CFT17 Capt Nemo Carwoola, New South Wales, Australia
By StrangeTrousers on 02-Jan-16. Waypoint GC69385

Reperio 14:02Day 2 of our NSW south eastern caching tour, and Master Vitruvius and I travelled from Tarago, through to Bungendore and then on to Captains Flat. It was quite an eventful day, from finding a dog on a lonely country road, to having a brown snake slide up next to me while signing a cache, to having a police officer pull over and put his lights on for us as we were pulling road kill off the roadand of course, lots of geocaches found. A great day out full of geocaching and adventure. Gratias StrangeTrousersAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

There's not much of a story behind this find. It's Saturday afternoon on a long weekend. I did some work and chores in the morning, then set out to start on this series. All but one cache were found and in good order. By the time I turned around at CFT30 to head back home, the crimson of sunset had fallen from the clouds and landed as scarlet on the mountaintops. The temperature had dropped four degrees. Such a beautiful evening to be out for a drive.Thanks for the cache, StrangeTrousers!

Tftc found whilst attending mega

TftcIn Canberra for the Mega. Out caching with Chakram for the day.

Found whilst out caching with Rubystone. TFTC

Team Groodle found it. Next.

Another fine day for a country drive and collection of caches. TFTC

Quick find on a day trip to Captains Flat. We had our caching eyes on today. TFTC.

Found. Didn't log on physical cache as it was a little difficult to reach

Thanks

Completed our first long trail with local friends. A beautiful but tiring day

Fun, adventure, travel, history, geology, mental stimulation, social gatherings, support and friendship are just some of the elements of geocaching.

Out and about enjoying the opportunity to grab a few caches, yours being one of those I targeted on my journey today. Thanks ??

Thanks StrangeTrousers (F=7986 H=142) for placing this cache and adding to our game.

Catching up on some very late logs.

Day 3 of our planned assault on Canberra with the same group consisting of The Drovers, Phetlern, Micaparamedic,
Alansee GoodLook, and ourselves.

We had another busy but very enjoyable day chasing series caches and happily we found all we were looking for with no DNF's

We all had a fantastic day and would like to write more but as we have said when you do so many in such a short time it is hard to remember individual hides.

This in no means takes away from our appreciation to the CO's for all the effort, time and expense they have done to let us find so many caches.

As per the other two days we signed as "The Mob" to save room in the log books.

Many thanks /// for the hides and the fun.

We stamped the logs as "The Mob" to save space in the logs - today there were 6 teams caching together: Team Crackers, The Drovers, Phetlern, Alansee, the lovely micaparamedic and myself.

Most of the cache finds were straight forward, yet a couple stumped us. A few were located where it was difficult to safely pull the car off of the road, but we made it work with some creative maneuvers.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip that was planned at the Clear Waters mega was able to occur.

Adelaide, Victoria, NSW and Canberra - a decent drive, filled with various caching activities including Adventure Labs.

Several days caching with the awesome Team Crackers, gorgeous The Drovers, fab Phetlern, cool Alansee, and the lovely micaparamedic.

We laughed, sang to a vast variety of songs and chatted - almost non-stop! [^] We piled into cars and had such a fun time. Despite the light showers, windy conditions at times, we also had sunny days to enjoy caching in.

A sincere thanks to StrangeTrousers for placing these caches, including the enjoyable little series.

The third day of caching logging as THE MOB. Once more we appreciated the CO's efforts in putting them out. The weather on all 3 days has been great for caching.

Wow - we so lucky to be able to explore so many different areas of the Aussie landscape following our passion for the geo game, particularly in the company of Alansee, Good Look, Micaparamedic, Team Crackers and The Drovers. (For economy of space logs of caches we found are stamped "The Mob"
Another fabulous day of fun and friendship.

Thanks StrangeTrousers for placing so many caches on the gameboard, which players enjoy finding.
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Caching as 'The Mob' - 6 teams made up of Team Crackers, Phetlern, Micaparamedic,
Alansee GoodLook, and ourselves.

Day 3 - Concentrating on trails, and a few nearby caches.
A few caches were replaced, and some logs replaced due to being wet.
Thanks to all the CO's for an entertaining day.

#4186
Heading out to Bateman's Bay today for the penultimate leg of our roadtrip, we set off in threatening skies and a light drizzle, only to have a cracker of a caching day, managing 44 assorted finds with only a few DNFs.
We grabbed a selection of caches along Captains Flat Rd into Bungendore, basically culled out the 1.5/1.5s (and grabbed a handful of GA movables too). There were a few where parking was just that bit sketchy....
No problems, just a few drops of blood from the spikes! TFTC...

We found this on our trip from Canberra to Batemans Bay today....
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Found today on our roadtrip, today is day 4. We managed 38 GC finds and a couple of GA ( Geocaching Australia).

TFTC

Found with AngelG27 on an early morning caching run before work. She did most of the finding while I was the useful driver and sidekick! TFTC

Cache 6893 on 11 Dec 2020.

Another day where I needed a few caches so headed out early with Bobl27 for another drive down the captains road! The long grass did not make these finds as much fun as they should have been, but always happy to get a find! Most caches required a bit of scratching around but got there in most cases. Caches found in accordance with the hints unless otherwise noted.

Tricky find with lots of options and spiky branches.

Thanks StrangeTrousers for the cache and the fun!

Found while collecting caches in the CFT and ALL7 series. This was a straightforward find at GZ. Thanks StrangeTrousers.

Found

TFTC

found

TFTC container good and logbook dry

Thanks Strange Trousers

Cache was open and out of place. did our best to place it back to where thought it belonged. Tftc

Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

Found on a huge day out with sebass14. Despite some smoke around, we took advantage of the somewhat cooler conditions. Our main goal for today was the smash out the "Lollies" series plus any other nearby ones until it was time to go home. First cache was found at about 11am and we finished the series at about 3:30pm, with lunch at Bungendore in between, so it was a very successful mission. Then went on to find some more caches before heading home - all in all, 54 caches for the day! A quick find after pulling up next to GZ - the piece of bark covering this cache looks like an outline of Australia! Read 20,000 Leagues a while back - nice reference! TNLNSL. TFTC ST!

Tftc,
Today's 98 finds will place me a little under 800 away from making 10,000 finds at 10 years of Geocaching on the 28th May 2020.
A decision was made to have a go at this and after all that has been achieved this year, there is still 5 months to get there and a few Power trails will help.
The placement of all were good when you do the caches on the side of the road in the direction you are traveling.

Early start for Wazza9 and I to cache before the heat, plenty of smoke to breath in. Found 98 today with 2 DNF's, completed some maintenance along the trails, adding additional log sheets to containers, replacing some containers for the CO. The temperature reached 46 degrees when we stopped caching and had lunch in Bungendore in the air con. bring on the . Most were quick finds, some a few meters away, stamped the log and replaced. A big thanks to the CO for placing these trails & caches.

Accompanies ALL7, great enjoyed trip to Captains Flat for a day and CFT series part run on the way..

Nice walked to GZ, good spot, sign the log with no trouble...

TFTC

Found with wink.inc. TFTC

Another brilant Sunday afternoon drive caching with Briony33

TFTC

Found by Mary and David at 10:05. Great story, and he has been directly or indirectly in several movies too. A complex character. Our thanks to StrangeTrousers.

Out making some more finds today. At least he wind is not as bad as yesterday, though it is still frosty. Thanks StrangeTrousers.

The kiwichicks have started working on the captain's series as part of an epic cache run which saw some of us grabbing over 180 caches on a bitterly cold day.

Found as part of the Kiwichicks in an epic numbers run day. I was in the car with Nosynel and Jude E. When I signed the log it was written s Kiwichicks (Very occasionally KC if space was limited). The other group (Ethness, thedbees & Graciesgpsfun) signed the caches as KCC, Some caches along this route will have both sets in as the cars visited them at different times. However, I am only claiming the ones where I participated in the search.

TFTC, I remember reading this book as a child!

Today three of us - Infoferret, Nosynel and Jude_e, have the goal of finding 180 caches. We started at about 5.45am, finished about 8pm. Thanks for your trail. Sometimes I signed as KCC NZ and other times we signed as kiwi chicks - depended who had the pen! Thanks for the cache.

Out and about aroud Canberra caching with the KCC team. A great little trail along here with tonnes of caches and a lovely pub lunch at the end.
Signed KCC or KC for Kiwi Caching Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel, thedbees, Graciesgpsfun and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. We are now on a road trip for 7 days. TFTC

Thanks StrangeTrousers for placing this geocaches 7352 find for me. We six stayed in Canberra last night. Today is all about numbers. We are setting a challenge to see how many we can find on a day. We started out at 5:47am. 6am was the time we filled the car with juice. We changed the driver 3 times.

The time has finally arrived for a massive Australian road trip with The Kiwi Chicks. We are GraciesGPSfun , thedbees , Ethness, Infoferret , Jude_E and me Nosynel. We might sometimes sign the geocaches as KCs or TKCs.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

After arriving in rain yesterday it was good to see the sun, albeit cold day for some of our team. Thank you for putting out these caches. We are on a numbers run today.

Signed KCC or KC for Kiwi Caching Chicks (Infoferret, Jude_E, NosyNel, thedbees, Graciesgpsfun and me) who are Australia for the OzMuster. We are now on a road trip for 7 days. TFTC

A quick find on a typical Canberra winter day. Brrrr! #MysteryAtTheMuseum TFTC.

Apologies for the late log. I had a trip to Canberra in the middle of winter to visit my wife who had a six week study placement there. This was my one major day of caching when I headed out to Queanbeyan and then followed the Captains Flat Trail south to follow the CFT series and other assorted caches along the way. A big day with 102 finds in total and my apologies for the generic log. The majority were found without too much trouble. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables. Thanks for the cache and the series StrangeTrousers.

we headed away for the weekend to grab some numbers, We free camped the night before At Captains flat .. We had a great weekend with lots of fun and adventures, Not quite reaching our goal but happy with the result. Most caches found without problem. Thanks for the cache Strange Trousers tnln replaced as found sl

Out for a bit of trail bashing. I wonder what the days total will be? TFTC.

Found with Gonefishen07 and AnderKa while in the area trying to finish off some of the power trails. Thanks for taking the time to set this trail up for our fun TFTC

A famous captain here
One who I met in a book many years ago [^]
He does tend to pop up in many movies too [:o]

Cache found on me way to The Flat today [:d]

TFTC smile 4440 out and about with miss Millie geo dog and Trekin Trev grabbing a few caches some hail and rain to keep us on our toes it did not rain untill after the mega Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment

Found on the last day of the Clear Water Mega 2019. We went out and found 50 in one drive.. This was one of them. All caches found wewre in good nick. TFTC.

Out and about having a great time showing my geocaching cousins, Gonefishen07 and Zobo04, hunting around some of the local area. Well actually trying to finish off what we started the day before with a bunch of other cachers. Geo tools were required to retrieve this cache. TFTC StrangeTrousers.

#905

In town for the Mega event at Queanbeyan, today I teamed up with My good mate Roostaman, we had a massive day out on the trails after tackling a few caches in town that were on the solved list.

Thanks StrangeTrousers for the cache.

Find #1073
Out today with 3ferrets for the Clear Waters Mega. Log nice and dry. TFTCSL

Found while at the Clearwaters mega for Easter 2019. Thx StrangeTrousers.
Btw.... This is my 1000th cache!

out and about with others at the mega doing some of the caches around today we headed down the captains flat road thanks for putting out and maintaining these caches logged as Team BKB

Found with Zobo04 and Anderka. Back out on the track again trying to finish what we started yesterday. Thanks for taking the time to place this cache. Sorry about the C & P logs. TFTC

Found while out and about with geocaching friends, logged as TC7 (The crazy 7) in the morning, and TC9 in the afternoon. Alansee, Zobo04, Gonefishen07, Anderka, The Drovers, Team Crackers and myself, joined by Phetlern and Au_Fait after lunch.



My thanks to StrangeTrousers for placing and maintaining the cache.

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. All good with this cache. Thanks for its placement and ongoing maintenance.

I was in Queanbeyan with my boyfriends family, As I've not cached before, I signed some logs of the caches I found with XC, until I came up with my caching name.
I had lots of fun, met some nice people and found some great hides.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.

Thanks for this series. We logged as Lucky9 to save time and log space.

I am staying in Queanbeyan to attend the Clear Waters event over Easter. Today my muggle husband and I went for a drive to Bungendore, Hoskinstown and back via Captains Flat Road. We had lots of fun finding caches and enjoying the nice weather.
Thank you StrangeTrousers for this cache.

In Queanbeyan to attend the Mega. So great to catching up with some many familiar faces and meet many new ones. Always taking the time to grab a cache, when the opportunity allowed it.

Out with Snap Happy, Omegaman1971, The Empire and a newbie going by the name of XC, We signed alll logs SHOEX. Today was going to be a big day, starting out at Tarago on some power trails and ending on the Captain Flat trail. We only had 1 DNF and shared many a laugh and fun, while finding a variety of hides.

Some of the parking for these was a bit tight so thankfully they were quick finds and the terrain ratings, didn't always reflect the hide.

Thanks StrangeTrousers for all the effort of placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play
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Found by The Empire
Day 2 of the Clear Waters Mega Event - caching with Omegaman1971 and Happy Pants. The weather was perfect for a big day of caching all the way along the Tarago Series, north to south! Snap was gone, but there was plenty of daylight left to find some cool caches along these trails. My thanks to all of the cache owners for the effort in placing these caches for us to enjoy.
- M

In Queanbeyan to attend the Mega.
Love hitting the trails with the team, a day full of excellent caches and laughs.
Signed the log as team "shoex"
(Snap Happy, Happy Feet, Omegaman1971,The Empire, Xc)

Thanks for all the effort of placing the cache for us to find.

Attending Clear Waters Mega, out today with Shandyk, Mr Cupcake and Darkmoon31. This was a quick find, Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Lovely day of caching with Guz's Travellers, Darkmoon31 and Shandyk. Signed log as SGMD. TFTC.

Find No: 7116. Attending the Mega in Queanbeyan, the Garmin GPSMAP64s karked it this morning but we are (just) managing with a couple of older models, thanks for the cache StrangeTrousers!!

Accompanied with my geo-friends travelling along on Captain Flat Road for the CFT series. Found and logged as "Lucky9". Thanks StrangeTrousers for placing this cache. ????

Clear Waters Mega 2019

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Found with a group catchers and logged as "Lucky9" Thanks for the series and for placing it StrangeTrousers.

19/04/2019

During the Mega. [^]

The weather was perfect for us to travel road included the countryside so beautiful,
Found as team Lucky 9 during the mega.
Mostly good coordinate spot with hunt (it was helpful.) [^]

Thanks StrangeTrousers for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Another quick find out along here today, TNLN thanks.

Beautiful tree! TFTC

Lovely ????????

Geo-friends “Lucky 9” Day together. Thanks

TFTC TNLNSL
700 for Darkmoon31
Signing as SGMD

Found with Beary_Unicorns and Kingfisher.au during the Clear Waters Mega event, signed as bkb, tftc

Day 2 of our MEGA experience at Clearwater... we decided to take on the caches on and around Captains Flat Rd... Thanks for adding to our MEGA experience... TFTC

Tftc

With deaf caches????????

Found with a group of catchers and logged as Lucky9 during Mega event, thank you so much for placing it StrangeTrousers.

Found as team Lucky9 during the mega. StrangeTrousers

Another beautiful day out and about with Guz's travellers, Mr Cupcake and Darkmoon31. Signed log as SGMD to save space

Find Number 1811 found at 17:24. This was the 60th find of 65 finds and 1 DNF today

GeoSon NationalSteel and I headed to Queanbeyan to spend the weekend at the Clear Waters Mega. We travelled via Captains Flat to tackle the CFT trail, and picked up some other caches on the way.

And so we headed up the trail, going boldly where many had gone before. The hint and good coordinates led us straight to the cache

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log using the initials GT/NS and replaced the container as found

Thanks StrangeTrousers for the cache.

caching some of the Captain Flat trail today. Thanks to the C O for placing these here. Signed log as T.I.N.S.

After registering for the Mega we decided to do a little Captain's Flat caching, picking up from from the QBN end heading towards Hoskinstown. where we had previously cached from the Bungendore end. Nice morning with Di Morgan. Di event managed to add a little excitement slipping unceremoniously out of the passenger seat onto her bum on the road. It didn't help with Mr Snakepiter parking just off the road and stepping out into a great gutter. Need to get your laughs where you can when you cache, no harm done and Di cached on 'What a Trooper'. Great series of caches so far, all containers looked in good condition with logs dry.

TFTC StrangeTrousers
Total Cache Finds 7155

Found while here attending the mega 19 as team TINS
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Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*

3:58:00 PM. After setting up camp at the Mega yesterday today we were out for numbers. I had checked out this series before leaving home in Qld. We drove to the start to work our way back towards camp. We ended up breaking our record for finds in one day. There were 3 caches that we couldn't grab due to roadwords and having the lane closed. Thanks for the effort that went into these. All logs signed. Sorry about the cut and paste. Thanks StrangeTrousers for the cache.

Out doing the Captains Flat while in Canberra before the Mega.

TFTC

First day in sunny Canberra, looking foward to the fun filled week ahead and now on a road trip to Captains Flat to do this terrific series and a few others along the route with geo buddies.
TFTC StrangeTrousers
Found April 15, 2019

Plan for today is to complete Captain’s Flat Road with Snickersallan and Hatzofff TFTC

We were meant to fly to Melbourne but that got canceled so I decided to go caching for the day and with a few series out towards Captains Flat what a perfect way to spend the day that was going to booked out otherwise. Thanks for the series. I think we nailed about 150 caches. Cheers

We're camping at some quiet locations and great little towns that should lead us to the Mega at Queanbeyan.

On to the Bungendore section of caching. And there's quite a lot to find, so many geocaches and such beautiful locations with magic scenery.

Camped at the Bungendore showground to see if we can find some of the trails around here.

Thanks for placing this cache StrangeTrousers . We visited this cache at 2:32 p.m..

Finally did this trail whilst also assisting StrangeTrousers do a maintenance run before the upcoming geocaching event in Canberra. Felt a little guilty that I had not done this trail especially as ST is one of the people who I have the most of my caching adventure with. What a crap caching buddy!!! Time to put some smiley faces on that trail I have looked at on the map for way to long. It was a cool sunny day and perfect for caching. Loved the changes in the countryside as we made our way along the trail and we enjoyed a lunch break at the Collector pub before finding the last lot of caches. A little detour to visit one of the Churches - love a greave yard and time helping to replace a cache on a bridge. Took a lot of photos of the bridge and railway line nearby. Loved the surprise with the final cache. Thank you ST for all the work you did setting up this trail and especially for the little things that take time like the pictures on the covers of the notebooks. Another great caching day that left me smiling for hours.



TFTC StrangeTrousers

Found with a bit fun. Lol. TFTC

Too many prickles and gps wont settle. Its not in huge fallen tree stump

Found with 6Hinemoa2 on our trip to Canberra.
Pretty hot.
TFTC StrangeTrousers

It was so hot here that we decided to tackle this series rather than bush walk. The co ords were so accurate that the finds were made straight forward.
We thoroughly enjoyed the few we completed; especially reading the cache pages. The rest will have to be found on our next trip to ACT.
Thanks for the fun StrangeTrousers
Go Captain Nemo and Jules verne!

SORRY- I deleted all my logs in Cachly while trying to clean up the phone for an overseas trip.
We did enjoy the series in the heat but I cannot remember what my comments were.
TFTC and the series StrangeTrousers