#3 In the Eyes of the Dog Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By kingfisher_au on 28-Feb-19. Waypoint GC844Z3

Found today on a great day out on the Dogs Head with Kazz444. TFTC

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****

Amazing Autumn day to be out caching with WRAACie. We headed off to do the Dogshead Trail - I had some patches to fill in.We got to Paterson and did the AL. So great to catch up with FelixII at the bonus. I'm still new to geocaching so it was a bit special to meet some lovely people who have done 40000 and hear about some of their adventures.Thanks kingfisher_au for creating this trail so we get out and enjoy this beautiful countryside.

We had this day planned for a month and had prayer all week for fine weather we could not had asked for better. Arriving at cache 1 about 9:30. We settle off KAZ444 had done some of those in 2 previous visits however I needed them all. We got a good system going and began tick of the caches we stopped the flow to do the AL in Paterson. Driving back to get the mystery bonus we saw another caches looking at stage 2. I tooted. We did have trouble finding the bonus and sure enough Mr Felixii caught up to us. We stopped for lunch and chatted and swapped Tbs. I must admit we felt like we were in The presents of Royalty once we heard they have over 40,000 caches. Wow We continue to run into them around the dog head. They stopped for the multi we didnt.I was in shocked when I read their log to hear they run into trouble. Just before 4 we ran into the cache were it is harder to park so after missing a few we decided to call it a day and drive back to Newcastle. We will return I still have 9 mystery to solve. Thank you for all your hard work placing this trail and maintaining it. All my logs will be the same except it I need to tell you about a problem which I will put first. Thanks.

This is our #7 of today's dog trail We will see how many of them will follow Thank you for this pawsome power trail !It was fun to solve some of the mystery caches during our housesit in the Blue Mountains (sitting a German Shepherd)!

A straightforward find here on my 4th visit to this part of the world. It seems I started this trail more than 4 years ago and was last here early last year .... clearly, this is a trail that just keeps on giving! Thanks for this hide and for the series kingfisher_au.

Day 3 of our trip to The Great Cattle Dog Muster in Muswellbrook…

Having left my partner and our Australian Stumpy Tailed Cattle Dogs (which are sadly missing from The Dogs Head Trail) at the Muster, PirateLinda and I have made the pilgrimage to Frying Pan…

Now returning to Muswellbrook, collecting random, and not so random caches along the trail…

I’d done some preparation at home, and so this was a park’n’grab… but we liked it so much we came back for a second visit to retrieve my stamp that I’d dropped…

Thanks kingfisher_au

I solved this a long time ago and came looking for it today. Thanks for a great puzzle and hide.

TFTC and the puzzles that Mighty Minions and I solved. We have had a fun day out and about.

techsavvy9 and I met up for a great day out caching today . The weather was good and we had a really excellent time. We had worked on solving some of the dogs head puzzles together, so were keen to head out today to find some of those and a few others. Thanks for the cache kingfisher_au tnln replaced as found sl

Quick find here.

We headed into the flooded eastern states for a week of geocaching fun. The mission was Frying Pan. The only December 2000 placed cache remaining in Australia. All other choices for this month are international. Traveling in style and comfort we selected the next cache on merit and forward movement. Some back tracking was required in the wettest areas. Wildlife seen included a lyre bird, king parrot and a single leech. Mozzies were a pest. Caches were found and signed. Wet logs were wet. Water does that. Numerous TOTTs were employed.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

I found this cache on a trip from Adelaide to NSW and back with Freddo.

Our main target was ‘Frying Pan’ in the Chichester State Forest, near Barrington Tops north of Newcastle.

We allowed ourselves a week to travel there and back, taking a circuitous route through Victoria and NSW, camping each night and finding a range of caches of interest along the way.

Rains over the past few months meant a few detours along the way and plenty of water about, restricting access to some caches and camping areas. Many of the roads were quite chopped up with potholes and the mosquitoes were plentiful! But we had a good run with the weather, with just the odd shower, but mostly fine, warm and overcast.

We hadn’t yet solved all the puzzles in this series, but we made a dent in them.

Thanks kingfisher_au for the puzzle and the cache.

Found it while on travelling TFTC

Another find up the face of the dog. Perfect weather for it today.

QPG

What a lot of work to make this puzzle. Hint for cache is not right anymore but still easy enough to find

Spending a weekend in Hunter Valley, on Saturday we went out to continue the dog catching we started a year and a half ago. Not that we managed to finish them all, so we will come back some other time to find some more.

Found a safer place to park than on the way up and more grass battles to sign the log!

Thanks for the geoart

#1,515
Back today to do some more of the Dog Head Trail with Calypso62.
We are also up here to attend a couple of Geocaching NSW events.
Quick and easy find.
TFTC

Left Sydney with It’s_Dozzie and GeoMonkeyGirl then met with EverestHigh to tackle the Dog’s Head Trail.

I absolutely love dogs ! Large, small, young, old, I love them all. I’ve worked with dogs, volunteered with dogs, had close to 50 as foster pets, plus a few as permanent family members too. All different breeds and all wonderful.

There’s still a few breeds on this trail that I didn’t know.

Such a fun power trail, if the caching wasn’t enough to keep me entertained the dog photos certainly were.

Another cute puzzle

TFTC

#10102 15:30
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).



This was cache find 94 of our road trip. TFTC!

Day 2 on the Dogs Head Trail.
Will write a generic log until the final cache.
Thanks for the cache

Found with Dad and Samuel on our fun day out with the dogs!

### ***TFTC!!*** ###

#4622-4671
Today was our first chance to find some caches with the lifting of the pandemic lockdown, so decided on a good old drive in the country to chase some more strays, catching 50 before we decided to call it a day. What a great way to say goodbye to a lockdown! Near cyclonic wind gusts made for some nervous moments under lots of big gums....
Again, thanks for all the hard work you put in to this fun trail kingfisher!
The cache was sitting out in the open, maybe amongst the remains of some logs, we placed it behind a tree a metre or two away, with a little cover.....

Found today as our first big cache trip in nearly 3 months! Nice cache

TFTC

Today I spent my second day on the Dog’s Head caches. Day one was 8 months ago. Today I found 62-100 and all puzzle caches ( eye of the dog). The weather was perfect. Thankyou Kingfisher_au for placing and maintaining the Dog’s Head. I especially thankyou for the puzzles , I really enjoyed them. I hope it won’t be 8 months until I get back.

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

Solving this puzzle left pen marks on my computer screen, its old and dodgy now but still able to log caches so it hasn't been replaced. I made use of the previous park for this one and got some more incidental exercise. it doesn't seem to make much difference to my waistline whenever i do some but its a good excuse to have a beer at the end of a long caching day. tftc

This puzzle was solved while sitting in the vain in the rain at Wauchope. Mrs Shifter solved it on the screen relatively quickly to her unexpected surprise. The cache was again found quickly.
Thanks for the hide kingfisher_au.

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

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 1:16 p.m. on the 26 November 2020. This is #6258 for us.

A trip with teamMerlin and TARDIS 0061 up north to finish of some more of the Eyes of the Dog caches and a few others while we are up that way

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 kingfisher_au

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

Full log to follow

On a caching run with TARDIS 0061 and phlphotos today with the aim of collecting some NSW counties, regular sized caches and several challenge caches. First stop was to find the twelve remaining solved but unfound Eyes of the Dog puzzles. All containers and logs found along the way are in good condition. Thanks for the puzzle caches kingfisher_au.

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

Found with Shaneo58's help doing some caching around the Branxton area mainly on the dog trail. It was good that most caches weren't to far from the car as the tempretures was in the high twenties, even tough this wasn't always the best (to close to the road).
Log signed and caches replaced as found.

**Thanks For The Cache** kingfisher_au.

This is the 27th cache of 71 for today.
Cache number 2612 at 1:03:00 PM on Thu 15Oct2020

OCW Brewmaker and EverestHigh. TFTC kingfisher_au!

Great geoart power trail. OCW Brewmaker and MaxAdventurer. kingfisher_au

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

A fun series of puzzles with quite a few clever ideas. I know many people love their fur babies, but I am definitely not a fan. I could get Grumpy(TM) but that would detract from the enormous effort that kingfisher_au has made to set out the whole series - a very impressive effort!
Headed up tonight and managed to escape the rain and make finds on all 17 of the Eyes of the Dog. Doing this series late at night presented few problems as there were plenty of places to stop nearby and very little traffic.
SL TFTC

TFTC am still enjoying your trail kingfisher_au

Found with MummyPenny. One of the puzzles we hadn't done on an earlier visit. It looked like it would exceed my attention span but came out quickly enough. Thanks kingfisher_au.

Geokid (10) had fun solving this maze. Glad I didn't bring them today. Agree it's not a good trail for kids with the traffic!
I have to admit I’m more of a cat person than a lover of dogs but today I set out from Port Macquarie to find the dogs head trail. Who knew there were so many breeds?! What a picture perfect, gorgeous day to be out caching. Paddocks were full of calves, lambs and baby goats, with stunning mountain backdrops. A good mix of hide locations in all sorts of containers made the trail interesting. Finding suitable parking on the side of narrow roads with 100km/h speed zones not so fun. Attacked 1-110 and the mystery eyes today, so will return another day to finish the trail. Thanks kingfisher_au

Second mystery cache of the day on the dogs eye!

A nice puzzle and quick grab.

TFTC.

I was in desperate need to get away this weekend for some quiet and stress free time for myself, so I decided to go for a long drive up here to grab some select caches and camp out in the Barrington Tops NP. Just myself, my coffee and a small stash of food, with a bit oif rain... and sleep in the back of my Xtrail... should be a relaxing time...
Only to get rear-ended by a young driver on a quiet country road!
While my car was still drivable, the rear hatch-door was jammed shut. I was determined to keep my Zen state of mind and still go camping (It was a 4hr drive back home). I'd just have to climb in by the rear passenger door.
It got dark, so at the campground I made a hot drink, had dinner and read a bit before going to sleep earlier than usual. So I naturally woke up after my normal hours of sleep AT 3AM! TOO EARLY TO CACHE OR DO ANYTHING!
Hours later when the sun started to rise I continue my caching run. All was good for a few hours... and then I noticed my left-rear tyre go flat! My spare is beneath the luggage floor, beneath 2 drawers FULL of heavy camping gear, all of which I had to remove through the rear passenger door!
Fast forward a bit, the spare tyre on the car, the flat one back in the car, with all the rest of my stuff, and then I noticed my front one was flat AS WELL! No second spare!
The closest town 20km away, no tyre change store open until Monday, I could only try and keep it inflated with my little foot pump and top it up where-ever safe to stop, for the 300Km drive home.
Got home safely, despite heavy rain for the last hour and emptied out my car to get ready for the repairs.
AFTER ALL THAT I STILL KEPT MY COOL!
BUT THIS WASN'T WHAT I CALL A RELAXING WEEKEND!
Thanks for the caches.

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

29213.104 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2018 Dec Tis' the Caching Season A#391

**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!!

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!!!

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

Found with Dave8153. TFTC

06/06/20
This is find number: 4185
Streak Day: 1633

Decided to head this way for the Long Weekend with Snoopy1976 to do some caching, Completed this series over the weekend.

Thanks to kingfisher_au for placing and maintaining these caches

TFTC

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 Kingfisher_au for all the caches.

Doin the Dogs Head.
TFTCs

Caching in the company of GrumpyBump, on our slow, meandering way to the Mega event in Millicent, S.A.
A quick find, in the obvious spot.
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

Tftc. Tnln. Full description of the days activities at gc7rf8b

TFTC,
I joined Liz and Bruce & Nana nel for 2 days caching around the area. Our primary goal was to complete the Dogs Head Trail but there are plenty of other caches to try and complete across several towns.
Great to have such a variety of caches.
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.

Caching on the Dog Head series, today with Liz and Bruce & Wazza9, quick find, great hints, I never knew there was so many breeds of dogs, 179 finds for the day, during the day Liz & Bruce completed there 59,000 find and I achieved 9,000 finds. Stamped log and replaced. Thanks to kingfisher_au. Great series.

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, don't know how many we will find today but we are going through them

Found tyftc. Having a quick geocaching weekend before silly season starts. Trying to beat a local geo to 1500 finds before dec 31st. Find #1461

Placed with cache owner

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

Great puzzles - maybe because I could do most of them. I particularly liked learning more about dog breeds as I solved the puzzles and enjoyed the way they were an integral part of the Dogs Head Trail. Certainly made me want to come and do the trail. Tftc

The Dogs Head Trail was our main focus for today with goingplaces2. Caches were easy to find, logs had some more initials added and we had a fun day of caching. Thanks for this series.

While camping in the district, we came along here to tackle this Dogs Head Trail series, along with ilook4geo. There are so many dogs named in these caches that we have never heard of before.
So today we started to pick up the caches in the recommended direction. Each found log was signed and all caches were in very good order. The finds were easy enough and all cache containers were put back into place before we moved on to the next one.
Thanks go to kingfisher_au for this great geo art and for the puzzles involved in the Eye caches.
They were challenging and a lot of fun.

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.

**# 25872** 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***

18,890. 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.

The puzzles were a nice touch - look great on the geo-art and they were (mostly) fun to solve !

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

Found with fitzy_1965, minniek, Nibletricecakes, Joolay as well as Roostaman as part of the Canberra Invasion of Maitland and surrounds over an extra long weekend

Time for us to hit the Dogs Head Trail! An enjoyable drive around the trail collecting the caches and marveling at the 3D printed creations which were easy finds resulted in an epic day of caching. Signed or stamped as Capital Crunchers, CC or KK (for some early finds) to save log space.

Thanks for the hide, kingfisher_au

Clever puzzle.
This is an awesome trail. Sometimes the parking left me wondering but it was later explained that some were meant to be walked too. The effort in this trail is huge and a big thanks to the big effort in setting this up.

Up in Maitland with Nibletricecakes, Fitzy1965, MinnieK and Specimen X, to do the Dogs Head. We will go by the name of Capital Crunchers. We have also met up with Roosterman who is joining us today. Really looking forward to the challenge and getting the geoart today. Unless otherwise stated cache in good condition. Thanks for the huge effort in placing these.

Our logs are signed CC, KK, Capital Crunchers or stamped depending who wrote them.
Apologies for the generic logs.

Found at 2:09 PM GAFF1.
A lovely day to tour around this region - so green compared to where we have been recently. A fantastic series and a lot of work involved (and money!)
Thanks kingfisher_au

Solver at homework before travel, Accompanied ALL7 and DSD, second day start #71 run series ...
TFTC

Found with 63Roos and Darksidedan. Thanks

G'Day My Fellow Geocacher,

How are you my fellow Geocacher? I’m DARKSIDEDAN aka Daniel from Canberra, Australia and I have had the pleasure of finding your Geocache during my travels as a Geocacher. I signed the logbook in your cache either Darksidedan or Darkside or DSD. This was one epic series and I thank you for placing as well as maintaining this epic trail. I have added your cache to my growing list of “Found It” logs. Please forgive the Generic Logs for this Series.

I HAVE GIVEN TWO FAV POINTS FOR THIS SERIES ONE FOR THE FIRST AND ONE FOR THE LAST CACHE. WHAT AN EPIC SERIES.

I love discovering Geocaches, Trackable items and collecting Pathtags. I hope that you enjoy Geocaching as much as I do. For me geocaching is a way of life and when I am not Geocaching, I am thinking of Geocaching.

Here is a little information about me. I have been geocaching since 2015. At the time of finding this cache I have over 6000 finds plus 350 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. 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.

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.

I have included with my Found It log an Original and One of a Kind, Geocaching poem that I have written. I hope that everyone who reads it gets some enjoyment out of it.


Geocache Poem by DARKSIDEDAN

My endless search goes on and on
Looking for treasures of every kind
Always chasing just one more find
Putting past DNF’s out of my mind
I step out into the world outside,
Seeking what is hidden from me
What size, shape or form will it be?
Only time will tell, I can’t wait to see
Will I find my prize at the end?
I will search in the failing light and cold
Filling with despair having looked everywhere
Where is this thing that gives my life pleasure?
Looking all around from every angle
I read the logs and check the hint
I curse out loud as I walk in circles
Screaming the bloody thing it not there
As time flies by and I fail to see,
Never once stopping to realize
It always been there before my eyes
No need for sorrow, there’s the Geocache.

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I am currently writing very detailed logs because of a challenge provided by Project-GC called "The Author". This Badge challenges geocaches to write logs with an average length of more than one hundred words per log. As of the 25th September 2019 my average Found It log is 165 words per log. I would like to get all my logs up to more than 200 words per log but I will have to wait and see how I go. Currently I am just trying to get my average up by finding and logging as many geocaches as I can. My apologies to anyone who finds my lengthy logs tedious but it is the only way that I can strive to attain the highest level with this challenge. After more than 6,000 geocaches (which includes all cache finds up and including this cache, I am now entertaining the possibility that I might be able to achieve my task very soon. Progress has been better than anticipated.

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CACHE SERIES OWNED
UFO Series - 180 Caches (Largest GeoArt Series in the ACT - 100kms Long)
Vampire Series - (100 Traditional, Letterboxes, Puzzle Caches in Thawa, ACT)
Australian Animals Series - (50 Traditional Caches in (Collector to Gunderoo NSW)
Puzzle Series (15 Puzzle Caches in Canberra ACT)

On our way to QOGM (Blackall) day 5 of our trip. 18 caches for the day, and 144 for the trip. TFTC

Another puzzle we could actually do!

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Found with delloro on Day 2 of our a trip to the Hunter. Another easy find along this excellent trail.

We had solved a few of these before this trip, so grabbed a pawful in between the trads.

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Found with Banj Ward tftc

The dog trail was achieved today with The_Tritonz working as a team we knocked over the entire series having a blast the whole way around. Lunching at Gresford, we refueled our bodies and continued on our way. We even done mini CITO’s near the caches as we signed the logs.
Thanks kingfisher_au for the Dog Head Series.

While up in NSW on holidays enjoying a fun Lighthouse Mega, we headed further North to catch up with family and try our luck with the Dog Series, one that we have had our eye on since publication.
The puzzles were solved without much fuss except for one and boy did that do our head in....lucky for the kind CO who put us out of our misery allowing for a 100% success rate today as we tackled them head on in the company of Tack123.
Thanks kingfisher_au for the awesome effort in putting this series together, we had a blast today/tonight.
Woof woof

Chasing pups and trying to solve the mystery at the museum with Miss Unicorn from Beary_Unicorns, TFTC

Heading home to Brisbane from oz muster. Stopped here in Maitland and found this dog series. Could not resist and staying two days to finish this wonderful beloved dog trail

Headed out on a perfect sunny Sunday to grab a few in the series. TFTC

Quick park and grab with dad TFTC

Doing the Dogs Head Trail with Di Morgan Grub Fred and myself AKA DIGS this weekend.Enjoying the series and the company. TFTC KF.

Singleton Day 2 staying at the Showgrounds
Today we have teamed up with Grub Fred & Shaneo58 we have signed the log as DIGS as a combination of our names & obviously it's what dogs like to do.
We did a small number in the afternoon leaving to do 100 the next day.
We enjoyed our drive around the farming land, surprised at how busy the country roads were.
The effort to place this trail & to provide information on so many different species of dogs is an enormance project. Some nice fantastic plastic containers noticed as well.
Thankyou for placing this cache kingfisher_au

Find No: 7690. Shaneo58, Mrs Grub Fred & I met up with Bill & DiMorgan at Singleton Showground to do the Dog's Head Trail, finished today and collected some other fun ones on the way, thanks for the caches and the series kingfisher_au!!

Quick grab along our way
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this one had us confused with one of the numbers, but got there in the end. TFTC

With a long weekend in Canberra, FurfacesLL #1 and myself decided it was time to get away and find a bit of warmth as the cold makes its way into Canberra. We decided to head up to Maitland as neither of us had been there before for Geocaching. We had our primary target set to complete the new Dog geo-art series, and we managed to do that within a single day, so we had plenty of time up our sleeves for other things. We enjoyed the series with the different containers and hide styles along the way. We decided to add a drive upto collect Frying Pan and also included another older cache on Mount Sugarloaf for the journey home.

Had this one solved before heading off for our weekend away. Apologies for the generic logs

Thanks for the cache hide kingfisher_au and thanks FFLL#1 for another trip out and about for some quantity AND quality caching

After meeting the CO at a pre Mega event in Canberra at the Lakes in Gungahlin we decided to have a look at the dog trail that he talked about. So we set to work to solve all the puzzles in hopes of taking a trip to complete this series in the near future.
That day arrived a plan was hatched to spend a long weekend for Canberra up in Maitland collecting the dog trail and others around the area with Rapidlywild.

We headed out early (well early for us) and completed the trail in a day with no DNF's which was nice. Lovely country side to look at in this area and lots of various hides and sizes of caches.

Thanks for a great trail kingfisher_au you sure have spent a few hours putting this one together and thanks for the great weekend away and laughs Rapidlywild.

Sorry for the generic logs.

Had us running around in circles. TFTC

Having met the CO at the Clear Waters Mega Event and enjoyed a couple of great days out geocaching together we had been hoping we would have the time and opportunity to undertake this series of caches sometime over the last two weeks of our current visit to Australia. Two days ago we had started the Dogs Head Trail and completed up to number 50, but had run out of daylight hours to be able to continue, then yesterday morning we had returned to where we had left off to continue with another short section of the trail before diverting off to head up north to find the Frying Pan cache. Now back again today it was time to find some more of the puzzle caches before continuing on with the next section of the trail. What a great series, with an amazing amount of information on the A to Z of dog breeds on the various cache pages - most of them dog breeds we didn't even know existed! We were impressed by the many different types of hide, the clever 3D printed cache holders and the large variety of containers, all of them nicely camouflaged to match their locations. The clues were fun to read and we liked the themed dog rubbers found in many of the caches. Many thanks to the CO for the incredible amount of time, effort and cost involved in laying the extensive trail and for the clever use of the roads to create the geo-art. We had great fun solving this puzzle enabling us to quickly find the cache itself today once at Ground Zero. We signed the log book and then replaced as found. Thanks so much for the cache and another favourite point awarded! Greetings from Zimbabwe

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