EG-Q#15: Tizzana Vineyards Sackville, New South Wales, Australia
By teamMerlin on 14-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5PPZH

Nice quick find but bit tricky to retrieve the log as it was a long way in. TFTC

Its there but very easy

TFTC

Nice quick park and grab, TFTC

Another great find in the Ebenezer geo quest series, a series I wouldn't have started now if it were not for a conversation which was had at the 2023 NYE event hosted by thomo31 in Mt Riverview.

Stayed the long weekend at the winery, had a great time . Out for a quick walk this morning to find these close hides. Managed to lose Claudette along the way, due to ready to eat mulberries nearby. TNLNSL, thanks for the cache! Cheers, Walter

We are on another short (three day) caching holiday in North Western Sydney, staying for two nights in a park cabin at the Ingenia Holidays Avina BIG4 Holiday Park at Vineyard. Hoping to collect some previously solved Mystery/Puzzle caches, complete some Adventure Labs, and accumulate enough cache finds for this month’s "Wheel of Challenges" easy & hard souvenir chase. Photos will be uploaded to some (most) logs on our return to home base.

Today (day 2) we explored the areas around Wilberforce, Ebenezer, and Sackville. Completed a five stage Adventure Lab, as well as a couple of random Adventure Lab stages (waypoints), and collected numerous Traditional caches, a previously solved Mystery/Puzzle cache, a MultiCache, and a Virtual cache. This was the 22nd of 31 finds for the day (day 2), and 42nd find of the holiday.

Continued driving along Tizzana Road and this was the next cache we came to, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ, albeit being a sneaky and well stashed hide. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC teamMerlin.

Find #6359

Tftc

Very nice hide. Grabbed before going to the event. Parked about 3 meters away.
TFTC

Following the event here this afternoon, I decided to find this cache which has been waiting for me quietly, even though I have been here at the vineyard for quite a few events over the years. TFTC.

A nice day for a drive. Came here for this cache a quick find

Thanks to all the owners who let us find their goodies and thought of these places

Very cool

I was attending an event about 60 metres away. The CO of this cache was kind enough to come for a walk with me to make sure I made the find. Good thing I had his help. I might have DNFed the sneaky hide otherwise!
Thanks for the wine and the cache!

Lovely quiet spot today. Wasn't able to make it out for the event on Saturday but here I am today. almost gave up then checked something. bingo, signed and returned TFTC
Caching with : Geomonster10
In : Karmi

Good little spot

Found It!
A quick find here with a few others after the nearby event! A well hidden cache!
TFTC

Quick find after the CCE event , signed log, thanks to teamMerlin.

TFTC,
Leaving the Event and saw someone with a torch doing more than walking in the dark.
Went over and made a quick find, visited trackables.

Sneaky hide! Found after a short search

Found this ages ago along with 8 other caches. Thank the Lord for lists otherwise these wouldn't have been logged!

Nice hide.. Log was full so left a new paper. Tftc

Tfth

I joined Fitzy_1965 & MinnieK for a trip to Sydney to drop in on another Celebration Event. This time in the Hawksbury. We used up the rest of the day doing a series of Challenge caches near Penrith, including a bonus First to Find, and then some of the EG caches surrounding the event location. A long but exhiklerating day of caching.

Thanks for the cache teamMerlin

32525.22 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 Oct Halloween Spooktacular A#387

**Albida**

Headed Sydney way with fitzy_1965 and albida33 today.

We had seen the community celebration event a few weeks ago. I was keen to get to Ebenezer as my Australian family roots come from there so made plans to head north today. After a foggy start, it turned out to be a rather warm day compared to Canberra and surrounds lately.

On our way through Ebenezer, we decided to start doing this series of caches. My Ancestry Family Reunion is held in Ebenezer at the Church every 5 yrs. It got postponed from last year and has just been postponed again so nice to come up here regardless. My descendants, on my Australian side, were on the Neptune which was part of the Second Fleet. They are buried at Ebenezer and Wilberforce cemeteries.

Turning to head for home, we collected a few more caches whilst we had some time up our sleeves. Thanks teamMerlin.

TFTC, found with Bluewattle and Bluewattle Mini

TFTC, found with Bluewattle and Bluewattle Junior

24,761. Found with minniek and albida33 during a run up to the Ebenezer region for a Community Celebration Event.

When we spotted another Community Celebration Event being held up at a Winery in the Ebenezer region, we decided to head up that way for a full day of caching. A foggy start from Goulburn had us soon burn through for what was a lovely day to be outside. After finishing off a bunch of challenge caches along The Northern Road - including a surprise first to find - we started doing the EG-Q series and other bonus caches along the way. After the event we continued along cherry-picking caches. This was a nice quick find - and nicely set up ! Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then we headed off to the next one.

Thanks teamMerlin !! Favourite Point !

Great hide TFTC

Found today on our roadtrip to Bathurst, Canberra, Batemans Bay and then back home again.
Nice cache!!!

TFTC

#4099
We're on the road to Bathurst on our yearly boy's southern roadtrip. Nice warm and sunny weather, and 33 assorted finds made for a great day out.
I get the hint now - we did reef the wrong one out first though, seemingly not the first to do so either.... TFTC!

Found on our roadtrip!

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TFTC , sneaky but found it .

Well done, really enjoyed this too. Tftc and another fave point from me. Gorgeous spot here.

Nicely hidden in such a beautiful location. Saw CO on our drive past. Fav from us TFTC

We parked close to GZ, giving up on this inconspicuous bit. Then the CO himself strolled over to see how we were going. We had a great chat about caching and puzzle caches. What else is there worth talking about? It was very nice to meet him. TFTC and the hints teamMerlin.

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Team Merlin. Quick park and grab.

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Streak day 60.
Below is a blurb about us.
We are trying to get a badge from Project-GC for writing found log files of 100 words or more. Once we get this badge we will stop writing this. We are also trying to
get badges for adding photos to our found logs.
We Started caching in December 2019 and by January 2020 we were hooked. As we are on the road full time (living in a caravan), caching fits in well with this lifestyle.
It is taking us to places that we would normally not have gone.
When we move to a new place we also look at what caches are in the area and how many days we will need to be there to get the caches we want.

Find #1316
Well it was getting hot out today but couldn’t pass up a teamMerlin cache! Had me going around in circles for a few minutes as I misjudged the hint. Worked it out in the end and yes great camo, I even got to meet the CO which was fantastic!

TFTCSL Thanks for placing teamMerlin

After missing the event I had to come out and try the wines, not much reception. Well none! But eventually found it

Very clever hide

Thank you

Found it. Quick find. Found with thomo31. TFTC

Nice quick find after the event.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Nice easy find - TFTC

Another beaut hide that would elude plenty .
The cache owner wandered out as well and we had a great chat .
No one around and a beautiful area to drive around.
Fav tick for the sneaky hide and location .
Many thanks for the caches .

Escorted to GZ by the event host at the nearby WWFM event. TFTC

Quick find by Mum after going to the event. TFTC

We were very kindly escorted to GZ, feom the nearby event, when our phones failed to connect to the internet. Once there, MsS swooped. This hide was reminiscent of one she found years ago in Dural, and has been amongst her favourites ever since. TFTC

Nice cache, very good camo

TFTC from xo

Since we were at the cellar this presented a very good opportunity to find the two caches lying on either end! When we first ventured out through Ebenezer and Sackville we passed this road in favour of the main road and the Ebenezer History series. With a chance to check this side road out for the event, I learned we missed out on quite a lot during that first trip. This cache confused me at a glance, but on the second pass it immediately made sense. I guess I really need fellow cachers to kick in some proper cache-vision. Sneaky little hide, too! Thanks very much for the cache!

#405
After attending the nearby event, I had another go at finding this one.
With a little help I soon had the CIH.
Completed the log and placed it all back.
TFTC.

Little bit of a tricky find, was trickier getting the log out but managed to in the end, beautiful Autumn day to be out caching, thanks very much

Oh I’m going to say it again..... very sneaky..... then there was the matter of retrieving the log.... good fun today

Find #
Found with sesblocker.
Great coordinates made for an easy find. We are staying in Richmond for a couple of days and decided to collect a few smilies.
Gets a favourite from us!

TFTC teamMerlin
23 March 2019 3:14 pm

Thanks to a little help from the co @teammerlin we were soon CIH.

#7533 17:40
After attending the New Year's day event at the Tizzana Vineyard I wanted to do some more caches whilst slowly driving back home.
Many of the finds were related to the Ebenezer GeoQuest series, but as I did not manage to visit all of the 25 caches, I definitely will need to comeback for more geocaching in this beautiful area.

Before driving away, I first wanted to check out the two caches close to the winery. This cache was a very sneaky hide. Only after logging the hint started to make sense.

TFTC

Another day OCW marj01. After a very early start from the eastern subs we arrived at Ebenezer at first light to commence the day. During the course of the day we visited 69 trads, 4 multis, 2 puzzle and 2 letterbox caches. With only a handfull of dnfs it was a successfull day, with the majority of the caches being found in a reasonably short time. Thanks to all the COs for hiding and maintaining their caches and providing us with a fun day. Clever cache and a worthy fav point. Cheers oldmorty.

Quick park and grab
Nice camo
Thanks for the cache

Sneaky one with making it count

Clever!

#644 - Nice and easy find TFTC

Out caching with @itsonlybarney.

Suffering from a bit of geocaching withdrawal after our geocaching holiday. We decided to take the opportunity of the good weather to grab as many caches as we could. We managed to get 25 finds for the day. TFTC.

**Total find count: 531**

After a week way from the searching for caches after our holiday, we needed to get out and about on a glorious day. With a total of 25 finds for the day, it felt good to make some finds after a week of no finds.

All caches were in excellent condition except as otherwise noted in my comments below.

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Love an ingenious cache. Not much I can really say about this other than well made and deserving of a FP.

**TFTC teamMerlin**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin

Lovely spot, easy find. TFTC

Awesome hide real sneaky

We had not planned on looking for this cache, but it so happened that we came to the nearby CITO and followed up by attending the Meet and Greet at the vineyard. found it quickly in the company of Crash and Lucky. Great geocaching company. TFTC

Thomo31 took myself and the geo daughter today. I experienced wine tasting for the first time. Very beautiful winery that I would love to come back too. TFTC

28 April 2018 @ 12:42 pm
Caching buddies: The Bebes, EverestHigh and Stueygow

Easy find and a cool little one before the event!
TFTC teamMerlin

A quick find before the Hawkesbury M&G Event at Tizzana Winery. TFTC Team Merlin

OCW StueyGow, ADI and EverestHigh

A sneaky hide on the way into the event at what looks like a beautiful winery

Tftc

Nice easy find on our way to to an event at the winery. Ended up buying a few bottles as tasting was so good. Tftc

We've found these types of hides before, and still like them. SL TFTC

Whilst here for the meet and greet, LOK 212325 and I decided to grab these 2 while here. Made easier thanks to some hints given inside.Cache# 715 TFTC

Nice little cache with a good hiding spot

Found after an event with Rodney 1210

TFTC! Nice easy find have seen this hide before and they are awesome!

A nice quick find contrary to the difficulty rating. Park and grab for us today thoroughly enjoying our drive around here today, so so beautiful and so many caches! SL TFTC!

A quick find today. cache all good. Thanks teamMerlin

Easy find. With the kids of the CO in tow.

Grabbed as we were in the area grabbing a heap of GCA caches. Great weekend and a couple of GC's were handy to get as well.

Thanks TeamMerlin...we noted a few things happen around this location.

Found on the way back from a very fruitful GCA run around the area. This is a very neat cache. TFTC!

#7835 - 16:00; Day two of the Macquarie mayhem cache hunt with Sol de lune and andrewbt and this was our last stop before heading for home with a big bag of GCA caches and a handful of GC caches as well. While I was signing the log for this cache on behalf of the team, abt came down the driveway and said "Are you looking for another cache?". I replied "I'm signing the log for it!" He said, "Then what's that up there?" I looked up and right above my head was a GCA cache hiding in plain view. abt retrieved it and after a bit of checking, we added our names to the blank log sheet to end our mission. TFTC teamMerlin

What a wonderful complex! looks European. Unfortunately the winery was not open! Tftc

Nice hide signed & returned a found

Log 1069 Streak Day 288

After the Meet & Greet event at the winery I was guided by Team Merlin and Phlphotos as to where this cache was. Though I actually had to find it and spend a while to pull out the log. Thanks Team Merlin.

Came by after the Meet & Greet event at the winery with lucky1955 keeping a watchful eye. I quick find and then back to the coolth of the cellar. Thanks teamMerlin.

I've finished work for today and have arrived at the International Cacheing Day Event and noticed this Ebenezer Qeo Quest cache out the front. So I thought I may as well grab it, but, there I was a person standing next to GZ so I asked if they are here for the event. Indeed it was Paul the Hippie so I carried on with grabbing the cleverly disguised cache that was in plain sight. I completed the formalities and continued on to meet some new faces.


Find: 424
4th of 7 finds for today
0 DNFs for today
Cache: Is in excellent condition.
Log/Logbook: Around 50% full

T4TC Team Merlin

Finally I have arrived at the venue for todays International Geocaching Day Event!
This is such a beautiful location.
I parked the geomobile and walked over to GZ where I was able to take in the views - vineyards, a historic stone building, and water with birds on it.

I really liked this cache, not just for the great location but because it required a bit of thinking outside the box. What does the hint mean? You know when you find the cache but it doesn't actually tell you where the cache is hidden.

Luckily the area was deserted while I retrieved the cache and signed the log.


TFTC # 2118, 10th find today.

A quick find with Minyakano after the event. I spotted it quickly so let him poke around a little before casually showing him the cache.

Got this one thanks to Trillian and Steve

Found @ 2/7/17, 3:10 pm by BnB_Holton
Day Streak #178
#2 Cache for Today
#310 Caches this Year
#902 in Total
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Container Condition:
The cache is in great condition.
Log Condition:
The log is more than 75% full.
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Log:
Quick find after the event.
Thanks for the cache
Brad & Bec

Having farewelled the others from the M&G nearby, I headed over for one last cache before returning to The Shire. I had CIH when I saw the hint and log signed. Sneaky hide that would be seen by muggles all the time as they pass by. TFTC

Out today with the garbageman, his two beautiful daughters and my daughter. The aim of the day to find 25 different D/T combos in a day . This was number 10 of the day and lucky it was a quick one so we contiue on with our task . Thanks for the cache teamMerlin tnln sl

Found today with Snoopy1976 while attending the event. TFTC

In town today in search of 25 different D:T combos, in the excellent company of my geokids (3 and 5) and the Mighty Minions. A wonderful day - filled with great family moments, about 8km of walking (the last kilometre by torchlight in complete darkness), some very cheeky hides, and most importantly, NOT A SINGLE DNF! Thanks to all the COs in the region - the coords today were consistently very good, and the caches and logs were by and large in great condition.

This was the tenth of the day and a quick find, which was a relief as we were starting to freak out about how much time had already passed and how many combos were still needed! Fortunately we guessed the hide very promptly. TNLN TFTC

Streak Day #1416 - Had to do this one since we were at the event and was parked nearby, can never just walk past a cache and not find it lol. TFTC

Found with TOMBI! & son. Nice Hide, on the way to the meet and greet Event just here. TFTC

Found with BillHill531 and my son. We made the two hour trip down here for some unique caches and attend some events. A fun day ending with fifteen finds, six different cache types, and we were not even trying!
This was our second stop. We actually parked within five meters of the cache. we still needed to get out of the car. Not only for the cache, but for the event here as well. Cache was found quickly, having seen one of these before. Well crafted. Then we headed up to the event.
Thanks for the parking, cool hide and cache!

Thanks for the find

#4030 (4 of 4 today)

Well today is another day on which I need a few finds to meet my goal of one find on each calendar day per year cached by the end of 2017 - that's at least 5 finds every day for those wondering.
Only a dozen days left that don't qualify and this is one of three that still need two finds...

But this is also my wedding anniversary (one of the reasons for a lack of finds) and we have plans - the Geowife had booked us tickets to The Titanic Exhibition at the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park.
Enjoyed the exhibition and then had lunch nearby...

But I have something up my sleeve. We then went to Ebenezer / Sackville for afternoon Tea at *Tractor 828*. I've been there before when in the area, but my better half was totally unaware of it.

So more yummy food later we took a pleasant drive along Tizzana Road. Oh look, there are four caches I can pick up as we go. What luck...
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Nice easy one to finish.

Quickly spotted the likely hide - OK second place I checked. Completed signing duties, grabbed the clue and replaced. The Geowife hadn't seen one like this.
Nice panorama from GZ with the vineyards.

Time for home. Nice area, thanks for bringing us here.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Thanks for the great hide liked that one very well done