History of Oberon Oberon, New South Wales, Australia
By Joshwa27 on 28-Oct-15. Waypoint GC65Y19

We always enjoy looking at these historic puzzles when we travel through this region. There is still many left for us to solve! This one was done sometime ago, and today as we are making our way through to Canberra, we stopped for the Hide. Thanks Joshwa27Domsky

Only made this solve late night so made the time to collect this morning. All found okay.Day two in Oberon with sacada while in town with a family event. Having been working on a few puzzles over the past day or two we stopped for a few more. Has a chance to do a few other caches, AL, multi and an oldie. Sunday wasn't the best day to do a church multi, and had a proactive paster experience at one and a memorable walk through some tough terrain for an old cache. Lovely area and scenery. The rain at 5.30pm called us to a stop, time to head back into town, catch up with the folk there, and grab pizza for dinner. Thanks for your cache that helped us explore the area.

Townsville to grab the Palm Island LGA. Now only 2 LGAs to complete Australia.Back around Canberra and doing some side trips.TFTC. Another day in Oberon. A multi around the churches on a Sunday morning can bring some interesting situations. Did some more of the solved puzzles, a bunch of trads, a difficult trad, the Ad Lab, an Earth Cache, and also out to Jenolen for an old cache.Great puzzle and nice quick find.

#14713 12:44A long day of geocaching on the West side of the Blue Mountains, from Mount Victoria to Bathurst. In the company of Brewmaker it was an enjoyable day.After a thorough search we ended up empty handed, and put a new cache container at the most obvious hiding spot.TFTC Joshwa27

We are traveling with Geoturtle 37, Papi4506 & The Drovers to do an assault on Bathurst and are picking up a few caches along the way.Knowing that we were coming up here we worked on these History of puzzles and we have to say that it took us awhile to come up with co-ords.On the other hand we did enjoy learning some history of towns that we had no idea about.It was nice to get close to some of the places we had researched.This was another quick find for us today in an obvious location.To save room we signed as The Mob.Thanks for the cache

Day 2 of our Bathurst trip with Team Crackers, Geoturtle37 & Papi4506.Today we did a lot of country driving, through nearby towns.The scenery was lovely with the trees turning a multitude of different colours for winter.All puzzles were solved before the trip.This is one of the caches we stopped to find along the way.A quick search and the cache was located, signed and replaced.Many thanks for placing this cache, Joshwa27, for us and others to find.

This was a nice quick find for us today. GT37 and I would love to see snow here although she isn't too keen on the cold. Thanks for placing this cache for all to find.

After spending a couple of weeks in Canberra attending the Mega Event it was time to head back to Brisbane. We have a few weeks to travel so we are meandering up through country NSW. Knowing that we would be passing through the Oberon area we solved this one a couple of days before arriving.Found the cache while ticking off the other Jigsaws in the area. Another fantastic Jigsaw picture. TFTC

Day 1 of the last phase of our journey home. 12hrs trip from Canberra to Tamworth with a few LGA stops on the way.Trying to solve this last night but the checker was not very helpful. Did a PAF and they had the same issue and co-ordinate. Now with this info we were able to leave our mark. OCaching with and signing as the group 'Q3' and having a great day.TFTCache Joshwa27

On the road today. Signing logs as Q3.Another interesting history lesson making understanding of the area enjoyable.Log signed and cache replaced as found on April 8, 2024. TFTC, Joshwa27

Solved the puzzle some time ago when I was trying to keep up with the HO series. I didn't succeed but it's still good to find some unexpected solved icons in random places we visit. I enjoy these history lessons and must get on to solving more.It was quite soggy underfoot but lush and green because of it. A quick find.. TFTC Joshwa27.

A quick find here, cache is all goodHeaded over to the Capital GeoBash in Canberra, ACT with Freddo over 5 days, travelling through the central part of NSW before caching around the hinterlands. A nice few days over with great weather.Thanks for the cache

Interesting history here. Thanks for the cache hide.The trip bit.Easter geocaching festival of twenty twenty four. This time it is the turn of Oz Mega GeoBash MEGA event in the nation's capital. It is time for a road trip across country to Canberra in the Sporty Pajero Sports. Freddo and Gridge98 traveling from Adelaide via a strange inland route that takes in scenic rural locations, dusty roads, punctured tyres, overheating batteries, various tools of the trade, special campgrounds, and lots scope for many many geocaching finds. Along the way we saw running emus, jumping kangaroos, wandering deer, dead foxes, herds of wooly sheep and stray steers.Arriving in Canberra we met our colleagues e.gregory1, featherwaite, team walron, courtney rose, davidwazza, e_smilie, and georode, signing as ABP, plus a huge group of other like minded excited mega geocachers attending event after event, and more events.Day one. Adelaide to Broken HillDay two. Broken Hill to WellingtonDay three. Wellington to CowraDay four. Cowra to BathurstDay five. Bathurst to CanberraDay six. Canberra to CanberraDay seven. Canberra to QueenbeeyanDay eight. Canberra to AdelaideThe generic bit.I will apologize right now, because everything from here on is here solely for the purpose of padding the word count and winning that one hundred word diamond badge again. Somebody moved the goal posts. So many caches to find. So many caches to log. We find them, sign them and replace them.This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and an Apple iPhone 11 using the marvelous Cachly app. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs macro.Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun. Apologies for the generic part of the cache log. We do apologise for the generic logs. Thanks to all the cache owner for placing this cache here for our enjoyment.Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke fr den Cache. Gracias por el cach. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos ktkst. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas. Ksznm a rejtst. Vdaka za cache. Dzieki za cache. Takk for at cache. Obrigado por isso cache. Dky za ke. Aciu u ta talpykla. Paldies par o cache. Aith selle eest cache. Tack fr att Cache. Tak for denne Cache. nbellek iin tesekkrler. Ksznjk, hogy a cache. Graas para o cache. Dankon pro la kasmemorone. Dank fr de csch. Eskerrik asko cache horrengatik. Na gode da wannan cache. Zikomo chifukwa cha cache.I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Come visit the world's longest running annual geocaching event - keep the weekend free - 7th - 10th June 2024 Cant wait!! GCAK1D5 - Lameroo's Ludicrous Legwarmers

A nice tour of Oberon using geocaching as our guide. Thank you Joshwa27

Find it and sign the log as EV, and thanks for the cache and hunt.

First one for the day heading out of Oberon. Thanks for the history lesson. TFTC

Our first cache this monring on this glorious chilly morning. Bit of a late start, as Madrabbitoh slept the hours away. This was a target for its hidden date. Nice brisk walk to get the blood pumping for our day ahead on the TRLT series. TFTC and the history lesson.

Found 26/13/21 with Jennyfromthefarm. TFTC

After three DNFs, I was ready for a find. Fortunately the cache was found quickly and easily, otherwise I think I would have gone back home and deemed the day as jinxed. Oberon is a beautiful town with excellent Art Deco buildings.

Found with WaywardWoman while caching in Oberon. A squelchy walk from car to GZ. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Found with Team CCRuDS

Log 3039
Team CCRuDS are ContactPete, Czech_that_out, RIS768, UnicornPrincess418, Deep_99 and Spy79

TFTC

Out camping for the long weekend with Team CCRuDS. Bit brisk and cold yesterday but today was lovely and sunny for a drive to get the caches.
Nice quick find for us. TFTC.

Out camping with Team CCRuDS. Did a spot of caching in glorious sunny weather. Nice change from yesterday that was bitterly cold. Nice quick find. TFTC.

Found with Team CCRuDS SL #5163 TFTC

Team CCRuDS are ContactPete, Czech_that_out, RIS768, UnicornPrincess418, Deep_99 and Spy79

Quick find after solving the puzzle a few weeks ago,thanks joshwa27 for all the history and jigsaw caches you have placed for our enjoyment.TFTC

Streak Day #3251 - Out on a caching jaunt with Dave8153 and stopped by for a quick find. TFTC

5 June 2022
This is find number: 6180
Streak Day: 2361

Found today with Snoopy1976, in the area for the weekend and made a quick find. Thanks

Thanks to Joshwa27 for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

We are on a cachey 10 day holiday, starting off with 2 nights at Emu Plains to hopefully collect the new GFA puzzle caches around Luddenham and some more of the Band caches north of Penrith. Then it’s 5 nights at Oberon to collect some of the many new & old puzzle caches that we have solved around the area, and also hoping to complete the Oberon Adventure Lab. After leaving Oberon we will be visiting Jenolan Caves, for both the caves and the Jenolan EarthCache, then heading to Katoomba for 2 nights to ride the Scenic World attractions (Railway, Cableway, & Skyway) and to do a few caches of various types plus an Adventure Lab. We will end the holiday with a stop-off at Wentworth Falls for some more caches and a couple of Adventure Labs.

Today we are staying close to our park cabin at the Jenolan (Oberon) Caravan Park, taking a walk around the Oberon town centre to collect some caches and Adventure Lab stages in the morning, and investigating some other areas on the edge of town in the afternoon. This was our 8th find of the day (day 4), and 69th find of the holiday.

The puzzle was solved before leaving home, and the cache was a nice quick find in an interesting historical location that's always good for a browse. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Thanks Joshwa27 for the puzzle & cache.

Find #5146

Find number 6228

A nice quick find after doing an AL stage close by

Thanks Joshwa27 for placing this cache.

Larger cemetery than expected but cache soon in hand. TYFTC

Found this one quickly in an expected spot after solving the puzzle last night knowing we were coming to Oberon to do some caching. Lots of families here ?with their dogs? and we saw a bunny TFTC

Quick solve last night in advance of our stay in Oberon. Good to make a quick find too. TNLN TFTC

We're out for a short drive checking out the district and decided to stop for this cache since I'd solved it a while ago. I'm enjoying the "History Of" mystery geocaches at every town we visit. We're learning lots of interesting stuff.

Thanks for find #2548
TNLN

Full log to follow

Out exploring the district and finding a few caches in the area. Had the coordinates worked out some time ago, bit today was the day to make the find. Walked up to GZ and made a quick find. With the cache in hand we signed the log before replacing as found. Thanks for the cache Joshwa27.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Vanlith The Youngling, Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), teamMerlin's Football, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, Merlin's Steed

Great spot. Quickly found while out on an early morning drive.

Thanks Joshwa27.

Found on a beautiful crisp morning. SL TFTC

A group solve on all of the series when they first came out but this was the first time in the area.

Came out to Oberon to spend a few days nearby for work picked up a few caches this was one of them

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache Joshwa27

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Tftc found on a rainy day with Batesy1993 & Weekesy086

Tftc found with noonie1990 and weeksey086

Tyftc

Tftc and the history lesson, made the find here with no trouble.

Solved in the morning, found at lunchtime. A nice way to appreciate some local history!

Found on a beautiful day being a tourist in Oberon. So quiet and peaceful

TFTC. Great puzzle which bought to my attention the history of Oberon. Quick find at GZ even though the cache was under a lot of snow. OCW MF428. Geodog Atlas was not with us today.

Found under 20cm of snow. What an adventure. TFTC. Great history of the town. TFTC

Solved before the trip. Found on a cool damp morning. Took tb. Thanks Joshwa..

Did the homework a while ago & today I was completing a caching day in the greater area – arrived to GZ area which is nicely kept & peaceful – found cache A OK – left TB – many thanks for the history lessons - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Staying in Bathurst for two nights and our main day is made of two drives outside of Bathurst. Thanks to all the COs for placing the caches and showing us around your region.

At camp last night I tried to solve this historic puzzle
But like so many of the cache in this series,
I just couldn't get the 'checker' to agree [:o]
No amount of fudging the numbers would work !!

Any hoo !!
I headed for me calculated GZ this morning ...
... and very close to the coords,
I found the cache

I still don't know which number I had wrong,
but close 'nuff is close 'nuff

TFTC.

Visiting from the Gold Coast and on a nice trip in the countryside with Bluewattle whilst preparing for a challenge cache. Neat puzzle and a favorite point from me.
TFTC Joshwa27
Found January 6, 2019

TFTC, elevation challenge here we come, found with Snickersallan

#4773- Having done a student exchange interview nearby, it was time to enjoy the long drive and pick up a few caches. I had worked this one out a while ago, and after detouring into the side street, ( wow the road has obviously changed by the height of the gate) we found how to get in. A quick find once there. Thanks

Find No.3475
Found with sesblocker. We retrieved I'm looking for Mary Hyde" TB.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC Joshwa27
5 November 2018 6:08 pm

Our GPS didn't take us straight to the spot, but what a great hiding place! TFTC!

Solved this this morning, although with one question incorrect. However, thought I would be close enough to look.
The hint enabled me to still find it easily.
Thanks
Left a trackable.

Out with Brewmaker on a two day adventure. On this, our second day, we started at Burraga Dam to continue on The Road Less Travelled touring trail (our third time out for this series) and other associated caches along the way. Passed Mount David and back to Burraga and then on towards Rockley (a very nice little historic town). Then it was along the dirt road to Oberon for lunch and more caches around the town, before finally heading back to Sydney.
It was perfect weather to be touring around the countryside, seeing lots of native birds and farm animals along the way. Thanks to all of the cache owners for the clear directions, hints, and good easy hides. Only a couple took more than a minute to locate. TFTCs

On a 2 day caching adventure with GeodudeAU to clear some caches over the Blue Mountains. Starting from Hartley heading south to stop by Burraga Dam overnight, then heading north to Rockley and Oberon. We had a very successful trip, notching up 115 smileys, and exploring many out of the way places. Lots of interesting scenery and wildlife along the way. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining these hides.

Enjoying the history lessons about these old towns. Similar venue to the others. All quiet out here today. TFTC

Gz looks like its ready for a population explosion. Did our research last night and all our numbers worked. Enjoyed learning more of the Oberon history. Tftc

Out on a caching trip with AlphaDeltaIndigo with the Taralga and TRLT caches in our sights.The drive throughout the counry side was absolutly amazing,we enjoyed every part of our journey seeing so much scenery and wildlife,we found most caches without too many issues,over the weekend we found so many caches so I appolise for the repeated logs.
Now with some phone service ADI sorted out the final coords for this cache from the car.
Thanks for placing this cache for us to enjoy
TFTC !!

31 December 2017 @ 10:30 am
Caching buddy: Bonfire7

Solved this on the road but checker didn't work. So phoned a friend and got my mistake corrected
TFTC Joshwa27

Solved some time ago
Thanks for the cache

Thanks for the hide on this cache, found and SL

Thank you for the cache. Log signed and cache replaced. *OCW Throsbyonchurch*.

OCW Throsbyonchurch, found cache and SL. Thanks for the cache.

Found with cullum68 thanks for the cache

Found with nissan 65 on a wet day caching . Up from south coast heading to Oberon.
Thanks for another great puzzle cache.

6 November 2017 5:02 pm nice big area.
Log to follow at a later date travelling

Found this cache at 3.40pm while traveling around a circuit from Lithgow, Jenolan Caves road to Oberon, Tarana and back travelling thru some beautiful country side with rolling hills and sheep and cattle. Oh and cemeteries.
Thanks joshwa27 for the hide
The Bushies.

The Road Less traveled weekend two around Oberon. Day 2. After a great night at Bummeroo ford, I went on the TRLT trail for the day, ending up just past Oberon and spending the night there. It was nice to get several of these History caches along TRLT.

Thanks.

24024.61 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 5th Ann Compass Rose Gold A#138

**Albida**

Three geocachers (mizmaz, envirogirl86, and myself) embarked on a monumental long weekend to complete as much of TRLT series as we could. (Apologies for the generic log). Awesome series!! TFTC!

Ticking off a few easy “History of…” puzzles as we completed the southern end of TRLT series. Helps to understand more about the countryside we would experience over our three day roadtrip and added to the tally of almost 200 smilies.

3 girls (Mizmaz, StumbleTrip and myself), a car, a gps and a sense of adventure resulted in 198 caches over 3 days. And, of course, we decided to go on our adventure on the coldest weekend in 110 years.
Another "history of.." cache ticked off our list. The area is quite picturesque. TFTC

found with btm and u_c

found with btm and gm10

Found with u_c and gm10

Found with Justjessie, TFTHOC

Found with O319 on our winter long weekend get away. TFTC!

Taking advantage of the long weekend, Fitzy_1965 and I decided to head up to the Lithgow area caching along the way. Our main aim was the Jenolan Caves MPT with a few extras here and there. We appreciated the wide variety of caches found and thank the CO's for their caches.

A last minute plan saw Fitzy_1965 and I heading off to make another attack on the TRLT series and whatever other caches we could nab on the way Lots of laughs and perfect weather made for an all round enjoyable day cruising around the countryside caching with over a 100+ caches in the bag!

This one was the first one on the board for us and it was a quick find at this sleepy location Took a few TBs to move on.

Thanks for the puzzle & hide, Joshwa27

13960. Found with specimenX during another run around finding the southern half of the TRLS series plus as many others as we could squeeze in.

Another big day out with Caching Wench Number 1 starting with an early departure from Canberra, with perfect weather for our ramble along those country roads for many many finds. First find of the day - pre-solved so a quick find once at GZ. Signed the log, returned the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks Joshwa27 !! Another Ho crossed off !

Smelt like something had died here. Ha ha quick find dropped some trackables. Tftc tn

Interesting history. We made a cross-country trek to retrieve the cache. TFTC joshwa.

found

The rain was getting heavier so we were pleased we could drive to GZ. TFTC

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.

After much deliberation and comparing of diaries, The Rats, Steeba and I eventually found a weekend that we could all commit to completing the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, along with some caching in Bathurst (which was actually the scene of our first combined geocaching trip nine years ago!). A last minute trip overseas for me cropped up; but I arranged it so that I could fly home just in time to not miss out on this caching extravaganza.

Friday night we headed to Abercrombie River via Goulburn (from Wollongong), and camped at the campsite there. Saturday saw us drive the lower (Southern) half of 'The Road Less Traveled' Series, ending up in Bathurst right on dinner time. We then found some local caches before staying at a friend's house for the night. On Sunday we headed back out to Oberon for some more caches and then did a couple of loops around Bathurst. We had originally planned to stay Sunday night, but once we clicked over 300 finds for the weekend the inspiration started to wane, and we all agreed to turn our heads for home.

Cheers

Nothing beats a "road trip". My find count had been suffering from the "rest of life" getting in the way of caching so along with Steeba and Hoojar a plan was hatched to go "beyond the Great Divide". The 2nd half of the TRLT looked to be the obvious solution. Under perfect skies and with gps loaded we hit the dirt roads.

Day 2 of our caching trip and we were out on the roads again. We headed to Oberon and some of the back roads around Bathurst before getting a few more caches in Bathurst. By days end we’d put a good dint in our "beyond the Great Divide" so decided to head for home. Thanks to all the CO’s of the caches we found along the way. Apologises for the template style log but with 300 finds for the weekend each container begins to look the same.

TFTC

The Rats, Hoojar and myself made for the wider Bathurst area for a weekend finding some of TRLT series of caches.

The whole area was quite green and recent rains had meant the grass had exploded everywhere and was 3 or 4 foot high around many of the caches.

Not only did we find plenty of TRLT, there were many 'History of' caches found amongst others. Thanks to all the hiders. TFTC!

cache found in 5 seconds, lots of historic graves

Worked this one out a while ago, back today for the find. Quick find TFTC

TFTC another smiley for today, completed the questions earlier for our long weekend of caching

We started our next adventure tour from Wallerawang to Batemans Bay via Oberon. We saw many beautiful animals. We drove slowly so we could still see them crossing the road.

We have found this cache in the way to Batemans Bay.
Thanks
Team sissifalke

Wilbert67 and us have been planning an over night trip to Bathurst and pre solved many puzzles in preparation, we also picked up quite a few others along the way. We left early in the morning and we were hoping for better weather in light of all the rain we been having and good weather we had. We had an enjoyable day with only 4 DNF out of approximately 43. A big thanks to all the CO for making our trip enjoyable. TFTC.

There were two options at GZ. One was just too obvious...but I went to it first. TFTC

On A weekender with J+J.AU, Goulburn, Oberon, Bathurst, Lithgow and back is our goal. Solved lots of puzzles as a preparation for this trip and happy to collect in on a lot of them. More eyes makes easier caching. Started with some fog and cold on Saturday morning, but the weather got better and better. Thanks for putting out all the caches!
Wilbert67

Finalf29 had a TAFE excursion to the Mayfield Gardens, so I came along to do a bit of caching as well. The weather was beautiful, the gardens were wonderful and the company fantastic. We spent too long at the gardens so only got thirteen before it got dark. We will definitely be back up this way again.

This was our third for the day. We only had a few hours until the sun set so madly rushed around Oberon finding what we could. Ok I think Finalf29 ended up driving on every bit of road here. We got to see the whole place by car. Pulled up right near GZ. I love these history puzzles. Thanks

Happy Uke and I attended a TAFE excursion to the NSW country town of Oberon. We visited the Mayfield Gardens which I can recommend to any garden enthusiast as being well worthwhile. The gardens are a work in progress and cover several acres.

We got this one on the way from the gardens coming into Oberon.

Thanks!

TFTC. Easy find. Find #5.

An easy find, bit of a widow-maker this spot, lots of big bits of tree on the ground. This was our last cache in Oberon left to do, and the general area.