SideTracked - Picton Picton, New South Wales, Australia
By Aussiebrian on 08-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y2PB

DNF

Cache Replaced

Looked for about an hour and couldn't find it.

Great hide.

Chooo ooo [DNF] with dty73 and youban on a caching invasion of Penrith!Thanks Aussiebrian!

Traveling with Tankengine and Youban for the long weekend. We are looking forward to meeting up with friends in Penrith this weekend for some caching and fun. Along the way up, we picked up a few caches to break up the drive and stretch our legs. So this cache: Too good for me today. Saw mentioned wasp nest though. Thanks anyway.

It was to had but we couldnt find it

Was a sneaking hind

Just found to as we were going to leave

Spent way too long looking for this in all the wrong places. Started at the GPS coords and then noticed the reports of the location being off. So I widened my search in what turned out to be the wrong direction. Eventually took a break and went back through more logs, and was surprised by the number of logs saying they spotted the cache on arrival at GZ, which made me realise I'd been looking for something more complicated and subtle than it actually was. Widened my search in the other direction and found it fairly quickly. Signed log and replaced it closer to the GPS coords, since it seemed to have been suffering from cache creep.Also, beware the paper wasp nests in the rail - they were fine with me but can become aggressive if they feel threatened. TFTC!

Took me a while as the coordinates were a little off but looked around a little more then found it!

Good find this arvo.Arrived and had a look around, too much activity. Came back & made quick find Tftc

Found it thanks

Thanks

Fun find!

Great and sneaky find! Tftc.

Easy 5 minute find!

Found after a short search. Gps had us several mtrs away. Tftc.

GPS was a little out but used our geo eyes and wasn't long before find TFTC

Very fun easy find!

3 loss today

Sneaky...

Thanks for placing the cache really fun find

Found on 1.4.24 @ 10.35am. Beautiful day! No one was around so we had plenty of time to search. Was a tad hard but was pleased when we found it.

After visiting the Rail Museum, we stopped in Picton for afternoon tea and decided to visit the viaduct. The cache was quickly spotted and luckily Steam koala has long arms and was able to reach it. TFTC

# 1662Found today after spending the day at NSW Railway Museum, then afternoon tea in Picton. Luckily, I could reach the cache easily, so climbing was not needed.

Was going to call it a day, but decided that, since I had to drive by within 500m anyway ... I might as well have a quick squiz.A couple of Muggles within earshot but I made the find without and issues. Held on tight to my car keys and equipment though!TNLNSL.TFTC ...

A quick find once at GZ. TFTC.

Find # 10224Nice quick find.Another "side-tracked cache found.TFTC Aussiebrian 13 January 2024 15:40

Find number 12748 at 5:08:44pm on Wednesday the 13 December 2023Time to use up a travel voucher before it expires on December 31 so I hatched a plan for a day trip to Sydney to do some LGA's and SideTracked geocaches. First flight out of Melbourne in the morning and last flight back in the evening, it turned out to be a long day, up a 3:30 and back home at half past midnight for a total of nineteen geocaches, thirteen SideTracked and nine LGA's Sort of like walking the plank to this one.Running short of time now and need to start heading back towards the airport.**Thanks for placing this cache Aussiebrian**---Don't miss finishing the Ballarat GeoTour before it ends on 4th March 2024. A list of the geocaches can be found [here](https://coord.info/BM9GWJ5). The final GeoTour Event is the [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) on the 18th February 2024!You can also get prepared for the 2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards by checking out our preliminary lists [here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/).

Easy find. Thanks for the hide. Found after doing the Picton parkrun.

Found it. Thx

Found straight away

Easy

It was a good hiding spot thanks

Stopped off after Parkrun and before heading home for this quick park and grab. It was great to see the nearby viaduct too.

Last cache before heading home after a great f Ed from the RRTGlobal team at the oval!

What a quick find on a nice sunny day Totally over thought it and thought I had to climb down till I saw the Difficulty and terrain.

First ever find!

Quick find
TFTC

Quickish find in a quiet car park. TFTC

On our way home we got sidetracked and decided to collect a cache.

We parked up and headed towards GZ. As always we chose the hardest possible route to collect it. We had to change tact and try a different approach. This paid off and in moments we had the cache in hand. We signed the log and replaced everything as found.

TFTC and the adventure.

2nd time I have looked for this and a relatively quick find today on a sunny winters day. TFTC

Kid and Puppy sitting so thought we’d go on a little adventure. Thanks!

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 10.696 E 150° 36.745

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 10.711 E 150° 36.771

Distance from original: 159.5 feet or 48.6 meters.

Hopefully I now have the coordinates marked at the correct spot which to not overlap with nearby caches.

Ready to go again.

G'Day

I'm sorry, but your recent move has brought your cache too close to a Physical Waypoint of [GC8QZF6: Picton's Ghosts bonus cache](http://coord.info/GC8QZF6) and will need to be moved. Please read the following item on [Cache Saturation](https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines?expand=1#cachesaturation)

I've disabled this listing for the time being, could you please move it to a new location that fits within the saturation guidelines. Once that is done you may enable the cache.

Rgds,
Matt - Ministro.

Will change location.

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 10.709 E 150° 36.770

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 10.696 E 150° 36.745

Distance from original: 148.4 feet or 45.2 meters.

Should be safer from scrutiny and less likely to be near a parked car.

Ready to go again.

No luck here today.

I think it is over grown

Over grown

It took a while to spot, as soon as I saw the cache someone from the train station came over to ask what I was doing. I decided to leave and come back another day.

30,017. Found during an invasion of the 'Bargo up to Penrith' region on the Canberra Day long weekend with a great bunch of Cachers.

With the Canberra Day long weekend upon us, a number of Canberra region Cachers performed an invasion of the Bargo up to Penrith area. Canberra Day Invasion 2023 (signed as CDI23) consisted of minniek, Joolay, Kittykatch, isopeda, barb2e, albida33, smittengranny, Nibbletricecakes, GLISS!, Contesta, EverestHigh and myself. After half the group did a nearby 2001 Multi, we all caught up and hit the trail for many many caches. This was the next CDI23 find. The SideTracked series of caches are fun to find being a train buff. Nice quick find here. Log signed, cache replaced as found, then we moved on to the next one on our list.

Thanks Aussiebrian !!

Picton & Penrith Canberra Day weekend Invasion. Day 2. Today the trip got underway with the team caching. I sat out the walk to 'More', which I had done many years ago and joined up after a late morning break. The group was made up of Fitzy_1965, MinnieK, Joolay, Kitty Katch, Barb2e, Isopeda, Smitten Granny, Contesta, Gliss! and Nibletricecakes. EverestHigh joined a little later on. We had a huge list of caches to do and we got underway on a warming day. As things looked to be running out of time we changed to the end of the list to get to the Dam for a virtual and then cached out way back to Picton to get to the event and a chance to meet some locals and others caching in the area today. Dinner was a great local Picton Thai restaurant followed by finishing Lab caches before I headed back to Bargo for the night.

Whist the others were at 'More' I took a little time by myself to try a few caches I thought they would do on the way back. This was not on our list so I visited this and had to head to the other side to locate it. The team dropped by later in the day anyway.

Thanks for the cache Aussiebrian

40393.3 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 From the Ashes A#323

**Albida**

Fitzy_1965 & I headed to the Picton region today with a bunch of friends from Canberra for our Canberra Day long weekend invasion (the joys of living in NSW but working in ACT for me). All caches were signed as CDI23.

We had a fun day finding, trads, puzzles & multis and a few AL's for good measure. We ended up at dinner at a great Thai restaurant after the event in Picton itself.

Can’t go past a side tracked!

With a long weekend in Canberra who can resist getting away! Joined a great bunch on friends to tackle a bit of the Picton area. The day included a big investment of time in an oldie (lots of fun) and then lots of caching in the region. A really delightful day trip with barb2e, Kittykatch, isopeda, albida33, fitzy_1965, Minniek, joolay, Smittengranny, contesta, EverestHigh and GLISS! Signed most of the caches as CDI - for Canberra Day Invasion. Thanks to all the cache owners for the fun!

Signed as CDI - Canberra Day Invasion.
isopeda, barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Gliss!, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, Contesta, Smittengranny..... and now also with EverestHigh.
All here for a long weekend (Canberra Day) of caching.


Quick find.


TFTC

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Found on an overnight trip to Picton. I joined a large group of Canberra cachers for one day of the long weekend. Caches were signed as CDI2023 - Canberra Day Invasion 2023. My fellow invaders were - isopeda, barb2e, Nibbletricecakes, Kittykatch, albida33, fitzy_1965, Joolay, MinnieK, Contesta and Smittengranny. A Sydney local, EverestHigh joined us for many of the caches.
I do love a SideTracked cache. Great to add another to the collection.
TFTC Aussiebrian

Found It!
I needed to get some hints at the event then come back for a second attempt at this one. Turns out I wasn't searching in quite the right area on the first visit.
TFTC

Find #7465

Nice day out some some caching in the Picton area with a great group of CBR cachers. Signed as CDI23

Thanks so much Aussiebrian for getting me out and about and enjoying this area

Cool station.

Joined by Everest High.
Long weekend trip away. Looking forward to new scenery. Signing as CDI-23-Canberra Day Invasion.

Thanks for getting me out and about Aussiebrian

Found with the Canberra group and signed as CDI 23 for Canberra Day Invasion. On the list of caches to do on Sat and the group included Kittykatch, Joolay, isopeda, Contesta, Albida33, Smittengranny, GLISS!, nibbletricecakes, fitzy_1965 and MinnieK. Tftc

Nice hide. OCW the Canberra Day Invasion crew. SL as CDI23. TFTC Aussiebrian

On this Canberra Day holiday weekend a group of geofriends travelled north from Canberra and surrounds to grab as many caches as we could. This was one of them.Thanks to all COs for adding to our adventures. Log was signed as CDI23 - Canberra Day Invasion 23.

Note definitely seen better days, tftc

Out on a cache hunt with goingplaces2 and this was one of the caches we had on the 'to do' list. It didn't take long to find and the signing soon happened. TFTC.

This cache was found while on the road with ilook4geo and the log soon had two more names added to the list. All was in good order and was replaced as found. Thank you to Aussiebrian for placing this cache.

3rd times a charm. Ain’t no way indeed. I thought I had to climb but then I sat back and bam! I saw it

Love these stations with ample parking. Found in the first place I looked. No problem here with finding the cache. All in order.

Quick find. 1st one today. Let's hope that is a good omen. TFTC

TFTC!

First find, super exited!

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Don’t fall. ? ?

TFTC.

Fun find!

Found this cache with Little Cricket and 007Mushu. The GPS was jumping around a bit and was pointing down into the abyss nearby. "That is not a 1.5 terrain" I thought, so we decided to ignore the GPS and follow the hint instead, making a quick find. Great hide TFTC

Found on International Geocaching Day with Lucky Cricket and Little Cricket. Lucky Cricket found this one at GZ while I was down below. A great hide. TFTC.

Happy International Geocaching Day

wasn’t that hard note is ripped up

TFTC Aussiebrian . Nice quick find as a couple of railway workers were wondering why I was looking at the railing . I see what you mean don’t drop it . Nicely hanging on .

Streak Day #3306 - Out on a caching jaunt with Dave8153 and stopped by here for a quick find. TFTC

30 July 2022
This is find number: 6334
Streak Day: 2417

Found today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find while in the area today. Thanks

Thanks to Aussiebrian for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Easy find. Definitely don't drop it.

Very clever

Easy find

ez TFTC

Tftc

3 sets of eyes and no luck today.

When I’m the right spot it’s an easy one

Once on the right level it was a quick find. TFTC

easy

Ain’t no way

Used this cache to fill a day on my finds calendar.
Quiet on a Sunday morning with no trains due.
Took the advice from previous logs and walked around the fence to make the find and retrieval easier. Quickly spotted the cache.

SL TFTC

TFTC

i DIDN'T DROP IT! tftc.

Plenty of parking here so I got close to GZ to provide my own decoy cover.
I couldn't spot the cache from the carpark so I turned it from a T1.5 to a T2 and went to the other side of the fence where I easily spotted the cache.
After signing the log and replacing the cache I spent some time exploring and photographing the quaint country station.
The time boards were correct with a train heading to Sydney coming through just as I left the area.

TFTC # 4739

Practically empty carpark allowed me to stop right on GZ but easier to approach, spot and sign cache from opposite side of fence.

fun to find but a lot of mess to work around.