Sometimes Humans are Just a Disappointment #1 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
By Nibletricecakes on 11-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6FE23

Looks like human are fixing this area up permanently. Hopefully no need for a Humans are disappointing cache here anymore Thanks to all who have found the cache and shown the area a bit of love over the years. Cache out.

Hi Nibletricecakes,The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention, or it may not but in the absence of the cache owner performing maintenance and/or disabling the cache to check it out, I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 4 weeks) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 4 weeks to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.Ngaambul - Matt

Large works in this location with both metal post and tree gone from around GZ with a new road in its stead. Maybe next time. See photos!

The area has been cleared. A tree and light pole have been bulldozed to the side. No sign of a cache on or near the area.

Sadly I think this one's been swept away in the tide of construction activity.

DNF 12/07/24. Construction is still going on at cache site.

The construction work has taken over the location

Checked this one out on the way past, cache is in good condition. Nestled at the bottom of the tall metal tree. Happy caching everyone.

This place is riddled with so many places, seem like private property and seems to be excavated or in time of excavation so it is a hard one.

Finally noticed it there. Cache in good condition. Greetings from Melbourne

Sydney Courier Run!Day Three: Goulburn to BarhamWeather: sensational. Indeed they are! A commendable series; I recall making a find in this series just off the highway on a previous pass. No luck for me here at this one at first, and then on reading some of the old logs, a quick find was made. There is still some rubbish scattered around, but the other worry here is the blackberries. If they grow as well here as they do around my home in the Adelaide Hills, GZ will end up becoming impenetrable. Thanks for the cache and the series Nibletricecakes.Its officially a megaGCA1DNA The Great Leap ForwardAdelaide, South Australia February 29, 2024Wed love to have your company.

Still intact in Poland .

What a different sort of cache. I found this one while waiting for my EV to charge across the road. I'll bring a garbage bag next time. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Found after a short search and referencing past logs, as hint no longer applies. Thanks for the cache Nibletricecakes

6 January 2024This is find number: 9057Streak Day: 2942Found Today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find. ThanksThanks to Nibletricecakes for placing and maintaining this cache. TFTC

Streak Day #3831 - Out on a caching jaunt with Dave8153 and stopped by for a quick find. TFTC

Found it, good condition.

Ty

Mr Minion and I are spending a few days in Goulburn finding caches, we are really enjoying the town and the variety of the hides. Lucky to read a recent log about the pole.Thanks for the cache tnln replaced as found sl

Cache 10774 on 27 Nov 2023. Up in Goulburn for the day and using some spare time to grab a few easy local caches! Last time I concentrated on multis, today is all about the trads! And maybe some ALs ! Quick find after reading a recent log, as tree has gone. But a pole makes a suitable alternative. cache and log in good condition. Thanks Nibletricecakes for the cache and the fun!

Unfortunately it’s true!! This place has seen better days and if I had some bags I’d definitely grab some return and earns. TFTC- found at the base of the pole rather than trees

L

Found at nearby pole!

Really easy… However I think the cache should be moved somewhere more secure; there’s a lot of road works happening here and I don’t want it to get crushed, moved it stolen…

TFTC great hide

Large tree recently cut down found cache at nearby pole

Made it to Canberra today to tick off another city on the mission to get all in the year with geocaching enjoyed the drive from Sydney today TFTH

Found a selection of caches today with goingplaces2. Had a good find rate and all found logs were signed. Happy to add some more smileys to the tally. TFTC.

There was some time to do a bit more caching this morning around the Goulburn area with ilook4geo before heading out of town. This was an easy find and signing duties were soon done. Thanks for this cache placement go to Nibletricecakes.

It a really simply found 2 min

Easy find

Quick find here today. Tftc

Found 18 03 3023

TFTC

First day of my school holidays and I thought what better way then an afternoon of caching. The geokids were quick to get on board, however one stated "only if there is no crazy bushwalks". We chose to head to Goulburn to also participate in our first CITO event.

Heading into town I spotted this one on the map and quickly turned in for the find. As we exited the car my daughter pointed to the most likely location and stated "it is going to be there" I told her to go have a look then, after first checking it was in the right direction. She bounded off to find it while my son put his shoes back on. Before anyone else was close she excitedly said "found it" and then patiently waited for her brother to fund it before retrieving it to sign.

Log signed and replaced as found. TFTC

Found It!
A quick find here. This place doesn't seem that disappointing, I've seen a lot worse elsewhere!
TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC.

A sticky adventure -SP

Bit of a sticky situation, easy find

Barked up the correct tree for this one

Nice quick one

Koala 1778 signing in Hey!

Nice easy one, as you're leaving town

Tripping the M31 fantastic, stopped nearby for a feed and a room then popped over to this spot for a leg stretch and fresh air. All in good order and the surrounds tidy it’s been many years since our last trip and we had driven past on the bypass, it’s was only the need for a stop over that brought us into town and boy what a wonderful lot of history is retained with buildings beautifully maintained, restored, repurposed. Humans have definitely not been a disappointment in this regard

Will mark this area up for a longer stay another time.

Thanks to the CO for taking time to set out and maintain hides and for showing us a glimpse of your very special part of the world

Log signed in first open spot with stamp

TFTC Nibletricecakes

Find # 7943

Quick cache before our overnight stop. On the hunting trail again with SeasonedBird (aka Mrs Geo, Salty Chook, the Old Boiler, Old Chook, Dirty Bird, Angry Bird & occasionally even Love Bird). It’s a great day for caching. TFTC Nibletricecakes
Find #10303

Quick find before some Macca's

There were lots of muggle workers parked at GZ when we arrived, but fortunately none of them were in their cars or nearby, so we were able to make the find.

We've had some great days in Goulburn and a few mixed ones with showers. Mornings are cold but it often improves during the day.
The caching has been excellent though with most hides in good order and a variety of types and hides with some puzzles we have been able to solve pre arrival. We have enjoyed quite a number of multis that have been straightforward and that we have had success with.
We have now completed 4 of the 5 Adventure Labs but remain stuck on one!

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Nibletricecakes.
**SKI Pair****

Did this one with mum. TFTC!

Finally catching up on my back-logging*

The our trip to Merimbula to visit my families and hometowns from Brisbane has finally come to an end and now we're on the homestretch back to Brisbane. Of course we had to stop here in Goulburn because of the history and famous photo with the big Ram. TFTC

A quick find while staying nearby for the square dance convention. TFTC

Easy find

Found

Found this one

Cool to see this place all cleaned up today. Nice find, found with ChadChamp21. TFTC

I get the idea of the cache, and I did see some detritus hanging around, but I was more taken with the brick making chimneys nearby. Quick find as expected.

Tftc, not much rubbish here today, must have been a few cachers doing a bit of Cito here. One item too big to move in our vehicle

Thanks for the Cache!

Found him with no bees this time

Found him

Found it lol

Found it and picked up some rubbish

Found today on a road trip from Sydney to Wagga Wagga with Brodie, the container has been smashed and you need to look further out than the coordinates, hint really helped

DNF

Geo kid 2 found it.

Found by my sister Bindi eye.
We took note of previous logs, and broardened out search and soon she had CIH

Bees

Didn't find cause of bees

Couldn’t find because of the bees

Great idea.
Previous logs helped
TFTC!

Tftv funny rock

Found. Thanks for the cache hide.

Good

Low

Good find

Found with the Geo family

TFTC

Find number 4970

A quick find with disappointing coords.

Thanks Nibletricecakes for placing this cache.

Found ... approx 20m from listed coords

CORDS ARE OUT BY 20 METERS FROM ROAD. CACHE IS HIDDEN UNDER A LOG.

Today, Sui_001 and I headed out to Goulburn to clean up the caches in the area. We spent a total of almost 9 hours caching and I enjoyed every minute of it. Sui_001 is one funny guy.
There were some highlights for the day included 10 Lab caches plus 2 bonuses, 1 multi cache, and about 19 Trads for me and about 29 Trads for Sui_001 as we did some caches that I had done before. Not sure exactly how far we drove but it was many hundreds of kilometers. I love geocaching so much and the friends I have made along the way make it all worthwhile. I really enjoyed Loci612 Adventure Lab Cache that was a tour of all the old cemetery's in Goulburn. The bonus cache was great also as it had about 15 trackables in it and as we all know, I love trackables plus it was an ammo can.

Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the generic log for this cache but with more than 40 caches today alone it gets hard to write a different one for each cache. Most caches were found in good order except for two that were missing (replaced for the owners), 1 that was broken and 2 that had very wet logbooks.

I have included one of the Geocaching poems that I have written. I hope that anyone reading it likes it.

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind
I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see
Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?
Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there
As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges Geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of today, my average was less than 160 words per log, which seems close to the 200-word target. However, given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 200 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After 7500 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 160 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated. *****

ALL LOGBOOKS WERE SIGNED DSD OR DARKSIDE OR DARKSIDEDAN

Took note of some previous logs which helped to narrow down GZ. TFTC Nibletricecakes

Found after reading comments thank you

Thank you for trying to help keep our lovely town clean and tidy.
Found this one after reading through some of the comments to decipher which tree to look under.

Out in Goulburn today with Tankengine picking up a few caches he didn’t have and of course I didn't have and also the AL that I have been looking forward to doing too.

Nice to get this one found finally. Came a long time ago and just couldn't find it back then. As we were driving right by I asked Tankengine if we could stop in and change this blue face to yellow. Thanks to a previous log for directing us to the right spot. Tftc Nibletricecakes!!!

In Goulburn for a couple of days, to pick up a few caches.
Most caches found in good condition, signed and replaced.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Nibletricecakes, for us and others to find.

Found at fallen tree.

4256 24 October 2019
OCW with The Neighbs and staying at Crookwell. Great weather for some cache finding.
Found where suggested coords next to fallen tree.
TNLNSL
TFTC Nibletricecakes

Easy find, Thank you.

Thanks to the comment below cache was in hand pretty quick & away from the bees!!! No working pen though so pic for proof!

S 34° 44.821 E 149° 44.956

After the SideTracked Day 2019 meet at Marulan Station, I called into Goulburn on the way back to Canberra to find a few caches. I had a DNF of this cache recently and stopped for another look. I extended the search further than I had last time and finally found the cache 18 metres from where my Garmin was showing the coordinates. The cache is hidden no where near the bees that people keep mentioning. There was no sign of the bees today, but it's 5 degrees and WINDY, so I can't blame them for not venturing out. My Garmin had the coordinates at S 34° 44.821 E 149° 44.956, which better matches the spot shown on Google maps too. Nice to change that recent to . TFTC Nibletricecakes.

I gave this a good search, but I couldn't find the rated small sized cache, such as a sistema or something with similar capacity. The first place I checked was to lift the cover over the access hole ("below the tree") - DNF, then I checked the tree base (the bees are interesting) - DNF, I extended the search checking rocks and sticks for micro cache inserts. I checked other trees. Very difficult hide for only 1.5D. DNF .

In place
Watch out for the bee's

bees were buzzing around pretty close to the cache & gross smelly items nearby.
DNF

Aquilus1, Tankengine and I were on the way to The Gong Event and stopped in Goulburn to grab some dinner.

Aquilus1 needed two caches for the day, so we thought we would pick up a couple on the way out. We came by here to see if we could make this number two. Unfortunately we found the kangaroo But no bees tonight and no cache either. As we were running late we left it to find another cache. Thanks Nibletricecakes!!!

With dty73 and Tankengine we are driving up towards Wollongong for the mega event there this weekend. Stopped in Goulburn for HJs and was a good opportunity to grab a few caches I needed for today's date with a challenge I am working on.

Was hoping this would be an easy find but we searched with no luck... no problems from the bees but the roo was eeww!

At first I couldn't find this but the GPS eventually relented.

Had a look but found the bees and a dead roo. Sadly not the cache. Rainy and cold so didn’t stay too long.

Needs maintenance. Large swarm of bees at location.

Found with JROBERG.

Today Geoturtle37 and I are caching in and around the Goulburn area. We managed to get quite a few caches done and they were all interesting in their own way. Sizes locations and ease of find were varied today . Thank you to all the CO’s that made this possible. Thank you for showcasing this lovely town, it’s views, it's architecture and it's history which is certainly fascinating and worthy of the caches dedicated to it.

Day 2 of my road trip to the Mega Event in Queanbeyan with hatzofff and RoddyC. 
Met up with Bluewattle and doing a few caches before dinner. Nice hide and a quick find here.
TFTC Nibletricecakes
Found April 13, 2019

TFTC, fun times with my Queensland buddies, Snickersallan, Hatzofff and RoddyC