Fire at the Creek Martins Creek, New South Wales, Australia
By Billy&Jad on 31-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5JNFP

Not a bushy in sightTFTC

A quick cache check and all is good. GZ has not moved, it is safely hidden in the same place as it has always been. Looks like the fire station upgrades are all complete now.

On a rainy day why not

Thankful to the previous finders log as it would have been hard to find otherwise. GZ has moved due to construction works. Not sure if temporarily.

Great cache

Found with Hobbitaa

Travelling down to the Mega event in Canberra and this is my sole cache to get on my list. Located in a very tucked away LGA it needed a dedicated trip to find a cache in the region. Although there is now a powertrail here I decided to grab the slightly older cache. It proved to be a very pleasant drive heading off the highway and through the countryside area. Wasnt to long before I had arrived at my destination. Parked and noticed with some concern the new work that is being undertaken on the driveway. Deciding to have a quick look I wander over and upon viewing the GZ I worked where I would hide something here and there it is, all safe and sound. Opening the cache snd flicking through the pages to the next blank spot I did express a giggle as the last finder is from my home location back up in Queensland. Anyway with the caching business sorted it was time to rejoin the Highway and finish my journey. Thanks for the chance to stop and take a purposeful wander.

How lovely that my job should send me out to this part of the world for a few days. And given I finish work in the early afternoon and I have a hire car, well of course I'm going to go geocaching. Convenient, right!? After my second day, I have a little more time, so head for the Maitland area. Now heading north for a circuitous drive has brought me to Martins Creek. On a perfect day this is just the loveliest place to visit. A tiny, picturesque, historical town. Exactly the kind of place a geocache (or two) should take me.With the multicache nearby now sorted out and signed, I head to this next icon. It'll be the last of the day, and I can continue my "scenic route" drive back to Singleton. There's nobody around and I can park almost anywhere. The listing has everything I need and it's a quick find, followed by a little jiggle to get it out and the logbook signed at 16:50. The nearby tap is handy for refilling my water bottle and I'm outta here. I really enjoyed my quick visit to Martins Creek, but time to keep moving (and get reception again - I'm expecting a call). Thanks for this geocache, Billy&Jad

Thanks

Thanks

Tftc

Drove to area and navigated last few metres towards GZ without issue. Quick find. TNLNSL TFTC.

Found it and made a friend

DNF

On our way home, stopped in for this, nice easy find. TFTC

11763 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1125. SL Tnx Billy&Jad

Great spot TFTC

I got this one on my way home from Dungog. I enjoyed the drive in the country. The hint was helpful. Thanks for placing it in a nice spot

Found on 26 May 2022

Nice easy find on a Sunday drive.
Thanks

Great cache

Nice find
Left a bracelet

I detoured into Martin's Creek today after doing the Paterson AL and some more of Kingfisher' dog trail, but thanks to the onset of rain, this was the only one in town that I got to and found ... it helped that thanks to good coords, I was able to pull up right at GZ.

Thanks for a nice hide Billy&Jad.

Quick Found with dart16 and frisky_puppet
Thanks for the cache Billy&Jad
This is my 1278 find

Found

TFTC

Thanks Billy&Jad I Found with frisky_puppet this is my 561 tftc

Out for a big day of caching on this fine Saturday with Dart16
Thanks Billy&Jad for placing the cache this one is find #2241 for me TFTC.

So fun!

Detour while on the Dogs Head Trail, rain eased off a little, allowing us to make a swift find in great condition.
Thanks for the cache

Found easy

Mr 8 was the finder on this one!

Good and kinda easy.

Such a great find for first timers !!!

Great find for the kids,

Easy to find great first geo cache for me!!!!

Stayong in the area for work and finally have a day off to cache. Hopefully the first of many for the day. Tftc

Quick detour. It took me longer than it should have.... that’s how I know the time for lunch TFTC

Thanks for the hide. TFTC

Taking a side path from my intended plan. GPS not very happy here,but eventually locked in on it!

Tftc. Took a side path around the dogs head for this one.

Found! Took a detour from the dogs head trail. Great hide!

Nice hide thanks

Great spot for a hide! Saw an elderly local going for a ride on his mower with his little JackRussell in a container on front. TFTC

Found with shaneo58's help doing some around Maitland area and part of the dog head trail, getting very windy and cold during the day, feeling like we are back in winter.
Log signed and caches replaced as found.

**Thanks For The Cache** Billy&Jad.

This is the 43rd cache of 43 for today.
Cache number 2547 at 4:06:57 PM on Thu 10Sep2020

Find # 6274
Nice quick find.
We are loving our journey around the Hunter Valley. Weather-wise, today is a repeat of yesterday with a stiff cold wind.
TFTC Billy&Jad
21 August 2020 9:39 am

I was in desperate need to get away this weekend for some quiet and stress free time for myself, so I decided to go for a long drive up here to grab some select caches and camp out in the Barrington Tops NP. Just myself, my coffee and a small stash of food, with a bit oif rain... and sleep in the back of my Xtrail... should be a relaxing time...
Only to get rear-ended by a young driver on a quiet country road!
While my car was still drivable, the rear hatch-door was jammed shut. I was determined to keep my Zen state of mind and still go camping (It was a 4hr drive back home). I'd just have to climb in by the rear passenger door.
It got dark, so at the campground I made a hot drink, had dinner and read a bit before going to sleep earlier than usual. So I naturally woke up after my normal hours of sleep AT 3AM! TOO EARLY TO CACHE OR DO ANYTHING!
Hours later when the sun started to rise I continue my caching run. All was good for a few hours... and then I noticed my left-rear tyre go flat! My spare is beneath the luggage floor, beneath 2 drawers FULL of heavy camping gear, all of which I had to remove through the rear passenger door!
Fast forward a bit, the spare tyre on the car, the flat one back in the car, with all the rest of my stuff, and then I noticed my front one was flat AS WELL! No second spare!
The closest town 20km away, no tyre change store open until Monday, I could only try and keep it inflated with my little foot pump and top it up where-ever safe to stop, for the 300Km drive home.
Got home safely, despite heavy rain for the last hour and emptied out my car to get ready for the repairs.
AFTER ALL THAT I STILL KEPT MY COOL!
BUT THIS WASN'T WHAT I CALL A RELAXING WEEKEND!
Thanks for the caches.

Thanks for our very first cache My son Darcy found it and now he’s hooked! Thanks for making a perfect starter find.

Found

Yeah

Found it. It took a few minutes. But the hint does help.

I joined a trip to Maitland with Aquilus1, dty73, Tankengine, Barb2e, Kitty Katch & Joolay. The weekends main game was to do the dogs head series, but along the way we did some old caches around Sydney and did as many Maitland caches as time allowed. The return journey was via some old caches and some challenges that may or may not be met one day.

Day 3's target was a trip to Frying Pan. The trip was great and the caches along the way and there lots of fun. I was very disappointed at just how many people were camping in a spot like this, I cannot see how it could be enjoyed. The afternoon was finished in Maitland with the Walka Lake Adventure Lab, a fun diversion.

Thanks for the cache Billy&Jad

29432.323 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2016 Surf Coast Event LE A#353

**Albida**

A caching trip away with Kittykatch, Joolay, Aquilus1, Tankengine, Barb2e & Albida33 - the Capital Crunchers Gang!!

Another day in caching paradise and so we drove around picking up a few here and there on our way to and from Frying Pan.

Nice spot and of course tftc Billy&Jad!!!

Chooo ooo - FOUND - on our Maitland/Dogs Head invasion! Signed - Capital Crunchers! (Joolay, KittyKatch, dty73, Aquilus1, Albida and barb2e).

We have a great long weekend from Thursday to Sunday caching all around Maitland and beyond. We found some power trails and many cool places as well!

Thanks for the cache!

Found today with the Capital Crunchers on a trip to Maitland.

Condition Report:. Good and dry
Log Book: lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache Billy&Jad

First find for today. Signed as Capital Crunchers on the way out of town for another day of exploring the area. Tftc

Found with and signed the capital crunchers who are: dty73, Tankengine, joolay, kittycatch, Albida33, Barb2e.

Stopped in our our way to frying pan through very nice country.

A few muffles about but we managed to be discreet

First find cheers big ears!

Our first find

First one found

Our first cache in a few years... easy find... TFTC

Great find

Finding a few whilst travelling in the Upper Hunter
Some great history here
TFTC

Found it

Quick find with Wazza9 and Liz and Bruce, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to Billy&Jad

TFTC,
I joined Liz and Bruce & Nana nel for 2 days caching around the area. Our primary goal was to complete the Dogs Head Trail but there are plenty of other caches to try and complete across several towns.
Great to have such a variety of caches.
Thanks to Kingfisher_au for providing a trail where we could work together with other cachers and enjoy each others company while building numbers and learning about so many different breeds.
Thanks Billy&Jad, I made the quick find here.
Adding a favourite and visited trackables.

We camped at the rest area in Branxton with wazza9 and Nana Nel and ventured out to do some caching around the area. We enjoyed the variety of hides. Thanks to Billy&Jad for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Tftc, nice find on our detour from dogs head trail. Was surprised when xpt went past

Thanks firies

With our luck today there were people at the building, so we nipped in and let them know what we were doing, not a problem we were told. SL TFTC

This cache is not too far from where my accommodation is, so a quick park and grab and another cache for today. Cache in good condition.

Found.

Such a lovely sleepy little town TFTC

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The beautiful puppy geo art up Maitland way has been tempting me for months!, so when Joolay, Minniek, Fitzy_1965 and SpecimenX started to brew plans for a trip, I knew I was in. Making a whole long weekend of it, we’ve hunted down much needed counties on Friday, diverted to Jasmers, and picked up some extra cool little trails and night caches, all the while keeping our eye on the geo art prize So wonderful to have the chance to get away for some caching fun, and to catch up with some local cachers whilst we’re about. Thanks so much to everyone who has invested in these caches to make our wonderful weekend away a possibility. Thanks for the Cache.

Headed to the Maitland area with fitzy_1965 & SpecimenX for an extra long weekend of caching.

Day 3 saw us joined by nibletricecakes and Joolay again. After yesterday's mammoth effort we took it slow and headed up to Frying Pan caching along the way.

All caches where found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned. Logs were either signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers, CC, Kapital Krunchers or KK.

Found with fitzy_1965, minniek, Nibletricecakes, Joolay as part of the Canberra Invasion of Maitland and surrounds over an extra long weekend

Off we go on another adventure around the area and today's priority was to grab the golden oldie Frying Pan (GCF1) and then anything else which we had on our list Wandered up to this one and Joolay came up with the quick find for us here. Signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers or CC to save log space.

Thanks for the hide, Billy&Jad

19,110. Found as part of the Capital Crunchers Team (fitzy_1965, minniek, specimenX, nibletricecakes and Joolay) during the Canberra Invasion of Maitland region over the long weekend.

Day 3 of our invasion. And after a HUGE day yesterday we had our sights set on heading up and getting Frying Pan for our JASMER, plus other caches as they appeared on our route. This was the next one along the way. Quick find by Joolay and we were soon on our way again.

Thanks Billy&Jad !!

Today was the day we were heading up to Frying Pan to finally get that early month ticked off for my Ausmer. A beautiful day to be out and about and this is on the way.

Up in Maitland with Nibletricecakes, Fitzy1965, MinnieK and Specimen X, to do the Dogs Head going by the name of Capital Crunchers. We had solved quite a few of the puzzles before coming up and after doing the Dogs Head started on some of the others around the area.

Our logs are signed CC, Capital Crunchers or stamped depending who wrote them.
Thanks Billy&Jad

I found it

G'Day My Fellow Geocacher,

How are you my fellow Geocacher? I’m DARKSIDEDAN aka Daniel from Canberra, Australia and I have had the pleasure of finding your Geocache during my travels as a Geocacher. I signed the logbook in your cache either Darksidedan or Darkside or DSD. I have added your cache to my growing list of “Found It” logs.

I love discovering Geocaches, Trackable items and collecting Pathtags. I hope that you enjoy Geocaching as much as I do. For me geocaching is a way of life and when I am not Geocaching, I am thinking of Geocaching.

Here is a little information about me. I have been geocaching since 2015. At the time of finding this cache I have over 6000 finds plus 350 hides. I am the creator of the “Duck Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Place for the Australian Capital Territory in the State Vs State - Battle of the Lab Caches at the OzGeoMuster - The Gong Mega 2019 in Wollongong, Australia. In 2019, I won the right to place a Virtual 2.0 Cache from Geocaching.com, but I have not placed it yet. I am just trying to find somewhere that is worthy of a Virtual Cache.

Now let’s talk Pathtags. Currently I have over 4600 Pathtags in my collection plus about 500 Etagz. I currently have two of my own Pathtags (45762 & 46950) with another one in the works.

I have included with my Found It log an Original and One of a Kind, Geocaching poem that I have written. I hope that everyone who reads it gets some enjoyment out of it.

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Geocache Poem by DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind
I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see
Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?
Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there
As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

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I am currently writing very detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC called "The Author". This Badge challenges geocaches to write logs with an average length of more than one hundred words per log. As of the 25th September 2019 my average Found It log is 165 words per log. I would like to get all my logs up to more than 200 words per log but I will have to wait and see how I go. Currently I am just trying to get my average up by finding and logging as many geocaches as I can. My apologies to anyone who finds my lengthy logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain the highest level with this challenge. After more than 6,000 geocaches (which includes all cache finds up and including this cache, I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task very soon. Progress has been better than anticipated.

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CACHE SERIES OWNED
UFO Series - 180 Caches (Largest GeoArt Series in the ACT - 100kms Long)
Vampire Series - (100 Traditional, Letterboxes, Puzzle Caches in Thawa, ACT)
Australian Animals Series - (50 Traditional Caches in (Collector to Gunderoo NSW)
Puzzle Series (15 Puzzle Caches in Canberra ACT)

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Accompanied with ALL7 and dsd

Found with 63Roos and Darksidedan.. thanks

Found tyftc #1 onninternational geocaching day at event by kingfisher au

TFTC!

TFTC!

It was very quiet here today and I suspect, on most days. I sat at GZ and retrieved the cache. Thanks Billy&Jad for a good hide in the country.

TFTC

Singleton Day 2 staying at the Showgrounds
Today we have teamed up with Grub Fred & Shaneo58 we have signed the log as DIGS as a combination of our names & obviously it's what dogs like to do.
This was a quick find on the day.
Thankyou for placing this cache Billy&Jad

Find No: 7633. Shaneo58, Mrs Grub Fred & I met up with Bill & DiMorgan at Singleton Showground to do the Dog's Head Trail, finished today and collected some other fun ones on the way, thanks for the caches and the series Billy&Jad!!

Found it with grub fred and di Morgan.TFTC Billy and Jed .

With a long weekend in Canberra, FurfacesLL #1 and myself decided it was time to get away and find a bit of warmth as the cold makes its way into Canberra. We decided to head up to Maitland as neither of us had been there before for Geocaching. We had our primary target set to complete the new Dog geo-art series, and we managed to do that within a single day, so we had plenty of time up our sleeves for other things. We enjoyed the series with the different containers and hide styles along the way. We decided to add a drive upto collect Frying Pan and also included another older cache on Mount Sugarloaf for the journey home.

Another minor detour to collect this one while out and about doing the dog head. Another quick find here in another area we have never been.

Thanks for the cache hide Billy&Jad and thanks FFLL#1 for another trip out and about for some quantity AND quality caching

Called past this one while in the area doing the Dog Trail.
Someone was parked here so kept a low profile while searching for the cache.

Quick find and sign then on our way.

TFTC Billy&Jad

Found

it was really hot but lots of fun

Quick park and grab.
TFTC

A quick find after arriving in Martins Creek on the train. TFTC!

Tftc great little cache

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a sunny but cool Saturday morning, just Miss Unicorn with me today, tftc

Found with Banj Ward TFTC

15:39, 22 June 2018. #59.

I'm a bit behind on logging, but not too bad, it's only been a week . RGSBruce and I were visiting relatives who recently moved to Paterson. After a lot of running around the local area, last Friday was our first chance to go for a bit of a hunt. This was #2 after finding the Gostwyck Butter Factory. We probably parked in the wrong spot, stopping in the street, but still a quick walk to GZ and an even quicker find.

TNLNSL. TFTC Billy&Jad.