Fruits of the Forest None, Norfolk Island
By Mellymush on 03-Jan-23. Waypoint GCA3G2E

A pretty little dell where the cache was found by a fun guy, icybeetas, out on the ground, but was tucked back where it should have been after the logbook was inked with our acronym VIIPERS for Val, Ian, Icy, Pam, Evelyn, Ronice (and Sylvia who would have loved to have seen this spot).Obviously worth a favourite point, thanks Mellymush for bringing us here to this delightful spot which we would not have seen were it not for geocaching.

A group of caching friends are visiting from the mainland and enjoying the scenery while caching. The log was signed as team (viipers) who include cybergran V, SciFiRulz, Riddell, Ronice88, icybeetas and myself. Thanks Mellymush for placing this cache, for all that visit the island to enjoy

Out on a multi mission squeezing in caches on a busy tour itinerary. A quick enough find after working out the right level. Glad my muggle buddy loves the long history celebrated on Norfolk so here we are. And for me its like Norfolk has been a myth or has at least has been in the imagination mirrored by faded school lessons for so longnow the dream to visit Norfolk Island is real! The holiday suddenly looks busy busy with a schedule of tours, events and 70+ caches to find. From the first step on the island everything has been fabulous. Cache found quickly and logged as VIIPERS - a crew of caching buddies from Vic and Tassie ( who include cybergran V, SciFiRulz, Riddell, icybeetas Weirdobiker) TFTC and the fun.

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What a great spot!I never would have found that little bridge and awesome fungi.Here on our 2nd visit to the island to renew our vows for our 5rh anniversary Thanks for the cache

Huge fungi, again not where we were expecting to go. Love this game, thanks for the adventure

Lovely area. Now how do we get across the creek. Yayy a bridge. Tftc

Absolutely stunning spot but then so is everywhere we stop!!!Could not believe the size of the plate fungi here wow!!!Enjoying two weeks on Norfolk Island always wanted to visit, now Im here! And theres caches of course! Beautiful place, thank you Mellymush for placing this game piece here, showcasing this lovely area and contributing to this great game for myself and others to enjoy. Happy trails!

Some fruits you just shouldnt eat. RIP style. Found on the 2024 epic Norfolk Island jaunt.Thanks Mellymush and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Are you ready for Victorias next big event? Join in Victorias first ever Block Party to celebrate 25 years of geocaching on March 22 - 23, 2025, at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury - See GCAP417: The Sunbury Event

Found on 6/9/24 with David343. TFTC

Great spot here. TFTH

Easy found

Lots of surfers around today. Tftc

Lovely little hidden spot at the end of the road. Tftc

All good here. Nice fungi. CheersBundy

No luck on this one

Didnt find this one

Found it. Beautiful spot. TFTC

What a glorious spot. Def a favourite point from me!

#6078I really love how geocaching takes you to such amazing things. Loved the fungi growing on the tree. A magic spot. Thans for the geo-fun Mellymush dabble2899.

We parked our geomobiles and headed into the forest. What would we find?Wow, that is some serious fungi there! I've never seen one so big.It's common name is Bracket Fungi. They are quite common in rainforesty areas on the east coast of Australia. They are really, really strong, in fact you could stand on it and it would hold ... well at least 50 or 60kg and in this case I would assume much more. To reach this size it must be decades old. Hope no one touches it, and leaves it for others to enjoy. The cache, well it was a quick find. Now it's off to Bumbora, which looks like a more challenging walk.TFTC # 6027

Found today with Geocaching friends. Thanks for bringing us to this spot. The fungi was absolutely stunning. A favourite point from me!

Found with Deep_99 SL #5419 TFTC

Found with Ris768 while travelling on Norfolk Island TFTCLog 3287Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache Mellymush

Good hide. Ignore the photo.

Very cool

A great spot to hide a cache. Quick find. ?? TFTC Mellymush dabble2899

Done TFTC

Found as it was getting. TFTC

Found with oldmorty.Luckily, oldmorty spotted the "bridge" to get to the other side.Thanks to the CO for the cache.

OCW frazeydaze. I'm glad someone built a wee bridge to access gz. A quick find once there. Cache all good. SLRC as found. TFTC.

Found with MummyPenny on day 3 of our geotour. We almost got our feet wet and then spotted the litted bridge lurking beneath the foliage. Thans Mellymush.

Found in the late evening. Found with ItsDozzie, Ziggyau, Everest High, Brewmaker, Tardis and Max Adventurer. TFTC.

#7567 NI Day 3After our breakfast event, harveyt2079 and I headed towards Kingston again to collect caches in the south eastern corner of the island. Having completed our targets in the south eastern corner, it was time to relocate to the south western corner. Once we spotted the way across the water, it was a quick findTFTC Mellymush

Feet stayed dry and fungi adored Thanks ??

My buddies: bella at waggyNorfolk is gorgeous!Thank you Mellymush, for creating, placing and maintaining this cache. I have enjoyed finding it and visiting this spot.Follow my story on Instagram @AlphaDeltaIndigo

A few drops of rain which did happen on most days but that did not stop ADI and I from more finds. A quick walk and creek crossing to grab the cache and sign before a walk to the one above the beach. TFTC

Found during a week of geocaching on Norfolk Island with GeoMates. It was a successful week and an adventurous one. Thanks go to Mellymush for placing this cache.

Found while out caching with the G8 crew.

Wow, thanks so much for pointing this out. That fungi is amazing.

Thanks for the geocache, that fungi is massive. It was very hard to find.

TFTCOur 1st on the Isalnd. Lovely little park

Thank you for a good fun find

Day 3 of my Norfolk Island adventure. I can understand why people want to live here . Its a little bit of paradise. Wow so much history on the island, Im enjoying my wandering seeing the sites Some logs signed as N2OThis is my 12068find.Thankyou Mellymush for placing and maintaining this cache

Wow, what a fungi

On my last full day on Norfolk Island, I picked out a few isolated caches in places that sounded interesting. Here, I was drawn by the promise of a giant fungus and it did not disappoint. An added bonus was the beauty of Bumboras, as I hadn't been here yet. Every corner of this island is magical. Thanks for bringing us here.

Wow what a fungiWe never would have seen it except for the cache TFTC

That is the most amazing specimen of one of these I have ever seen! Great location, and given a favourite.TFTC

Noticed the giant tree fungi next to the cache.

3 for 3 today. It's a pity that someone had to write on the fungi.

A quick and easy find. Your right that is an absolutely fabulous fungi and I'm glad you led me to see it. Also saw a small eel in the creek. Wonderful, thank you!

15th find on my NI 2023 adventure!! What a specimen that is!! Tftc, love Bumbora!

Over with IolantheK from Brisbane celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary [^]Out for another day of caching up the west side of the island.Nice easy find, cache in good condition [^]Loved the fungus TFTC Mellymush dabble2899

T-Tech and I are visiting Norfolk Island for our 40th anniversary. We arrived from Brisbane and are staying for 2 weeks at Endeavour Lodge, and plan to get some R&R, see all of the sites, learn the history, and gather every cache here so we can claim the Se Dun Challenge Today we had a leisurely start with a visit to the Show followed by a wander through town and a coffee at our favourite cafe. The plan for the rest of the day is to visit Bombora Beach, Crystal Pool, 100 Acre Wood, Headstone Point and St Barnabas Church, gathering caches along the way.Nobody else here and we had no trouble making the find. The nearby fungus is huge! TFTC, Mellymush dabble2899.

Oh another lovely place to stop.How exciting to be at Norfolk finally. This has been the plan for so long. Lovely to be here with Contesta, barb2e, Strangetrousers and IPlod65, signing as DEM CBRThanks for getting me out and about MellymushThe following TB's visited LEGHPD-Signal the Frog Trackable BrickGTGWRQ-Tracy the geoTrack Triceratops TagSGA9MZ-Odee's signal Geocoin - Apr 2006CC4MNG-Waterlily Sherpa Geocoin

# 8914 Today I joined iPlod65, Joolay, barb2e and contesta on the first full day of our Norfolk trip. It was just stunning out there today and we're starting to be able to find our way around. This morning was an orientation tour which helped a lot and was just great.Some logs signed collectively "Dem CBR".Took a bit of searching but got it.Thanks Mellymush dabble2899 for the Traditional Cache

Found with the Canberra group consisting of Joolay, Contesta, StrangeTrousers and iPlod and log signed as Dem CBR. Great to start our adventures on the island. Tftc

Find # 10413Here in Norfolk for a while week of caching fun with geofriends Joolay, barb2e, StrangeTrousers, and iPlod. Zoom zoom zooming around in Kermit (green not red) Logging as DEMCBR.Fantastic weather, warm and sunny after chilly temps when leaving home. This was a quick and easy find and here at Fruits of the Forest today. . Yet another amazing spot. The largest fungi Ive ever seen, and a cute little white bird with long thin black beak roosting in the NI pine Thanks so much for the many caches Mellymush and of course for giving me a reason and incentive to get out here, and to experience this part of the world in a different light

On holiday in Norfolk Island with StrangeTrousers. Beautiful Island. TFTC signed as DEM CBR

My wife and I spent a wonderful week on the Island - the first time for me (but hopefully not the last) and the second for her. Such a delightful place! I took my GPSr, with the traditionals downloaded (I don't really make the time to do puzzles or multis) and figured I would find a few as we went around the place. I never had any intention of finding all 41 of them, but somewhere around day 5 I realised it was actually feasible.

In the end it was a close call - one quite tough-to-get-to cache (Bird Island) I had to visit twice after not reading the description before my first visit and discovering it is really a multi and then stuffing up the calculations so I had an almost blind search for the cache; another (St Barnabas) was out of its hidey hole so took three visits before I found it among some fallen leaves nearby). But I got there and managed to claim them all.

In the interests of saving the limited data on my phone, I only look placeholder drafts during the week and am completing them back home, a month later. So with all due apologies, they are going to be pretty generic for the most part. But I will add comments about those that I particularly remember. No matter how detailed the final logs, I want to say a big thanks to those who have placed the caches and those who continue to maintain them. I had great fun finding them and they really helped make sure I saw as much of the Island as possible. So - a big and sincere TFTC
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After a delightful time exploring the low tide rock pools at the Bay and finding the other nearby cache, it was time to find this one. I startled a lovely big eel in the little creek nearby before finding the rather glorious feature that gave this cache its name. Quite spectacular! An easy if slightly muddy find.

Found with Aussieliahona on a day off the Pacific encounter.

Found on our cruise to NI. New one since last visit. Found with NutcacheBNE

Loved the location of this geocache Mellymush dabble. It’s such a pretty little spot and the fungi was superbly beautiful and I don’t doubt it is probably the biggest I’ve seen. Sadly some bogan idiot has scratched their name into it. Why people can’t leave nature’s beauty unspoiled is beyond me. But we were still thrilled to see it. After admiring it and taking some pics we looked for the cache. It wasn’t hidden but still hard to see and we found it in good condition. We were able to sign the log on the first page. We thoroughly enjoyed this picturesque location and we were able to cross the stream without getting our feet wet so it definitely deserves a favourite point. Hopefully no more idiots scratch on the fungi and everyone can enjoy its beauty for years to come.

TFTC Prepare to get muddy feet! Found whilst on a Ballroom Dancing week.

Exploring the island by geocaching today and found your cache. Need to add water crossing to your attributes. This area seems to be a place the locals come to. Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC

Trek to it meant some muddy feet and a shoe going for a swim but found it easy enough. Definitely one heck of a fungus.

Wow. NI cache and only two previous logs. How do I get across the creek? With difficulty, and muddy boots. Found easily and admired the fun guy. More mud getting back across the creek too. Tftc.

Very cute little spot, tftc

Watawieh from Norfolk Island South Pacific.

I was off island when this cache was published. I flew back into the today and saw that the FTF was still available. With that I headed to Bumboras . First I had to work how to get across the creek. Jump, swim, or take the long way around Finally I was greeted with a blank logbook. Then it is time to admire the impressive fungi.

Thanks for adding another great cache to Norfolk Island. A well deserved favourite point from me

[FTF] at 15:55 on 10/01/2023

Found & logged using Cachly for iOS

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