WV Bushwalk #1 Willow Vale, New South Wales, Australia
By HappyUke on 10-Nov-18. Waypoint GC7ZK7G

#22770 @0650I spent the morning finding a few caches before meeting up with others from Canberra and some locals to do the Box Vale Tramway walk. Cache easily found. TFTC.

TFTC! Quick find. Now off to to rest of them!

Good spotTFTF xx

Thanks mate very fun xx

Streak Day #3992 - Out with Dave8153 on a geocaching jaunt, quick find in the spitting rain. TFTC

15 June 2024This is find number: 9758Streak Day: 3103Found Today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find. ThanksThanks to HappyUke for placing and maintaining this cache. TFTC

Found

Added this cache to the list while on the road with ilook4geo. It was a nice quick and easy find and both names were soon added to the log. Thanks for the cache placement go to HappyUke.

Found this cache while heading south with goingplaces2. No problem in locating it and the log was soon signed. TFTC.

ThaNow it was fun

Cache all good.Decided to enable as away from burn off area

The RFS will be burning off in the area next week so I will be removing the containers this weekend.Also, I need to re-route the walk between #9 and #10 to bypass the now private land.

Thanks

Found it

Out doing the Bv bushwalk quick find on to the next one

Was so looking forward to spending a good part of the day out here doing this and one other series, and had planned this outing a couple of weeks ago taking advantage of having to drop the missus off up the road a bit for a get together. Things were looking ok, but then good ol Mother Nature had other ideas, and opened up the floodgates . It was raining so hard that I just didnt even bother getting out of the car.damn it!

Thanks!

Found by Bold St Bitches 28/04/24

Good quick findThank you

Found

Find # 10454Nice quick find.No problems find the cache. TFTC HappyUke 25 January 2024

Coordinates changed from:S 34 25.849 E 150 28.421Coordinates changed to:S 34 25.858 E 150 28.431Distance from original: 74.3 feet or 22.6 meters.Just did a maintenance check and yep the cache is missing... again... so moved a new container and log book to a smaller stump closer to the footpath.Happy caching

I had a DNF on 28/Dec/2022 (a year ago this day) when the cache was missing, and now today another DNF . I searched as per the hint; "burnt stump Now at waist height", and then at other heights. I also scraped the base of the stump with a stick. No luck for me. DNF!

Dana vortouni and Thomas Adamson 26th of the 8th 2023

Found it.
Enjoyed the bush walk with Robyn60 & andysbs68, thanks for the series.

Found it with Robyn60 & Barkerdogs
TFTC

TFTC Nice find

Thanks!

Quick find at the real beginning of the series.

Nice and easy and logged
TFTC

Day trip to Mittagong with Geospark62. Good weather today. Signed new log sheet. Replaced as found. TFTC

Replaced container and log.
Now at waist height.
Happy caching

I dug in the base and then looked about for a sneakier hide that could conceal a small sized cache. No luck for me; still a DNF.

Nice bushwalk with dog on a sunny day, to find the nine caches, on the walk. Found 8 of them, but failed at finding the final cache, number 9, climbed right on top, but could not find the cache. The other 8 at the start were trickier than the later ones. Thanks for the great area to explore and find caches. Tftc

Found

Out for a walk with friends. Before I told my son we were close he calls out 'found it'. TFTC

Quick find. Keen for this track

A fun start to our adventure day!

Did this loop before getting into the daily grind. I’ll be back when number two is resurrected but today was a lovely stroll along the trail. Really enjoyed my time out here today with the Hume Highway humming along contrasted against the bush. All caches were found quickly and I really appreciated the 5k steps that I picked up. TFTC

Specifically at cache 1 I picked up the TB to move him on to Darwin next week.

26/01/22

171. Left couple goodies inside, thanks

Found it

I used my eyeballs

Found it.

Found it

Found it, no pen with me. Took pic

Again thank you photo as I didn't have a pen

Easy find. Good location

Time for a stroll today it’s a little bit cool but should keep the kids happy

We have travelled from Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the NSW Southern Highlands for a short midweek caching holiday, staying in a park cabin at the Mittagong Caravan Park at Emu Plains, and are planning to explore the areas around Mittagong, Bowral, Mount Gibraltar, and Box Vale. Hoping to collect a variety of cache types, including some Earthcaches and Wherigos and previously solved Puzzle caches, and to also complete some of the Adventure Labs in the area. This was our 10th find of the day, and 10th find of the holiday.

After our drive down from Sydney, and some roadside finds on arrival at the Mittagong area, we decided to stretch our legs with this Willow Vale bushwalk cache trail. Parked the geomobile on the road near the start of the trail, then headed off along the trail.

This was the first cache we came to, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. TFTC HappyUke.

Find #4695

Nice little hide. Container is full of water but the log is a bit damp but still pretty dry! We found this on our way to Canberra while deciding a bushwalk would be a good idea to break up the trip. Thanks for the cache!

Found it! Very good hide.

A quick and easy find. TFTC

We lived up Orient street for many years and this track or the one along the old railway were where our 2 dogs were walked nearly every day. A short stroll up the track today brought us to GZ and the find. Thanks for bringing us back here to a good hide.

Starting off the geoventure with my partner in crime Mizcupcake today nice and early. We're here in the Mittagong area and enjoying the great weather. We came up form the bike track to these ones. This was the 11th find we made and we difnt even need the gps for this one. As we walked through our geosenses took us to the cache. We both signed and replaced and made our way fown the track. TFTC!

Littl3Vix and I have decided to hit up the Southern Highlands for our big geo adventure today. We have a big day planned, Bowral and surrounds is the perfect place for us, many caches and many cache types! Plus, who can forget that its EarthCache weekend? So we left town early, despite my flat battery hitch at Littl3vixs house

Next, we came back up to Willow Vale to try complete a power trail or 2, and this was find number 11. We spied this likely hide before we got the GZ buzz, another quick find. Thank you for the cache HappyUke!

Found it

Log and container replaced
All ready to go
Happy caching

Couldn’t find

Our first in the area. TFTC

Catching up on logging all my finds since i joined in July. This was an easy find, tftc!

A nice easy find at the start of our walk. Tftc!

Found it

A quick find on a cold morning, onto the next one! Tftc

Quick find with mrwhiskers76, thank you!

Found it thanks. I found it.

Would have liked to continue with the bushwalk but it was time to return to the car for another commitment. Perhaps another time. A quick find here and cache was in good condition. TFTC HappyUke

A nice quick find.
I originally was intending to head into the bush via the trailhead on Badgery St but a property is in the early stages of being built there and fences now block entry via that route.
I spotted the clue for this one as i was walking up and had no trouble grabbing it.
The container is in good condition and the log is dry.
Thanks.
#901

great cache bit obvious though

A nice quick find. TFTC

A quick find while passing by. I'll have to bring the mountain bike here and get the rest sometime. TFTC!

Fade to grey

TFTC a quick find along our journey. Thank you for putting in this series.

Found with O319 on our weekend caching around the area. TFTC

Found with sjg66 on our Highlands caching weekend. Thanks to all the CO's who maintain these caches, we had a great time.

Just a walk around the block

TFTH Happy Uke

Found -- 10:55 pm -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the hunt *HappyUke*.

**Cache Condition:** Good.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** Nothing.
**Trackables:** None seen in this cache today.

**The Cache**
Walked right past #1 unawares as my phone was in my pocket, so proceeded to #2. Scratched our names with a charcoal, took some pics as proof of visit and returned cache to its hide'y hole. I didn't have a pen anywhere in the car and hoped there maybe a pencil in the cache - nope. Ok, no worries, With my toothpick still in hand I tried using it as a writing instrument using charcoal from a burnt tree but the toothpick decided to break. I did not prick any pin holes in the paper, promise !! I managed to use a little tiny piece of burnt tree charcoal to scratch good looking initials clearly readable in the cache log.

**The Day**
I went over to Willow Vale to have a cuppa tea with an acquaintance but she was unwell, poor darling. With no cuppa to be had I promptly left and decided to head around the corner and check out *WV Bushwalk #1 and #2. I wasn't considering finding these caches today so was not prepared. I really needed to complete them to gain more gems for ***Mystery at the Museum***. I noticed they appeared easy to do so proceeded on my way with an almost flat phone in hand.

Tftc

Start to get cooler best be on my way TFTC left a little Serenity ️

MVGG are awesome..

We found it!!!

#5304 Found on a stop-off on the way back to Canberra from a quick trip up to Sydney. I figured I could spare about an hour to find caches before I needed to hit the road again and thought this area looked interesting. I loved the walk through the bush alongside the railway, no trains today.

Still had time to head up this trail too.

Thanks HappyUke!

Time to pick up a topaz on this windy, sunny, cold day. This looks like a nice little stroll in the bush.
Thanks HappyUke for the hide.

12896 Found and Logged at 2:38:00 PM
Spending a couple of days in Mittagong on my way home from the Geomuster at Cataract Scout Park
Thanks for the cache HappyUke
Lgoody

I had to wait it out for a group of dog walkers to pass before I could go and make this nice quick find. TFTC # 14,169

OCW the Bebes, EverestHigh, Brewmaker and PelDroedGuin on my birthday. TFTC HappyUke!

OCW birthday boys PelDroedGwin and MaxAdventurer also Brewmaker and EverestHigh

Always happy to do a bush walk

Tftc

Found while out and about at the Mega. Took a trip to Mittagong and grabbed this little trail on the way. TFTC

OCW the Bebes, Everest High,MaxAdventurer and Brewmaker whilst at the local Oz Mega event. Tftc

Nice bushland reserve . TFTC

Found yesterday with Ziggiau during a small raid in the Bowral/Mittagong area.

This is a nice example of a funky trail which brings you somewhere you wouldn't have been in a million years. Thank you HappyUke!

With the Oz Geomuster in our backyard, Team MavEtJu and I took the opportunity to pick up a few caches before attending the event at the Cataract Scout Park.

What a lovely way to start the morning - bush to ourselves, a fresh morning after rain on the previous day, not too chilly. A very pleasant series, thanks HappyUke.

Nice bush walk
Thanks

I very pleasant walk in the scrub with some amazing sights along the way.
Thanks for the cache HappyUke.

Driving to Canberra for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. A beautiful day to be driving around the slow route there and enjoying the sights and caches placed in the countryside by our awesome cache owners. This is great Cache walk In the Willow Valley area. TFTC HappyUke.

Out on a morning of caching with Bonfire7. Thought we would attack this series. Slightly overcast and quite chilly but a perfect day for a stroll. TFTC

Out for a day of caching with nicgal76,we had a few hides within our sights and this series was amongst our list.
After starting an attempt with our own strategy this just lead to a few hickups with all the nearby housing developments, we found it easier to just go back and start from the beginning and finish at the end
Finally underway a quick find happened here,sweet!
Thanks Happyuke for the cache

Having negotiated a 4-day weekend I took the opportunity to head to the highlands for a spot of geocaching. Most of my finds for the day were done on the bike and with such good weather there was no better way to get around.

Did this series on the bike and really enjoyed it. Managed to ride the bike down to #5 and pushed it up from #8 to #9.
Thanks