#16 R&D on the Road to Kurri Kurri Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia
By kingfisher_au on 28-Dec-18. Waypoint GC80M95

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Pouring rain here and its a bog. Will try again next time.

The weather this morning was not looking great, cloudy and overcast after some rain overnight but we decided to head out anyway down to Kurri Kurri to check out the murals.We took the loop route caching as we went before spending time in Kurri to look around, complete a Lab and have some great local fish and chips before heading back the more direct but busier way.We came across some great 3D printed cache containers and a couple of innovative ones as well, also completing a multi.We managed to dodge the rain and had a good day out.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache kingfisher_au.**SKI Pair****

Easy find this timeTFTC

Its great when you can change a DNF into a smiley! Thanks Kingfisher for replacing the cache.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Today we moved from Morisset to Maitland. Once we dropped off the van and had some lunch it was off to try and complete the Map of Tasmania. Boy was it hard work with multiple DNF's at the start, we were even doubting our caching mojo after a while. Mr F wasn't a happy driver as the roads were very busy, glad it was the weekend, assuming it's busier on weekdays[?]Got home at sunset with only 1 left to tackle tomorrow. It's a shame cachers seem hesitant to log needs maintenance and DNF's both of which help Cache owner keep on top of pending maitenance.TFTC kingfisher_au

Came back the 3rd time still could not find I saw other people have recently found it so I thought I would revenge my Dnf I will not give up until I find it

Thought it had indeed been muggled as we were looking at the hint and previous photos and there was no sign of it. Then one of our group glanced elsewhere and spotted it. It is still there, although in a different container. Thanks for maintaining. Shame the original was muggled as it did look awesome!

Great day out caching. Found it - thanks for the maintenance kingfisher_au

Cant find it after a second time I think some one has stolen it in 7 days of it being out lol

Cant find it

Replaced cache

Had a look even though there are DNFs. You just never know.

Found the holeNo cache

It seems ET has gone home and has taken the container with him.

Looks to be missing

Down this way for The Dixie Chicks concert with @Smithiesoutbackhear, was a good little find and pretty quick too. Cheers

In the area for The Chicks co cert at Bimbagen Estate with #Searchingformacca and, of course, had to grab some caches on the drive. This one was a nice quick grab today.

Staying the weekend camping in the Watagans, we went out on the Saturday to find some caches, when we stumbled over this series. We decided to do the whole series, even though we started from the end.This one we could not open, we did not want to use brute force. The container was sticky with resin, which probably was the reason for it being so tight.If the CO don't accept the photo as proof of the visit, then just delete the log.

Really creative but been recently cleared out so pretty easy to see

I got caught too by the sticky stuff.
Thanks for the cache

Found

Love E.T. Cheers.

We are heading up the coast to avoid the coldest of the winter weather in Victoria.

Out grabbing a few of this series while we are staying in thea area.

The great container was found after a short search, as I was looking at the wrong level.

Thanks kingfisher_au for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

Awesome cache. I soon identified this object. FP awarded. TFTC!

TFTC Found whilst caching on Mother’s Day.

I found it, but as I was opening it, I accidentally broke off one of the legs so I just put it inside of it. Sorry.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 12459.

I was out today trying to find a few caches to help me along the way to this months challenge. It had been a while since I’d been out this way and I made my way long between storms. The trees had been pruned and this one was on the ground. I tucked it up as best as I could.

Thanks kingfisher_au for the cache.

It is a overcast day but the rain will hold off. I’m coming to Kurri from Newcastle because my mum travel bowler are coming to bowl at Kurri Kerri’s bowling club. I plan on meeting them for lunch. But it is only 11am heaps of time for a few quick caches and then an adventure cache and a virtual. I will be ready for lunch at about 1. I loved the 3d print caches you are very clever. Thank you for placing the trail and for maintaining it. Well done.

Found with ziggiau

I looked & looked & finally spotted it - I was approaching from the wrong angle. Loved this container - unfortunately a leg (?) broke off when I was unscrewing the top and I put it in the container with the logbook. Thanks for this great cache

Nice hide we love these ones

Found the FSaucer. Still in flight. TFTC log okay. Overcast with blue speckles and wet drips.

#9214 (11 of 15 today - including 5 Adventure Labs)I am gradually catching up with my logging - I'm missing two months worth or so. And that's over 100 caches! At least my most recent finds are up to date - just need to fill in the gap!To be honest, while I still find searching for caches fun, I'm finding logging less so. But I have to log to get me stats and souvenirs, so...Only a few Adventure Labs and my First2Finds have been written up in a timely manner - don't want people racing out when it's already been snaffled.Nevertheless, I have kept up with my 2022 goal of 16 finds per caching day. In fact, for the most part my modus operandi has been to actually aim for 20. So far I've only failed on that a few times, and only by 1 find. Amazingly I'm on track for 19 finds per day, I just have to put my mind to my future goals... 25 per day? Owwww.Thanks to all the CO's who have made it possible to keep my goal in sight. Most of the finds have been Traditionals, but a few Puzzle series and the odd other cache type have been grabbed where possible.Sorry the logs are very generic, but I'll never catch back up otherwise.###END OF GENERIC ABJECT GROVELLING SECTION###Decided to head north to the Hunter Valley, and the area around Kurri Kurri. Went for 15 caches, including five ALs and found everything I looked for. Excellent day, and there are still plenty of caches up here to plunder in the future.###END OF CUT AND PASTE SECTION###Cute container!SLTNLNTFTC

Bushy. Tftc

Love the container. TFTC

Loving the 3d printed ones on our way to the wineries!

Tftc.

4th cache for the day and the muggle friends are now taking the lead and using our GPS to guide us !! Found with Billy TFTC.

Found with Dozenmater,,TFTC

Found with rainygirl74 - TFTC

Wow, out if this works. Thanks kingfisher_au.

Worth walking through the grass. TftC.

Best find. Loved it. Spaceman tradable left

LOVE THIS CACHE CONTAINER

No aliens were harmed in the finding of this cache! Thanks for your creativity Kingfisher

Well 'beam me up Scotty!'. TFTC kingfisher_au

Thanks for making some fun caches kingfisher_au. Well worth stopping and finding the surprises to go with the hints.

What a space out. tftc

Found

Another awesome cache !!! No phoning home from here. Tftc!

We freed him. shortly after take-off he crashed in the same spot

Reprinted and replaced

Replaced

finally after 3 months and lots of 12 hour days I have my 3D printer going,
now to start printing and catch up on the Maintenance thanks for being patient with me and your supporting kind words

missing will reprint

Could not find - but it is pretty over grown.

Dnf

Great find. Happy Oz day

This morning started with a few quick caches with Steam koala. I love E.T's cache.

#1376
Found today with nellc, decided to get out for a drive while is was not to hot and get some caches as well. These 3D printed containers are awesome, and ET is great.
Thanks kingfisher_au for this cache another fav point

Found with My Dad (DJANT) and my Brothers (dart16 & Jedi Anakin) I have my own account now and am trying to catch up to the boys Thanks for the cache.

Thanks

Thanks for the effort u put in

Great cache. Tftf.

Bit tricky with greenery but found it.

Well 2020 has been a relatively slow year on the caching front due to COVID-19. If it wasn't for that it would have been a trip to the USA and Geocaching's 20th year celebrations.

However the crew got back together and The Rats, Hoojar and I teamed up for a few days caching up around the Hunter area. First it was to finish off some of the older OZGM series caches then up into the Watagans for more. Most of Saturday was spent tackling the great Dogs Head Trail then on Sunday it was down into Newcastle city for some great caches.

This was another find on our trip.

TFTC!

COVID has really put a dampener on this year’s caching ability, but it hasn't stopped my enthusiasm to get out and find a cache whenever possible. So, it was with excitement that I was keen to catch up with Steeba and Hoojar for our first caching weekend of the year.

We targeted a number of powertrails in the Central Coast and Hunter region over our 3-day caching frenzy. The weekend threw up a bit of everything, including a plethora of finds, mountain bush bashing, coastal caching, weather that varied from beautiful to bizarre, sleeping under the stars, some close calls with the flora and fauna, lovely local hospitality and most of all, a great time away with my mates”.

Thanks to all the C.O’s for placing and maintaining their caches for us to find. Apologises for the generic log but with so many finds I couldn’t personalise every one of them.

Saturday dawned early with spectacular views from MacLeans lookout and a few nearby caches, one of these include my 19000th find. From here we headed south deep into the Watagans where we completed the LMHS trail. Our day concluded with a few caches around Kurri. Thanks

With restrictions starting to ease in our Covid World, it was decided that 2020 caching really need to kick up a gear, and so a plan was set in motion for The Rats, Steeba and myself to head to the Newcastle and Hunter region. There were a few trails, power trails, and Lab Caches that would be hitting our radars, along with a milestone for The Rats. We headed off on Thursday evening and turned for jome on Sunday afternoon. A wonderful long weekend was had, and our cache finds topped 450 for the trip. All in all it was a great success.

The caches were excellent. Some indeed were amazing, and favourite points have been awarded. The company, as always, was faultless. The weather was varied. We had sun, rain, wind, colder, warm, more wind... A bit of everything! We managed to find a few nice spots to camp, and enjoyed the company of Big Matt and Marcus Vitruvius for dinner at a local establishment on Saturday evening.

Please forgive the boiler-plate log, I assure you it is no reflection on the caching experience of our few days away. Thank you to all cache owners for their hides.

Cheers

Find # 6290
Nice quick find. We give this a favourite point.
We are loving our journey around the Hunter Valley. Weather-wise, today is a repeat of yesterday with a stiff cold wind.
TFTC kingfisher_au
22 August 2020 3:04 pm

This is a cool hide. TFTC

ET Phone home! Tftc!

Tftc.

Tftc

Easy

It was good

I was told the caches down here were great... but wow. The time and effort that has gone into these are awesome.

I joined a trip to Maitland with Aquilus1, dty73, Tankengine, Barb2e, Kitty Katch & Joolay. The weekends main game was to do the dogs head series, but along the way we did some old caches around Sydney and did as many Maitland caches as time allowed. The return journey was via some old caches and some challenges that may or may not be met one day.

Day 2 was the dogs head series and three other series around Kurri Kurri. The R&D caches and many other Maitland caches are absolutely fantastic containers showing great creativity with new tools.

Thanks for the cache kingfisher_au

29392.283 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Las Vegas Benchmark A#111

**Albida**

Found with and signed the Capital Crunchers who are: dty73, Tankengine, Joolay, kittycatch, Albida33, Barb2e.

A four day caching trip up around Maitland collecting a number of caches of interest to suit everyone along for the fun. A lovely area, very scenic, green and lots of historic locations. Also some great caching to be done while in the area as well as on our way there and home.

The 'Dogs head' was a main focus of the trip, and took us the the best part of the day along with a few smaller trails and a few as we passed but a lovely scenic area to spend the day in. Most caches were straight forward finds, a few took a little search and others are great 3D printed designs or LARGE! Great trail through a great area, thanks for the cache kingfisher_au.

A caching trip away with Kittykatch, Joolay, Aquilus1, Tankengine, Barb2e & Albida33 - the Capital Crunchers Gang!!

We finished the Dog's Head Trail quicker than expected so we came down and did a few more caches including this one. Nice series as well. Tftc kingfisher_au!!!

Some fabulous containers to enjoy on the next trail around Maitland after having finished the Dogs Head. Signed as Capital Crunchers on the second day of a four day caching trip out of Canberra. Some great country to see and some interesting caches to find. Tftc

Chooo ooo - FOUND - on our Maitland/Dogs Head invasion! Signed - Capital Crunchers! (Joolay, KittyKatch, dty73, Aquilus1, Albida and barb2e).

We have a great long weekend from Thursday to Sunday caching all around Maitland and beyond. We found some power trails and many cool places as well!

Thanks for the cache!

Very cool. Found today with the Capital Crunchers on a trip to Maitland.

Condition Report:. Good and dry
Log Book: lots of room

Thanks for hiding this cache kingfisher_au

cache check all good log check or change

Nice one.
TFTC

Followed a geotrail like others, and ended up back on the road, before finding the goods. Interesting container. Log is soggy, and full.

Hand sanitsising and social distancing was exercised all morning during these difficult C-19 times.

TFTC

Log is soaking wet, and full. Travelling light, so could not do much in the way of maintenance.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Haha

Ginger lane is closed due to construction works.
I’ve tried accessing the street from both sides and was able to get to the middle two by foot.

I think the builders weren’t appreciating the fact of me roaming around there so please avoid going there for now until construction is finished.

Thank for the very nice boxes
Hightech enables it

Team sissifalke

Beam me up cachie.

Reperio 06:35

After a DNF on the previous cache, I quickly scooted up the road to this one as I needed to be back home ideally by 7. Fortunately this one was a quick find after following the geotrail to the wrong spot. A nifty container indeed.

Gratias kingfisher_au


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Placed with cache owner

Went with my partner and found it!

Found today to get the leap day souviner. Tftc!!

Found with Bek76 MDT79 and Gum62 TFTC ????

Found with Bek76, Gum62 and 8fam TFTC

Found with MDT79 and Gum62 TFTC

Found it with bek76 and MDT79

TFTC kingfisher, very muggley here during business hours, didn't need to phone home to find this one. Cute hide

In Kurri for a weekend of Geocaching with Wazza9, quick find of ET, stamped the log and replaced. Thanks to kingfisher_au for the great series and the well crafted containers