Sausages of the World - Hurka Merryville Park, New South Wales, Australia
By DARKSIDEDAN on 27-Sep-22. Waypoint GCA0BN1

Short Trip Away Day #3 [25/11] of 3Day three of my holidays (and day #3 of 3 for my trip away) saw me leaving the motel early to start the day. I started by heading over to Fyshwick for a couple of caches over there. For nice easy-ish ones. Three in the Fyshwick Forrest and one over in the park next to Maryborough St. After finding those ones, I headed over to Belconnen to find a couple of others and then onto the Mall for lunch. While at the Mall, I also did a game of 10 pin bowling because why not? I got a score of 120. Once I finished up in the Mall, I started making my way home. I found the next lot of power trail caches along Dog Trap Rd. I have decided on doing these caches section by section given, I drive past/through here so much. From there, I headed home while finding one more in Binalong before getting home. It was a great weekend away and I quite enjoyed catching up with everyone. TB visit. Some caches were signed as JM. A big thanks to the CO for adding this cache to game for the Geocaching community to enjoy. TFTCs!

Reperio 10:13Up early this morning for a full day of caching around the Yass and Goulburn area, and the rain that was predicted the day before well and truly arrived. In and out of the car in short bursts carried on throughout most of the day until later in the evening when things settled down. Most of the caches were found in good order today. Gratias DARKSIDEDANAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, a well spent life brings happy death - LDV

Find# 12331Nice quick find.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Found it: 30/03/2024Sorry for falling behind with logs. Ive been busy catching up with family and also been unwell. I havent completed logs from events - QOBM, Leap Day and Canberra Mega, so am catching up now. Thank you for the cache and hunt.

60th of 60 found today.Yesterday it was a walk, today it was mostly drive-bys, or more correctly drive right up to. Although some were in spots that were a bit dicey to park at, most were okay out this was today. And as they are drive-bys, sadly these be generic logs for most of the caches done on my run today.A nice area to drive around as country roads have a different and welcome feel. Even all the farmers seen were friendly and gave waves or said G'day.The cache is in good condition.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN and the bin

Sir_spectre and I are making our way home from our ACT, NSW and Victoria holiday. Unfortunately, due to family circumstances we had to cancel our Mega adventure, so this trip was to make up for it.Many caches found and any that needed some love got it.Thanks

Quick find. Trying to get my letterbox count up over 25 in NSW. 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.

Full time Nomads, travelling around Australia since 2014. Staying a week or so in Yass, today we headed out late morning. Fantastic warm weather today, woo hoo! Headed south today looking for caches as we head towards a major milestone.TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Out with Muggle65 for a smiley or two today. Thank you for the fun

Heading north today into the country to grab stuff to satisfy some personal challenges. This road is a bumpy horror & our GPS doesnt know how to find the Dog Track (so aptly named) a find here.

There are not a huge number of letterbox caches in Brisbane, so when I travel, this is one type I try to find. This one was quickly located and my name added to the log. With everything returned as found, I continued on my way. TFTC

I found this cache as I was heading back home to Adelaide after the Capital Geobash Mega event over Easter.I was travelling solo again and took somewhat of a zig-zag route, following caches of interest. My main focus was on the non-Traditional cache types, although I did find a few others opportunistically.After a bit of rain the first day after leaving Canberra, its been great weather the rest of the time.The cache and contents were found in good condition.Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache.

*In the area with woolwood9 after the MEGA Event.* ????We cached from Sydney to Canberra, then after the MEGA, up through Yass, Cowra and Bathurst, finally returning to Sydney.*We had a great 3 weeks and enjoyed finding many good caches.* ????We soon had the container found!SL *tm/ww NZ* *Thanks for putting this Letterbox cache out for us to visit*

A day out caching west of Murrumbateman saw Team JAR finding quite a few caches but leaving the high climbs etc to the more able cachers. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining their caches for us to find and admire the lovely countryside.

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 around the Murrumbateman country side. We signed the log as JAR when the caches were found. Thank you for the placement of the caches for us cachers to find. TFTC

Out caching today with friends. 3 of us having a fun time each trying to be the first to get a hold of the cache. We signed as team JAR to save log room. Joojoo57, Aussie Liahona and RichmondLad. Many thanks to all the COs who hid the caches we found today for ensuring this was a great caching day while we were attending the MEGA. Cheers and happy caching!

Since I'm in Canberra for Mega, I've enjoyed seeing many places as well as the warm weather.Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache ?? DARKSIDEDAN.

Got it with WACDG ????

Over here for Capital GeoBash Mega. One of many hidden caches all over the city and surrounds on Mega Day itself. Part of deaf geocachers and friends - WACDG, TFTC

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 (and ALL7) for supplying the bulk of the hides Im finding.

I've enjoyed seeing many places and beautiful views and very different from other states. Beautiful day and saw thick fogs Beautiful drive country road with my brand new Prado 4x4 With Deaf TeamThank you so much

Another massive day with the WA Crew signing WAC. If we arent up trees, we are wading through water or hiking mountains. We are grateful for locals who have shared their TOTT with us. Since we all flew to get to Canberra, it wasnt possible to bring the tools necessary for the high terrain caches. For some of the day we cached with an awesome group signing DG as deaf group; truly a generous and welcoming group. Thanks for your contribution in hiding this cache to make our experience as amazing as its been so far. Please forgive us if the dates are incorrect; we are catching up online logging whenever we find

Found with a group and signed as WACDG during Mega event. DARKSIDEDAN, thank you so much for placing it for everyone to enjoy and highlighting this area.

Hot weather today on country road. Found with a group and signed as WACDG during Mega event. TFTM

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 - signed log as WAC to save time.This is 14703, 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 OZMEGA2024********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********Head 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.

TFTC Big day trip up to Yass with chamad to fill up D/T grids and such

What a huge day was planned for today. I hooked up with Bluewattle to drive to Yass and around the areas to collect letterboxes and challenge caches. This was just before we were to meet up with Ardom to continue our caching travels for the day.First off was the letterboxes of the area (sausages) and a drive around a farm property collecting a few more which was super fun. It was then back on the road to our meeting point for a tree climb and meet up. the tree climb was a tuff one for me. We then worked out where we were going and how we would get all these in a day. It was an awesome day and I was super surprised at how fast we were going along. I guess it helps when the caches are there and in good condition.It was a super day and the CO's should be super happy with their caches in this area. Thanks for the fun we had today. All logs were signed and caches replaced as found.

Another quick stop and find when we were on the right side! lol. TFTC

Not our idea of a tasty sausage, but we were happy to find the regular sized cache after our drunken bee dance around the tree. LOL! SL at 2.57pm Left: vintage hat pathtag On our way to the GeoBash from Wangaratta, Victoria. #10,853 TFTLETTERBOX DARKSIDEDAN

Geoturtle37 and I are taking a few days to get to the Capital GeoBash. We decided to keep off the main roads where possible but there are so many caches in and around Canberra, that we didn't know where to start.We were in this general area so decided to pick up some sausages on our way through. Shame but I doubt we will have time to do them all. Maybe if we return this way, we could find some more.This would be a little more interesting if there was some serious rain.Apologies for the generic logs but we are grateful for the time and effort that has gone into placing all these caches. Thank you.

Great little hiding spot. Thanks for the fun!

Saturday and a free day in Canberra for Taurus Six and I . For the last couple of days I had been caching on my own whilst Taurus Six was at a work conference. After a lovely breakfast catch up with friends at the Arboretum , we had a good few hours to go off for geocaching before catching up with other friends later in the day for late afternoon drinks and dinner. We decided on a slightly different plan of action noticing that there were several letter box caches and challenge cache on the back roads outside Murrumbateman and Yass . Of course before setting off in that direction we had to collect the Adventure Labs at the Arboretum which took us to some great look outs. We love the way the Arboretum has grown and matured since we lived in Canberra it really is going to become a beacon for the future. It was a beautiful Canberra early autumn day a little bit cool first thing but by mid morning it was already warming up to be a beautiful day.The back roads between Canberra , Murrumbateman and Yass were nice and peaceful, everything very dry and the grass quite long on parts we were a little conscious of snakes , however the only creature we did see was a beautiful echidna that did not appear to fearful of our closeness. We are also quite surprised at the growth of both Murrumbateman and Yass not having seen them for a few years wow housing is going up everywhere. All in all for the day we collected 12 Letterboxes, 12 challenge caches , 16 Adventure Labs and just two dnfs . Thanks for the caches Darksidedan and providing a good excuse for us to revisit these parts.

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A quick find after circling GZ, would been quicker if Id gone counterclockwise rather than clockwise! Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

Another day out in Yass. Got around 30 caches for the day. Signed and replaced. Tftc

A tour of cache finding to-day around the country side area to the south of Yass. TFTC.

A quick duck out to Dog Trap Rd to grab another letterbox for my calendar. All good here and Im happy to tick another one of the list. Thankfully more than enough to cover my stay.

With no where to park the van I opted for a drive way and a quick jog .full circle to find this cache

With time to spare on the Yass area, we headed out to grab a few caches.We found a variety of hides, some easy, and many much harder.Signed and replaced as found.Many thanks for placing this cache, DARKSIDEDAN, for us and others to find.

Caching around Murrambateman today, this cache was one of the last ones of the day. Tftc

A simple find once I circled the tree, thanks.

Just out about to catch up geocaching quick find placed back where it belong TFTC

Back to the quickly found logs.
Over from New Zealand to attend the Rutherglen Mega. Now heading back to Sydney getting many caches along the way.
Thanks for the cache, DARKSIDEDAN
#5065

Shared the find here with goingplaces2 and had no problem with this one. All was good with the container and log, which was quickly signed. TFTC.

Decided to go on a bit of a cache hunt today with ilook4geo even though it promised to be a hot day. We found a good selection with some being very easy to find and some taking more time. This was a nice quick and easy one and the log soon had two more names on the list. Thanks go to DARKSIDEDAN for this cache placement.

Found with O319 on our day caching around the area.

Quick find with SJG66 TFTC

Teamed up with AngelG27 to hit some more caches around Yass to help get some numbers up After some caching and a cafe stop, we were joined by Seach4 to grab some more and those were signed as A.S.S to save time/space lol

We had the cutest alpaca audience watching us here!

Thanks for the hide, DARKSIDEDAN

Cache 9850 on 4 Mar 2023.

I am hoping to make the Rutherglen mega event cache number 10,000, so I have a fair few to get between now and then, 181 to be exact. So today SpecimenX and I headed out to Yass again to get some numbers. Happily, Search4 joined us while having some coffee and pastry at Clementine Bakery so we ended up with a mini posse of 3, signing ourselves as A.S.S. for the later caches, which are the initials of our caching names, not us being rude! Okay, maybe a little bit I managed to score 44 for the day before calling it quits. Still so many to find near Yass, I remember a distant past when I had found all the caches in Yass. Thanks to SpecimenX and Search4 for excellent company and cache finding!

Cache found easily and in line with any hints provided. The cutest cache Guardians were watching over the cache!

Thanks DARKSIDEDAN for the cache and the fun!

Found with AngelG27 and SpecimenX. Signed as an acronym of our names. TFTH

Spotted once I got on the correct side. Thanks

Found with fitzy_1965 on a drizzly afternoon.

After attending a lunchtime event, we decided to pick up a couple more caches on the way home. When we remembered that we needed a letterbox today, we diverted past this one.

Nice easy find here today.

29,715. Found with minniek after attending the big Tankengine bash at the yacht club.

We were in Canberra for the mentioned event, and then headed off to do a number caches afterwards. We were heading out this way to grab a couple of challenge caches, when we remembered we needed a Letterbox Hybrid today, and since there are a Gazillion around here, we grabbed this one. Quick find at GZ. Signed the log, replaced the cache exactly as found, then minniek and I headed off to the next one on our list.

Thanks DSD !!

Out and about with FFLL#1 and ALL7 to pick up some countryside caches. Was nice weather today and we managed to get our names in all the caches we attempted. There were a couple we didnt attempt due to their placements but thats all good. Logs signed as FAR (FurfacesLL, ALL7 and Rapidlywild) for those which we all needed, otherwise it was individual names.

No issues with this one, signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache placement DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for a nice day out FFLL and ALL7.

Last minute change of plans meant Saturday was now free. So plans were made with ALL7 and Rapidlywild to go and collect a few caches that had popped up on the map. Actually there are heaps to do but getting the time to do them is rare.
Weather was ideal for caching which made for a pleasant day out in the countryside.
All caches we attempted we found including a couple we could see but valued life a little more to attempt. So no DNF's for us today which was nice.

Thanks for the never ending hides DARKSIDEDAN and thanks for the fun and laughs ALL7 and Rapidlywild

A day out for catching with FurfacesLL and Rapidlywild,
I rang to friend by sms to ask girls interested to come join me to catch up some of the caches, Rapidlywild offered me in her car with FFLL to go ahead for the trip...
The weather is a lovely cool on the country highland...

Awesome enjoyed catching heaps of caches and lovely chats and laughing like comics communicate a lot... Via stop for lunch at Subway...

Thank you Rapidlywild offer us drive all the way...

Signed the log with FFLL and Rapidlywild (FAR) as good dry.. TFTC

This find could have been easy or hard. I made it harder by approaching from the wrong direction. I thought I had searched everywhere and was preparing for a DNF, but as I headed back to my car and faced GZ from another direction, I spotted the cache, and the DNF was averted. Cache and log are good. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

Took a circle, and a few friendly honks from locals in support.

Out on a sunny day for a few caches, looks like summer has turned up finally with the countryside finally brown and an abundance of grass seeds, dust and flies... got to love summer!

Great to get out though and head out along the Yass area roads once again! Thanks for the cache.

All logs found without too much fuss, all but one in good condition and even that one was still writable.

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Out on a lazy weekend drive around the back roads of Yass...again.

Super friendly locals who honk loudly as they drive passed my safely-as-possible parked car...some even did a U-turn so they could do it from the opposite direction. Good times!

Skipped nearly all the trads, focused on the challenges and the used-to-be rare types that are everywhere up here.

It was 7:30pm the night before New Years Eve. Chatting to injuryman I mentioned how I was 34 cache finds short of my biggest year ever. I didn't have much motivation to beat this statistic and get across the line, but thankfully injuryman did! He said "Let's go night caching, I'll be at your house in 30 minutes".

So, that's what we did! I quickly searched for the closest & easiest 30+ caches to grab, but of course there weren't many as I have done most of them! We ended up starting in Sutton, grabbing the string of caches I had vowed never to find because of where they were placed, but thankfully doing them late at night before the night that everyone else stays up late was perfect. The very busy road was quiet for once, and we only saw about 6 cars go past, it was nerve wrecking every time they did though, and almost all of them stopped to check why we were half parked on the road with our hazards, but I'm glad to not have to look at those unfound caches on my map again after driving past them usually at least once a week!

We then did the full length of "Yass River Road". Here we didn't see a single car for several hours! Lots of potholes and a few other little things to navigate through / around, but not too bad. The grass was OVER head high the whole time though, and we clocked up a few DNF's.

Once we had popped out the other side to Murrumbateman, we headed to Dog Trap Road just for a few more caches to get the number we were looking for. A string of DSD Letterbox caches just outside town did the trick here, with a couple trads and even a Challenge thrown in! These caches were excellent, and our favourite of the night. Quiet roads, larger sized containers, well placed. Appreciate that!

Our last cache find was at 1am on the 31st. So yes, our finds for tonight were spread over two dates (30th / 31st)! Eventually got home and in bed by 2am after that! Phew...!

Thanks injuryman for giving me company to surpass my "Best caching year" and thanks to InnocentApple, ALL7 and DSD for hiding park and grabs, which do come in handy sometimes even if they aren't my favourite thing to do anymore! We also got one Sui cache, and a Sui hide that was disguised as a DSD cache which had us confused for ages as we were looking for a DSD hide instead, so thanks to him too

It was 7:30pm the night before New Years Eve. Chatting to injuryman I mentioned how I was 34 cache finds short of my biggest year ever. I didn't have much motivation to beat this statistic and get across the line, but thankfully injuryman did! He said "Let's go night caching, I'll be at your house in 30 minutes".

So, that's what we did! I quickly searched for the closest & easiest 30+ caches to grab, but of course there weren't many as I have done most of them! We ended up starting in Sutton, grabbing the string of caches I had vowed never to find because of where they were placed, but thankfully doing them late at night before the night that everyone else stays up late was perfect. The very busy road was quiet for once, and we only saw about 6 cars go past, it was nerve wrecking every time they did though, and almost all of them stopped to check why we were half parked on the road with our hazards, but I'm glad to not have to look at those unfound caches on my map again after driving past them usually at least once a week!

We then did the full length of "Yass River Road". Here we didn't see a single car for several hours! Lots of potholes and a few other little things to navigate through / around, but not too bad. The grass was OVER head high the whole time though, and we clocked up a few DNF's.

Once we had popped out the other side to Murrumbateman, we headed to Dog Trap Road just for a few more caches to get the number we were looking for. A string of DSD Letterbox caches just outside town did the trick here, with a couple trads and even a Challenge thrown in! These caches were excellent, and our favourite of the night. Quiet roads, larger sized containers, well placed. Appreciate that!

Our last cache find was at 1am on the 31st. So yes, our finds for tonight were spread over two dates (30th / 31st)! Eventually got home and in bed by 2am after that! Phew...!

Thanks injuryman for giving me company to surpass my "Best caching year" and thanks to InnocentApple, ALL7 and DSD for hiding park and grabs, which do come in handy sometimes even if they aren't my favourite thing to do anymore! We also got one Sui cache, and a Sui hide that was disguised as a DSD cache which had us confused for ages as we were looking for a DSD hide instead, so thanks to him too

A last hurrah for 2022 caching with The Rats today- into and then out of Canberra on some geotrails. A number of different caches were tackled on a hot day.

We got there after looking all over.

TFTC!

Took advantage of the public holiday to a bit caching with steeba as we tried to grab a few final caches before the end of 2202. Despite the heat we had a great day.
TFTC

DNF for this one, We looked at all the likely spots you would/could hide a cache around near GZ, also looked at previous logs for any hints. . DARKSIDEDAN.
Attempted to find this at 3:23PM on this Tuesday the 8th of November in the year 2022

Today it wasn't raining. Still a lot of soggy walking. Now the insects are coming out. Lots of them. Grabbed a bunch of caches today. Good fun. TFTC.

We had turned the corner and heading back to Murrumbateman for a well earned lunch.
A quick find after I had let Cybergran have a hunt.
Cheers Darksidedan.

If there’s two ways of finding a cache you can guarantee I’ll go to the wrong side. I went one way, feathertop went the other, and you can guess who found it!
That’s it Darksidedan, looking forward to something other than sausages for lunch in Murrumbateman.

Late afternoon jaunt visiting friends in Murrumbatman. Picked up only a handful of caches as time was scare. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN.

A straightforward find here today with the caching collective as part of an initial run through some of the Murrumbateman region caches.

Thanks, DSD!

Good to catch up with friends and get some caches, particularly letterbox caches. TFTC

I joined up with up Smitten Granny for a morning caching to Murrumbateman and beyond onto Dog trap road for as many of the new caches as we could to get to a nice round twenty five caches. Whilst it did not rain on us today, it was very wet underfoot every where and there was road fixing getting under way on Dog Trap road near the Murrumbateman junction. The walk around the stock reserve should have been done in gum boots, but we made it without having to find a canoe.

Thanks for the cache DARKSIDEDAN

38654.7 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Caching the Wetlands A#257

**Albida**

This series was our main target for today - the letterboxes! I was out with Albida33 who had researched and plotted our route. They were relatively easily found though not always without getting our feet very wet as we tramped through extremely long grass or very soggy marshy areas.
All logs were signed. TFTC DSD

#18855 @1955
An evening drive to top up my find numbers for the day. Cache soon found. TFTC.

A short morning trip to Murrumbateman to clear up some of the new Letterbox series. All attempted were found and in good condition after carefully navigating the long grass. No time to complete the few inside the reserve which will have to wait for another day. TFTC and the series DSD. A fav awarded here on behalf of the ones completed today.

#16500 - 10:24:00 AM; Needed a few caches to top up the daily tally, so headed out with Sol de lune to collect some of the newer caches in and around Murrumbateman and to make our first foray into the "Sausages of the World" series. Achieved our target for the day with eleven from eleven, plus a challenge to be checked. All found in good order and returned as found once the log was stamped. TFTC DARKSIDEDAN

Out this way to grab a few in the series with LuckyL10n. A little wet underfoot but nothing that would stop us. Managed to grab 6 in the series plus a couple a trads before heading for home.

Thanks DSD...cache all good.

Nice break for lunch in Murrumbateman then back out to the quiet road. Very busy on the highway today. This took a bit to get out of its hidey hole. Tftc

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Chooo ooo [FTF] ! - Nice find here! Thanks DARKSIDEDAN!

Adventure boys!
We found in peace.
#nosuchthingas [ftf]

Sausages of the World - Hurka
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2 October 2022

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