Christmas 2018 Kurnell, New South Wales, Australia
By Nana Nel on 27-Nov-18. Waypoint GC80JE1

A caching day out to Kurnell with SueDan83 and Meritonnn.Tried to take the direct route from our last find but that didn't work so had to go around.Made the small creek crossing near GZ without getting wet.Found the cache in a spot that didn't exactly match the hint but pretty close.Slipped on the creek crossing on the way back and got one wet foot.SL TNLN TFTC

OCW Sensible Sis and Meritonnn today. We had previously DNFed here, so Dan brought reinforcements and they found the cache for him. So now he was happy. TFTC Nana Nel

Full log to follow

Used a stick to poke around and it was soon CIH. TFTC

Found this cache a little early as it's only October, but it's nice to start getting into the Christmas spirit. Looking forward to the summer holidays and Christmas time. First cache of my solo adventure today. Crossed to the correct side and found the hint to be helpful once I found the correct tree. TFTC Nana Nel

Tried to access GZ via the horse park but no good.Retraced steps and was soon at GZ after making a successful river crossing.TFTC

Hmm, cold wet shoes and socks in winter.

Not for the faint hearted! A lot of spikey stuff and cleared a lot of litter around a lot of trees. Finally found just before giving up!Balance ok coming over. Now going to try to get back. Lucky Im in my hiking gear today. Good luck to all. TFTC!

Found it. Nearly fell in

It seemed rude to come all this way for a couple of @wazza9 caches and leave this one here, so I made the journey with my balance and dry feet intact. My GPS was playing up a bit for me under here, but looking around, I thought to myself thats a @NanaNel hide if ever I saw one and a short bit of fossicking later, the treasure was unearthed. Nice to cross off another Christmas cache from the list!

Tried to come by here once but did not bring appropriate clothes for potential soaking Came back with appropriate gear and after a tricky search the cache was in hand! TFTC NanaNel!

My 20th cache! Found with anniejane18. It was covered by at least ten centimetres of ground cover. The only way I found it was sticking a stick in the leaf litter. TFTC -Ajwm18

No log to cross, so shoes and socks off, pants rolled up, and across the knee deep water we go. Search wasn’t particularly pleasant but made the find under the obvious tree. A worthy challenge thankyou

Son fell in the creek, will have to try again another time

Dnf

Fifth day of the new year and we have signed the log for this cache. Thanks for arranging and giving us the opportunity to explore Nana Nel

Took a minute or two realise I needed to be on the other side of the creek. TFTC

This was a tough find. Enough spiky branches to tear your clothes to shred on the other side of the creek. Because of all the rain around recently, the logs across the creek were only very slightly above the water in some places and underneath in the rest of the places. Thankfully it held and I was able to get across. Turns out I was looking at the right tree all along, just in all the wrong spots. Once getting around the spiky bush and clearing a bit of it, I was able to make the find. Took a lot longer than I imagined. On the way back, I overran the log crossing by a long way and had to fight through the spiky branches. Enjoyed the adventure. Thanks. TFTC

Visited and replaced the container, that went missing.

I crossed the creek on the log to get to GZ but the cupboard was bare. Luckily the owners came along and I managed to sign a fresh logbook before it was replaced. A nice adventurous find so close to suburbia.

TFTC.

Dnf

Quick detour on the home stretch of my long run today, had to find an appropriate place to cross then found the container in the open, lidless and no camo, needs to tlc please tftc

Owner maintenance today, previous contain found in ground 2 mtrs away from GZ with no lid. Put a new container in place in correct hiding place. Enjoy.. I had to jump the creek coming out, walked over a bigger log up further to come in.

Fun

No luck here either

After a reasonable search, Dan had to concede defeat. Too well hidden for him. TFTH

Enabling listing, please be careful, santise your hands.

To discourage people from going more than 5 kilometres from their home, I am disabling all my caches. stay home and stay safe.

Found it!!

Fantastic spot

Found it. It was opened laying on the floor (muggled)
Fixed back up. I think

My first find! Took me a while

We found it!

Found it. We found pretty easy with the hint which is good:) Sad there weren't more tradables but we left some to make up for it. TFTC.

Nope crossed the river looked every were there and then can back across the river searched and searched nothing I did find a white container in the river on the shore with a disney wrapper around it

Our first treasure found!

Yes! Nice little adventure too

Beautiful winter day! Girls oztag game in progress. Geo kids hung out on the sports equipment while our OC made finding this cache way harder than necessary. He did find it though. Tftc Naba Nel & Go Stingrays

This was sort of hard it’s a good hiding spot but it’s fun

I was hard I did it with my mates very good

Yes

Found it in a small white cylinder container

had to get spiked by a lot of Fawn bashes but other then that i wasn’t expecting to find it but i did also had to climb over a log amazing

Wasn't there. Was right on top of it, both sides of the water and looked in all of the tree's, top and bottom and couldn't find it

I think I've found most of the Christmas series to date- another one here today. I managed to negotiate the water hazard and phone was a bit jumpy but soon made the find. TFTC!

I'm slowly catching up with the years! 2018 is now done, 2019 is still to go.

On my way back I made a miscalculation and my right foot disappeared in the stinky black mud. Ugh!

Great cache
Its a little damp
Still awesome though

GPS didn't want to settle but we saw a likely spot and soon had the cache. Thanks!

so good and did it with my family

Glad to reverse a previous dnf here. Should of brought frazeydaze last time. I'm guessing that there maybe a Christmas 2020? TFTC Nana Nell.

Oldmorty brought me along to help him turn his DNF into a smiley face. I'm so happy I didn't let him down.
TFTC Nana Nel.

Had to cross the little river. Great hide. TFTC

Thanks

Joesys

ENGADINE girl guides
Goard’s

Found near tree. Hint is useful, thanks creator!

First time geocaching but hopefully will get the hang of it! Thank you!

White cylinder with pencil, white lego block and note pad! Found as part of Boree Regatta 2020

Boree Regatta challenge - Logan, Bec, Kylie, Damo

Found it

Our very first find. JAJR and dad.

Really hard to find, buried under leaf litter in the fork of a tree

Yay! Borree regatta - Team Walsh

1st Alcheringa Scout group Boree challahs team spiky snake no selfy stick needed

Took some time but finally found it.

In the area so organised to meet up with phlphotos who was also nearby in order to find a cache for the day and decided to visit this one. Nothing like another set of eyes....cache was quickly found With the cache in hand we signed the logsheet before replacing as found. Both the log and cache container are in good condition. Thanks for the cache Nana Nel.

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, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football, MMM, Muffin The Dog

Three times I have been her and twice the GPSr didn't like the reception it got here and kept sending me all over the place. This morning with teamMerlin it was "here it is" damn I have never checked there

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache Nana Nel

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Nana Nel I found your cache Christmas 2018 on 28/9/20, 2:55 pm. This is my find 2714 and find # 5 today. A quick and easy find. Thanks for the cache, mate! TNSLLN

Approach via stingrays

A quick find. We walked through the equestrian grounds, the gate in unlocked. We came within 5 meters of the cache then it was just a case of stepping over the small fence and walking around the end of the taller fence. We disturbed a red-bellied black snake sunbaking. Other than that, no issues. Just watch out for the spikey vines.

Quick find once I found the path. Luckily there were some logs across the creek so I didn’t get wet feet! TFTC

TFTC! Nice and easy cache

TFTC. Out caching with Jaybeem! and having a lovely day catching up with family and friends for lunch nearby. A bit hard for an old lady to get to, so Jaybeem did the hard yards for me.

Tough to get to! An easy find once there. Yep it’s over there.....

TFTC Found with Missa25

Came down to Kurnell to see if we could spot some whales but the park was closed as it was full so we decided to do this while we were here. Found with Jeanovanwam

I rode past this place many times competing in triathons some time ago. Had no idea this place was here. Bit of an adventure to get here but nabbed in the end. Thanks Nana Nel.

Easy find

It is exactly where you are hoping it isnt. Easy find once navigated

Nothing went smoothly down here in The Shire today, long walks, no tracks, weed seeds in the clothing so I was hoping this would be a more straightforward cache. Hey, D1.5, it should be.

So I got myself into the area I could see the GPS was pointing, then a fence appeared. After a bit more scrabbling around I managed to get round that and close to the cache, but there was a creek. Couldn't see a way across so went back and round to a park to approach from the other side, plenty of hiding options here except the GPS wanted me back on the other side of the creek.
OK so back and forth I went, must have walked a kilometre up and down on both sides of this creek several times and coming into contact with some horrid prickly vines.

Finally decided to give up but checked the logs. Yikes, someone with just 2 finds managed to get it yesterday - what's wrong with me?
OK one last check of course on the other side to where I was, and there it was, a simple hide really.
That's how it goes some times.

Interesting place, didn't know they had these facilities in the suburbs.

TFTC # 3960

Cool spot! Not too hard to find.

If only Moses were there to have parted the sea for us. Got there in the end. Coordinates were a bit off but when GZ found, quick and easy find. TFTC

Found with Paddy

Got a bit wet...

Pretty tricky. Very well hidden. Lots of fun

Attacked by spikey trees. Shoes soaked thx geocache

Found it!

Beaut spot for a cache hide .
Found after a stroll around Cooks Memorials with my daughter .

Good co ords assisted in a tricky location .
No one around Mon either .
Many thanks to nana Mel for the cache invite .

Great location for a cache. TFTC

Shoved my head in it and still didn’t find it had my mate supersalmon find it for us

Had a good 10 minute look and thought I would just check 1 last spot on my way out. Durrrrr, should have found it straight away

Not the destroyed ice cream container at GZ

Found with Wolfpack11113

Fun

Nice little spot, found in about 5 minutes, the clue gives it away

Thought I'd try again seeing that the CO was only here yesterday. The gps took me to the same place as before but I most likely did not have the new coords. After much scratching about like a bush turkey I came up with nothing. I thought i'd check a spot I'd looked at last time and spotted the ginornmous brush turkey mound... and lo and behold i found a rather large cache. Wasn't expecting that. I swear I looked here last time. So glad to have finally found this. The poor little creek is bone dry, very different to last time when I had to leap across. Left a TB,

. We arrived in the Shire to collect some caches as we are getting closer to the end of the year and hoping to see the New Year with 22,000 to boot.
This cache was intresting as its backing onto mud flats, its was dry at this moment but it could be fun area to play in.
TFTC Nana Nel

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 0.734 E 151° 12.694

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 0.736 E 151° 12.692

Distance from original: 16.1 feet or 4.9 meters.

Replaced container,

Couldn't find it think it is in the creek.

Back in NZ from our excursion to Sydney. Time now to log the caches located with bkj97. Thanks to all the COs for giving us an excuse to do lots of walking and the opportunity to discover some interesting places and history. Happy to uncover this one before Xmas 2019. T4tcsl

Took much longer than expected but got there in the end. Tftcsl