Dundungra Falls Upper Karuah River, New South Wales, Australia
By Billy&Jad on 07-Nov-20. Waypoint GC92RPJ

It was a bit difficult to get down here - the track is very overgrown in places and obstructed at one point. But once at GZ I found the cache easily. TFTC!

Did this walk on a 37-degree day, silly us!Lucky it's only a short one. The path is well maintained, steep in spots. Not a lot of water coming over today but still lovely and cool.The hint is good.Left 4 treasures Thanks for the cache

Good idea there is a sign, otherwise would not have found. Took the umbrellas due to the rain and to prevent the big drops from the trees wetting us. Such a shame the trees have fallen down over the path, so over fallen trees, through vines and on hands and knees to crawl through a small area to get back onto the track again. Beware the leeches.. Slippery when wet, so took it easy. Read the hint and soon had cache in hand. Such a lovely waterfall, took some great photos and back up to the car. TFTC

Our 4th listed cache for the day, and our second find. Left home bout 6:30, and after going to the dam, then spending considerable time at Oliver, we arrived here around 9:45. So glad about the sign, as we probably would have overshot it. Parked up, and started our descent. Was pretty straight forward, and really appreciate the work that has gone into the stairs. as unfortunately, nature is against us interferring, and is throwing trees across the path in several places. One occasion requires hand and knees to go under, oh the leaches. Madrabbitoh got her first for the day of many here, on her arm, and was quickily brushed off. The last section is tricky, by a tree down, and also steps damaged, and very slippery conditions. Lucky we had our brollies, though it was more drops from the trees, than rain. The sun came out once we were at the bottom, and only had some very lite quick showers for the rest of the day. Lucky there. We used the hint straight up, as it could be anywhere down here, with the sketchy gps signal. Found quickly, and after some great photos, trundled back up the hill. Thanks for bringing us here, the waterfall is quite spectacular, quite a drop as well. Fav from me.

I really enjoyed Dundungra falls. There is a white plastic sign nailed to a tree showing where the trail begins. Quite a steep walk down to the falls but once there I was rewarded with a cool mist blowing towards my face. Cache soon located after interpreting the hint. Amazing location! Thanks for bringing me here

What an impressive waterfall! Obviously the copious rainfall of the last few weeks has increased the flow over the drop.
Getting down here wasn't so impressive however. The last two years of covid lock downs has meant that the volunteer group who maintain this track haven't had the ability to do so and we had quite an adventure [:p] Well worth the effort though!

Thanks for find #2542
TNLN

What a beautiful little place to visit. Thanx for bringing me here. TFTC

Found it with BillHill531. Came up this way targeting both these falls & Problem Creek Falls and anything along the way. Spent an age searching, but expanded our search area and had it in hand. With the Olympics starting tomorrow, we can say we got a silver medal being
#2TF#. A beautiful waterfall . Definitely a favourite. TFTC Billy&Jad. Took a path tag.

Found with Shaneo58, we came up targeting two waterfalls and getting others on the way mainly around Dungog. The road here looked in good shape and as we came for this we pushed on and sone found the sign where the track/walk started. Didn't look real good for parking so we parked a bit up the hill, walked back to the track and went down, down, down despite the GPS telling us the cache was in the same contour line as the start of the track. then we got to the correct spot and took a long time to find it as we mis interpreted the hint. We wheren't going home without finding it. It was certainly worth the efford just for the waterfall and the location. Log signed and Cache replaced as found. Second to find 8 months after publication.
**Thanks For The Cache** Billy&Jad.

This is the 6th cache of 7 for today making a grand total of 3264 at 11:35AM on this Thursday the 22nd of July in the Year 2021

(FTF) 6:15pm
Not gonna lie we only discovered the existence of this cache a few hours prior to finding whilst heading up for the pilgrimage to GCF1. That is not to say we don't value a FTF in fact it was a most joyous surprise to find on Cachly - the FTF feature on that App we have been grateful for a number of times. So it meant that today we were able to find one of the oldest AND one of the newest geocaches in the world , all within around 10kms of one another.

Once we left the Frying Pan campsite, we drove back up to the junction of Wangat Rd which we'd already passed earlier as the only way into Frying Pan ATM is via the Telegherry campsite at Currawong due to the bridge being out on Frying Pan Rd. We admired the old machinery just off into the bush where a rather steep and slippery climb up to Dundungra Falls then ensued. The forest this afternoon is so beautiful and bronze with all the afternoon light streaking through after pretty much two weeks straight of rain. This also meant the road up to Wangat trig was in a bad way, heavily rutted and very slippery. There were some corners where even in 4WD we were drifting quite dramatically through the corners and even slipping at some points of the climb. I doubt even our old AWD Scenic RX4 SUV, let alone any 2WD would have made it through one of the sections today. We also had a section of road which was blocked by fallen branches but nothing too serious there.

Once within ~100m of the cache we were rather perplexed to see there was no road into the falls but after briefly gaining some service we saw the P waypoint where the path was then easily found to the point where we wondered how we missed it the first time.

The fun and adventure started the moment we hit the trail. Wow what an incredible little descent that is! A wondrous view about halfway down where the last 50m or so is very steep and, especially ATM with an incredibly wet forest- very slippery! The further down we got the darker it got where not far from GZ on the trail we saw something large move slowly in the shadows but what could that possible be? A closer peek revealed probably the biggest yabbie I think I've ever seen! He'd done well to make it up as high as he was! He would have been ~20-25cm long. The leeches were also back after our time at the earlier cache but our shoes & socks were still soaked with Bushman's

A most incredible picture near GZ at the falls where we were mesmerised by the area. What a wonderful spot. Youngest geokid was keen to get the find happening so we started looking around what we thought was the obvious area but after about 10 mins of careful rock hopping we came up with nothing. I can't believe I forgot to pack my headlamp for this trip it would have come in handy but the phone still had about 10% of power so we had to share the light from it with the boys doing most of the work due to my glasses fogging up in the humidity. The GPS was fairly steady and pointing to a slightly different spot so I moved over to there and soon made the find of a brand new ammo can scraping across the rocks, creating that most glorious sound. The boys opened the book to novo cheers of a blank page where our names are now placed pride of place. We SL and left a novo PT for anyone who collects those. We also dipped our [novo Jasmer geocoin](https://coord.info/TB7AXHF) as this is in fact our first 11/20 cache lol. The cache was replaced as found and the climb back up to the car made where a comprehensive leech check once again showed up zero thanks to deet and maybe also white socks. The drive back down to Middle Ridge Rd was even more fun than coming up lol. TFTC and amazing location, Billy&Jad. It was an honour to kick things off here at this cache! A perfect ending to an epic day.
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