#4 Cockle Creek Boolaroo, New South Wales, Australia
By lee737 on 03-Feb-24. Waypoint GCAK4NJ

Definitely some history here at GZ, although gradually even that is rusting away. The brickwork seems to have survived quite well. We add a favourite point here. Thanks Team 737Domsky

We came up to Newie again this week for about the third weekend in the last four, this time to attend the [HAVOC Flotilla](https://coord.info/GCAZBVQ) event on the Newcastle harbour which was fun. We decided we might set sail up Cockle Creek after the event which was, obviously, a great idea on a day like this! Today the new pilot in the family was piloting [the vessel](https://coord.info/TB9QQJD) while I was doing all the navigating and grabbing. In this particular case, he dropped me ashore where I spent a little more time than I would like to admit searching for and finally finding the well hidden little cache, this one also in excellent condition with a nice dry log. TFTC and series, team737.#2063

Found with mannering park sea scouts

Easy find

I have been wanting to this kayak cache series since it first got published. But my sister who lives so close at Teralba no longer has kayaks, so I had to bring one up from Sydney. Glad I did as it was a really nice paddle from the mouth of Cockle Creek on Lake Mac up to the weir, finding and signing 15 caches along the way, then paddling back down. TFTC lee737

Out of the kayak to collect and sign this one. TFTC

quickly spotted from yak. out you go madrabbioh. wonderwhat this is.TFTC.

#7678Ventured north with [@Purplepeopleater](https://coord.info/PR4X0DC) and [@bella at waggy](https://coord.info/PR5DQ4Z) lured by the Cockle Creek series. Met up at the carpark and organised our car shuffle before hitting the water just before 9am with 2 yaks and a SUP. Excellent home made containers.TFTC lee737

An excellent morning with Crash and B@W paddling this marvellously reclaimed creek.All containers were in excellent condition.SL TFTC

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Back again to complete this section of the water way. Another nice paddle with little wind. A few took a little longer to spot than others but a good outing on the paddle board. Glad the multi final was not in another section. We completed the signing duties and re hid. TFTC

Found on 28/4 with Mighty Minions & 2pods. Mighty Minions was impressive - becoming pretzel-like to retrieve this one from where the kayak had landed. Thanks for placing these caches.

Brilliant to go out for the series with the eagle eye of Goldberry17 and the acrobatic exploits of Mighty Minions. An interesting feature here - TFTC!

Out caching with 2pods and Goldberry17 today. the weather was brilliant, and the water was very smooth. we had lots of laughs, and I really enjoyed the day. the caches were all found with no problems and in good condition. This one was a bit tricky to get to as I had landed a bit further around than I needed to be but thanks to Goldberry's eagle eyes the cache was spotted. Thanks for the cache lee737 tnln replaced as found sl

Decided to drag the canoe all the way to Newcastle so had to make good use of it! Did the cockle creek series and a nearby adventure lab today, not sure if the weather is good enough tomorrow. Good quality made for good fun!TFTC Wilbert67

My final one for the series and fittingly at a rather unusual location. Parking next to the structure, I managed to clamber off the kayak without either getting stuck in the mud like Banj5150 or falling in the drink. I wondered how high the cache might be and whether any climbing might be needed (unfortunately attributes don't show on the Garmin and I forgot to check for any tree-climbing ones before leaving home), but soon saw it in a very reachable spot. I even managed to get back in the kayak without capsizing it!This has been an awesome series and clearly deserves at least one FP, and on the drive home I was tossing up between the challenge cache (#13), the multi (#3) and this one, but decided to go for this one as the location is pretty memorable and it was a good finale to my paddling. I'll keep the other two in mind, though, should I find myself with a surplus of unused FPs at some point.So many thanks Lee and Samuel for putting it all together, now for the paddle back into the headwind (fortunately not too strong) and then down to Toronto for some lunch.

This cache was found today and brings our overall cache find tally to 13180.A day of paddling with Deni_f and Banj on Cockle Creek this morning. With the tide due to hit high at 8am we made an early start at 7. With two kayaks and one stand up paddle board we covered 11.7km in 3hours 59 minutes. Another great cache in the series, found without issue. I love the effort youve gone to with these containers. Thanks lee737 for the cache.

Find#1876After these caches were published I was very keen to get them with all of the different DT ratings. After Banj asked me, Today was the day. Came out with Big Matt also and had an absolutely glorious day finding these caches. I wish I had 15 favourite points as this was such a fun series to do. Matt had calculated that we paddled a little over 11km and a bit over 4hrs in total at a very casual pace Ill add. Thanks for a great series Team 737. Favourite point Log and cache in good condition. TFTC

A great day to be out on the water finding some geocaches. Joined today by Big Matt on a SUP and Deni F in a kayak that an extremely nice bloke borrowed for him to use.As I was getting out of the kayak, my foot got stuck in the mud and I ended up on my butt in the water...good day for it though. TFTC

Hidden very well! So glad to be doing this Geocache adventure with SLELLIOTT today. Another one for the DT ratings. TFTC. Number 4 of today.

Find No: 9183. Out for a great morning with Yella Belly & shaneo58 , thanks for the cache Team737!!

Launched the old "Yella Belly" today and as I am the Captain I picked up an unlikely crew in shanoe58 as Retriever of caches and Grub Fred as passenger (and secretary) to do the Cockle Creek caches. Well it was a fun trip up the river with nobody falling overboard. caches were well hidden but with keen eyes they were found. Thanks Team737 for the series.

HOT! HUMID! MELTING!But a cool cache! TFTH!

Found it. A little intrigued about the history and age of this structure. TFTC TEAM737

Bit of a challenge getting in and out but we got it. TFTC

FTF Very cute spot, nice and quiet place, signed the log an added a sticker TFTF.

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