Dragonstone #45 Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia
By ALL7 on 15-Jun-20. Waypoint GC8V2AP

Short Trip Away Day #3 [25/11] of 3Day three of my holidays (and day #3 of 3 for my trip away) saw me leaving the motel early to start the day. I started by heading over to Fyshwick for a couple of caches over there. For nice easy-ish ones. Three in the Fyshwick Forrest and one over in the park next to Maryborough St. After finding those ones, I headed over to Belconnen to find a couple of others and then onto the Mall for lunch. While at the Mall, I also did a game of 10 pin bowling because why not? I got a score of 120. Once I finished up in the Mall, I started making my way home. I found the next lot of power trail caches along Dog Trap Rd. I have decided on doing these caches section by section given, I drive past/through here so much. From there, I headed home while finding one more in Binalong before getting home. It was a great weekend away and I quite enjoyed catching up with everyone. TB visit. Some caches were signed as JM. A big thanks to the CO for adding this cache to game for the Geocaching community to enjoy. TFTCs!

Found it: 30/03/2024Sorry for falling behind with logs. Ive been busy catching up with family and also been unwell. I havent completed logs from events - QOBM, Leap Day and Canberra Mega, so am catching up now. Thank you for the cache and hunt.

Nice location for lunch. TFTC

Beautiful day to be out and about. Unexpectedly we ended up out this way so we decided to pick up a cache or two along the way. Quick find. TFTC ALL7.

A straightforward find in the obvious spot here today.Thanks, ALL7!

I found a container at GZ, with only one signature in the log for the WA Deaf Cachers group , appears to be a throw down and not the original, which may or may not still be there - I didnt look too hard! Thanks for bringing me here ALL7

Out caching today with friends. 3 of us having a fun time each trying to be the first to get a hold of the cache. We signed as team JAR to save log room. Joojoo57, Aussie Liahona and RichmondLad. 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!

More big days of caching as WAC consisting of Lachlan1.77, Leg5, neva2old, Barnzy12 and me. So many caches, so little time. Too many tree climbs for my liking but Im a chicken from way back. Thanks to other cachers for helping supply some of the required tools for the higher terrain caches. Thanks to you (and DARKSIDEDAN) for supplying the bulk of the hides Im finding.

Out and about again, headed around Canberra for the MEGA. Super excited my first MEGA and heading over with 2 others from the Cockburn Crew - signed log as WAC to save time.This is 14700, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to ALL7 for the caches we found.********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********Head over to Australian Capital Territory for Capital GeoBash MEGA - Canberras first ever Mega Event. Easter 2024 (GC9PNFB): - 5 day event at Canberra Park adjacent to EPIC (Canberra Showgrounds) on the Federal Highway, only 6km from the centre of the city.The mascot for the Mega is Gangles the endemic Gang Gang Cockatoo, a bird you may see or hear while in Canberra.The official website - geobash.ozmega.com.auACT has over 4700 active caches, power trails, and over 100 Lab Adventures. Heaps of challenge caches, hikes for geocaches for all levels of skills and fitness.

Found it with WACDGNice walk Ponies kangaroos thank you ????

Got it with WACDG ????

Over here for Capital GeoBash Mega. One of many hidden caches all over the city and surrounds on Mega Day itself. Part of deaf geocachers and friends - WACDG, TFTC

Another massive day with the WA Crew signing WAC. If we arent up trees, we are wading through water or hiking mountains. We are grateful for locals who have shared their TOTT with us. Since we all flew to get to Canberra, it wasnt possible to bring the tools necessary for the high terrain caches. For some of the day we cached with an awesome group signing DG as deaf group; truly a generous and welcoming group. Thanks for your contribution in hiding this cache to make our experience as amazing as its been so far. Please forgive us if the dates are incorrect; we are catching up online logging whenever we find time.

Since I'm in Canberra for Mega, I've enjoyed seeing many places as well as the warm weather.Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache ALL7.

Found with a group and signed as WACDG during Mega event. ALL7, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Not sure if what I found was actually the cashe but I found somthing haha

Found whilst out caching with fitzy_1965.

Took the long way home for a few to fulfil a challenge of ours.

All caches found quickly and easily unless otherwise mentioned.

31,929. Found with minniek on the way home this afternoon - the scenic route yet again.

Needing a few caches today, we took the well worn road up here for a couple of caches including a LBH which I specifically wanted. This first cache has been on our radar for a while, and seeing that it was found recently it seemed doable today. The track is still wet in places - glad for that section of duckboard near the water crossing - but we managed without any problems. A quick find at GZ. Stamped the log, replaced the cache as found, then headed back and on to the next cache.

Thanks ALL7 !!

Made my way down the still wet trail to GZ where the cache was soon to hand and the log signed. TFTC ALL7

Still a bit boggy, and long grass on the track (must not get much use), but got there in the end and found the cache. Thanks

Started down the track, but too much mud and water to get around. Maybe if I wasn't wearing my good shoes...

Found on a (reasonably) big day of caching on my way to my accommodation in Jugiong en route to the Wangaratta mega. This spot's a bit out of the way isn't it! (it was a lovely, lovely drive though from the highway and through the forest)! The parking too is also hidden pretty sneakily! It was a lovely walk despite the challenges of the long grass and muddy patches (the wooden bridge certainly helped cross the puddle). A quick find at GZ. I'll be back for the other Dragonstone caches another day - TFTC ALL7!

Now we are allowed out I have been looking at caches a bit further away. I have been looking at a DNF that was replaced ages ago in the Dragonstone series, and now there are a few new 'replaced' ones. They all went smoothly and I even too on the walk along the greenway to the final dragonstone cache and a TE cache.

Thanks for the cache ALL7

33164.5 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Community Volunteers Tag A#398

**Albida**

We stamped the logs as "The Mob" to save space in the logs - today there were 6 teams caching together: Team Crackers, The Drovers, Phetlern, Alansee, the lovely micaparamedic and myself.

Most of the cache finds were straight forward, yet a couple stumped us. A few were located where it was difficult to safely pull the car off of the road, but we made it work with some creative maneuvers.

2020 was not a great year, and the beginnings of 2021 have also been tricky - so when it looked like the various borders would be open again (without quarantine restrictions), a trip that was planned at the Clear Waters mega was able to occur.

Adelaide, Victoria, NSW and Canberra - a decent drive, filled with various caching activities including Adventure Labs.

Several days caching with the awesome Team Crackers, gorgeous The Drovers, fab Phetlern, cool Alansee, and the lovely micaparamedic.

We laughed, sang to a vast variety of songs and chatted - almost non-stop! [^] We piled into cars and had such a fun time. Despite the light showers, windy conditions at times, we also had sunny days to enjoy caching in.

A sincere thanks to ALL7 for placing these caches, including the enjoyable little series.

Did this cache with a group who logged as THE MOB. We had to replace quite a few logbooks and caches. All in all we were appreciative of the CO's efforts in putting them out.

What an adventure. Found it, and had a great time.
Thanks

Firstly the GPS brought me to the wrong area and I was blocked by private properties.
Studied the map view and retraced my steps back to Scrubby Lane and parked at the end before the dirt track.
Walked the rest of the way in and was rewarded with the find.
Odd place out of sequence to the rest of the series but thanks ALL7 for the extra bit of challenge on this hide.

Maintenance to checked before ahead to VIC trip with ALL7..All good, TFTC

Cache 6680 on 29 Oct 2020.

Out on an early morning caching mission with TikvaNZ to top up our respective cache numbers for the day. After all the rain, it was a lovely morning to be out and about - blue skies even! Despite best efforts, we both ended up with very wet shoes and jeans after wading through water courses and long wet grass. However 8 found from 8 searched for, so a successful mini mission!

A bit of a walk through long grass and some water courses to get to GZ. Hard to spot the hunted object through the grass!

Thanks ALL7 for the cache and the fun!

#13673 @0710
An early morning mission with AngelG27 to top up find numbers for the day. Cache soon found after a 10 minute walk. A few wet patches on the trail needed to be circumvented with limited success. TFTC.

I assited her with the replacement of caches.

Another afternoon out driving through the green and lush countryside. Some great hides, wonderful scenery and all on a fantastic day to be outside. Found without issue, any pertinent or half interesting details added at the end of log. TNLNSL TFTC

After helping with the maintenance of previous ones in this series, the CO asked us to assist her with the placement of more caches in the series.
It was a really nice winters day and we all had a great day out in the country side with many laughs along the way.

Thanks for keeping the game growing ALL7.

Found with Contesta TFTC

TFTC

Aquilus1, Tankengine and I had met up with Kittykatch and Joolay to work together to pick up the tree climb caches along this trail then we went our separate ways. Tftc ALL7!!!

Came out caching today with dty73 and Aquilus1. Mainly to complete this trail. We teamed up with Joolay and KittyKatch for a few of the tree climbs. The weather was beautiful, the company wonderful, and the caches, well, very average... But at least we got some smilies! Thanks for the cache ALL7.

It was a very chilly morning to head out with dty73 and Tankengine and meet up with kittykatch and Joolay. The Dragonstone cache series was the target, to join up and tackle the tree climbs. Always good with a nice group and there was a lot of fun and laughter to be had!

Indeed it was a good move as some required assistance, most are good with a ladder but there are some that need a very tall ladder, a good climber, probably both... but also the extra hands to hold the ladder steady.

We met at #47 and made our way back to Jaggy Jeir stopping at the caches T3 or above as they seemed to require some element of up. For a sunny bright blue sky morning it was icy cold. The wind blew straight through and the hands froze, not good for some of the tiny micros but we managed to get all we set out to achieve done.

Jaggy Jeir has been on my to do list for a while and a lovely location, was also nice to finally feel some heat from the sun as we walked along! It was here we said goodbye to Joolay and Kittykatch as we headed north to complete the rest of the series not up a tree, found a few T2.5 that were up but simple stuff.

The caches we had wanted complete, it was into Yass for lunch with time to find a few local caches before getting home early afternoon. Thanks for the cache ALL7, a lovely scenic area and a nice drive through made more enjoyable with team work and great company.

Any information about the cache has been added below the cut and paste trip log here.
Could have driven but glad we didn't, a pleasant walk along. An unexpected hide greeted us on this nice corridor track, very enjoyable little walk.

I chose to walk down this little track even though there were plenty of tyre marks showing vehicle access. Very brave - muddy and watery! Not sure flood insurance would be available for houses built on the adjoining land, looks a bit suss to me. Two very woolly Alpacas in a close paddock, once looking so like a Yeti. A horse rider plus a walker with two dogs also on the track - a busy little place. Oh, the cache was all good too - thanku.

Wilbert67 and I are on the hunt to grab these All7 series today. Nice winters day. TFTC

A lovely new series of All7, lots of variation and a few very tricky ones, difficulty as well as terrain. I was able to climb a few, but happy to have the tott for others. Great country side driving and ideal weather conditions (was a bit worried about rain)

TFTC Wilbert67

Thank we had lots of fun continuing this series, has some problems finding the high caches but we still had lots of laughs. Thank you.

**This Series:**

Came with DSD today to find caches #20 - #59 in the Dragonstone series, minus a couple of high D/T ones that we got a FTF on a night time adventure when they came out

It was an enjoyable drive along the country road, some caches are potentially on private property however, as the road seems to act as a thoroughfare but parking and walking off-track felt a bit iffy. All caches were still found however, and we even met ZQX, Angel, Fox and Tikva at one of the T4 caches before going opposite directions again.

Every cache was in good condition, no problems at all! One of the T4's had fallen out of the tree however, which is where we met the others, but with 6 pairs of eyes and after 15 minutes TikvaNZ spotted it amongst the grass, and we returned it back to where we assumed it was meant to be according to a previous finder who we PAF'd

Thanks ALL7 for the series, still have a few of the early numbers unfound (as DSD had already done them), but maybe I'll be back in the future.

There is nothing better than a sunday trip getting caches. Signed dsd. Thanks for the cache and the adventure.

Published

[FTF] with Kittykatch.

Well we were only going out to get a cache for the day and bam three new caches were released. So change of plans and KK picked me up and off we went. We expected others to come out so would have been happy with one. But they didn't so we picked them up. We decided to head back for one we missed the other day when the phone went crazy with notifications. So we turned around and went racing for the new ones. Some were tricky, some were easy but some we just left as they needed better light to even see let alone climb for. We found all the new ones except for the ones we could not do and its been a total highlight as I have never found so many in one go, so was pretty excited. Now to log them all as KK put in the notifications as we went along. TFTC and the new series ALL7

**FTF** Woot ! Found at 4:00 pm. with Joolay.
Lots of fun on the FTF hunt !

Thanks for hiding this cache ALL7