PREY or PRAY? Moruya, New South Wales, Australia
By Youban on 10-Jan-19. Waypoint GC829D7

Dog walk up the beach from the airport and back down the track past the windsock. I missed this one when I did the rest of the set a when they were new so it was good to bag it at last. Thanks.

Thanks

It took a good look, easily spotted when did though having walk past earlier not looking there. Think this used to be higher, it's spot having dropped. It's still okay though and we left up off the ground.A quieter morning for me was the plan, a good plan but ended up been a busy activity there anyway. After a catch up rest, off for some local caches and trails along the Bengello beach walk in the afternoon. Slow going for me but good to keep doing these things, so I pushed on! Was great to catch up with the CO for dinner with sacada. Thanks for the cache!

Spending some time caching around the NSW/ACT southern tablelands with lots of side trips. TFTC.Started the day with a long walk up Moruya River from the head lands. Lots of sand, land and water creatures. Wasn't the lowest tide, but managed to keep my shorts dry.Next I managed to find 4 caches out at Moruya heads that I couldn't find once before. Great feeling.A virtual and multi in Moruya and then finished off the long "Bugs Way" trail at the back of the Moruya airport, including the bonus cache. As an extra bonus dinner with the CO and Aquilus1.Seems the tree has rotted and broken off. I put the little fellow back into its tree.

The wind died down overnight and we woke to a beautiful sunny morning with the barest of a breeze. So it was onto the bikes and out to the Bengello trail to see how far we could get. We ended up making it to the entrance at Moruya Beach with plenty of finds and a couple of DNFs. Coordinates were generally very good, and the hides well set up and in good condition. Towards the end there were some really interesting containers which we appreciated.Riding the trail was not as easy as well-formed pathways but the bush very interesting, broken up by the occasional excursion over to the beach.We made it back to camp by lunch time, both a bit worn by the ride and the rough countryside we at times had to cover to get to GZ. In the later afternoon we headed out again to find a couple of other caches close to camp.A great series we enjoyed, so we will be back in the next few days to work on those remaining.Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Youban.**SKI Pair****

Tftc

Accompanied by ALL7, Nice weather was partly cloudy with little showers, then a little while later, it became fully sunny, we travelled to Broulee to run a series of heaps of caches. Some drove, some walked, and some biked. Some **(WOW)** excellent ones are interesting, look at clever ones on the drifferent types of caches in different ways. Love it. Signed the log by the stamp of us. TFTC

Accompanied by 63ROOS, Nice weather was partly cloudy with little showers, then a little while later, it became fully sunny, Some drove, some walked, and some bikes...Poor My car hard work drive to dirty road all the way but goood fun...(WOW) excellent ones are interesting, look at clever ones on the drifferent types of caches in different ways. Love it. .. Fav for you.. wink. tks

We continued along the track after completing the Bengello walk. A great series with a few more fav points given. All containers in good order.Total Caches Found 16277TFTC Youban

When you look too hard, you miss the obvious. TFTC

Headed down the coast for a day mainly to celebrate the Wasp Head event with The Rats and Hoojar but found plenty of caches along the way for a nice day out.TFTC!

Out for a day of caching on the South Coast with Steeba and The Rats, aiming for a few series and finishing with the 20th Anniversary Earthcache Event.Hot day for a walk, bet we will be wishing for a sea breeze by the end. Let's see howany of this series we can knock over.Cheers

Out for a days caching with steeba and Hoojar. We had a lovely day on the south coast. This was one of many we found throughout the day.TFTC

A great day out caching with Bogonghazy. Very clever cache. Thanks for placing the geocache

Out with LittleBoss2 to do these along the airstrip. A lot of bush bashing and scratches, but worth it for the clever hides. We found this one easily

Cool find off the beaten track! Tftc

Followed the animal trail in rather than make a direct approach. Trying not to trip over the flax . Had a chuckle at the cache gaurdian.

A day of walking along the tracks between Broulee and North Moruya Heads for a whole bunch of caches. Pleasant walk through the forest and only light bush to have to walk through, some really good cool caches in this area. TFTC.

Beautiful day in a beautiful place - TFTC

Signed as YAWT

Nice hide

Now that was some praying insect.
Not our favourite insect…after all, the female eats the male!!!
Carefully extracted the log and returned it safely
Thanks Youban
Domsky

My mums favourite bug

Bit of a bush bash but found it

Catching up with some very late logs. This was found while staying in the area and grabbing just a few for the day, while out on our bikes.

There was a bit of bush bashing needed to get to GZ but then it was an easy enough find.

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

TFTC

Decided to walk and grab some of the caches on this trail. After a bit of a bush bash I arrived at gz i searched quite throughly in one spot but could not locate. I then turned around and spotted it.
Thanks for the cache

Nice. Not sure about the walk through the snake country. Found with v8minnie

Com084 went bush for this one. Will need to check for ticks later. Terrain/difficulty may need to be looked at for this one.

Today's cache and walk was walking the Bug's way trail. Lots of planes and skydiving around too. We didn't come prepared for bush bashing this part of the trail. We think that the terrain has certainly grown bigger and more pricklier than when this cache was first placed, more than a terrain 2 rating now. Next time we need to wear long pants, maybe gaiters and long sleeved top too to tackle this cache. TFTC

TFTC

A bit of a trek this one.
TFTC.

Found it with Silence49 while on travelling

Found it with lance51 TFTC

Bush bashed up to the cache, thanks.

Bit of bush bashing. Log was wet

damp

Got a bit scratched up on that one

Thanks.

I decided I needed another solo geocaching holiday to detox before uni so I thought the Bengello caches (the Bengello Walk and all the other nearby series') were a great excuse for holidaying at Broulee! Bengello is a stunning area, with a great mix of lovely vegetation and awesome ocean views. The weather was hot today but super blue and lovely, and (for the most part) pretty shady! Started walking at 7am (I didn't get a good sleep) from my accommodation and got back at 3:30pm, with 55 caches to boot. Great to spend Valentine's Day spending time around my true love, geocaching!

The bug series was a lovely walk along a very unique walking track considering it's right next to the runway! After a bit of bush bashing to each one, they were found pretty quickly. Fun theme, always love something a little different! It was also fun guessing what the bug was based on the name - some I got, some not so! TFTC Youban!

Found on a walk with imprezzive yesterday and forgot to log TFTC signed BB and BJ

Found with Short_Tea! We shouldn’t have worn shorts for this one! So many spikes plants! TFTC!

Signed as BB & BJ!

Tftf

found it

With ACT residents no being able to travel to an area around the capital including the coast, it was time to plan a trip. There was a good sized group where we were going to base in Moruya for three days. I traveled with Sol de Lune and Smitten Granny. Others were Cosmonaut97, Kitty Katch, Joolay, Barb2e, fitzy_1965 & MinnieK. Most logs were signed Kapital Krunchers. We had a great weekend of lots of caching in fantastic weather. Day two was more caches around Moruya, we were joined by My Windy who was also holidaying on the coast. We started with south of the river with a walk and then down to the heads for the low tide caches. After lunch it was North of the heads and surprisingly there was enough time to finish the Bengello walk and the airport caches.

The next goal were the caches behind the airport. Lots of damage to the bush, but it was nice to see that the caches have been replaced. We did six before heading back to the cars and taking on the Bengello walk.

Thanks for the cache Youban

33267.102 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & First Geocoin in Orbit Copper A#104

**Albida**

A weekend down the coast for our group from Canberra and this was now day 2. Most logs were signed as Capital Crunchers....

Having left the main group for a while, Smittengranny, Albida and I set out to finish this walk and grab this run of caches as well. A couple of tough little hides but all were found and we were soon on our way again.

Thanks for another one Youban....

A great group of cachers from Canberra known as the Capital Crunchers have come down to this area for a long weekend of fun and caching. This is Day 2 and we have been blessed with the weather and the multitude of incredible caches .


Sol de Lune, Albida and I left the main group for a little while to grab this cache. Boy oh boy were some of these tough going and tough to find, especially at the end of a big day. Most of this series really had us struggling in getting to GZ and finding the cache. TFTC Youban SL

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 53.718 E 150° 8.870

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 53.717 E 150° 8.890

Distance from original: 99.0 feet or 30.2 meters.

Moving house. New location.

We have a new home. Happy caching

Area cleared. Will enable once new location found. Cheers

Forgot to disable it

DNF at 13:12

I could not find this one. Someone recently discovered it on the ground and tied it back to the tree. Since then two people have failed to find it. maybe it has falled off again.

Thanks Youban for the cache, anyway

Fantastic day out riding with the kids. This was the only one we can't find

This one has fallen from his perch. Tried tying it back in the tree. Tftc

More success! This poor Tuttle creature is missing it’s bottom cap, so the log may fall out if it isn’t replaced well. TFTC. Youban

10:03
Accompanied by the sounds of planes and waves, we enjoyed an hours ride, south along the "Bugs Way" trying to predict what sort of bug may be waiting for us at the next stop. Another series of imaginative hides & cache names.

Thanks Youban for creating this excellent trail.
28354

So many spiders!! TFTC

This was abit harder to get to.
Tftc

Say your prayers pal

The Gods are shining on me today... I prayed for luck...and got my prey!!
TFTC

I had to get a cache for my daily and decided to do this power trailvas it was near where we were staying! The Bugs Way caches were really cool and loved the cryptic titles! Managed to find them pretty easily excrpt the annoying part was that some spiders decided to make a wall that seemed impossible to get in! However with a handy stick the caches were found.

THIS CACHE:
First one where the spider wall was a problem. Managed to weave around them to reach in for the prize. TFTC

The lid for the cache was missing and the log sheet was found on the ground. Not sure how well it will stay in the container over time. TFTC.

Waw scared me. Found it. Thanks amazing serie.

Dik

TFTC:)

Tftc the lid is broken

TFTF

Found

Nice little cache

after the retired from the search.

Found it

Thanks

Gotcha - Found with a bit of searching. Tftc

TFTC

Love the names of the caches!

And of course the fun with guessing just what bug will be presented next. Muggle hubby guessed right in this one. An absolute beaut of a bug. TFTC Youban

Walked from the airport to broulee and found all the caches in between. It was a overcast day, beaches closed due to soot from the fires but other than that a great walk exploring this part of the world. Finding the first few from the airport side was a challenge as some caches i found on the ground, being held up by nothing than a fishing line its no wonder. The bengello walk caches were slightly different, a hide id never seen before, but very creative so once i got the hide style, i cached quite quickly with my muggle bro. At bengello creek it was flooded past the walk-bridge so walked back to car, drove to broulee end and walked in the opposite direction. A good day trip from the ACT, thanks Youban. TFTC

We did end up finding it but on the ground so we tied it back up

Staying at the Broulee caravan park for a few days so headed off on the bikes to collect some caches. TFTC

sjg66 and I headed down to do what we could do to support the local business after this summers fires have robbed them of their summer revenue. Staying at the Broulee Caravan park this series was an obvious choice so we packed the bikes. We had a pleasant morning riding the trail and calling in on a few of the beach access points. The containers are excellent as was the puzzle which we picked up the clues for. TFTC.

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Good find

Good spot
Da boyz

Signed DSD with Loci612 today. Great little series. Harder to spot than the other caches in the area.

I love discovering Geocaches, Trackable items and collecting Pathtags. I have added your cache to my growing list of “Found It” logs. I hope that you enjoy Geocaching as much as I do. For me geocaching is a way of life. When I am not Geocaching, I am thinking of Geocaching. I would like to say a very big than you for placing your geocache and for maintaining it for the Geocaching Community. In 2019, I won the right to place a Virtual 2.0 Cache from Geocaching.com, but I have not placed it yet. I am just trying to find somewhere that is worthy of a Virtual Cache.

Here is a little information about me. I have been geocaching since 2015. At the time of finding this cache I have over 5600 finds plus 340 hides. I am the creator of the “Duck Dip” Lab Cache that won 2nd Place for the Australian Capital Territory in the State Vs State - Battle of the Lab Caches at the OzGeoMuster - The Gong Mega 2019 in Wollongong, Australia.

Now let’s talk Pathtags. Currently I have over 4600 Pathtags in my collection plus about 500 Etagz. I currently have two of my own Pathtags (45762 & 46950) with another one in the works.

After doing the trail heading North, we returned not long after to do the trail that headed South along the fence-line of the airport!

This trail was a bit more evil, and I think the hides could do with another half star of difficulty because boy do some of them blend in extremely well and are tough to spot!! Took us a while to locate a couple but managed to snag them all in the end! I think the beautiful weather helped us out as spirits were quite high.

All the hides along this trail are quite cute, and we could see a theme happening A couple logbooks were damp, but the paper used meant that they won't need replacing as you could wipe them dry without any fuss or tearing.

We were also lucky enough to see two planes landing and also two take off! Which was quite cool to see at a small airport like this, the small planes had some pretty bumpy take off's and landing in the high wind!

Thanks Youban for this trail and brilliant location and caches

Out doing a quick check on our caches today. All ok. Kutgw

Yep - I nearly sank down to my knees and prayed for a sign, but nothing was evident. Another DNF

We didn't have to pray, we found it,

Gets a fav, so great!!

After walking the Bengello trail muppet95 and myself continued down the path to look for more clever Youban,some a little trickier then others however we managed to find all the hides stopping for just one on the way back that we found second time around.
A great little series and a very enjoyable stroll with great company!
Thanks Youban for the cache

Spent the day in Moruya with Bonfire7. We had a successful day outdoors, finding caches in the various trails in the area. I walked away with 60 finds and 0 DNF's! All coordinates were pretty spot on (<5m variance on average). All cache containers were well-themed and consistent, which made for a very pleasant day of caching. Thanks For The Caches Youban!!

Found with Mattt579 thanks for the late night cache

Great little location, lower then you think

Found it. TFTC

Oddly enough I almost trod on a praying mantis while walking along the gravel track today [:o]

So what was this cache about ??
Would I have to pray for the find,
or be eaten alive,
screaming in agony,
like a sleeping man on a riverbank in the NT,
who awakes to realise that a crocodile has him by the leg

Too graphic huh ??

So what was this cache about ??
Would I have to pray for the find,
or get scratched by the flora,
while wandering around looking for a cache that was invisible to the naked eye ?? [:o]

Not quite invisible huh ??

By some sheer fluke,
I spied it while standing there with a dumb look on me dial
Enough reason to claim the find and smile [^]

Attempted 4 with DNFs before finally finding this one. Not enjoying bush bashing with all the dew still about.

12549 Found and Logged 1:13:00 PM
A good day of cachers while camp at tha North Head Campsite in Moruya
Great weather to be outdoors Caching
Thanks for the cache Youban
Lgoody

At long last a weekend away from work, time to fish, laze about and cache. This series was on my list and today was the day. Some caches where harder than others but on the whole a very enjoyable couple of hours. Thanks Youban

TFTC