Birds of PMQ Blue Wren Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
By Tatt2squared on 31-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8BF5P

We are on a one week holiday road trip from Sydney to Brisbane to Sydney, with pre-booked accommodation at the Ingenia White Albatross Holiday Park in Nambucca Heads, the Big4 NRMA Treasure Island Holiday Resort on the Gold Coast, the Blue Dolphin Holiday Resort in Yamba, and the Big4 Leisure Tourist Park in Port Macquarie. Planning to collect some caches around our accommodation stays, and also stop-off for some targeted caches along the M1 Pacific Motorway route. Photos will be uploaded to logs after our return to home base.Today we are leaving Port Macquarie and heading back home, with our week long road trip now at an end, but we still managed to collect some caches and Adventure Labs along the road out to Settlement Point before bidding farewell to Port and heading southward on the M1 Pacific Motorway. Stopped for a couple of roadside caches along the motorway route, at Johns River and Nerong, which served as handy rest breaks. This was the 5th of 10 finds for the day (day , and 92nd find of the holiday.This one was next, as we drove back along Settlement Point Road, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. Cute little birdy. TFTC Tatt2squared.Find #7250

Very cute!!

Up from Sydney for casual geocaching in the Mid North Coast and staying a few days in Port Macquarie. We are about to give up on finding this little blue wren when Mrs Gaztek spotted it tucked away in the foliage. Very cute container. SL TFTC Cheers Gaztek

Pulled up near GZ to find a trailer and a large ride-on mower on the grass. With no one in sight, I walked to GZ to begin my search. Within a few minutes, Mr Mower Man turned up driving an even bigger ride-on and began mowing the nearby grass. He then turned and was heading for me to I decided to give this one away. I'll be back in PM at some point to try again.

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

Cute decoration! TFTC

Had a friendly magpie walk with us to GZ! Not the bird we were looking for though. Found the intended target and said goodbye to our new friend as it warbled farewell!

Much quicker to find than the previous cache. Thanks for another bird and cache.

We were on a ride around some caches. Getting to this was like The Case of the Disappearing Path. How much nicer is a cache when its part of something that fits its surroundings. TFTC Tatt2squared.

Found it but its a little difficult to open so couldnt sign the paper

Luckily I was with GBN who had found this previously. I think it would have taken me ages without his help.

Find # 9583Nice quick find.Cute cache!Push-bike is still here.TFTC Tatt2squared 21 September 2023 16:50

Found on an early Monday morning, I had to push into the small tree to access it, seems there is a free bike at GZ for the next finder, thanks

TFTC with red_ear_slider

Logs are dry and cache is good
TFTC

Found it bye braxyp

Original log found on the ground was a little wet. Signed and popped back in

Found with Rach21 TFTC

Log was missing from this one so I just added a spare piece of paper from the car. TFTC

Nice one school holidays find.

We are staying down the coast to avoid the coldest of the winter weather in Victoria.

In Port, grabbing a few around this lovely area, where it isn't too busy with the holiday makers.

The cute container was found after a short search, once at GZ.

Thanks Tatt2squared for placing this cache and doing the maintenance, so we can enjoy finding it.

Unlike the nearby rainbow lorikeet, the blue wren is both an attractive and interesting bird and not socially offensive. TFTC Tatt2squared. Found 18/6/2023 10:13 am. Cache 2004 for us.
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Found and logged using the Cachly app for iPhone.

Found with cullum68 on a day out and about caching thanks for the cache

Found with nissan65 on a day's caching . Thankyou for placing these caches for our enjoyment

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It was actually the PMQ tourist guide "discover" that had quite a bearing on our caching fun this afternoon.
Another quick find as we made our way around town.

Thanks to Tatt2squared for adding this well themed cache to the gameboard.
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Quick find after a change of plans for the day. Peaceful spot and nice container. It’s always a great day for caching.
TFTC Tatt2squared

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Spending the day in Port Macquarie before making our way back home to Qld. Found during our travels around doing an Adventure Lab.

Thanks Tatt2squared for the good cache placement.

TFTC smile 15829 out and about with miss millie geo dog on a lovely day Signed and replaced, sign as GS1947 on small caches

Thank you, Tatt2squared, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

A lovely day at Port Macquarie, so what to do in the afternoon? Go Geocaching of course.
We hadn’t been to this area before, so its virgin territory for us.
The coordinates for this cache were spot on and so a short search found us with CIH.
TFTC.

Tftc. Took us a while but stick with it and it's there. Thanks

DNF today. Had a good look around the bushes but the wind picked up and made us seek shelter.

Nice peaceful spot even had some birds tweeting in the background, very appropriate, not quite sure what birds they were though but it sounded good
Thanks for maintaining the cache

End of the long walk for me and glad I found this little cutie after not seeing the previous one. Will take another look soon. TFTC

Tftc

Nice little guardian as described, tftc!!

Found it just before the rain came in

Easy find! TFTC

Nice hide tftc

Had a blast in the bushes looking for this one nearly pushed me to the point off jumping the fence but found it being protected by a little friend

Quick easy find
Love the cache

Took us too long to find

Quick find. TfTC. Cute!

With a week's leave from work left, no caches near to home to find...can't go south because of the plague...so a trip north to get some caches. Staying in PM for a few nights, visiting from Maitland.
Nice easy find, thanks to accurate coordinates. One of my favourite little Aussie birds. TFTC

Another lovely Australian bird, thanks for the hide

Found 1:25 pm with fiancé. Need new log. Cute. Spotted a bit before thinking to give up because of weather too.
We are staying down at Flynns Beach at “Flynns on Surf” went out exploring the region today. I have too of course find some caches.
Signed the log and returned to its hiding spot.
Thanks for the cache.

Nice little hide.


Night Geocaching with JJPilly In port.

Thanks for the Cache.

Night geocaching with Ronnie,

Fun cache, well hidden tftc.

Very clever!

Another quick find while in the area on my free day in PM. Took a bit of wrangling the nature here but finally spotted its hiding spot. TFTC

Tftc from Adelaide cacher

Quiet little spot for the wren here. TFTC.

Dayboro trip. Day 3. I was supposed to be in Port Macquarie, but could not because of the floods affecting the van parks. This did not stop me driving down from Waughope for a day around town caching. Plenty of evidence of the devastating floods, I think only one of my DNFs would have been caused by the floods. I was looking for a puzzle cache today, it took three trys, the first failed due to my ladder being too short. After a full day I did some shopping and then found time for logging after dinner in Waughope.

My GPS said I was in a lake, but there was a cache to be found and it was hiding in the scrub, and this time I saw it OK.

Thanks.

31540.13 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & June 2019 Azeban the Trickster A#401

**Albida**

Found it on a sunny Sunday while staying in the area with evangt. A quick find thanks to the hint. TFTC

As per Footy Fanatics log. TFTC.

Nice container. Thanks.

Tftc found with earthly 65

Beautiful lil cache...fave point

found! thank you

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The whole family was on bikes this afternoon chasing the local birdlife amongst other things, and took an enjoyable bike ride all the way out to Settlement Point, a great way to spend an hour or two.
No problems here - he blended in amongst the blue flowers, but Oliver spotted him pretty quickly.... TFTC!

Found with my Mum and Dad and brother on a bike ride today....

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Found today on a small cache ride, had a fun time finding this cache and a couple of others!

TFTC Tatt2squared

Took a bit of squeezing through the Bushes to grab this cache
TFTC tatt2squarred

Hi there Tatt2squared.

We found your cache **"Birds of PMQ – Blue Wren"** today.

We're staying in Port Macquarie catching up with friends before we resume our nomadic journey further north. We had a semi profitable day finding 1 & DNFing 2

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found your cache where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing
**Left:** Nothing

Thank you for adding to our adventure.

Regards

Ian & Penny

Great thank you. "Cute" fits this well

Our first little birdie find
Tftc

Way too easy

Couldn't find...

Having a week in the area put.for a walk.on a wet day. tftcTFTC.

Out for a bit of a wander this morning and decided this string of bird caches would be a good way to earn something for my exertions. Managed three of the four ... it seems that I either spot this sort of hide straight away or not at all.

Thanks for a nicely themed series Tatt2squared.

TFTC

Very cute

I was out for a walk with the geodog after staying round the corner for the night. Nice and fresh this morning but so clear and few folk around which made looking easier. This one was found fairly quickly, the container making me smile. Dropped the log sheet in the dirt so that was a minor drama, dog was bored by then so trying to pull to move on, all of which combined to make this an easy find but not an easy cache.

Took a little bit of looking was about to call it a Did Not Find but just spotted it. Took Nothing Left nothing sl

Cute, what more needs saying oh that's right a fav point for the effort by CO. tftc tnls sl

Took a step book and my cousin saw the tiniest glint of blue! Thanks for the cache!

Bloody hell the plovers are friendly! TNLN TFTC

Hidden in plain sight! Loved it!!! Although can’t take the credit my geo mum managed to get this sneaky one!

Very cute

Found on a fine cool Winter day for a drive around at Port Macquarie.
A few good safe hides and lots of muggles around today.
Cache condition is OK/good.
Thanks for the cache Tatt2squared,
***Roostaman***

Found on 130620 with geo son Aiden04 and geo daughter on visit to Port Macquarie

Very pretty

Found with GeoIan. TFTC

Approaching this one, two Plovers with 3 younguns were just near the path. We have a couple of these resident at home, and know exactly what they are like with eggs, or young around. Glad the cache was just before them, and we then had to back track to the road. Quick find. TFTC 4/5

Well back on the trail again!!!! Time to get started ... Located Mr Wren , signed the log and off to try for one of his mates down the road.. Thanks Tatt2squared

Now that the restrictions have eased around the state, time to go caching again. Stay safe everyone... remember to enjoy the little things.

Disabling until socially acceptable to continue with caching. Stay home everyone, stay safe.

Fantastic cache thankyou for the cache the Ewoks

After completing the Adventure Lab, came to do this little series with Liz & Bruce and Wazza9, loved the birds, Bruce quickly found this one, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to Tatt2squared

Staying in the area with Di Morgan for the Aussie Day event. out and about with Grubb Fred collecting a few of the cahes around the area. STILL MANY TO GO.

TFTC Tatt2squared
Total Cache Finds 8750

Find No: 7989. Visiting from Newcastle, staying at Bill & DiMorgan's for their Australia Day event, found with Snakepitters, thanks for the cache Tatt2squared!!

A very nice series fav.point alloc. Thanks

Got it Bruce called out before the rest of us got there.

Fave point awarded for the series. Simple, yet beautiful. Tftc.

Found the little blue bird

What a great little series of caches for us to finish the year off. Ms Blue Wren was found in great condition and with excellent coords. We parked the geomobile not far away on the nature strip in the only shade available.
Dunno why I thought this was a Ms, she just looked like one.

Awesome lil cache. Found in bush witn Alby

Pit stop on a long drive. TFTC

#8164 10:00
Not deterred by the bush fires, we decided to spend a few days at Port Macquarie. Off course a great opportunity to do some caching.
Driving to Settlement Point we picked up a few caches. This was a fun hide!
TFTC.

It was so cute and fun TFTC