#146 Neapolitan Mastiff on the Dogs Head Trail Elderslie, New South Wales, Australia
By kingfisher_au on 21-Feb-19. Waypoint GC82GY5

Have enjoyed the drive in the countryside. Last find for the day. This one was different. TFTC

Awesome Loved this find

3rd attempt at this oneSuccessTFTC

Turning a frown into a smiley!although when retrieving the cache I disturbed a mighty ants nest. Signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for maintaining the cache.

Apologies for the generic logs, but individuals would be unmanageable!Today was set aside to make a start on the Dog's Head Loop. The puzzles had been solved quite some time ago so we were looking forward to turning them and the other caches into smilies.It was a great day for caching, clear skies, temperatures in the high teens and little or no wind. We didn't take the COs advice and work in a clockwise direction, but that was because we were starting out from Branxton and will be moving on to Maitland later.It is a fabulously organized series to date. Reasonable places to pull over in most instances, great sized caches with excellent hints and obvious regular maintenance. Congratulations and well done!We had a couple of DNFs and an enjoyable if busy day. More to come!Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache kingfisher_au.**SKI Pair****

This one's pretty sick

Coordinates changed from:S 32 36.097 E 151 20.215Coordinates changed to:S 32 36.099 E 151 20.225Distance from original: 52.6 feet or 16.0 meters.new carpark

good to go

replaced cache new type hint updated

when the weather clears I will be out and do repairs

needs looking at

After not being able to find we read the logs and saw that there were a few DNFs but then one from CO that it had been the case. Unfortunately after contacting CO in seems it wasnt. C0 will fix shortly.

Seems the car park surface level has changed and there is no longer access under front of building Leannem59 notified CO

Replaced cache good to go , hint now in

Seems like it may have been tarred over

Fairly recent new tar here, possibly permanently buried now?

Cant find. Car park has been re-done

Car parking area at this spot has just been tarred. I think this one would have been dug up and carted away unfortunately

The tar here looks new

I found a few "unloved" caches on this trail when I was here, a bit further north, a couple of weeks ago, and noted then that there was a few more caches further along the trail that hadn't been found for over 6 months. I therefore came back today expressly to give some love to those caches, most of which lay south of Gresford Rd on Elderslie Road ... so that's where I focused my efforts today.As it turned out, I was able to find all 21 caches hidden along this stretch, picking up "unlove" on 19 of them. Most on today's run were straightforward finds, though some took a bit longer to find than I'd hoped, and they were generally in pretty good condition.Thanks for placing this cache and series kingfisher_au and for helping me to qualify for the *Fifty Forgotten Years Challenge*, the log book for which I'd signed when I was in the Southern Highlands a few months ago.

TFTC- our first of the trail

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On the trail with geodog and Baktrak.
Marvellous hides and camos thanks kingfisher_au

Pawsed with the family at many places this morning to sniff out these cleverly hidden doggies. TftC

Found with a couple of pals after staying overnight in Paterson. We'd say we're dog people, having had canine comrades for most of our lives, but we had no idea there are so many breeds. Truly impressed by the research that's gone into this series. Thanks kingfisher_au.

QPG

trying to catch up on some well overdue logs. found with banj5150 a while ago. will readjust date according, when i have access to my computer again. tftc

Found it - thanks for the hint on this one!

Very muddy all around. Log replaced. Tftc.

New log added.

many thanks to alnic39 for his serious efforts to help maintain a very wet and slippery trail, cache good to go

many thanks to alnic39 for his serious efforts to help maintain a very wet and slippery trail, cache good to go

after 3 floods, several road closures, land slips, and wife being in JHH ICU for a month and a geosons wedding, haven't quite got to all of my maintenance, have completed 80 replacements but a few more to go in coming weeks

TFTC. Waterlogged will need replacement

Full of water. Needs replacing to sign logbook

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This log is saturated, signed my name as best as I could and continued on my way.

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TFTC smile 13612 out and about with miss millie geo dog and muggle twin sister great caches, great day ,good weather, On my way home to QLD spending a few days finding caches in local area now walking the dogs head ‍

Tftc found with earthly65 and Indigo blue

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Day 2 on the Dog's Head Trail with EverestHigh, It's_Dozzie and GeoMonkeyGirl.

I might have mentioned once or twice that I love dogs of all kinds.

I also love the effort that the CO has put into this trial, so much fun

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#10176 10:55
A two day road trip to conquer the Dog Head Trail together with The Bebes, Everest High and Eagle Eyed Monkey Girl.
Full log will be placed with cache #197 (Standard Schnauzer).

Close to the cache we noticed a well maintened community library. All books in great condition and neatly sorted. It even had a kid's section. Both Everest High and The Bebes took an interesting book with them.

This was cache find 168 of our road trip. TFTC!

Day 3 on the Dogs Head Trail.
Will write a generic log until the final cache.
Thanks for the cache

Super stealth manoeuvres by the amazing Earthly65 surrounded by tradies.

Found with Robbieracer66 and Indigoblue1 tftc kingfisher

#4448-4459
After a bit of a housebound weekend, a few caches after lunch today were decided on, so we set off to round up a few more canines that have eluded us in the past, mainly through difficult parking and us just driving past!
I'll blame the crowds for our DNF, spotted quickly today as the place was deserted... TFTC!

Found today with Dad and Samuel!

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Found today on a small cache trip after a bit of a caching slump, fun to get back to caching!

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Now that i got internet i can start logging again. Found it even without internet

Easy find.. thank you

Found with Jess & Crew. Easy find, great for the kiddies.

This was a well placed cache in the centre of town, quickly retrieved before the crowds arrived. Thanks for the hide.

Thanks for going to the effort of a phenomenal geoart/puzzle trail in beautiful areas of the country. TFTC

Found with shaneo58's help, doing a fair number of the dogs head trail and some around the Branxton area.. It was a very warm day for a spring day, We also saw pprass and company stoping at some at the some time or closely following, nice verity of caches with some humorous hints.
Log signed and cache replaced as found.

**Thanks For The Cache** kingfisher_au.

This is the 49th cache of 59 for today.
Cache number 2811 at 12:53:00 PM on Thu 26Nov2020

Second stage of the dogs head trail and this time we are teamed up with PPrass. Having a great time being camped nearby. Had to do cut and paste posts but some individual posts where needed. Signed as CP

Thank you kingfisher_au we found your geocache at 12:42 p.m. on the 26 November 2020. This is #6255 for us.

Found at 12:42 PM in the company of coongoola.
As we were staying in Maitland with a bunch of cachng friends and coongoola wanted to do this series, we decided to join them for the second half that we hadn't done when we were here in October 2019.
Thanks kingfisher_au for the fun and adventure.

Driving up from HV to Forster with the wife and she graciously allowed me to collect around every 3rd or so cache as this was too much for her to be stopping and starting. Some were easier than other and in areas where stopping so tough at times. Made the find and SL. TFTC.

32 in two days thanks for this trail

TFTC. I love looking at old buildings like these. Thanks for bringing us here .

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.

Attempting to complete this awesome trail over a few days for my 60th Birthday Week. Today I had the help of my geodaughter, we successfully completed the task. Such an awesome trail, can’t believe how much work has been put into having this available for us to do! I feel bad placing a cut and paste log, but after a fullish day of birthday caching, I can’t see me logging all of them in one night! Thanks Kingfisher!

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.

After a chilly night and another early start we tackled our biggest day, the “Dog’s Head” trail north of Maitland saw us meandering through the picturesque countryside. It was here we found some cleverly crafted containers which added to a great day. By time nightfall we’d met up with Big Matt & MV for a lovely meal at the Paterson Hotel.
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

Generic log time... Came down from Port Macquarie this morning to attempt to complete the dog's head trail. Beautiful weather for a drive around the countryside, although some areas were a little soggy from recent rain. Spring has definitely sprung with lots of flowers and baby animals in the paddocks. You've made a great trail Kingfisher, with a good variety of cache containers and placement. Thanks

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Nice quick find.
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
20 August 2020 2:45 pm

Great find at a great location thanks

FTDNF!
There were a lot of people here today, we bailed out early, crouching in between parked cars in the mud got old fast.....

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

29287.178 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 100 Finds in 24 Hours A#270

**Albida**

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

Ah the Dogs Head. This was one of our main aims for coming up. Most of the caches were found straightforward, some not so much. But all in all this was a good trail. Apologies for the generic log. Tftc Kingfisher_au!!!

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.

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!

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

Finishing the second half of this trail on a return visit to the area. Great day out with Capital Crunchers doing the local trails and finished with another good meal at the club. Tks for the great trails and all the great containers. Tftc

Tftc full description at number 1.

Day 2 of our adventures with Dave and Snoopy.
And finally got to mark the dogs head as done.
Thanks Kingfisher_au for putting this all together and keeping it running. And thanks Dave & Snoopy for letting me tag along for the drive.

Dave8153 and I met up with frisky puppet to complete some more. Signed log as FSD. TFTC

07/06/20
This is find number: 4257
Streak Day: 1634

Decided to head this way for the Long Weekend with Snoopy1976 to do some caching, Completed this series over the weekend. Frisky_puppet joined us for this leg, as he had not found these, Caches where the 3 of us found the cache the log has been signed FSD.

Thanks to kingfisher_au for placing and maintaining these caches

TFTC

TFTC Day 2 - enjoying a great series and country drive.

Doin’ a few more Dogshead
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Egad, a building hide, that is rare on the DHT.

Tep

Caching in the company of GrumpyBump, on our slow, meandering way to the Mega event in Millicent, S.A.
A quick find, in the expected area.
TNLNSL TFTC

In all are travels we would not have even thought to traveled to this location.
(Ha Ha). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Kingfisher-au [^]

Today I did a nice cacher tour along the Dogs Head Trail. The weather was nice and warm. I always parked in safe places and preferred to walk some steps. On the way I was always happy about the beautiful nature and the many boxes.

Thank you
Team sissifalke

Found tyftc. Finishing off the last leg of the dogs head trail. Find#1762

We camped at the rest area in Branxton with wazza9 and Nana Nel and ventured on this trail together. We did the majority on day one which proved to be a good move as the rain came in for day 2. We enjoyed the hides and information about the various dogs, great job on putting out this trail. Thanks to kingfisher_au for hiding this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

TFTC,
Day 2 caching around the area with Liz and Bruce & Nana nel.
It must have rained all night and after a good nights sleep we are out to finish the Dogs Head Trail today together with plenty of other caches along the way across several towns.
Great to have such a variety of caches.
It's raining lightly and we are getting wet but we are still having fun and barking our way to the end by lunch.
Thanks to Kingfisher_au for providing a trail where we could work together with other cachers and enjoy each others company while building numbers and learning about so many different breeds.

Day 2 on the Dogs Head trail, with Liz and Bruce & Wazza9, changed drivers and runners in light rain, but we are determined to complete the trail. Only 79 finds today. Stamped log and replaced, thanks to kingfisher_au for the hard work he put into this great series.

Last one of this series, many favorites given out along the series.

Thanks for creating this trail. This is a very pretty part of our beautiful country that you have shared with us. Tftc. I think you enjoyed making this trail as much as we are enjoying finding all of the caches.

Found with Jedi _Anakin
Thanks for the cache kingfisher_au
This is my 1186 find

Found with Djant this is my 599thanks kingfisher_au for the cache had fun doing it

We learnt about the 'Dogs Head Trail' as one of our TB's was placed into a cache on the trail. After seeing it we just had to come and do it. Who knew that there is so many types of dog. The senery in the area is fabulous, we saw loads of cows and horses but not much else in the way of animal life. Now for the caches
Roads - Very busy
Farmers - friendly and interested
Co-ordinates - Really great
Hints - we used these and had a laugh at the humour that was used, it certainly kept you interested
Hides - Easy - loved the camo tape it really helps the cache containers to blend in and if the CO had wanted to these could have been hidden a lot harder
Parking - Great, OK, not so great and down right horrible. In saying this the cache owner does tell you when you need to be aware in the hints. It just means that you will get a little more exercise walking to the cache from a safe parking spot. The CO is looking after you and making certain you get your exercise. You may need to climb, either up or down, to reach the cache. You may choose to climb down when you do not need to this is, it is all up to the indiviual.
A huge thanks to the CO, what a massive job this would have been to find the places to hide the caches, sort co-ords, write the cache discriptions and now to maintain them. You asked us to leave a favorite for the dog that we feel is our most liked type of dog, for me it is the german shepherd and for hubby it is the bull mastiff.
SL TFTC

Got up early to do this series today. Needed to eventually download for offline use which is why we have now done these bulk logs. We ran out of reception pretty quick and hadn't thought of it. This is a lovely and easy series. Love it, thank you so much! Recommended to all geocachers new or experienced.

Aaaagh!! We had planned a very long list of caches to find today with ilook4geo, but for about two hours after we started the run, the GPS would simply not play nicely with the satellites. It was very frustrating and we had to get there using other methods.
Eventually it came good and performed properly and the caching started in earnest. Each cache had its log signed with initials GP2 and ilg and all was put back into place. Thanks go to kingfisher_au for creating this series of caches and the fun puzzles included.

Continued with the Dogs Head Trail today with goingplaces2. GPS misbehaved to start but was OK later. Found what we looked for and were glad to add so many caches to the total in one day. TFTC.

Dog’s Head has now become one of my new favourite trails!! So much creativity and diversity throughout. Thank you so much kingfisher_au for your time, energy and resources.

Tackled the trail (and some smaller surrounding ones) as part team Capital Crunchers (fitzy_1965, minniek, specimenX, Nibletricecakes, Joolay and Roostaman) on our Maitland long weekend adventure. So glad we made the trek it has been truly delightful! As an added bonus we all hit a milestone (mine being 3000) AND racked up the most number of finds we have ever found in a day!! 310! An all round epic adventure. Thanks so much everyone.

Headed to the Maitland area with fitzy_1965 & SpecimenX for an extra long weekend of caching.

Day 2 saw us joined by nibletricecakes, Joolay & even Roostaman (who happened to be staying in the same campground as us by chance). Dogs Head Trail was our main aim with others collected along the way.

All caches where found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned. Logs were either signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers, CC, Kapital Krunchers or KK.

**# 25946** Found on the way back from our 2019 winter escape trip.
A cloudy Spring day for a drive around the Dogs Head trail with the Canberra crew.
We had a great big day and found all the caches and a few others as well.
Many muggles on the roads today and many good hides.
Logs signed or stamped as Canberra Crushers, CC and sometimes KK.
Thanks for the cache and the excellent series kingfisher_au,
***Roostaman***

18,964. Found as part of the Capital Crunchers Team (fitzy_1965, minniek, specimenX, nibletricecakes, Joolay and Roostaman) during the Canberra Invasion of Maitland region over the long weekend.

This was the main event. We were really looking forward to doing the Dog's Head Trail as well as the smaller trails in the region. We had an absolutely epic day of caching, with all of us setting milestone and achieving a new finds in a day record (310). All of the caches were found in good condition, signed and returned into its hidey hole. The 3D printed containers were a real highlight as well - fantastic effort by the CO.

Thanks kingfisher_au !! We really appreciate you putting out and maintaining these caches.