Old Cooma Road #14 Googong, New South Wales, Australia
By ALL7 on 25-May-18. Waypoint GC7Q8KJ

Closed now because too much water everywhere next pond .. cache gone .. tks

TFTC

A straightforward find here today, thanks ALL7!

**This Cache**
We found the cache waterlogged and could not sign. The GZ tree is now surrounded by 'deep' water that is now part of a stream flowing all around (see photos).

Sadly this cache could not be replaced as there is nowhere dry to place it for now. We think that the closest location that is dry is too far away from the current GZ. Sorry my friend otherwise we would have replaced it. TFTC ALL7.

**Our Morning**
Yesterday evening the group had planned a local early morning mountain-bike cycle however the high cold winds put an end to that adventure.

With grandkid duties, mid-afternoon and into the weekend, my caching buddies picked me up early for a different unplanned outing. They were just targeting a string of caches along Old Cooma Road (and surrounds) starting from the Monaro Hwy end.

**Cache Maintenance**
Of the caches we targeted a number were missing we replaced, one cache hwe did not replace as GZ is currently a waterway, and a number needed new plastic sleeves and logs as they were either mouldy, very wet or just missing. In summary we replaced 3 missing caches, and added several new logs.

There are some logs that were borderline for signing that we left as they were so please bring some fresh logs/plastic slips next time you are out this way. Sadly we run out of caching supplies today not having brought much with us on this short outing.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

We found the cache waterlogged and could not sign. The GZ tree is now surrounded by 'deep' water that is now part of a stream flowing all around (see photos).

Sadly this cache could not be replaced as there is now where dry to place it for now. We think that the closest location that is dry is too far away (30m?) from the current GZ.

Out for a morning run this side of town to grab a few caches.

DNF'd a few months ago and still no joy today, so I replaced the cache. It is now a preform tube at the bottom of the large stump. Push in at the base facing the road it should be an easy find.

Thanks for the series along here ALL7...

DNF No luck here today, too good for me. Maybe a case of cache blindness, I will try another time.

The grass is really long around here and a lot of water has gone through….and still is. I had my trusty pole and gave the area a good prod but no luck

A DNF I’d forgotten about. Deep pools of water around GZ and looking at the hint my guess is the cache could be under water. Couldn’t see it, so not really sure.

Thanks anyway ALL7....

We stamped the logs as "The Mob" to save space in the logs - today there were 6 teams caching together: Team Crackers, The Drovers, Phetlern, Alansee, the lovely micaparamedic and myself.

Most of the cache finds were straight forward, yet a couple stumped us. A few were located where it was difficult to safely pull the car off of the road, but we made it work with some creative maneuvers.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip that was planned at the Clear Waters mega was able to occur.

Adelaide, Victoria, NSW and Canberra - a decent drive, filled with various caching activities including Adventure Labs.

Several days caching with the awesome Team Crackers, gorgeous The Drovers, fab Phetlern, cool Alansee, and the lovely micaparamedic.

We laughed, sang to a vast variety of songs and chatted - almost non-stop! [^] We piled into cars and had such a fun time. Despite the light showers, windy conditions at times, we also had sunny days to enjoy caching in.

A sincere thanks to ALL7 for placing these caches, including the enjoyable little series.

Day 4 of our trip to Queanbeyan, and surrounding areas.
Now travelling alone as the other teams in our group for the past couple of days,
are either heading north to the mega, or chasing other caches.

We completed this trail, but had a few DNFs along the way.
Many thanks for placing this cache, ALL7, for us and others to find.

In the early morning darkness I found a swampy cache

It’s almost swimming. Strange that there’s no log entry except mine after 4 July

Found! Lots of flooding here.

I recently noticed that I was really close to qualifying for a local challenge based upon total traditionals found. Today I added a bit of roadside power trailing to my caching to-do list. This series got me really close to getting across the line. TFTH

With BomEm, on a Nice sunny Sunday drive.
Nice easy find.
Cache in good order
TFTC

A quick park and grab with Lpud on the way back from London Bridge. Lovely Sunday afternoon drive. TFTC

Good

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.

Cache 5722 on 5 Feb 2020.

Despite the awful smoke, I was committed to grabbing a few caches today, and the last of the Old Cooma Rd series was just the numbers of caches I wanted to find. All caches found quickly, one was found on the ground and replaced in accordance with the hint. Bobl27 kept me safe driving and steering clear of the trucks and buses that thundered along.

Thanks ALL7 for the cache and the fun!

Found with AngelG27 on a smokey afternoon. TFTC

TFTC

Quick grab after walking from #15 tftc

Found on a big Saturday getting lots of caches; which included getting this series of caches. Driving through this area of the country was very lovely; with all of the old gum trees and the views of the mountains and Googong. Parking was occasionally a challenge, where I sometimes had to drive back the way we came to get caches out-of-order due to more appropriate parking on that side of the road or due to cars behind me. Neverthless, was a very fun drive. Each cache was a quick find. TFTC ALL7!

Was amazed to find this well placed cache still here despite a new dam being excavated only meters away and a barrier of impaled hay bales in place between the trees. But there it was, in perfect condition and a FTsign the new log! Thanks, All7

Bad cache damage... I put new one today... all done.. thanks

Found with wink.inc. TFTC

Nice day for a caching drive with Briony33

TFTC

Lid missing log wet

Container has no lid and log is very sad. Tftc

Out and about early to grab a few caches near Queanbeyan before heading to Goulburn for the day. The container was damaged and the log completely soaked. Thanks ALL7.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

The log is very wet and almost unwritable. Didn't have a suitable replacement but probably wouldn't have helped as the cache has little weather protection of any kind. TFTC ALL7

Found it. TFTC

Second last find in this series while out and about having a good time with phetlern, gonefishen07, zobo04, alansee and muzza on a spectacular Autumn day. Signed log as GAMPAZ. TFTC ALL7.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

#11081 @1652
Out for an afternoon's exercise - rogaine training. Afterwards I grabbed three of this series in case they were lost as part of the roadworks. All found ok. The lid of this one was missing. The log was quite wet, but I still managed to leave a mark. TFTC.

Found 11:21 am with partner and her grand daughter. We went to visit her sons new house that they are building here in Googong. On the return journey doing some caches. Found the cache after a very brief look around. The grand daughter got curious what I was doing and this time I took her along but she was to scared to lift the cover. Showed her what was underneath unfortunately the container had nothing other than the log book. Note there is no proper lid anymore. Signed the log and returned to its hide. Road works in the area. I was apprehensive if this would still be there but still is.
Thanks for the cache.

A couple of hours caching down the Monaro Highway, then up Old Cooma Road. TFTC.

A great day out caching traveling around the wonderful Queanbeyan countryside,
with fantastic company of bobbiesgirl, pood, richmondlad, ozglory.
Log signed as Team Brolga to save space.
Today we ventured south and found lots of caches.
Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches for us to enjoy.
TFTC

12334 Found and Logged 7:36:00 AM
Picking up a few cachers while in Quernbeyan for the Clear Waters Event
Great weather to be outdoors
Thanks for the cache ALL7
Lgoody

Found it with Deaf Geo-caches Lucky9

Found while out and about with geocaching friends - Alansee, Zobo04, Gonefishen07, Anderka and Phetlern. The cache container has been damaged and there is no lid either. WIll need some attention from the CO.



My thanks to ALL7 for placing and maintaining the cache.

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

Find # 4490 We repaired the cache with camo tape from our box of tricks.
Found with sesblocker, Aries44duo.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
We are staying at Queanbeyan showground for the "Clear Waters" Mega event. This is day six of our mega adventure.
As requested by the organising committee, we have abreviated our caching name to "TN".

TFTC ALL7
20 April 2019 3:09 pm

3738 20 April 2019
Attending The Clearwaters Ozemega at Quenbeyan and grabbing a few caches and power trails around the area. Signing the logs 'A44' as requested. Out caching with The Neighbs. Container repaired.

TNLNSL
TFTC ALL7

Found while out and about with a group of cachers. We decided to cache in this area and were rewarded with good caching.

Found with a group of cachers and logged as Lucky9 during Mega event, 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

Venturing around Canberra while attending the Mega. A days caching with caching friends and the log signed as Team Brolga. Due to the numbers I am doing a generic log, however I do appreciate each individual cacher for their caches and the locations. Well done. TFTC

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
Mostly good coordinate spot with hunt (it was helpful.)

Thanks ALL7 for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Found and logged as Lucky 9. TFTH ALL7 (sorry for late logged)

Attending the Queanbeyan Clear Waters mega event, this was a day packed with hikes and power trails. Our team "LUCKY9" started off the day walking around Googong Dam targeting the Queen geocache trail, before then heading south through Royalla and visiting Michelago, and then heading north via Burra. A massive day caching indeed in great weather.

A drive along Old Cooma Road with intermittent roadworks and construction. This geocache didn't take long to find, and there was some damage to the cache container as observed during our visit. Thanks ALL7.

Thanks for share Lucky 9 great

Found with Zobo04,Alansee, Phetlern,Anderka and Muzza. Out and about finding caches while attending the Mega. Fun times with friends , thanks for taking the time to place this cache . TFTC ???? it’s still there container is in need of repair

Found with Gonefishen07, Alansee , Muzza , Anderka and Phetlern. A super fun day was had by all. Thanks for placing this cache for our enjoyment ( needs some tlc as it’s damaged ) ???????? TFTC

Day 2 of the Mega and Mrs Snakepiters was out caching with Di Morgan, and Happy Feet, while I attended the FREE seminars in camp . Although Di was safely put in the rear booster seat for her protection today, she still managed to fall. If this is going to be a daily caching activity we will have to start capturing the event. Working down the Old Cooma Road as there are still plently of caches non QBN/CAN cachers have not found

TFTC ALL7
Total Cache Finds 7185

In town for the Mega and caching as part of Team Brolga. Thoroughly enjoying these lovely country drives, so different fromthe coast. Copy and paste logs do not detract from our enjoyment or appreciation.

A massive day of caching as a member of LUCKY9. I'll sleep well tonight! Thanks for the hide.

This morning hubby went out with his harem consisting of Happy Feet, Snakepiters .
We signed the log as DISH
We spent a great morning tarvelling along the old Cooma Rd. & returning by the Monaro highway.
I'm sure he thought he had his handfull. It was a great morning out.
Thanks for placing this cache ALL7Mega event.

Teamed up with The Rats to primarily find some of the power trails in ans around the ACT whilst also attending the Mega Event in Queanbeyan. In a couple of days we managed a few hundred finds. The landscape wasn't too bad and we enjoyed the various series placed out. TFTC!

Perfect Queanbeyan weather for Clear Waters Mega, has meant an opportunity
to explore the area, enjoy the scenery and of course look for caches along some country roads. Out and about today in the very good company of Alansee, Anderka, Gonefishen07, Muzza and Zobo04.

Thanks to 'ALL7' for creating this series.
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In Queanbeyan to attend the Mega. So great to get here early to spend time catching up with some many familiar faces. Always taking the time to grab a cache, when the opportunity allowed it.

This morning we were out with Di Morgan and Snakepittes. It was a great opportunity to grab some finds while on the way out along Cooma Road and retuning via the Monaro Highway. Had some fun and laughs along the way, while finding a number or good finds. We signed all the logs as DISH.

Thanks ALL7 for all the effort of placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play
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Found as team Lucky9 during the mega. ALL7

Caching in the company of bobbiesgirl, pood, richmondlad, ozglory. Log signed as Team Brolga to save space. Today we ventured south and found lots of caches Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches for us to enjoy.

Headed down to Queanbeyan for the Clear Waters Mega event over Easter with steeba. We set ourselves a goal of bolstering our find count by doing some of the numerous powertrails that dot the surrounding area.

Found the Burra and Cooma Rd powertrail series of caches while hanging around the southern area on Good Friday. Thanks to the CO's for placing the caches we found.

Roadworks at GZ seems to have removed cache. Might need to disable.

DNF due to road work at GZ.

??

Searched with RS.

Tiding things up and finally getting around to logging my DNFs
No find for us here today

Road works - no find.

Roadworks are preventing parking and access

SecretSquirrel-BJC and I had no luck with this one today. Suggest CO check GZ.

So there is a bit of widening of the road happening here and some clearing of trees. This one may be missing.

out with ACA, couldn't find

Dropped in on my way home. Cheers

Thankyou for the cache the Ewoks

An awesome day out and about picking up geocaches with FFLL#1 was planned. Fortunately for us, the rain stayed away however the dust storm had rolled into town. We had a couple trails we had our eyes on to get completed, which we finished nice and quickly, before moving onto a much wanted puzzle cache across the ACT and then off for some more trail caches. All in all, finished up with 64 finds for the day so quite a successful day

Apologies for generic logs, we spent the day collecting a number of finds, but we also collected a whole heap of glass bottles, plastic bottles and cans from the side of the road... The Ute tray has quite a stack to sort through lol.

Thanks for the cache hide ALL7 and FFLL#1 for another great caching adventure with lots of laughter

A plan was hatched with Rapidlywild to head out geocaching if the weather cleared. We thought that we would head to this area to finish off Old Cooma and Kelly Road, and make a start on the caches along Uriarra Road.
The weather stayed fine and we had some great views of the dust storm. Another sucessful geomission with plenty of laughs, thanks again RW for another good day out.
Thanks to all the owners for their placements, apologies for the generic logs, we had a great time collecting them.

Took my GeoSchnauzers and my partner's GeoCavoodles to the vet for their annual shots. Nearly eight hundred dollars later, I needed a cache. So I went the long way home and grabbed this one. Thanks, All7.

Found on the 10/11/2018 at 12:48:00 PM

My First of a 9 day caching road-trip holiday I headed further South than usual, with the goal of finding as many caches as possible (and a few select ones for my stats). I'm just glad the temperature hasn't reached the highs yet.
Lots of dead whildlife scattered along the country roads, with the worst right near gz, I had to make the log duties as quick as possible to avoid the stench.

I found a total of 104 today.

Thanks for the caches.

**# 22932** Found on another perfect Spring caching day at Queanbeyan.
Another trek along some trails on the south side of town towards Cooma.
Thanks for the cache and the series ALL7,
***Roostaman***

Found it,.. Thanks

Found in good time and a good start to the day. TFTC

Quick find with Justjessie

Quick find with O319. TFTC

Needing big numbers per week if I am to reach my Goal of making Parkville Event my 6000 smilie, I set out to the south again today.
Most were found easily and in good condition though at times parking was difficult. Unfortunately I had 3 DNFs but I was happy with my smilies
Thanks to all the COs for placing so many caches. All logs were signed mostly as SG

Enjoy these Old Cooma Road series runs.
TFTC

I'm out today to get numbers up. My boyfriend doesn't believe I can catch him, so here I am.

There is an impressive stone wall on the opposite side of the road and with my GPS arrow playing up my stomach dropped for a minute. It proved unnecessary however with the cache found quickly and in good condition. Nice to see a dam with water in it.
Tftc

Great day of caching in Queanbeyan and ACT! Thanks to all the co's for placing the caches.
TFTC Wilbert67

Out and about with Trodectus and Decrypter finding caches on this pleasant, but mixed weather day of sun, cloud and sprinkling rain. Headed home now, but still caches to find on the way. TFTC ALL7.

TFTC

30th find while out for a drive with Goldenwattle and Decrypter. Most were quick finds and the caches in good order. TFTC.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

I like it

Another one off the list

TNLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH All7 [^]

Heading home after a fun weekend caching in canberra. We'll be counting down on this series. Very nice rock wall nearby, hadnt noticed it before on our many times past. Tftc

Quick stop and grab on the way to a weekend of skiing. Always nice to boost the numbers, although didn't have time to find all the new caches in this area, will have to stop by again!

Cheers

Today I headed south with LuckyL10n, AndrewBT and I to visit the Burra Road Series and plenty of others along the nearby roads. We had a great day with only one DNF with a fun lunch at Michelago before battling traffic on the highway heading back to Canberra.

Thanks.

25591.16 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 9000 Finds A#243

**Albida**

Took to roads South with dty73 and Aquilus1 on a fantastic Winter’s day in a bid to find as many of the new power trail caches as possible (and other established caches where convenient). Big numbers were expected, and we weren’t disappointed.

Met up Northside at a comfortable 8.30am and headed towards passport control. Visas in order at Immigration we crossed the border to the Southside without incident. Eventually onto the Monaro Highway and wasn’t there a lot of traffic heading towards Canberra. End of school holidays/returning home from the snow traffic I guess. Don’t think it stopped all day, progressively just getting busier and busier.

Started then with a few early caches on the highway, with a left soon onto Williamsdale Road. Finds aplenty as we drove on, taking a right at the intersection onto Burra Road. More finds came thick and fast, with only the one DNF (of the day). Detouring we headed up Tinderry Road to the summit for some bonus finds, running into a few fellow cachers not far from the top, collectively then finding several more together. Great views afforded down and across the open expanse, snow sighted in the distance. Descended slowly back down the well maintained dirt road to the Burra Road trail and continued into Michelago. A cache at the neat and tidy train station followed by a ‘wished it was quick’ stop at the public facilities. Apparently an urgent ‘Needs Maintenance’ was sorely needed (fortunately for me I had previously taken a quick break, so no need for use here).

Back out to the highway and South for a few more, before retracing our steps and continuing North to Kelly Road. As a quick aside, we noticed a ‘throw down’ at one GZ, just past the turn into Michelago (North side). These types of caches may have a place in the game, if permission is sought and granted by the CO, or the CO has long since left the game, but, as this was part of the new power trail, rehidden by a previous finder two days before, exactly where it should be, the newly ‘deposited’ cache was removed. As a consequence, two particular cachers from the South Coast may wish to revisit and log their find, properly.

Ran again into the same rascals thereabouts that we were with along Tinderry. Continued conversations as we continually pulled up almost together with over the next 30 minutes before eventually heading our separate ways. Old Cooma Road next, and a quick stroll into a storm water drain before continuing the trail to the top of Burra Road. ‘It up’ed a few times before our final leg into Googong, finding the last caches for the day.

Time then to head home before we turned into Googonians, or, it was getting dark, it was already considerably cooler, and we were getting hungry. Dropped Aquilius1 and dty73 back at the carpark before heading over to the geoSister’s place who had been looking after The Matetrix for the day. Three cold refreshing crownies and a hot roast chicken with honey carrots, peas and broccoli dinner later, I was stuffed!!

Apologies for the generic logs, specifics will be added where pertinent. Details may not be 100% accurate, but are 100% how I recall them.

Thanks to dty73 and Aquilus1 for the great company and ALL the leg work, and andrewbt/LuckyL10n/Albida33 for the ‘shared’ finds.

And of course special thanks to ALL7 and all other CO's for all the hard work, keep it up.

Where to next?

I had the day planned with IamCoust and Aquilus1 to hit up the newer trails down south to help obtain the Hidden Creatures Souvenirs. Aquilus1 and I had already collected all 100 caches that we required and IamCoust had less than half needed, however IamCoust and I had also a plan to bet our own personal best days to catch over 115 caches in a day. And Aquilus1 can never say no to a caching adventure.

We left the north side at 8:30am and found the last cache around 4:30/5pm. We had taken our time, but did concentrate mainly on those park and grabs.

We had a blast, the weather was perfect, the company couldn't have been better and we even ran into fellow caching friends - LuckyL10n, Andrewbt and Albida33 who we travelled with to a few caches.

Most finds were good except one DNF at Burra #24 (to which Aquilus1 had previously found so had an idea of what and where we needed to look), one cache had literally a "throw down cache" which I found on the ground away from the sign, but Aquilus1 found the original cache pretty much straight away, but also found it funny that these cachers "found" the missing Burra #24 and didn't throw down one there (unless "it" went missing too)?? Stranger things have happened I guess.

This cache though, again all good.

I appreciate all the effort ALL7!! Great work placing and maintaining them all. TFTC!!!

#8256 - 09:08; A plan was hatched with albida33 a couple of weeks ago to hit the new trails along the roads leading to and from Burra and places nearby. An encounter at a recent event saw andrewbt join the mission and so it was we headed off today on a mission which would ultimately see me collect 132 finds with just a single DNF, while the others picked up more or less the same numbers. The weather was ideal and most of the caches were quickly located, although we did do some head scratching on a couple of occasions. Many of the logs were signed LL, a33 and abt or some combination thereof rather than consume a lot of space. We had now reached the Old Cooma Road series and working in reverse, we collected this one as we headed south. TFTC ALL 7