Birds of Australia - Emu Bowning, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 01-Jul-20. Waypoint GC8Z5QP

Today was the day I was aiming to achieve three things 1000 caches in 2024, 7000 caches all up and 200 caches in a day (my previous record was 121). Easily achieved all three in 13 hours between 06:00 and 19:00. Was a glorious spring day on the back roads around Yass.An early start (for me) and a dodgy coffee before heading down a road for the first cache. Log signed at 6:05 - this became my time to measure my success (I thought 15 caches an hour would be a successful day). Saw Emus on Saturday while caching near Tocumwal.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Enjoyed this series of caches along the back roads. Beautiful scenery, lots of wildlife and sunshine. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing and maintaining the cache for our enjoyment.

Found with PapaGrouch on our way home from holidays. We stopped in Goulburn overnight then detoured to find some of these caches when we were near Yass. This was the first and I was a little concerned as the side of the road had been cleared recently, but luckily the cache was a bit further in and was unharmed. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC

Suscoe headed out today to find some caches between Yass and Albury.It was a delightful day with lots of sunshine and a mild breeze.We saw lots of sheep and cows along with beautiful hills and lots of trucks heading bothways along the highway.Lots of interesting caches were found along the way.Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for this hide.

solved this series before leaving on this holiday. Quick find.Found with Mogni. Myself and mogni are headed off to canberra on the " I missed the Capital GeoBash Mega " holiday, since last minute family problems came in to play and we had to adjust our plans by a few weeks. On the way over we targeted multi's, wherigo's and puzzles to make sure we had 25 in each or at least close to that total ( or more ) as possible, getting as many new New South Wales LGA's as possible, the 17th most favourite point NSW cache and every cache size in New South Wales.In the ACT it was getting 2 of the 5 oldest letterboxes, oldest wherigo in Australia, 2nd oldest earthcache ( with a side trip to get the oldest earthcache of course ), and ACT oldest cache too. I also hosted a CITO and planned on getting every different cache type i could and eevry different cache size as well. I also needed 9 more virtuals this trip to get my virtual count over 100. Finally canberra was far enough away from from house to complete the well aged well travelled cacher 0 to 1000 kms with a cache every 10 km's ( i only need 7 more caches to complete )Leaving the ACT it was going via Victoria to get there last active web cam cache and slowly getting a total of 20 finds in each LGA i passed through if i had enough time plus also hosting a CITO in Victoria as well. A busy 11 days. Trust me by the end of the holiday you would have thought the 6 meter ladder weighed more than 13 kg's to amount of times it was used or carried up hills or over creeks. If your cache was found with a broken container/lid it was replaced or if the log was full it was replaced or a extra log if the container was big enough ( except for nano's, do your own maintenance on nano's.

Day 3 of mogni and sir_spectre visit the ACT. Today was power trail day, due to a lack of time we focused on letterboxes, puzzles and wherigoes. All but two we looked for we found and I am sure the others were there but we could only put so much time into hunting. The ladder got a good workout, and I chatted to a few locals who stopped to check on me and made sure I was ok. Any caches that needed some attention got it. Tonight we got to ACT and our accommodation for a week, yay to unpacking once Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN from mogni

Tackling another road of challenges and WIGs with bdp, Kimmy533, and drobbonz aka the Roos. This was a long day filled with much laughter and problem solving.

We hatched a plan to make a visit to Yass a couple of months ago. as The Roos (bdp, kiwisteve2, no1gardengirl, drobbonz and kimmy533) from Ryde Orange and Salem Oregon.Headed out from our pub in Yass early this morning and aimed ourselves at all these caches and adventure labs. Clearing a lot of the town caches, then we headed for another trail of challenge caches intermixed with whereigos.The road got a little wet and a number of creek crossings were required. Lots of fun and laughter. Thanks to all the COs for all the hard work put into the placement, write ups and maintenence.Apologies for the cut and paste logs but 70 plus caches each day gets brutal.Unless noted, all caches were in good order.Tftc

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Staying a week or so in Yass, today we headed out after a medical checkup and lunch to tackle a few caches. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Tftc out with The Roos

Quick find! The first find of the birds series! Here with the Roos!

We decided to stay another day in Yass and start on some of the trails in the outer lying roads. I am still kicking myself for not bring the ladder, again on today's run three caches not able to be attempted.Off to a good start.Total Caches Found 15888TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Muggle65 and l have escaped the incessant rain in Canberra today. Thank you for the fun

I arrived in Yass earlier than expected, so after checking in to my accommodation, I headed out to find a few caches. I had made an offline list that was downloading as I drove. I didn't realise that it had glitched until I pulled up at this cache. This meant that all the caches I had wanted to download were not on my phone. I tried again, without luck. Oh well, some caches are better than none and I will try to download a new offline list another day. This cache was quickly located and the log signed. TFTC

Out today dodging rain its everywhere and so its parkn grab day. GreenGecko1 I have been about this area collecting challenges and today we are focused on WIGs. Sloshy dirt road wet geotrail. What more do we need?????

After a busy few days in Canberra for the Capital Geo Bash mega event, I spent a night in Yass before slowly making my way back home to Adelaide. I have been targeting solved puzzles caches and any high Difficulty or Terrain caches. In the afternoon I tackled some of the Challenge and Where I Go caches South of Yass. There sure are a lot of them!I had a few DNFs along the way but given Im caching solo, I managed quite a haul this afternoon. There was a lot of variation in hides, many requiring a TOTT which are always fun. Thank you DARKSIDEDAN, for placing Birds of Australia - Emu for the geocaching community.# # #14696 # #

a quick find while in the area

TFTC

In the area with woolwood9 today. ????Wasn't really expecting much rain as the area looked really dry - sure the farmers were pleased to get it.However for us it caused a lot of frustration with rain off and on for the next 4 days.*We managed to get the container found here!* ????SL *tm/ww NZ**Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for putting this cache out for us to visit*One of the areas we were most excited about with the good Wherigo caches & Challenge caches along the way.

Over in the area heading for Canberra to attend the Easter Mega with tmann421Tons of caches done while here and this was one of them.Enjoyed the touring around and all the containers foundLog signed tm/ww NZThanks for the placement and the effort put into maintaining these hides for us to find.??????

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. Today we are out with a group from Western Australia and signing the log as WA to save time and log space.This is 14976, hoping to clock over the 15,000 finds in the week in New South Wales and ACT.Thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for the caches we found.OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024 OZMEGA2024Head 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.

Day 7 of my Canberra Mega adventure. A early start today with 3 cars in total and 9 people. Log signed as WA TFTC

Exciting times over the next couple of weeks as we takeoff for the Capital GeoBash in Canberra! Its going to be a flood of Sandgropers over east, with a host of West Aussies making the trek east for the event. Im travelling with fellow Cockburn Crew members Leg5 and Barnzy12, starting in Sydney and hitting the road to Canberra, before returning back to Sydney. Honourary mention to our fellow member, Cravo10, who couldnt make it after recently introducing a new geocacher to the world the week prior. Once in Canberra, the agenda is set, well team up with a host of Western Australians to conquer caches. Collectively, were hoping to make it the biggest ever weekend for cache finding. Following the event, the journey continues back to Sydney, with a mission to clean up caches and new Local Government Areas (LGAs), ensuring no cache is left unturned in this epic geocaching adventure. Something tells me that well need a holiday after this, well, holiday. We have commenced our raid on Yass. All logs have been signed as WA to save space, abbreviation for our team of cachers from Western Australia, who are cleaning up the series together. Cheers DARKSIDEDAN! Join us in Augusta, in Western Australias South West, for WA Goes Big 2024 (GCAGV8Y) on Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September. Log your will attend now!

In Canberra for the GeoBash Mega, our WA group had planned to tackle this area north near Yass. Out and about for a full day of fun and laughter. Logs signed as WA which covers Geotrakka, Neva2Old, Cirrus_WA, ICNothing, Barnzy12, Lachlan1.77 and Leg5. Apologies for generic logs today. Cache found with no issues. Cheers!

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 for hiding and maintaining so many caches for us to find.

The Cockburn Crew are on tour at the Capital Geobash in Canberra - travelling from Perth to Sydney, Canberra, Sydney and finally back to Perth.Today was day 3 and we had an absolute blast, after an earlier night last night we got up early to head to Yass and the surrounding areas to cleanup a bunch of caches inparticular whereigos and our personal favourite the challenge caches. We stopped in Yass and completed some high quality caches before venturing back to the trails. We completed a huge number of trails, challenges, whereigos, traditional, multis, earthcaches, labs, virtuals and puzzles. It really was a great day for variety. We enjoyed caching in territory we havent been before. Weve filled our boots with some rare DTs and DTTs and generally had a great time. Thanks to the COs for a great day and event. Logs signed as part of team WA/WAC (WA Crew)

Part of the Sandgroper contingent that has come to the Mega to explore new hunting grounds. Its sure to be a great week with many finds and laughs with lots of great friends and maybe some new ones along the way. Thank you for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Logged as WA. WA crew - Barnzy12, Lachlan 1.77, Legs5, Neva2old , meme28, Geotrakka, Cirrus_wa and I C Nothing

A big plan was hatched in WA to spend today hitting Yass and surrounds. Living off not much sleep the teams from WA met at 5.30am with very big plans for the day. Lots of laughter and antics we have really enjoyed the variety of caches. Signing as a team - WASome logs are delayed - Apologies for that- its been hectic trying to keep up! Many thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing this hide for me to find and adding to my adventures.

For day number five attending the Canberra mega, I headed off with the WA5 (I C Nothing, meme28, geotrakka, burns345 & myself) as well as some other West Aussies (Barnzy12, Lachlan1.77 & neva2old) for a full day off caching in NSW around Yass and the surrounds.Along with the many caches we found we also signed off on a heap of challenges that I will see if I qualify for in the future.The day finished off by heading along to event HQ to join in the evening festivities.Logs today were signed WA.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for placing Birds of Australia - Emu for me and others to find.I added my name to the log on 31/3/2024.This is find number 8733 for me.

During our weeks trip with Bare Foot Guru, Infoferret and Trinity to the Canberra Mega we logged as a combination of "BFG, CF, BIC, BITC" depending on who we were caching with at the time. The trip took us on a flight to Melbourne first, then a drive to Canberra, followed by a drive to Sydney before flying out again. Where possible I will add commentary to each find about the cache. Thanks for all the caches, hides and effort put into hiding and maintaining them.Solved a few of these, but only had time for one as we had to get to Canberra to pick up Trinity and the sun was already setting.

An expedition with Crystal Fairy & Barefootguru to the 'West Island '. Most logs signed as BIC to save space and time. 27 March 2024 19:07 Number 13836 TFTC DARKSIDEDAN !BFG did the honours with both solve and find. Great sunset!I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, and their continuing connection to it. I wish to pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC8Z5QP Birds of Australia - Emu27 March 2024T19:07:48 AEDTTFTC DARKSIDEDANI solved this set so we could pick off the Wherigo closest to the highway. Quick find. Thats 17 counties in a day

Big thanks to DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache. Cache number 8687 on March 17, 2024

Reperio 17:57The youngest and I got up early this morning from our overnight camping spot to hit the trails around Yass and beyond. The day turned out to be a fantastic day of finding all sorts of caches, in all sorts of varying degree of difficulty and terrain, and totally around 160 finds. With only a handful of DNfs thrown into the mix, it was one of the better days out Ive had in the last few years. Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Spending a few days in Queanbeyan I found this cache while in the area after other caches.

Yass/Canberra trip. Day One My son and I headed off on our annual caching trip. Of late its around 7 days away. I found 13 caches today most were found for a challenge and the other was found for my 20th loop. Yippee All were found and signed. Couple were difficult to find. Day Two9 found today I was picking up a new LGA. In the end I needed to pickup the speed and less caching. The push to Yass was that the office closed at 6pm. All were found and signed. Couple were difficult to find.Day Three.My son and I were up early for day of caching. We headed to Canberra chasing a lot of challenges. I signed 31 challenges today. I will need to find which ones I qualify for. I also found three trads. One of them took awhile to find.I had a good day caching in Canberra. Day FourMy Son stayed at the caravan park today. I had organise to cache with JACS Team today. With a late message from GreenGecko1 about getting help with a very big ladder to do some hard to get to caches. So few of this morning caches Sue001 joined us. Most of the climbs were done by GreenGecko1. The rest of the day JACS team and race up and down the road finding and signing log. I signed 43 challenges and 12 other caches.It was a found day today caching.Day 5, My son and I headed to Canberra again today to sign more challenge caches. In the end it was 31 caches. Then I decided to chase virtual as I couldnt find many in SEQ. I did 10 today. Plus finish with a multi. My son and I had really good fun day. Then we headed back to Yass.Day 6,Today meet with JACS Team. We had a very big list. In the end we signed 103 today. How many can I remember not many. A few tree climb a lot on the ground. We replace a few caches. But of course we didnt have enough caches with us. We had a fun day. DARKSIDEDAN thank you for placing and maintaining this cache for geocaching community enjoyment.

Tonight was time for a quick cache that was an excuse for the son to undertake some night driving. Had to wait for ages as this daylight savings means the sun doesnt go down until a ridiculous hour. So day driving out and then I picked up a couple of caches including this one until finally it was twilight!

Found on my way to Wagga. Just needed a Wherigo today, so this was the perfect one to do as our mascot is an Emu!. Signed log and returned as found. TFTC

Cache found and log signed with dalerious . This was the first of this awesome series. As one of my hobbies is Ornithology, it was a pleasure to work through each of the species.Thank you DARKSIDEDAN for your immense contribution to this awesome game .We came to Canberra with an immense and impressive list of caches.There was a huge variety and types, covering Yass and Goulburn as well .The priority for us this trip, was to sign as many Challenge caches as we could.There were many we had to hike for . There were a few that were not found which was disappointing, but plenty that were found and signed.Some beautiful country was covered by foot and vehicle, and we had a ball.I will be using this generic log for all of the caches, but I will mention if there was an issue with the hide, container or log where possible .Please accept my humble thanks for all CO's effort on placing out these awesome caches.

Last for now. Off to the motel we go for a well earned break. [|)]Found with catnap777 on the first day of our short holiday caching in NSW and the ACT. With all our ducks in a row before we arrived, we didn't have to wing anything. My bird and I had a lot of luck flying through this avian series with hardly a hitch leaving us feeling a whole lot more like wise old owls than a pair of geese. Again cat' and I had a long list and a tight schedule, and with these Wherigo caches high on that wish list, again we have been amazed at what we can achieve in the time we have. TFTW and Series DARKSIDEDAN.

I was hoping for two full days in Yass but Ive been allowed 3 hours. Oh well, next time. Out caching with Sami. Nice quick find here but no emus to be seen. Thanks.

Heading back from Canberra to Melbourne, I headed on a quick divert near Yass before hitting the highway. Thanks from D B-A

Another lovely sunny day. Started in Jugiong and traveled to the ACT.
Collected a pile of birds and a few challenges before lunch in Yass.
Common Road is in good condition and was a pleasure to drive.
However Black Range Road was being excavated! The machinery was right on the corner, so I turned east however I could not stop for a while as the road didn't allow it.
Eventually I could start caching again.
Hopefully this means the other end of the road will now be in better condition.
Thanks, Robmc.

Found with SA. TFTC

In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location.
(HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do.

[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort.

Devilish

Brilliant and Clever

I like it

Another one off the list

TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - Dark Side Dan [^]

After doing some more challenge caches down the road, we went back collecting the solved Wherigo bird series.

This cache was found and the log signed.

Tftc Darksidedan

Out and about with TBU1Bikesu for more smileys Tftc for the serie
Darksidedan

Out along the country roads around Yass today, finding caches and conducting a maintenance check at the behest of the CO.

This cache was found quickly at GZ, and is in good condition.

Thanks, DSD!

We are visiting Australia from Florida, USA for a multi-week vacation which will have us visiting two states in Australia (Tasmania and the ACT) we missed in 2014 followed by 28 days on the Ovation of the Seas including New Zealand and a Transpacific to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Today was our ninth day of the trip, after flying form Hobart to Sydney yesterday afternoon we made the drive to Canberra (Dickson) arriving after sunset. With it being Friday we decided to avoid Capital Hill since we saw a series of challenges and Wherigo caches to the northwest of Yass. We would also manage to do three sets of Adventures Labs in the Yass area and then another three sets with a walk around the CBD before having dinner and calling it a night.

We had a good time solving than finding these Wherigo caches, we had to bypass some as we didn't have the right TOTT to retrieve them. Thanks for all the hard work that went into creating this fun series. tftc!!

#3677 While in Yass for the day for a vehicle service, I took the opportunity to duck out the road for a cache. Easily spotted at GZ. TFTC.

A bird in between all the challenges.

Thank you for all your efforts
R

Well that was the last of the Wherigo’s in the area. We have 3 DNF’s to avenge on our next visit here.
Thanks DARKSIDEDAN so much for all your efforts in putting both these series out. Now off to Breadalbane/Collector for the next one.
A favourite added.

In Yass for a couple of days to do some of the challenge caches and others puzzles. TFTC

TFTC

Found on our way to Jugiong. TFTC

I was doing some caching around Yass today and stopped here for a quick find. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN and happy caching

A nice day to get out. A quiet road. Great. TFTC DSD

Thanks for this Wherigo Darksidedan, my first on this trip with feathertop and our second on the second day of our trip to Yass specifically to find these Wherigo and Challenge caches.

Day 2 of my trip up to Yass with Cybergran. The forecast was not good but we made an early start here.
The road was well sealed but unluckily after 14 caches we had to turn around with a road closed sign.
However up until that point the caches were again fun. One DNF in here but a good mix of interesting hides, wherigos and challenges.
The grass was again really long and also wet with the showers that began early but were only fleeting.
The first of at least 20 wherigo caches this morning.
Thanks DSD

I have been looking forward to these caches for a long time. Today is the day. Managed most caches and had a great day. Thanks for all these caches. Most appreciated.

After a great weekend in Canberra I decided to collect a few caches on the way home. The ground was quite wet in places and the grass and sticky weed was long, but I managed to fight my way through to find the majority of caches that I wanted to collect and sign

Geoian and I had a late start from the showgrounds at 8:05. We had a great day though doing these wherigo caches. Our first find was pretty easy, we just follow the geotrail. TFTC.

Sunday is trail day, and i chose this road, and see how we go with the rest of the day. Bit of a late start, we left the showgrounds at 8:05. It would take days to do these as Reverse Whereigo's, so i used another method. For the trail, we had a lot of obstacles, like long grass, soft shoulders, tree climbs, rabbit warrens and Farmers. We had a great day though. Our first find was pretty easy, just follow the geotrail. TFTC.

One of the kids wanted L plate driving hours and I wanted to find more letterboxes. We compromised. TFTH

With another day predicted to have no rain and very light winds we took our chances and headed out onto the trails again. This time both north and south of town.
Plenty of Challenge Caches, most of which we qualify for as well as information sessions on Birds of Australia, Snakes of the World and an AHH. Some involved Reverse Wherigos.
Mrs SKI's highlight of the day was a freestyle tree climb she performed for a find.
Some differing hides and differing terrains, and of course some high Ts we had to walk away from. We appreciated a variety of cache style including trads, multis, puzzles, challenges and Wherigos.
Another satisfying and busy day.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache DARKSIDEDAN.
**SKI Pair****

No emus today! Out and about on the MTB so the sprint between each cache will determine how many I do - not so many solo Having said that it’s great cycling terrain and I’m more likely to spot some feathered friends than if in a car. The info provided on each of the birds in the series is varied and informative for the ‘linguist’ too! Worked out the co-ordinates last night so I could enjoy the arvo. And what a great idea to stop over in Yass for a few days enroute to our ‘esteemed’ National capital Canberra for the NFF. The remarkable old buildings and stories of Yass’ past have been fascinating- being south of the border I didn’t know much it seems . Nice to be out in the rolling hills. Cache found in good nic. TFTC AND THE FUN

Out and about with O319 for a day of caching. TFTC

Quick find with sjg66, TFTC (we actually saw a few Emu's further down the road)

Out with LuckyL10n on a run through this area for a few more in the Birds of Australia series. No issue with this one and we soon had our names in yet another one in the series.

Thanks for the reason to come on out here again DSD...

#13390 - 9:11:00 AM; On another mission west of Yass with Sol de lune to collect caches in the "Birds" series, plus some more of the challenge caches in the area. Only 1 DNF today, which is half the number of possums we found in cache hides! A previous DNF was avenged and a couple of the cache logs were sodden and couldn't be written on [B)]. The remaining caches were in good order and now have our names on the logs, including 5 x T5 seeing we brought the required ToTT for this mission. First stop for the day and off to a flying start with a quick find and sign. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

TFTC smile 13264 out and about with miss millie geo dog Hatzofff RoddyC and Snickersallan ? great caches, great day ,good weather, On our way home spending a few days finding caches in around Yass
signing as 4 for Qld
Thank you, DARKSIDEDAN, for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

Day 41 of our southern trip.

Moved a little north. Heading towards Yass and Canberra for a few days. Now in Boorowa for a few nights and caching out from here. Picking up some snakes an lizards and challenges and what ever else is around Oh and did I say challenges.

Travelling & Caching with RoddyC snickersallan and grannysmith1947. Signing/stamping as 4 for QLD.

Great series with varied types and interesting topics.

TFTCache DARKSIDEDAN

Day 41 of our southern trip. We are Team "4 for QLD" - RoddyC, hatzofff, Snickersallan and Grannysmith1947.

Caching Boorowa to Yass, day 2.

We enjoyed the caches we found, yours included.

Finally finished these two big long legs of challenges and wherigos. Now over to the cafe to submit all the logs while having dinner, and some well-earned relaxation!! Then back to Boorowa for our final camp night then Canberra for a good few nights.

Log signed and cache replaced as found on February 19, 2022. TFTC, DARKSIDEDAN.

Day two of staying in Boorowa with hatzofff, grannysmith1947 and RoddyC collecting caches around the region. (Logs stamped 4 for QLD)
Special thanks to all the cache owners for the array of good quality containers and hides on offer, this made finding them very enjoyable.

TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

One of our local challenges is having 5 geocache types at over 50. Before this holiday both my Earthcache and WhereIGo were about 40. After Newcastle I had got my Earthcaches upto 47 and Yass yesterday had increased my WhereIGo to 48. As such I determined to get 2 more WhereIGos early.

Out on the road before 6.30 am, it was a very different day with it completely fogged in and not being able to see far at all. Pleased there was good parking on the caches I was getting.

Second find and found it quickly in the second place I looked at 6.35 am.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDE DAN
Hunter

Found with 999Hunter.
See his log for details.
TFTC
999HK

In the area while grabbing some caches just a quick grab and sign and placed back where it belong TFTC DSD

TFTC. Day 2 of our Yass adventure saw us drive the length of Woolgarlo Road funding a mixture of Challenge caches and Birds of Australia. A lovely sunny day to be out and enjoying the quiet roads.

Out for an adventure with the wonderful GLISS and onieferret. Loads of fun dashing around the region grabbing challenges and other caches along the way. Looking forward to seeing what I qualify for! Thanks for enabling our day of fun. Thanks for the cache.

An afternoon of caching with Nibletricecakes and GLISS! brought us here.
Thank you.

An afternoon of caching with Nibletricecakes and GLISS! brought us here.
Thank you.

Out with Nibletricecakes and Onieferret this afternoon. We found a few solved wherigos and signed many challenge caches. TFTC.

Camping at Joe O'Connor Park Yass. Day 3
Today we headed back to the Birds of Australia & the Challenge Cache series that we didn't do last time we were here with pprass.
A few of the high terrain caches we did not attempt.
It was good to be driving out along these country roads.
Thankyou DARKSIDEDAN for placing this cache.

Out today to do the some of the Birds of Australia and Challenge Caches. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

**This Cache**
A quick and easy find in the wet bush roadside. The road was very quiet and had it mostly to ourselves. It sprinkled on and off but it too light to cause any issues. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

**Our Day**
Today was too wet for us to hike or cycle on dirt tracks so decided to chase WINDMILL data for the Great Aussie Icon series. Late morning we headed out after a good sleep-in.

As we were heading to Murrumbateman and Yass collecting the required information we decided to pick up a few Challenge mysteries, Wherigos and the odd Traditional. However, we only stopped for traditional caches if we passed them on the road. With so many caches to choose from these days we do get a bit picky when time is of the essence as we needed to be home by mid afternoon. The sun ️ came out after lunch so it was very pleasant to finish up in beautiful weather. Another productive day in the office.

Time to finish off the Black Range Rd wherigos. All attempted were found and in good condition. Most were straightforward although some took a bit of a hunt.
Passed on the T5 ones today as I had neither a TOTT nor a geopartner. Another day perhaps TFTC and the series DSD.

Day out in the Yass area. Quickly found. Signed and replaced. Thanks for all the new caches in the area.

This weekend from 17-21/06/2021, I joined georode and gridge98 in visiting our nation's capital, Canberra for geocaching adventures. We prioritised the higher difficulty-terrain combinations, as well as the more special/unique cache types.
On Thursday, I largely spent the day solo and visited Black Hill lookout, the Botanic Gardens, Australian National University and nearby Canberra Central, and then gridge98 and I walked around the front of Parliament area in Parkes.
Friday was spent completing a few hikes in Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve and Kowen Escarpment Nature Reserve, before then meeting locals at a Friday evening dinner event.
Saturday was predominantly the UFO series in Bullen Range Conservation Reserve, targeting the higher terrain ridge area.
On Sunday, we arose to the morning's CITO event, before returning to Goorooyarroo Reserve for more walking around those hills.
Finally on Monday, gridge98 and I headed north to Yass for the Birds of Australia Wherigo series, a few climbing caches, and returning to ACT completing the UGC series.

Today, it was an early day losing georode returning to Queensland, but otherwise, gridge98 and I headed north to Yass. We visited a few spots and completed the *Dark Past* Adventure Lab, before commencing north with a few *By request* geocaches, and then the *Birds of Australia* Wherigo series intermixed with the *Challenge Cache* series.
Following a bakery lunch, we returned via a few attractive D/T *Dragonstone* geocaches, to then complete the University of Geocaching Canberra (UGC) series. Our final stop of the day was Mount Painter finding Canberra's oldest geocache, *Canberra Nature Park*. We then made the dash to the airport to formally end our trip to our nation's capital.

We managed to solve this series prior to our trip, in preparation for today. We drove the corresponding road, making a stop at this geocache to find this cache reasonably quickly. The cache container and logbook were in good shape. This was a great series that rivals SA's famous Wherigo power trails. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.

Today Davidwazza and I headed to Yass for the wherigo series, and stopped by this one for a quick and easy find

This weekend I headed to Canberra with Davidwazza and Georode after being asked a month or so ago if I would like to join them for 4 days, planning occurred and a list of 110 targets were chosen consisting of DTs, oldies and special cache types.

Day 1, I arrived in the evening and headed out with David Wazza for a few hours before georodes arrival, we headed to capital hill to find some random caches in the freezing cold.

Day 2, we set off early in the morning for a half day hike around Goorooyarro Park collecting all the puzzles and a few trads in the area, after lunch we had walked 17km for the morning, off we headed to kowen forest for some of the CBR wherigos, half way around it started to pour so called it early and thought doing the drive bys in the series would be a much better idea, in the evening we went to an event and was great to meet a few locals.

Day 3, we set off before the sun had risen for the main target of the day, the UFO series, with so many in the series we focused on the ones along the fire trail and a few in the paddocks, despite being buggered we walked another 18km for the day, in the afternoon we targeted some of our target list in the southern area

Day 4, after a morning CITO we headed back to Goorooyarra Park to complete the remaining caches in the area and finish the L and P plate series, another walk completed over 15km for the trip, in the afternoon we drove around the northern suburbs collecting caches off our target list

Day 5, after dropping georode off at the airport, davidwazza and I headed to Yass for the birds of Australia series and a few of the challenges in the area, after completing the caches we headed back to Canberra past a few caches before attacking the entire UGC series, being tight for time the trip wouldn’t have been complete without going to the Canberra nature park to collect the oldest caches

Total of 356 caches plus a few labs along the way,

Thanks for the caches and their placements

On a sunny Winter's morning took to the road seemingly less travelled to find a good number of Challenge and Wherigos mixed with the odd traditional here and there.

Things started well with several fast finds, but things quickly turned a tad nasty when a local nutbag pulled up beside me in his large manly white 4wd ute (rego details available on request) and accused me of taking photos of his property. While I had my iPhone in my hand, the closest I came to taking photos of his long grass and piles of dirt, from a PUBLIC ROAD, was that I was actually carrying the iPhone in my hand. After I pretty much ignored him completely, including his questions as to where I was from I did give him a quick explanation about what Geocaching was, as opposed to ones rights from said public road. 'Never heard of it' was his reply, to which I replied 'well you can follow me along the road for the next 2.5 hours and watch me do exactly the same'. A school mini bus then pulled up next to him where they commenced some sort of conversation to which I was not privy to.

As I was finishing off my draft log, including a few details of the conversation they both suddenly left, without even a pleasantry mind you, and the last I saw of either of them was his TWO MASSIVE BLACK AND WHITE SPOTTED GREAT DANES staring straight back at me as he disappeared off down the road.

With the departure of the crazy cropper I continued on my way without further issue. Up and over hill and dale through some wonderful back road scenery. Eventually rejoined the highway where I turned West for a few major road hides. On my return there was further interaction with a local, this time a member of the constabulary. A quick breathalyser test later and I was back on my merry way.

Pulling into Yass I successfully revisited a previous sneaky DNF and quickie a little further down the road. From there it was straight back to the big smoke just in time for school pickup.

A successful day overall, 1 deluded farmer, 1 pleasant law enforcement officer, 40 finds and 1 DNF.

Apologies for the generic log, anything of further interest added at the end of log. TNLNSL TFTC

We enjoyed the birds featured in each of the Wherigo puzzles and it was fitting today that while we looked for the Birds of Australia caches we saw very many birds, in particular parrots, cockatoos and galahs.

Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. the cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for this cache and the series.

Today's goal, finishing the challenge and Australian bird series and then getting back home in time. Had all the required gear with and even though some where tricky I managed to find all. Great series with a lot of variation.
TFTC Wilbert67

#7227 A beautiful autumn day was calling and so I looked for some worthy geo-targets. I felt the need to get out of town as I've been a bit tied down this week, so I cast my eye northward and found a power trail of WhereIGos to consume some time. I had all these solved before heading off, so it was off to catch some birds. I've still got an injured shoulder and no climbing was possible, so I skipped about 3 from memory. Roads were very quiet. Favorites were the bridge and the cliff-hanger, which, surprisingly, I managed to get. But it was hairy !

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN

Thanks heaps for the cache series!!.. was really enjoyed and had heaps of fun!. But I think I might finish of this series on a push bike or something, The start and stop of my car engine cant be doing it any favors!. My starter motor sure did get a workout today.

Sorry about the generic copy and paste logs, when I end up finding the last of the series ill leave a detailed log about my adventures!

All caches are in good working condition unless otherwise stated.

As we seem to have some time today, we are going to do our best to find some of this series whilst we are here. Thanks for the cache.

I love challenge caches but am sure I don't qualify for many of them to pleased to be able to log some of this series as finds today. Thank you for all the work that you put into making caching fun for all.

We decided to come down for the weekend to do the WIG's then as a bonus the challenges were published. We had a successful day finding 90 caches plus GC8NEAT as we picked up rubbish along the way. Most caches were a quick find, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to Darksidedan for these series.
Solved these caches a couple of months ago.

TFTC,
A generic log today. We planned on visiting the area to do the WhereIGo caches some time ago but other activities got in the way. Then we saw all the Challenge caches that were published last week and since we had a free day, came down and had a go at them.
We have also been wondering when to do GC8NEAT and found ourselves picking up rubish as we went along so our 8 hour caching day with 90 finds was also used as a special CITO.

Found on a trip around central New South Wales with e.gregory1. Our original plans were to travel through Bourke, Cunamulla and Toowoomba to attend the Dayboro event in Queensland and return via Port Macquarie and central NSW, but a series of events that included road closures due to flooding in southern inland Queensland, a covid outbreak in Brisbane and widespread storm damage and road closures along the north coast of NSW resulted in multiple changes of plans during the trip. As it eventuated our travels took us to central New South Wales, on a route from Broken Hill to Cobar, Nyngan, and Gunnedah from where we meandered southwards through some great scenery and historic towns that included Dunedoo, Wellington, Cowra and Yass. We then headed in a roughly westerly direction through to Temora, Wagga Wagga, Deniliquin and Swan Hill before making a final dash for home. All up we found a good mix of Traditionals, Puzzle Caches, Multicaches, Adventure Labs, Wherigos, Earthcaches, Letterbox Hybrids and Virtual Caches on a very entertaining and enjoyable trip. Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN!