The View from the West Bank Paddys River, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Ilmari_the_Red on 07-Nov-15. Waypoint GC66KKB

Found on an early morning hike along the west bank fire trail, thanks

With some new caches published late yesterday along a pretty section of Murrumbidgee-adjacent reserve, it didn't take much arm twisting to line up StarsAlign and SocialClimber to a long morning's adventure.

This is perfect country for the eMTBs . Once they've been hoicked over the starting gate there's no more fences to cross for the entire trip, and in general the track is in OK condition, looking as if it's been mown in the last month or so.

Easy riding which the EMTBs handled with style and aplomb - except for a rapid deflation of my rear tire about halfway through, necessitating a quick replacement - and it certainly made today's 26km return trip much faster than it otherwise would have been.

The detours off-piste towards the river caches were well worth the effort, with some absolutely spectacular spots selected by the CO, providing a quite different view of the Murrumbidgee corridor to what we've seen from the Tuggeranong side.

A fantastic day with impeccable company and excellent caches.

This cache was quickly located in good condition.

Thanks, Ilmari_the_Red.

A call last night from caching colleagues and a trip was quickly organised - starting from Point Hut crossing and heading up the western side of the Murrumbidgee River. And what a great day it turned out to be for a combination of e-biking and walking (and also some rock hopping/climbing). Had a fun ride along the mix of stone, gravel, dry dirt and grass tacks. Dumping the bikes and making dashes into the grasses and down the rock slopes to the river. Fun day with good company. Poor MB had a blowout on his ebike, fortunately he quickly fixed it and we were on our way again. Also enjoyed eating the blackberries. TFTC

TFTC. Nice hide. Tough walk in.

Tftc

Thanks

Tankengine and I decided to take a little ride along the river to do a little cache maintenance and pick up a couple of those much further back caches.

The ride was awesome, if not a bit muddy at times, but it was great to speed along the track.

The views were great too even on a cloudy, chilly day. We are so lucky to have such great places so close to home.

This cache: Nice easy find and a great spot to see the river. TFTC Ilmari_the_Red!!!

We made a quick detour to grab this one when I noticed the area would make a good viewing area over the river. As luck would have it, the area also had a cache

Easy find with geo-hack @1120, and exactly a year since last log.

Took off for a 10km+/3.5 hrs hike along the M from the carpark just over the weir. An easy going trail but never have I walked through so much long grass in my life, certainly wouldn't do it during the warmer months. With a goal in mind I commenced the journey at 3.10pm. It would have to be at a decent pace, and with quick finds as sunset would be at 5.03pm, and I didn't want to be scrambling rocks in the dark. which I was able to continue all the way.

Criss crossing back and forth over the trail and into the fields I made objective with 13 minutes to spare (4.50pm). A separate adventure there, see GC804YG if you want to read it (not that exciting). Back it was then to the geomobile, taking a bit of a short cut then following the track for a speedy return at 6.45pm.

A great afternoon's adventure, 15 from 15 found and logged. Any notable specifics detailed at the end of each individual log.

Log quickly found, signed and replaced. TNLNSL TFTC

In these coronavirus times, the activity of geocaching seems to fit the bill, providing ample fresh air and exercise opportunities. Today, I sought out several caches on the western bank of the Murrumbidgee River opposite Pine Island. I removed boots to cross the Murrumbidgee near Tuggeranong Creek and had the unusual experience of walking in knee-high grass. Fortunately, it was too cool for snakes to be active. I waded back to the eastern bank at the Pine Island picnic area. This cache was the second that I found. It was a straightforward find, being in an obvious position on the coordinates. Obviously the river is an impediment for I was the first to find it this year. Thank you Imari_the_red for installing and maintaining this cache.

I was concerned that this location had too many cache-hiding spots but the coordinates were good and I quickly found the cache which is in good condition. I found the little hill below this location had slightly better views of the river. TFTC

Found with a another great view all the way to Condor.

Attacked this one from the wrong direction. Nice little scramble for yet another great view.

#9530 @1610
Today I focused my caching along and near the Murrumbidgee. Having found Rocky Raceway, I was now on the west bank of the river. I hadn't planned on finding the caches on this side, but decided to go for it, and ended up finding all the caches on this side of the river before crossing over again. Cache easily found. TFTC.

A quick trip across the rocks while the ever is low. Nece cache.

#2382 I was finally able to cross the river about 1km downstream. A hot afternoon, but worth the walk. A quick find. Replaced as found. TFBMH.

Sunday 18 June 2017 - a superb crisp sunny Winter's day with a brilliant blue sky in the mid teens walking just over 13km in 4 hours (total accent 331m) to find 6 from 6 caches during the warmest hours of the day. Of these caches 'Rocky Raceway' not too far away is a magnicent location and a must find cache just for the superb rocky scenery.

Quick and easy find. Great views. Dropped off trackable 'HELP ME TO WIN'. Thx p2p. TFTC Ilmari_the_Red.

Pleasant walk, cache found, nice spot, thanks.

A ride down the OSM track on the west side of the Murrumbidgee River from Point Hut Crossing. Trip report at [http://www.johnevans.id.au/wp/4-february-2017-caching-on-the-west-bank-thats-geo-and-bidgee-with-osm/](http://www.johnevans.id.au/wp/4-february-2017-caching-on-the-west-bank-thats-geo-and-bidgee-with-osm/) . Nice views from here. TFTC.

Heading back south and racing the storm I decided I would still try and pick up these as planned. This was a quick find and nice chance to stop and take some more photos! I think I took to much time taking photos today , was hard not to with all the dynamic skies and scenery. The rain started to sprinkle and my pace just naturally increased...looks like I am going to get a refreshing shower.
Thanks again Ilmari the Red, very nicely put together caches I thought.

2288 4 of 6 today

I came out to south Tuggeranong last weekend as I have lots of unfound caches down here. I've always wanted to get Rocky Raceway as I'd seen it from the north side of the river, but it is inaccessible from there, yet to close. So I checked the maps and found that it would be a long walk today. I parked at Point Hut Crossing armed with lunch and the target in mind. Conditions were good for walking, cool, not much breeze and it stayed dry.

It's good to have a few caches along the way to make the long journey worthwhile. Maybe there should be more

TFTC Ilmari_the_Red.

Continuing along the trail with LuckyL10n and Agent Basil....and after a short detour off that, we soon found ourselves at GZ. Cache was soon spotted, but took another few moments before we had it hand. All was good and the log was soon being signed. Neat views from up here as well.....and well worth the few hours we were out.

Thanks for another Ilmari the Red

Another nice spot..Enjoying the day out with Sol and LuckyLion as we continued our way South. Toes were getting a little sore by this stage but a good time was being had by all.

#4785 - 11:45; Meandering with Sol de lune and Agent Basil along the western banks of the mighty Murrumbidgee River. Another short detour from the trail and the cache was quickly spotted, but needed a bit of improvisation for the extraction. The wily fox seemed to loose his sense of direction here as Sdl and I wrestled for the cache as I'm sure we were still headed north. TFTC Ilmari the Red

Saw it, logged it - Found IT!

Found it!!

A nice cool day without rain, decided on a short walk to find a few caches. Took awhile to get along the bank with lots of rabbit and wombat holes hidden in the grass. Found a track to get back to the car at Point Hut in half the time as the outward journey. Boy I wish I had known of this when going out.
Only regret was that I did not continue on for another two kilometres to do Rocky Raceway and the Farther Bank. Oh well another trip. TFTCs.

Found at 4:09:00 PM

After taking some time to find Pine Panorama I quickly made my way here. This cache was a much more straight forward find. It was exposed in the crack and the container has deformed from the sun. Weird. I covered the crack with a bigger rock before I left.

Thanks Ilmari_the_Red

TFTC. To get to this cache and a few others in the area parked car at pine island and swam across to THE OLD MAN cache with all my worldly possessions in a plastic bag, etrex30 had in my hand, but that can withstand abit of water with ease. Nice hide, nice container and great location, thanks.

4508. As I found myself on this side of the river chasing another cache, I decided to wander over and take a look at this one. A nice quick find and it was back to the track.
Thanks Ilmari the Red for the cache and the pleasant views. Worth the walk.

Huh - another one! OK - but this time I took the bike! Nice ride, and once you hit 20km/h the flies can't keep up - bonus! Nice views from here. Cache found quickly. Thanks ItR.

Found with Trodectus & Coybear2000. TFTC Ilmari_the_Red.

Joint 2nd to find with Decrypter and Coybear2000. We paddled across the river and then walked to this one from the old man further upstream. Had to watch out for wombat holes and we manage to avoid the blackberries. After a bit of a search at GZ, we had CIH. Good views from here. TFTC

Out with Trodectus and Decrypter, perfect weather, forgot the sunscreen and was a bit red after cache hunting. TFTC

##FTF## Woo Hoo! @15.55 on 14 November.

Between moving house, going interstate for work, feeling worn out, getting sick and bad weather it had been a couple of weeks between geocache outings. So, this afternoon when the rain stopped I set off in the damp greyness for a walk along the largely ignored side of the river. I'd had my eye on some of the caches on this side for a while, but was waiting for the weather to warm up enough to attempt a wet crossing. I didn't know you could walk on this side, but the description in one of the more recently published caches gave me a clue and I drove to the less favoured of the Point Hut Crossing carparks. After a bit of stuffing about I found the partly overgrown trail and enjoyed a lovely 13 kilometre walk.

Leaving behind the old man in his brook, I followed the trail as far as possible, which meant only a short and easy walk to GZ. No issues with snakes in today's damp (but this whole area could be pretty snakey on a warm day, I'd be guessing). I found the cache easily enough. I knew there was a chance of being FTF on this one, but it was still a lovely surprise seeing the blank log. A nice step up from the 2TF at the old man and my third ever FTF. As an extra bonus, this is a really nice spot and well worth the quite easy walk (or ride) from Point Hut. TFTC

This entry was edited by MJW1 on Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 12:46:23 UTC.

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