Between a Rock and a Hard Place Ebenezer, New South Wales, Australia
By teamMerlin on 27-Sep-15. Waypoint GC64527

Nice quick park and grab TFTC

Thanks make sure theres no water in the cash

Found

Cache check - replaced old logsheet with a new one

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 26th of 31 finds for the day (day 2), and 46th find of the holiday.

Backtracking along Tizzana Road we turned off into The Ridgeway and drove down to this cache, and it was another nice quick find on arrival at GZ. Cache container was full of water and the log was saturated & unsignable (we tried, but not possible even with our trusty PowerTank pen), so we took a photo of it instead. TNLN, and then replaced as found. TFTC teamMerlin.

Find #6363

Found the cache, but couldnt pen the log as the log is swimming.TFTC!

Found It!
I spotted this one after a short search but the logbook is rather wet. Not really sure how though since it's hidden in a spot that's mostly out of the rain.
TFTC

Today is HappyTakahe's birthday and she wanted to go geocaching, so we are out and about to try and get some more of the caches close by us in our LGA, starting to run out so hopefully this lockdown ends soon.
We struggled with signal and took a few minutes to locate the right spot for this one. TFTC

The coordinates we a bit off so I was searching around the wrong rock for a moment when I looked up and thought to myself “if I was going hide a find here….. that’s where it would be” and what do you know there it was!! Thanks for the hide

Found it but container is full of water so log needs replacing

It was so full of water, it’s now just very wet

TFTC, quick find but old log was soaked wet. Thanks for the previous finder for putting in a new one.

Nicely placed. A very quiet road. However, a local was driving his quadbike around with his two young daughters. Being a friendly country bloke, he drove over to see if we had broken down. No, we were just geocaching. The usual conversation explaining geocaching ensued. TFTC

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Team merlin, cache container was replaced upside down allowing water to get in. Log saturated. Cleaned up as best we could. Signed log

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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.

Found it

This was a quick park and grab on the way home from the NY event.
SL TFTC

Feeling a little dusty after a big night I stopped in here to take a look for this cache,a nice quiet part of the world down in here.
Thanks teamMerlin for the cache

Quick PnF TFTC

Easy find and I soon found myself in this delema at the COs much more difficult puzzle.

Streak Day #2069 - Whilst I distracted the neighbour, Dave8153 found the cache. TFTC

11 March 2019
This is find number: 3206
Streak Day: 1180

A quick find tonight with Snoopy1976 after a DNF at a nearby multi. Thanks

Thanks to teamMerlin for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

#7535 17:50
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.

A dead end street with two caches. After a DNF at 'Wood 2nd - Bloodwood' , I was more successful with this cache. An easy find and after logging duties I moved on to the next one.

TFTC

Fourth stop on my caching run before the Christmas event at the winery this afternoon.
Everything is so green here, looks very appealing!
A friendly horse greeted me and watched me head into the scrub where I followed the GPS and soon had CIH. Signed the log and headed off towards the event.
Time for one more? There was but it didn't work out very successfully.

TFTC # 3014, Streak day #396

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. Great views from here. Cheers oldmorty.

Quick park and grab
Thanks for the cache

#649 - Easy find TFTC

Easy find tftc

Found it, quick and easy, very lovely spot down here - glad we ventured down

Beautiful property around here . Thanks for the find

Great hiding spot

Nice spot put back where found

Dnf

TFTC! GPS was all over the place but a bot of logic had CIH

Great little park and grab. Watch out for spider. SL TNLN TFTC!!

All good - Tftc

#4481 (7 of 9 today)

For the first time in a while I actually needed to make a find today in order to meet my self-imposed goal of five finds per calendar day by the end of 2017 (ie one for each year in which I've cached). There are only two dates left both next month) for me to meet that goal. But as usual I've been hitting these dates harder than necessary - ie why find one when more than five are possible?

So today I was looking at a minimum of 6 finds today north of Windsor, and before I headed for home had grabbed nine (with no DNFs - bargain). I did leave a few for another day, though.
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Quick find here. The iPhone wanted me closer to the road, but as I walked from my parking spot over the road I saw something that looked cache-like.
And it was!

Completed signing duties and replaced.
Then said hello to the friendly horses near the car.

SLTNLN
TFTC

found with The Booos thanks for the cache

Find number 3950

A nice quick find once the GPS settle down.

Thanks teamMerlin for placing this cache.

Adventure Monday with the geokids to clean out the last of a few series in the region. A quick park and grab - there's a very clear geotrail. Kids loved the nearby horses. TNLN TFTC

While the others waited in the car again, I headed on over to GZ. This time the GPSr was not behaving nicely, and kept pointing me back towards the road. I suspect it was the batteries which were running a bit low -- this unit tends to get a dodgy compass when the batteries are nearly flat.

Therefore, I had to rely a bit more on geosenses and sharp looking, following the clue from place to place. Eventually, I spotted something that looked like it could mark the spot. Closer inspection revealed the container waiting to be found.

I signed the log and added one of my signature small wire dog. Then everything went back to where I had found it and I could dash back to the car so we could head on over to the meet-and-greet even at the winery.

#1588
A big day around Sackville collecting 6xGC and 18xGCA caches.
I've been to this one before but probably didn't log the DNF as I was in a rush that day. Had a bit more time today and found the cache more than 10m from where the iPhone wanted me but in a fairly obvious spot.
TFTC teamMerlin

Enjoyable walk on a warm sunny day with Sevabo and Skyejam. TFTC

MrSmith00 and I were checking different places when he called out the inevitable "found it".
Tftc.

Tftc, followed a fake geotrack before expanding my search and finding the cache quickly.

5 of seven today after I drop son off in Windsor for scot canoeing adventure Quick find here in a place described by the clue Thanks team merlin for placing the cache All good at the cache Cheers

Thanks for the find

Thanks for the great hide another great day out

Last cache in a long by day! Getting dark so time to go home! Tftc!

Uncovered so visible from the road. Dropped a tb tftc

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

I had to have two goes at this one this afternoon. On the second go, I went for the obvious, rather than trusting the confused phone app.

Enjoying my day in the area picking up some more caches. I drove to GZ. The paddocks nearby are beautiful and green. My GPS pointed me in one direction. I looked around for a while, then a bit further back I spotted a likely place. Soon had my hand on the cache. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

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

#782 drove to the area got out of the car & turned on the GPSr as I was crossing the road spotted a spot to check while the GPSr was getting connectivity. Well I had the cache in hand before the GPSr could tell me I was close. Signed the log an replaced. Changed the camo slightly so it looked less like a purposely placed pile of rocks from the road. Thanks for the cache TeamMerlin

Quick find . sign and off to the next one. Nice area this. TFTC

I checked the right spot the first time, dismissed it, went elsewhere, came back and there it was!

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. Quick find here.

One of several caches found today whilst enjoying the tour around the area before attending the nearby event. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Quick find. Nice area. Cache all good.Tftc

We weren't having much luck with our gps's out here today, but then something a little too perfect caught my eye...

SL TFTC

We headed back out to Ebenezer with a view to finding the Ebenezer Geoquest Final. After 2 frustrating hours trying to crack the code at WP1 we gave up and commenced collecting the other caches that have popped up out here since our initial couple of trips.
This was a quick and easy find to get us back in the geocaching mood.
TFTC

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

A quick and easy find today thanks.

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 back blocks of Ebenezer.

A straightforward find here, so thanls team Merlin ... the cache name says it all, though there are plenty to choose from. Fortunately my phone GPS was in a cooperative mood and pointed me in the direction, more or less, of the right spot ... and then geo-sense did the rest.

ANZAC Day and day number 2 for this EG-Q trail plus some nearby caches. It was a good caching session along with thereimer, karennicole and Blundo Buster Jnr.

Thereimer went straight in for this one and made a quick grab.

Thanks for placing this cache and for maintaining it.

Ebenezer trip part 2 with karennicole, blundobuster and BBJnr. Parked just beyond the bend, crossed the road and soon had CIH. TFTC.

Found on a fun family caching adventure with thereimer, Blundo Blusters and Blundo Buster Jnr on Anzac Day. This was our second day exploring historic Ebenezer and the wonderful caches in the area. Easy find by thereimer. Thanks teamMerlin

TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

Didn't log TB.

A nice and simple cache after finishing that mammoth cache series nearby. While the coordinates were a tad bit off, the name of the cache easily indicated the likely place to find it.
Left the trackable as I had already found it last year.
Thanks for the cache.

The last time Toriaz and I were in this area a few weeks ago we somehow missed seeing this cache on our map. We came out this way today to get Rainbow Spirit's cache, Wombat Rock, along the Colo River, so we decided to find this one along with a few others Toriaz hadn't found. We were having trouble finding anything, so we checked some previous logs. I noticed the WaywardWoman had written a longer log so I read that. She suggested she had found the cache about 10 metres from where her GPS wanted her to look, so I walked to a likely feature about 10 metres away and found it immediately. Thanks

#4,115

After resting in the car while I found some caches he had already found, bikerbuddy had to get out and help search for this one. And he was the one who eventually made the find for us, when we realised the coordinates could be about 10m out.

I picked up one of the TB clues for the Evil Nemesis cache at the last cache, and dropped it into this one after recording the clue.

Thanks

Tftc.

As per the name, had CIH soon after arriving after noticing the usual geocachers placement of nature given items to hide a container, thanks teamMerlin

Grrr, logged out of order (the 'mushroom has to remember to 'Submit') ... a surprising well camoed GZ given the cache size. Cache found in good condition, safely tucked away. Thanks for the cache teamMerlin

#3372- After two absolutely gorgeous sun-shiney, blue-skyed days to end 2015 and start 2016, the threat of rain for the next five days after this was enough for me to be able to convince the boys to come for a drive (and my unterior motive, to pick up a few caches on the way).
The criteria was- no micros! that somewhat cuts it down especially when you are already driving long distances to find a few caches in one area. I decided that it had been too long since we'd been out to Tizzana area and so the five in the area footed the bill nicely.
This was a quick find in an obvious spot that NickoHeap eyed as we pulled up, even though today, our GPS had us about 10 m away. We had just got back in the car when a local farmer mowing his lawn stopped to check that we were ok- I told him we were just looking at some information before we moved on- he bid goodbye and we were both on our way. Thanks team Merlin.

Found it on an overcast day while visiting the area. Nice find thanks to the hint. TFTC

I think the hard place is where to safely park, lucky it's a very quiet street. As I had parked past GZ I ended up bush bashing my way back for a quick find. SL #2344 on streak day #1257 TFTC

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Three of us enjoyed search. found the cache and signed the log.

Thanks to teamMerlin for organising the caches [font=Verdana] [^]

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Great day out for caching - enjoyed this series with Everlasting and skyejam. Thanks for the cache.

A lovely hot day for geocaching with sevabo and Everlasting. Everlasting found the cache. TFTH

A quick and easy find. TFTC,

A quick find when 0n the way down to the Kirwans Retreat TB hotel. What a delightful hidden valley

A quick park and grab on the way to some old adventures.

TFTC.

Published

Saw this one had very recently been published so jumped into the geo vehicle with hubby and hoped to be the FTF. Unfortunately by the time we got there the log had already been signed. But it was worth a try. No problems finding the hiding place. TFTC.

TFTC log to follow

Heading out for the day with the family in toe and noticed a new cache not too far just released.
So we went off hoping that the cache was still not found.

We put the coordinates into the GPS and drove to the indicated GZ.
Parking close by we were on foot to approach the cache Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The dilemma was soon solved as this was a quick find finding the cache in the first hide spot which we looked in and with cache in hand I signed the log and very happy to claim FTF.
Cache log and container in excellent condition.
With a FTF under our belt it was time to continue the day and log the cache find when we return as there is no mobile service in this location.
TFTC Team Merlin

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