Taralga Trek: Strathairn Myrtleville, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 20-Jun-17. Waypoint GC77KBG

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

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

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.Thanks!

Townsville to grab the Palm Island LGA. Now only 2 LGAs to complete Australia.Back around Canberra and doing some side trips.TFTC. A return trip from Oberon to Goulburn with 60 caches including a CITO, 2 ECs, a multi and many interesting trads. Firstly along the highway and then through the pine forest plantation tracks. Amazing scenery with lots of deer, emus, roos and rabbits.Nice quick find

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: Quick find. Everything was in good condition. Log signed, and everything was returned as found.TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Staying at Taralga and hunting down some caches in the rain. TFTC

Reperio 18:24Today 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

It is finally a bit cooler so we are doing a bit of caching on the way to Goulburn. Thanks gazza 959.

It has been hard to get the energy for anything, but cooler weather we are able to get out and find some caches. TFTC

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!

Quick find at GZ. The stream was a bit full here! TFTC gazza959!

Find#4917
Nice hiding place
Found with Toyhunters
Thanks for the cache

#19777 @0905
Using up a day of 'extra' leave (before I lose it at the end of the month) to top up my find numbers for the day. Cached from Goulburn to Laggan via Taralga picking up over 40 caches in total. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Nice easy find. Thanks, gazza.

Time to clear up a few more of this series returning from Oberon to Goulburn for lunch.
All were found safe and in good condition with the exception of one DNF, logged separately, where timing constraints were not our friend today.

TFTC and the great series gazza959, looking forward to completing this series on our next visit.

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

#11348 - 10:31:00 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

Not us!

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 7168 logged from cgeo:

Found

TFTC

TFTC - risked the snakes and it paid off.

Tftc quick park and grab

Finally made the trip around Goulburn, Taralga and Laggan. A big day on the road with lots of caches found. Thanks For The Caches!

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.

Very wet here after overnight rain. Thanks for the hint about parking.

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.

Followed geotrails and there it was TFTC

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.

The exotic trees and birds certainly appreciate the pool of grotty water around here, lots of twittering and a couple of croaks coming from underneath. 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.

[:(!] 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

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

Great day out with woolwood9 on the Taralga Trek today.
Big thank you to gazza959 for all the good caches, nicely placed.
SL Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ

*Strath* mate !! [:o]
How many Strath's are there out this way ??

Hang on !!
I'll Googly "Strath" and find out what it means

Oh !!
"A strath is a large valley, typically a river valley that is wide and shallow."
So anyone with a property next to said river valley can just add a suffix to make a name that sounds garlic
Oops !!
Gaelic

Logbook signed ...
... thanks for the *strath-cache*

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

AngelG27, Tankengine and I decided to hit the trails near Canberra to pick up some numbers. It was an awesome team - TEs driving skills, AngelG27s food delights and I guess I was just there for my sparkling personality??? Anyway it was a great day out and I loved being with my friends.

Trails aren't my favourite way to cache, but doing it with friends makes it not so bad. I have to admit too that a lot of the caches on this trail were also a little different than just a mint tin or sistema under a rock and so for a powertrail this was a nice one.

All the caches were in good order and the coords were good enough to find the cache - unless otherwise mentioned. Tftc gazza959!!!

Cache 4823 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: quick find under the foliage

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. Our GPS homed us in nicely on the cache which was quickly located 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

Nice quick park and grab. Tripping from
Wombeyan caves to Goulburn with Geokid. TFTC

After a wonderful weekend camping, caving, swimming and hiking with outdoor adventure church in Wombeyan Caves, popular demand ensured that we stop in for a few caches on our way back home.

Found with: Nibletricecakes, K8tybee, Cryp1, Cstebbings, Sneakysquirral3325, Snow15, AndAGuest


This one was tricky! we were looking on the wring side of the road, down in the gully, you name it. lucky for us K8tybee was on the ball and used her initive to find us the cache.

After a wonderful weekend camping, caving, swimming and hiking with outdoor adventure church in Wombeyan Caves, popular demand ensured that we stop in for a few caches on our way back home.

Found with the crew:
Princessmarriette, K8tybee, Cryp1, Cstebbings
Sneakysquirral3325, Snow15, AndAGuest

We made this one much harder than it needed to be exploring the gully (a dirt in pants experience) from all 4 possible angles of the bridge. Only for K8tybee to realise the actual likely GZ. Doh. Got there in the end. Glad to have a smiley on this one. Tftc

TFTC!

Went down the gulley, mistake.
Went over the road, mistake.
Nearly got tagged by a car, mistake.
Found the cache, not a mistake

This trip is now known for our detours, we’ve been at Wombeyan Caves and while driving to Nowra via Canberra we decided we needed some caches for NRC’s streak... TFTC!

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 …

Quickly spotted a user friendly geotrail which led straight to the cache.
Made our mark & replaced as found.

TFTC gazza959

Well this is a different gate . A bit difficult to pull off the road totally so luckily it was a quick find. Left some toys for the geokiddies. 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.

3114 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.
Cache is on South side of the cteek.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
31 August 2018 1:46 pm

Fresh cold windy morning on day 2 of the taralga trek. All good with this one.
Thanks for the cache

Still enjoying sunset as we signed the log. TFTS

Parking was tricky but we managed. A short search and cache was in hand and our trip along the n/s part of the trek was slowly coming to an end

#5,532

It seems that our overshooting this spot and having to walk back gave us the safest parking option.

Thanks

We overshot this one slightly, so we parked beyond the bridge and walked back across it to find the cache easily. 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.

First Time in Australia. Today in Crookwell
Gemeinsam mit bomi58 ein paar Dosen dieser Gegend eingesammelt. Dieser Cache konnte sich nicht lange vor uns verstecken. TFTC

Zusammen mit Rio2013 war ich in Australien for Sightseeing und zum Cachen. Dabei haben wir auch hier gesucht und gefunden.
Heute haben wir diesen Trail begonnen.
Greetings from Germany!
TFTC bomi58

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!

Geocaching buddy StrangTrousers and I headed off for a bit of caching on what turned out to be a cold – dam cold and windy day. So good to finally get that number. The road has been long to get here. Today’s journey was a loop Taralga Trek series via Goulburn, Crookwell, Laggan and Taralga. The 1000th cache mentioned a rock – so apt with geocaching. A glass of something with bubbles in it to celebrate a lunch before the final push using the last hours of daylight. What a day! Loved every minute of it even with the wind and the cold. Big thank you to StrangTrousers for the company and hours of driving.

TFTC gazza959

#3933 34th for today

I joined CBRChic for a return to the Taralga Trek series via Goulburn, Crookwell, Laggan and Taralga. On the way home we took a detour via Currawang to grab a few caches out that way. CBRChic was keen to reach her 1000th find & today she smashed through that milestone before lunch and added a healthy bite into the next 1000. Glad I could help. We enjoyed an impromptu glass of sparkling white at a Taralga pub in celebration.
The weather this weekend has been pretty horrible. Today was no exception with bitterly cold gusty winds and occasional showers. Just a week ago it was hovering around 30C, but today the wind chill had us in wintery conditions.



Thanks to the COs: gazza959

#11295 Found and Logged at 8:45:00 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.

**# 20644** 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***

Finished the ES series with Kittykatch and did a road trip via Boorowa to do this series. We left it a bit late I think but it was a nice drive in the country and good to get some of these done. TFTC

Joolay and I had a lot of fun picking up these caches today. TFTC

Easy find in the late afternoon. TFTC.

It's been a while since the FFLL team have been able to do an assault together, we had a break in our calendar so we decided to arrange a geomission with Rapidlywild and clear out in and around Goulburn. We left Canberra at a decent hour and headed up the highway, the weather was a little cloudy along the way and the storm clouds seemed to follow us. So there was a few showery spots. As usual the day was fun and lots of laughs were had.


A quick run through the new placements. This series was enjoyable, and better to do in the daytime, and the passing showers kept us cool. There were a couple of places where the pull off was skinny for a big car, although we didn;t take nay unnecessary risks now that we were without a spare tyre. We had no real issues locating the hides, all signed and replaced.

Thanks for the series gazza959, and our apologies for the generic logs.

Plans were put into place with both the ladies from FurfacesLL to do a little run on Goulburn and surrounds. We had our sights set the remainder of the Taralga Trek (and Taralga Trek Too) as well as collecting the last few WPs of the "JDogMonkey's Tour of Goulburn" multi. Was a nice fun day out and about with sunshine, cold winds, spats of rain, a punctured tire and lots of laughter.

Time to head up and finish off this series. We had collected the first release of these caches after a big caching weekend up the coast a while back now, then the second release was published. We didnt have any issues locating the caches, signing them and replacing them. We found parking at a few a little risky as it is hard to identify if the series is supposed to be done in the Northern direction or the Southern direction. Either way, we got the series completed today, apologies for the generic logs on this series.

Thanks for the cache hide gazza959

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 log damp, weird as the container is dry, maybe someone had it out in the rain.
OCWF SL TNLN. TFTC

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. 1890 ##
(Caches Found Today: 25 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 18:50 20/1/18 with SimpsonFamily15. No snakes in the grass on the way in. Thank you gazza959 for the cache.

Quick find but something has died! Stinky!

I had a lot of fun with this trail today All the caches were well hidden, but easy enough finds. the hints definitely helped with some I got them all collected before lunch time despite the rain Thanks for placing and maintaining this series

Find No: 6424. Visiting from Newcastle, staying in Wingello State Forest for "Let's Wing It, Again" event, thanks for the cache gazza959!!

Found at 11:34 AM GAFF1 with Grub Fred.
After a big night at the Wingello camp, we gathered a group together and headed off to do this series. We were supposed to be with Nana Nel, wazza9 and Aries44, but a little rain caused that group to head for the comfort of a tea room in Taralga - not very committed are they
Enjoyed the series and the thoughful placement of the caches with good parking - except for 2 or 3 of 'em
Had a fantastic lunch at the Taralga pub which fortified ourselves for the west bound leg of the series.
Thanks gazza959.

Day 7 of our caching xmas blitz. Looking forward to this string of caches and seeing some new countryside. Thanks for all the effort in placing and maintaining this series. Ths grass here is taller than me! Tftc

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 gazza959 for placing this cache for us to enjoy
TFTC !!

31 December 2017 @ 6:00 pm
Caching buddy: Bonfire7

He said just follow the geotrail and another qaepag signed
TFTC gazza959

Set out to do the Taralga Trek. A quick find, signed log and replaced, TFTC.