Ancient Fence Post Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia
By Angus88 on 09-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y2WF

No luck after a deep search

After realising we are doing the track backwards, we found it, as described

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.TFTC quick find

On the maintenance height today, the O-ring was replaced on this bison tube. All good to go again.

Come down to finish the rest of this trail. Lovely day for a walk tftc quick find

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This one was replaced today with a fresh cache and a fresh log.

Decided to combine a couple of my hobbies this evening, running and geocaching. Nice flat trail on a beautiful evening.
This cache makes me Very happy as I'm now one find ahead of my wife!!
She could have come on the run with me?
Thanks for maintaining the cache

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!

Christmas Day, weather is brilliant, bikes are loaded, and we figured this might be a quiet place to spend the morning away from the excesses of a "traditional" get together. Met a couple returning on bikes with their dogs in tow (or vice versa) but the rest of the time logging this and 8 other caches we had the trail to ouselves. Bliss !
Thankyou Angus88. We have enjoyed picking off bits of the Railton hot spot for caches over a period of time now.

Yeah boys

Hdhege

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!
Great hint led to a nice quick find.

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.

Hint made a easy find

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.

The hint made this another fast find, thanks so much for placing these caches Angus88.

Massive thanks also to CoxFamily7310 for an amazing day out.

Tyftc

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

Well hidden. Great hint to find the hide. TFTC

Found it, logged it, next!!!

We took the name too literally and searched in the wrong place but corrected ourselves in a moment.

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 9:45:00 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)

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A quick find as we leave our our Mountain man behind, See you late Roland.

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.

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.

Water in the cache but log safe in smaller container. BYO pen

21st January 2021. Maintenance check proves that cache is in place and in good condition. The cache however, has been replaced with the new 'double cache system' where the log is inside a second cache. This is done with the hope of keeping the log dry. Please replace the log carefully.

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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 with ease

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.

Also found this one.

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Found while taking grandkids for bike ride

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.

Spotted quickly and all good with the cache.

TFTC

With the treat of a cloudy day and maybe some rain we set out to collect a few caches in this series.
All we found with excellent coordinates and helpful hints!

Thanks Angus for a great series - we will collect the rest in the following weeks !

A lovely old post

Thank you for the cache from GeoMaggie and her sidekick Bonnie.

Loved the old post, wondered how long it has been there.
This one was found by one of the muggles with me after I spent too long looking along the fence line.
The funniest thing happened here, we had let two of the dogs off for a while and one of them touched the electric fence with his nose. We had wondered if it was going - it was!! One very unhappy sulky dog!!
Don't think he'll be going near a fence again.
Thanks.

Hi Angus88
Showery weather when I arrived and the gps was quite erratic....didn't read the description...only the hint but found quite quick..
Many TFTC and setting up an interesting series of caches...most appreciated...cheers ST.

What a beautiful old fence post this is. The lower section covered in lichen while the top has a thick thatch of bright green moss. Mrs Y'stassie spent some time admiring this old relic before heading off to look for the cache. As she was leaving a tiny but very active leach attached itself to her little finger and began searching for an easy access point. Luckily she has been doing a lot of gardening since the lockdown and the skin on her hands is quite tough. She was able to flick the hungry little beastie onto the ground.

She was looking around for the hide for a few seconds before she realised she was standing on it. Cache was very neatly tucked away and was safe and dry. Another blank log and a fourth {FTF} at 13:25.

Thanks for this cache Angus 88 Mrs Y'stassies loved the ancient post. A favourite point for this one.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 22.672 E 146° 22.620

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 22.672 E 146° 21.620

Distance from original: 4566.4 feet or 1391.8 meters.

Updated at request of CO.

Enabling cache.

Published

Expect coords are way out as satellite photo puts it well into private property....certainly nowhere near the railway?

Co-oords need to be checked.