoff or it looked like a given cache might take too long to get to, given we were on a numbers run. But I was really impressed with this series, finding it much more interesting than a boring power trail. There's obviously been genuine thought and in many cases clever workmanship going into the hides. To have so many of such quality and variety is quite an achievement and made the numbers run much more enjoyable than it could have been, were we pursuing endless "tupperware under a bush" hides. People concerned about the lack of hints just need to pay more attention to the clever naming system, in most cases. I also appreciate the thought that went into planning a particular route around the caches - clockwise, which we followed as advised - and the selection of safe places to pull over. Anyway, today was another big day with over 60 finds, breaking G&T's daily record, getting very close to my record and passing my 4000th find milestone. We started the day by heading back from Bega to the spur of BFH caches, getting a few more in the area and then resuming our loop of the SST.

We made this one a lot harder than it needed to be. G&T searched low and I went wandering off high above it before eventually spotting it from up there. Got it in the end and on to the next one. TFTC!

A series I will never forget, extremely challenging at times as every cache is different and there is no hint. Without a hint you approach GZ each time like a newbie, and if co-ords slightly out finding some caches becomes hard. Day 3. Solid find. Tftc

Couple of days off work so time for some caching thanks for the cache

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Rock On. Good hide. Found it this time.

TFTC
Heading south from Sydney with Brewmaker Himself & Muppet95, with the idea of two full Caching days around the Sapphire Coast. Found this Cache as part of our two day adventure...
Cheers
Seemyshell

Overnight trip around the SST with Seemyshell and Brewmaker. I was really impressed with the wide range of unique styles and sizes. Another huge selling point on these were the interesting names for the caches (instead of numbered), which makes it easier to remember each location and find. Thanks to all the Cache Owners of the Sapphire Coast (namely dghoffy and elysium_au) for injecting the greater area with good quality caches. Thanks For The Cache!

Easy find was made here. Quick park and grab.

On a two day road trip with Seemyshell and Muppet95 searching for caches around the Sapphire Coast. So many various hides along the way. Thanks to the COs for placing and maintaining these caches in such a beautiful area to visit. TFTC

FOUND

Great spot

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