Taralga Trek Too: T28 Laggan, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 27-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7BENT

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.TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Reperio 16:12Today 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. Enjoyed the trek series.Gratias gazza959As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Great find. With 165ARBIn good order. TFRC

TFTC Enjoying the journey.

TFTC - Found on this gorgeous sunny day. I’m staying with a friend in Crookwell and such a good chance to find a few caches today. Cache dry and in great condition:)

#19797 @1115
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.

I don't know how we missed this one when we did the trail but now they are all yellow. TFTC

We did not have much time for caching today but had to get this one to complete the series. TFTC

Easy find. No thorns. Thanks Gazza.

Tftc with drobbo staying at the local pub.

Tftc. Followed the geotrail. With Kimmy.

New baggie. Log dry. Good to go

Day 4 of a 4 day geocaching bender for Team Doodads (Garbageman and 2 geokids). Today we started in Goulburn, pulled a loop through Crookwell, and headed home to Newcastle via the Southern Highlands. A 70 cache day, which was a fair effort for two quite tired kids.

A quick park and grab. TNLN TFTC

Quick find TFTC
Bag is ripped
Log is dry

Needs a bit of repair

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. ??

Yesterday afternoon we started the Taralga Trek series about before the light became too dim, we had found half of them. This afternoon we returned with the aim of finishing the series. We started earlier than yesterday to give us a little more time.

Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks gazza959 for the cache and the series.

#11378 - 1:03:00 PM; 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

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 or some such thing.

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.

Found easily.

TFTC

Found him

Found him

Good

Good

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

After three miserable weather weekends in a row, I had to get out and do some caching on this glorious day. I travelled back here today to finish the series I had started a few days ago. A nice quick find, thanks gazza 959.

Quick find while out exploring Crookwell and surrounds. TFTC

Top spot. Tftc

Cool

We were looking this morning and saw there were lots of caches in this area that we had yet to find. So off we went and most of them are now completed. Thank you for all the efforts in putting these out there we had lots of fun.

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.

Decided to take a drive to Goulburn, along the back road.
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* [^]

Quick park and grab - a bit of a geotrail TFTC.

Found on a caching trip with 2 members in attendance

TFTC

Found with Squires Squire MoSSau and NSW Lone Rovers on a chilly days caching

Tftc

A nice easy find TFTVC

Thanks for the cache found with SS and Lonely RA

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.

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

Who wants to go to Taralga today
I guess I did as the caches were taking me that way

Not far from Laggan,
and this cache was flaggin',
so I stopped to find it

TFTC.

We're camping at some quiet locations and great little towns that should lead us to the Mega at Queanbeyan.

Cache was found with excellent coords and in great condition.

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 4849 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

Thanks gazza959 for the cache and the fun!

We completed the Taralga Trek yesterday before continuing on to the Wombeyan Caves, and so after having spent most of today exploring the Caves and then returning to Taralga this was our next geoaching trail to undertake. This one was a nice quick find 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

TFTC

Quickly found. Didn't run over any of the pikes.

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

Tftc a quick find

Got it

Besides the prickles trying to make a grab of its own the cache was quickly found. Mr Stormcatcher did a nice face plant after tripping on a hidden icy log, that is what happens when you don't pay attention! TFTS

#5,555

We again parked beyond this one, and had to walk back & cross over for a quick find.

Thanks

Almost in Laggan. We crossed the road and the cache said peek-a-boo! Thanks

tftc! little awkward to pull up at. suggest pulling into driveway a bit before it

Out and about with Happy Uke again today to get some caches. We had Mizmaz along to help out along the way.

Thanks for this one.

As I was driving home late last night from a very long and tiring day caching around Batemans Bay ticking off my 5000th milestone, got a text from HappyUke with an invite to join her and Finalf29 for a spontaneous cache run today. Possibly too tired to think sensibly but knowing they would do all the planning, driving and navigating, I readily agreed as the proposed PT numbers (plus a few others) would help with the mythical creatures challenge. Started the day up to Gryphon status and 40 smileys later I had the Dragon (with ten towards the last souvenir).

A big day out with Mizmaz and Finalf29 was organised (last night) to knock off a few caches in the "Hidden Creatures" challenge. We had a fantastic day with lovely weather, great caches and wonderful company... I think we are all talked out now! Thanks to all the CO's. We got forty for the day.

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!

Found -- 5:02:00 PM -- Thanks for the hunt and Thanks for bringing us here to this location gazza959.

**Cache Condition:** Good.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Swag.
**Trackables:** None seen in this cache today.

**The Cache**
Another quick find on the home straight. I think we startled the boys in blue here as we parked on the downhill side as it appeared the uphill was too narrow. With the afternoon sun in your eyes they kind of quickly slowed down in such a way as to be caught by surprise. Another glance a few minutes later and they returned to our location. OOppps I think i'm in trouble for parking in what in hindsight was a silly place at that time of day. But the return was to check all was well here. They didn't know about caching. I seem to have a knack of running into them in rural areas while caching and causing them to stop and check on us. Country hospitality, can't pass that by. It's good they check as you wouldn't want to be in a troubled situation. Last time it was the Taralga fellow who knew about the game and has an relative into it. SL and returned cache to its hide'y hole. Filled with some swag.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Kitten* and *DustyJapserJet*. Arrived in Goulburn at midday and grabbed a bite to eat in order to sustain us for this afternoons trek, and off we went to Taralga, arriving 50 minutes later. I have had caching plans for these school holidays but Hubz told me it was going to rain - gaahhh - it hasn't till today, so I have got very little done. This morning I was in a real dither and really bothered about the weather and whether I would pack the tent and go to Yass, but it was all a major headache dampened by weather and having guests tomorrow afternoon - gaahhh ! Looking out the window to cold weather and dark clouds, I eventually got a bright idea and figured it would satisfy thy sullen soul. A trip to Taralga became the order of the day and stuff the weather. That was the best decision I have made all day [^] !!!! The weather was sunny, warm and just beautiful. Thy spirits were suitably lifted and a brilliant afternoon was had. [^] The movies tomorrow to see *Peter Rabbit* will top this weekend off nicely and I will be home to see our guests. Win, win.

23 = 22 1 0 [8)] not attempted.

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***Respect peoples caches - money, time and effort that has gone into them.***

OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *Little Kitten*. SL. TFTCH.

I have found that cache

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!

Having done the Goulburn to Taralga leg last year we took the chance to do this next section whilst on the way to Katoomba. had to miss a few as we were in our Motorhome and parking can be tricky in a vehicle that size. TFTC.

Found with O319 on our week away. TFTC!

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

#3911 12th 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

#11318 Found and Logged at 10:47:00 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.

**# 20693** Found on the start of our mega adventure to ACT, NSW, QLD and beyond.
Today was another fine day for a drive to Crookwell and Taralga with Tassie Trekkers.
Less muggles around today and a good variety of hides again.
Thanks for the cache and the series gazza959,
***Roostaman***

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 via Crookwell. We made an easy find at GZ.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

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. Need to park carefully and watch the traffic if crossing the road. TFTC

Out and about on a warm day grabbing these caches, we found some really good caches today, it was a awesome day to be a cacher, thanx to the cache placers for making the day what it was , awesome
cheers from the Routers

Find 2564 16 February 2018 3:08 pm
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords made for a quick find.
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959

Not an easy pick up, but a pick up nonetheless. 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.

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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 in good order. Another with no parking, ok if you can time the day right.
OCWF SL TNLN. TFTH

Second leg of the series. Heading Taralga to Lagan. No real problems with traffic in the dead of the afternoon so all pickups were quite easy. Grateful for the attention each container was given. Thanks for the caches, and the really nice series.

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. 1914 ##
(Caches Found Today: 49 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

Great series TFTC gazza959

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

TFTC,
Almost there.
Time for the second part of our Trek as we move Too: Laggan without any rain.
I had a fun day out with Aries44, Mrs Aries, Nana Nel, PPRASS and Grub Fred with this series but due to weather we weren't able to fully complete the section Goulburn to Taralga. When it rained, we did however move ahead and enjoy Brunch at Taralga after a few caches at the Goulburn end.
Creates a good reason to return and stay in the area again.
Visited a group of trackables.

OCW Mrs Aries, Nana Nel and wazza9. We had fun with this series but due to weather we weren't able to fully complete the section Goulburn to Taralga. Must be a good reason for Mrs A and self to return Visited some Tb's and dropped a London bus TB. TFTCS gazza959.

Camping nearby, decided to do some this series, rain interrupted some, while we had coffee. Signed log and replaced, thanks to gazza959