Bally Views Balgownie, New South Wales, Australia
By kr-eye-sta on 01-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7GMYG

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer

Hi kr-eye-sta,

This cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, only to discourage people from visiting this location until this cache may be addressed.

**Please note that caches disabled during the current COVID19 crisis you will be given some extra time to react as we recognise that CO's can't just pop out and fix the issue,** geocache maintenance can wait. Once the acute threat of pandemic is over, I will remind you about your cache needing attention.

Should you feel it safe for you to maintain and address this cache now, AND your regional Health and Governmental authorities allow it, please feel free to do so. However, I would like to assure you I will not be archiving any caches which the cache owner does not currently feel safe to maintain.

I'll pass by in about another 45 days and hopefully this will all be over.

Ministro - Matt

did not find it so am travelling another kilometer

Couldn’t find

Dnf

Had a good look. Gps was jumpy, looked in the obvious spots plus not so obvious spots,realised the neighbor across the road was watching. Felt close to being in someones yard at one point. Nice veiws though for our efforts. Gee the old van felt as though it didn't have much in it to get to the top of the hill!!!

DNF

A bit of a shame to have walked up such a steep hill and come out empty-handed, but I’m getting rather exhausted trying to find this one on a humid day

Out caching with the geokids this arvo. Wr used to live in this neck of the woods. I remember trying to cycle up hudson and brokers road. Made it up hudson once or twice but never quite could manage to get up brokers road without walking part of the way. Man that hill is steep.

A local legend is that where the cache is was once part of brokers road. They apparently closed it off when a car took the road too fast (travelling north) and hit a power pole half way up.

Anyway a nice spot for a cache to be hidden. The geokids loved the swag, the 30 cents that was left there previously made their day. We dropped off some other goodies.

Bowerbird bower is still there to check out.

Thanks for the cache and the clue!

TFTC.
Took a novice friend for her first caching adventure. A nice view from the ferns.

We drove up Hudson then headed down Broker. Wow, it was steeeeeeep. We then came back up and parked on Hudson as it looked less steep, the handbrake held, but the car creaked and groaned a bit. A short walk to GZ where we found a Bowerbird's bower and, after a few more minutes, the cache. Yes, the views up here are great. TFTC kr-eye-sta

Thanks to stef for the helping hand. Tftc.

Found this cache on a quick local dash around the neighbourhood. TFTC!

Thanks! Our first find (2 and 5 years old)

First find!

Found it thanks.

Found but very close to a house. Great views though. Also found a Satin Bower Bird's nest nearby. OCW The Bebes and PelDroedGwin. TFTC kr-eye-sta

OCW PelDroedGwin & EverestHigh

A quick park and grab with a lovely view

Tftc

OCW the Bebes and Everest High. Nice view. Tftc

First find! took at few walks through but we found it. great view at the end

First find took a while to find but excitedly found it after walking up the hill

Great place to watch the sun come up! Thanks for bringing me to this spot. TFTC!

What a beautiful view! TFTC

Fairly easy find, but great spot!!

TFTC

TFTC

Very well hidden but found it as we were leaving

Thanks so much that was our first ever find what a great place to hide it. Cheers

Hi all, container and log replaced

Found it! Thank you!

Found it nice and easy- contents were soaked however and the logbook was unusable. Tftc!

Found - log is wet and unusable. Maybe need to switch container and update note pad. Great view

Sadly it has been soaked, couldn't get the pages of the log book apart to write in it! Good cache for kids - lots of little things to swap!

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Great views, log was very very wet tho! Put our tb friend Paul in there to enjoy the scenes’

Wow, that’s quite a hill and no wonder people build up here as it really is quite a view. Hunting for the cache took longer than I’d expect in this small area, and once found, it was sadly completely full of water. Emptied and replaced. Great spot. Picked up butterfly TB.

Unable to find

Our friends cache with spectacular views! We dropped off a traveling butterfly for more adventures. TFTC!

Had no luck last time we came, but the second time round we had the cache in hand relatively quickly. Very steep hill, thank you for the cache!

Thanks all, found with my little fella. Very proud

Good view

Quick easy find
What a great view

Definitely the steepest hill in the world.
Easy find

A couple of DNF so I Will check this out in the next day or so to make sure it hasn’t gone missing

Where bro

I think someone moved it

Took my 4 year old up this hill which was a feat in itself- but no luck

T- Thanks for the cache.
E- Eager find it.
A- Altimeter going crazy.
M- Motivated to find more.

R- Raining slightly.
O- Only 5 minutes to find.
C- Coordinates spot on.
K- Knockout views.
I- It was a quick find
T- Team Rockit

Meowth: That's right.

Idk

Cool one!

Ooshies! Great location

Thanks for the find and the great views!

Tftc

Yeah found out it on the second attempt! But there wasn’t anything in the box to trade. So we put something in there instead!

Found by Mary and David at 12:05. Stunning views from the top of this steep hill. Well worth the drive. Glad that the shrubbery gave some cover from the neighbours. Found after searching for a couple of minutes. Our thanks to kr-eye-sta.

3:12:00 PM: (16 of 18) Find#11668
wow what a street and good views, thankfully we did find it after a short search... great spot but make sure your brakes are ok ..
Day 3: visiting the OzGeomuster event, traveling with StrangeTrousers and CBRChic , signed as Kayak Cachers stamp.
While picking of some of the Adventure lab locations we picked up some caches along the way
thanks kr-eye-sta

2nd Mega evet and first one away at the Oz Geomuster Mega at Cataract (the Gong). Highlight for today was the group visit to the “Dark Side of the Moon”. Most of the caching today was with my geo buddies mtrax and StrangeTrousers. Need to say a big thank you to StrangeTrousers for all the driving over the weekend and arranging the great accommodation for a group of us. Today was the third day of our Mega event and hightlights included Cully Long’s Puzzling seminar before heading out to go caching. ST would have mentioned the rainforest gullies – after the cold of Canberra it was so funny standing under plants that in Canberra were the size of pot plants and here they are bigger than me. We found some fun cachers got to enjoy the seaside ones and views near the water at the end of the day when parking was easier.



TFTC kr-eye-sta

#5252 17th for today

Day three of the Oz Geomuster Mega at Cataract (the Gong). Caching with mtrax and CBRChic and various others. We started with Cully Long's Puzzling seminar and then headed out to grab some more of the Adventure series. Today we traveled around Wollongong proper grabbing some really cool caches. Some highlights were delving into temperate rainforest gullies and some wonderful sea-side caches,


Thanks kr-eye-sta

We found it in the garden

It is still there because I took my friend up there

Spent a little while here but couldn't find it unfortunaly

Nephew took me for a walk of a life time enjoy the cache and the view

It was awesome because it was my first geocache

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

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

Had a quick go, but too many muggles, I will be back

Thankyou! Great container! We left a pink spotted balloon & a gold bell inside Kids loved it!!

Yd

Literally stopped right in front of it to look at the comments and wham. TFTC!

Found our first one

Found with geoson, walked up the mighty hill!

Good hiding place, the app was slightly out but found it after 5 mins looking. The dog enjoyed the walk looking for it too.

Good one

Found with Falling_Rock after a quick look for the keys I am notorious for losing, and geocache soon in hand. TFTC!

Found. Nice easy spot once we avoided the false trail. Cache a little damp. Found with StumbleTrip

Cool!!!!

Found with nissan 65 on a cool winters day. Thanku for the cache.

Found with cullum 68 on a quick day trip away thanks for the cache

Went for a little caching run on a Sunday before I start work again. Some were sneaky, some not so sneaky. loved the hidey hole for this one.

After numbers for current souvenir challenge I thought I’d do a quick trip north to grab a few smiles. Finding GZ was the easy part. After a few laps I was worried I was starting to draw attention from neighbours. Was just about to PAF when I spied something that didn’t look like it belonged. Soon enough cache was in hand, signed and returned
TFTC

A night time grab with my favourite Caching partner galeforced

woo hoo... was a lil out in the open, so we tucked her in a lil more. tftc
now that is a big hill

Like a trip into the movie “Fern Gully”

Thank you!

Tftc. Quick find by Mrs Jaybeem this morning, she walked straight to it.

TFTC! First one we have done in a while, nice and close to home. I do love the view from up here

Nice views. Make sure you get down low and check in unexpected places and you might get a bit dirty. Pretty easy to find just don’t give up!

Great hide hint makes sense so don't give up.

Cool

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????

Tftc

Dropped off our trackable BOOP the Drone

DOing!

GPS was telling me it was in the front yard of nearby house... no need to leave the path!

Took some clever searching but great hide

We had travelled down from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the Wollongong area for the April school holidays, camping in our Jayco Swan Outback camper trailer at the Corrimal Beach Tourist Park. Today, with our holiday now over, we were heading back to Sydney, but decided to do a quick caching loop through Balgownie before jumping on the Princes Motorway. This was our 3rd find of the day, and 128th find of the holiday.

Well this one took us much longer to find than it should have. Looked in all the wrong places, before looking in the right place for CIH. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found.

The hill leading up to GZ is a doozy, and we had to engage the low range gear on the 4X4 geomobile to haul our heavy Jayco camper trailer up it, but the views from GZ was worth the effort. TFTC kr-eye-sta.

Find #2538

I thought this one was going to be a hard find, but it proved to be otherwise.

Glad my car has a good handbrake. Nice views. TFTC

Glad this one had been replaced yesterday as I have had this in my GPS for a while and just thought I would have a look while passing.
Took a while but a nice fresh clean dry cache was found and logged.

TFTC
kr-eye-sta