Sixteen of many Prestons, New South Wales, Australia
By BudoTom on 12-Jun-18. Waypoint GC7R48P

No response from the owner within the time requested and as per the original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

Ministro - Matt

Hi BudoTom,

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 45 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 45 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.


Ministro - Matt

Spoke to the last person who found it and it’s definitely not in place anymore will log maintenance request

DNF dont believe cache is in location any more

Cache appears to be missing see previous DNF

STM

No luck this time

No luck today

Had to avoid the eyes of a traffic control muggle patiently waiting for something to do. I used a nearby stump to give me the lift I needed to identify the hiding spot. Thanks BudoTom.

OCW Sensible Shoes, Little Shoes, Rainbow Bears and YolkieB signed as TRCS. TFTC.

Found with Sensible Shoes, Shoes Junior, Rainbow Bears and YolkieB. Quick find. Signed as TRCS. TFTC

TFTC. Signed as TRCS (Team Rainbow Chicken Shoes).

Found with Team Rainbow Chicken Shoes (signed as TRCS) - Sensible Shoes, Little Shoes, Shoes Junior, YolkieB and Rainbow Bears. A great day!

Signed as TRCS (Team Rainbow Chicken Shoes). TFTC

TFTC.

Quick find after realising what the cache was! Log full pic attached thanks

Was trying to look in completely the wrong place at first. Log completely full so took photo. TFTC.

Found with Ris768 thanks BudoTom for placing this cache

Log 2048 Streak Day 944

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4190 on streak day #2584 TFTC

Could see it but couldn’t reach it.

Our GPS was slow to settle at this location but when it did, we were able to make a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks BudoTom for the cache.

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

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!*

Easy find
TFTC

Quickly spotted. Log too full to sign, needs replacement. TFTC

With the bike we went this route to search for the caches. Most of the hiding places we found good. But there were some caches that were a bit more difficult and we had to search a bit longer.

We thank the owner for hiding , **the Moorhelmi's from Germany.**

Stop 12 of 25. Find #7 of the day.

Find goes to friends 9 yr old son. TFTC.

Gah! Totally overshot this one. Thought the cache was initially missing due to the freshly cut vegetation. Cache fog cleared and all was good in the end. TFTC!

We almost missed this one due to cache blindness. Sometimes the easiest finds become difficult. But, we found it in the end. Thanks!

We totally over thought of this and almost missed it completely due to cache blindness. Anominous Sign found it in the end. TFTC.

House/dogsitting closer to here than home, figured I’d tick off as many as possible at a leisurely pace without the extra travel time. Good co-ords (had to trust rather than question them at times), helpful hints and a variety of hides, made for an interesting trail. Of the 21 attempted (mostly due to heat and parking), claimed 18 smileys. Will return for the remaining 14 on a cooler day or when the definite MIAs (ie ones with several dnfs) are checked by the CO.

Found with cullum68 on our way to sydney to see Phil Collins concert thank you for the cache need for longer legs

Found with nissan 65 on a day caching before we head to homebush to see Phil Collins tonight.Thanku for the cache .cheeky bugger. Fav point

OK, that storm is getting ralalay close now. It’s 4pm biput getting dark. Long jagged streaks of lightning are extending from the dark gray clouds all the way to the ground. It’s suddenly windy and cooling rapidly. But we thought we could make it to the cache before it hit. Hurry up!! We did and we found it and, boy, did we hurry back to the car! SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

#2787
Having recently depleted my store of favourite points, I targeted this powertrail to earn some more. I was not prepared for the quality and variety of hides that I would encounter today. I managed to visit all of this series on foot over a period of about 4.5 hours and 20K+ steps.

A quick find. Onto the next one.

TFTC BudoTom

First I checked one place... Changed areas and came up empty. Pitman Clan was having a go as well. Dwight Shrute was bludging in the car. Went back and checked the other side of the first place and wondered how I'd missed it the first time.

We got there on the end! TFTC

TFTC and the cycle ride around Prestons on a glorious afternoon.

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

Quick find.

Thanks for the cache

With the hidden creatures souvenirs almost wrapped up I was wondering how to get a few more finds to accumilate a few more souvenirs. Realising a few of my caching buddies had done this series I dragged the mini rats along with me as they were still on school holidays. We headed up here with the bikes for a fun riding in the sun.

The hides were alot of fun and challenging at times, the area was excellent for getting around by bikes and being midweek the muggle factor was minimal.

We finished our day coming home via Heathcote Rd where we grabbed the latest few caches in the FTF hound series.

Thanks to all the hiders for a great day out.

In our final week of school holidays we headed out fora days caching with the Rats.
Dad said we'll take the bikes and do a bit of bike riding... well it turned out to be a great day as we rode around the streets on a beautiful sunny day. The "many" series was alot of fun.

We finished our day with a few finds in the FTF hound series.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the fun day.

One grumpy dog, and one cache found.

Seventh snag of the session.
Checked the right place first but missed it - wrong angle.

Easy find on second check.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Another nano TFTC

21 July 2018 at 09:54

With new twins in the house, I don't get a chance to get out geocaching very often these days - and I really really wanted that hidden creatures Dragon. I mean - Daenerys Targaryan can have the Iron Throne of Westeros. My ambitions are more modest. All I want is to be Mother of at least one Dragon!!! So I found Prestons on the map - and the new power trail there, and though golly gosh, this is perfect. !!!

And I made it there, all the way from north of the big bridge - without getting lost even once. And the sun was shining!!

Mr BudoTom. You certainly have put this area of Sydney on the geo-map!!! I needed 13 finds and hoped to achieve these before my leave pass ran out. I found 16 - mostly on foot.. 3 hrs walk. Did me good. And some of them were quite challenging, witty, even wacky. Missed one or two, but kept moving.

The variety of styles was impressive. For a relative newcomer, you're amazing!

Thankyou for a great day out. My Dragon salutes you.

Another one down. And nice to meet fellow catcher on the trail. TFTC

Find No.3071
Found with sesblocker.
Good coords and nice hide!
TNLNSL
TFTC BudoTom
21 July 2018 14:45

As I was reading a few previous logs on these caches I noticed that I was not the first to use this series to complete my magic creatures challenge. Luckily I took the bike as that turned out to be the best option here, parking would have been complicated in most spots! Worked my way around pretty quickly, but didn't finish completely as I ran out of time for today. Have to do the others a different time. Enjoyed the mix of containers and hides, Nothing I hadn't seen before, but some were really good executed!
TFTC Wilbert67

A five hour walk in company with Celtical netted the first 24 of the 'of many' series of caches plus one more. Staring at 'one of many' and completing the loop to '24 of many' then returning to the only dnf of the day '7 of many' where a more thourough search revealed what we missed on the first time around.
Having two pair of eyes was worth while as we worked our way around a variety of hides and cache sizes some cleverly hidden.
Well done to the CO for the series to date I have completed, tftc

With geodaughter 3 at preschool I asked the 3 boys what they wanted to do and their reply was we want to get the turtle.... 21 to get him. So back to the MANY POWER TRAIL. Monday when we first visited we managed to locate 17 caches (some not the trail ones). 8 down so 13 to go.
Geokid 9s turn to make a find and above head height for him is way up. Enjoyed being a fireman
#444

Well we were on a mission, me to get my world turtle, & lucky1955 to snare his dragon! So that meant a long walk around the area - 5 hours to be precise. Special thanks to the CO for some really well thought out cache hides, & a few really sneaky ones. Great little series, I'm looking forward to doing the others. TFTC

Located at 11:01am. #786. I may be too self-deprecating at times but since I cache solo almost always, I cut such a strange figure standing and rolling up a small piece of parchment on the side of the road . I located this one very quickly. Спасибо для кеша! תודה! L’chaim! TFTC!

OCW with EverestHigh, The Bebes and JordsAU. TFTC BudoTom!

17 Jul 2018

Found ‘Sixteen of many’ (GC7R48P) with EverestHigh, MaxAdventurer & The Bebes.

Today, I teamed up with EverestHigh, MaxAdventurer & The Bebes to hunt for more Hidden Creatures (and caches), as we fast approach the final week of the geocaching June / July 2018 promotion.

We hatched a plan to meet up around lunch time and drive over to Prestons to tackle to ever growing “X of Many” series, plus a number of others along the way. It was a fun afternoon out and about in the beautiful winter sunshine and cached well into darkness to pick up as many as we could.

We were pleased with the result, edging ever closer towards the Dragon and, ultimately, the World Turtle digital souvenirs. With only a few Did Not Finds, and a few we had to skip over, we ended up with more than 40 finds for the afternoon.

A good excuse to venture out in the depths of the inviting urban forest, that is Sydney at this time of year.

Thanks For The Cache BudoTom.

"JordsAU

TFTC

OCW JordsAU, EverestHigh & MaxAdventurer

Returned to see if I can finish the “of many” today

Glad we had a taller cacher with us

Tftc

Today I took on the Prestons bike paths with geobuddies on the hunt for"to many"caches to complete the mythical creatures challenge.
It was a really enjoyable day out riding around looking for the caches, some were alot more challenging then others,we almost dnf'd a couple but mananaged to find all the hides in the end with the spot on coords the entire way to complete both the challenge and the series
Thank you BudoTom for the cache

Looking from the right angle and altitude produces a spark of the right kind that even provisional cachers should be right with.

Out on my mountain bike finding the local caches. Thanks for placing them.

Cheers

Streak Day #1826 - Out here again this evening after dinner with dave8153. Another quick find for us. Thanks so much for placing this series as its helped keep my streak alive and at least for another month so far. TFTC

Cache find No. 2523
Streak Day: 937

Found with Snoopy1976. Took a few minutes to find. TFTC

Easy for big bad Dan to see, as he is tall. It actually took longer to work out how to access the log. A good cache. Well made. Deserves a fav point. TFTC

OCW GeodudeAU on a special Winter's day. It was an enjoyable trail and the walk did me good. Managed 25 finds, and there is still more to return to do. Great trail. TFTC

Out today with Brewmaker finding some of the caches along the Many Power Trail at Prestons and some others along the way. We parked the car at the nearby designated parking area and then headed off. Most of the caches were easy to find and accessible from or near the path. Some were very creative and most only a few took a little while to uncover. But there was quite a bit of walking involved and we didn't get time to finish the series so will be back to complete that task at another time.
Read the hint, which helped with the find, but I was initially fooled by looking at natural camo. Once I switched, I soon spotted the cache hiding there.
Signed the log and replaced it all as found. Then it was on to the next one. TFTC

Found on ground but replaced to reflect the hint TFTC

Found on the ground. Replaced back to its home. Tftc

found with gm10 and btm

found with u_c and btm

Found with u_c and gm10 found on ground

After seeing so "Many Of" notifications it was time to head to Prestons. Many excellent and varied caches. Nice quick find here in between cars passing. TFTC

Since i didn't manage to get out to cache this weekend, morning before work will have to do.
Lots of new catches out for me to find, send some old ones i struggled with before. Glad to finally get my hands on them!
Thanks for the cache

The geokiddies and I decided to hit the new Prestons ...”of many” Power Trail in search of some hidden creatures. This was find 8 of 11 for the morning.

Spent a while searching the organic camo for this one before realising the error of my ways. Soon after it was cache in hand. Signed the log and returned as found, all in good order here. Dropped a geocaching australia moveable cache (red P) close by, for those that play on geocaching.com.au

Thanks for the cache BudoTom, another souvenir for the Hidden Creatures event, this time the Hippocamp!
Find # 289

#4629- It seems there were lots of people out doing caching today, though thomo31 and I appear to the be the only ones who walked the whole loop today. We were now on the third part of the loop and about half way around. This was a straghtforward one, found immediately. Thanks

A quick find with WaywardWoman. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Quick find after we changed spots to somewhere a little more tried and true. TFTC

Found the other day as 2TF but just getting around to log. Thanks had me looking in wrong spot for quite a while.

Quick afterwork run around the Prestons area with the Hawksbury Gang. Things get done quickly when you're part of a team.

With today marking the start of the month long [Hidden Creatures](https://www.geocaching.com/play/souvenircampaign/hiddencreatures) mythical creature souvenirs guest, we set out for a caching run with phlphotos, alnic39 and JJCC around Prestons. After parking the car we set out on a walk, coming away with thirteen finds and four DNFs for the day. A relatively easy find at GZ was made for the sixth find for the day helped by our elevated stature. With the cache in hand we signed the log then replaced as found. Both the cache container and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache BudoTom.

The following TBs came through for the mileage: Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Lord Frederik von Kürbiskopf.

#1972 after finding Seventeen of many we continued on to Sixeen of many on approaching noticed my shoe lace had come undone so bent down as one of the others made the grab

We signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache BudoTom

We then continued on to Fifteen of many

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2012, 2017 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

TFTC. Picked up where I left off last week with this series and fortunately it was soon CIH as just as pulled up it started to rain.

OCW Mrs Aries today to get some numbers for my 3,000th find (nearly there).
A straight forward find. TFTC BundoTom.

Another one ticked off the list. TFTC

I went walking around Edmondson park this week and I found... this cache!

We continued on this trail. TFTC.

Quick find to fill in a missing calendar day. Other nearby caches will be collected when finding a few creatures.

I approached from the East and had not driven along here for many years. It was a bit of a change as you can imagine. Thanks BudoTom

Rainbow Spirit turned this up while we were looking elsewhere!!!

TFTC.

Found with TC.

FTF - I was on my way home when my geo-wife alerted me of 3 new caches. I luckily found 2 out of 3. Finger tips helped in locating this one, thanks.

Published

Tftc. Quick find on a very busy road.