Neds done the "Bolt" Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
By Bert & Ammiviiccc on 06-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6Z1H2

We have travelled from Sydneys Northern Beaches to Lithgow for a short (four day) caching holiday, staying for three nights in a park cabin at the Lithgow Tourist & Van Park. Planning on exploring areas around Hartley, Bowenfels, Marrangaroo, Lithgow, Clarence, Newnes Junction, and Dargan, with a pre-booked visit to the Zig Zag Railway on Saturday morning, and a visit to the Glow Worm Tunnel at Newnes on Sunday.Hoping to collect some previously solved Mystery/Puzzle caches, a SideTracked MultiCache, and some of the many Traditional & Multi caches that have appeared since our last visit to the area in 2015. Will be stopping at Mount Victoria and Blackheath, on Mondays return journey to Sydney, for some more previously solved Mystery/Puzzle caches and a five stage Adventure Lab, and maybe an EarthCache. Photos will be uploaded to logs on our return to home base.Today (day 4) we are on the journey homeward, but stopped off for some caches along the way. After collecting the final GZ cache for a MultiCache we grabbed some Traditionals on a drive out to Mount York, then a few more caches around Mount Victoria, before heading to Blackheath for a five stage Adventure Lab and a visit to the Victory Theatre Antique Centre. After grabbing a bite for lunch we continued homeward, with one final cache stop at Bulls Camp (between Woodford & Linden) to avenge a previous DNF, where the cache had subsequently been confirmed as missing & replaced. This was the 3rd of 15 finds for the day (day 4), and 34th find of the holiday.This one was next, parking the geomobile close to the cache on the side of busy Victoria Pass, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced the well constructed cache as found. It blends in really well. Ned's also a good bit of construction. TFTC Bert & Ammiviiccc.Find #7111

No pen but have a photo of the log

Over in Canberra to attend the Easter Mega with tmann421Tons of caches done while here and this was one of them.Enjoyed the touring around and all the containers foundLog signed tm/ww NZThanks for the placement and the effort put into maintaining these hides for us to find.

*In the area with woolwood9.* We soon managed to get the container found here! Nice feature here.SL *tm/ww NZ*Thanks for the reason to stop and I appreciate the effort in setting up these caches!*

Visited it during 28-days geotrip to Australia, N.Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Am.Samoa, Fr.Polynesia with Marci, Ch. Sometimes we logged as "MT" or "Jonea" or "MTCh". Thanks for showing nice caches and places. MT-Jonea from Brno city in Czechia EU. Wet logbook

#13759 14:45Ned Kelly is everywhere!OCW Brewmaker, Martin Cousins and EverestHigh.TFTC

Found with EverestHigh, Martin Cousins, and Its_Dozzie. We decided to venture out to this trail. Signed as BM, EH, ID, and MC.Thanks Ned. Just one more on our way up the hill, on our way home. TFTC

Quick stop over and Everest High had CIH after spying the bolt that isnt quite right

Nice sculpture. Nice cache. Quick find with helpful hint. SL as BEMI. OCW Brewmaker, Its_Dozzie and Martin Cousins. TFTC Ammiviiccc

Cool spot, checked all the things in the hint but no luck.

Just a process of checking all of the right spots.
TFTC

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Didn't take long to find this one thanks to the name. Worth a favourite point here. Tftc

Great cache. Quick find thanks to the name. Fav point.

TFTC. Found it with Irondale. Nice one.

Found geocaching with malfromthefarm.. Tftc Log is full

Find # 9312
Nice quick find despite the clever camo. We signed as TN.

TFTC Bert & Ammiviiccc
20 May 2023 17:06

Tftc - nice find

Tftc - easy find

What a lovely memorial.tftc

Great hide, Ned is certainly keeping watch. Log is full. Tftc

Log needs replacing - sorry didn’t have one on me

QPG cracking cache log full

#5317
It was a bit cold for the rest of the family to head out this afternoon, so Samuel and I headed out with a handful of caches planned, 'we'll turn around when we run out of light' as we went....
One last one! It was now pretty dark, and pretty cold at 3 degrees, but we were going past, and were comforted by the description of the parking area at GZ - otherwise we would have thought 'fat chance' of us stopping here....
We should have read the description better, as we checked that damn helmet several times before I extended a tad up the hill and spotted something just a little out of place.... the log is pretty full, and needs replacing, we did scrawl a '737' ini there though..... TFTC!

After running out of caches to do on our list, we headed down the mountain to this one and nabbed a few others in the area, nice spot in the freezing cold! Grabbed this one on the way up the mountain heading back, it was almost dark and about 3 degrees outside so it took a while but we eventually found it...

TFTC

Almost gave up but then in the logical place I should have checked more throughly the first time thank you

Quick easy find in the logical place.

Found It!
Interesting spot with some impressive engineering. After a bit of looking around I spotted the well made cache!
TFTC

Nice quick find. Stupid move to try and deal with the traffic after the road collapsed. Tftc

Streak Day #3097 - Up this way with Dave8153 on a caching trip for the day. Another stop on the way home for a quick find. TFTC

2 January 2022
This is find number: 5664
Streak Day: 2208

Found today with Snoopy1976 a quick find. Thanks

Thanks to Ammiviiccc for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Been wanting to get to this one for a while. Not in the car or the helmet.

Very sneaky!! TFTC geo hubby found it!!

What a sneaky cache, love it! TFTC!

Great construction of the cache! Got honked from someone when stopping even in a safe place!

Great location great view

Day 3. No 18 for the day on our Geo Adventure to the Blue Mountains. Good hint. This was found by my Geo Companion Mystic Seer who has a very keen and sharp eye. A very sneaky hide indeed, very well done. Love it.
With the Admin duties sorted it was replaced as found. Now a Favorite.
Thanks goes to the CO for this Cache.

Found with Chippyddd on Day 3 mission - Blue Mountains NSW caches. Lots of rain today. Hint is very useful for a sneaky hide. It's all in the hint. Parking available on side if road but if you blink you'll miss it.No room for SWAPS or drops. Both cache and logbook are dry. SL TFTC TFTH. Replaced cache as found ready for the next cacher. Thanks and cache on.

Reperio 12:24

Headed to the Blue Mountains for the weekend with the family, and today we decided to get out and find a few nearby caches. This was a great little cache which the kids enjoyed finding.

Gratias Bert & Ammiviiccc


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

This is a great cache. Almost drove past but TFTC there is quite a safe place to pull over

A steely eyed cache indeed.

Very clever cache hide.

Found with bedlem2

A very well constructed cache and sad memorial. TFTC

Found the cache and paid our respects at the memorial. So sorry for the loss of your mate. A different but fitting memorial. We were surprised by evidence of the accident in the valley a decade on. RIP Shed.
TFTC! xo

Looked for this once before and this time it was just so obvious I wondered why I missed it
on an earlier search.

Found it on our second look and I cannot believe that I actually found it the first time and due to my inexperience did not know I was looking at. Very cool cache!! TFTC!!

DNF - no luck. Couldn’t find anything near the bolts...?

Found this some time ago but just realised I had neglected to log it!

Tftc on a quick trip to Sydney

Tftc. Really like clever ones like this, more knowledge for the caching toolkit.

Log to follow

Tftc. Seems log book is full

Tftc

Thanks for the cache another quick find

Good cache thanks

After spending yesterday crawling through Tuglow cave, today was the slow and weary trip back home. With sore muscles and bruises, climbing out and back in the car several times to find a trail of caches was exhausting.
Ive passed this one several times, forgetting about stopping until after going too far. Glad i remembered today..
Thanks for the cache.

Out for a few caches which have gone down since we were here last. Took nothing left nothing, Cache all good, good coordinates. 43 for the day. TFTC

Found it. Out and about with thomo31. TFTC

Found with viaggio0001. I saw this on the map when I had been caching with WaywardWoman a few weeks ago. Today heading home with viaggio0001 after doing some caching, we pulled up in the parking space. Got to GZ and looked over Ned. After working out where it wasnt we widened our search. Resorted to a paf who sent us back where we were looking before. Found it... how did we miss that. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

I don't know how many times I've driven past here in both directions and never noticed 'Ned'. TFTC

A great cache in a great spot. Thanks Bert & Ammiviicc

What an interesting cache! I don't know how many thousands of times I've driven past this and never noticed it. I'll keep a lookout from now on.
A very creative cache and a great name! Worth a favourite point. TFTC Bert & Ammiviiccc.

What a sobering spot. The memorial makes you think but then you see the car wreck.

Thank you for bringing is here.

Short Circuits

Apologies for the late log but I just found a heap of unpublished logs in my draft notes.

Tagging along the Rats on a trip to Mudgee, we found this cache as part of fun 2-day trip to see our big sister. Thanks for the cache.

Heading out to Mudgee for the weekend we couldn't drive all that way and back without getting a few caches.
I dont how many times I've driven this road and never seen that memorial before. Soon had this one in hand.
Thanks

No bolting today cause oldmorty screwed him up. TFTC

Found with oldmorty on our return to Blackheath from White Rock. Stopped off to admire the wonderful memorial placed by the CO’s. Spotted the cache when reminded of the hint. TFTC Bert & Ammiviiccc

Loved the "Ned" memorial.

Tftc. On our way home from Cowra and decided we’d stop and do this one finally. Great hide, fantastic views.

Mr C.

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found with btm and u_c. dad driven us passed here heaps and we never noticed the mask there until now.

found with btm and gm10

Found with u_c and gm10

Another cache we have always ignored cause we were always passing bye, today we stopped and grabbed it easily, nice hide and interesting memorial.

The last GC cache today completed – the weather was turning on me so headed home a little early than usual – what a top spot – you drive past so many times & you don’t see it – loved it – thanks - TFTC / TFTH / SL

What a beauty! A fav from us. Tftc!

Stopped early in the morning with the boys. Superdog9 spotted it quickly. Driven past here heaps and never noticed the Ned Kelly helmet
Thanks for the cache

Heading to the city for the weekend and picked up a few caches along the way.
Quick find in the dark.

TFTC Bert & Ammiviiccc
Find 5754 logged from c:geo.

Found by Mary & David at 1315. Reminded us of Ned and his exploits in Victoria and around June and Jerilderie. We have enjoyed many caches in his name. Those sandstone cliffs could only be in NSW. Interested in the convict history too. A FP. Our thanks to Bert & Ammiviiccc.

Stopped by the side of the road, to some annoyance for the cars trailing close behind us. Soon found GZ, and realised what half of the name alluded to. Then it was just the second half. Checked a number of possible things, before finally we found it, where we had looked once already (isn't that often the case?)

A quick find as we were passing by after a fun weekend up on Newnes Plateau. TFTC
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

#145. Bit of caching while travelling to Sydney. Clever! Not what we expected. TFTC

Out and about on a warm day grabbing a few caches, we found some really good caches today, it was a awesome day to be out as a cachers (and we found mint containers )
thanx to all cache placers for making the day what it was , awesome
cheers from the Routers

Well, once we realised that Ned's bolts were secure, it was just a matter of elimination. TFTC

#1583. Met up with alnic39 for some caches up around Mt Victoria this one took a bit of finding but got it in the end

Signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Bert & Ammiviiccc

The following TBs visited for the distance - Jasmer Geocoin, GasCans 2006 Geocoin, Kitac 2, Caching Dilemma's Geocoin, Butterfly, phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 NSW geocoin, phlphotos' Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2012, 2017 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos' Mary Hyde's compass, MARJ01 Mystery Micro Geocoin, Zaur's 2000. Cache, Albany WA - Museum, Icelandic Viking on Safari, Give Blood (Alnic's only A+), Smile Steffs Journey #2, Evolution of Geocaching Geocoin, tommy´s, Trekker the Hiking Boot Travel Tag, Darzee Di's Red Centre Experience, Nimmie’s Red Car & Race against myself

Very sneaky hide! Well done TFTC

What a great cache! Also my 150th find! Nice to tick that one off one New Years Day! I’ll give it a favourite point while I’m at it! SL TFTC!

I’ve just spent a few days in Bathurst working and I’m now heading back home to Sydney and thought I’d collect a few caches on the way.
I had to time the turn out to the breakdown lane because if you overshoot it there is a lot of rig marole to get back. The cache name clearly states where GZ is when you get there. However don’t disturb the memorial it’s not there.
I must say a very cleverly disguised cache, that definitely deserves a Fav point.
Last cache before making the B Line home.

I’ve had a hiatus from caching and just getting back into it again and needing to get my logs up to date and get my find count sorted.

Find: 528
10th of 10 finds today
No DNFs
Cache condition: Good condition
Logbook/sheet: Log is less than 50% full

TFTC????

Found whilst working in the area for a day. In fact, parked at GZ before heading off into the scrub for so it was a simple matter to grab the cache as well. Many thanks Bert & Ammiviiccc

Very well-constructed cache.. an interesting variation of a popular hide. TFTC!

Good idea !!!!!!

In Bathurst for a SES Competition over the weekend which ended just after lunch, wilbert67 and I decided to tick off a few caches to break up the long drive home. Not having any real plan, were lucky to be caught behind some slow trucks and have enough warning to pull over before we overshot GZ. Ended up being the last find for the trip as night, cold wind and light rain closed in but glad to have added this one to a list of memorable caches.

After a long weekend at the Bathurst showground, we still had time to pick up a few caches in Bathurst and on the way home. Together with MizMaz a fun afternoon with some good finds.
TFTC Wilbert67

Hmmm.... the darling wife wasn't at all comfortable stopping here but thankfully the cache was found and we were safely back on our way. In retrospect we should have parked a little further up the hill than we did. Took a few minutes to find the odd man out.

TFTC.

No need to worry about the average or should that be mean speed cameras as we where stopping at this one. We cache was soon found and our names added to the log. TFTC

Nice hide

Numerous beeps from cars on the way past. TFTC

TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.