Toowoon Sandy Shores Toowoon Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By nothinspecial13 on 20-Jan-16. Waypoint GC6A079

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

No luck here its time to archive this one

nothinspecial13

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.


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tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

We have travelled up from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the Central Coast, staying for a couple of nights in a park cabin at the Blue Lagoon Beach Resort (Caravan Park) in Bateau Bay, for a short weekend getaway & caching holiday. Our primary caching target areas will be along the coastal strip from The Entrance to Terrigal, Erina, and Gosford. A total of 6 finds for today, and 30 finds for the weekend.

No luck for us at this one today. Searched around GZ for a while, in amongst all of the rubbish (looks like someones been living here), but failed to find the cache. We did find a "message in a bottle" which contained a treasure map & note, but it wasn't the treasure we were seeking so we had to leave with a big fat DNF. TFTH anyway nothinspecial13.

I must admit that I agree with Brown7 on this one.
We gave the area aquick look, but did not want to rumage around. The spot has too much rubbish, not very safe.

Pretty nasty spot. So much rubbish and glass, worried for geokids. Shame

We left Australia 12 years ago with our daughter and after all that time we are back on a holiday to show the daughter were she was born.
We loved this beach. In its lagoon we went swimming with our toddler.
The hiding place was full of bottles and other garbage. In Europe we pay a deposit on bottles which is returned once the bottles are returned. That would be a great concept for here. Ether the people take their own trash or kids improve their pocket money by collecting the bottles.
The cache itself was wide in the open. I placed it at the bottom of a tree/bush with many branches.

Thank you for placing this cache.

Best regards,

CrankyGerman

Lovely area in general, and now I know we can bring our little dog to the rocks/beach here.

GZ though, isn't so nice, with bottles and crap everywhere. The bottle with a hosepipe in it (obviously a candle holder ) was still there. Definitely a 'poke everything with a stick when you search' cache. Thankfully I found the cache quick, it was just lying there open with some sort of logbook sticking out the top... Did my best to pack it up better than I found it, though the lid is broken. I basically left it where I found it.

So that future visitors don't spend too much time looking inside rubbish, the cache is a black container with a purplish lid. TFTC.

This place makes me want to vomit!
My 7 yr old thought the hose in the bottle was the find! Bong on...

No luck today...we’ll come back with shoes

Find # 4997
Found with sesblocker.
Great coordinates made for an easy find. We were greeted with the sight of someone's camp site. We saw the lid of a Sistema and thought it was muggled. No, we searched the GZ better and found the cache. 21° on a Winter day is awesome.
We️
TFTC nothinspecial13
15 June 2019 1:58 pm

Severely muggled. Needs to be reset/stocked by owner. Thanks anyway.

Pretty sure this is the cache, totally muggled and this area seems to be a haunt for bong smoking teenagers. The lid was a few metres away from this.

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a sunny Saturday morning, tftc.

Found with banj ward on the start of a big special day hoping to get 48 finds to reach 999 finds ready for a planned 1000th cache! Tftc!

Mmmmmm

Jennifer55 found it with husband, put back where we think it belongs, lots of rubbish in area and we was exposed when we found it

Searched all around but no find for us today.

Not sure it was where it is supposed to be but it was definitely there... After I arrived I put my gear down and started searching through the bushes, and was about to give up after 10+ minutes and it turned out to be about 5cm from where I put my gear...
Might need the owner to check it's in the right spot. TFTC

Our 7 year old found it. Great walk

Couldn’t find

Couldn’t find, look like the area has been cleaned up

Couldn’t find it, looks like it’s been muggled

Maybe needs to be checked if still there couldn’t find

No luck

Swellerfungus, Dez(JezNDez) and I hunted for this one today but came away empty handed. Judging by the discarded litter around here it seems to be a spot well used by muggles. Could do with a checkup to confirm if still in situ.

No luck today. Searched for awhile and couldn’t find it.

Missedya - Could not locate it this time

Sorry - this should be a did not find. Too used to logging finds and forgot to change.

Found, beautiful spot

Surf too rough for much of a swim today so went off searching and bingo!
Notice my buddy was here last year
To find this one you go 2 sides of a triangle unless you're into bush bashing
Site has been a little cleaned up
Thanks for cache a fav from me

Did not have to search for long and had CIH

Many people here today but no problem finding the cache

#215 @ 12:25pm on this sunny warm day. Up here camping with friends for Australia day weekend. I hsve to say that csche is in an ummm 'interesting' ...maybe not kid friendly. Cache in ok condition. Had no pen so took photo of log. TNLN and TFTC.

No luck at this spot. Maybe next time

TFTC
In the area to visit mates, and had some spare time.
Nice cache location.
Cheers
Seemyshell

Found this geocache while visiting Australie in 2017.
TFTC Hi from The Netherlands

Nice spot for a sesh and a cache.

Well, for finders coming in the next month or so, someone has done a big fat poo to indicate when you are about 50cm from GZ. Tried to look in other places first, but no, it had to be right there

Tftc

Found it although the log was in a pencil sharpner TFTC

Went back today found original container and contents spewed through the bush lid is broken but put it all back togeter as best I could and re hid container where i found the pencil sharpner yesterday hope all is good to go now
Found with kezza 1211 and Rogerz1956
TFTC

8.35am. Overlooked this one at first but came back to it.
Thank you. David.

#4290 (15 of 23 today)

The Geowife is spending the weekend at a friend's place on the Central Coast, and they'll be doing various crafty things. I gallantly offered to drive her up there early in the morning (her friend will be driving down on Sunday anyway so she can get a lift home).
So, what to do with the rest of my day?

Well, given the fact I've cleared out most of the caches closer to home (ie only the new or can't find / solve are left) any day I can cache well away from my normal haunts means I can go for numbers. Decided to start where I was, work my way to The Entrance and then back down the coast.
Was hoping to make my 4300 milestone but just fell short - two longish DNFs saw to that. But I'll take 23 finds gladly. Even grabbed a puzzle I solved on the fly.

Very enjoyable day - except the first DNF. Must come back up this way again soon.
But so many logs to do...
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Walked down the track to a deserted beach. Quickly spotted a track up the hill in the right direction so...

Got to GZ and started looking. Took about 10 minutes before I turned around and spotted the obvious. An easier spot than I thought.

Completed signing duties and replaced. And then two muggles arrived and set up near the start of the track. Luckily they were too interested in eachother to spot me get back to the beach.
Then just a simple walk back to *The Hademobile*.

SLTNLN
TFTC

A quick find with Geo Hubby TB142. TFTC

After getting home and reading the logs will
Take a second look for this cache found the pencil
Sharpener with a log on it so signed that will
See if I can find the actual cache tomorrow

I wasn't feeling the best today and struggled to finish work with a cracker of a headache but i still had to find a cache, This was a nice close one to work so I set of down the stairs . it was a short walk then up the path.I found the cache quickly with good co ords , it seems really exposed and the container lid is cracked. log was signed and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache nothinspecial13 tnln sl

Sneaky hide! SL swapped a trinket. Picked up 5 bags of rubbish!!! TFTC

Quick easy find, Picked up travel bug (Tango's Flip Flop)

TFTC! Nice easy cache down in a beautiful area even spotted some whales while we were here

We needed a cache near a beach to drop off a beach-loving tb and this seemed to be a perfect spot. From here it could surf all the way home to England. Tftc.

Found on this drizzly afternoon. GZ seems to be a local drinking spot, judging by the bottles. Found cache surprisingly well concealed in a very accessible spot. Bag is holey and container cracked, so some TLC will be wanted sooner or later. Thanks nothinspecial13.

TFTC! Hint, don't lift up the large rock. You will stir up the ants.

found with Bryzee

In the area with Little Roo we saw this near by cache. It was a really nice day to be at this amazing spot. We enjoyed small waterfall, searching the near by tide pools and spotting crabs and lizards along the way. This cache is slightly damaged with a cracked lid however the contents are in fine shape. TFTC

Found whilst on a walk from long jetty. TFTC

Staying in the nearby caravan park, went for a short stroll, found the trail and then the cache soon after. Beautiful part of the world. TFTC.

Nice little stroll down to the beach

Lots of ants but easy!

Quick pick up and a quick dip after a day of caching. Cache lid is broken so probably needs some maintenance. Cache was also very exposed when we arrived so we tucked it back in to its spot and gave it some cover. TFTC in another location I remember well from my youth.

TFTC

Our last geocache of our holiday, Arlo, Mummy, Daddy and Kurt. Left a geocoin we brought from the UK!

Nice location... kids wp
puld not search too far ... TFTC

Hidden very well. Nice location too

Very well hidden! Awesome spot, thanks for bringing us here

Someone had little fire close to cache. Signed log and replaced. Log is a bit damp. TFTC

Took geohound for another run at the beach to get him use to water..... plan didn't work, grabbed cache while we were there! Tftc with indianagleeson and geohound

TFTC!
Took geohound (Cletus) for a run on the beach and thought we had better grab this one.
Found with Shellumbus and Cletus.

3.45pm of streak day #31

Woohoo the day has arrived! We managed to pull off this 31 day alt cache streak! Still got a few caches up my sleeve actually so I might keep going at least through the weekend and see how far we can go. Decided to close the streak off formally with this one in Long Jetts today after dropping off a work colleague from our job in Morisset today. Lovely down on the beach after a long day. Lid has been tightened too much by someone at some stage and has thus broken. Needs to be replaced. Apart from that the log is a little damp but ok. Good little hide. TFTC!
#269

Back on the day this was published I headed over in high hopes, only to wind up recording a DNF. Now, back over this way again and doing some of the nearby caches, it was high time for another attempt. The updated coordinates helped a lot, but even so I spent an embarrassingly long time barking up the wrong, er, never mind. In the end I twigged, relieved at last to find it.

The lid of the container has split and the logbook bag is torn, and although the logbook is still dry, it may need some TLC before the next big wet.

Many thanks for the hide and glad to have at last made amends.

Lovely quick walk perfect spotTFTC xx Groveskrew

Nice location.
Greetings from Germany.

Had to wait for a couple of kids to move away from the area,soon had my hands on this nice cacheAll ok with the cache.TFTC.

Found last night with HanorahTLG in a night adventure hunt! TFTC.

Day 2The Entrance.
This is the closest caches to where we were staying, so had to make time to find it.
Thanks for placing this cache

lovely little spot on the beach

Quick and easy grab

Yippy found travel bug with friends that haven't geocached before lots of goodies left car.

Nice walk and fun find.TFTC

Nice walking on beach today. Have left pencil for logging find. TFTC

GC6A079
Today I took some interest in my Finds per Day Stats and seeing a blank today, decided to fill it with a Find.
Quickly parking the car I jumped out and dashed towards GZ with Torch in hand just in case. I was very happy to get a quick find.
BTW I had to dodge several dog walkers along the way. I miss playing here, as I did in my youth, its a great bit of shoreline.

[green] - Found It on Thursday ... at 5:09 PM...
TFTC! - [blue]nothinspecial13[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 2011


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Last day of our caching weekend on Central Coast. Cache was found without any problems during the beautiful sunny winter day. Cache is nice and dry.

Great hide! Geokid had great fun looking for this, coordinates on point!

Found it, coordinates are on point!

Found in a quiet time on the beach
TFTC

Great location for a cache. I got a strange look from a few passers by just as I emerged from the bush! Tftc

TFTF ?

I was up on this part of the Coast today and saw that two new caches had appeared since I was last here. This cache gave me the chance to have an enjoyable wander along the beach, before my GPS pointed me up a "track" through the vegetation. At first, I thought it may have been a geo-trail ... but once I reached the clearing, it was pretty clear from the repurposed soft drink bottles and other things there, that this area was more of a teenage hideaway.

After a bit of a search, I eventually came upon the cache closer to the entry point to the clearing than my GPS was suggesting it would be ... it's possible that a bit of cache creep has occurred because where it is, the DT rating is probably a bit higher than it should be .... but the cache is well concealed by natural camo at the moment, and is in good condition. Thanks for the cache nothinspecial13 and for the smiley.

Found. I will be surprised if this one doesn't get muggled. Was not well hidden. I Regis better. Lots of rubbish and modified orchy bottles around the GZ .

1st geocache!!

Found it just our second one.

Out on a reasonably early morning sojourn through these part, I noticed two new caches had sprung up since I was in the area last. Great place to be in the morning! TFTC!!

I found it with my friend but I looked in the wrong place at first

Whoopee

Yay

Went wrong way to start with, then read details and followed the right path. Took TB Moneytalks. Will put in my cache when we get home.

Visiting Toowoon Bay for old times sake. Grandparents used to live there.... Such fond memories and a beautiful place. Xo

Tftc great spot

The beach was packed on such a great day but few people were up where I was headed. I was very lucky to park in the front of the carpark so MrsFish could watch the beach while I walked up to cache. Soon after I was at GZ and it did not take long to find with the coordinates now really close. I had a TB with me but forgot to leave it, so next time. Thanks for a good hide in the sandhills, you were kind with this as it could have been much harder to find.

Over from the West to settle my Dad into his new aged care home. Fairly emotional time. Good to get out and find a few caches add a diversion. Fairly quick find once in the general area. All in good order. Thanks nothinspecial13 for the hide.