Sutherland Shire FTF Hounds #11 Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
By GeodudeAU on 21-Sep-17. Waypoint GC7CHBB

A DNF disappointing. BlacknWhite spied a possum up in the trees watching it sort of made up for the DNF.TFTC

OCW [Platyfly,](https://www.geocaching.com/p/?guid=80a2adae-e405-45f3-8f78-92cf1a588444) and our first DNF for the day.No Smiley for us this time around but we did see a possum in the tree above us at GZMany thanks for the adventure GeodudeAU

Team Groodle found it. Next.

Kecaps nasel.Vse o cele serii u kesky GC6XTEF. spreeuv & kecaps from Czech republic, Europe. Děkuji za kešku, TFTC! 11:36 hod.

kecaps & spreeuv from Czech republice. Děkujeme za kešku, TFTC!

A challenging find today.

This little quackery sure needs to lay its egg soon before it explodes
Note to others, finding these caches on tournament days means lots of people with guns you have to avoid, lots of time spent crouching in the bushes hoping not to be seen....fluoro pink blends in doesn't it?

Went about the clue a bit incorrectly at first, but found the hide at a lower level than we initially started looking at - TFTC

Got a fav from me.. TFTC

Added a logsheet, yesterday.

A quick find today, after a slow DNF last year. TFTC Geodude

Right there

Very fuuny

Haha that one was EGGsellent
Cache signed and returned may need new log.

Yippie

Log is full and a bit ripped

Out doing this power trail with VicRoadnight and MinimumChips, friends from work. I had met MinimumChips years ago, and we had been geocaching together in WA last year. Then I met VicRoadnight over dinner a few weeks ago when I asked if anyone wanted to go out to see the full/super/blood moon/lunar eclipse. We had a great day out together! Finally sitting down to log these caches in August as I travel around the country...

Found with queenk8 and minimumchips, nice quick find. Understand the hint of don't crack me! Exactly where we thought it would be TFTC

Found with VictoriaRoadNight and Queen Kate. TFTC

Had a reasonable search both high and low. Too well hidden for me. TFTH

After attending the recreational club next door, being in need of a cache for my streak, this conveniently placed hide was a perfect option.

Also a lovely coincidence to see this was my mate Lokied’s first FTF.

Tftc.

Didn’t find it

Another quick one. Sorry for the short logs but I’m trying to get all 40 done. TFTC.

POWER TRAIL DAY! Flying solo while gremlindaddy takes gremlinkids to gymnastics and their dance lessons. Poor little buddy needs urgent TLC. Amazingly the log is dry. Found space and signed. TFTC but please help this one to become whole again.

J

First one for today. Thanx

Found it. TFTC

Thanks GeodudeAU. Spotted quickly and one less degree to find in the 360 degrees challenge.

Needs serious maintenance.

Day of geocaching with breeze through

TFTC

Out for a geocaching trail on a stunning Saturday. No 11 down. Love this idea. Pray for our safety with sat morning traffic!

TFTC

Container is cute but very cracked.

Found on a perfect Winter day for a drive down to the Gong and surrounds.
Met up with fitzy65 and minniek for a fun day out and a big caching adventure.
A few good safe hides and not many muggles around.
Cache condition is OK/good.
Thanks for the cache GeodudeAU,
***Roostaman***

Headed out for a days caching with fitzy_1965 and Roostaman.

Quick find here today ....parking was a bit precarious though.

20,888. Found during a caching loop from Moss Vale, Wollongong and up to the Sutherland Shire with minniek and our caching Mate from Wagga - Roostaman !!

I mentioned to Roostaman - who was in Moss Vale for a few days caching - that we were heading down Wollongong way for a few specific caches, and we decided to team up again for what turned out to be a pretty epic day. Heading up the highway now and we started the SSFTFH Power Trail. The traffic was picking up now and parking was 'fun' ! Quick find at GZ. Needs some TLC.

TFTC GeodudeAU !!

Needs maintenance. Container is broken and the log was laying in the dirt and was quite wet. TFTC.

Found today on a trip to Sydney to try out my new car.

TFTC GeodudeAU

Quick find thanks

I have been spying this power trail for a while. Today was much cooler than it has been so I decided to take the opportunity to get as much of it done as possible. I got a good start today but after being covered in spider webs I called it a day. I’ll finish it off another day.

Quick find. TFTC.

Thanks interesting cache TFTC

Well after a day at a conference today was my free day to grab a few caches around the Sydney area. My first target was the Sunderland ftf trail and after that the plan was to go through the suburbs grabbing a few caches on the way back to the hotel. Ended up with 73 for the day plus a few dnfs, which is hard work on your own.

Tftc and making my day so enjoyable.

The caches on the Sunderland ftf trail were brilliant. So much work into making some of them.

Cutest catche yet thanks heaps

Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *GeodudeAU*.

Finally back to make the final find on this cache that I didn't have time to find last time I was here. With the Treasures up for grabs and I've not yet had an opportunity to get out and raid the countryside today was set aside. I had planned to grab some closer to home but then realised I had not completed this *Sutherland Shire FTF Hounds* series from my last trip. Wow I cannot believe it has been exactly 2 years since the fires and when I was first here (13 Sept 2018). I really wish I had come back sooner when the area was all burnt out. The caches were so much easier to find and the terrain was brilliant to walk on, no bush bashing like now - incredible difference. My phone gps couldn't decide whether I was 2 metres or 7 metres from the cache. I found it a tad challenging finding the caches but persisted, although I did find a couple of them quite easily much to my relief. We signed the log in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found. OCW *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet*.

Took awhile to find this one! Container is getting a little fragile!

Took a bit of hunting but Pitman Clan found it first in the end. TFTC

Took a while. jumpy gps!! Got there but . TFTC

Quick grab after ducking into the bushes with Wheatz

Last Juan for today... had to duck to find it

On the way back from Sutherland today. Picking us a few caches which have gone down since I was down this way last. 11th for the day. TFTC

Out collecting clues for the mystery at the museum today. Making quite good progress, thanks for your contributions to this pt GeodudeAU xo

I backed up into the long grass to ensure I wasn't parked within the signs and made my way across. I wondered if this was going to be a chirp cache - I love them. But no just a little something else sitting waiting. TFTC GeodudeAU # 14,183

I decided to take myself on a little drive along this road studded with caches - I could not believe how busy it was, I had to be very careful pulling off the road and back into traffic. Great set of hides. TFTC!!

Found it

This was the last day of our current geocaching holiday in Australia, and so we couldn't resist the opportunity to make the most of the last few hours we had before heading off to the airport to fly back home to search for the first 26 caches in this series. It was a crazy road to cache on with the traffic being so busy and fast, and so with the close spacing of the caches it really felt like playing dodgems as well as geocaching! It didn’t take long to home in on and find this one. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and greetings from Zimbabwe

Hit up this powertrail today.
Good hides, and good fun.

Always fun caching with friends.
Catching up on logging.
OCWF&F TFTC

Tackled the 'Sutherland Shire FTF Hounds' powertrail today.

Pros:
Variety (users and containers)
Coordinates (pretty accurate)
Great to see the regeneration here after the fires!

Cons:
Dangerous road (100km/h, high traffic area, limited shoulder space)
Pollution (rubbish and car parts)

We were stopped by the Australian Federal Police, but after explaining what Geocaching is, they let us go on to continue the rest of the trail.

Thanks!

Trip away with woolwood9 and slowly heading to the Clear Waters MEGA.
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ.
Another nice find for us today, thanks for putting this cache out.

Really felt unsafe in places on this trail - the traffic was crazy!!

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

TFTC.

Out caching with the grandsons. Easy find.

Easy find with my grandparents

Lol cute easy find

TFTC

#10 on this powertrail. TFTC

So sorry to all COs for my tardiness in logging my finds, it has been a very hectic time, therefore I will be pasting this message on all 37 outstanding logs. The majority of finds were with Deep_99 unless he is the CO or I was out of town. TFTC SL #3847 on streak day #2346

found with Ris768 for our cache of the day Thanks GeodudeAU for placing this cache


Log 1709 Streak Day 706

With 30 in the FTF series, it was time to give this trail a crack. I had Team MavEtJu with me to lend another pair of eyes and hands and we made it from 30 to 1 in 3hr 15min. There were a few uncomfortably-close-to-speeding-traffic moments which does detract from the journey but it’s not really a park and grab scenario either.

Based on the cache name I thought I should be looking up, but that lead me on a wild goose chase. Once the container was found I “gently” did what was required to sign the log and then tucked it away safely.

Thanks GeodudeAU for being a FTF hound and participating in the series.

lucky ducky to be safe from those horrible bush fires! SL TFTC

Took to this one like a duck to water. TFTC GeodudeAU

This was a good weekday cache to find with no activity at the local shooting club. Nicely themed for its location, thanks

13/09/2018 -- NOT a DNF more like a NA (Not Attempted) -- As Arnie says "I'll be back."
Didn't have time to find this one today.

**The Day**
Woke up this morning bright and early and wondered what to do today - ah yes, I'll go geocaching, and why not visit a trackables hotel and run the **Sutherland Shire FTF Hound(s) Track**, so I bounced out of bed and looked at the sky, very foggy and overcast looking, but I heard the sun was going to shine, and shine it did.
Gorgeous day and quite warm while on the trail. Had four left to find, and desperately wanted to knock them off, but I know there will be more caches coming out and after missing this find I figured the remainder didn't matter next time will do. Had to cut the day short anyway and urgently get home.

27 = 22 1 4 [8)] not attempted.

Found while OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *Little Kitten*. Thanks for the cache hide.

Quick find.

TFTF

Find number 4179.

The Booos are our enjoying the day and picking up some quick caches.

Thanks GeodudeAU for placing this cache.

Found with u_c and gm10

As I edge my way closer to a milestone, I decided to head up here today with my bike to ride this series. I was pleasantly surprised to knock it over in just over an hour.

Cheers

found with btm and u_c

found with btm and gm10

I could hear the birds chirping but do you think I could find one? Well I did, but the one I found is not in the best of health, very brittle, but he did give me a log to sign. That’s a wrap for today - 25 from 25! And no weigh in required - luckily for me.

Nice cache container Log and cache are in good condition.

Tackled the Power Trail on a sunny Winter afternoon. Managed to grab all 23 posted to date. Thanks.

TFTC,
Quick find, visited trackables.

trying to finish this series, signed the log and replaced.,. Thanks to GeodudeAU.

Fire affected

Not what I expected but it did stand out.

TFTC

Ironbark.

I've attempted this one today with the car
It was quite hard stopping along this narrow road, there seemed to be nowhere being able to stop safely
A CITO cache event would have been appropriate here, there is so much rubbish everywhere here

Thank you
Team sissifalke

I had a big day of caching plan up north at the mysteries for the OZ GEOMUSTER but it was going to be far to hot and I wake up exhausted from hard week at work so I took off south from home. I started with some on the Alford Point bridge and have worked my way around to here number 1 on the power trail. I'm after numbers because I want my 2000th find to be the muster at Easter. TFTC
I just loved all these caches they were different and interesting to find thanks to all the wonderful Cachers who have placed them. One thing I hate this type of environment and on a hot day I was even more scared. But all was good.
Fav Point from me. Took me long then it should have phone was all over the place.

Found with WaywardWoman on a caching day out. A bit distracted with the Clay shooting happening nearby. Looked near GZ then WW found it. Very cute. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

#4497- Out caching with thomo31 on this trail this morning. We saw the sign for the clay birds and knew we were close. After a few minutes, we turned up the cute little one. Being the middle of the trail, we now drove to the other end so we were on the right side of the road again. Thanks

OCW Rodney1210. Little Zed would’ve loved this one! According to him, all birds make this sound! After circle GZ, Rodney came up with the super cute cache. TFTC!

OCW Coastblue. Finally getting to do this Powertrail that I’ve heard so much about. Our last one for this trail. After a little bit of searching we had that dirty little birdy in our hot little hands. This has been a great Powertrail. Can’t to do more when this trail is built upon. Cache# 755 TFTC

Streak Day #1695 - Out here nabbing some caches towards getting to the 5000 milestone for the OZ geomuster this year. Cache was a quick find. TFTC

**## Found Cache No. 2212 ##
(Caches Found Today: 7 OF
Streak Day: 806 **

Out with Snoopy1976 tonight doing some caches and headed over to complete the rest of our unfound caches in this series. TFTC

Tricky hide
Thanks for the Cache

Crossed over to find another cutie little friend

Tftf

Another novel container!! Tftc

TFTC GeodudeAU!