The End Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia
By Angus88 on 11-Aug-20. Waypoint GC8Y7DB

Tftc found.

Found straight way

At the beginning of our cache trail. Journeying by car with caching Gma so will see how many we can get done! A part of Tassie we wouldnt have explored without caching - TFTC

This cache gave us an excuse to stretch our legs on a long drive. Much appreciated. TFTC

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.Yay all done FP for the series TFTC

On a maintenance hike today, this was found to be in good order.

Lots of but super water proof

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

With the weather not fun for walking today, we opted for a quick find here at the end! Not sure if our travels will cross this trail again, so will keep on our to do list for our next Tassie visit. Thanks Angus88 for your efforts.

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Log replaced on today’s maintenance run.

End of the trail, but for us it’s the beginning as we are passing this way. Quick find TFTC

Unfortunately we don't have time to do the whole trail, plus Apparently according to the wife I've overspent on my walks allocation on this trip!
Quick find containers present but no light, new lig signed and left.
Thanks for maintaining the cache

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 22.966 E 146° 20.624

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 22.968 E 146° 20.626

Distance from original: 15.2 feet or 4.6 meters.

Some thickly growing tall grass has necessitated the use of a different fence post.

This cache has been replaced and moved to a more accessible location. New log.

Out caching with The X-Trailers. Loved the walks,murals and caches . TFTC

After gps settled spotted caxhe
Log book wet but able to stamp
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Thank you!

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!

Adelaide to Hobart Road Trip.
Day Three: Devonport Ferry to Latrobe (via Penguin and Sheffield).
Weather: sensational.

This is one of two caches that I found on the very impressive looking power trail between Sheffield and Railton. I was hoping to quickly boost my number of finds in Tasmania for a challenge in Adeliade.

Unfortunately I had two problems here. The first was that I was having trouble with phone signal such that cache pages were not loading, so I was just left with a string of dots on a map. The other was that the grass is currently very high, at least at this end of the trail, and so hard going to find anything at ground level.

I decided to give up on this, but but be more than willing to have another go if I get the chance.

An awesome body of work, thanks Angus88.

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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.

So much fun, thanks so much for placing and maintaining all caches found today. I apologise for the general post but I know I’ll never get them all logged individually.

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 out.

out caching with the Rafa family in the north of the state, TFTC TNLN log dry, a cool weekend with lots of caches on the list.

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!
And another quick find to finish. Thanks for putting a series of caches along this trail Angus88 - I really enjoyed it, the GeoGSP's enjoyed it (they didn't do all of it, but they did have some excitement on the sections they did), and we were lucky to have great weather today. A favourite from me for this series.

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.

The End - Was our start. Lady was outside her house and pointed us in the direction of the falls. Took us a little while on this one....starting to think I had lost my touch!!

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

Nice one!

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Looked at the wrong fence post, then found it after a quick search. TFTC

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. At this stage we were at "the end" ........ but in our case the beginning, 'cos we are apparently starting at the wrong end. It would certainly be hard to pick this as an entry point onto the Tasmanian Trail without info. in the description .... thanks Angus88. Found soon enough to spur us on for the walk across the farm. No tractors, belligerent farmers or muggles to contend with here. Curious cattle wanting something different to eat though ! TFTC Liz

Ye olde wobbly fence post

Found it, logged it, next!!!

As per normal for myself gooseandegg and Tazscout we had to do this differently and started at the end as it was downhill that way and we were staying in a place near Sheffield, easy first find of the day.

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 9:10:00 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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Where else do you start? A quick find by me. Job dine, I can relax now!

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.


Of course we started at 'The End' because why not and it was a bit more downhill. First find of the day was quick and started us off on the right track so to speak.

I was just out for a quick walk to the waterfall and caves and thought I’d check if there were any caches in the area. Good thing I did!! Happy to stumble upon this series - thank you!

21st January 2021. Maintenance check proves that cache is in place and in good condition. The log has been replaced within a second container, to help keep it dry. Please replace 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.

Our first for the day.

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.

Started at the end, but left this cache until I was coming back. This allows me to see the distance to walk. Great series

Hi Angus
A quick find
Sainted the cache at 1420 hours
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint

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Found this one as well

Found while taking grandkids for bike ride

Almost muggled by people in house tftc

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 and but improved the further we went along the track.

Quick find in the obvious place.

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 !

The last for us today and another quick find.
We set off at 10.30am and returned to the cars at 2pm. We weren't in a hurry though and sidetracked the short distance to the falls where we sat at the bottom fall and ate our lunch.
In the last few weeks we have walked part of the Dooley track, the Lucy track and the Secluded Falls track so this walk today was like a walk in the park. Still enjoyed the scenery though which was quite spectacular with the wattles being in flower. The falls had a good amount of water going over them and were much more impressive than I remembered.
We will be back soon to walk another section of the Tasmanian Trail and pick up the rest of the caches in this series.
Thanks for your efforts here and have a favourite point from us.

Being such a nice day I decided to catch up on caches yet to be found in the Latrobe area, Having time to spare I decided to detour to look for some of the rail trail caches. Thank you for the time and effort you have undertaken in setting up this series of caches.

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.
Out in the open paddocks with this section of track pretty sloppy.
A farmer in nearby house came around to the gate and wanted to know what I was up to.
Apparently the ownership of the last section of the Tas Trail is in dispute and going through the courts.
He wasn't too happy....has had trouble with dogs off lead as well.

Many TFTC and setting up an interesting series of caches...most appreciated...cheers ST.

Today is International Geocaching Day so we needed to find a cache. Our nearest unfound caches were this series. As the weather forecast had been for a fine morning with rain late afternoon we planned to leave early and attempt this section of the Railton to Sheffield Series.

Alas we woke to a steady downpour and the radar suggested that this would persist until late morning. When the cloud began to lift we gathered our caching bits and pieces and headed to Sheffield. There were random spits of rain on the way but nothing of consequence.

We had just arrived at the hide for this cache when the rain intensified. We decided that Mrs Y'stassie should head off along the trail from Johnson's Road while Mr Y'stassie headed into Railton to look for the caches that required only shorter walks. He would then do some maintenance on several of our caches.

Our GPS led us straight to this hide where we found the container tucked safely out of sight. Container and contents were in good order. Coordinates were good and the hint useful.

Thanks for this cache Angus88. We have been looking forward to searching for these caches that are along a trail that has great memories of childhood friendships for Mrs Y'stassie.

Congratulations on your FTF GeoMaggie and Bonnie.

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

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