First Gate Railton, Tasmania, Australia
By Angus88 on 01-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8XKT6

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Found easily enough, logbook requires maintenance

Thanks Angus for this wonderful series which today I finally completed. It took a few years of gradual chipping away. This series gets a Fav.I actually did this section backwards starting at Sheffield and walking to the Mountain Bike Parking area. I took a bunch of Muggles with me and three Geo Dogs and everyone enjoyed themselves. Fortunately it was overcast which help particularly in the open farmland areas. After the walk we returned to Sheffield for lunch to complete a beautiful Geocaching day.Cache was in excellent condition.

In Tassie for the next few months. So many great places to visit and so many different caches to find.Staying nearby so we could get out and do some of the bike trail again today. Enjoyed the ride a variety of scenery. Most hides were found with only a short search with good hint where needed.Thanks Angus88 for placing the cache and doing the maintenance needed, so we can find this cache.

Today we headed out from our camp at the Sheffield Pub to finish off the rail trail caches that I had begun on Christmas Day. We walked out to the furthest cache and then cached our way back. All caches we looked for were found and we enjoyed our walk. We were glad we were not up Mt Roland today as it was covered in a very dark cloud.The beasts in the fields were super interested in us some of them were glorious. One very fat healthy black snake encountered on the track I dont know who got more of a fright the snake or me .Thanks for all the caches and this series I have enjoyed it and so has my heart health.Super speedy find and sign TFTC

On a maintenance hike today, this one is missing. Replaced so there is a new log.

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Forgot our pen today, but TFTC!

What a beautiful area

Found it

Down from Launceston to nab a few caches. Tftc

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Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 22.430 E 146° 22.633

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 22.433 E 146° 22.637

Distance from original: 25.7 feet or 7.8 meters.

GZ has been worked over so a more appropriate but nearby location was necessary.

This one might be AWOL, checked both sides of the fence pretty thoroughly.

Container a bit exposed so it’s under a rock oblong the fence line. Log soaked. TFTC

Please don't add or remove rocks from the cache, as property owners are trying to keep wallabies off their land and shoot them
It is a habit of mine to not conform and this is a good example. Starting in Sheffield on the 16th I decided to do this one backwards and took a few days off in the middle. At first I was a bit clumsy, trying to get the caches without taking off my big heavy hiking pack full of camping and cooking gear. At one point I tripped and did a somersault into a soft grassy ditch, pack and all. From that point I began taking it off to retrieve the hides. It was good exercise.
There was some wildlife, tiger snakes, one was on a cache, and a jack jumper nest under a cache.
All in all, it was a great geocache trail and an excellent walking track with caves and waterfalls.
Thank you Angus88!

Our 1st find for today on our stroll along the path here.
Log book is sopping wet

TFTC

Good quick find

Out caching with the Rafa family around Sheffield and Railton this was an easy find TFTC TNLN log dry, a cool dry day.

Thank you for the cache Angus88.
Staying in Sheffield for the weekend with RLD4963 and the two GeoGSP's.
RLD4963 had done a small section of the Railton-Sheffield rail trail during a visit in February. We have always planned to come back and spend a weekend here so we could attempt the remaining sections of the trail. Today was the day!
A nice quick find at GZ.

It was a Big enjoyable day out caching with ANNAGJW on a nice Sunny winter's day (even managed to get sunburnt). Have had this on our to-do list for some time, so with Anna trying to make it to find her 300th by the end of the month we finally organised a caching day together.! I found my 1100th cache along the way. Nice to get out and have a good day doing caching after not finding many in the last year.
Started at the Sheffield end and worked our way down to Railton. 52 finds including an adventure lab. With only 1 DNF we were happy with the day.

Thanks, Angus88 for placing all these caches for our enjoyment.

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Super fast find. Thanks so much for placing this cache trail Angus88

We have planned this day so many times before and finally today on Geocaching World Record day, CoxFamily7310 and I were able to head out on our Railton to Sheffield adventure together.

We found 52 caches, my highest number in one day!! Our day also included, walking a few km (got a beautiful blister to show for these ), an adventure lab, replaced a cache for another CO, some easy finds, some crazy coords, some slips, slides and falls, crawling in caves, jumping creeks, caching by torch and only a couple of DNFs.

We started at Sheffield today and worked our way back to Railton, completing the track in reverse.

Massive thanks also to CoxFamily7310 for an amazing day

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Out on a rainy day run. Music and good company with my muggle friend. Most logs signed J8 for short. Thanks

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Had limited GPS and no internet, for lucky with Geocaching senses. TFTC

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Such a lovely crisp frosty morning with clear sunny skies and no wind. So we're off on a little caching expedition with newbie cacher daughter to lift her tally and add some more to ours. So after a successful morning and lunch in the sun outside Mountain Mumma (who by the way provided a water bowl for Amy the dog, AND a soft rollup mat to sit on), we headed towards Railton and the old Forestry Arboretum for a few more caches. So by upping the walking rate a bit we stayed infront of the muggles, extracted and replaced without odd looks. At this stage we decided to call it a day, retrace ouir steps and find a couple in the opposite direction. TFTC Angus88.

Had to be quick due to muggles

Found it, logged it, next!!!

We saw rocks on the left and right, or right and left if we turn around Mr TazScout found this one. Right place, right time!

It was TazScout who first mentioned the idea of doing the Sheffield to Railton rail trail caches. I suggested this weekend to tie in with a CITO in Devonport that I had organized to attend, and a plan came together fairly quickly. Hotel rooms were scarce around the area but we managed to find a place to accommodate stainless steel rat, the egg and I. TazScout has a busy weekend so drove out to meet us for the day.
As always, our day started with coffee whilst we did a car shuffle before starting at 'The End'. We talked non-stop as we walked, it had been a long time since all five of us had been together and we had a lot of news to catch up on. The company was great, the weather was perfect, and we really couldn't have asked for a better day.
Thanks for all the caches today.

Quick find on our wonderful walk.

This weekends adventures was instigated by TazScout with a discussion/statement 'Day Walk' followed by a map of the area around Sheffield and Railton on the 8th of April, after we all talked to our significant others and arrangements made and diaries double and triple checked we had a sort of plan on the 15th and accommodation was booked for a busy weekend of walking between Sheffield and Railton collecting those caches along with any other GC or GCA we could find the time to grab as we were in the area.

Along with a wonderful walk we had time to catch up with friends and find some great caches, so a perfect use of our time, i think we all were better for a caching weekend and swear we wont leave it as long next time, thanks to all the CO's for making this trip possible.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 01/05/2021 at 10:31:00 AM thanks to Angus88 for placing this cache for me to find.

The best caches I have found so far by type are:-

Traditional [Moorgreen P3:1, Penny Pincher](http://coord.info/GC32Z5B) By [Sven&Cup](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=6596795)
Multi [CoaledHearted](http://coord.info/GCKGZ5) By [CraigRat](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=256663)
Unknown [Men In Black Holes](http://coord.info/GC1DVB0) By [SG-3](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=918045)
Letterbox [Rolf's Letterbox](http://coord.info/GC5NCYM) By [membsec](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=5318842)
Earthcache [Alum Cliffs and Gorge](https://coord.info/GC5KVHA) By [jandalfan](http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?A=2409043)

Visit the [Geocaching Tasmania Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/318455407771/)

Had a day out with Stainless Steel Rat and Goose & Egg. Decided we'd tackle the Railton/Sheffield run. Of course we picked the busiest weekend of the month with three events in the area one of which being cycling so we had plenty of company on the track.

I'm afraid I"m going to have to send a long run of very boring log posts. If the cache was big enough I left a Scout behind but otherwise all my notes on each find have vanished into my phone storage so I"m relying on memory. Perhaps our Co-conspirators can fill in any blanks. Thanks for a great run of finds with no DNFs in sight.

Geopuffers

Thank you!

Out for a short walk. Quick find. Signed log TTM and replaced as found. TFTC.

1st February 2021. A maintenance check revealed that work in the area [new gate installed] has probably made this cache run away. It has been replaced in the same location.

Found with Mick & Jen. TFTC.

Found with Mick & Jen. TFTC.

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This area of caches had been selected to be done after the Community Event held at Latrobe a couple of weeks ago but as it was pouring with rain we left them. Today we headed out with Tassie Trekkers in glorious sunshine to find them. The coords did wander a bit so we were pleased with the detailed hints. A lovely trail. Thanks for placing and sharing this area with us. TFTC

Today we targeted this series of caches with whitewebbs that form part of the Tasmanian Trail between Sheffield and Railton. We started early when the breeze was cool but soon became hotter as we worked our way to Railton.

Some were easy to find, but others took some time as we had trouble with co-ords. Cache and contents were in good condition.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment.

TaurusSix and I found the cache without problem

A trip to Launceston and Devonport on Thursday and Friday with a a night in Launceston. Thursday was work and Friday was a day off, so I took advantage of the new caches in Devonport and Railton for a run on my way to my target of 500 finds for the year. After a very successful day, I came home with 58 cache finds and 2 and nature lab stages.... so 60 which was a good day considering I was home by 7pm. Thursday weather wasn’t very good, so little was down after work, but Friday was a perfect day for caching. Not to hot not raining.
Really enjoyed a walk along the Tasmanian trail. And all was good until on the back roads to Railton, where one stop I was surprised by a tiger snake, which luckily didn’t seem interest3d in me. To be honest it was about 10 metres away, but going Parallel to my walking path.... I don’t like snakes.

Anyway. Managed to finish The Tasmanian trail whole series which deserves the huge favourite point.



My gps was 40 metres out. Hint made an easy find

found rock was a bit heavy but found none the less

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Found while taking grandkids for bike ride

This was week 2 of exploring this great track!
This week we had "newbie" cachers, aged 6, 9 and 10!
We had much better weather too, it was great today.

Ms Spreyton22 again ...

Heading north for a few days, no real plan, by the look of the weather that will most likely determine what we do.

The weather was looking good so we decided to see how far we would get in this series. We decided to start at the end.....as you do. The start was very wet but improved the further we went along the track.

A little bit of a search until the correct rock was found.

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Another quick find as we walked along this great track. Have been here many years ago to get the cache at the falls but had forgotten what a nice track it is to walk.
Thanks.

Hi Angus88
Showery weather when I arrived and the gps was quite erratic....didn't read the description...only the hint, so made this find much harder than it should have been.
Many TFTC and setting up an interesting series of caches...most appreciated...cheers ST.

Another typical old farm gate. Mrs Y'stassie spent some time searching for this cache. This was probably due to her initially being on the wrong side of the gate. Then she had trouble with where was right. after 5 or more minutes she gave up this approach and decided to follow her GPS. As she went up she spotted something worthy of further investigation. Sure enough she soon uncovered a familiar looking cache container. Like the others it also had a blank log book. Another {FTF} at 14:40. On checking her GPS it indicated that she was actually standing on the hide.

Thanks for this cache Angus88. Would have loved spending more time exploring this area but Mr Y'stassie was heading towards the hide at the water tank.

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