Beautiful View #51 Paddys River, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By ALL7 on 24-May-18. Waypoint GC7Q6DN

Quick find along the road from the dam on the way back I had some time for the just one more game. Mostly pleasent and quick finds, but a couple where tricky and took a little while to spot. All in good order here. The afternoon: Having to go back to Corin Resourt to pick up some items we had left behind a few weeks back, I took the opportunity to do some more caching at the end of Corin Road, that I had eyed off ever since we moved back here. We were last here with the small kids in Oct 2011 doing some caches closer to the road but leaving the walk down to the Core be. Lots of new caches at the dam since then and the old caches at the bottom still waiting. Two wonderful walks, one was an hour, 2km, to the Crown and Trig and another down to the bottom and then up to Basil for another good hour and 3km (and some higher heart rates indeed) Thank you ALL7 for putting the cache out and maintaining it and in doing so contributing to this awesome hobby of ours.

We're getting closer and closer to Corin Forest now, I can almost feel the air cooling down next to that fake snow! Shan't be fake for too much longer I wouldn't have thought. Can you believe we're about 1200m above sea level here? Crazy!Thanks!

Another poor ziploc with some condensation in it.We dried it with tissues and we think the log will recover well Thanks ALL7 for the cache

This was the seventeenth of the unloved caches (569 days, running total 6,534 days) that I went looking for today. When I parked at GZ, there was a man, Andrew, getting out of his car. He asked if I was going for a bush walk; I replied that I was geocaching. He exclaimed that he hadnt been geocaching for about a decade! He helped me to find the cache and I signed both of our names. He asked which app to use and I showed him; Andrew said that hed look it up tonight and get back in the game!Geoecache in good condition.* * * * * * *Having started the day with a breakfast event to meet local geocachers, I headed back towards Corin Dam to collect a string of unloved geocaches. I had visited Corin Dam last weekend, planning to pick up a few geocaches, but had not got the map thing happening properly. I was more diligent in making sure that I knew which dam was which this weekend! Knowing that there would be no reception, I had a list planned. This was my first big day of geocaching since relocating to Canberra from Melbourne last week. I'm looking forward to a lot more of these! Thanks for the cache, ALL7

Easy find. Thank you!!

Roadside caches aren't my usual, but last weekend saw me walking along a stretch of Corin Road between two trailheads into the mountains. It was actually quite a nice walk along here, without much traffic and pretty bushland scenery. All these caches were in good condition - though a couple are being guarded by ant nests now!

Thank you All 7!

Today was really beautiful weather so it was decided to go for a beautiful country drive with ilook4geo. We chose this series for its beautiful views and we were not disappointed. We found most of the caches listed with just a few that we missed. Thanks go to ALL7 for putting out this series of caches.

Out for a day's caching with goingplaces2 and enjoyed all the caches we found. Log signed and replaced as found. TFTC.

Rocks, rocks, rocks galore! So many rocks on this trail!! Very quick find. Thanks for the cache ALL7!

A fairly easy find, thanks.

This was a straightforward find - thanks

Out this way on a driving lesson with my middle daughter. The plan was to go all the way to the end of the road. I didn't realise that it was still closed from the fires. We then done a u turn and randomly stopped to grab caches on the way back. A nice quick find, found with Chocolistick03. Signed as OK + CL3, TFTC.

Found at 1:56:00 PM

This is where I parked.

Thanks ALL7

I headed out after work to reach my caches per day target for today. It is one of my days with the least number of finds from the last 15 years. I started with a few puzzles recently solved (usually with a bit of a push in the right direction) and then moved onto the Beautiful View caches along Corin Dam road, starting from where it is closed by the ski field. I was a bit surprised at how little damage had been caused by the fires along here. Thanks to Liz&Bruce for replacing a few of these caches.

Thanks for the cache ALL7

28884.6 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 April Arbor Day A#380

**Albida**

Sunshine and an opportunity to go caching, what a great combination. Got this one. Scenery beautiful. Our thanks to ALL7 for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

TFTC

O319 and I headed off for a day of caching around Tidbinbilla and Corin. TFTC

sjg66 and I have lived in the ACT region for over 30 years and have never been to Corin dam, so today was the day. Depressing to see the dam at less than 20% full, but still and nice drive and some great caches along the way.

I've already found five caches today. I'm off on a drive bymyself to soothe my soul after a fairly hectic day. It's wonderful up here today. It's reasonably late in the day, but nowhere near dusk. The light is brilliant, I enjoyed the road and the drive, and I grabbed the last 16 caches in this series. It was great fun.

I'm down to the last five of these now. Here's hoping I'll get them all ... This one was nice and easy, even if I had to search for a short time ... GPSr again.

Find no 12 of 16 for this series today.

Thanks, ALL7

Out and about on another lovely day for a geomission to nab more ALL7 caches and a few other randoms along the roads to Tidbinbilla

All caches were quick finds apart from a couple of tricky ones and a couple of DNFs. Really enjoyed the drive and the wanders around this beautiful area!

Thanks for the cache and the series, ALL7

Found it with Deaf Caches Lucky9

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. All good with this cache. Thanks for its placement and ongoing maintenance.

19/04/2019

During the Mega

The weather was perfect for us to travel road included the countryside so beautiful,
Found as team Lucky 9 during the mega. [^]
Mostly good coordinate spot with hunt (it was helpful.) [^]

Thanks ALL7 for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Found with geo-friends "Lucky9", thank you so much for placing it ALL7.

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Found with a group catchers and logged as "Lucky9" Thanks for the series and for placing it ALL7.

Found on a Good Friday drive with Geo-friends. “Lucky 9” Thanks

Thanks for share Lucky 9 great

I logged this find with my mega team Lucky9. Thanks.

A perfect day for geocaching. Found it with a group of geofriends. Thank you ALL7 for bringing us here.

Attending the Clear Water 2019 mega this Easter in Queanbeyan. Apologies for the generic log but we have found too many to compose individual logs. Many thanks to all the cache owners for their caches, which have been exceptional in their maintenance I have had only 1 dnf and that was only because I was not going to make a tree climb without seeing where the cache was. The vast majority of caches have had very good coordinates. Along with useful hints. TFTC

Cool day for the geocaching trip and found it with "Lucky 9". Thanks ALL7 for leading us here.

At the Queanbeyan Clearwater event so my wife HippyDonna and I thought we would attack the Beautiful View series, a very testing day. Thanks for doing this series, greatly appreciated & with people like you it makes caching fun.

Out and about today with MrGravel to grab a heap of caches as part of our holiday at the Queanbeyan Mega event.
The Beautiful View series was just what we needed after a couple of days in the city!
Sorry for the generic logs but we appreciate all the caches you have put out for everyone to enjoy!
We signed many logbooks with either our names or HDMG to save space

Another great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*

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

Finished off this trail this morning. All caches found OK, most easily, a few a bit trickier. Fairly quiet around here today which made parking much easier.

Thanks,

Out this afternoon for some caching. Thanks for the trail ALL7. Cheers

Drive along here and found and log. TFTC ALL7

Needed to do the last 15 of this series. So with Kittykatch driving after doing the letterboxes off we set to pick them up. It was a cool and overcast day, perfect weather for caching. Soon had this in hand and onto the next. Thanks for getting us out and about All7

Such enticing side tracks - nice hide. TFTC

#10527 @1355
After a long hot caching walk up the Mt Tennent track and down to Bushfold Flats, and given the heat I wasn't prepared to do another walk so I settled for the remainder of this series of park and grabs. All except one were easily found. TFTC.

Found, TFTC

I had a lovely day out on Tidbinbilla Road picking up the Beautiful View series and a few others. Thanks again ALL7 for another beaut series

What a fabulous day to be out caching. Back out across Point Hutt Crossing to attack more of ALL7's Power Trails. Oh the work that has gone into them.
I found every cache I went for though some took far too long. My name has now been added to another 36 caches.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this series of caches for us to find.

Found it,.. Thanks

Found on our 2018 mega trip with Roostaman.
Thanks for the cache ALL7,
***MrsRoosta***

**# 22713** Found on another perfect Spring day in ACT with MrsRoosta.
Quite a few muggles around today and mostly good quick finds.
A nice country drive along the Beautiful View trail.
Some nice scenic views today and a lot more traffic than yesterday.
Thanks for the cache and the series ALL7,
***Roostaman***

A mornings outing on a mission to Square Rock. Another bonus along the way. TNLNSL TFTC

Enjoy drive along beautiful view series run with CO
TFTC

A drive to Corin to complete some more of this series. All attempted were found in good condition with the exception of one which evaded us. TFTC and the big effort in placing and maintaining this huge series ALL7

Wow awesome enjoyed trip on series..
Lovely country so quiet area..
Easy spot and sign the log no trouble...
Thank you for having me here with ALL7
TFTC

With a clear weekend around I could no longer stay indoors so have decided to take a drive, and of cause the weather changed.

Found this cache in good condition. Quick find in winter rain. My jeans, shoes and coat are now soaked but I have a good heater in my car so on on. Lol only looking for quick ones now though.
Tftc

Can I just say "Ditto" to all SDL and LL's logs? haha
I enjoyed going out geocaching with them today.
Raised my Groundspeak count by 10% in the one day.
TFTC

#8467 - 12:58; Received a shout from No_Tomorrow to say she would be in the National Capital and was after some partners in crime for some caching while she was here. A plan was hatched with Sol de lune to tackle a couple of the new series starting at Point Hut Road and heading towards Tharwa and then on towards Corin Dam, picking up a few others along the way. I picked up the other members of the team and we headed off on what proved to be some great weather for caching, unlike a couple of days back when the mission was initially planned to take place, even though there was still snow on the ground in Corin Forest. Managed to collect 73 from 73 today, including a couple I had on my 'solved but unfound' puzzles list, without a single DNF, not bad for a few hours out, and a good time was had by all. TFTC ALL7

Out with No_Tomorrow, who was in town from Dubbo, and Luckyl10n to grab a few caches to add to our smiley list, and also get the number of unfound local caches down to a manageable amount.

70 caches in the day was a good return for the few hours we spent out. Great winters day and we found everything we went out for.

No problems here and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks ALL7....

TFTC.

15th find while out with Goldenwattle and Decrypter to do some caching in the snow. Most of these were quick finds, some however took a little searching with our GPSs not settling down. Some were even found with snow over them. TFTC.

I had heard there might be snow out this direction, so Decrypter and Trodectus joined me for the drive and caching trip. All caches found quickly, unless otherwise mentioned. TFTC ALL7.

Time to turn around and pick up those in this series that we missed on the way toward Corin. Thanks ALL7.

Found with Nissan65 on a few days off work caching. Headed up after work last night for an early start. Fingers crossed the wind dies off. Thanks for the cache

Found with cullum68 on a very windy day thanks for the cache

We were on the search for some hidden creatures today. A stunning day and perfect to be out and about. This was #5 for the day. Found at 09:25:00. Thanks ALL7

There was just time for a couple more geocaches on our trip back to Canberra, but it was starting to get a little later and so we decided we would find one or two more before heading straight back into town. This one was another quick find and we were soon on our way again. We had a great day exploring Corin Forest and some of the trails around that area.
Thanks ALL7

Domsky

After we had played at Corin Forest, we started to drive home but on the way we stopped a few times to collect a geocache. This was one of them.
Thank you for the cache.
Hogwarts85

**FIND #35 OF 200**

Well, the day is here! A day I had planned for quite some time. 200 finds in one day with Loci612. We started out just after 6am, in absolutely freezing temperatures given it had been -7 degrees overnight. With a very tight plan for the caches today, we headed out to find our first cache at 6:38am. From then on, it was a very tidy stream of finds. We hit a hurdle with Paddy's Pass but eventually made the find. After that, all the finds were relatively easy until the section of ALL7 caches heading south along Tidbinbilla Road. A few of these caches caused us some strife but we eventually found all of them.

After driving all morning finding caches, it was nice to get out and stretch our legs with DARKSIDEDAN and joeylovestreasure's Vampire Trail. Some enjoyable finds out there! After that we headed out to Burra to pick up the new ALL7 caches along the roads out there. A lot of nice and quick park and grabs and our first DNF of the day, on Burra #24. A few caches in and around Michelago and then we were off to Old Cooma Road for the last couple of caches for the day. I found I was one short at the end of it all so we swung by a quick cache in Fadden to make 200 finds for the day!

Lots of ALL7 caches for the day and a few other ones thrown in the mix. All logs were signed CL or LC with the date 12/7. Thanks to all the COs who placed caches that we found today!

**Cache #36 of 200 for the day! **

A while ago Cankid came up with a crazy plan of attempting to find 200 caches in a single day with the help of the recently published trails by ALL7 and lots of extra's thrown in along the way. I said I was in and a plan was hatched!

The day started at 5:30am when I drove down south to meet up with Cankid, and we soon headed off soon afterwards, picking up cache #1 at **6:38am!** The temperatures started off below 0°C for the first couple of hours and we struggled to open the containers and sign the logs with numb hands. The day soon warmed up however and the layers were taken off and we powered through all the caches on our pre planned list!

Cache #100 was then found at **12:37pm** almost exactly 6 hours after we started and halfway through our goal.

Cache #150 came at **2:57pm**, we had only rested for about 15 minutes by this point to have some lunch!

We were soon very close to the target but the last couple of caches were slower ones back in Canberra just to finish off the powertrails with something more interesting. By the time we were all finished up it was **6:51pm**, not a bad effort considering and just over the 12 hour mark! It was certainly a long day!

P.S Sorry for the generic logs, but 200 caches was a lot to take in! All the ones I remember have extra comments down the bottom

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*We signed the log either **C.L or L.C with the date 12/7**, for Loci612 and Cankid. We had a miscommunication and depending who signed the log put a different letter first *

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A quick find while taking a drive out to Corin Dam. The wind was blowing a gale.
TFTC

Number 38 in our quest for Hidden Creatures. TFTC. TNLNSL

Plans were made to head out with Rapidlywild to pick up a few of the newly published caches that came out while we were away. Suffering from caching burn out the Hidden Creatures event made it a little more enticing. Weather wasn't too bad for winter so we decided to start today.

Sorry for the copy and paste logs, but all caches were found quickly except for 2 that we logged DNF's against.

Thanks for all the cache hides ALL7 you have been busy and thanks Rapidlywild for driving and a fun day.

Its been quite a while since I have been out for a big geocaching day and today was a good one. Made plans with FFLL#1 to head out towards Corin to make some finds towards the Hidden Creatures event and today was the first geo-expedition for the new Triton. Had a wonderful day with FFLL#1, found some puddles to mess up the white Triton and even seen some of the snow up at Corin.

Apologies for the copy/paste logs, all caches were found relatively quickly, and I think we ended the day with 2 DNFs (One which we attempted to find on 2 different occassions).

Thanks for the cache hide ALL7 and thanks FFLL#1 for an awesome day

Quick find out with dty73. Kutgw

The aim for the day was to find the Corin Core Cache at Corin Dam with JohnnyBoyACT at 3 pm. There are a lot of new caches on the way to the dam. The missus and I set out at 10 am and did a drive by for lots of inds, actually I did the driving and the missus walked most of the way. She was nearly as quick as me in the car and when I had a bit of trouble finding a few, got well ahead at times. TFTCs.

After a walk to Stockyard Creek Falls, Marmaduke Rothschild (and Mrs) and I met up to at last find Corin's Core. We than cached back down Corin Road a bit. TFTC.

We have been a little side tracted lately and not been out in the wild caching. Been watching how many new caches have been published and we needed to get out and have some fun.
We set out early while it was still dark, bagged a swag of caches and finished in the dark, we made most of the day.
We invited Wilbert67 to join us and it turned out a great day out.
It felt like we had 4 seasons in one today, the temperature fluctuated, wind, snow and sunshine, the caches there were many variables in types and hides.
Thank you to all the COs for their effort on placements and to add to our enjoyment and Wilbert for your company.

A great long day of caching that had everything in it. From city to country, from high to low, from warm to cold. We managed to knock off quite a bit of trails, drive trip, beautiful views and vampire series being the main ones. In between a few very nice single traditionals. Loved driving around this part of Namadgi and seeing snow today was great. Thanks to all the cache owners for putting the caches out, the quality was surprisingly good! Thanks to J+J.AU for taking me along today.
TFTC Wilbert67

With rain forecasted for this afternoon we decided to tackle some 5 caches that 'joshwa27’ could not locate yesterday. These caches were between 'Milestone Milhere' and numbers BViews 48 thru to 52. We thought that it would be a nice challenge for the group and it did not disappoint. While it did not take too long to find all none were straight forward.

Thought that we would pickup this one as we passed by. Quick and easy find. Thx p2p. TFTC ALL7.

Day out in the ACT to get as many of the ALL7 power trail caches that I could collect in an afternoon. Ended up with about 60. Very scenic countryside to cache in. The odd dnf along the way, only spending a minute or two at gz, before moving on. A very pleasant day out. Thanks for the wonderful cache series, will be back to see and get more. Tftc

SecretSquirrel-BJC and I had a very pleasant day out caching today. Ticked off a few new drive-bys.

Beautiful day for geocaching with Captain Tomato

Day 2 of my "catch-up with all the caches published while I was away". Plenty to keep me going for a while to be sure! Certainly this is a nice drive out here! This cache was found easily.

fitzy_1965 and I had a free weekend so we decided to camp at the Cotter for a couple of nights and cache our way around Canberra and surrounds. We met up with Darzee Di and headed off for the rest of the day collecting all the new All7 caches published since Monday.

All caches were found quickly and easily and lots of great conversation was had.

15,927. With a free weekend up our sleeves it was time for minniek and I to go camping at the Cotter and caching all around the ACT.

After attending the HMAS Payback CITO we headed south to try for the newer Beautiful View and other ALL7 caches. Darzee Di joined us for a fun days caching. Unless otherwise mentioned these were all nice and quick finds. This one was found during a lovely drive out along Corin Road - we even saw a bit of snow ! Signed the log, replaced the cache, and we headed off to the next one.

Thanks ALL7 !! We certainly appreciate ALL these new caches here in Canberra !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Went out with MinnieK and Fitzy_1965 this afternoon to pick up these new Beautiful View caches after attending the HMAS Payback CITO. A nice little drive and with friends and easy to find our 11th one on this little fun drive. tftc ALL7

Saw the caches drop and decided to head out for an evening of *FTF*s with Dty73, Aquilus1, Darksidedan, & Greyhams

This was the first find of the night and we arrived just as greyhams was making the find.

TFTC

[FTF] Woohoo, I was sitting talking to my mum at her house in Conder when this cache FTF popped up in my emails. I jumped in the car and headed out to get them all knowing that I was one of the closest geocachers in Canberra to them. I called Lisa and made arrangements to meet her on the way to the caches. Paring my car at Point Hut I jumped into Lisa's car and we were off. When we got to the first cache we found it fast and were pleased NOT to see a tankengine or ZQX or any other well known geocacher name in the logbook. It was new and unsigned. Fantastic we continued on to get all the FTF's along the road. What a great trip and thanks to Lisa who always makes geocaching fun. Great series All7 I really liked the quality of the caches and the great hiding spots that you placed the caches in. I have included my Geocaching Poem for you all to read. Woohoo... [FTF]

Geocache Poem
By DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind

I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see

Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?

Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there

As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

***** I am currently writing detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC. "The Author" Badge challenges geocachers to average one hundred words or more in each log. As of 31st January 2018 my average was 70 words per log, which seems close to the 100 target. However given that I have found so many GC caches, I have to write many logs with well over 100 words for a long period of time to get my average to the target. Apologies to anyone who finds the logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain this challenge. After almost 3000 plus caches (which includes all cache finds up and including yesterday), the average log length is just over 70 words. I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task before this year ends. Progress has been better than anticipated.*****

*FTF* with Aquilus1, Delta Response Team, GrayHams and DarksideDan.

Lots of fun with a huge ftf posse to find all but one of the caches in this run. TFTC ALL7!!!

FTF at 7:41

When these starting binging away on my phone during dinner, the geowife asked why I was eating so quickly.... hadn't even noticed myself. I got a message from a fellow *FTF* chaser if I wanted to be picked up on the way through.... hmm, they are northside and it also means that I only stop caching when they want. Considering they grabbed FTF's out in Kowen at 2am it wasn't something that is done lightly.... so I politely decline the offer and race off.

I spent 10 minutes looking for the first one before I decided it wasnt happening and I should get a move on. The second was found immediately and while about to sign the posse showed up.... the car was full of cachers: dty73, Aquilus1, Delta Response Team and DARKSIDEDAN.

So we continued on as a group up the road albeit in separate cars.

*FTF* With dty73, Delta Response Team, GreyHams and DARKSIDEDAN. Well what a way to end a great weekend of caching, 23 FTF's, certainly I think that's going to be hard for me to top! I was in the shops catching up with all the grocery shopping when down dropped a bazillion caches from both this series and the Vampire one as well. Looking at the shopping trolley and a few messages later to some other caches, (also in other shops!) and through the check out we go.

So it seemed that tonight was going to be a popular caching run but also a bit slower to get going, shopping to take home, our driver dty73 needed fuel and then the pick ups of myself and Delta Reponse Team, we would meet Darksidedan along the way and collect him too, GreyHams was coming but taking his own car. What a great FTF team!

We caught up to GreyHams at the first to be found cache and then travelled along in a convoy, most caches where easily found but a few had us searching hard with the one dnf. Not as much wildlife tonight but still plenty about, roos, wombats and foxes. With all but the one cache found a bit of discussion and the vampire series was next on the list and the convoy headed off in the direction of Tharwa. Here we said goodnight to GreyHams who took Darksidedan with him to drop him back to his car along the way while dty73 Delta Response Team and myself continued on down to the vampire series and the waiting new caches. Thanks for the caches ALL7 made for an interesting night!

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