Forts By The Sea Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
By Samuel737 and lee737 on 01-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6YQZV

Archiving this listing. Thanks to everyone who visited over the past couple of years.

Still a work in progress.....

Checked... GZ has changed, container cracked. We’ll be back!

Third time lucky .. love the views on this walk

●• Forts By The Sea•●
Le 20 septembre 2019

First visit to newcastle here. Juste beautiful ! Thx u for this cache !


In Australia for 4 months
I travel by car , I am a backpacker with a friend. During my journey and hundreds of kilometers, I do geocaching. I thank a lot of the owners. Australia is beautiful
Un énorme MERCI à Samuel737 and lee737 pour la pause et l'entretien de la cache ! Salutation de France

Quick find with SexyChook1. TFTC

This cache was actually in the first place we looked and quite exposed. There was rubbish in the area too so I think it sort of blended in with that.
When we replaced it we put some cover in front of it to make it a little more secure.
We've had a few visits to Newcastle but had never been to this area before so had a look around before leaving.
Thanks.

Team LIE found it!

Found! Glad I had my Weet-Bix this morning

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Found on a nice winter day, but very windy. Making an attempt to find enough caches to lock up all the found jewels, Quick find Log signed and caches replaced as found. Thanks For The Cache Samuel737
# 2059 at 12:29:00 PM on 10Aug2019

Nice spot

Tftc

Found by Sofyavrss with Aurorah

Had a great explore around the old fortifications with ccarpy. We visited after dark and geokid got a bit creeped out, great fun! Thanks for the little history lesson!

Dirty, very dirty

Our very first time, this is fun, thank you!

Found

Thanks for the beautiful view

First find for some, had so much fun

Found it

Awesome place

Nice spot for some whale watching! Thanks!

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Forgot a pen. Easy find. One handed.

V6 bundy and family found

Cool spot

Trackable left!

Tftc

Came at night a couple of weeks back, but it was too scary. Nice one for daytime though! Thanks!

Tftc

The Legend strikes again and delivers number 4000 for the Clan!!! tftc

Tftc
Found with chestcollectors

Found with ccl888.
TFTC

Found on a nice mon arvo. Beautiful views of the city.TFTC

Had time for a quick grab, sign and replace whilst in Newcastle.
Nice hide and history lesson with great views.
TFTC

Great hide TFTC good small cache

During the marathon run of my daughter I walked to this cache
Thank you
Team sissifalke

Nice spot for an afternoon hunt. Found it on the 29th March. TFTC

Found while touring off the cruise ship Noordam. TFTH
fryguy42

Nice cache fin on my evening stroll.

Nice hide. Great location. Good size cache. Swaps made. Trackable taken. Thanks!

Easy find. Had to handle a guarding skink. Thanx

Found (a 2nd time) brought some newbies with me to show them the joy of geocaching. Took a bug left a bug.

Visiting from Canada on a Pacific ocean cruise aboard the Viking Orion. Enjoying the sightseeing with Newcastle friend. TFTC,SL

Quick find, great spot with a view

A nice quick find on a lovely sunny day in Newcastle. Thanks

A perfect ending to a long stroll on Newcastle beaches. The entire delegation was with me: Martin Walker and Jerry Sauce, greetings from the Czech Republic! IN:TB

Staying close by decided to grab a couple of caches. Log may be stamped Coongoola or small logs signed CG. SL

Thanks for placing this cache Samuel737 and lee737

Quick find then some time to take in the lovely views, thanks for the cache, M0zez

We are travelling up from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to Redhead, for a short weekend getaway at the Redhead Beach Holiday Park, and grabbing a few roadside “park & grab” caches enroute. On Sunday we will be attending the Geocaching NSW “Newcastle Expedition - Memorial Park” Event at Stockton, then zigzagging our way back down to Redhead in an attempt to log 7 unique cache types (Event, Traditional, Multi, Mystery, Letterbox, Virtual, and EarthCache) on that same day, and gathering any other conveniently located caches along the way. This was the 15th of 24 finds for the day (day #2), and the 27th of 52 finds for the weekend.

After having trouble finding parking for "Iconic past", due to the mayhem caused by the official opening of the nearby Newcastle Light Rail (Tram) system, it was pleasing to arrive at this one and get a parking spot very close to the cache location.

With a Radar Technician in our geo-family this was an interesting place to visit, given that it was the site of the WWII Shepherds Hill Radar installation. Quickly uncovered the hide and had CIH. TNLNSL, and replaced as found. We then spent a short while wandering around the various building ruins, and taking a few photos, before getting back on the road to our next cache target. Thanks Samuel737 & lee737 for the history & cache.

Find #2965

Found with Gazkersh and littlemisslonglegs while in town for some local events. What an adventure we had finding this cache! We caught the ferry from Stockton and then made our way up to find the cache. Fun find, there was a cute little lizard guarding the cache. Thanks Team 737!

Found with Mum and Dad while in Stockton for the Geocaching NSW events.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with littlemissleft and littlemisslonglegs

Found this cache while camping at Stockton
Thanks for the cache

Stopped to cache while cruising down the coast. TFTF

Nice view. Tftc.

TB dip

Checked on as we were around. No probs.... log has several months room....

Was happy to find this little cache after several DNFs yesterday. Great little spot. Thanks!

TFTC a quick find along our journey. We didn’t have a pen but photographed the log book.

TFTC, my nice got married here, great spot

#5538. @12:13.

First (and only) cache in Newcastle. Nice spot and easy find. It was simply bit too hot to cache on this day and the distance between hides was simply to far in the heat.
We are by foot since we are traveling in a motorhome which is a bit clumsy to move around with, so we parked it down by Bar Beach and walked Memorial Walk up here. Quite a challenge in the heat.
Anyway... Thanks for the cache and Greetings from Sweden!

FTC first in Newcastle

TFTC
Lovely place. Greetings from Sweden

Sorry, no pencil, only photolog. Nice and sunny day, found it together with my daughter. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache! Best regards, Kim(Newcastle) and Rolf (Herford, Germany).

Found this Cache today. Unforrunately the weather was not inviting to further explore the area. Thx for the Cache

Streak Day #1942 - Out with dave8153 and frisky puppet. Found quite quickly. TFTC

Cache find No. 2943
Streak Day: 1053

Found today with Snoopy1976 and Frisky_puppet

TFTC Samuel737

Out doing a little bit of geocaching on this fine Sunday and I noticed that Samuel737 had placed a cache called Forts By The Sea I do like finding Traditional’s so I had to grab this one too.
Nice hide Samuel737 this is find number 1744 so TFTC

I’m in Newcastle for a couple of days, attended a wedding last night and today was a recovery day.
We spent a short break at the beach. I took a walk around the Nobbys. This cache was a short detour on the way back to the AirBNB. Easy find thanks to the hint.
Interesting to read how long ago this fort area was constructed.
There’s also interesting indigenous story on a board nearby as well.

TFTC

Nach kurzem Hin- und Hergucken gefunden und geloggt...

Gefunden. Danke für das legen und pflegen.

Creeeepy

Dodged a lizard and many muggles in the daylight. Interesting spot!

A quick and easy cache. Much stealth needed, heavy muggle activity. Managed to sign the log and replace the cache without being spotted. TFTC

Came down with kingfisher_au for Earth cache day and decided to grab a few more caches while we were around. Had to wait for a few passing muggles but we managed to keep out of view and return the cache. Thanks for bringing us to this location and for the cache.

down on earthcache day so decided to pick up a few more thx for the cache all safe and sound

Wear gloves among the litter.
Interesting area, which is what I think geocaching should be about. Picked up a Travel Bug.

This one was so easy and I recommend this to people who just started geocaching

In town again visiting family, decided to take a nice walk from Hamilton to the beach and all the way around to this cache. Very nice spot! Dropped a pathtag. TFTC

Great hide. TFTC
TNLN

Great spot. Enjoyed watching the soaring pelicans on a windy day. TFTC.

Good find

Weren’t expecting it to be down there. Glad they hadn’t blocked it off. Interesting paver work. Tftc tnln

Cool spot

We decided to find this cache today after returning home from Sydney where we found more than a dozen yesterday. After incorrectly writing the co-ordinates down, we eventually ended up at the correct place and began to search. Just like several times yesterday in Sydney, we were left wondering which level the cache was on. After looking in all sorts of unlikely spots, we eventually looked in a very simple one that we had overlooked and there it was. TFTC!

Wow a little bit of history. The kids asked so many questions.

Found. Much easier to get a parking spot when it is cold.

Tftc! Lots of rubbish as well. No pen to sign in.

Tried lifting the slabs. Didn't work. Looked under. Found it. While signing some muggles caught is red handed. Detered. Balled on.

Found with Banj Ward TFTC

Haven’t been too lucky today finding geocaches but this one was a fun and easy find!!

Found while out whale watching. No pen so will be back to sign

Great day for a school holidays walk along the Newcastle Coastal walk. Quick find in a great spot. TFTC

**Found on our Sydney / Newcastle Cache Chase**.

*Out and about with *The Empire*. A thoroughly enjoyable trip.

Heaps of laughs, music, plenty of finds, a few DNF's, a few Virtual's, Earthcaches, beautiful scenery, coffee's, photographs, some good memories.

Heading to Newcastle for the night. Grabbing a cache or two en route.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Samuel737. Appreciate your efforts.
-P

Stamped and returned as found...

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#13002**

Cache-On!

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
Checking out the Newcastle waterfront, completing the virtual cache, finding a few regular geocaches along the way. The weather was glorious! I left a path tag in this cache, free for the next finder. Thanks for the cache Samuel737 and lee737.
- M

Found with Beary_Unicorns and Miss Unicorns

Cache check while doing the coastal walk. No problems... removed the bottle cap and folded up junk mail... really?!

A quick find with an easy clue. Some people around here today so grabbed inbetween passers by. TFTC

Good spot