Socks and Spuds. Crookwell, New South Wales, Australia
By GLISS! on 22-Mar-20. Waypoint GC890W7

Just about to head to Matt's Bakery for lunch. Lovely walk with the ducks at the park first. TFTC.

Found 25/09/24 and confirmed by the CO. TFTC

Staying in chilly Crookwell for a few days and finding a few new caches since our last visit two years ago. TFTV GLISS!.

Quick trip through Crookwell. Grabbed this one on short break answers sent TFTC

I had been in the road all day and Boorowa was my ultimate destination. I had about 8n trigs to locate and was running out of time, so this was my only stop in Crookwell. I'll be back for the trip home on Wednesday. TFTC

On the wat to Perth and detour - Thanks for the virtual and hunt. FP from me.

Tftf

This was a great location for a virtual. It was very peaceful with only ducks keeping us company. Thanks for bringing us here with the placing of this cache.

It was great to take an uninterrupted stroll around here this morning. No muggles around at all. We were able to sit and watch the ducks float on by. Thanks for placing this virtual here for all to enjoy.

Next, I headed out to this virtual cache. I noted the required information and took the necessary photo before I continued on my way. TFTC

Day 1 of the last phase of our journey home. 12hrs trip from Canberra to Tamworth with a few LGA stops on the way.Three ducks followed us around wherever we went in the park.Caching with and signing as the group 'Q3' and having a great day.TFTCache GLISS!

On the road today. Signing logs as Q3.Interesting spot. Answer sent and conformed.Log signed and cache replaced as found on April 8, 2024. TFTC, GLISS!

Accompanied with 63ROOS, enjoyed trip to Yass, Crookwell, Gunning, Goulburn for catch up caches tks

Accompanied with ALL7, catch up Crookwell caches ahead to Goulburn but terrible weather raining offs ons on town and Goulburn highwaySent answer to CO, permitted passed, nice interested, good fun day for us, TFTV

A lovely spot to break our drive and find a couple of caches. Thank you for highlighting this area.Answer has been sent.

I got sidetracked heading back to Sydney from the Capital Geobash and ended up having lunch in Crookwell. Nice to visit this town that I haven't seen for 25 years and, of course, to pick up a few smilies, including this one! Thanks for enticing me to come back Gliss!

After a hello from the locals and their doggo, I was able to grab the answers and take a photo with my fav feathered friend! Greencordial asked BenM70 to do up a caching found template while she is doing the driving and Im doing duck all. Im actually just pressing the screen randomly like Im actually enthused to be doing this. Anyways, we are visiting the national capital to attend Grrencordial2nd mega as I got scared by Covid for Dayboro and didnt take the punt that Townsvilles coolest cachers BenM70 and burgo78 did. Thank you GLISS! for placing this cache for me to enjoy!

Well, for someone that has not bothered to do anything geocaching related for a while I seem to be going out of the way to do Mega events. This particular caching trip was the brainchild of the other participant in this little excursion, that being greencordial. I flew into Toowoomba so we could drive down and pick up plenty of LGAs along the way. We got into Canberra late on Day 2 after picking up some challenges at Yass Day 3 and we chased many virtuals and caches in the city centre Day 4 saw a continuation of the UGC challenges, multis, virtuals and the odd tree fish as well as a wedding, a lackey and volunteer event were undertaken. Day 5 sees us start at parliament house, two lookouts, multies, virtuals, an epic night cache and a Pirate celebration. Day 6 saw the April Fools come out and a visit to Canberras oldest existing cache.Now for some more Yass challenges on the way home. A quick stop in Quickwood to pick up a virtual. Please see photo and my answer has been sent. Thanks GLISS! for placing this Virtual for me to convert into a smilie

After a weekend at the Bathurst 6 Hour it was back on the road grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

A short stop in town here for this oneHeaded over to the Capital GeoBash in Canberra, ACT with Freddo over 5 days, travelling through the central part of NSW before caching around the hinterlands. A nice few days over with great weather.Thanks for the cache

A nice little park found while waiting for my mate to Arrive to meet for lunch at the pub

We enjoyed exploring Crookwell, and had fun working out which part of the mural we liked best.Sent in our answer and permission to log was granted. A favourite point given.Many thanks for placing this virtual, GLISS!.

#2573

Exploring crookwell during an overnight stop from my return to Sydney road trip
TfTC

Great to be out with friends collecting caches. TFTC

A lovely little park here for a break while caching around Crookwell today. The pretty mural was examined and the answer sent through to the CO who has given me approval to log.

Thanks, GLISS!

Got this one while meeting up with friends in Crookwell. Lots of nice caches of all types in the town. We will have to come back for another visit in order to finish off finding them all.

We had too much fun visiting with friends we hadn't seen in decades!

Thanks for bringing us here to the murals. Really nice use of the space.

TFTC

Found with bdp, kiwisteve2 and muggleoz. We bought a pair of socks at the sock shop. Tftc

This is a lovely park. Utilising along a creek. Have sent answer of to CO.

Second photo. Very pretty.

A quick stop in Crookwell as I head north. The sun is struggling to come through, but the wind is only light, so it was nice walking along the creek.
Tftc!

We are on the way home from the MEGA 2023 in Rutherglen.

We found this cache and signed the log.

Tftc GLISS!

Out and about with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc GLISS

Thanks for bringing us to this pretty little park and tftc

We did this cache while staying in Goulburn for a while with ilook4geo. We took a drive to Crookwell finding some caches along the way and some in town. Sent the answer for this one to the CO and took a photo. Thanks for bringing us to the area of Socks and Spuds go to GLISS! Fav point awarded.

Did this cache while travelling around Crookwell together with goingplaces2. Now we know what Crookwell is known for. TFTVC.

Stopped for lunch and a cache in Crookwell.

Thank you for this virtual
R

Answers sent to cache owner and approved. Interesting artwork

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 visited this Virtual 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.

Thanks GLISS! for the cache.

We are looking forward to wearing our warm Crookwell Lindner socks that we bought at Information.
Now we’ll keep an eye out for some spuds,

This is a pretty park too with some nice murals and pretty flowers.
We have sent our answers to the CO, and adding a Fave Point for highlighting this lovely town and what it has to offer.

Thank you GLISS!

Reperio 20:59

This evening I was headed to Victoria for the upcoming mega event in Whittlesea, and stopped by this one quite late in the evening before finding a place to camp for the night. Recorded the information required before having a short wander around the area. Answer has been sent.

Gratias GLISS!


‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death’ - LDV

Exploring Crookwell and surrounds today and decided to find some caches in lieu of the cancelled garden festival. A nice mural- we especially liked the fairy wrens ️

We had a few moments between yesterday’s events so we stopped by to gather the information for this virtual. Answers sent to the CO.

Thanks for the virtual.

#1250 Finally catching up on some much needed logging. This is one of the last few I needed to tick off for the month of October ??. I’ve been sitting on this own for so long that I do believe I mentioned the answer to the question to the CO months ago and have since talked to the CO again forgetting I had already got the approval.

Oh well, how’s as good a time as any to get it sorted. I chose to take a photo with these two lovely birds. I’ve always loved Rosellas, eastern or crimson and magpies are always lovely if you make a friend of them. I haven’t seen as many rosellas lately, but they’ve started popping up a bit more again lately, which is always good to see.

Thanks GLISS! For placing your virtual here, always nice to do one not so close to home!

A beautiful virtual.
It’s lovely to see virtuals being placed in quirky and smaller locations to highlight something of the local area.

We are definitely keen to look into some warm Crookwell socks. As for spuds, yep, we’ll take them too!

We have sent our answers to the CO, and add a FP here for highlighting this lovely Aussie town.
Thank you GLISS!
Domsky

Found It!
Nice park. Stopped here for a photo after the lunch event then delivered the answer to the CO at the next event of the day.
TFTC

Streak Day #3398 - Stopped by with Dave8153 after the event. Grabbed info and will send later. TFTV

A bit boggy around the mural but managed it without too much mud. TFTC.

Found!!! Took a bit of searching to come up with the word. Love a virtual!!! TFTC

#3110 Before leaving Crookwell for Goulburn we took the opportunity to drop by for this virtual. A lovely park and some nice artwork to enjoy. Thanks GLISS for highlighting this area. Answers were confirmed with the CO at the next event and a photo with my favourite bird is attached. TFTV!

JohnoMawbs’s 30/10/22 Day Trip
I heard there were four events on today and better yet, I was even asked to attend them. So, this meant I couldn’t miss them. I left home at 6am and headed for Yass for B’fast. After B’fast, I did some caching before the first event. A nice event at Gunning and then it was time for more caching on the way to Crookwell. Then it was time for the Crookwell CCE which was another fun event. A forty minute wait for lunch but I had plenty of conversations about all things Geo with the other attendees. Once again, it was time to do some more caching which included cleaning up as many caches as possible. This included caches in Crookwell, along the way to Goulburn and in Goulburn. Now time for the combo event which was made up of both Geocaching and Munzee. A different but certainly still a fun event to attend. Then came some more caching before the final event. The last event was a CITO which was also great fun. Then it was time to head home but not without two more finds, one of which was a FTF. I arrived home about 7:30pm after my great day out. TB visit on all found caches. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I found and events I attended for allowing them to bring me and the caching community enjoyment. TFTC’s and TFTE’s.
Today’s Highlights:
27 Finds + 4 Events = 31 ’s
4 Events (CCE, CITO & 2x Regular)
Geocaching in Crookwell (First Time)
Finding two new D/T combos
An unexpected FTF
Avenging DNF’s
Getting the 2022 CITO Season #2 Souvenir

Logged with Permission
My second cache in Crookwell today. Once at GZ and after a short, I discovered the information required. Soon after, I headed off to the second event of the day and met up with the CO, who gave me permission to log as found. A great spot to bring Geocachers and once again thanks. FP Given.

Found after the Crookwell CCE. OCW JFTF. TFTVC GLISS!

A day out in the NSW country side caching and following the trail of events laid out. Fun!
This cache: A quick find along the way. Nice to see a virtual out here!

Thank you GLISS! for the nice walk you gaveus!

Down by the creek looking at the walkway we pondered over who was *Margaret Shepherd*.... kutgw

30 October 2022
This is find number: 6918
Streak Day: 2509

Found today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find while in the area today. Thanks

Thanks to GLISS! for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

TFTC smile 14944 out and about with miss millie geo dog Signed and replaced, very windy and cold today this is miss millie geo dog one off these Eagles took her grand mother and killed her when miss millie mother was a pup, We are going to checkout the socks in the morning

Thank you, GLISS!, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Love a virtual! Out with GreyHams on a mostly nice sunny day. With the recent rain there was plenty of water lying about, the little car got, well... just a 'little' muddy! Thankfully though we stayed dry and clean enough! Wow, it was a long day that saw us cover a lot of distance, climb a few hills, and collect a lot of good quality caches along the way. Generally, most caches were found in good condition, all at the coordinates and dry although a few have not held up to the rain and were in poor or very wet condition.

Thanks for your cache that led to a good day out!

We loved all the caches around Crookwell
Love a virtual, especially one in such a cool rural location

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Had a long day with Aquilus1 doing a few local virtuals & Earthcaches before a loop up to Goulburn, Boorowa and back through Hall today. Long day!

Found -- Thanks for bringing us to this location and Thanks for the virtual *Gliss!*.

**The Cache**
Found 2:40pm. Photo of answer sent to CO. Pity there is nothing historical to see here, but still, the view is lovely.

**The Day**
I am surprised, I have not done and solid caching for over a year. It is so nice to be out and enjoying nature again.
OCW *Mr TOC*, *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet* on a much welcome and impromptu overnight run to somewhere unknown, well... ... I did consider a night in Grenfell if we could get a bed there. With nothing booked we threw some clothes in a bag, grabbed some trackables for distribution and were out the door quicker than a scared jack rabbit. Element of surprise Mr TOC, element of surprise. I'm sure he was surprised I moved so quick and left him spinning [:-D].
We found a room at the local motel, definitely a *Pokemon* players delight with something like four poke stops and two gyms that can be played all night long from the comfort of your bed. With a few extra steps to the fence-line there are about three more that can be played.
We went to see the Grenfell Silo Art which was stunning, and wanted to go to Harden to see their but didn't have time. Caches to maintain, find and the need to get home for work tonight. Had the most brilliant time away - happy wifey.

A nice quick find on a walk through Crookwell. TFTC

Lovely spot, albeit on a very cold day!
TFTC

Nice little visit to the town today. We had a hearty lunch in the old theatre and a little look at the shops and railway station.
Pleasant little park that would be lovely for a visit on a sunny day. Thanks for the fun. Btw. Creek was full of water. See photo

Day 3 of our 2 week road trip south from Brisbane and so far the trip has been a nightmare. On the first day we had to find a route around flood waters which meant a long detour via the coast roads before making it to Coonabarabran for our first night. The second day quickly descended into disaster as I managed to bog my vehicle hunting only our second cache of the trip, and could not be extracted until 7pm that night, This meant an unscheduled stop over in Dubbo last night and after some work this morning cleaning the car up from its muddy encounter, we were underway again, heading for Goulburn.

Although I had to cut a number of caches on my itinerary due to the delays, this was one of my main targets of the day so I made sure we were here in plenty of time. No problem locating the required information here. It was a bit too chilly here for us this afternoon for us Queenslanders so we didn't linger and jumped straight back in the car. TFTC

Too easy- a nice quick little stop. TFTC!

Took the long way home in order to nab this virtual and the Lab.

Cheers

Answers submitted by frazelle along with a photo of half the frazelle team and I on their log. Cool little cache. Tftc

Lovely sunny day,enjoying this quiet little town. Visiting from Sydney. Answers sent to CO and pic attached of us and Ash.Kate

Tftc lovely park

With the forecast of a sunny day in Crookwell, we set out to find some caches and look for the puzzles we have solved. We enjoyed the variety of caches and had a fun day. We had lunch in the park here and then a nice stroll along the river. A lovely spot.

We have been trying to get a fine day in Crookwell when we are free to travel and the holiday seemed an ideal opportunity to find some caches. We have found caches by Gliss! in Golspie and Bigga and were looking forward to more in Crookwell. We were not disappointed. This is a favourite lunch spot of ours so we enjoyed another visit and a stroll along the river.

Travelling from goulburn to yass and made a detour to Crookwell to see some of the town, as my grandparents met here with my grandfather boarding at my grandmother's house a long time ago. This virtual looked interesting and was nearby where I first stopped for a rest break. Had a quick walk with my patents to stretch our legs and found on the way. Was interesting to learn this about the town. FP from me for area and info. Wood sculptures are unique and would have loved to play table tennis in the park if I had a bat and ball on me.

Found on my way back from a day trip from Canberra to Bathurst to pick up some pressed metal sheets. A quick stop at this lovely park and was welcomed by several super friendly ducks who waddled up and were most disappointed that I didn’t have food for them. Then on to GZ for the required answers and a couple of pics of the mural. A nice leg stretch before driving home. Nice spot here, TFTC

On my way out to Orange today and stopped at Crookwell for morning tea and 50 meters away was this cache, so why not. This is a great little park badly in need of some TLC which is unusual for Crookwell because all the amenities we have seen here are clean and well kept.
TFTC Gliss

Tftc

Day 4 of a 4 day geocaching bender for Team Doodads (Garbageman and 2 geokids). Today we started in Goulburn, pulled a loop through Crookwell, and headed home to Newcastle via the Southern Highlands. A 70 cache day, which was a fair effort for two quite tired kids.

Who doesn’t love a virtual?

I just wish I hadn’t stepped in a rabbit hole, sprained my knee, corrected myself, stepped in a second rabbit hole with the same leg on the next step (@#$&*), and swallowed a bunch of swear words to save the nearby muggle kids an educational experience. Use the ramp people. The grass is a death trap. Ha ha

First of four days of caching around Goulburn, Yass valley and ACT. Weather still good, but a terrible forecast. Making good progress around Goulburn/Crookwell today. Been a while since I did a virtual!
TFTC Wilbert67

Will write a log soon
TFTV

Finalf29 and I had decided to attend the CITO and Mid Winter dinner but then I saw AngelG27 was going to attend... hmmm maybe I could get enough caches to make my 3000th the event and celebrate with AngelG27, who originally got me into this fun and wacky game. We left home about 10am and cached around Goulburn and Crookwell to make the numbers. Thanks to all the COs that made this possible and thanks Angle... opps AngelG27

OK that whole experience was surreal. When we pulled up there was no one. Finalf29 sat in the car. As I got out of the car muggles came out from everywhere. A lady sat near the mural, a dog walker stopped on the ramp and people amassed down further. The dog walker started talking to me and the other lady lit up a cigarette. Finally I found the information and took a quick selfie. This was all happening to the sound of someone practising their bagpipes!... I love bagpipes and they were very good. Thanks for the history and a unique experience

During our recent tour of south-east New South Wales, we called into Crookwell and viewed this very colourful mural. We collected the required information and have forwarded it to the CO.

Thanks GLISS! for this virtual in a very well maintained small town.

Great little reserve. Picnic tables and bbq areas are new! Grabbed info and messaged CO.

#11385 - 2:34:00 PM; Set out on a cold but sunny morning with Sol de lune and Smittengranny on a caching mission north to Taralga then west to Laggan and Crookwell. Seventy three caches found and three DNFs for the day. Logs signed LL, Sdl and SG or similar. Most caches were found without incident and apart from a few soggy logs, were in good condition. A chilly wind came up just before noon, but didn't detract from an excellent day's caching. After lunch at a very busy cafe in town, this was our first stop after lunch. Headed to the wrong spot to start with, but a check of the GPSr soon had us back on track and the required information in hand. TFTC GLISS!

A day out caching with Smittengranny and LuckyL10n up to Taralga, Crookwell and Gunning before heading home to Canberra...

After a neat lunch at the busy cafe in town, we headed around town for a few caches, including this one. We actually went to wrong spot first (note to self...read the listing !!) but soon worked out the error of our ways and eventually made it to the right spot. Grabbed the required info, which has been sent off to the CO, and then headed back to the car and to next one.

Enjoyed our visit to Crookwell...been a while since I was here.

Thanks for the tour and the virtual GLISS!!....

Sent information to CO.

After having afternoon tea at one of the cafes we ventured down here to collect the information.
Had a great afternoon in Crookwell but starting to get a little chilly for us northerners - so we better head back to our accommodation in Goulburn.

A FP for the virtual - thanks GLISS!

Out at Crookwell today trying to find the caches. Came upon the spot where we had to take a photo of what you the CO requested. Sending pic to you. TFTC GLISS

Quick find and cycle on pathway. Required info sent to CO for consideration.

Easy little park and grab. The cache is in good condition, signed and replaced. Thanks for placing the cache

Awesome day out in the sunshine, many thanks

During our forced Covid -19 lockdown "6" we were going through our note for our trip to QLD Mega and noticed we had missed logging a whole day of caches. Now catching up with those logs. We visited back on 22/4/21 and have no idea how we missed logging this day,

We are on the last leg of our extended journey on the way back from the Daybro mega and with lots of muggles still around enjoying the autumn warmth we decided to concentrate mainly on labs and anything else that popped up on the screen.

We knew Crookwell was known for spuds but had no idea that it was also known for socks which we found quite interesting, we will keep our eyes out in future. We visited the mural, collected the information required which has been sent off to the CO

Many thanks GLISS! for bringing us here and for the history of Crookwell.

What a nice little area.

Answer sent off to the CO.

On the way back from a big trip to the Mega at Dayboro on QLD with barb2e, Kittykatch and Joolay.

TFTC

A lovely mural in a peaceful place. Two words sent to CO early this afternoon.

A favourite point on this cache for all the wonderful GLISS puzzles and other caches found today. TFTC GLISS!

Nice to find a virtual cache. Answer has been sent.

Tftc GLISS!, some unusual artworks here. Took a stroll through the park . Thanks for the virtual.
Answer sent.

My mother suggested we visit Crookwell. "Do they have caches there?" (To get my interest in the trip. Not that I didn't want to go.) "Yes, they do," I answered. So today it was finding caches in Crookwell and a few on the way. This virtual cache was my first stop in Crookwell. The answer has been messaged.
I have visited this park before and on a previous visit, I left a Bookcrossing book on a carved bird sculpture. I include that picture here. It was sunny that day; unlike today.
TFTC GLISS!

What a fun place

Found today on day 2 of our road trip, today we went from Bathurst tp Canberra getting 40 finds along the way, had a very fun time!!! Dad is sending answers (lee737)

TFTC!i!i!i!i!i!

#4138
Driving the back-roads to Canberra today, we managed a mixed bag of 46, including 15 labs and 8 GA goodies. Great scenery and some historic locations down here, its worth the drive.
This was a nice leg stretch stop, with a hunt needed for the code words I'll say.... Oliver was chastised by some elderly ladies for chasing the ducks! TFTC!

Found with my Dad and big brother on our trip from Bathurst to Canberra today....

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Found while spending a couple of days in and around Goulburn with muggle parents.
This a nice spot with some interesting artworks and sculptures that I probably wouldn’t have come to if it wasn’t for geocaching.
Answer sent to the CO.
TFTC

Visited with C-chord on our way home to Canberra from Orange. Lovely spot with lots of frog noises. TFTV

We enjoyed an afternoon walking around Crookwell. Thanks GLISS! for this virtual. A nice location. We could hear reed warblers and frogs in the creek from here.

A nice bit of parkland beside a creek full of frogs.
Some nice sculptures scattered around.

TFTC GLISS!
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