TRLT Gainsford Oberon, New South Wales, Australia
By alnic39 on 05-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6MXQT

Reperio 09:11Today I had the day off, so decided to spend it along the TRLT series from Hazelgrove through Edith and Gingkin to Mount David. High winds throughout the day made things a bit tricky with signing logs and keeping zip lock bags from flying away, but almost all caches were found in good health, with only a few DNFs, and a few that need maintenance. As I was working from an offline list, I ended up revisiting a few caches I had previously logged due to the list not being updated. All in all it was a great day out.Gratias alnic39As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

TFTC smile19778 Day 12 I think out and about on a Sunny day on my way to Wollongong in a round about way picking up LGAs on the way signed as GS1947 on small logs Thank you alnic39 for placing this cache for our enjoyment

found this one as well, my lucky day. TYFTC

Visiting from NZ and enjoying a trip through the Blue Mountains. Great scenery and some quaint towns along the way.This one of a few caches we found heading towards Braidwood.TFTC

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Easy park and grab. TFTC

Nice quick find. In good condition. TFTC.

Found it

Quick park and grab. TFTC

Bit wet and muddy but tftc

"Owner maintenance" is not quite correct in this case. I reached out to vk2df to see what they could do while out caching in the area. Well, from the photos received, it looks like this one is good to go. I certainly hope vk2df remembers to actually log it as "found."

We are on a cachey 10 day holiday, starting off with 2 nights at Emu Plains to hopefully collect the new GFA puzzle caches around Luddenham and some more of the Band caches north of Penrith. Then it’s 5 nights at Oberon to collect some of the many new & old puzzle caches that we have solved around the area, and also hoping to complete the Oberon Adventure Lab. After leaving Oberon we will be visiting Jenolan Caves, for both the caves and the Jenolan EarthCache, then heading to Katoomba for 2 nights to ride the Scenic World attractions (Railway, Cableway, & Skyway) and to do a few caches of various types plus an Adventure Lab. We will end the holiday with a stop-off at Wentworth Falls for some more caches and a couple of Adventure Labs.

Today we will be continuing our travels on some more of "the roads less travelled" to collect some more of the TRLT cache series, and also any other caches we come across along the way. Yesterday we travelled roads to the East & North of Oberon, and today we will be travelling South towards Gingkin. This was our 3rd find of the day (day 6), and 104th find of the holiday.

Found this one by replacement, in consultation with the CO. Stamped the log and left a coloured domino. TFTC alnic39.

Find #5181

Looks great!

Had a quick look here but has had some cleanup of sorts....needs a cache....none around. When we pulled up we thought which tree lol

SEEMS THAT THERE HAS BEEN A CLEAN UP OF THE AREA. Will get out there as soon as I can.

Someone has gone through the area with a chainsaw and there is debris everywhere. I think this one needs some maintenance.

Lot of tidying up recently, unable to find cache.

Looking for something to fill in time whilst not studying, it was suggested that I finally get around to logging THOSE caches long found but never logged. Some even have funny stories of being visited not only once or twice, but a few even have had a third or fourth visit before realising I've been there done that. The date is as near to the correct day the cache was found.So sorry for the generic and late log.JABs.Living out here for over ten years was good to revisit some old haunts.

Thanks for the cache

More to come

Got it hunting

Tftc alnic39, made the find here, beautiful day out driving this less traveled road.
Log signed.

A little bit of wandering before sighting it. TFTC

TFTC nice and dry!

Its been a long day but we have found a lot of geocaches!

Another success on our day of caching. TFTC Alnic

TFTC easy find cache was exposed, covered with bark to prevent getting muggled

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Careful of the rusty barbed wire! TFTC

Found tyftc. this trip for july school holidays in and around Bathurst, following the TRLT today to Oberon and Edith. Find #2178

Nice spot

Day 3
With the COVID19 restrictions lifting, we decided to head to the Bathurst area this long weekend on a Geomission with Rapidlywild. Our intention was to attack the TRLT trail and others around the area.
We had a great four days, only a few DNF’s but mostly smiley's, and have left plenty for another adventure. Lovely area to cache in and we look forward to coming back for some more fun and laughs.

Thanks for the hide alnic39 and thanks Rapidlywild for another great weekend away.

Apologies for the generic log, thank you to all the cache owners for their efforts.

With COVID19 locking everyone down for so long, a MUCH overdue geocaching mission was welcomed. FurfacesLL #1 and myself decided to head towards Bathurst and attack some of the TRLT caches and see how far we can go. Spoke to a few of the CO's prior to heading up to see if we could assist with any maintenance that was required, so we went prepared with some camo containers and some fresh log books. We had a wonderful weekend stretching the legs and enjoying the country side.

Thanks for the hide alnic39 And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another fun weekend out and about the TRLT trails and others

Took a bit of a look but we found it. Nice to see one of old morty's pegs in the container. Tftc

Today I planned my adventure tour along the TRLT Trail in Meadow Flat and head south.
On the way I search and find a lot of boxes.
Again and again I am happy about the beautiful landscape and the many animals on the pastures.

Thanks to all owners for this great tour
Team sissifalke

Found -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *alnic39*.

**Cache Condition:** Good.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:** None seen in this cache today.

**The Cache**
A nice quick find. Signed the log with our caching names or some scrambled form of *TOC, DJJ, LP* or even attached a cache name sticker, and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found.

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to search for the cache - usually it's me snooping around for the find. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated TFTC

Heading somewhere unknown but stopping for caches on our way. We walked around and looked around the trees hoping not to see any snakes None seen today *phew*! Thanks for the hide. ️️ OCW *Throsbyonchurch* with *Little Panther* in the mix. ️

I know I took note of the warning about the barbed wire, so I didn't have any problems there. I like reading the cache descriptions because often there is a clue in there, and sometimes there is also a whole load of information about why the cache was placed here -- that applies to this series, and I then have a better understanding of the area I'm caching in.

We were reaching the end of the passengers' patience in the car. They are not cachers and start to whinge when there is too much stop-starting. Obviously, they never complain about those fabulous places we have found which we would never have seen had it not been for geocaching. But that's another story.

Anyway, made the find and added my name before putting everything back as found.

Nice easy find on a freezing windy day! TFTC

Greetings from DARKSIDEDAN.

This weekend I went on a caching trip and managed to get about 165 caches for the weekend. Your cache was one of the 165 caches that I signed CGG19 as part of our group signature for the five geocachers in our group. We saw loads of wildlife on our trip including 6 Wombats and loads of Roos. This was a fantastic series of caches. I cant wait to get back out and finish the rest of this series off. Thanks to the CO for the fun weekend.

Here is a little about me. At the time of this “Found It” log I have over 6750 finds and 350 Hides. I was the creator of the “Ducky Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Prize in the State Vs State Battle of the Labs during the OzGeoMuster – The Gong 2019. I am the owner of the largest GeoArt Series in the ACT and winner of countless Geocaching Prizes. I have got 200 plus caches in one day and I have also got 12 cache types in a day.

There is nothing that I love more than being out geocaching. I will geocache anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

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 very detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC called "The Author". This Badge challenges geocachers to write logs with an average one hundred words or more in each log. As of the 20th of April 2019 my average is 110 words per log, which seems close to the 200 words per log 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 up. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After more than 5500 aches (which includes all cache finds up and including today I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task very soon. Progress has been better than anticipated. * * * * *

Once again T H A N K S F O R T H E C A C H E. I R E A L Y E N J O Y E D F I N D I N G Y O U R C A C H E . . . ! ! !

A plan was hatched, for a group of Canberra (and one Goulburn) Geocachers to stay overnight in Bathurst on a Saturday night and cache our way there and back - mainly doing some of The Road Less Travelled series, and anything else interesting that we were near. So, on Friday afternoon All7 and I met up with Cosmonaut97, who drove us out to Goulburn where we stayed the night with MinnieK (thanks for the hospitality), and then DarkSideDan arrived in the morning and we crammed all our gear into the back of the Cosmonaut Geomobile, all 5 of us climbed in, and we embarked upon our adventure - and what a fun weekend we had! Lots of laughs, some interesting terrain to drive through, and a whole lot of cache finds - so, sorry - most of these logs will be rather generic ... (and also rather late, because I am only just catching up with all the logging now - oops)
Logs were signed as CGG19 by at least a couple of people, or possibly CGC19 by me, because that is what I have written in my notebook (except for the first one I signed, which I think I signed GGC19) ... so I guess our group name was Canberra Goulburn Geocachers, or Canberra Goulburn Cachers, or whatever else anyone else signed - lol)
TFTC - I didn't write draft logs for any of these, because it was too difficult to keep up with that as we went ... and with all the caches we found this weekend - in most cases I don't remember which bit of fun was which particular cache. I did write a few words in my note book for some of them, so I will include those below if I did.
(Unfortunately, if I don't just copy and paste the same log for all these, and try to go through my photos or something, or read the listing and get creative, to figure out different things to write, I will never be able to catch up with my logging, and I don't like being behind).

My scribbled note for this one was "watch out 4 barbed wire" ... I hadn't read the description yet - lol
(when I am doing a pile of caches along a trail or something, then, if I can find the cache easily, I usually don't read the description until I log the cache

This was find #54 of our geocaching weekend. I had the pleasure of completing this adventure with ALL7, minniek, Darksidedan and AyKayEm. Thank you to all of the COs who initiated this track and those who maintain it. TFTC.

Signed CGG19 with Group.. We enjoy drive everywhere and good Laugh... She is very good drive with 4WD.... thanks

Out caching with Cosmonaut97, ALL7, DARKSIDEDAN & Aykayem with an aim to do as many as we could on TRLT series. Signed logs as CGG19 to save space (Canberra Goulburn Group 2019).

Had a long and tiring day finding everything on our list for the day. Thank you to all CO's for their efforts in placing and maintaining the caches for others to find.

Look forward to continuing the trail when I can.

Out caching with oldmorty finding more of TRLT. Found another 52 today. Thanks alnic39 for placing this cache here for us to find.

OCW frazeydaze. Today was all about the numbers. Having found the gems that were stolen from the Museum we now had to return the gems to the Museum by finding 35 caches to access the lock to the vault. Being at Blackheath for the weekend we thought that the easiest way to do that was to tackle a section of TRLT.

Starting at Duckmaloi at 10 and finishing at Jaunter at 5, with a slight detour to the Jenolan Caves to grab some lunch, we travelled many back roads through forests of pine and gum trees, saw spectacular sceenery and generally had a fun day.
Frazeydaze even saw a few wombats in the wild for the first time.

All caches were in good condition and a big thanks to the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches.

When we arrived one of us nearly tripped over some low barbed wire. The fence had collapsed and the wire was strung only about 150mm above the ground. So we moved carefully while searching. Finally the cache was located. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks alnic39 for the cache and the series.

This was our fourth day on this super long geocaching trail, and so first thing this morning we set off to where we had pulled out of the trail yesterday evening. The weather was perfect and once again we found ourselves travelling through some truly beautiful scenic countryside on interesting roads. This one took us far too long to find once in the Ground Zero area, but at last there it was! We were also very glad to have found this one with it being placed over 1,100 meters of elevation and thus a qualifier for the NSW Altitude Sickness Challenge cache. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and for the interesting information on the cache page. Greetings from Zimbabwe

I was off with the fairies today,
touring around Oberon way
A few trucks full of logs passed by on their way to the 'magic wand' factory in towne.
I could do with a magic wand to help me find caches sometimes
Not here though

TFTC on TRLT.

TFTC, Elevation challenge here we come, found with Snickersallan

Visiting from the Gold Coast and on a nice trip in the countryside with Bluewattle whilst preparing for a challenge cache.
TFTC alnic39
Found January 6, 2019

Tftc. Took way too long and ventured too far in. Was about to call it quits when mobsey poked it with a stick.

Found with Mrs Jaybeem! On a caching weekend in Oberon. About to give up before I got a stick and prodded around and there it was. TFTC!

Tftc found with earthly 65

found with robbieracer66..thanks alnic39

Find No.3458
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC alnic39
5 November 2018 10:55 am

My fourth day on the TRLT series.
All were easy enough finds.
Passed through some nice country, rolling green hills after the recent rain.

SL TFTCs

Finding this took a bit longer than it should have - we were very careful about the barbed wire, which lurks low down, but there is no need to cross it for the cache.

One of over 200 caches found this long weekend whilst enjoying a fantastic few days away camping and caching with friends. Big thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches and adding to our enjoyment of what turned out to be an awesome weekend! TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

headed too deep into the pine litter and spotted it on the way back out to the road. those clouds look a little like snow clouds to me, should I be worried or keen to see it I wonder. tftc

Continuing on to this 1, another nice cache completed on a long day of caching in the area – a BIG thanks for the drive today – enjoyed it very much - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Quick and easy park and grab!
Thanks for the cache!

A quick and easy find. TFTC

Found at 13:45.
Nice easy find whilst on a trip out with JoeGleeson_25.
Thanks for the cache .

Back today to do more of this fun series. We love the rural areas so this sort of caching suits us just fine. A lot of work has gone into putting out these caches and we are grateful to the co. Thanks to alnic39 for placement of this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Enjoying the trail. Great work putting all these out. TFTC

Streak Day #1638 - Decided to start this power trail to go towards a milestone of 5000 for the OZ Geomuster this easter.
All were quick finds for the day with dave8153. TFTC

Out completing some more of TRLT Series with Snoopy1976 today. TFTC

31 December 2017 @ 11:51 am
Caching buddy: Bonfire7

Quick jump off the car and quick spot of the cache. I did this one.
TFTC alnic39

Out on a caching trip with AlphaDeltaIndigo with the Taralga and TRLT caches in our sights.The drive throughout the counry side was absolutly amazing,we enjoyed every part of our journey seeing so much scenery and wildlife,we found most caches without too many issues,over the weekend we found so many caches so I appolise for the repeated logs.
Thanks alnic39 for placing this cache for us to enjoy
TFTC !!

Day 4 of our xmas caching blitz. Thank you to all the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches for our enjoyment. Cows are lowing, dogs are barking, must be in the countryside Tftc.

A quick and easy drive by while we were in the area. See GC6MKZQ TRLT - No Ducks Here for our master log for this series. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Day 2 of our trip away. Stayed in oberon last night and thought we would head out here to collect a few extra smiley faces. Thankyou for the cache .

Found with cullum68 thanks for the cache

The continuation of The Road Less Travelled called us today, so we took up the offer of some more smiley faces for our caching map. We do apologise for the generic log to each of the cache owners. All the caches were easy to locate and our name was written on each log book before it was put back into place. Then we were able to move on to the next find. Thanks to alnic39 for being a part of TRLT series caching experience.

Great

Quick park and grab. TFTC

The Road Less traveled weekend two around Oberon. Day 2. After a great night at Bummeroo ford, I went on the TRLT trail for the day, ending up just past Oberon and spending the night there.

Thanks.

24022.59 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2014 Yo-Yo A#276

**Albida**

Hi there alnic39.

We found your cache **"TRLT – Gainsford"** today. (This makes our find count 17747).

Today we headed out from Oberon so we could attempt some more of the "TRLT" series, plus any others we came across on our travels. We started at "Tatiana's Crown" & from there we proceeded to log caches up to "Back on the Bitumen" before heading back to camp. We thoroughly enjoyed today's cache finds, but please excuse our boilerplate logs - we know it's not really a good excuse, but it is really difficult to craft individual logs when we attempt so many similar caches in a day. [:(!]

We found 60 caches today & DNF'd 3. Thanks for placing the cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found most caches within a few metres of where our GPS said we should be looking. [:(!] (We did have to look a little further afield for some though). [:(!]
**Cache Condition:** Most containers and log books were in good shape but some require a little "maintenance".
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny

Another easy find to keep us going.

Out and about on a sunny but very windy winters day picking up some more TRLT caches with a couple of others along the way.
All were in good condition and easy to find with only one requiring the GPS to be removed from the holder in the car.

TFTC alnic39
Find 5587 logged from c:geo.

Three geocachers (mizmaz, envirogirl86, and myself) embarked on a monumental long weekend to complete as much of TRLT series as we could. (Apologies for the generic log). Awesome series!! TFTC!

Having completed the northern end of TRLT nearly two years ago with the Rats, was now time to tackle the southern end during a three day roadtrip with StumbleTrip and Envirogirl86. Smilies gained on 162/165 (with the other 3 either disabled or several dnf logs before us) plus a number of bonus trads/puzzle finds along the way. Though reported as the coldest weekend in 110 years, daylight hours were thankfully quite pleasant and made for a fun girl’s weekend. Apologies for generic logs but all were fairly easy finds with mostly good co-ords or obvious camo though had to move this one from under a decaying animal carcass slightly.

3 girls (Mizmaz, StumbleTrip and myself), a car, a gps and a sense of adventure resulted in 198 caches over 3 days. And, of course, we decided to go on our adventure on the coldest weekend in 110 years.
Sorry for the generic log, however most of the caches we found (162/165 in total) were in good condition and were quick, easy finds. Thank you for placing these caches in such a beautiful and interesting area.

Found with Justjessie whilst enjoying the road less traveled. TFTC

Found with O319 on our winter long weekend get away. TFTC!

A last minute plan saw Fitzy_1965 and I heading off to make another attack on the TRLT series and whatever other caches we could nab on the way Lots of laughs and perfect weather made for an all round enjoyable day cruising around the countryside caching with over a 100+ caches in the bag!

Apologies for the generic log-We found most of the TRLT series were good sized containers and easy finds with only a handful proving to be a bit of a challenge.

Thanks for the hide, alnic39

13963. Found with specimenX during another run around finding the southern half of the TRLS series plus as many others as we could squeeze in.

Another big day out with Caching Wench Number 1 starting with an early departure from Canberra, with perfect weather for our ramble along those country roads for many many finds. We found all the caches to be good sized containers and nice hides. Next find of the day. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, returned the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks to all the COs for a great series !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Road trip North to tackle The Road Less Travelled Series with JordsAU! I’ve wanted to try this trail for a while but hadn’t found anyone to try it with. I ran it by Jords a few weeks back & after checking the roster for the week, the stars aligned and we started organising it. He was aiming for “200 caches in a day”, so we planned the trail as best we could!

Monday – we drove up to Gulgong to start the trail. We worked our way down to Mudgee (~30 caches) before setting up camp for the night. We had an early night so we could smash out a big day.

Tuesday – packing up at sunrise and setting out, the big day begun! We reached the first 100 by 2:00pm (7 hours elapsed). We were worried that we weren’t going to reach the 200 milestone considered how far we had to go and how long we had been tracking! The stretch from the Great Western Highway to Oberon made great time and we were on 150 caches. Instead of heading into Oberon to set up camp in daylight, we decided the best use of the remaining daylight would be to push through into the night for the last 50. Eventually we were down to the last handful, when we hit an area of the forest that had been logged. To make up the last few, we assumed there would be caches in Oberon, so we drove 50km back to town. We made the 200 at the Oberon Memorial Site and called it a (long) day.

Wednesday – I was all ran down from the big day, so we made our way back home! I found a few in Sydney, and made the drive back down home. It was a good to unpack and have a nice hot shower. Now for the long laborious task of entering these logs!

Thank you to all the Cache Owners along this trail. It was a real joy to visit another part of this great country we call home. It’ll be easier for me to return to the trail via Goulburn/Crookwell to finish off the series (and hopefully visit any further extensions). TFTC’s!

2/5/17 Found with muppet95. Muppet95 mentioned to me that he was keen to hit up The Road Less Travelled series and we decided to take a few days off to go on a bit of a road trip. I wanted to shoot for a goal of finding at least 200 caches in a 24 hours period and we made plans accordingly. We drove up to Gulgong on the first day and arrived in the early afternoon. We started The Road Less Travelled series there and headed south towards Mudgee, picking up approximately 30 geocaches on the way. We spent the night camping on the outskirts of Mudgee and had an early night, with the expectation of an early start to have the best chance of reaching our goal of 200 caches the next day. At the crack of dawn on day 2, we packed up camp and set out on the trail, finding our first for the day at 7 AM. We then spent the next 14 hours travelling The Road Less Travelled, caching the series and picking up some additional caches along the way. We powered on well after the light of day had disappeared, because we were on a mission and were resolute in our efforts to achieve our goal for the day. We reached a point, down near Gurnang in the pine forest, where the area a cache in the series was supposed to be had been logged and we could not continue, without backtracking and going the long way around. We made the decision to turn around and head back to Oberon, where we would pick up the last remaining few to reach our target number. I am very sad to say that on the way out of the pine forest, a wombat ran out as we were driving past and was struck by the underside of the car. We stopped immediately and I rushed over to its aid. The poor thing was in not in a good way and I did what I could to provide some comfort but it faded away within a matter of minutes. The accident is very distressing and upsetting, and it put a real dampener on a long and tiring day. There was nothing we could do at that point, so we continued on our way back to Oberon, picking up some more caches in town. We reached our campsite and setup, keen to rest up and have a deserved sleep in. It was another cold night, definitely dropping below zero degrees. We woke in the morning and, after packing up, we made our way back to the big smoke. Thanks For The Caches to the respective Cache Owners, and for putting this series together, which takes us on a different route along the Road Less Travelled. We will have to come back at another point in the future to try and finish off the series, and hope that one day the series may be extended further for everyone’s enjoyment.

Tftc

Great cache

Tftc tnln full section description at gc6mxqm.

Spent the morning travelling from the highway south towards Oberon along this awesome autumns morning collecting a few caches along the way. Thanks for the maintence of the caches.

Left Greystanes this morning at 7, prepared for a full day of caching with morning tea and lunch water and a thermos of hot water for a few cuppas.
I have been planing this day for a few weeks and last Saturday I went and brought a tomtom to help with my caching. There the week I had help from team GoldJ in Tasmania to run a route pocket query and load it to my tomtom. With that part of my day a success I headed off. Easter Saturday it was prefect weather. This was my first cache for the day I don't know yet how many I get but from the one I tried I only missed 3 so I was really pleased with my effort.heading home I was the Jenolan cave rd it was a bit hairy scary in places, lots of places. The traffic coming home from Hartley where I turned back on the the Great Western Hwy was bumper to bump for a lot of the way so the return trip which should have taken 1:40 took about 2:10. I got home at 7:15. Big day. Great day and great caches.
I would like to thank all the cache owners for placing and maintaining all your caches. Just to let you all know, all caches I found today were in great condition and the logs were fine for sign. Thanks so much for the caches. I will be back to finish the route one day.

Another easy find. The bark on this tree was quite beautiful. TFTC alnic39.

found

Having a good run today - 9/9 so far. TFTC

Found late afternoon on the way to work in Oberon and district. There was a ute parked quite close to GZ but fortunately its owner was no where to be seen. Many thanks whitemushroom