Australian Animals Series #60 - Musk Duck Lade Vale, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN. on 30-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8DA3M

Reperio 06:10Up early again this morning for a full day of caching around the Yass and Goulburn area, and fortunately the rain that hung around all day yesterday had mostly passed by. While the ground was still pretty wet, most of the caches were found in good order. Another great day caching in the area.Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Found at 2:57:00 PMThanks DARKSIDEDAN

Accompanied with ALL7, enjoyed trip to Goulburn via Crookwell/Gunning for some caches, terrible weather raining offs ons on the ahead to Goulburn on the country road.. Good fun day, TFTC

Find#1950Found today on our first day caching around Goulburn. Me and Shaneo58 are down here to work on some challenge caches near home in the Hunter valley and trying to claim some unique DTs to fill our grid also. After arriving here we made a quick find at Gz. Cache and log in good condition TFTC

Found with deni_f TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Out caching today with friends. 4 of us having a fun time each trying to be the first to get a hold of the cache. We signed as team JARS to save log room. Joojoo57, Aussie Liahona, RichmondLad and Selva Girls. Many thanks to all the COs who hid the caches we found today for ensuring this was a great caching day while we were attending the MEGA. Cheers and happy caching!

The JARS team are out and about again today and hitting the roads from Sutton to Gundaroo and Dalton and finally Gunning. Great weather and many caches found. Thanks to all the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches for our enjoyment.

Out and about around Gundaroo, Dalton and Gunning. Travelled up and down country roads looking for the caches on our list to do. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Out caching with joojoo57, AussieLiahona and Richmond Lad. Logs have been signed as JARS. A quick find was made and the log signed. TFTC

A quick find this evening. Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

A trip to cache around the mid north coast of NSW via the southern tablelands. TFTC.Nice quick find at GZ.

With time to spare on the Yass area, we headed out to grab a few caches.We found a variety of hides, some easy, and many much harder.Signed and replaced as found.Many thanks for placing this cache, DARKSIDEDAN, for us and others to find.

Sydney to Adelaide Road TripDay One: Sydney to CanberraWeather: warm!!One of four Australian Animal caches logged as I make my way to Canberra via Gunning and Gundaroo for a change. Caching makes you do things like that.Thanks for the cache and the series DARKSIDEDAN.Its officially a mega.GCA1DNA The Great Leap ForwardAdelaide, South Australia, February 29, 2024.Wed love to have your company.

Quick stop on the way to Canberra. Easy find. TFTC

Easy safe park here. Quick find. Thanks for this Australian Animals series. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Thanks for the cache

Enjoyed a short trip interstate to pick up a dozen newer caches. Lovely location. Quick find. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Nice warm day to collect some straightforward caches. TFTC

A short trip out to the backroads northeast of Canberra collecting caches and maintaining them on the CO's behalf as needed. This cache was a quick find in an obvious location.

This cache and log were replaced with a bespoke new one we were carrying today; thanks, DSD!

TFTC smile 14981 out and about with miss millie geo dog Signed and replaced, all good ,to cold today to go walking

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

Yes I have seen this duck ,only once at Singleton quite a few years ago

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

This cache was checked today during a maintenance run through the area. The cache container and logbook have been replaced. I hope you all enjoy finding this cache. Favourite Points are always appreciated.

I can’t sign the log book . Log book to wet

The log book to wet

After the busy (and wet) summer had finished, The Rats floated the idea of a trip to the area around Canberra and Yass with Steeba and myself. We compared diaries, and had a two day mid-week window where we could make things happen, in the week wedged between Easter and ANZAC Day.

The weather was on our side for the first time in I forget how long, and we were able to make the most of our time opportunity.

A lot of excellent caches were found, and some fantastic terrain caches too. A few power trails, some crafty hides, some hard hides, and even some climbs that I could not do... even with our ladder!

Thank you to all of the cache owners for placing their hides. This boiler plate log does not reflect the quality of the hides. Most importantly thanks as always to my two great caching mates for their company!

Cheers

The Gong Gangsters (steeba, Hoojar and The Rats) took advantage of an extended Easter / Anzac break to head out for another caching juggernaut through the Southern Highlands and Yass regions. Blessed with beautiful weather we targeted a few powertrails and high D/T rated caches.

After 2 full days we'd collected a plethora of finds, made some new friends, laughed alot, pushed our bodies beyond the comfortable level and most of all - had a great time with mates. Thanks to all the CO's for your caches and those who tagged along.

The Rats, Hoojar and myself teamed up for an assault in and around the Yass area for a couple of days- a most enjoyable caching trip with my mates. Plenty of power trail type finds but a lot of great variety here and there, particularly around Yass itself. We started off on Wednesday night and finished up Friday afternoon. TFTC!

On a lone road trip from home to Canberra to pick up the missus, and as I was alone, I thought I’d try out this alternative route to Canberra that I’ve been wanting to try out for some time now. We often stop at Gunning on our Melbourne trips for a nice break and coffee at our now favourite cafe there, but to my dismay, the cafe wasn’t operating this morning due to a blackout. Never mind, there just happens to be a few caches between here and my destination, I’ll just have to pick up a few along the way.

Wasn’t long before I came across this prize. Log was quite damp but was able to write ok. Maybe could do with a snap lock bag when it dries out.

TFTC

Log saturated but able to sign. Container is good.
Decided to finally pick up the caches on the road to Gunning. Barb2e and hatched a plan to head out and find the ones we could.
Thanks For getting me out and about DARKSIDEDAN

Out for a drive to Gunning with Joolay to collect some caches on the local roads. Lots of water - log soaked. Tftc

#1776 On my way home from an outing in Gunning this was the first of my "return home" finds. Container found safe and well however logbook was drenched. Drained the container and added my name to the next available dry page. Thanks DSD for the lonely cache.

A quick find today. TFTC

#11939 - 8:44:00 AM; Out on a solo mission this morning to complete another calendar day challenge. No problems as I worked my way through another batch in this series. All caches were found and apart from a couple of larger containers showing signs of fatigue, all were in good order. A bit damp in a couple of spots and a few potholes in the road at the far end, but all up a successful run. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Another day, although it's the last one, along these particular back roads grabbing a few caches to add to the days total. No problems with any of them, no problems with any parking, and all caches were in good condition, minus one or cracked containers that haven't impacted on the log book.

Thanks DSD...first time along one of these and it made for a neat loop back to Gundaroo.

Today we visited a number of caches to the north of Murrumbateman. We enjoyed the areas through which we travelled but became frustrated with the number of caches that needed attention.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. This cache was in reasonable condition. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for this and the many caches you have placed in a wide area.

Went out cache placing with Black Bunny today, but we couldn't resist finding a few as well.
Thanks for this cache!

Out caching with Just a cacher and the dogs today. We found a few and placed a few of our Bushranger series.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this one!

We had a great time driving along and looking for as many as we could in this series. Not sure how many we found but will keep an eye out as we log them and then let you know on the last one we get to do. Not sure if we will have time for all of them but we are certainly going to learn a lot. Thank you for the work that you have gone to placing yet another series for us all to enjoy.

After a family catch up in Gunning stopped here for a quick find thanks.

Another easy find, thanks.

OTW to Christmas Eve lunch with the in-laws. This was a quick find with G and la_shee. TFTC

Thanks for creating an awesome power trail in beautiful countryside. TFTC

Had to be quick to not get wet.

A nice quick find on a drive to Gunning with Sophiescout and Courty1. TFTC

Found with Jemalong&family and Courty1 TFTC

TFTC, Found it!

First for the day. Log a little damp but useable.
TFTC

another one down, TFTC

#13551 @1015
Day 7 of a 7 day trip from Canberra to Bourke, to Narrabri, to Armidale and back to Canberra. The main goal (apart from having a break from working from home) is to collect counties, and see some of NSW I haven't been to before. Cache easily found. TFTC.

#6413 27th for today

The weather is not promising to be nice this week. So best to make the most of it before it set in. The plan was to grab the new Adventure Labs in Goulburn and Crookwell as well as any solved puzzles, virtuals etc. I was not too ambitious and it all went surprisingly well with only 2 DNFs. The weather, while not warm, held off for the most part. I think this is my 3rd visit to Crookwell and there's not much left to do after today. Most places were pretty quiet, being midweek, but still ran into a few locals.

Decided to grab as many of these on the way back home as I could before light and or rain made it too difficult.

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN

A day's outing with my mother and a picnic lunch. This cache and log were good. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Blustery out here today but the cache find was on target .
Thanks to DSD for the series .

Day out to the country to grab some caches what a great hide TFTC DSD

Day out in Gunning - Murumbateman. Found 60 odd caches. All quiet along the roads out here today. Signed and replaced. Thanks heaps for all the caches in the area.

Out for a Saturday drive. A nice quick find, thanks DSD.

Out to pick up some caches this morning. The day was lovely and the caching good.

Found all in good condition and without any issues. Tftc DSD!!!

An exciting early morning caching session out in the country. A little nippy, but the heat was on, find as many caches within the allotted time. With excellent eyes they came thick and fast, only the odd hide here and there testing hunting skills. By the time the whistle blew near on 30 smiles added. Apologies for the cut and paste, caches found in good condition unless otherwise noted. TNLNSL TFTC

Found during a day trip out to Gunning. A quick park and grab. TFTC.

Found it

I headed out after work to visit the Australian animal series caches between Gundaroo and Yass. It all went very smoothly, I even found the one I had missed back in February. It was almost dark when I finished and headed home for dinner.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

29071.10 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2006 Australia 2 A#22

**Albida**

Last one in this series for me today, as I’m heading north to Gunning then across to Yass. Thanx for the series DSD.

Found during our drive and walking tour of smaller towns around Canberra. Gunning today, and heading down to Yass River and beyond for more. TFTC

Interstate trip to Gunning today and the opportunity to collect some more of the Australian Animals Series. All caches were found in good condition except where mentioned otherwise.
TFTC and the series DSD

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

Found with O319 on our way to replace one of his caches. TFTC

Gotcha - Found easy enough. Tftc

Off on a cache maintenance run sjg66, picking a few new caches up that have been published since we last headed up this way. Thanks to the CO's for hiding them.

Found easily. TFTC

With a day off and the eagerness to get out for a cache or two, I headed out for a run along the back-roads and Hume-HWY between Yass and Gunning. I chose this route to collect caches that has popped up, to avenge DNF’s and to collect caches I missed last time, I did this run (back in 2016). I found a good mixture of caches both in sizes and types of hides. Most were quick finds and all caches were signed and replaced except for three DNF’s and one NA. Out of 45 attempted caches, which is a mixture of both GC and GCA, I ended up finding 41 of them. TB visit on all cache found. I would like to thank all CO’s of the caches I found and for allowing them to bring enjoyment to me and the rest of the caching community. TFTC’s and TFTTP’s

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DARKSIDEDAN.
Logging this late due to syncing issues due to no signal when on the road.

CUT AND PASTE SECTION
Streak day 69
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We are trying to get a badge from Project-GC for writing found log files of 100 words or more. Once we get this badge we will stop writing this. We are also trying to
get badges for adding photos to our found logs.
We Started caching in December 2019 and by January 2020 we were hooked. As we are on the road full time (living in a caravan), caching fits in well with this lifestyle.
It is taking us to places that we would normally not have gone.
When we move to a new place we also look at what caches are in the area and how many days we will need to be there to get the caches we want.

Nice series of caches, we saw a couple of Echidnas along the way today was stunning even took a video of one as he posed for us. Was real good trip - thank you.

While still based at Yass we meandered around different localities finding caches. Yours was one we targetted and found. Our thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache and adding to our enjoyment of the area.

We decided to FFLLNo 2’s “muggle sister” out for drive around the area and collected some caches as we toured around taking in the sights. The weather was great, sun shining and not much wind. An enjoyable day all round, lots of laughs, and almost converted her to take up the game.

We decided to head to this trail and make a start, with the exception of one container we found them all in good order. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the placements, we look forward to finishing this trail soon.

Today I decided that rather than sit at home under the aircon, I could go caching and recover each time I ventured out into the heat to recover in the car aircon. It worked beautifully and I had a great day grabbing caches around a loop that started in Canberra up the highway to a couple of caches in the Australian Animals Series, out to Gundaroo, Collector, Breadalbane and back to Murrumbateman via Gunning and Yass River Road.
I learnt to become selective as I had no desire to climb trees, slip over lips or spend too much time in the heat searching for caches that had a DNF as the last log.

Some of the caches were easily found, others not. Some were in great condition and others need new logs and others as indicated by previous loggers need some maintenance.

Many thanks to the COs for placing these caches which add to my, and our, caching experiences.

All logs were signed, but some depending on room available and how I felt at the time, were logged as SG.

Found it TFTC

Found whilst heading towards Gunning and Yass for a few caches. TFTC.

A quick find on a cold and windy day
Found on the first day of my long weekend of caching and driving country roads.
Thanks for the cache.

Another quick and easy find on a jaunt along the back roads.
TFTC.

Found at 3:59 PM GAFF1.
Hooray - we are now off the busy road, so we won't have to be as concerned with the traffic when slowing down to get to GZ.
Thanks DARKSIDEDAN

Mr Policeman sitting behind me for a while, wanting me to go a bit faster than I was - looked a bit askance as I turned off to retrieve this cache. Then, another vehicle pulled up straight across the road and was there for some time - not interested in our cache but collected something from beside the road. Wonder what that was?

A big day of caching with J+J.AU today. Starting in Mos Vale with a few quick aches just as light starts to appear. Then a long drive to and through Canberra to get to the part of the Murrumbidgy we were targeting today do finish of the vampire series. A lot of walking for some great d/t ratings and half of the time tracks were not really there! Of track is no problem however and enjoyed the day and perfect weather. Made such good progress that time was left to pick up a few more in the Australian animal series on the way home.
TFTC Wilbert67

Wilbert67 came out caching with us today. Huge effort was made. We decided to pick up these animal series as we’re headed home. TFTC DSD

While still camping this area with ilook4geo, we decided to look for some of the caches placed in honour of our native wildlife. Each creature was successfully found and two more lots of initials were noted in their visitors' books. Many thanks go to DARKSIDEDAN for creating and maintaining this extensive series. We hope to do more of these cachers at a later date.

We enjoyed doing some more of the Australian Animal series today with goingplaces2. Driving in the country is so much more pleasurable than in cities, so we enjoyed this tour. All caches were found, signed and hidden again. TFTC.

Found with Nissan 65. Another caching trip up from the south coast. Thanku for the cache

Found with cullum68 on a trip to queanbeyan thanks for the cache

Find # 5425
Found with sesblocker. We are camped in Yass until Saturday.
Great coordinates made for an easy find.
TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.
4 October 2019 1:02 pm

Passed these caches this morning on my way north, but it was raining, so deferred until my return journey this afternoon. All caches found quickly and all OK.

Thanks,

I help were present on the placing of these caches by DSD all the way.. thanks DSD

Nice afternoon drive with fitzy_1965 after a slow start this morning.

All caches found quickly and easily.

18,717. Found with minniek during a loop from Goulburn to Yass, Murrumbateman and home again this afternoon.

After a Sunday morning sleep-in we decided to head out for the afternoon grabbing some caches in our 'backyard'. We loved the drive around these country roads. This was the first find of the day, and it was a quick find at GZ. Dropped a TB.

Thanks DSD !!

Published

Chooo ooo [FTF] more later... Cache was in pieces and everything scattered! - Log book has been very wet, but was dry again. I have reassembled everything and returned it to base of tree... I like the Musk Duck at Tidbinbilla! Thanks DSD.