Gara Loop: Lump in a Stump New South Wales, Australia
By magpiecottage on 10-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7VXVA

Tftc Out looking for D2/T1.5, D1.5/T2, or D2/T2. A nice quick find. Im loving this trail but not the snake that was on the road.

Good find

Reperio 19:29Day 2 of our tour of Tamworth caching trip, and Master Vitruvius and I decided to head out towards Uralla and Armidale, and eventually towards Hillgrove and Wollomombi. With lots of drive by caches, most the finds were nice and quick, with a few nicely crafted caches thrown into the mix. The most pleasingly part of the day was that nearly all the caches were available and found.Gratias magpiecottageAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Travelling with FootyFanatics. Parked on the side of the road. As per FootyFanatics log.

Found it on a sunny Tuesday while out and about with evangt. another quick find. TFTC

Quick park and grab. TFTC.

Quick find while taking the back road to town whilst staying with relatives nearby. TFTC

More pretty countryside, although dry. And a good hide. TFTC!

All good

Quick and easy find for Mystery Sleuth and I today.

TFTC

Out caching with Anne of Green Gables 2 on my birthday. Quick park and grab today.

TFTC

A trip to check out some of the awesome places in NSW and grab some old caches. TFTC.
Nice quick find

Quick find as there was a passing Ute. Had almost expected to have the road to ourselves! Watch for other traffic!

Staying around the Armidale area to cache for a few days.
Today was a power trail day, we tackled the Gara, Hillgrove-Metz and Long Point trails and started the Chandler Trail. Overall a very busy day of caching.
Thanks for the cache

Very stiff cool breeze today. At least its not raining. TFTC Magpiecottage

Got it!

#5401
It was wet and 7 degrees this morning, so we decided that a few drives to interesting caches would be better than endless in and out of the warm car, so we decided to focus on the letterboxes around Armidale and go from them. We drove the Gara loop managing all but one, we turned around at the river, with a difficult to determine depth and quite fast flowing, so did the trail in two halves.
We pulled up no more than 2m from this one, I even signed it still sitting in the car! There is a nice trig just up the hill we got as well....

Found today while out on an afternoon drive on the road out to Dorrigo, found a bunch of caches but took longer than we thought due to a flooded causeway that we probably could've crossed, but decided on the safer option and came around the caches from the back way...

TFTC

Found it!

Good to find!

Quick find. Thanks!

11/03/22

I'd given the job of navigating to myiggle passenger and she was so busy checking out the view we overshot this by a little. Tftc

Tftc found with earthly65

Foubd with robbieracer66...thanks magpiecottage

Nice easy one

Quick find on a grey, wet day to tick a date found box. It was great to get out of the house! TFTC.

Find # 6794
Nice quick find.

TFTC magpiecottage
31 March 2021 11:28 am

Stopped here while touring the New England area along with ilook4geo. It was a quick and easy find. All was good with the container and its contents. This is an enjoyable series of caches. Many thanks go to magpiecottage for placing this cache for us to find and enjoy.

Came looking for some more smiley faces with goingplaces2. This was one of the caches we found. Cache retrieved, log signed, all replaced! TFTC.

Hello magpiecottage we found your geocache at 9:10 a.m. on the 16 November 2020. This is #5883 for us.

Quick solo weekend getaway to the area down from Lismore. Today I will be tackling the l
Trails in the area and enjoying the wide open spaces. Tftc

I have found it

Out collecting the various trails and a few extra caches today. A good day in total with only 1 DNF

Thankyou to the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches

**Total find count: 1027**

After what has felt like an eternity, we are finally taking our first geocaching road trip since Clear Waters with Crzymelly, TeamPQS and HubbyandMrs.

Today was "trail' day. We elected to complete the Gara Loop, Hillgrove-Metz and Long Point geocache trails. All found logs were dry and had room for more names.

**TFTC magpiecottage**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin
* Clear Waters 2019 Geocoin
* OzGeomuster 2019 Geocoin

Another big day of caching with @itsonlybarney, @TeamPQS and @hubbyandmrs. We decided that we would head out to Hillgrove from where we were staying in Armidale. We had a great time on the Hilllgrove-Metz trail, then we headed into town, luckily we had lunch with us and stopped off by the little playground for the geokids to be able to have a run around to stretch their legs. Once lunch was done we collected all the caches in Hillgrove and then headed out to complete the Long Point Trail. Loved all the Hillgrove history with all the signs indicating what was originally there. The Oyster Saloon sounded yummy. TFTC.

Out caching with a friend, haven’t done much out this way so thought we’d pick a few up, had a good time and found some interesting and well thought out caches! TFTC

Love the log book

My six year old jumped out and grabbed this one. What a little legend. TNLN TFTC

Find #64 (29/6/2020) on a trip around to Maitland, Armidale and back with JessYoung96.

Easy find and knew where it was straight away. Coordinates are very accurate. TFTC.

Found with TheProdigalGoat on 29/6/2020. Heading back to Coffs Harbour today to finish our caching trip
Easy find, great location and GPS led straight to the cache
TFTC

Let me start by thanking the cache owner for the time and effort they have put into caching for ourselves and others to enjoy.

Most will be cut and paste logs but in no way does that mean we don't appreciate your efforts
At the end of day 2 my gps reset its self and in the process deleted all my comments so I can't really remember which was what. sorry
Also forgat to say found with Staybe and co.

TFTC SL

Out on a geocaching weekend with Ozglory. Beautiful day for it!

Thanks for going to so much effort on this trail magpiecottage.

SL TNLN TFTC

Tamworth and Amrmidale Trip March 2020. Day 6. I headed north with Fitzy_1965 along the New England Highway towards Tamworth. This was our day to get the cache trails to the North and east of Armidale, it was a long day with rain showers on and off all day. The day was mostly roadside caches, but they were all of differing levels of challenges, especially when you have to deal with Farmers Friends and Stinging Nettles at almost every cache.

Thanks for the cache magpiecottage

28742.77 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Compass Rose Ice Cape A#329

**Albida**

20,723. Found with albida33 during a meander up to and around the Tamworth and Armidale regions.

Day 6 of our trip. Enjoying the luxury of staying in a hotel room after our campsite booking got cancelled, it was a nice easy start to the day. Headed out to where we finished last night for what turned out to be another big days caching. We aimed to finish the various trails around Armidale. Next stop for the day, and we came up with a quick find. Signed the log, replaced the cache, then headed off to the next one.

TFTC magpiecottage !! Lovely area to drive around.

Love it. Thank you

Found quickly TFTC

I'm out on a geocaching drive accompanied by Little Jimmy and we've decided to try the Gara Loop. My goodness me, it is so dry out here - but it's the same all around inland New South Wales. The Grafton (Waterfall Way) Road is closed east of Wollomombi, with bushfires at Sandy Creek. Very few cars on either the Gara or Grafton Roads, and the paddocks are mostly devoid of stock. One has to wonder how it will ever recover.

Please excuse the "cut and paste" logs, but there are a few to cover.

Thanks so much for placing the cache, magpiecottage. Signed the log, travellers visited and we moved on . . .

found on a caching day around Armidale. Thanks

Found while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421.
Enjoyed the trip around and all the great hides.
Stamped TM/WW NZ, or if in pen our full names

Another day of fun driving / walking around the area with woolwood9.
*More good caches found along the way* **TFTC**
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.

All good here!

TFTC easy to find.

Found

Found

Found

Gotcha !!! A few detours on the way from Sydney to Glen Innes. TFTC

I did my first drive and grab geocaching tour. Coming from Switzerland, normally we would go for a walk to look for caches. So this was intersting and I finally got the hang of it. I did the Gara River Tour, did some hikes and finally took a detour through Hillgrove following the magpie cottages trail.

With our base established at Uralla we headed out to different surrounding localities finding caches as we went. We enjoyed exploring the area and this was one we (us and Snakepiters) targetted and found. Thanks to magpiecottage for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

Serious day caching around the Armidale greater area with Liz and Bruce. Good country dirt roads with the car again covered in dust. No DNF's today and some creative caches or great hides were given fav points. we didn't get all the caches in the two days here so we will be back to enjoy the locals hospitality.
TFTC magpiecottage
Total Cache Finds 6051

Having a caching day around the new trails to the east of Armidale and also collecting a few other individual caches. As well as finding a variety of cache containers and hiding places we appreciated the effort that goes into planning, placing and maintaining these hides. Thanks to all the COs for showing us your wonderful countryside.

Visiting Armidale with joojoo57 for a couple of days and decided to do your Chandler Trail Caches.
Set off around 9am to complete them before it got to hot, which it really did not. Thoroughly enjoyed travelling through the countryside.
Apologies for the generic log however due to the number of caches we did, it would take me ages to do different logs. Enjoyed finding the caches in their various spots.
TFTC magpiecottage.

Found

A quick and easy find here. heat is not giving up at all sadly.

Always certain when you see a rock on top.TFTC

Decided to take a country drive along Gara Rd, Silverton Rd, Metz Rd and Chinamans Gully Rd then return to Armidale on the Waterfall Way. We collected 26 of Magpiecottage's caches along the way. Accurate coordinates and helpful hints made all of these quick finds.
We thoroughly enjoyed our day, a big thanks to Magpiecottage for placing these caches.

Another easy find. Took Nothing Left nothing. Sl

Hi there magpiecottage.

It looks like we had a magpiecottage day today. We started off with your caches in the "Gara Loop" before moving on to the "Hillgrove-Metz" series. We had our lunch stop at "Bring a Picnic" whilst exploring around Hillgrove, and finally we headed off down the "Long Point" trail.

We had a really fun day driving around the countryside today. The caches were all well placed, the coordinates were accurate and we can see that a lot of thought has gone into the placement of all the caches we found today.

Please excuse our boilerplate logs - find it really difficult to craft individual logs when we attempt so many caches in a day. [:(!]

All up we found 52 caches & DNF'd 0 in this cache run. Thanks for placing the caches. Without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places while we meander around Australia.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found each cache about 2-4m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The containers and log books are mostly in good shape.
**Took:** If we found a balloon we took it out (they perish and make the other swaps stick together).
**Left:** A gold coin was left in caches big enough to hold one.

Regards

Ian & Penny.

Easy find. Tftc

A quick find along a nice country road that wasn't dusty due to some overnight rain. TFTC.

We have set up camp with pprass overnight at Wollombi National Park. After dropping off our caravans we headed out on the Chandler Trail & the Gara Loop with a few other caches thrown in along the way.
It was good to find such a variety of caches & hides along the way.
Thanks for placing this cache magpiecottage

Found at 12:25 PM GAFF1 in the company of DiMorgan.
Well that was an easy T of 2.0
Thanks magpiecottage.

Nice to find a cache here.

TFTC magpiecottage
Baby Birt's find no. 708

A geocaching hide for dummies. [^] That giveaway sign at the only possible place wasn't wasted on MrsG. I've got this!! TFTC mapiecottage.

Interesting series of different types of caches & hides ..

All Good .. TFTC ..

Tftc with kawaiipotato99

Published

A jet was added to the Lump in the Stump!! +a FTF was noted. 7.29am. Thanks magpiecottage.