Taralga Trek Too: Maremba Taralga, New South Wales, Australia
By gazza959 on 13-Nov-17. Waypoint GC7EWA3

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!

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. Although the stinky sheep smell was definitely in the air. This was the only place that we could actually smell it. Log signed, and everything was returned as found.TFTC and the awesome adventure with my son!

Reperio 17:20Today 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

On ground not the best of clues But you have to ask yourself Where would you hide it! And then look and walla there it is!Log book damp but writable. Plastic logbook cover broken. Pencil included whereas I forgot to mention it was missing from last few finds.TFTC

#19800 @1135
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.

**This Cache:**

Picked up 5 more of the caches in this series today...
I did this series in November 2017. Quite shocking that I have left a string of them unfound for 5 years now. And I was hoping to complete the 12 I had left, but only managed 5 and a few others before time was running out...!

So now I still have 7 unfound, ughhhh! Hopefully it won't take me another 5 years to come back though!

Thanks gazza! Great series just like I remembered

**Today:**

Headed out to rural NSW from ACT for a big day of event attending!
First up an event in Gunning, then a Community Celebration in Crookwell and finally another event + CITO in Goulburn! Made sure to also visit a couple other small towns between whilst caching!

Ended up with 35 finds today and hit cache find #15,000 unexpectedly! The milestones sneak up quickly when you don't keep an eye them! A huge month of caching coming up in November as well with the Vic Mega in particular!

Special thanks to GLISS! in particular for the mammoth organisation, as well as Nibletricecakes who also did a huge job in hosting one of the events and cooking up the perfect snags for the brekkie event as well!
Thanks to all the attendees too for supporting the community & all the great catch-ups that were had! Oh and shout-out to Crookwell RSL for managing to cater such a big crowd of both geocachers and christining folk who happily shared the big venue!

Nice farming land around here, Gazza! Tftc it is very dry!!

Tftc with drobbo staying at the local pub for the night

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.

#11367 - 12:22:00 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.

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.

Easy little park and grab. The cache is in good condition, signed and replaced. Thanks for placing the cache

Found quickly.

TFTC

TFTC

Good

Good

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

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.

Quick find while out exploring Crookwell and surrounds. TFTC

Good views but if you’re coming from Taralga it’s behind you. Tftc

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.

Found

Nice spot, just be in the lookout for snakes

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.

Found amongst a whole lot of clicking bugs TFYC

Found it TFTC

Thanks gazza959 and just time to grab a few of your caches before I am due back in Crookwell.

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. TFTC.

The trip was planned today to pick up some caches from Taralga to Laggan, along with ilook4geo. We stayed at Taralga and did the return trip managing to locate each cache placed along the way. The sights and history of this region are interesting and there is so much to learn and absorb. Thanks go to gazza959 for placing this cache to encourage people to come and visit the area and support the small communities.

Travelling between Taralga and Laggan (and return) with goingplaces2 and doing some caching as well. Had a good day, even though it was very cold. Quick finds and then back in the car were good. TFTC.

Yes, nice easy hide, could smell the stock in the paddocks, so quiet and calm, tftc.

Nice and easy - thank you! So serene around here - would like to spend more time.

Thanx for the new series. All nice and easy to find and makes for a successful day of caching. Thanx Gazza!

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 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

Look out Taralga ...
... here I come
Caches were slowing progress though

I will get there eventually,
but for now I had a bit of a poke around in the roadside scenery.
Cache found

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!!!

This cache gave us a small surprise! As TE pulled up the log that covered the cache a long black snake slithered a little further under the log under the cache. Luckily it was not in the mood to be annoyed and disappeared somewhere and TE bravely got the cache out for us to sign. I was very impressed and thankful that we didn't have to leave that one for another day!

Cache 4837 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: black snake at GZ, heroic TE grabbed the container for us!

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. We parked up on the other side of the road then crossed over and soon homed in on and found the cache. 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

A quick find. TFTC

A quick find after Christmas Day lunch. Slowly chipping away at this series. Tftc.

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. Thanks gazza959!

Found it thanks

Find No.
Found with sesblocker. Atries44 is along for the ride too.
Good coords and nice hide!
TNLNSL
TFTC gazza959
30 August 2018 14:14

Found with TaurusSix.

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

This one was tricky

It was very quiet out along this road at night, felt kinda errie at points. But we do love having peace and quiet and feeling like the only ones on the planet.
Quick find, TFTS

#5,544

Sometimes you think you know where a cache will be, and get it completely wrong. That's what happened to us here.

Thanks

I allowed myself to be a little tricked here based on my assumption, but we soon turned up the cache not too far from where we first started. Thanks

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.

TFTC. looking for hidden creatures

A planned power outage drove us out of the house and on the road in search of Hidden Creatures. We enjoyed this well planned set of caches. Many thanks for a pleasurable day.

An all electric house in winter with no electricity is no place to be, so we went caching. We had a lovely day wandering along a surprisingly busy road. Thank you for this series of well placed caches.

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 -- 2:33:00 PM -- Thanks for the hunt and Thanks for bringing us here to this location gazza959.

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

**The Cache**
*Little Kitten* got over the moody and now have some *Team Work* happening. Yippee!!! *Little Kitten* finds and then calls *DJ Jet* to make the find too, then they open it together. Everyone is Happyyyy !! SL and returned cache to its hide'y hole.

**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

#3919 20th 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

#11308 Found and Logged at 9:58:00 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 during a Caching trip with my good friend Nibbleitricecakes
thank you for the hide

Out with darkonasdelights for a cache cleanup to earn my planetary glory. Did a lazy man drive right up to this one. Tftc

I've dropped my lady at work, the GPSr is loaded with caches around Goulburn, the SUV is loaded with fuel, a slab of bottled water, my GeoSchnauzers and my lady's GeoCavoodles. We are off up the road towards Goulburn for a day of caching and walking. Another nice easy grab, no walk. Plenty of barking.
Find no 12 of 22 today.

Thanks, gazza959

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.

**# 20704** 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. 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

Mudgee trip for The Road Less Traveled series. Day 1. Canberra to Bumeroo Ford via Crookwell. I finished the second set of the Taralga caches today, all went smoothly.

Thanks.

24585.9 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 May Signal #1 A#27

**Albida**

An easy find. 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