GBR Marilba Bookham, New South Wales, Australia
By Pacmania on 06-Jun-19. Waypoint GC8974E

On the way back from Gippsland Victoria, and Wagga, I had some time to kill. After finding a few caches at conroys gap this cache was in the area. Tall grass to get to cache, but hint helped. Tftc

Excellent coordinates and description. TFTC.

On my way to Sydney from Wodonga thought I would break the trip up a little bit with some caching. This one was quick find, by following the tracks through the grass. GPS was slightly out telling me I was still 13 m away when I found the cache.TFTC

Found on a trip from Wagga to Canberra to keep my daily streak intact. TFTC

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

Accompanied with ALL7, great enjoyed trip to YASS and catch up some caches on the country..Great fun today, TFTC

Heading from Albury to Canberra for the mega, I picked just a few caches along the way to break my journey..I then met up with some other cahers to do a few more before heading to the mega site. This was a nice and quick find.Thanks to Pacmania for the cache.

An easy find TFTC

Afternoon out in Yass area. Got about 50 caches. Signed and replaced. Thanks for the caches to find in the area.

Easy enough find but with the long grass and hide colour I had to look a few times before spotting it.

#4272 With an offer from minniek to join her to take on the Gold series how could I resist. Although I had already found some during visits to Burrinjuck, it was just a nice day to get out of town for a while.On our way home MK was kind enough to stop by here to allow me to find a trad for the day. Checked a few spots matching the hint before returning to the first one and spotting the hide. Note to self: Look harder next time. Thanks Pacmania for this series. Its been a while since I found one of them.

Another lovely sunny day. Started in Jugiong and traveled to the ACT.
Collected a pile of birds and a few challenges before lunch in Yass.

Interesting information and photo on the page.
A nice spot off the main highway for a cache.
Thanks, Robmc.

En route Melbourne to Brisbane. Quick stop , Grant viee Thanks for that I

Grub62 and I were just passing by and thought that a cache was a good idea to break our journey. We got to see lots of sheep in the shade due to the weather. Thanks for the break and TFTC.

Bunadoorian and I stopped here to break the drive. Bunadoorian found this cache first. lovely farming area here. TFTC and showing us a lovely country road back to the highway - Pacmania.

An early 5.45am start for an 8.00am rendezvous at the Burrinjuck Dam boat ramp for a day's caching in and around Burrinjuck. Arrived right on time, a little trouble making way through the boomgate, but all good in the end. Unpacked our yaks, a most convenient parking spot right at the water's edge. Interesting to see how SA and SC's portables would go, damfangled origami. Most presently surprised in the end how well they actually performed.

Paddling in perfect conditions across to Cave Island, the hardest thing was making land. 'Caveisland Cache' (GCA2QAD) quickly found and signed, and after a little exploration we continued onwards across the way to our next destination.

A number of motor boars/skiers zooming about now, but super impressed with their behaviour and willingness to give us a wiiiiiiiiide birth.

Made good time, the sun warming up the day, and the pleasant conversation continuing. Before we knew it we reached the dam edge and were climbing up the short rocky slope. Quickly found the right area and 'The Magazine' (GCA2MJN), the log also promptly signed and replaced. Investigated within the man made cave, almost dying of indigestion. Damn delicious peanut butter sandwich, ate it way too quickly.

Back into the yaks and the 2.5km or so paddle back to our starting point. Took about 2 hours return for the journey, a fantastic trip with good friends. Once back we packed up our gear and made plans to continue on to the remainder of caches in the area. Paid our entry fees for the day ($15.00) off we went.

Skirted the dam edge, picking up caches here and there. None presented any issues, the scenery colourful with blooming trees, bushes and algae. One cache was discovered on private land, a quick, pleasant chat with the land owner had us remove the cache at their request. Once we had reached the dam gates, unfortunately you could go no further, a real shame as the views would have been awesome.

Goodbyes were now offered as the return trip was to be taken individually, a good number of challenge caches no doubt the task ahead (it was for me), mixed in with a few others types inbetween. Continued back to the highway, a quick detour on the way. A disappointment at 'Challenge Cache Series - Elevation' (GC8ZQDE), not for the first time, my TOTT just not high enough. Hopefully one day third time lucky.

One or two more on an extremely busy end of holiday highway before Yass, the final cache 'AHH #9' (GC9Z94N) interrupted with a quick sighting of a healthy back snake just inside the long grass edge. It bolted off somewhere and I moved on another 25 metres or so, before then continuing into the long grass. No more reptile interactions were had, and the cache was eventually found 16 metres out.

Back home around 5.30pm, unloaded the gear and had a well deserved icy cold beer!

A fantastic day overall, most enjoyed my first time to Burrinjuck. Thanks of course to mountainsbeyond, StarsAlign and SocialCacher for making the day the day it was.

TNLNSL TFTC

Due to the recent rain I imagine, the grass was nearly head high( I'm 5ft. Or 153cm).
So we walked up further took the gate and tacked from the other side. Cache found in no time, waterproof log, dried out, stamped and returned. All in a days drive from Wagga to Sydney. Such beautiful country. TFTC

Found with Geoian. Log was a bit wet. TFTC

Visiting Yass on the labour day weekend. Sunday afternoon, and we have finished what we could on Black Range Rd, and now making our way back to Yass. Got here about 14:10. Found log to be wet. TFTC

Another work trip to Young. Another drive home with some cache diversions.

Cheers

Quick find with sjg66, TFTC

Out and about with O319 for a day of caching. TFTC

After having a walk and coffee with my Walking Group, I pondered on how to spend the rest of this beautiful sunny day. I love driving in the country so decided that was the way to go. I knew geofriends had recently found caches around Jugiong so I researched that area. Even though we often travel that way it is usually with the van in tow which understandably discourages Pa from caching along the way. Why not I thought? So after loading up Monty, my GPSr, I headed off.

Having found and signed as many caches as possible down the Old Hume Highway and in Jugiong it was time to return north to home. This is the first of 2 caches that I found on my return journey. Luckily there was a geotrail that led me straight to the cache which I signed and returned. TFTC Pacmania.

My final cache of the day! After picking up some new Sui caches a bit further down the highway, and also helping place a couple, it was time to head back to Yass and then Canberra. This cache has been taunting me for several years now and I decided it was about time I stopped for it!

Struggled to find it at first, checked the exact location very first but it was being covered by a tuff of grass. So then I unnecessarily made it a lot harder than it should of been and checked other spots nearby.

Eventually returned to the first location and kicked the grass a bit and there it was! Doh!

TFTC Pacmania

Quick detour off the hwy. found en route from Melbourne to Sydney. Tftc Pacmaniaj

Found. Log still very wet. Tried to dry whilst signing. Thanks for the history of the area & the cache.

Find number 6080

Found while travelling home from the Wangaratta Mega Event quick find.

Thanks Pacmania for placing this cache GC8974E

Thanks for the cache, found with legocacher79.

Very nice view of the hills.

Found today with Eldritch97 on the way to Canberra. A good reason to take a break, stretch the legs and find a geocache. TFTC.

Out caching today with Joolay and Barb today on a drive out to Yass. Log was wet but ok to write in.

Thanks for hiding this cache Pacmania

Taking a day to drive to Yass, Bookham and surrounds with Joolay and Kittykatch. Log is wet. Tftc

Log wet but could sign with my space pen. Quick find though.
Thanks For getting me out and about Pacmania

A neglected area nowadays, I eventually found it as per the hint, thanks

Out doing more of the Birds and Challenge caches today. We also collected this cache. TFTC Pacmania

While camping at Bowning we went out to complete some of the challenge caches,
On the way home we stopped to find this cache.
Thanks for placing this cache Pacmania

Found on the way home from Gundagai, TFTC.

Parked on the highway as we had the van. Found during a trip out with the family when we could travel.

Finalf29 and I are still wandering home... no really we are... just taking lots of sidetracks... well we have to go where the caches are... so maybe home tomorrow?

Loved the old road along here. What happened to that tree??? Thanks

The long grass slowed our search but we located the cache after a minute or so. The cache and contents were in good condition. ThanksPacmania for the cache.

#5852.
We were on our way to Tahmoor to visit some friends for the weekend. We allowed some extra time for a couple of caches along the way. It was freezing getting out of the car, but it had to be done - for the sake of Geocaching .

I managed to find a route that wasn't too overgrown to get to gz. Cache was quickly found and in good condition. Thanks for placing one here and sharing the historical story.

Been to Dayboro from Cairns to attend the Mega, quick trip to Sth. Australia now turned tail and heading slowly back up north. 14 May 2021 1:50 pm Tyfc Pacmania total caches now 2119

We’re grabbing the caches and challenge caches on this road with Wilbert67.
Great weather and a healthy amount of exercise.
TFTC

A long day of caching in and around Yass. Cache challenge as main goal, but also the newer caches in town after clearing the area a few years ago.
TFTC Wilbert67

An amazing landscape good find

Tftc. Out caching with Jaybeem and Giggles and found this series of caches. As I was driving, I wasn’t logging as I went. Log signed JBM/TLM to save space.

Tftc! A top location

We sent the men folk in to the long grass to locate the cache. Tftc

We could just make out the outline raised area where the platform used to be. Making our way from Victoria to Narooma for Easter adventures. SL at 9am #7824 TFTC Pacmania

16:03
The second day of our caching expedition in NSW, meeting up with fellow cachers from the south and west in Murrumbateman to continue our adventures together.
Interesting history lesson and a nice quick find.

Thanks Pacmania for placing caches on the gameboard, which players enjoy finding.
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Picked up a few caches around Yass, while waiting for 5 other teams to join us
for a couple of days caching around Canberra.
A great variety of caches were found, and also some lab caches.
Thanks to all the CO's for a entertaining day. All caches found quickly and in good condition.
Many thanks for placing this cache, Pacmania, for us and others to find.

Can't say I've noticed this turn off before, but found it today on the way home from Cobram. Cache was found ok and it was back to the car and the air-con.

Thanks for another one Pacmania....

Ok... one more sneaky one on the way home lol

GLISS! was itching to grab some earth caches, I needed an oldie for my Jasmer and we were both in the mood of a country drive, so headed out to clean up this trail a little. Such a lovely (and highly successful) adventure! Thanks for the cache.

I was on a mission today with Nibletricecakes to collect 2 earthcaches (doubling my total number of earthcaches this year) and pick up an oldie. I do love a rail trail. Thanks for the very interesting research. This as a quick find and the last one for the day. TFTC Pacmania.

Found at 11:30 AM GAFF1.
Odd that the grass around here was flattened out? Maybe a herd of cattle rested here - sure smelt like it!
Another odd thing - how does water get into those bison tubes?
Thanks Pacmania.

Floating around while the others use their amazing skills to find the cache, well, not much help was needed, *ThrosbyOC* had things well under control. Log signed and replaced and the scene evacuated OCW *Throsbyonchurch* and *DustyJasperJet*. TFTC Pacmania! Your efforts in placing and maintaining this cache is much appreciated.

Found along with another smiley ??? ??? too. Thanks for the placement of ***GBR Marilba***, *Pacmania*.
DustyJaperJet

Found -- 12:11 pm -- Thanks for the hunt and bringing us to this location *Pacmania*.

**Cache Condition:** Good.

**The Cache**
I was supposed to have this cache found yesterday but we left late, so now I have to target it today. The grass is long here and had me on high alert for wrigglers. Took some time to find but fortunately not too long. Nice outlook over the field. We signed the log in either our names or our initials in some switcheroo form of LP, DJJ, ToC and then returned cache to its hide'y hole exactly as found. Taking this little road up to the next cache hide.

**The Day**
OCW *Little Panther* and *DustyJapserJet*. Cruised down to Binalong to undertake some cache maintenance between here and Wyangala, plus a short few days camping. Want to stay longer but we have a three day Scout hike commitment. On our way to Yass for food and to complete some caches down the freeway that I was intending to target yesterday.

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***Please don't be hasty - zip and wrap the bags - money, time and effort that has gone into them.***

Now that I had finished the Threatened Species Trail I now knew what I needed to get my target for the day (or so I thought). First goal was 100 and if I could 120 was the next (for Project-GC award). I had accommodation booked in Yass but in the end I went to Binalong and Galong to get a good start before heading into town just on dark.

This was the first one where I ducked off the freeway. Another where I waded through the long grass but the cache was quickly found. Log was damp but OK to sign
TFTC Pacmania

Another quick detour off the Hwy while heading home to Canberra from Albury.

Co-ords were right on. Easy find.

TFTC

Found it

Just managed to slow down enough to make the turn onto this road, then followed the geotrail to GZ where a quick find was made. TFTC Pacmania

Just a few more caches were on the list for the day with ilook4geo. There was no problem in finding this one and both names were soon added to the log to note our find. Thanks go to Pacmania for placing and maintaining this cache.

Just out for a few easy caches for the day and were pleased to be able to find this one quickly. Log was signed, job was done. TFTC.

TFTC. Find number 1000 for me!

Thanks Pacmania for this cache. Great to see the grass green again after the long summer.
Signed log. Just suited to geobunny's stature.

Found on a warm Autumn day for a drive around the area.
Mostly nice quick finds and generally good safe hides out here.
Cache condition is OK/good.
Thanks for the cache Pacmania,
***Roostaman***

On our way back from Victoria and a cache was a nice break in the journey, especially a Pacmania cache which always comes with an interesting history! Thanks Pacmania.

Found with Goldenwattle. TFTC.

Spotted on approach. Cache and log are good. Nice little, scenic side road to drive. TFTC Pacmania.

Found it with sevabo. TFTH

Lovely day for the geocaching trip and found it easily. Thanks for leading us here

Out doing some caching while based in Yass. Nice one thanks for hiding this cache.

02/02/2020 Souvenir Day Trip!
Umm… what area can I attack this time because I’m very quickly running out of caches to find. After taking a look at the map, I decided on finding the caches between Gundagai and Yass along the Hume HWY. Yes, HWY driving can be quite boring but when the trip is broken up to find caches it makes it a lot more FUN. I also needed five finds for the GCA 2020 February challenge. A few history lessons, unique locations and many different types of hides made the day very enjoyable. The GCA moveable caches I found today have been moved to the above coordinates ready for the next finder. I ended up with 16 finds for the day which is made up of 10 GC and 6 GCA finds. TB visit on all caches. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I found and for allowing them to bring joy to me and the rest of the caching community. TFTC’s

TFTC the kids were intrigued by the deceased headless kangaroo under the tree. Which then started a conversation about the circle of life.

Easy find. TFTC

Adelaide Trip Day 14. I finished my trip from Adelaide to Canberra today, traveling from Balranald via Hay, Narrandera and Wagga. It was a pretty hot day and the smoke haze began at Hay, far further west than I was expecting. There were three roadside stops on the last leg home.

Thanks.

27824.157 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Extincor Draconis A#251

**Albida**

Trip out for the day stop here and found and log TFTC pacmaina

We teamed up with Rapidlywild and headed down from Canberra for another Geocaching Victoria Mega. We arrived at our accommodation in Bendigo on Friday afternoon / evening and checked out a few caches in the area before retiring for the evening. On Saturday morning, we had a pleasant drive across to St Arnaud, arriving at the event as the opening ceremony was wrapping up, and the lab caches were released, so we joined the frenzy with the masses solving the cleverly constructed lab caches.

Monday, day three of our mega weekend and after checking out of our accommodation we cached around Bendigo picking a few solved puzzles, an EC, virtual and some challenge caches and random ones alone the way while heading on our long trek home. One of the team had to work the next day so didn’t want a late one.

This was the last one for our mega weekend. Quick find in the dark and back on the road again.

TFTC Pacmania and thanks for the fun weekend adventure Rapidlywild

It's that time of the year again, Victorian Mega time, so its off to St Arnaud for myself and the ladies of FurfacesLL. A long road trip ahead, heading off Friday morning and getting home late Monday night and a fun filled weekend. We found many caches of all kinds of variety.. Trads, Multis, Puzzles, EC's, Virtuals, Letterboxes, Wherigos, Events, Cito's and of course, the Mega itself. We enjoyed the weekend and there sure are some unique caches here in St Arnaud, we still have plenty left to collect, so may need to coordinate another trip this way some time.

Home day today, but we had to get some caches before hand of course After checking out of our accommodation, we picked up a few caches in Bendigo, some challenge caches north of Bendigo, a some random caches along the way home. We had to restrict our caching otherwise we would have never made it back to Canberra.

Last cache for this adventure, it was well and truely dark by now and we were all looking forward to getting home. No issues locating the cache surprisingly since we were all tired.

Thanks for the hide Pacmania And thanks to the FFLL ladies for another amazing trip away

Little detour for a couple of caches after some driving for a bit. After being in Victoria for the weekend for the mega at St Arnaud we are aiming to get home (to Sydney) today.
Good spot here, thanks to the hunt otherwise we wouldn’t have found it as we were assuming a different type of hide for the location!

Cool spot thanks.

Stopped in to have a rest from a long drive on the way down to do a few days hiking in the mountains. Cache and logbook were in great condition. Signed Darksidedan.

Fitzy_1965 and I decided to go for a 'short' drive in the country today.....380km's later we were home with around 20 caches each.

All caches were found quickly and easily. I've never been down to the dam before so found it a fascinating series and wonderful scenery along the way.

19,227. Found during a country meander this afternoon with minniek.

Heading home after a great day's caching, and as we were nowgoing in the right direction we dropped into here for this cache. Quick find at GZ.

Thanks Pacmania !! Awesome series !

#9645 - 5:54:00 PM; After a few days in Melbourne with the geohoney, we were getting close to home again when we stopped off to grab this cache. Missed the turn, so parked beside the busy highway and took the short stroll to GZ for a quick find and sign. TFTC Pacmania

Find # 5368
Found with sesblocker. We are camped in Yass until Saturday.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC Pacmania
2 October 2019 3:57 pm

#11845 @1725
On my way home to Canberra after the first event of the Oceania Orienteering champs in Wagga Wagga, I stopped for a few caches. Cache soon found. TFTC.

How pretty. Thanks.

A caching trip with Marmaduke Rothschild out along the Hume Highway to Burrinjuck Dam. A cache in Yass and a couple of Aussie Animals. 27 caches for me. TFTC.

A caching drive with johnnBoyACT out to Burrinjuck Dam for a few caches and return. TFTC.

Quick drive by thanks

8798 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 0915. On our way back to The Rock. Checked access on our way past yesterday. Thank goodness there is a crossover between the right and left roadways. It is great to learn this history. Sad there isn't any structures left except for where the track ran and some concrete pads. SL Tnx Pacmania

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one of the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH Pacmania [^]

With an hour or so to spare this afternoon, I decided to come out and pick up the last two caches in this series (I ran out of daylight while doing the others in the series, having started at the Burrinjuck end).
Like the rest of the series, this was a nice easy find, located on a quiet back road. Rather than get straight back onto the highway, I followed the back road through some nice countryside for a couple of km before rejoining the hectic throng of trucks and caravans.
TFTC, Pacmania

Nice little area off the highway

I'd seen these caches come out, but was in no position to collect them at the time. So I decided to leave them for a rainy day! Today was the day! Not only was it rainy, but also, this series of caches down to Burrinjuck contained fingerprints, footprints and shadows I required for my Mystery at the Museum: Evidence collected souvenir! There weren't any caches in Canberra I could readily get, so I came on a mini roadtrip today. I managed to score the souvenir and also a couple of gems thrown in! Also the history highlighted by this series of caches was very interesting! Thanks for the cache Pacmania!

**Found on our way to the Oz Geomuster 2019 - The Gong!**.

Out caching with The Empire
Grabbing a few caches along the way to break up the drive and give the ol' legs a stretch
Thanks for the cache Pacmania. Appreciate your efforts.
- P

*Took*: Nothing
*Left*: Nothing
# **14384**

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
On our way to the Oz Geomuster 2019 - The Gong! We left early on Friday morning, traveling along the Hume all the way to Wollongong. We found a few caches, here and there, along the trip to break up the drive. Thanks for the cache Pacmania.
- M

Heading over to Oz Geomuster grabbing caches along the way. TFTC

Travelling to the Mega event at Wollongong, I spent the night at Gundagai, then picked up this cache as I continued my journey. Tftc.