BIRDS - Masked Lapwing Emu Heights, New South Wales, Australia
By thomo31 on 25-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6TG6D

Sadly its time for this to be archived. Its gone missing too many times. Thanks all who have logged it.

Area cleaned up and cache missing. Will have to decide what to do now!

Tftc - easy find a quick pick up

Tftc easy find cool

Nice little spot

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Found it

Found keys at the sign but couldn’t find the cache

Quick find. TFTC will definitely come back here with the kids bikes.

With our birdwatching outing starting at Emu Green this morning I was pleased to see a cache on the geomap close to our meeting place. Funny thing, there often is - birdwatching and geocaching are good partners.
The weather was perfect for a walk down to the river where we were surprised by the obvious height of the water during the recent floods and the damage caused to the landscape here. Unfortunately already noxious weeds are beginning to sprout.

Even as the leader I was able to grab this cache, and of course the usual farmer's friends which loved my clothes.
The birds did not disappoint!

TFTC # 4515

We are making the most of this glorious autumn weather and heading out into the sunshine to cache around the lower blue mountains with a quick stop in Emu Plains first. Funny story here - I loaded the cache into Google maps, only to find it leading me down a road to the local correctional facility! Crap! A quick U-turn and driving around until i can pull over, but my geo-senses must have been on track because I found myself near a nice green space. This looks like a good spot to hide a cache I thought, let me have a look and see if there is anything around... Lo and behold, I'm only 80m away from the cache I originally intended to grab! A nice quick find with birdsong in the background tftc!

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 44.396 E 150° 39.332

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 44.371 E 150° 39.339

Distance from original: 156.0 feet or 47.5 meters.

A new location - hopefully temporary - until we can find a safer location.

Moved and ready to be found again

We need to decide on its future

Found in odd place. Put back where it belongs. OCW MaxAdventurer and Brewmaker. ?? TFTC thomo31

OCW Brewmaker and EverestHigh. TFTC thomo31!

Wow! We were about to log a DNF, when we saw it on the gate post. Somehow it must have been muggled. So we replaced where we expected it should have been under a rock. All good inside. TFTC

Awesome great spot love the notebook inside so hidden that even the lowlife smoking Billys next to it couldn’t find it

Found on a damp morning whilst getting the geomobile serviced by CRD. Cache in good dry condition. SL TFTH TFTC Nice little hide.
No Plovers today. Cheers.

On the way to Blackheath for the weekend, frazeydaze and I stopped off to grab this cache while the bell birds rang their bells in the trees above. TFTC thomo31

Caching with oldmorty on our way to Blackheath.
Very familiar area. Nice hide. Quick find.
TFTC thomo31

Found

Nice little walk down the lane

Quick find

Found

Super easy to find and was my first geo!! Thanks!

Feld like the coords were quite a bit off and no obviously spot found
Wilbert67

Cache was mugged. New cache placed. see new hint.

A early rise and drive to get to the Penrith lakes parkrun, then some nice caching on the other side of the Nepean River. After a DNF this morning I had a short conversation with the CO and she offered to check and replace if needed. Then I had a thumbs up a bit later, returned and made a quick and easy find.
TFTC Wilbert67

Checked as I was passing, and the cache is still hanging in there. Log sheet is slightly damp so will replace it when I pass by next.

There were many likely spots for this one. Checked as many as I could but had to leave

Found by BnB_Holton at 2:14 pm on 15/11/20
Total Finds 1115
Thanks to thomo31 for the cache.

Quick grab to fill in a missing calendar day.
Log was a little wet but nice hide.

See you on the Trail

We have travelled from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Emu Plains for a short 4 day caching holiday, staying in a park cabin at the Ingenia Nepean River BIG4 Holiday Park at Emu Plains, and are planning to explore the areas around Emu Plains, Penrith, Glenmore Park, Cranebrook, Castlereagh, Lapstone, Glenbrook, and Blaxland. Will be concentrating our efforts on collecting the Glenmore Park Puzzle GeoArt and the Puzzled Hearts GeoArt caches, all of which we had solved before leaving home, and also hoping to complete the local Adventure Labs along the way. This was our 24th find of the day, and 71st find of the holiday.

As we approached the cache site we could see that lots of tree lopping and pruning had recently occurred right at GZ, so we prepared ourselves for a possible DNF, but thankfully the workers had missed the nicely theme matched camoed cache and it was still "hanging in there". TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC thomo31.

Find #4139

Loving your bird series. Thanks for the generous hint for a quick find
TFTC

Did a cache check on my way past. It is still hanging in here.

Lost

Cache repair and new log sheet.

OCW LycieSki, nice quick one for the start of the day. We were heading to the mountains for out 6 month anniversary but once we got here the traffic was so horrible because everyone wanted to see the snow! Decided to start caching here instead!

I loved this one! Cute and quick find. OCW Camicles. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC

Find 699 at 5:39 pm.
Nice quick walk to the park where I spent many hours riding around as a little one. Bit of a shame the equipment and shelter aren’t around anymore.
Thanks thomo31 for the cache!

Love the camouflage

Adorable and hint very easy. Sweet little park. Lapwings are currently waking us up in the middle of the night Didn’t see any in the park today. TFTC.

Replaced log sheet. Ready to be found.

Quite hidden. Log is wet. TFTC

Found it!

Quick and easy find this morning after a quick visit to PEMAC to watch the geo-husband fly. TFTC

Bit of water damage to the paper. Nice and simple find

Tftc

A great creation of the cache guardian. Seemed almost impossible to get the log out. Was stuck to the sides and took a long time. Thanks for the cache.

looked around for 5 mins then found it!came out with farmers friends everywhere

There is about 58 million farmers friends there

Got lots of weird looks but mainly cause my dogs were tying me up with their leads

Did not find

TFTC

Grabbing a couple of caches while in the area. It’s quite humid today.
Quick find was made.
TFTC

Found it

Found it

Creative little cache, Tftc.

Look for the bird

Cache check. It is still hanging around in its spot as per hint

Did not find again

Awesome cache!

Have found a few Bird caches today. Found without any trouble. Cute bird. TFTC

Checked on cache while birdwatching nearby. Cache creep... someone has moved it and rewired it in a new spot! We are leaving it there and have modified the hint. 2 Masked Lapwings were nearby this morning

Pretty easy

TFTC

easy find

good find, very cute

Awesome! Very clever hide.

Tftc

Neat hide!! TFTC

Whack bruh

Awsome TFTC

Quickly found

Awesome

Where the wild berries grow.

quick and easy find

In Penrith today due to car service, so off with Trodectus to do a few caches until car ready. #7 for the day, having come from the prison end, we saw the gate and thought we would have to back track, but fortunately we were able to open it and get back onto bitumen, parked nearby then soon had CIH, log signed and returned. TFTC

7th find with Coybear2000. We'd been following a road/track from the nearby prison, doing some mystery caches. As we approached GZ, we saw a gate blocking our way out. Before attempting this find we checked said gate and found that it was not locked, so we took the car through first. Then we walked back to GZ where we soon had CIH. Log signed and all replaced and we continued on our way. TFTC.

Good hiding spot

Moved back to its original location but a higher spot. See hint.

Hard find

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 44.349 E 150° 39.352

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 44.396 E 150° 39.332

Distance from original: 303.4 feet or 92.5 meters.

S33 34.396 E150 39.332
Coords changed due to trouble with iPhones at GZ

Moving it to new location and fixing.

We did a cache check and coords are correct. Also checked coords on Google Earth and they say the same thing. However WaywardWoman also came along and her iphone showed the distance as out. It may be an iPhone glitch as there are power lines overhead. She did take a waypoint at GZ and it came up correct!
If in doubt, check the hint.

Found it by hint cords out definitely out by 45m

Found it by hint. But cords were old by 45 meters. Can the CO please check on this cache as that is rediculus.

Cords are way out. Seem to be having this problem with a lot out here. Finally located by just using the hint.

Found with MusoSon and Riker. Riker tried to have a little nibble of it. Great find and beautiful spot with lots of birdie chirps

New coords and container ready to be found

New coords S33 44.368 E150 39.335

Muggled again! Will have to find a new spot

Cache is now a film canister in a new location. Happy caching.

Cache has been mugged. Temporarily disabling till it can be fixed.

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 44.396 E 150° 39.332

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 44.349 E 150° 39.352

Distance from original: 303.3 feet or 92.5 meters.

Original area cleared and cache muggled. GZ moved to a new location not far away

Although I'm not a real "twitcher" I am a bit of a birdo so I was interested in this one. Sadly did not see the Masked Lapwing this time. I look forward to investigating the rest of the series.

While out collecting a few caches for the morning, this one was where we chose to start. No muggles were anywhere near, so it was straight to the cache and a quick reveal. All was good with the container and log book, so after quickly doing the signing we were on our way to the next find. Thanks so much to thomo31 for placing this series of bird caches. We heard various different bird calls while at this cache location.

Find No.3186
Found with sesblocker.
Happy International Geocaching Day!
Good coords and nice hide!
TNLNSL
TFTC thomo31
18 August 2018 23:15