Yello Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia
By Red Dwarf on 08-Mar-03. Waypoint GCD8DD

Out with a bunch of Scout Leaders for some bushwalking training. This cache is ideal for GPS and compass skills. Only a few came down to the cache, though, but a satisfying find for the group, nonetheless.
TNLNSL, cheers, Wal

Found with Muppet95. TFTC

Targeted two older caches for the day. We parked at one of the several different access points and made our way down the trail. Thankfully, we quickly located the creek crossing and followed the painted 'egg' markers up to the 10B Management Trail. It was smooth sailing from there - following the obvious white dots up to the top of Mount Westmacott.

At the top, we quickly located Einstein's stupid brother and admired the views. From here, we projected a waypoint and made our down through the bush to our calculated GZ. Two pictures helped triangulate and confirm our search area. We overcomplicated the search here by extensively examining the along the edge of the rock shelf. Turns out the cache can easily be found away from the edge and with two feet firmly planted on the ground. We wondered how the pipe-shaped rock had been formed?!

Surprised this cache has had so much unfound/unloved time between the last few finds. Thanks For The Cache!

Came back to keep Nana nel company as she tries to catch up to my total.
Enjoyed the walk and pleased to see the required information is still there.
Took a key ring, visited trackables and left 2.

While sitting on top of a Mountain, near where I found Yello, enjoying sunshine and taking a breather from the walk, scramble up here. After finding what the brother left behind, photo attached, calculated which way to go. Quickly located the hiding spot, signed log, left 1 trackable and took 2. Thanks to odlids for maintaining this cache.

Mission accomplished..........Visited to release Gabby's Magic the Dragonfly - trackable!

Many thanks to wazza9 too!

odlids

One of our Trackables, Gabby's Magic the Dragonfly Trackable, was placed in this cache back in April 2019.

Would somone mind rescuing it and get it moving again?

I've attached a picture for your reference.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dave and Gabby

I found the inscription by Einstein's idiot brother, but could not find the cache.

Well here I was on the top of Westmacot, for the 3rd time in 10 years....... I was telling friends via messenger, 3rd time fail. Going back through my logs.....omg .... its been 11 years since I first DNF'd this. That's right on 31/8/2008 and I'm sure I came back up sometime in 2009 just after Altaire had found it and again a DNF for me, must have conveniently forgotten to log another DNF, as I skulked back down the mountain, tail between my legs. How hard can this be..... I didn't think my navigation was that bad. Each time I'd been here the conditions looked different, well today after 10 years it looked nothing like it did last time I was here. Its very over grown and the once clear rocky slabs are now covered in vegetation. Really hard to walk in a straight line. I get a friend calling me and tries to help. I give it another go and still have never been able to find Einsteins stupid brother to this day. I used my compass to take another bearing and headed off from my wpt 1 in the same direction as always this time , I tried something a little different and suddenly a whole new world opened up. I had definitely not been here before. My friend calls again and as I'm whinging that this is another fail and that its like looking for a needle in a haystack, he reminds me its old school navigation...... yep.... I know... but I didn't think my compass reading skills were that bad and as I was walking back slowly dragging the legs and about to hang up.....there before me was the cache. I'm so sorry for shouting OMG.. I found the cache into the mouth piece of the phone. I just couldn't believe it. I was laughing hysterically......... this must have been the longest time taken between first and last attempt.... 11 years. The container is exactly the same as stated in the hint and in good condition. I took the TB and left another one from the Clear Waters mega.
Thanks Red Dwarf for this very old school type of cache, if only you'd also left us a topo map, I would have got to GZ sooner.

After my failure 2 days ago, I decided to have another go after carefully reading the previous logs. I came to the conclusion that I was following the clue to religiously, so I set out again on the walk to my westmacott, I soldiered the whole way to the top, and after a short rest at wp2, I began searching again. This time around I was able to come up with the find in only 10 mins! I do agree that you shouldn’t be relying on the clue too much as it doesn’t really help you at all. Nevertheless the cache was found, the contents were nice and dry and the overall condition of the cache is pretty good, signed the log, tftc now off to kookaburra

This one has been on my bucket list for a very long time, I finally had time today to attempt this one. On the walk there I picked up room with a view, before turning up to mt westmacott, I found the marks I needed pretty quickly actually after getting up high to admire the view and finding them at my feet, a simple walk to gz, but a very extensive hour and 15 minute search could not turn up the cache, I found one very good looking spot that matches the clue perfectly, but a look inside didn’t reveal a cache, despite this, it was a good walk in with a very rewarding view at the end, I will attempt this one again one day

Really wasn't a good idea to estimate the 55m to gz as I horribly underestimated and was getting very frustrated at not finding it even though I was only 17m away. After a long time I came to my senses and walked back to wp2 and marked a waypoint there. If only I did that before. Mt Westmacott has always been one of my favourite spots even before geocaching. Thanks for placing a cache here. TFTC

#2/5 of a lovely hike from Waterfall to Loftus via Audley.
I did Mt. Westmacott as a "warm up" walk before my fried arrived to Waterfall to join me. I loved te top of the hill, really nice view.
To find the cache was super easy, I started the hunt already at the Einstein brother stage
TFTC

It's a beautiful day, so it's time for getting done caches! I took the train to Waterfall and descended down the fire trail. A turn into a small path and soon I was at the kingfisher pool. This would be beautiful after a couple of days of rain, I surely need to come back here in the future.

After that I continued my travels to mt west-mascot. A couple of years ago I tried this last cache and didn't find it because I spend more time watching kids not falling down than looking for the container. Today I was by myself and I could do it properly. And success again!

Thanks to the COs for the caches!

(Dropped off TB)

I made my way here along the rocky trail through Camp Coutts, which I really enjoyed, the white and green dots helped me navigate. Then I found the trail with the pink ribbons. I was so happy I made it to GZ but I couldn't find the cache - I found where I thought it would be based on the hint by no cache.
A bit disappointed as I came from Melbourne for this one, but the view alone was worth it

Out for the day caching with Brewmaker in search of 2 old multicaches in Heathcote National Park.
We parked in Warabin St and then it was a nice downhill walk to the fire trail. Then onto the next track which led straight to Kingfisher Pool. I first came to the pool about 10 years ago. Back then there was a lot more water and it was great to go for a swim. Today it didn't look as nice or as inviting, with lower water levels. Still it's great spot to stop and look at the water and interesting cave rock formations along rock bridge that leads to the other side of the river.

After having found Kookaburra we then rejoined the trail and headed for Yello. At first we followed the pink ribbons on the trees, passed a scout corral, and then came to the end of the track at a T-junction. We decided to head left, as that was leading directly towards the cache. But - it involved quite a bit of uphill bush-bashing. Finally we made it to the top, still about 480m away from the cache. Time to stop and have something to eat and drink.
Then we headed across. Luckily we didn't have to descend back down into another valley, and at first the going was good, along flat rocks. Eventually it was a final bush-bash up to the top, and we reached WP1. Read the info about the distance and direction, and headed off to WP2. At first we were too low, and after a long search I started looking in a different higher area until I finally saw the markings. Lots of scouts have obviously been up here! We still weren't sure what to do, but then read about the new distance and direction that we needed to follow. After another short break we headed off.
We soon reached gz area and scouted out to find the cache. First one side, then the other, but it wasn't too long before I shouted 'yippee - I've found the cache'. Signed the log and replaced the cache, and then we headed down to the track towards the scouts camp before turning left onto the fire trail back to the car.
Great to find this old multi. TFTC

Mad dogs and geocachers go out in the midday sun! Well that's what we did (again) today when Mikev1 and I decided to tackle the two remaining multis west of Waterfall. Of course it was over 30 degrees but felt like 36 degrees once we started.

Having just found Kookaburra, we decided to go in search of "Old Yello". What a marathon adventure this turned out to be! From the Kingfisher Pools we followed an easily marked trail with pink ribbons to guide us. That was the easy part, as when we were about 800m away we decided to head uphill... Bad mistake, as we fought our way through thick scrub and branches and rocks and leaf litter and.... well the only thing we didn't have to fight were snakes, fortunately! At the top of the ridge with 400m still to go, we were hoping that it would be only the rocks that would be crossing, but soon we came across the same terrain and thick vegetation once more.

Finally, we arrived at WP1 and then used the Garmin to guide us to WP2. Once there, we searched for the marks made by Einstein's stupid brother! We saw several inscriptions but not the one we were meant to locate, so we decided to chance it and it use what info we had to cover the final 55m south.

This opened up to an area that had many, many possible hiding places. We split up and searched from different directions and after only 10 minutes came the familiar cry of "FOUND IT!" The scream "Yippee!" was heard across the valley as the relief of making this find was achieved.

After signing and replacing we then assessed our exit strategy, and soon found a marked trail of white arrows and pink ribbons leading us downhill on the eastern side to the fire trail. Then it was back to where we turned off to Kingfisher Pool earlier in the day and then back to the car!

A great adventure, but one that really should be made from the fire trail and not the way we attempted it. But the views from the top and GZ are fantastic, as are the rock formations in that area. TFTC and another old one ticked off too!

nice trip with the cousins! beautiful location

On a glorious Spring Sunday, Smigglepot and I decided to wander through Heathcote NP and pick up a couple of the 'remote' caches residing here. After finding Waterfall Waterpump, we regained the service road enroute to Mt Westacoutt. There was a hive of Scout activities going on today and the carpark was chockers with SUVs. WAIT!! You mean we could've driven down to here instead of footing it?!
Past the Scout Camp, we forded the creek past the helipad with the aim to try and find the 'short cut' track marked on the map. Unfortunately, this track is severely overgrown to non-existent so we ended up bush-bashing the 200 m or so up the hill, complete with a few leech encounters, to find the service road again.
Once back on track, the trailhead to Mt Westcoutt was spotted readily with a much, much easier walk to WP1, and eventually WP2 and GZ.
It took a bit of looking around the final coordinates before we came up with the cache. My GPS indicated the cache as being 67 m bearing 200 degrees from WP2.
In: TB/Travel Bee, and $10 Telstra phone card (you just need to find a phone that'll accept it!)
Out: bike reflector (thanks, whoever left this - I needed one for a trailer)

An FP for a brilliant location and a multi that allows me to make use of some of the lesser frequented features on my GPS (e.g. Heading and Distance from Start, etc).

TFTC odlids!!!

Excellent views in all directions from WP1 and WP2.
Found with Lonely Rooster.
TFTC odlids

This cache has been on the bucket list for a while so when wazza9 suggested we head out to mt westmacott to have a look we couldn't say no. Once again parked in warrabin st and followed the trail (we passed the turn off to the kingfisher pool where the cache "kookaburra" is, we've found that one years ago but returned after finding "yello" so that wazza9 could have a search for it). After a pleasant walk we found the painted arrows & dots that led us to the top of mt westmacott, bit of a hike up but not too hard, after a rest at the top the search began and after several goes at finding the various waypoints wazza9 took the paf option and we were given a little bit of a clue that confirmed we were close but we had stiffed up by a few metres at wp2, a scramble up the rock revealed magnificent views and E certainly did =McK (now the hint made sense). Wp marked and we followed the terrain in the right direction (well sort of) and the right distance (well sort of) and the search was on, after less than half an hour wazza9 yelled out "found it" which was a fantastic relief to have finally kicked this one out of the bucket list, from start to finish we probably walked and searched for in excess of 3 hours but were rewarded with great views.
Thanks wazza9 for your great company and humour, so glad we didn't have a dnf on this one!
TNLN, SL
TFTC
Cheers from CATONY.

Thanks for maintaining this cache odlids.

Seeing the last note, we paid attention to the lid and can report that while it is loose, it still fits. A suitable size container to replace this one will be a 2L Systema Container.

This was one of the few remaining caches that CATONY (visiting) hadn't found in the Royal/Heathcote National Parks and before heading back home he wanted to clear them. They managed to get all but one. Always a reason to come back.

We arrived at the beginning of this multi and realized that the compass was left at home on the bed side table. A GPS is not good enough for the task required. This was where the problem started and we went in different directions. At the location I ended up at there was nothing to even look like what we were looking for. CATONY had some rock carvings near their location and we concentrated on that. After a while we forgot that we were looking for something to act as WP2 and started looking for a cache. With so much frustration building (about an hour and a half) we contacted a PAF who pushed our buttons and guided us to a general area with a reminder we were looking for information to act as a WP. This point was within 2M of where CATONY started his search about 1 1/2 hours earlier. E=McK was soon located and we moved towards a possible GZ.

Arriving there we couldn't see anything and were so upset with ourselves after 10 minutes searching that we again made a text to a PAF. I sat down for a rest wishing that the request for help would be answered and at that angle, it was looking me in the face. I shouted "FOUND IT" and let CATONY do the same before going in to recover the cache. At that time the PAF came good and we were able to say thanks but all was now good. Also advised the earlier helper that we had found it.

It is great to see an original log book still in place in great condition and noted that 2 scout groups had logged in the book since the last finder shown on the internet. Visited trackables and adding a Favorite.

Out walking today in Heathcote NP and passed here on the way out. Visited a TB. The lid is missing, but thankfully everything is dry in it's hidey hole.
best wishes,
Wal & Jeremy

On the way back from Kookaburra myself and Team Canary decided we might as well add this one to our search list. A long walk along the fire trail eventually lead us to the hard to see track off to the right to Mt ? then we just joined the dots together to find the first wpt. TC did all the hard work and we soon had a bearing to GZ.

Now came the hard part, where to look. Here, no, there ,no, where was it? We came across a perfect spot to hide a cache, but it wasn't there. In the end TC spied the hide, and it bore no resemblance to the hint at all! In fact it was a pipe dream in my opinion.

We loved the views from up here, a great spot for a cache.

This was the highlight of the day out with Rainbow Spirit. Magnificent views and a fun multi. The only thing that was wrong was the clue was a hinderance not a help!?!

TFTC.

Having convinced the long suffering wife that a bush caching expedition made far more sense than a cafe cruise along the Cronulla beach walk, we headed off down towards Camp Coutts. After an initial small disappointment due to a locked gate, a huge tree down about 25m further in had us not begrudging it too much.

After passing through the scout camp, we headed up looking for the marked path on the GPS. It would appear that the Garmin people were once again indulging in their appetite for fiction this morning, making for an interesting bush bash up to the road. We completely managed to miss the path up to the summit as well, making for a fun but very adventurous climb up. How that woman puts up with me I'll never know....

Managed to faff about a bit finding WP2, going way too low at first, then on to GZ, where we proceeded to look everywhere but the right place for an inordinate amount of time. I had literally just said time to go, when she walked over, shifted a rock and pulled out the cache!

Resisting the urge to try on a now somewhat bedraggled cap, the log was signed and we enjoyed the luxury of a path down. Even managed to find one not too much further than the fictional one on the GPS map. Gotta love BITO - bash in, track out.

TFTC

Yipeeeeee, I found it, eventually.
Staying the weekend at Camp Coutts with Ingletures & some Geo-Scouts.
Been up here a few times before but first time as a Cacher.
On our way up tried to find the "Goat" cache near the Bubble Caves, had a good look around, but nada.
Fantastic views.
Took Noodles22 pathtag.
TFTC.

Found along with West Pennant Hills Valley Scouts while staying at Camp Coutts [:-)]

NazzoR

TFTC full log to follow.

Found by Pi.

Glad to finally put this one to bed.

Out here again leading a bushwalk in the area and Mt Westmacott was our morning tea stop. After a visit to Lake Toolooma we headed up here via Coutts Gully. Arriving at the top I scoffed down some morning tea before heading over to have a look for the cache. Having had a quick look on a previous visit I didn't have to waste time revisiting the waypoints and headed straight over to the search area again. Tried a few spots I had looked at previously just to be sure. I was heading over to another possible area when I noticed a spot that would make a great hiding spot, peered in and BINGO. What a perfect hiding location. Grabbed the cache, signed the logbook and returned the cache.

Mt Westmacott is a great spot to visit for the views alone and this cache makes good use of those views. From here we headed down the power line fire trail onto the Bullawaring Track, then up the secret bushwalkers track to the first major waterfall on Myuna Ck for lunch and then back to Waterfall via the Mooray Track. This made for a good loop walk around Heathcote NP.

TNLNSL.

TFTC,
Michael (GPS).

Celebrating my 366th consecutive day of finding geocaches I decided to improve my multicache statistics and finally clear some of the caches from this side of the army base as I don't come here very often.
Given the description of 1.5km I thought I had enough to find it before dark (assuming sunset at 5pm) but it took me much longer to find my way to the top than expected.
I found the general area for wp1, but I was worried to get stuck out here in the dark so I followed the final directions and found the final wp with ease.
I found a familiar travel bug inside and took it for a walk. I also left a pathtag.
Thanks for the adventure.

After parking at the end of Warabin St, geodad and I followed the fire trail towards GZ. I was worried there wouldn't be a path leading to GZ from the fire trail as I'm not familiar with the area. But all anxiety was removed when a well marked track was found. Then the fun began! Scrambling up the hill! Good times. And at WP1 we saw an awesome view. Got the compass out and did the duties only to find myself in an odd spot. Turns out my southish had become south eastish. But once I figured that out the cache was found, pretty much spot on to the instructions given. Thanks for a really really great cache with top views to match. Favourite for sure. A really well thought out multi.

Lovely walk and a great view. Quite hot today but there was a nice breeze on top of the ridge. Thanks for the cache.

I wasn't sure how Damo. and I would go with this geocache. There had been a few DNFs, and atthe time I didn't know Steeba had found it a few months ago. We walked in from the south and clicked over the 1.8 km in quick time, but we couldn't find the turnoff. After a few minutes of walking and consulting vague maps, we decided to turn around and see if we had passed it. Sure enough we had, the sign on the rock was visible only from the north.

The next phase saw us climb up the hill and make it to the top. What a great view. After a quick break and a drink, we projected the waypoints and quickly found the geocache. Half an hour later we arrived back the car, hot and bothered, but happy to find these old school geocache.

Since this one hadn't been found for a while I was a little nervous about the DNFs, but I needn't have worried .

I tried to obtain a hint or two off Walw but he went one better and thought it was a good excuse for a walk after work so we met at the top of the Camp Coutts hill and were off. A nice walk, some snake tracks on the road down the bottom of the hill . We made our way through camp then across and up- some interesting formations along the way. At the top Walw pointed out WP1 and I used the feature on the GPSr to plot a waypoint 55m away at about 192 degrees. Walking there it turned out to be about 5m from GZ and before too long the cache was in hand. Walw left a swap and we wandered back down and then back up to the cars. Another one off the list . TFTC!

Searched at the coordinates in all sorts of nooks and crannies without luck. Has it been muggled or was I just not looking hard enough????

When we left home the sun was shining but by the time we got to Waterfall the drizzle and mist had set in. We headed up the track and enjoyed the walk in and the views from the top. Geoson has been up here before but it was a first for me. I am sure on a clear day the views would be beautiful but today it was a little misty. Unfortunately our waypoint projecting did not lead us to the cache today and even though we searched hard, we did not find. Maybe next time...

Parked at waterfall & followed the track until I found a locked gate where straight past the gate I followed the sign to Mt Westmacott, you can`t miss the turn off. Steep but easy climb to GZ & now time to follow the GPS to stage 2 & 3, this took me to a likely area, during the search I found a small bit of wood with the words "close but not quite" or something similar, frustratingly close I thought so widened the search............and widened the search for the next 2.5 hours but came up empty handed...........except for the fantastic views on a lovely warm winters day. Looks like a trek back here another day when i`m armed with more clues, this one`s going to be a challenge by the look of it!
Great day to be out in the bush though & a fantastic spot to visit. Will be back.

Yaaahooo!! Found with "The Neighbs". First attempt and success! The cache has been found in such a long time. This is a magnificent place on such an awesome afternoon. TFTC

Found with SESBLOCKER. Plenty of scouts on Mt Westmacott today. Great day to be outdoors. TFTC

Visiting this cache is becoming a bit of a habit...At the nearby Scout Camp introducing some Scout Leaders to the joys of geocaching and a brush up on map & compass; this cache is perfect. Great weather for walking, with an added bonus of watching a steam train pass through Waterfall while on the Mount. The cache is all dry and in good condition.
cheers,
Wal

Finally, finally!!! I just couldn't leave it alone after last weeks failure. Knowing for sure I was in the right gz area I still can't believe I missed it. Today I headed up again, again from the scoutpark(could drive down all the way now its weekend. There I met Walw who headed up with me. The weather was beautiful and we were up on the top quickly. Found the cache in a much easier place as I was looking for all the time!! Enjoyed the spectacular views on this clear morning before heading back.
TFTC Wilbert67

Hmm, this one is starting to become my nemesis!! Second extensive try without luck. I know the drill for WP1 and WP2, so I went for GZ straight away. Searched for about half an hour and then started to doubt my calculations. I went back to the stupid brother to confirm my readings and ended up at the same GZ again! On with the search (At home I saw a picture of the container and had at least an idea what I was looking for. Found 2 likely spots within meters from GZ that fitted the description. In the first spot I actually found a litle piece of wood with the carving "Close but not here". That confirmed I was at the right spot!?
Back to the other likely location. This one contained a bit of sand so I thought maybe it is burried? Put my arm in as far as possible and felt around, nothing! Grabbed a stick to further explore the cavity to no luck.
Maybe another time?

Very Wet Day. Found with the help of Team Mates from Advanced Leadership Course.

I used this cache as an intro to caching for a bunch of Scout Leaders as part of a course at Camp Coutts, the nearby Scout camp. A very wet and soggy day today saw the group make the trek up to Mt Westmacott. Thankfully the rain cleared for a bit while the compasses were brought out and directions determined. It makes it somewhat easier having a group of 11 out looking for a cache, though the cache was located while the clue was being decrypted. It's been too long since I found it last so not a straightforward walk up! Everyone enjoyed the hunt, perhaps a few more converts to caching?
I grabbed the GC as it's been here for a while.
No other swaps, logging on behalf of Chris, Richard, Cassie, Stephen, Ian, Jeff, William, Tim, Colin, and Megan.
best wishes,
Wal

My Geo Boys and I visit this place a lot during the year but we have never been able to get the time budget to get all the way up to summit.
With my Geo buddy Alfyboy our kids, water, first aid kit, sunscreen, hats, two way radio, we set off for this little adventure.
After a long hot trip up and up (was it ever going to end?) We got to the summit "Hooray" but we new we would have to save our energy for the trip back so we did a quick photo shot as we only had 1 hour to get back to base camp.
We set off too the WP1 re adjusted the GPS and headed to the next WP we took more pics and started to realize we were very close.
Time was still in our favor although the weather was closing in and we did not want to get stuck on the summit for the night we new we had to get back to camp 1 ASAP.
So we set off from the next WP and we could feel the tension rising...who will find it first, will the storm hit first....what was for lunch [?] then when we got to GZ Alfyboy and his trusty GPS
told us the clues and quickly reminded our teem we now have very little time if we want this one we have to find it fast.
The storm was now closing in the Geo kids were scatted every where there was water being drunk at at very fast pace I even misplaced my Sunnys as I was in a daze and confused with miss leading clues I asked our team leader are we going to make it? He managed to get us back together for a quick re focus and it was then that we decided we would have to start our decent soon or we were going to be court up there in the storm with out lunch.
As we started to spread out again we heard the call we had being waiting for "FOUND IT" "It's over here guys!!!"
We quickly went to were the voice came from and sure enough my Geo boy had cache in hand.
We stopped and reflected as the kids went into the container contents,"How we did it and how others never made it". We even took a risk buy bringing a rookie on our team.!.What would of happened if we did find it ? How could we be so far away from where it was? was lunch still going to be there when we get back?
So many questions and so little time left.
With the paper work completed we were now down to our last water bottle and set off for the decent with very little water left but we knew we could do it and we did, we got back to base camp before the lite shower and had our lunch We made it.....
Thanks for this great adventure and hide.
Our kids loved it and we are now looking forward in concerning more like it in the future.
When we save up for more time.
SL TNLN
Steveishere.
PS: No Children or animals were harmed in anyway in the making of this log.

Cache Hunt 198; GAFF3; Weather, overcast/windy; Helpers, Steveishere + geokids and newbies. Cache condition, good. Finds for the day, 1
Being in the area for the weekend, we took the kids for a trip to Mt Westmacot. Had all suplies packed, water, .99c first aid kit (good one Steveishere), sunscreen and hats. The walk up so good, kids enjoyed themselves walking and chatting about everything and anything. Once we got to the top, photos were taken (see steveishere's log) Will upload some soon as well. Another 70m to WP1, then ready. So now my gps needed to do it's work. 75m East, hmm, back the same way..hmmm...Couldn't figured out Einsteins bumb brother but, figured we were where we needed to be, so 55m South. Got to GZ and told the 9 pairs and eyes to spread out and start looking! 5min...10min...15min...20min...wow, this is hard. Are we in the right place? Then Steveishere found the clue...huh, What the...Ouch...ok keep looking. I then rechecked the logs and hint and got everybody back to where I though GZ was. Start again closer to gz. Within 2 min Geoboy yelled, 'got it'. Ahh relief [^] SL. Swapped teddy bear for keyring and dropped of Big City Buzzer Geocoin. We were all glad to finally find this and mark it off. A nice walk back as well. And by the way, I had plenty of water left, probably from not sharing...hahaha TFTC odlids, well done.

Nearly a year to the day since we last tried this one. The weather was a bit nicer (not too hot, although the rain didn't help), and we're much fitter now. The walk in was easy enough, and some trigonometry before we left gave us some likely points to search.

Nevertheless, it took quite a bit of searching to find the cache. Lots of nooks to look in, and yeah that clue is terribly misleading. The bearings weren't too far off, though, if you can manage to estimate distances well.

When the cache was found, a surprise greeted us -- the cache container is now an ant nest. There's ant eggs and everything. That's a first. We signed the log, jammed the cache container away, and moved away before they got too territorial. TN(except a few ants)LN.

After some carefull research we found this one much easier than expected. It was blowing a gale in Wollongong and several logs had reported string winds at GZ but most of the walk was quite protected. After printing and reading all previous logs careully, I left the notes and my compass at home .. but this was probably an advantage. Without a compass I projected waypoints with Oziexplorer as per instructions and was spot on. After saying I should be right on the spot we did of course look around a much wider area before finding the container right where I was standing in the first place. Retrieved the TB - Nubis the Family Cat but did not recognise him till closer inspection at home. A great walk on a clear (Fathers') day and a successful find to top it off. Thanks for a great walk.

A bit of a dissapointment! Had a great time finding my way to this to me unknown area. Finding the track up to the mountain wasn't a problem(I think it is that well marked you would find it in thick fog or darkness as well). Once on top I walked to WP1, no problem, coords were spot on. Of to WP2, again no problem finding Einsteins stupid brother. So I thought this is goan be easy and headed of to GZ. Arrived there quickly and saw a few options. Searched the place for half an hour but without luck??
I hope it is still there and I missed the obvious? I have to return!
Thanks so far Wilbert67

After a long hiatus, decided to go hunting some more caches. Possibly this wasn't the best one to be starting with...

Ethel the Aardvark, the Snooty Fox, and Da Schmoags headed down the power maintenance trail. Took the easy, well-signposted route up the mountain, without a GOAT to be seen. Unfortunately, the final climb confounded all but the Snooty Fox, who ascended the staircase to the summit alone. After some failed attempts to find Einstein's stupid brother by compass, as well as by crude trigonometry (what *ever* did we do before ubiquitous mobile phones with calculators?), an area sweep was performed, all to no avail.

With the knowledge of the terrain gained on this trip, and some more accurate navigation, we will return to this cache in the future.

This was a nice circular walk around the lake from Waterfall. After yesterday's freak 42+ day, today was much cooler with a strong breeze & a bit of drizzle making it a very refreshing walk. The views from the top of Mt Westmacott are fantastic and with the sudden gusts of wind it was fun at the top trying to stand up! It took ages to find the cache but persistence finally paid off, and with the help of reading previous logs we knew not to fall into the trap of relying on the misleading clue too much. Nevertheless it's a good hiding spot and was very satisfying to finally lay hands on the cache.
Took a coin & a TB, left a TB.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

Found with Woody Figtree and the 1st Keiraville Scouts. The kids absolutely loved the walk to the top (especially the caves). For many of them it was their first geocaching experience and a great one at that. Left GC and TB. Took 2 x GC (one was not logged as being in the cache)

Came out on this one with Goonieroos and our scout troop. With 16 pairs of eyes we soon had it in hand. I had been here many times as a kid and roughly knew what to expect. Thanks Red Dwarf for a great cache.

great location, would probably never found this place if the cache wasnt there, extremely windy today tho, have to hold on, cheers.

The last time I was here was in July 2002. The area was just recovering from a fire. What a difference now, it's just brilliant. I got to the top and spent some time searching, but eventually found EMcK (obvious if you think about it) got to GZ and used bearing from another hint that threw me right off course. Wandered around forever looking in every hole etc. Went back to the original bearing and did a sweep back and bingo, found it at my turn around time. TN Left GC TFTC

With a heavy storm shower looming we headed up the well marked track from the fire trail to the top of Mt Westmacott. The proximity of the storm seemed to be causing a very blustery breeze, however apart from a few spits the rain actually missed us. For quite a while this was the only good fortune we had. At the top we wandered over to WP1. Good views, especially in such stormy conditions and especially if you looked away from the odious suburbia nearby to the bush clad hills yonder. Off we went to WP2 and after a bit of searching we found EMcK. No “=†sign though. Did it matter? We hoped not.

So on to GZ. We projected the location on the GPS and also used our trusty compass. Both took us to a spot which did not seem promising in the least. Nothing remotely like a “nook near the edge†anywhere within a 15-20 metre radius. Mmm…….. after the amusing pranks at Kookaburra we had the distinct impression this was going to be “one of those daysâ€.

Well, what can we say. Including a 20 minute break whilst we sheltered under a convenient overhang from the rain, we spent 1&1/2 to two hours scouring the area. That’s caching sometimes. On our last desultory half hearted sweep, Lady Altaire finally found it. It’s a nice hide but nothing outrageously difficult. We simply kept missing it. As said – that’s caching. However it is not what we would say “near†any edge. And we didn’t have to reach particularly far to reach it. Also we concur with a previous finder – it’s more like 190 degrees from WP2. We found the actual cache to be 22m from our projected GZ. Also found what we thought to be the other “obvious†hidey hole that has been mentioned by other seekers. We sympathise.

All that aside – it’s a great spot. A really nice location given it’s proximity to suburbia and an easy and pleasant stroll. We were very happy to have found it. Made no swaps.

Halfway found by Pi.

I enjoy coming over to Heathcote NP for bushwalking, it is a good place to explore and is little used (unlike it's big cousin next door) so it has many remote and interesting locations. I was out here again leading a group from my bushwalking club for an exploratory walk from Mt Westmacott down to Kingfisher Ck, up across Morella Ridge then down through Myuna Ck and finally back to Waterfall along the Bullawaring Track.

Anyway we headed up to Mt Westmacott and had a short break at the top. After some searching one of my fellow walkers took one step to the west of where she was standing and I found Einstein's stupid brother. I left the GPS here for five minutes and set a waypoint for reference. Took a bearing as described and proceeded to do a quick but fruitless search. Unfortunately time is of the essence with off-track walks and I couldn't hold our group up any longer, which I am glad I didn't as it took us nearly 10 hours to cover about 10kms. Unfortunately the ground is littered with burnt debris and most of our time was spent walking around or stepping over blackened plants.

I will be have to come over and do this walk just by itself. Trying to find this cache while your walking group is waiting for you to lead them through the wilderness is just impractical. Fantastic spot for a cache.

Cheers,
Mike (pi)
GPS.

I'd never done this walk before so I set off just after lunch. This is a really pleasant short walk. I walked along the numerous fire trails and found a sign that led to the top. It doesn't get much easier than this, just follow the painted spots on the rock.
Found the posted coords without any trouble. I must say the views from here are superb. Thought I had everything in control. Had the compass and the GPS, both told me I was walking due East. The GPS told me I had gone approx 75 m but no matter how many times I retraced my steps I couldn't locate Einstein's stupid brother. I didn't have the picture clue with me. Each time I ended up at exactly the same spot. i just ried to use this info and took the bearing and the required distance and tried to find GZ. No luck either. I searched at least a 40 m radius from where the compass took me. Came back to the same spot numerous times. I found an excellent spot to hide a cache right on the edge but this hidey hole was empty. I was so sure it would be here. It was the most obvious spot.
So not sure what went wrong today, nice walk anyway.

My 100th find. Climbed Mt Westmacott with 1st Ermington Scouts, used our compass and gps skills to get the cache. Great views from here. Thanks from team socks.

Visiting the nearby Kookaburra cache and Yello was just up the hill (and along a bit). Admittedly the bushbash up did slow things down a little but eventually I was where I needed to be. I found the obvious hidey hole, and then the actual not too long after. And the view from up there was excellent!
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Was in the area with Knock doing some secret SES stuff. Nice easy find, didn't take long. TNLN

Went walking with Headless Cat. We found the first two waypoints and the newspaper mentioned by rustymac but just not the cache. The views were very nice.

It's been 18months since we last did this cache and failed. We have been waiting for someone else to log it before we tried again. Once again we went back to the same hidey hole and nearly gave up but with a little luck we stumbled on the cache site.
Thanks for bringing us here.
TNLNSL

Well it had been almost 2 years since this one had been found, but it is stil there safe and sound.

I walked to WP1 the hard way up Westmacott Ridge, not realising that the other track up existed. Oh well, the walk down took half as long!

I spotted some wallabies in my adventures too. Each WP was easy to locate with my compass and some distance estimation. The final Cache was exactly where it should have been, although my arms were barely able to reach it!

The lid doesn't clip on properly, but everything is dry inside.

Thanks for a nice afternoon walk!

Cheers,
W-L
1ARC

Took a packed lunch for this trip and bush bashed our way to the top. Found WP1 & WP2 without any trouble. At WP3 we kept coming back to the same hidey hole but no cache was visible only a 1990 newspaper. Could the cache be missing or have we got it all wrong.

This cache has not been found for over 6 months is it worth checking to see if it is still there?

Would love to give it another go.

Rustymac

While trying to direct Ruffnut to a bearing of 210 magnetic,
Pete found the cache at 190.
Impressive views and rock formations.
Stopping to look at "goat" was worthwhile.
TNLN.
Thanks Red Dwarf.

Very nice location! Searched for the site with Squarewheels and our rookie mate Pete. While Sqaurewheels and I were trying to get technical and wished we remembered how to do trig Pete proved technology can be useless and found the cache!
Nice cache and the log was a good read.

I don't know if it's my sense of direction, or sense of distance that is out of whack, but I can't remember spending so much time searching for a cache since the Odlid chrondites at Came down in the last shower. After finding it though I realised it shouldn't have been that hard.

The weather today made it feel like we were in the Blue Mountains- fog was surrounding the mountain and there was a strong cold breeze at the top.

A nice day for caching but not the best for photos. After finding Kookaburra and then this one it made for a really good day. Thanks Red Dwarf

What better way to spend a morning than to climb a mountain.

The lid seems to be having trouble staying attached to the containing but it remains in good condition. Left CD took compass.

GEK

This was my second go at this. On the first go I ran out of time before I had to go to work. Today I arrived a lot earlier and found it without difficulty before starting work. The co-ords and bearings were spot on - if you subtract mag variation. Good one Red.
Took small ceramic bowl. Left utility knife.

It has been a long time since this cache has been found. It is still there and in good condition.

Back on the road again after a lay off this was a good start. Realised we dropped the print out of the clues somewhere but decided to push on to the co-ords anyway and try to do it by memory. After an hour on top with memory fading went for a lifeline and rang jacksoni for an up date. Found DE, dumb einstien and thought we were on the track again. 1 hour later went for the second life line and got the equation that we needed. Went back to base started again in great haste as it was now getting near dark. Found it ! Almost got side tracked by a pair of old sneekers under a rock jump for joy !
Great one Red Dwarf.
Thanks M&R

After a false start at Kookaburra I moved onto this cache. Bush bashed across the creek and made my way to GZ. After a bit of huffing and puffing I was atop the mountain. Spectacular 360 degree views. Found GZ without too much effort. Swapped a bear for some avon stuff. Thanks Red Dwarf.

No ducks in sight, we must have frightened them back to China. Was going to put a cache here called Weir-d Outlook...beaten again! Nice MTB ride in along the trail from the south, but missed the arrow (never mind, found some closer!) and didn't have the GOAT entered, hence rode right past until I realised the distance was now getting greater. Swapped the sockets for some kitchen things. Thanks Red Dwarf for some speci views.

lol!
Classic.

Glad everyone's enjoying it.

Seems it's not too hard at all. Maybe I should reduce the rating

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Climbed the Mountain, followed the clues, and found the cache easily. Now I am covered with black stripes in a white shirt...i look like a....

A friday off, and a nearby cache, what a great combination!!!!

Since I had plenty of time, I decided to make a full day of it and enjoy the newly reopened park. Had a great time wandering up and down rigde lines and mountains that I haven't climbed for years and years. Finally approached Mount Westmacott from the west, I had long since forgotten how thick the bush is in places.

By the time I got to the old trig station, I was as black as the ace of spades. Great view, great weather and a cache to find. A relatively easy find but as I signed the log book I became aware that I was not alone.

It soon became obvious that the immediate area around the cache is a duck rookery. I fear that the cache will have to be temporarily archived until the breeding season finishes. The already endangered ducks may not breed sucessfully if stressed by over enthusiastic cachers.

I managed to obtain a few photos of the rookery before leaving the birds to their own devices.

Regards from
The Odlids

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We thought we do this one on the way to the beach, as it was nice and sunny when we left home. Well so much for that idea but luckily we had our alternate beach gear with us. We found the cache with dark and stormy clouds approaching and had no sooner returned the cache to its hiding spot when it started to rain. So we made our way to an overhang to sit back and enjoy the experience but after half an hour of it we got bored and walked back to the car being serenaded by the sound of frogs and the sound of the rain falling on our jackets.

You are allowed to ride mountain bikes on the fire trails here and it would be worth bringing them but you would just have to stash them before you went to the summit.
If it was not for all the restricted area between here and our home we could ride here faster than it takes to drive around.

I finally found this one after much searching. I was almost ready to give up when I noticed a likely hidey-hole.

The view is amazing!

After climbing over rocks and past burned branches (from the fires earlier this year) I looked quite a sight.

I took the screwdriver bits, and left a Sun keyring/clip thing and an Alaska pin.

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Appears the area is now open according to the website listed in previous log.

Thanks Tangles!

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This area is closed and has been for quite awhile.
Check this link:
(visit link)

User's web page
Park closed to public until about Winter.

User's web page
I guess we will have to wait until it opens again before searching. Unfortunately, there's no signs down there and I was unaware the place would be closed. You shouldn't need to go off any tracks to get to the cache, so it would be safe for the environment, but I guess I will have to put an update here when it is opened again (soon, I hope).

While I was walking, there were many trail bikes riding through whom I think would make more of an impact. Oh well.