Problem Creek Falls Upper Karuah River, New South Wales, Australia
By Billy&Jad on 07-Nov-20. Waypoint GC92RPW

Not too hard to find this once I got to GZ. Thanks for bringing me to this nice spot. TFTC!

After a long time searching in the wrong place, I event made the find while my daughter Crying Cowboy had a dip in the water. TFTC

It certainly was a bit of a scramble to get to the cache, complete with a couple of leeches between the toes. The spot was incredible and a nice place for a very refreshing dip. Thanks for leading us to such a lovely waterfall. A red belly was sighted along the path on our way in so beware

A long weekend in Maitland to visit this cache. We drove to this location early in the morning with Pitsch Patsch. The journey on the off-road road was no problem with the 4x4 car. After a long hike through the hinterland, past rustic trees and vegetation, we came to the given coordinates. Thanks to the hint, we didn't have to search for the hiding place for long. And then we were very lucky and finally found the object of desire and were able to successfully enter our name in the new logbook. The Moorhelmi's from Germany say thank you for bringing us here and looking after us.

We enjoyed the nice walk to the waterfall, and at the end we found this cache. Thank you.

A cache check and some maintenance today. There was quite a bit of moisture in the container and the logbook was damp. We have replaced with a dry logbook and a better sealed container.

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Roses are redViolets are blueLeeches suckAnd geocaching can tooWe managed to count 53 leeches on ikatiemcc by the end of our adventure and lost count for me. I can highly suggest wearing long pants and shirt for this one. Even though we left the GZ cachless, the waterfall and walk were beautiful. TFTC

After finding Frying Pan I decided to head off to this cache, who doesnt love a waterfall.Hiked up to the waterfall and realised I was on the wrong level for the cache. I think the T should be higher. I had a bit of a slip in getting to the cache. Signed and returned as found.TFTC

Wet undergrowth I should know better. Leeches yes, they love me and what is a walk through the damp rainforest without a couple.or moreleeches. Yes they will drop off .eventually but by that time my blood will be depleted and I wont make it back to the car! Astro came to the rescue and leeches, hopefully, are no more!Found after having found the frying pan cache!Day 8 of the travels towards Barrington Tops before heading to the 2024 Canberra Geobash. Thanks Billy&Jad for placing this here, contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy.

After finding Frying Pan, we could not contain our excitement. We pushed onto this one via the fork through pretty thick growth - the plants were wet. As we discovered after 10 or so minutes, we both had slight itches. Yep. Ouch. Leeches. I had 5 and Deanside 7. We dealt with these with salt. One would not budge. Its a tiger leech. It was sucking bad so I got the cigarette lighter I carry in back pack and burnt it off. That did the trick. An astro survival trick. Indeed. We pushed on. By the time we got to gz, we de- leeched again. Salt did the trick. No zebras. We found the cache a lot easier than the frying pan. Contents were damp. We dried things out in a patch of sunlight while we checked for suckers again. We repeated the exercise 3 times on the way back. One stop we had a zero count. Definitely an adventure to remember!!. Found on the Mega Capital Geobash coastal loop via Adelaide - Barrington - coast to Mexico City loop. A lot of caches and white line fever was sweated out. Thanks Billy&Jad and clear skies from TeamAstro. ?? Cache the planet! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

This was so much fun to adventure to and then to find once I got to the location. Gorgeous part of the world I never new was here

A bit hard with the hard to get gps signal but when found was happy as plus went for a dip great spot

Made an error and went for a drive from Frying Pan and then realised it was near by, so back to the same spot we had parked for Frying Pan. Not as easy as we had first thought. Trees down thank you to the previous logged cacher so we were aware of what to do. Up and down, up and down and leeches again. Read the hint and soon had the cache. What a beautiful spot and the water was so cold - had a little drink. The trip was quicker going back..not sure why??TFTC.

No. 6 for todays list. I was very confused as to where to start this trail, but now reading it, i dont know what i was reading last night. We crossed over from Frying Pan to Coachwood, and realising my mistake, ended up parking back where we were for Frying Pan, and taking the right fork, like it says to. Relative easy is a relative term, which should be considered more on the difficult side. Lots of downed trees, as previous finder mentioned, but we made it in the end. Seems to be a long 1.2km, with all the undulations. Though it was a quick walk back. ?? Leeches, Dont forget the leeches. Lost count. Cache was quickly found once at gz. Thankyou for this adventure. A wonderful place for a swim i reckon.

My 2000th find! Yay
I came unprepared and unhydrated for finding this cache. Looking at the map it looked like a fairly easy 1.2km down a track to the falls. Boy was I wrong! There are many large trees down along the track (requiring wide walk arounds, not the ‘step over’ type fallen trees). At one point I considered it may be easier to walk up to the road and follow that. I persevered though, receiving many face fulls of spider webs, and at last was rewarded with the sound of the waterfall. Cache was fairly easy to locate. Signing duties done, I lapped up a large amount of water from the creek and had a rest before heading back. Would be the perfect place for a swim on a hot, humid day like today! TFTC and bringing me here

Beautiful day for a walk and some photos . TFTC

Came up here today specifically targeting this cache and Dundungra Falls with BillHill531 and were lucky enough to find both of these and a few more along the way.Took on the elements in the middle of winter but the exercise kept us warm. Nice enjoyable walk to GZ and a fairly quick find. A fav for me. TFTC and the day out in the Barrington. Billy&Jad.

Found with Shaneo58, we came up targeting two waterfalls and getting others on the way mainly around Dungog. Nice drive from Dundungra falls to Frying Pan Camp, and this time the GPS had a few ups and downs but a bit easier tha the previous falls, We arrived a this GZ and found cache fairly quickly Nicely hidden as per hint. and after admiring the falls and enjoying the location we made our way back to the car. Log signed and Cache replaced as found.
**Thanks For The Cache** Billy&Jad.

This is the 7th cache of 7 for today making a grand total of 3265 at 1:46PM on this Thursday the 22nd of July in the Year 2021

FOUND IT !!!


Best one I’ve found , amazing waterfall and walk to get there. Great hiding spot

FTF

We came for the oldie and found that there was another cache nearby which wasn't found by anybody until now.
So we made this wonderful morning walk to the falls and found the cache.
TFTC

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