Little Cache Little Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By The Odlids on 25-Aug-03. Waypoint GCGQQ2

04/04/11 I had a good look for this on & could not find it.
odlids I think you need to get out there & see if it is still there or maybe it has fallen into a biger hole ot muggled.
I have searched just about every rock hole in the location or is it in a tree?
Happy Hunting

04/04/11 This one has been gone for some time now I thin this one needs to be looked at.

O.K, time to put this one to sleep.

It's a lovely spot but it really is in a DECC controlled area, so it is time to be grandfathered out. A big thanks for those who have helped manitain this one over the years.

The cache is dead, long live the cache.

Cheers

Odlid Dave

Unable to find this one three of us spent about half a hour looking.Iphone and Garmin had us looking in the same spot. We think this one has been muggled. (needs maintenance)

Like last few people, couldn't find this one.

Like the two previous cachers we spent sometime looking and couldn't come up with the goods. The cache is either toooo well hidden, or it has walked. Needs checking.

[GPS said I was within 3m @ one point. Looked under rocks & bottles.] No sign of recent activity so perhaps on the top of the "hill" is miles off track? [I think I'd better stay away from any cache with 3 or mare stars of difficulty.]

'Not found' with dmavard.
Searched high and low, in every crevice, nook, crannie, tree hole, .... we really didn't want to give up but after a full day of driving yesterday, a morning of scuba diving (the first time for me), and an afternoon of walking/scrambling around the cliffs and hills we were absolutely shattered and I don't think we could've stayed standing much longer.

Two of us searched many possible hiding places for about half an hour but to no avail. The day was very overcast and we thought maybe we were at the wrong elevation so tried nearer the beach but still no luck.

Great place and great find on boxing day. iPhone gps took me right to location and we had the treasure within a minute. Lots of hiding places though, must have got lucky. This area is always amazing!

Tfth tnln

Found after quite a bit of searching in another truly beatiful spot. No wonder so many people move to the mid-north coast in retirement. Met a nice, elderly, local muggle on the way out who asked what we were doing. Being a terrible liar, had to explain to him what geocaching is about (without disclosing the location of the cache). Hopefully made a new convert.

6:15am. Beautiful spot here. And so many roos.
Took Mr Burns and left a red Car.
Also dropped off Teddy Bear TB.
TFTC

I hadn't been out to Little Bay for many years, and was delighted to visit this beautiful little spot again.
The cache did take a bit of finding, as it had slid a bit further into a crevice and wasn't visible. I had to reach into the crevice blindly, with nothing but hope for a guide. I had already had a glance at the location before spending a further 20mins looking elsewhere. I just loved the rainforest plants growing so close to the sea. Stags, figs and even a hidden Birdsnest fern made this cache even more enjoyable.
Took a Mr Burns and left a "Sol de Lune" Pathtag.
TFTC

Disappointed that we didn't find it. Only new to geocaching, so maybe our coordinates were a bit out or maybe it's flown out to sea??? Was very windy and rough surf, but a lovely view and still good fun. Geomum doesn't enjoy heights, so this was a challenge for her at times!

FlyingPigSquadron was not cleared for landing! A long hard look in a really magic little hideaway failed to reveal the "little cache" but we enjoyed trying. TFTH&C

We did search, and looked at the hint, but being "out-of-towners" we had no idea what the hint meant. But we don't mind - thank you for directing us to this fantastic location.

This is a really beautiful spot. The spring flowers were out, the view is great and I had the place virtually to myself.

It took me about an hour to find the cache. There was no way I was giving up after driving 60km to get here. There are a very large number of little holes to look in when searching 150 square metres of headland. My GPSr had GZ about 7m from its actual location, but I think the fault lies with my receiver rather than the co-ordinates.

I removed a few beer bottles and coke cans, each of which I fleetingly thought was the cache. I also grabbed the Bug Boy TB and will take to an event in Port Stephens next weekend.

T4TC.

after a long search DNF> emailed owners for a further clue and they suggested i replace it ifn' i'd a mind too.
Oh Yeah, No worries and with a joyous heatr i spent MONEY and replaced the cache. And for my Good Samaratiness(?spelling) A huge Eastern Grey Roo scared the yuckinnes(who cares about spelling anywhey) outa me by jumping outa the bush and Eyed me orff!
thanks Acko

Went over site for over an hour with buckling wheels
we think it may be gone

What a beautiful spot! Unfortunately, I couldn't find the cache, but that's mainly because my search time was artificially limited by the requirements of a cranky 3 year old (who didn't come climbing with me, BTW). I'll return, and search again some time without so much "assistance"

My wife had not been to South West Rocks before so while we were staying at Port Maquaire, we took a day trip up, visted the Goal etc. Ducked round to this nice spot to find the cache. It was not very far from the car, so left the wife, while I went off to find the cache. After half a hour I gave up, too may potential hiding spots and the GPS was jumping around too much due to cloud cover. My wife was quite pissed off by the time I got back "you took so long I didnt know if you had fallen off a cliff" Anyway thanks for bringing me to this nice spot.

We had a whole group of us - we are over here from Mississippi, USA visiting my parents. We also had my sister and brother-in-law, and their two kids, and a cousin from Bathurst. I managed to get my 12 year olf nephew hooked on geocaching, and Tavis was so excited when he found the cache.

Thanks for having the cache in a lovely location - we stopped in the picnic area for lunch afterwards.

SixStars found this one on an eating tour of the mid north coast. There is definitely an easy way and a hard way. I went in the hard way and withdrew via the easy way! Isn't it always the case? Thanks for taking us to such a great spot. Took nothing, left a star.

Found @ 1415.

One of the four caches I found whilst on holiday at my Mum's farm in Congarinni. My wife and I came down here to scuba dive the famous Fish Rock Cave and spent some time swimming at this great little cove afterward. I made the short scramble to GZ and had the cache in hand after a short search.

Had a fun rock scramble trying to get to GZ. A couple of the team attempted to approach from underneath and found the cave from the beach side and had a bit of an explore. Cheers Gav [3308]

Great little place and had the ambienece of a special private little spot only for those "in the know". A very relaxing and peaceful place.
TFTC

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Little cache for a little secluded beach. Quite popular though. Especially for hoons who left so much broken glass around three days ago that council had to put up warning signs. T4TC, M@

I tried approaching this one from the seacave that runs under the hill while the rest of our crew tried from the top. TFTC

found this one with tofska red Iguana Moneydork and ADV

Wow, what a great location. I have been to Trial Bay before, but no to this lovely beach and headland.

GPS Co-Ords were spot on and had the cache in hand in no time. I like this type of cache, a short walk, great location and well hidden.

TNLNSL & TFTH [:p]

A fantastic spot with a easy find

TFTC

After a FTF at the Wids Club I went came over to here to find this cache. However, with only thongs on I was not too well prepared for the scramble. GPS couldn't get me any closer than 4m which may well have been on the other side of the cliff. Attacked it from the beach but suspect it might be on the bolder bay side. Had a good look but was limited in time. Will be back.
TFTHunt.

Late afternoon find without too much trouble. Scads of school holiday nippers about, but thanks to the hidden nature of cache location, finding & logging was no problem.

TNLNSL Cheers

Had a great time looking around but no luck. Maybe next time.

WanderingAus wandered by on day 105 of a 6 month trip Wandering Australia and made an easy find.

My find No 823, LCC, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.

T4TH The Odlids
Keith

13:50
Another treasure as far as a picnic area goes. We have been finding that for many of our recent caches we seem to be coming in the “back doorâ€. In this case the “back door†approach proved to be the best way. Another great location and another great hide. The satellites had the GZ 4m south east of the cache site today.

TNLN..SL TFTH odlids.

Thanks so much for placing this cache, we made some awesome experiences in the area. We had fun climbing around the rocks, searching for the cache. We would probably raise the terrain rating even more to 2,5 or 3.
On the grass surrounding the car park we saw 17 kangaroos and took a lot of pictures. We couldn't imagine that it is possible to get that close to a wild animal.

Out: Shell TB

TFTC!
Team gracher

I think this one should have an higher rating than 1.5 terrain. The bull ands gave the cache away. Took small cricket ball and left NT thong Keyring and seashell TB. Thanks for the great views and the cache.

Did a couple of trips out to this one as we were staying nearby. All that was found was the remains of a box that had little cache written on blue clip, CITO. With a life line used , thanks Grahame, it was confirmed missing. The cache has been replaced with a few small swaps(all i had). Please return the cache with the rocks in front to hide it so it doesn't get muggled again.

Thanks odlids on a nice Litte Bay to visit.

Scaled the cliff and unable to find this one. Searched lots of possible hiding places to no avail. Can't have been to close, couldn't even find the bullants

This was our third successful find of the day. Nice area with a lovely view but did the cache in thongs and all got biten by bull ants!!! TNLN, TFTC.

CRYSTAL PAULS

Looked around but only found the remains of a black box that had little cache written on blue clip. Almost gave up, but continued looking and actually found the proper cache. GeoKid was bitten by a bullant on the toe - so Beware! A great spot which I have never been to before.
TNLN TFTC

A quick trip to South West Rocks allowed me to stretch out my geocaching footprint.

On the way to the cache, I found the bloated remains for a porcupine fish.

Took a bit of searching, but was found in an obvious location. TNLN. Went for a well earned swim afterwards - before heading to the car as a big storm hit.

Picked this one up while camping at Trial Bay
An excellent location and a great view from the cache
TNLN
Thanks for the cache

If anybody is closer than Taree and knows where the cache used to be, it would be handy if you could check out the area for the original cache and missing Viking TB.
Have taken a photo of the area if you want some assistance in finding the replacement cache; email Grahame Cookie.
Measured at 15 m elevation with Garmin eTrex Camo. To the west of the rocky 'clearing' under a boulder under some trees, with a rock in front to hide the blue lid.

This ws dissapointing. Just found a log book. Heaps of people on the beach including kids climbing where the cache would've been. Did see a FJ holden tho.
TFTV. (Thanks for the view) since their was no cache.

1200 Found plastic bag with pencil, golf ball, and 80c. Then Nicholas (Fang) found just the log book, by itself. Hunted high and low for any other signs of the cache container, but could not, so emptied out most my First Aid kit (1 Litre Bipa lunch box) to make up a new cache box. If anybody finds the original box hiding away I'm sorry!
Brought a couple of TB's and coin through before replacing restocked cache. (Little Zeus, hce1xa, & Idaho 2007)

First aid items included: 15cm bandage, Treatment record form, 'bandaids', safety pins, scissors, skin marker, & alcowipes. Also left: Big4 sticker, bouncy balls, pencil sharpener, finger fright, Smokey Bear snap band, 'Life is Good' card, sudoku sheets & koala pen.

Placed under and behind a rock at the 'Maintenance coordinates' (eTrex Camo)

easy find
nearly fell off cliff
went back the easy way
thanks

Found it while out holiday sightseeing with my kids and some friends. A great spot. Took matchbox car and left a toy police badge. Also took unite for diabetes TB. TFTC.

It took a little while to locate this one. After we had been stumbling around for about 5 minutes, up poped Outdoorbloke. Together we located it shortly after. This is the first time we had meet a fellow Cacher.

Took: Yo Yo
Left: Truck

TFTCSL

Got to this one and meet some fellow geocacher already searching for the cache they came up with the find took a 6 in one office stamp left Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug

Been comming to this neck of the woods for many years but didn't know this little beach existed.
Bugger of a climb but the cache was found quite easily but no sign of travel bug.

T-Beach ball
L-Keyring
SL

Ironbark

Found this one after a little scrambling around on the rocks and a false start on the beach. Got attacked by a jumping ant, never seen a jumping bull ant!

Left gold earings - took nothing

TFTC

There was a break in the rain, so we headed out of the car... unfortunately the break in the rain didn't last & we started to get wet while we searched. I eventually looked at the clue which provided no help whatsoever as we've never done an odlids cache before. After being thoroughly drenched and spending about 30 minutes looking for it we packed it in.

It is a very nice area here... and the little cove is really hidden away... its nice to have a cache here to show it off.

Nice area to visit one of my favourite spots
Manny Thanks Odlids

No need to look out for the drops... that was the way we arrived!!!!!!! Took sunnies and left digital watch & stress book. H_Collectors

A Very pretty Little bay indeed!
- Gel pens, + Holographic glasses
Cheers, TFTH

ps. No Travel bug was residing in the cache?

Took my brother Terry on his first caching trip.
Loved the placement.
Took nothing, left a mini torch.
Regards Philma & Terry.

We were visiting from Canberra as well and after a scramble around Laurie found the cache at 1310, took and left nothing. It's a nice scenic spot and worth the effort.

Took a LITTLE while to find this one. I let Mr Sundowner do the rumaging through the rocks and shrubs and he came up with the goods. The cache was bigger than expected not a small so it had me fooled. Thanks for another nice LITTLE spot. Went and had a look at the monument. This is a gorgeous place and who knows maybe we will be back some day. L. Telephone address book T. car

We were visiting from Canberra for a couple of days, and decided to squeeze in a few caches while we were here. Found this one fairly easily. Lovely little cache in a lovely little hole! TNLN soaked up some sunshine. Thanks “The Odlidsâ€.

Was down in South west rocks diving over the long weekend and managed to fit in a not very fruitfull hunt for some of the local caches.

Spent nearly half hour here looking for the cache in it's little hole. I found several places where I thought the cache should/could be but failed to find. Did find a remarkable amount of rubbish in amongst the rocks which detracted from teh marvelous view of the surfers below.

A lovely location and it was great to just sit and watch the waves roll in by the little cove. We did exchange items but did not record what we took and left - sorry. Thanks for showing us this great area.

Well, the cache fairies have been out and about over the weekend. Wingnut offered to do a cache check and yes the cache had gone walkies.

He has replaced it with a brand new cache. A big thankyou to Wingnut for that!! He has also advised a slight change to the co-ords.

Odlid Dave

Enough no finds to warrant a check. Unfortunately our resident minder is overseas for the next 8 months, so might have to wait for a while.

Regards
The Odlids

This must be the most effort we have put into not finding a cache. We thought we looked in every nook, cranny, hole, tree, and other spots where it just couldn't be. Climbed and sweated felt like a bonifide mountain goat at the end but no luck. Hopefully will be back to try again.

Wished I'd read Team Yota's entry - I tackled this from the beach & in the face of an impending storm.

Not being a mountain goat I was completely bamboozled by this cache - well from this direction anyway. I wanted to have a crack at Smoky Cape Lighthouse before the storm hit, so no time to tackle it from further along the path.

Intended to come back later in the week, but it will have to wait until next year.

Sooooo sorry we didn't find this one. Came from Canada (for a wedding) and searched twice VERY thoroughly for the cache but no luck either time. To be honest I wondered if the cache was missing as we REALLY hunted for a long time, each visit.

Oh well, that's geocaching for yer!

~ smw

We got very close to the cache but we did not want to bother Romeo and Juliette. They spend a romantic afternoon right beside where we suspected the cache to be so we left it alone.
It was a beautiful spot to visit, thank you very much from Kalipi, travelling Down Under from Switzerland

Found this one while I was on vacation with my cache buddy Marcel. Because of the happy memories I really like to log this one under my own account too.

2005.09.28 16:10
Nice place to drop the Viking-Norman TB
Groetjes uit Holland
Marcel & Barbara
In: TB Viking Norman
Out: Koala (we had to make some room for Norman..)

2005.09.28 16:10
Nice place to drop the Viking-Norman TB
Groetjes uit Holland
Marcel & Barbara
In: TB Viking Norman
Out: Koala (we had to make some room for Norman..)

definatly tackeled this one from the wrong direction, from the beach in the rain. Great spot and great find.
TNLN

Found okay, this is a great spot
TNLN

Another delightful place. After searching a little we found the cache. It is in good condition and a well sealed container. The views are fantastic. TN left a friend.
Thanks for a good hide.
John and Helen

Great location - though after two goanna meetings the cache finding was done with lots of adrenalin! Its is amazing at just how much difference a bit of elevation can do for a view! Really worth the scrabble!

Took smiley stickers and left an LED torch

Great place for a picnic (the goannas aren't a pest...)

I have visited this area many times as the in-laws live nearby. It is the first time that I have scrambled up to the cache location, and I was quite surprised at the different perspective. The cache was found without too much difficulty and the swaps completed.
Took Beads and Left Smiley Stickers.

Thanks Odlids

Found this cache after walking around from the gaol. Top little spot and a top little cache to go.

Thanks Odlids

Another good little site. Took a bit of finding, but persisted and finally found it.

TNLN.

Jerry.

Found at 2.05pm after we were just about going to the pull the plug due to the little fawn coloured snake that came out to great us. However we looked up and found the little hidey hole - thank goodness. So after lots of scratches and mozzies the cache was ours. TN/LN.
Thanks Odlids

2nd find for the day - left the helpers on the beach for this one though Great views! TNLN.

Thanks for a great spot - we probably wouldn't have visited here otherwise. The nearby park and playground were just the thing after a busy morning for a 4 y.o. geokiddie - the local roos were very entertaining.

9:15am

After doing the cache above, and the rest of the team on the beach below, I chased after tiny little caches.

Took a few minutes to grab the goods, and a tiny little cache it is too.

Grabbed another frog fridge magnet and left some beads. Took some pics and we were on our way. Thanks for this nice spot.

Found it on a beautiful autumnal day, not long after Gaol House Rock. Once again the sea was azure and the skies cerulean. Finding GZ was a bit of a puzzle though, not like your typical Odlids puzzle cache, but puzzling nonetheless. There were two fat ladies ensconced near GZ (apologies to all those fat ladies out there) and several surfers left there gear nearby also before heading out into the impossible break coming into the cove.

Anyway a little bit of lateral thinking later and the cache was mine, with nary a witness in sight, fantastic.

The remainder of my swaps were a bit big for the container and I wasn't leaving the shot glass I got from Gaol House Rock, as I have plans for it tonight, so it was a case of TNLN except for a few pints of blood to the local mozzie population. Who said geocachers don't return anything to the local community?

Thanks for the search Odlids, is there a third finders trophy for the offing?

[This entry was edited by Team Chaos on Friday, June 18, 2004 at 4:16:01 AM.]

After retrieving Gaol House Rock, I continued along the track to this little gem. Scrambled up to GZ and hunted around all the little hidey spots for a little cache (there are many!) before stumbling on the right one. Great cache Odlids. No swaps.

Left GZ by a much easier route than I came.

Whew. A hot day. 4 caches down. Time for a swim methinks....glorious !!

Zijerfex

Looks like we will be making trophies this weekend...!!!!!!!

Hope you enjoyed it, the cache, not the scat..!!!!

Regards
The Odlids

My mantle piece is crowded with Oddlid first find trophies, but I can always make room for one more.
The old couple on the beach were giving us odd looks as we searched the headland, but you get that in a big job.....
Took the keyring carabiner and left a koala. (Not a real one).

As usual the first finder will be rewarded with a handcrafted, one of a kind trophy. We will post it out to the first finder (after I finish making it...!!!).

Cheers from
The Odlids