EG-Q#20: Sandy Hollow Trail Ebenezer, New South Wales, Australia
By teamMerlin on 25-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5T60D

Took a little bit to find as the area is really overgrown. No chance of signing as log is destroyed. TFTC

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 17th of 31 finds for the day (day 2), and 37th find of the holiday.

After visiting Ebenezer Church for some caches and an Adventure Lab we headed up Tizzana Road and this was the next cache we came to, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. Log was just a wet & unsignable pulpy mess inside the plastic bag, so we took a photo of it instead. TNLN, then replaced as found. TFTC teamMerlin.

Find #6354

Came along today to add some more smileys to the map of the Hawkesbury area. You just have to love geocaching, especially on Valentines Day. It was a good run and goingplaces2 came along for the ride. This cache was a successful find and the log was signed. TFTC.

Very over grown, we ended up finding it but couldn’t sign due to water, will need to be replaced as it has a hole

Found It!
This place it rather overgrown, only one of the three were even visible when I got to GZ. I started searching and soon looked in the right spot and found the cache!
TFTC

Took some looking as is much overgrowth. Tftc

Found it. Left my phone here. Came back and it was still there

Tfth

Why 000

Even with clues still couldnt find it. Too much long grass as well.

Out and about to get some fresh air and work towards finishing EG-Q series. There is so much interesting history around this area, thanks for bringing us here
Grass was a bit overgrown here but we came up with the container in the end

No this find took me a hot minute to get my hands on. Maybe the area around has become a bit overgrown since the hide… almost gave up thought o had covered all bases….. when yay had the find in hand!

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

32530.27 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 All In One A#38

**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.

24,766. 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. Signed the log, replaced the cache as found, then we headed off to the next one.

Thanks teamMerlin !!

Yep...

Found was really easy

Great day of caching near the Hawkesbury River. Started in Ebenezer with the AL, unfortunately very unsuccessful as the location service on my phone was struggling and could not fix on the wp's I needed. Luckily I also made a good plan for other caches so the day turned out productive. Weather was really good, about 20 with a little breeze and nice and sunny. Was a bit weary of the hole!
TFTC Wilbert67

TFTC, quick find.

Found the sistema container crushed, possibly by a tractor running over. We picked up all the broken pieces and replaced the container with a plastic jar, adding a small logsheet as the old logsheet was quite damp. TFTC

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Team merlin. Nice parking. Quick grab.

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Streak day 60.
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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.

Found it

Thank you

TFTC

Tftf

Thanks

Thx great clue

Found it!
Beautiful spot

GPS doesn’t like this area! TFTC

#7536 18:00
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.

Finding the cache and noting the required clue for the final cache did not take too much time, so quickly moved on to the next cache near the bus stop down the road.

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. Cheers oldmorty.

Quick park and grab
Thanks for the cache

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: 536**

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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Pulled into the Fire Trail and the hint made no sense at first look, but a recalibration soon led me to readjust my location and the cache revealed itself within seconds of arriving. Log signed, and cache replaced just as found.

**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

#208
What a great area.
Love the clue.

Nice spot clever hint

Easy find tftc

28 April 2018 @ 10:53 am
Caching buddies: The Bebes, EverestHigh and Stueygow

Easy find after zipping past it in Stueys crazy fast sports car!
TFTC teamMerlin

OCW StueyGow, The Bebes and ADI. Is this like the 'three shells and a pea' trick?! TFTC TeamMerlin

OCW StueyGow, ADI, EverestHigh

As the rain cleared we stopped for a couple more after clearing a few weeds at the CITO

Tftc

Found

OCW the Bebes, ADI and Everest High.

We are on a mission in the area after attending a CITO.

Tftc

Another cache found as part of the Ebenezer Geo quest. Could really only see 2 of the 3,but hubby came up with the find. TFTC

The whole "road" thing is a bit deceptive but found it no less! Definitely one of 3 but there's two things that have 3 here... it's one of them...

Clear as mud?

Great cache on a spectacular drive this afternoon. Quick find, SL TFTC!!

Find #18

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Didn't take too long to suss this one out. Neatly tucked away as it was. Thanks teamMerlin

All good! Tftc

Adventure Monday with the geokids to clean out the last of a few series in the region. A quick park and grab. The big geokid enjoyed being able to get out and help on this one as it was off the road a bit. TNLN TFTC

Found with Coybear2000. We'd attended the nearby CITO and decided to go for this one before heading to the nearby meet'n'greet. We parked a short distance from the lane. We walked towards GZ, while a passing car tooted us and the passenger waved - we caught up with the occupants at the m&g. Once at GZ we soon found the hide. We had to clear off some ants before we could open the container to sign the log. TFTC.

Out with Trodectus for a find between events. Parked near GZ and fellow cachers drove by as we walked to GZ. Quick find after starting the search. TFTC

So far on my caching travels today I have made four finds, but lunch is calling. Where to stop? I want somewhere quiet with a bit of a view and I know a couple of spots out here but, just one more cache, then lunch.

What a great decision, this is an excellent place to stop for lunch.
I parked the geomobile facing down the Sandy Hollow Trail and enjoyed watching birds flit across the track while I ate.

After that I made the short walk to GZ. The hint helped but there are two things that could match the hint here. It was a quick find even so then after completing the secretarial duties I walked about 200m down the trail. Very pleasant.

TFTC # 2113

Quick find tftc

Nice quick find thanks to the hint.

Streak Day #1465 - Took the opportunity after the event to gather some more of this series, another quick find. TFTC

After attending a nearby event Snoopy1976 and I stopped off to find this cache. TFTC

#4199 (1 of 5 today)

A milestone coming up, and I haven't managed to get to an event at the winery on Tizzana Road as yet. I can make that the milestone but if I do I need to grab one more first.

After the event was part of a group looking to attack a letterbox cache - how hard can that be? Well, D4½T4 actually.
Then split up and I grabbed two more on the way home, including my first (Ying / Yang) cache - the WhereIGo.
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Nice easy find on the way to the event. I'm actually getting close to having a go at the final - only 4 or 5 of the preliminary ones left. Now where have I put all the clues?

Completed signing duties and replaced.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Found the cache after a small argument with an army of ants... nice hide and TFTC

Dropped by this afternoon and placed a new A4 logsheet into the cache.

Found with TOMBI! & son, after attending the 2 events here, we started doing some of the series before going home. TFTC

Attended 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 fifth stop. When we finally pealed ourselves away from the event, to do some other select caches, we did some more of this series. Not sure how it all comes together in the end, especially the word answers, but enjoyable none the less. It was not where I looked so, glad BillHill found it. Log book very very full. Needs replacing ASAP.
Thanks for the drive, stroll and cache!

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Thanks for the find

Thanks for the great hide log full needs maintenance

Tftc. Quick find.

Another find on the EG-Q series. We are slowly picking up all the caches, but still have some way to go. It's always an excuse to come back to the Hawkesbury and find a few more containers.

This one was picked up right after we had finished at the Charles Kemp Reserve CITO earlier in the day. We missed this one and some others the previous month because we were in too much of a hurry to get to the Meet and Greet event at the winery.

All is well with the cache. I added my name to the log and left one of my signature small wire dogs.

Found with btm and gm10

found with btm and u_c

found with btm and u_c

Found with LovelyLadyLocks while on our way to Colo for the long weekend. TFTC

Nice and easy again getting close to the end now! TFTC

The road is a trail.

#1265
Was out here last week and thought it was a nice area to bring the geoWife, so after lunch in Windsor, we started the EG-Q series. Have had fun collecting 15 in the series, we were now running late to get home. Just one more though... Found cache pretty quickly but then scratched our heads why there would be a dog bowl here. Who knows.
TFTC teamMerlin

Quick Park and grab on a dull day which I decided to brighten up with some caches

Tftc

Another one down! For a call from the Guardian as i left the cache signed and happy. Look out for a piece on January 1st about how the 1.5m shift in the geodec data will affect caching next year! ...spoiler alert, it won't.

A quick trip to north richmond to pick a couple of vintage mowers , and pick up a few caches on the outskirts
34 caches were achieved , with no pattern or plan, just pickup driveby's , we missed a few because of walking as i cannot walk the best at present so we do what we can
all caches found in seconds , so all good, many thanx to all the cache placers, we will be back to finish the rest [^] till then cheers from the Routers

Time for a nice drive around the area doing some caches. Thanks for bringing me here.

Out caching for the day, after having spent the night camping at Cattai National Park, we decided to take on the Ebenezer Geo-Quest.
Next one in the series. Stopped beside the sign, found the cache and logged, made note of the requested information and then moved on to the next one.

Today's in such beautiful weather I took a tour from Wilberforce to Ebenezer and took the ferry across the Hawkesbury back to Tizzana Road. I was able to look at old buildings along the tracks, taking a nice busch walk to enjoy the beautiful view of the river.
This tour was very nice and I have enjoyed myself very much
Thank you
Team sissifalke

#441 Eighth of twenty two finds on a day's caching around Sackville, Ebenezer and Wilberforce. Nice quick and easy find. TFTC

#18

Quick stop off and find in our series today! TFTC

#781 stopped here for this one followed the GPSr before it had set5led & came to a choice of 3. But in the end when the GPSr had settled it was the wrong group of 3. It was a quick find in the first place I looked. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache TeamMerlin

Quick find and off to the next one. TFTC

Having been in the area earlier this week for an event at Tizzana Winery I come back arm with a fully charged phone and new batteries in my GPS. I'm pushing to find 1000 by next Saturday I'm out for a big day. TFTC. Clues makes sense once you are at GZ.

I headed back up to Ebenzer to try and finish TeamMerlins wonderful series and grab a few others while I could. I went via Wisemans Ferry again to grab a few around there I missed last time.

Tftc, there was a walker out for her exercise passing GZ. I had to time my approach and wait for her to move on.

Nice park and grab. Found with RangerD. Signed log. TFTC.

Nice park and grab. Found with JoPS87. Signed log. TFTC.

Quick find, nice spot.

All in good order. SL TFTC

Another quick find of the series this afternoon. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

There were some birds around so I wandered down towards GZ with my camera. I looked at the other two before I checked three and spotted the cache! Signed log and returned then back to birding. TFTC

Out to look for a few caches this afternoon, quick find TFTC

Left the geobeast running and knew where to look after taking in the hint. Felt like I could have kept walking down the trail here as it looked inviting. Did the legals and replaced as found. TFTCM
Cheers
dkmacca

No. 572

This one wasn't too difficult. It looked like there was an actual road according to the map, so I almost missed it as I approached. I was able to pull in and park at the sign for the fire trail,and walked over to GZ. Found it within a couple of minutes, signed and replaced, and got the necessary info for the final. TFTC!

I took the long way to Windsor from the Central Coast today in order to visit Wisemans Ferry (to grab one of the 3 remaining caches I need to complete my "finds by hidden date" grid) and to explore the outreaches of Sackville and Ebenezer.

A straightforward find on this one, though I must admit that in the interests of expediency, I'd peeked at the hint before getting out of the car and so was immediately able to focus in on an obvious hiding spot ... which is where I would have looked anyway ...

Thanks teamMerlin.

Found on a fun family caching afternoon with thereimer, Blundo Busters and Blundo Buster Junior. This one had us searching for a while before we made the find. It was meant to be our last cache for the day, but there is always time for just one more!! Thanks teamMerlin

A spot of afternoon caching with karennicole, blundobusters and bbjnr on the Ebenezer Geo-Quest. Thanks teamMerlin for bringing us here. It took us a bit of searching before taking better note of the hint. BB eventually made the find, we did our duties and continued on, needing to get back home. TFTC and a most enjoyable afternoon.

Out for a couple of hours caching in the area today with karennicole, thereimer and Blundo Buster Jnr.

The hint helped out here. Just a matter of looking.

Thanks for hiding and maintaining this cache teamMerlin.