Taralga Trek: Parsons Chatsbury, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 12-May-17. Waypoint GC75HCR

Fun caching in this region today. Great weather in a lovely location. Quick find! TFTC gazza959!

Trying hard to clean up the remaining caches in and around Goulburn. TFTC

Exploring the Goulburn region today we took the opportunity to stop here. This cache was a straightforward find in the obvious location. Container and log in good condition, not all the way up the bank!Thanks!

Our day started at 7 am. We were dressed and in the car, ready to head down towards Goulburn with the specific goal in mind of completing as many of the Taralga Trek caches as possible. We arrived at our first cache just after 8 am, and completed our journey at 5 pm. We attempted 59 caches in total. Sadly, 6 turned out to be DNFs.Throughout the day, we had to battle the wind to keep our feet on the ground. Despite that, the views from most locations and the journey in between were great. We stopped in at Taralga Hotel and had a delicious lunch between the legs of our adventure. Given the sheer volume of finds today, my logs are pretty generic unless there was something interesting to add.ABOUT THIS CACHE: I climbed all the way to the top of the bank, stood there for a moment, and enjoyed the view from this vantage point. I turned around to see where my little man had got to and immediately spotted what we'd come to find. Everything was in good condition. TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Heading from the Capital Geobash to Bathurst for the 6 Hour, grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

Reperio 18:57Today I headed down to Canberra to catch a flight to Adelaide for the upcoming mega event, and managed to pick up a few caches this afternoon along the way before finding somewhere to sleep for the night. This one was found after a short search at GZ. Gratias gazza959As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

TFTC cache is in good condition

Bottom of tree

Cache replaced, though slightly smaller container

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found with sebass19 on an awesome day on the Taralga Trek. We started at about 9:30am and starting heading back towards Canberra at 4pm. All up, 46 caches for the day which is great considering there were a couple of hard ones and DNFs. Very cold and windy day but the drive in this beautiful picturesque rural area was well worth it and the company made it even greater. We had beautiful BBQ pork ribs at the Taralga Hotel which made for a great chance to sit down and have a relax. Awesome effort from all the COs in this area!

This one was not in the most obvious spot! Went to one obvious spot first before having to rethink and soon making the find elsewhere! Cache lid is cracked, unfortunately. TFTC gazza959!

Find#4911
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

Getting down the bank was harder than getting up it. I have a crook ankle. I made it without mishap. Easy find, thanks gazza.

Find Number 3

A quick find once at the right level

Thanks gazza959 for placing the cache

The 4wd is probably the kids "driveway car" that they use to meet the school bus. TFTC

TFTC Quick easy find here today.

Grateful thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining so many great caches to entertain me on my journey.

After visiting Mount Gray and completing an Adventure Lab in the morning, we decided to head towards Taralga to see part of the area we had not visited previously and to look for the caches placed along the roadside.

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks gazza959 for this cache and the part of the series we visited today

#11341 - 9:56:00 AM; Set out on a cold but sunny morning with Sol de lune and Smittengranny on a caching mission north to Taralga then west to Laggan and Crookwell. Seventy three caches found and three DNFs for the day. Logs signed LL, Sdl and SG or similar. Most caches were found without incident and apart from a few soggy logs, were in good condition. A chilly wind came up just before noon, but didn't detract from an excellent day's caching. Apologies for the generic logs. TFTC gazza959

I left this one to the fellas.

On this sunny cool Sunday morning I was out caching for the day with Sol de Lune and LuckyL10n. Our main target were the caches along the roads through Taralga, Laggan, Crookwell to Gunning and home to Canberra again. We started this series here as it had been decided to get out of town a bit as we could grab the others at a later date.

We took it in turns to jump out and grab and sign the logs, though on occasions all three of us were out searching. Thanks for this series gazza959. All logs were signed with some combination of LSS.

A day out caching with Smittengranny and LuckyL10n up to Taralga, Crookwell and Gunning before heading home to Canberra. A great day for caching, even with the wind being a tad cool...

Lots of caches found today and this was our next one. No issues at all and our names were soon in the log.

Thanks gazza959 for the history and showing us the area.

Picked up the odd one of the trek caches on the way home.
Nice quick finds inbetween rain showers.

TFTC gazza959
Find 7166 logged from cgeo:

Found it

TFTC

Found on previous phone

No where to stop

Hard

Good

Found

Found him

Tftc quick park and grab

A day off today, so I have decided to do the Taralga series of caches. We finally have a weekend without miserable weather and it was a great day to be outside. A nice quick find, thanks gazza959.

Safe!

Good parking. Tftc

Thank you we hit this from Goulburn right up - what a great way to spend the day, everything was nice and green. Thank you for the cache.

We based ourselves in quaint Binda last night and apart from a horrific storm which inncluded hail (not happy with dents in car) it proved to be a good base for many of the geocaches in the area. The countryside is looking awesome and we enjoyed the rural location, wonderful views and history. Thanks to gazza959 for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

On our way home from the St Arnuad Mega, decided to complete this series. Quick find, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to gazza959.

TFTC,
Completed the second half of this power trail in January 18 when we were washed out trying this first part.
Back today and again looking forward to morning tea at Tarago.
Good to be able to safely stop with a van.

Day 4 of KmanNZ's VIC,NSW,ACT roadtrip of 2019.

Today had me on the old tourist road between Bathurst and Cooma.
A lot of smoke in the air from the fires over the hills. Met a caching couple in Taralga and found 41 caches.

Find #23

Nice view from up here.
Cache found, signed and replaced.

Thanks

#3461

Easy parking, nice big cache and found something for my geo-grandson! Left a fair exchange. TFTC

Decided to take a drive to Goulburn, along the back roads.
Picked up caches along the way, and this was one of them.
Signed and replaced as found.
Many thanks for placing this cache, gazza959, for us and others to find.

A short break and a quick find on the way from Narooma to the Jenolan Caves. Unfortunately didn't have enough time for the whole series. TFTC!

Out caching on my 1 year anniversary!
TFTC

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH *Gazza959* [^]

Travelling from Orange to Goulburn today, and enjoying this trail, on a breezy day. Thank you for cache

TFTC

Found in good condition with Genghicat on our trip north. Unfortunately i tripped on the way down dropping my new prescription sunglasses and chipping them. Tftc

Staying in Goulburn for two nights and today we decided to do the Taralga Trek and Taralga Trek Too caches. Many thanks to the CO/s for placing these caches and showing us around your area.

Staying in Goulburn for 2 days and decided to do this Trail out in the countryside. Due to the number of caches found a generic message is done for all. Thank you gazza959 for placing these caches in their respective locations. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Found on the trip home from Queanbeyan Mega. We decided to do some between Goulburn and Taralga. Thank you for these caches! : )

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading to the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
Thanks for the placement

Trip away with woolwood9 hunting containers in the area.
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or in pen as tm421/ww9
*Another nice find for us today, thanks for putting this cache out.*

Fun trail, good caches and generally safe places to stop.

A quick cache find where the Parsons knows

TFTC on *my* Goulburn Trek today

On our way to Queanbeyan Mega, caching along the way. 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 gazza959

On our way to Queanbeyan Mega, caching along the way. 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 gazza959

Cache 4816 on 10 Mar 2019.

What is not to love about a long weekend - an extra day to go caching! I have a goal to reach 5000 caches at the QBN mega, so a few extra cache trips are required. Power trails are not my favourite type of caching, but doing them with caching buddies makes them bearable! So Tankengine, dty73 and myself headed toward the Taralga series today for some numbers.

TE has most of them already so he was driving, and giving us such useful advice! We also picked up other caches along the way, well why not! All caches found in good order and according to the hint, unless otherwise indicated.

This cache: only half way up!

Thanks gazza959 for the cache and the fun!

Our goal today was to cache the Taralga Trek from Goulburn to Taralga before continuing on to the Wombeyan Caves. It was a lovely drive and we enjoyed the scenery. We saw a few kangaroos and did some birding at the various stops along the way. Many thanks to the CO for having laid the trail. We soon homed in on and found this one once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Found on a day trip from Goulburn to Crookwell via Taralga
TFTC

#3389 In the area today from Canberra. Found a total of 25. The cache was found after a short search. The clue was half right for me. Replaced as found. TFBMH gazza959.

Having a couple of hours to fill I opted to head out for a little solo caching.
Taralga Road looked interesting to this Brisbanite so off I set.
Totalled 30 finds in just over 2 hours, not too bad for an old fella! LOL …

Rolling along clocking up some clicks & lots of smilies.
Beautiful day for country caching.
Yet another quick find.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC gazza959

Visiting Crookwell for the wonderful garden festival, we squeezed in a handful of caches on our way home. A lovely old town and some picturesque backroads to explore. As this one was a bit bigger we left a couple of items of swag. Thanks gazza959!

#10039 @0916
The start of a 3 day drive to the Sunshine Coast, The first goal of the day was to find 50+ caches, each at least 1km apart for a [NZ challenge cache](https://coord.info/GC3QY6Q). This series helped to achieve that goal. Due to the distance limitation, I only found every 3rd or 4th cache, so will back to complete the series another time. All easily found. TFTC.

A quick stop. Tftc!

Staying at Crookwell with aries44 and finding some caches in the area and hoping to complete the Taralga series. With our friends The Neighbs and SESBlocker. Nice days with chilly nights....except today TFTC gazza959.

3110 31 August 2018
Staying at Crookwell with Mrs Aries and hoping to grab some caches especially the Taralga series, with our friends The Neighbs and SESBlocker. Nice days with chilly nights.

TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959

Find No.3275
Found with sesblocker, Aries44 and Mrs Aries. The strong wind has just hit us now. It should get the windchill happening.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 1:15 pm

Started the taralga trek late in the arvo. All good with this one.
Thanks for the cache

International Geocaching Day today so Joolay and I headed out to grab a bunch of caches. Goulburn parkrun first and then caching. Finished off the Taralga series and grabbed some others on our list. TFTC

Out and about with Kittykatch and decided to go back to finish the Taralga Trail. It was a very chilly, windy day to be out and about but still good to see some country views. We knew there was some rain about and for some got a bit damp but mostly beat the rain. Thanks for getting us out and about.

10716 and 11th of 19 found today.

FFP and I decided to take the day off today to do something different. So we were originally heading to Young but my mate was away so we headed to Wombeyan Caves instead. Of course whenever a cacher heads away they normally do a PQ or caches along a route and away we go.

And that's what we did.

Nice that most, if not all, this series had good safe places to pull over and the co-ords were good as were the containers.

Happy to say that FFP (lapsed cacher) helped me find a couple that had me scratching my head.

A lot of work went in to this series so thank you for that and thank you for placing the cache gazza959 and the nose.

Number #3 for the day as we toured around. Another quick find here and we were off.
TFTS

Nice vista

A quick scramble up the bank saw me well above, after an adjustment we soon had cache in hand and I swear the temperature just dropped 10 degrees

#5,525

We made this one much more difficult than was needed. But it was fun to climb the mulch piles .

Thanks

At the moment there is a wall of mulch that has been dumped at the base of the slope. So we clambered over the mulch and made or way up tot he fence line, then walked along it, only to find ourselves looking at the cache further down the sloped. We made our way down and got the usual caching things done. Thanks

Needing a concentrated area to tick off enough smileys to make a dent in the Mythical Creatures challenge, k.e-a26 joined me for a “quick” run around Goulburn, Taralga and Crookwell. Sun shining, wind icy but enough PnGs and by nightfall we had ticked off 50 finds. When I had passed along this road a year ago, I had been more intent on tackling TRLT (south) than starting this, at the time, partially completed power trek, but after an impromptu invite recently for the Trek Too section with HappyUke, decided to return today and finally tick off the north/south run. Sent k.ea on a tangent while the arrow settled only to call her back closer to where I was now sinking into the dumped mulch embankment.

The last for the night. Hilarious effort where we managed to look everywhere but Gz.

Some friends staged a coup and conned me into coming out caching tonight. So glad they did. We have had a wonderful night! Out with Countrykittykat, lovetherabbitohs, and EMT.

Found with a great group of friends

Had done a big whack of this series a fair while ago, but notice now that there are more! So decided to come out and collect some more of them today! Not sure it was a good day for it, what with the extremely fierce - super icy cold wind (and not to mention the constant horizontal drizzle). Not that I really got wet, the wind dried me as fast as the rain could wet me! The car said it was averaging 3-4 degrees outside, but with the wind chill, I recon it felt like -10! One thing I though odd was that many of the wind turbines around here were stationary! (Others were going flat chat!). I would have thought on a day like today, they would all be going flat out! Maybe I need to report a needs maintenance .

Nice quick find here, thanks G959.

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A massive day was planned to clean up the area around Goulburn and do all of the Taralga trek. Started with a parkrun in Goulburn and then took the clockwise loop to Crookwell, Laggan, Taralga and back to Goulburn. Weather wasn't really on my side, cold and partly wet, but no soaking rain so I pushed through. Great caches and a good series with lots of different containers and hiding spots. I had a great day, thanks to all the cache owners for putting out the caches.
TFTC Wilbert67

The Rats, steeba and Hoojar once again teamed up for another fun day of caching in the highlands. With our intended target being the Taralga Trek we made our way to Goulburn late on Saturday where we grabbed a few local caches before heading out to Peejar Dam where a very chilly night was spent under the stars. Sunday had us snaking our way around the Upper Lachalan area of Crrokwell and Taragla before heading back to Wollongong to complete our 24 hour adventure.


Thanks to all the CO's for your cache placement, they added to gtreat day out with the boys.

Out and about on a 24-hour spree with The Rats and Steeba. We headed down to Goulburn on Saturday night to grab a few of the local caches that we had not yet collected, and then out to Peejar to spend a cool night under the stars. Sunday morning we went into Crookwell for breakfast, before following the Trek series into Taralga, and back to Goulburn. Finally we headed for home via a few more caches in the Highlands.

I ended up with a touch over 100 caches in the 24 hours away from home (100 was my goal, as I work towards 10,000). Some excellent caches were found. Thanks to all of the caches owners for their efforts.



Cheers

Another little caching sojourn with The Rats and Hoojar- not quite a weekend away but with a night out. We started in the darkness in Goulburn before camping at Pejar, into Croowell in the morning then across to Taralga and back to Goulburn via the Taralga Trek. Some nice countryside! Then back to Goulburn and slowly made our way back via the highlands and a few more find.

TFTC!

OCW Stumble'sMate for an epic geocaching trip. As usual, our day was alot longer than anticipated but that's what you get when you geocache. Sorry for the delay in logging! TFTC all.

OCW StumbleTrip today. Our aim was to do the trip between Goulburn, Taralga, Laggan, Crookwell and back Goulburn. All up we attempted 67 caches of which 4 were DNF's. Time wise we took way longer than we had calculated but then we didn't really have a time limit! Thanks to the cache owners for placing all the caches we attempted today!

#11288 Found and Logged at 8:18:00 AM
One of 68 cachers for the day on the roads less traveled from Goulburn to Taralga then Laggon and Crookwell then back to Goulburh
A great day to be out caching
Thanks for the cache / series gazza959
Lgoody

Found after an overnight stop at Crookwell and playing Lawn Bowls Pennants. Very windy to-day .Blowing so hard it was very hard to stand in the one stop. No wonder this area is used for wind Farms. TFTC

Found on a drive around from Goulburn to Taralga to Laggan to Crookwell and back to Goulburn. TFTC and for the series.

Found with Roostaman while visiting the area.
Thanks for the cache.

Heading to Morrisset for the Mega we picked up a few caches along the way with Roostaman and this was one of them.

While staying at Goulburn we travelled to Taraga. We made an easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

**# 20640** Found on the start of our mega adventure to ACT, NSW, QLD and beyond.
Today was a good day for a drive to Taralga with Tassie Trekkers.
Lots of muggles around today and a good variety of hides.
Thanks for the cache and the series gazza959,
***Roostaman***

GPS was jumpy but not a tough find for all that. TFTC.

Nice day out with caching family TFTC!

Out around Taralga for the day caching along the way, all smilies and not one missed. Thank you to all COs for placing caches in our path today.
Cache in good order.
OCWF SL TNL1. TFTC - Dropped TB Misty the dog to continue its travels.

*Noted: That the pirate tb as listed in this cache is Not in residence here. Judging from its page someone picked it up and took it to the Alice Springs event. CO should mark it as missing for the owner with a note of its last sightings.*

Found ourselves heading toward Taralga and thought what better time to grab everything in this series. The weather was on our side and we never missed a beat. We left home mid-morning and were sitting pretty in Taralga before lunchtime. A good series. Thanks for the caches.

This year (2018) I have been trying to get more caches to boost my total finds. This weekend I decided to do all the caches from Goulburn to Taralga to Laggan to Crookwell to Wayo to Goulburn. Sadly I was going to do this trip on the Saturday but Geowife (Blueiris) was feeling unwell and I stayed home to look after her. Today 21/1/2018 she was feeling better so we headed out to complete the previous day’s plans. I wanted to try and get 69 caches in total. I left home at 0630 and headed to Goulburn for a lovely McDonalds breakfast before starting the massive caching day. The first cache of the day was GC74HCZ, a quick find and almost all the finds for the day were quick. I wanted to set a fast pace of approximately 8 minutes per cache including driving time. I am happy to let everyone know that I got a total of 72 caches for the day in 12 hours exactly. Not a bad effort at all if you ask me. The wildlife along the trip was fantastic. The animals that I spotted consisted of Wombats, Kangaroos, Wallabies, various Lizards, Spiders and so many bird species that I could not possibly name then all. The first part of the trip was also done in thick smoke from the Taralga Fire. This fire has burnt about 960 hectares (about 2372 acres). The bushfire was burning about eight Kms to the north-east of Taralga and north of Bannaby Road area. It was burning through bush and grassland in a south-westerly direction. Fire crews from Taralga were fighting the fire with additional crews from Marulan and Bungonia joining in to help. These crews consisted of 77 fire fighters supported by numerous aircraft and heavy machinery. Smoke from the fire could be seen from up to 200kms away. Anyway enough chit chat, thanks for the cache and for making my caching experience today so much more fun. Please keep up the good work by putting out more caches. Sorry for the generic logs but with so many caches found in one day it is impossible to put private logs for them all. Signed the cache DSD, Darkside or Darksidedan depending how big the logbook was and how much room there was in it.

**## Found Cache No. 1883 ##
(Caches Found Today: 18 OF 62)
Streak Day: 765
DNF Today: 0**

On a day trip with Snoopy1976 today and decided to do this series and a few extra on the way home. Thanks for placing these caches.

Streak Day #1654 - Out with dave today to get my numbers up to 5000 for the OZ geomuster. Quick find. TFTC

Found 19:32 20/1/18 with SimpsonFamily15. Nice parking here. Thank you gazza959 for the cache.

Quick find with Mr windy after pulling into the rest area. Can see the Taralga fire growing in the distance it’s concerning.