In Plane View Harman, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By The S's on 06-Mar-04. Waypoint GCHVQX

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Ditto. Couldnt find it.

Perhaps we should have read the logs first. Like many before we also failed.

Hasnt been there for quite a while!

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Gave up on this one. Can see I'm not the first not to find it.

Sent from my mobile device.

Thought I'd do a reccy despite the comments. WIll also admit defeat here although I must admit that I had no idea about this little grove and despite the apparent lack of a cache it was a lovely little spot. I do enjoy finding things out about Canberra and it's surrounds that I never knew.

Hoping for a quick find while out touring with the geo-wife. Unfortunately searched and searched but could not find. Found the X marker but nothing else. There were fresh bulldozer tracks all round so it may have been 'commandeered'.

went to look for this but a tree has fallen and destroyed alot including the circle of sticks

didn't find, should have read the logs before I left my car. What a waste of time. Tyre mark all around the trees here. No X to be found.

Hi S's, can you please archive this if your not going to replace it? It keeps coming up as available - thanks.

To hard for me. But a cool area non the less.

Looks there have been muggles here making bike tracks.

Nope - not there. Searched for a long time as I hate a cahce to beat me but I definately think it's gone.



Hope a new one is located in the forest at some stage cause it's a pretty cool place.

Hmmm, came, looked, searched, failed

Does a hole count? Not a whole lot I suspect... This one seems muggled...

Went to visit this cache yesterday to drop off a geocoin, and, unless it has been relocated, it looks like it has been muggled. There is a noticeable hole where it used to be.

This one took a while to find as JJ was definitely interested in pretending he was on a BMX bike on the nearby track and not interested in geocaching. Found eventually.

Left: Bugs Bunny TB (haven't dropped him yet because I forgot to copy down his number but have emailed the owner)

I was interested in finding out more about the Plaques that are in this area and did a bit of google search after we had visited I came up with the following about the trees and nothing about the plaque.

"About 120,000 mixed Sequoiadendron gigantea and Sequioa sempervirens seedlings were planted at Pialligo near the south eastern boundary of Canberra airport by Charles Weston in 1918, at Walter Burley Griffin’s request, despite advice that the Canberra climate is too dry for these species. Most of the Sequoiadendron have succumbed to lack of water.

A number of trees were removed to enable the airport to be extended in the 1960's. The remaining trees are exhibiting signs of stress and mortality is occurring, with only the hardiest surviving where moisture is sufficient.

The site was also supplemented with additional plantings inthe 1980s, most of which failed except for some attractive speciments of Pinus sabineana." taken from the following website: http://sawapl.tech.officelive.com/Pialligo_Redwoods.aspx


I thought this was interesting


TFTC



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Dropping TB

I reckon the coords were about 10m off as they had us seatchn a different clump of trees. But fount anyway after a little scavenge. TNLN. TFTC

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Out with Puk Ed on this one.

This one took a while to find and we went back through all the logs before finally coming up trumps. I reckon the coordinates are out about 8-10 metres.

Oh and I think the track is a radio controlled car track....

good find left travel bug and took tb

A lunchtime cache run with rbirtles and David (who still hasn't dug out his old geocaching handle). The cache itself was first spotted by David.

With such a big cache, I had to leave something, so I popped in a toy man.

A lunchtime visit with TienHua and David today. This was my second attempt at this cache but David got the find and made it look simple while I was further out from GZ. Left TB Dog Tag. Many thanks for the cache.

What magnificent trees: pity so many are apparently in demise.
There were many candidate hiding spots for this cache, and after scratching around for a few minutes we decided to trust the GPSr and it had us looking in the right spot soon enough. TNLN, TFTC.

Third visit, i think. Came back with Veronica (newbie), as i was going to drop off a geocoin, but decided to take it to NZ with me instead.

I'm coming back with my bike!

Scratched around for 20 minutes with no luck. I was in a hurry to get to other caches so should have been a little bit more systematic. I would have looked a site to the observer running around trees and going in circles. Next time...

Tried twice (17/18 Nov) to find but no luck.

You have to wonder why this stand of trees was planted. A nice spot to walk the geohounds. TFTC

Now that I have read others comments, wish we had persisted longer. Looked with mr Polliwog for ages, he was keen to keep looking but I was busting to try to get to Bridge Banter IX for an attempt at FTF. We did look for good half hour though but had trouble agreeing on what the clue meant! Will go back again another time as travel this road often enough. Lots of birdlife, very pretty little spot that would never had known about before caching. TFTC

Another nice little forest. I thought with the little BMX track so close, this one is very muggleable. But that didn't matter, I just couldn't find it. All trees within 100m fit the description. I think the half of the x marks the spot now lies on the ground as well. I was just about to give up when out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the unmistakeable sight of an unnatural pile of ????? The odd sound of planes taking off in the background, top spot !

After a drop off at the airport the geoboy and I did the short walk from the carpark to this great cache. Don't know about the X but sheer stubbornness won out and we had the cache in hand. Took blue car (geoboy loves it) and Pierre le Cyclops TB and left glow in dark star. Nice forest, TFTC!

Oops, forgot to mention that we did not see the EppieEppie Geocoin or the "DB &amp BNB" Geocoin - bummer

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Yet another place i would never of been. fantastic pine forest. great location.

Found with Injuryman and Dark Mad Viking.
Nice cache on a visit to the airport to see what it's like
for our coming up holiday.

TFTC!

Ta,
Jezza10!

A pleasant walk to GZ, but then we had some trouble finding the cache. I was hunting under a tree when I realised I was standing under a large X, which I thought promising. After another five minutes without success, I deciphered the clue, and knew I was close. A little more persistence and the cache was found. Log book is now full.

Took little aeroplane and rhino, left golf ball and harmony day badge.

Thanks for this neat cache. A good hide and satisfying find.

This one I found quite hard but I eventully got it.

Don't expect to much of me I'm only a child working with Darkmadviking!

Thank's for the great cache.

Kind regards Injuryman.

#199.

One of the two caches i wanted to do yesterday, so i went to find them by myself today. A pleasant and surprising walk through the redwood trees, i never knew these were here! A little offputting all the boom noises from somewhere nearby, but i found the cache ok, and then found the 'x'. Thanks!
T:TB, GC,
L: Pencil eraser thingy
TFTC,

J![m]^^`/

I was wandering in and out of the trees for some time before I stumbled across it.

The logbook is now on its last two pages (it seems that I only come across full log books when I forget to carry spares).

T: Racing Schtroumpf TB
L: NSW Maps TB

TFTC.

The first of a Saturday afternoon series. Pretty quick find once at the GZ.

Dropped off Sheep GC, Racing Schtroumpf TB, Pierre la Cyclops TB, horse and a dinosaur.

Picked up Nederlander (sp??) GC, Bug TB and Penguin TB and clip on Koala.

TFTC

Found this one with Cache_Ranger

Great Cache... nice little spot. Dropped The Little Penguin, Geo Manga Buglet and EppieEppie Coin. Found with Federation_Ranger

What lovely Redwood trees. TFTC

What a lovely walk across to the cache past all the old trees. Yep, they certainly look as if they don't much like droughts! The cache is in a lovely location, very peaceful as there were no planes taking off or landing over us when we were there. Dropped off Richie Richmond TB in the hope that someone will get him on a flight to USA. Thanks for great cache in a great spot

#428

This is another one that I hadn't been able to find previously. That must have been about 300 caches ago, because it really wasnt hard today - how could I have missed it!!!!

Still, lovely area and I had no complaints with having to return here again for a very pleasant few minutes.

TFTC!

Thanks for the excuse for a nice walk in the forest, pity it's a dying forest. The planes are definately close by! Probably a good tip for others would be to have sunnies as I nearly poked my eye out with the dead branches! Also got my hair completely caught up in same branches!! But all in the name of fun. Picked up the travel bug and placed a couple of balloon rubbers in cache.

Great hide. Finally a cache big enough for the TB we have been lugging around. (swapped for diabetes TB)
Great area. Too many muggles at carpark, so we went around the road a bit , parked and climbed fence.
Will come back here with the geokids as they had a ball playing hide and seek whilst I searched.
TFTC

Found it with young son and elderly mother. Lovely gentle walk on (mostly) flat terrain for those not up to a rough hike. I remember agisting my horses out here a LONG time ago - maybe 30 years or more. Didn't remember the grove being california redwoods though, just as a shady and serene place to ride. They must have been planted a long time before the late 70's because they don't look much taller. Sad to see some suffering from lack of water - many are still healthy or regrowing from the base so it's still a nice walk.

The hint was invaluable since GPS coverage was scanty under the canopy. Once I figured out what it was pertaining to (good one!) it was an easy find. SL, Took the Ford TB, left a blue superhero guy and a USA quarter. Didn't see the geocoin, but the diabetes TB is still there awaiting the next visitor. TFTC!

Dropped off a couple of bugs. Took a GCA Swaggie. No sign of the other two bugs currently listed against the cache.

Lots of dead trees around here with new grwoth at the bottom. Some taller than others. I found the X (nice one) and luckily the camouflage covering the container was clearly done by humans. My first ammo box cache!!

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

410 I have tried this before but today I had an 'better' GPS! Well, it seemed I did as it put my right on the cache! Make note to update GPS! This treed area probably was once really nice but seems now to be a bit neglected? T: KeeWee GC TFTC

Found with lordjimbob55, O319 and family.

Took-Cow Geocoin
Left-Barbie happy birthday badge.

Had a quick look yesterday without looking at all the logs. Realised it was a hard one so went home to read logs. Came back today with CookieMonster5, lordjimbob55, Geo wife, Geo 5 year old and Geo inlaws, so have heaps of eyes to look for it. Also wrote down all the little clues, appraoched GZ and before I had read the first clue out to the assembled mass lordjimbob55 had found it!

T- 1,000,000 dollar note
L- Kiwi coin

found it quickly with my family

I have been meaning to stop and find this one for some time now, finally today was the day.

I located GZ quickly and commenced my search, I thought I had given myself plenty of time but where I thought this would be an easy find I was having some difficulty. Eventually I resorted to the hint and although it confirmed I was in the correct area it didn’t seem to help actually locate the cache. With time running short enough was enough, this is marked as a 1.5 difficulty it shouldn’t be this hard. I walked away, let the GPS settle and approached GZ again, where is this cache? Certainly not where I am looking in a last desperate search I decided to go in the opposite direction to where I had been looking, as soon as I turned around I saw the telltale sign of a hidden cache how foolish of me. Thanks The S’s.

T – Unactivated Geocoin – Thanks Lucy & Roo
L – Annebel’s Cow Coin

A lovely wander through the trees to one of the largest caches I have found in the ACT. Found the X first and knew I was close, and GZ was located soon after. Then I had to bolt back to the UAV as the rain started to come down. Thanks for the cache The S's

Left: Unactivated Geocoin
Took: Dragon coin

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found today after a nice walk through the park.

Left 4x4Maniacs Gold Dragon Coin and The Gowenhouse fOtOmOm coin as well as a fighter plane bouncy ball as we thought it was fitting.

Took Lost Koala TB to help it on it's way.

TFTC.

This is clearly a tourist attraction as I, a Brisbanite, followed a Sydney resident into GZ... Well, it is very conveniently placed...

I wanderred around while the GPS settled and took absolutely no notice of the hint. Then I spotted something obvious and thought it had to be there.... NOPE. Reverted to the hint and glad I did. There are a lot of potential hidy holes here...

Took the TBs that my fellow tourist cacher left and a coin. I dropped in two TBs and a Swaggie (Tackable only on the GCA site so please bear in mind if you are an international cacher).

Thanks for placing a good size container. It seems to be a rare thing in these parts. Or it seemed so from the ones I found while in the Capital.

Cheers

Found 15:10. Lovely place to walk. See that there are pets also resting here. Must have been a favorite park for off leash adventurers. Found cache and exchanged TB’s. Thanks. Now back to Sydney.

Sure I have been out here quite some time ago, so peaceful and quiet..... Untill the bloody jet goes over head.

Thanks for the cache...

Dropped in a New Coin and one I picked up a little while back, took the Battle of the sexes coin

Found with Scotty 308 tftc.

Found this one again, with Rick, from memory, as i had a trackable to drop off.

i finally got around to dropping Punk Zippy off here, as it would like to make its way back to the U.K.

Interesting how the trackable item list on geocaching.com almost completely fails to match the trackable items i saw in there this morning...

A nice lunchtime cache found with howie_sf, took two goes but we got there in the end. Was very easy to sort the dead tree from the err deads trees????

Thought this was a good place to drop Terrance and Phillip off as they had been stinking up the place all the way from Adelaide.

TFTC

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Drove past and thought I would have a look.
Three police cars and the dogs in the car park convinced me that I should try again another day.

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Coin dip

Third find in the ACT on business in the company of wombats5372. Took two goes, one at lunch time with no joy and the second on the way back to the motel after work. At the base of a dead tree you say; they are ALL DEAD!!! Eventually came up with goods after about 15-30 mins hunting.

Took nothing, left GC Battle of the Sexes - Male. The next step in this one's battle to win is it needs to get to Brisbane. Please try your best to help.

TFTC

Found 1/5/09 This was a good hide I had to go back to the car to decrypt the hint, it's a pity there is dieback on the redwoods. left keyring took car

TFTC

Last find for me today. Love the X.
Found easily TFTC. No GC or TB in here of my
dogtired

Great spot among the trees.

The kids had a great time playing on the grass, while I hunted through the trees.

I was guided the wrong directon from the X, but once I circled around it a bit, it was an easy find

Took geokids to the War Memoral and on the way back found this one, very nice spot and the geokiddies enjoyed the planes flying past, TFTC!

Beautiful place. The peace and heritage. TFTC.

1st for the day in Cache-a-palooza 1
quick easy find with MadAz, the beagle playing GPS as we forgot to put the co-ordinates in it

TNLNSL
TFTC

The first find of Cache-A-Palooza 01/09, in company with Berzerker and MadAz.
Just a note for TBHL, as I found this one quite some time ago....seeing as I forgot to download this one into my Oregon, I got to act as GPSr (making beeps and everything!)
This one is still one of my favourites.....love the jet noise!

First of 28 for the day and thanks to TheBeagleHasLanded for being our GPS

TNLN
TFTC

Coin visit

#174#
Definitely too many similar looking locations. Took me two times until logging. And the second time the barbed wired fence caused a cleft in my bag-pack.
IN: TB Cyclops, OUT two others
The coin was not there.

Bug Drop!
L - Sky's the Limit TB

This forest has an interesting different feel about. It reminds me of a forest on the edge of the Hobart runway where there too is a cache. Otherwise why would I climb the fence and search here for any other reason.
Took a while to find as well hidden by previous finders.
Thanks

Despite it being a large cache it took us a while to locate. Too many variables on the GPS and too many likely trees and brush.
Than poor old redwoods are looking a bit sad though. Maybe they should havest them while the timber still has some life therein. No good dead except for firewood.
Thanks indeed

Not many planes in view this morning, but a nice walk through the redwood trees. We searched a few trees before we got to the right one.
Thanks, Robmc.

I used to live around the area but nevr knew these were here.
TFTC
TNLN

Great cache.Nice big Ammo tin well hidden in a forest .Plenty of swaps within the cache too.Thanks to The S's for the nice cache hide and location.TNLN.

This took a while to find, and was fairly obvious when we eventually found it. Didn't we feel bad Cheers Gav [3154]

Quite a surprise to see the redwood trees. A rather tricky find but eventually got it.
TFTC

Found this one with Moneydork, Tofska , Rediguana and ADV during our Australian caching holiday.

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: A difficult search - very spindly. T4TC, M@

Took us a while. TFTC.

Revisited my favourite Canberra cache to drop off "Junior Pluto" TB. Let's help this little Swiss gent along on his OZ Odessey.

found this one while out and about with the geobaby, quite easy, sat under the trees for some time while geobaby emptied contents of cache over and over again.
TN
L - Rankslide
TFTC

Found this one at the start of a drive down the coast.

The cache was pretty much "in plane view" but still spent quite a while searching in the wrong place before we found it.

T: Garfield
L: Airline headphones

TFTC

Great hide - found during lunch break with no GPS, just an eagle-eyed workmate.

T: World Globe
L: lollypop & Rankslide

TFTC

After work today I decided to do this nearby cache. Got to gz found the x and my gps said to go one way after a hour and a half founded Left my roo TFTC

A very nice walk through the red gums to the cache, found after a short search, hidden in a manner obvious to a cacher's eye. TN Left a couple of toys.
Thanks for the hunt, The S's.

19.45hrs We found this one just on dark. A bit creepy in amongst all of those trees.

TFTC TNLNSL

While we were in the area Mc Kenna and I decided to have a go at this one. Mc Kenna had found it before so she was all set to laugh at me not finding it. Found the X quickly but the reading under the trees was a little inaccurate. Mc Kenna sent me in the wrong direction however I decided to follow my GPS and eventually found the cache.

Found on my 2nd pass, having had to "Go Around" on my first due to failing light.
T - Lancashire Lad T/B
L - Matchbox F/A-18E Super Hornet

TFTC, it combined my two loves.....Caching and Jet Noise!!

After lunch with ra, the geokid, geonanna and I went caching and picked this one up. It was the geonanna's first find.

These were some contractors logging and chipping the dead trees so hopefully they don't get this far in.

T electronic toy
L glow monster & TB

TFTC

My first find for the month and I nearly came unstuck in my quest to continue my streak of consecutive days caching. Found the X straight away but spent quite some time looking in all the wrong areas. Had to duck back to the car to grab the torch and gladly I found the GZ fairly quickly as night began to fall. Took TB LNSL and TFTC.

Found this with Rick.
Good to find this one, as we attempted this a year or so ago before we really started geocaching, and failed to find it... It was also a good opportunity to drop off some trackables...

i removed the food ('Yoghurt Topps' bar) -- it gave the cache a nice strawberry smell, but yeah, shouldn't have been there...

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

On the first really warm day in sept, kept an eye out for snakes. Wandered around in circles for a few minutes ut found the x - kids very impressed with that, finding the cache was quick work from there.Great spot although people (and I use the term loosely) have decided this little forest is a good rubbish dumping ground.