Steps & Mangroves Castlecrag, New South Wales, Australia
By
Blackwoollydog on 13-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6DA18
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Logs
Fun cache. Container is not water damaged so you can still write in the log book. Thanks for hiding it!
Accidentally Dnfd it thus the repost.On the hunt for all 7 in this reserve. TFTC!!4/7
Late log sorry. Found on 3 days ago thanks to helpful hint. Nicely tucked away. TFTH!
But of a search, bit of a scramble. Had some internet challenges but nice hide! TFTC
Found it- mind you we had to look and look here- but eventually found it!
what a wonderful view and walk.
Bremer Rasselbande.
what a wonderful view and walk.
Bremer Rasselbande.
Of course I climbed the big rock and found nothing... Go for the Medium size rock...
TFTC
TFTC
I climbed over the boulder as instructed, but the rest of the instructions were cut off on my geo app. So I was pretty gratified to find the cache on the first place I looked!
The sweat was pouring off in a humid day. Thankfully this was a quick find with the hint.
TFTC.
TFTC.
Out for a walk today in Harold Reid Reserve with JimmyDave, don't think I have walked this neck of the woods even though it is fairly close to me. Nice easy walk with some nice views. Found fairly easily after a quick search at GZ.
I was in the area for a chiro appointment and decided to take advantage of walking nearby. This area was not what I was expecting! What a lovely spot to walk! This made me so happy, thank you for bringing me here!
I stood on this initially and felt movement so I knew I was in the right place!
TFTC
I stood on this initially and felt movement so I knew I was in the right place!
TFTC
Good hint that helped out Geo-Bunny find this good sized cache. Nice hiding spot. TFTH TFTC SL Replaced as found ready for the next geo-adventurers. Thanks goes to the CO for bringing us to this location.
6 year-old daughter found it and it made her day! TFTC! Great circuit with so many finds!
After a long day at work i came out to the reserve to enjoy a good walk.
My first cache today ended up being a DNF so i followed the path around to this one and was able to find it fairly easily.
A couple who were out walking their dogs came along as i was signing and we ended up having a good chat about geocaching. Their young puppy was very friendly and just as curious as the couple.
The sun was falling as i was walking out. I was treated to a chorus of birds as i headed up the track.
It was a lovely evening.
Thanks.
#1364
My first cache today ended up being a DNF so i followed the path around to this one and was able to find it fairly easily.
A couple who were out walking their dogs came along as i was signing and we ended up having a good chat about geocaching. Their young puppy was very friendly and just as curious as the couple.
The sun was falling as i was walking out. I was treated to a chorus of birds as i headed up the track.
It was a lovely evening.
Thanks.
#1364
I nearly went right past this cache. Wouldn't have seen it if I was a braver climber
Everything inside is nice and dry
Everything inside is nice and dry
Maintenance performed. Geocache was waterlogged. We've swapped it out for a replacement geocache.
Late log, sorry.
I came here to do this mini power trail on a lovely day with my family. I enjoyed the walk and the caches. All but 1 attempted caches were found, so it was quite a successful day.
Since I found the caches a few weeks back, I can't precisely remember which was which, but all were relatively quick and easy.
After following the hint and nearly tripping over a few times, I made easy work of this one, but if I remember correctly, this one was very wet, and has some sort of greenish/yellowish glitter all over the inside. It will need a new log, I think, and a bit of other maintainence.
TFTC TNLN
I came here to do this mini power trail on a lovely day with my family. I enjoyed the walk and the caches. All but 1 attempted caches were found, so it was quite a successful day.
Since I found the caches a few weeks back, I can't precisely remember which was which, but all were relatively quick and easy.
After following the hint and nearly tripping over a few times, I made easy work of this one, but if I remember correctly, this one was very wet, and has some sort of greenish/yellowish glitter all over the inside. It will need a new log, I think, and a bit of other maintainence.
TFTC TNLN
Log and cache is soaking wet... BUT there seemed to be a green glitter party happening for my... 100TH CACHE! YAYYYYYYYYYY!
TFTC - found with the Adelaide Butt Pirate!
...but yes, definitely need maintenance
TFTC - found with the Adelaide Butt Pirate!
...but yes, definitely need maintenance
Found your cache today on a walk to get all 9. Managed to get 8 which ain’t too bad! A few trees were down after the recent rains, but otherwise all was good. Tftc! Yup, 55 from the top.
Find #: 2,295
Companions: None
Muggles: None
Weather: Hot summer afternoon
Cache condition: Log a bit mushy but writable
I decided to go for a "practice hike" in preparation for an upcoming hike in NZ, and this area was a pleasant area to explore. This was my sixth stop (fifth find). The hint is very specific and accurate, which allowed for a quick find. TNLNSL TFTC
Companions: None
Muggles: None
Weather: Hot summer afternoon
Cache condition: Log a bit mushy but writable
I decided to go for a "practice hike" in preparation for an upcoming hike in NZ, and this area was a pleasant area to explore. This was my sixth stop (fifth find). The hint is very specific and accurate, which allowed for a quick find. TNLNSL TFTC
Quite lively walk around this point on a cool afternoon.
A quick and easy find.
SL TFTC
A quick and easy find.
SL TFTC
Found with flappybirds on a walk to get the ten caches in the area, great walk with some amazing views. TFTC!
Today i went caching with pixel101 on a quest to find the 10 caches in this area. This was our third one of the day. TFTC
Dried out log for a while in the sun
This trip was planned some time ago but we kept running into issues. So when a business trip to Asia came up I decided that an unconventional route and an extended stop-over were in order as opposed to waiting for the stars to align on a pleasure trip.
Our 2020 goals are to find all the year 2000 caches and complete 6 original FIZZY loops (loops with caches placed before April 6, 2007). No one in the world has done the latter. Only one person is at 4 loops, LISDOWNEY from Ontario, Canada. So, of course, Lane Cove and Geocache - Relocated topped the list this trip and one other south of Canberra that we found, that wasn't easy.
I had been to Australia once before for a honeymoon years ago but promptly headed off to the Hayman Islands to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, so I didn't get to take in many of the touristy things Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Wollongong has to offer. This trip we fixed that anemia. The aforementioned cities played as our hub cities each night and the launching pad for the next day. Sydney was the only city that there were two overnight stays. Sadly the first day after landing we had found all the target caches that we had for Sydney, so I fixed that staying longer in Wollongong and did some epic hikes.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention that while in Sydney a sad record-breaking day occurred. When driving out of the city toward the outback a radio announcement said that that day was the worst day in Sydney's history for the smoke covering the area from all the wildfires. It was bad, I could really feel it in my lungs. But, just an hour west and it was a beautiful nice day.
Things learned about Australia while on this trip (I know COs in Australia don't care about this stuff but we have students that like to read our logs here in the States and some creepers that obsess about us - no joke we had an event while there and showed a group of Sydney cachers our trolls) :
- Birds are so different here, all kinds and Cockatoos were like our Krackle birds as noisy as heck and everywhere.
- Kangaroos are like our dear. Cool to watch, see and eat. Yes, eat. It was on the menu one night.
- The Average Aussie drinks 96 liters of beer per year
- Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world
- There are more kangaroos than people
- The Drop Bear was created to scare tourists
- Australia has the second-highest human development index
- And they love Vegemite
- Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside of Greece
- There’s a mountain named “Mt. Disappointment”
- Australia’s dingo fence is longer than the Great Wall of China
- Some of the world’s deadliest animals live here
- Australia was inhabited for at least 50 000 years before the British came
- Australia has over 10 000 beaches
- It’s the 6th largest country in the world
- The Australian Alps receive more snow than Switzerland
- Home to the largest living structure on Earth – The Great Barrier Reef
- The Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia
- Home to a larger population of camels than Egypt
- Sydney is the largest city, but it’s not the capital.
- Wombat poo is square/cube-shaped so they don’t roll away. This makes it easier for them to mark their territory.
- The name ‘Australia’ comes from the Latin word ‘australis’, meaning southern
- Total Population: 24,970,200.
- Capital: Canberra.
- Biggest City: Sydney.
- Highest Mountain: Mount Kosciuszko
- Land area: 7,692,024 km2.
- Biggest Lake: Lake Eyre (salt) and Lake Mackay (freshwater)
- National Day: 26 January (Australia Day)
- Government: Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Prime minister: Scott Morrison
- Currency: Australian dollar (AUD).
- Official language: English.
- Member of Nato: No.
- National song: “Advance Australia Fair”
- Official website: www.australia.gov.au
-Time zone: from UTC +8 to UTC +10:30
- Country Number/Prefix: +61
- Country Code: AU.
This trip was planned some time ago but we kept running into issues. So when a business trip to Asia came up I decided that an unconventional route and an extended stop-over were in order as opposed to waiting for the stars to align on a pleasure trip.
Our 2020 goals are to find all the year 2000 caches and complete 6 original FIZZY loops (loops with caches placed before April 6, 2007). No one in the world has done the latter. Only one person is at 4 loops, LISDOWNEY from Ontario, Canada. So, of course, Lane Cove and Geocache - Relocated topped the list this trip and one other south of Canberra that we found, that wasn't easy.
I had been to Australia once before for a honeymoon years ago but promptly headed off to the Hayman Islands to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, so I didn't get to take in many of the touristy things Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Wollongong has to offer. This trip we fixed that anemia. The aforementioned cities played as our hub cities each night and the launching pad for the next day. Sydney was the only city that there were two overnight stays. Sadly the first day after landing we had found all the target caches that we had for Sydney, so I fixed that staying longer in Wollongong and did some epic hikes.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention that while in Sydney a sad record-breaking day occurred. When driving out of the city toward the outback a radio announcement said that that day was the worst day in Sydney's history for the smoke covering the area from all the wildfires. It was bad, I could really feel it in my lungs. But, just an hour west and it was a beautiful nice day.
Things learned about Australia while on this trip (I know COs in Australia don't care about this stuff but we have students that like to read our logs here in the States and some creepers that obsess about us - no joke we had an event while there and showed a group of Sydney cachers our trolls) :
- Birds are so different here, all kinds and Cockatoos were like our Krackle birds as noisy as heck and everywhere.
- Kangaroos are like our dear. Cool to watch, see and eat. Yes, eat. It was on the menu one night.
- The Average Aussie drinks 96 liters of beer per year
- Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world
- There are more kangaroos than people
- The Drop Bear was created to scare tourists
- Australia has the second-highest human development index
- And they love Vegemite
- Melbourne has the largest Greek population outside of Greece
- There’s a mountain named “Mt. Disappointment”
- Australia’s dingo fence is longer than the Great Wall of China
- Some of the world’s deadliest animals live here
- Australia was inhabited for at least 50 000 years before the British came
- Australia has over 10 000 beaches
- It’s the 6th largest country in the world
- The Australian Alps receive more snow than Switzerland
- Home to the largest living structure on Earth – The Great Barrier Reef
- The Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia
- Home to a larger population of camels than Egypt
- Sydney is the largest city, but it’s not the capital.
- Wombat poo is square/cube-shaped so they don’t roll away. This makes it easier for them to mark their territory.
- The name ‘Australia’ comes from the Latin word ‘australis’, meaning southern
- Total Population: 24,970,200.
- Capital: Canberra.
- Biggest City: Sydney.
- Highest Mountain: Mount Kosciuszko
- Land area: 7,692,024 km2.
- Biggest Lake: Lake Eyre (salt) and Lake Mackay (freshwater)
- National Day: 26 January (Australia Day)
- Government: Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Prime minister: Scott Morrison
- Currency: Australian dollar (AUD).
- Official language: English.
- Member of Nato: No.
- National song: “Advance Australia Fair”
- Official website: www.australia.gov.au
-Time zone: from UTC +8 to UTC +10:30
- Country Number/Prefix: +61
- Country Code: AU.
Definitely needs maintenance! Found with Agent Provocateur and Flamingo. TFTC.
6/9
Thought I would celebrate my 33rd birthday in style. Take the day off work to enjoy the beautiful day. Have been eyeing of this trail for a while and have always been too busy. today was the day and what a gorgeous place. TFTC
Thought I would celebrate my 33rd birthday in style. Take the day off work to enjoy the beautiful day. Have been eyeing of this trail for a while and have always been too busy. today was the day and what a gorgeous place. TFTC
Another very nice find today with woolwood9.
*Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!*
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.
*Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!*
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.
Another find while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421
Enjoyed the sites and the caches
TFTC
Enjoyed the sites and the caches
TFTC
Log very damp. Coming up from the bottom the rock is fairly obvious. Now for the 55 steps!!
Geo kids enjoyed counting the steps and easy find once we found the right boulder. TFTC.
(5 of 16 today)
I Thought to complete my clues for Mystery at the Museum today and collect a few jewels even if I wouldn't complete and ended up breaking my PB for most finds in a day. I also ended with 2 Dnf's one muggled one eluded for way too long and I gave up after 20 minutes.
Walking towards GZ, check hint, read count 55 stairs, run back up stairs, start counting. Is how I reached the cache in short. A bit different to what I thought it would be or at least where. Did not want to sign or open the logbook as there was water throughout the plastic bag. Replaced as found.
TFTC! #136 TN(Like I could)LN(Like I should)DSL(Didn't sign log) Visited 3 TB. A lot of stairs.
I Thought to complete my clues for Mystery at the Museum today and collect a few jewels even if I wouldn't complete and ended up breaking my PB for most finds in a day. I also ended with 2 Dnf's one muggled one eluded for way too long and I gave up after 20 minutes.
Walking towards GZ, check hint, read count 55 stairs, run back up stairs, start counting. Is how I reached the cache in short. A bit different to what I thought it would be or at least where. Did not want to sign or open the logbook as there was water throughout the plastic bag. Replaced as found.
TFTC! #136 TN(Like I could)LN(Like I should)DSL(Didn't sign log) Visited 3 TB. A lot of stairs.
