The Guardian Moruya, New South Wales, Australia
By Youban on 22-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82RWY

Thansk

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 16274TFTC Youban

Lovely cache, this was a banger. 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

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

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

Great hide, hard to get to it but found in the end.

Had to approach from a different angle to spot this cache.. finding a path out wasn't easy for these short legs of mine . Ticks versus leeches? Which is the better of these evils? The thought went through my head many times today.

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.

Found with Curloo. Thanks for the hide. The guardian has a pet rat that's been chewing on the cache lid.

Found with Jondub. Another cool cache Wish I’d worn long pants for this one though! TFTC

Caching down the South Coast and district for a few days. TFTC.
Another interesting cache. You must have come down here with a wheelbarrow.

Beautiful day in a beautiful place - TFTC

Signed as YAWT - oh my scratched legs

Nice hide fav from me

Every cache needs a guardian to protect it from muggles.
This one is definitely safe!
Thanks Youban. A spectacular walk today.
Domsky

Brilliant!

tftc

My first time in Australia. Favoritepoint for this cache.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland

Great cache. Thanks heaps!

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 and found after a short search.

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

TFTC

Found
Thanks

We could find it, but it was a long search
Thanks for the cache, Reki

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

Found it with Silence49 while on travelling

Found it with lance51 TFTC

An interesting walk and find, thanks.

Awesome find. Caught our eye at the last minute

I found it.

Nice

Too good a hide for me

Found it on the way back. My GPS was out by a few metres but found it by looking around.

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!

This one was especially fun, love the construction you do for your caches!

Lucky Last! We found it! With Short_Tea! The shrubs and bushes are very spikey! Do not recommend wearing shorts on this trail! We enjoyed the themed caches along the way! Thanks Youban!

Short_tea grew antennas on the way to help find the bugs!

Signed as BB & BJ!

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

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

33264.99 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Night Caching A#116

**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. Eventually found this little blighter. TFTC Youban SL

He is back on duty and ready to be found. Happy caching

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 53.450 E 150° 8.946

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 53.455 E 150° 8.957

Distance from original: 62.2 feet or 19.0 meters.

New location due to scrub clearing

Area cleared. Will enable once new location found. Cheers

Due to snake,could not find

Find Number 2274 found at 12:53. Today we found 15 caches and had 2 DNFs. This was the 11th find today

The weather forecast was good so Tony decided to head down to Moruya try to complete the Bengello
Walk series. Any other cache would be a bonus.

Having finished the series North of the car park I continued South to try for a few more. This was a quick and easy find. The guardian was nicely in place.

The cache was in good condition. We took nothing, left nothing, signed the log and replaced the container as found

Thanks Youban for the cache.

Good hide.Found by grannie
TFTC

Found it

Found it after a bit of a hunt. I have to say I'm not convinced about micros in the dunes around here. Enough damage from the rabbits without geocachers scrounging around searching for micros without hints. Tftc anyway

Found it where I expected, but the batteries on the GPS went flat, so had to give up the trail. Must return with full batteries! A bonus was watching some trainee pilots doing low passes, touch and go’s and finally landing. I. Also saw an echidna waddling along the path, but they went into the bushes and hid before I could get a photo. TFTC, Youban

09:37
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.
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No spiders here! TFTC

Tftc

I’m not sure about this bug

The spirit?? Of the trees and creepy crawlies that live here TFTC!!

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:
I thought the spiders were gone as I reached GZ but they surrounded the tree! Located cache and managed to weave my hand through for the sign! TFTC

Thanks. Found it.

There is a monster web near GZ so take care. I made a note about something being “damaged” but now can’t recall the details - I can only assume there was some problem with the cache?? TFTC.

Found it.

Diky

TFTC

Tftc

Found

TFTF

??? ???

Found it

Found the guardian

Thanks

Gotcha - Found with a bit of searching. Tftc

This trail was fun thanks for the caches!

We rode our bike out and did a maintenance run. All caches now secure. Happy caching

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Oh, an angel for sure! Well, that was my guess, and it has to be said, that is the ugliest little angel I ever did see. Unfortunately the guardian has lost grip of her cache container, as I found it on the ground below. Jammed it back in as well as I could, but may need a little attention. Close by, I encountered another guardian? The echidna was a little shy. 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. A good day trip from the ACT, thanks Youban. TFTC

Unfortunately didn’t find it

EDIT: We did end up finding it after finding one just up the track

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.

TFTC

TFTC

Doesnt seem like it's on much of a trail anymore

Weird find lol

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

Very clever. He’s a neat man.

Found at 2:07 PM GAFF1.
Had to really look closely for this cache and there it was just sitting in front of me in the end - so subtle.
Thanks Youban
Feedback: Looking at the hint now as we write this log - my gosh! I have asked in the past for reviewers to stop these sort of unhelpful hints.

Nice hide, thanks for sharing

Good fun caches.

We were looking for a place to enjoy a walk and a few caches today so decided to explore this track. It was a beautiful morning for a walk before a long drive towards home.

Thanks for the cache.

Found but forgot a pen

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

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