Road Less Travelled Nords Wharf, New South Wales, Australia
By SteelRat on 28-Nov-04. Waypoint GCM62N

Well, I've checked on this one twice, the second time to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

It is definitely gone, muggled to be precise.

My personal policy is to replace damaged caches, but not to replace ones that have been taken.

Therefore, this road shall be travelled no more.

Allright already, I'll go check it out.

Honestly, just because the cachers nowadays are scared to stick their hands under a rock they figure the cache must be gone.

Back in my day we'd think nothing of charging blindly into a dark cave with nothing but a backlit GPS to guide us by, battling all manner of godawful critters just to get our hands on the elusive tupperware.

Ya damned chickens!

And you can wait until I'm good and ready to head down that way again, ya hear!

Was out caching with Lyrebirds and Black Tipped Reef Shark who have not completed this one and as we got to gz noticed the G although i had not actually read the logs but considering i have found this cach before i can safely say that it is most definately gone so needs replacing...Thanks

Please check given last found log close to 2 years ago and lots of DNFs since

found the site

see the photo
it matches the spoiler that the owner put on

but the cache is gone


no question
we found the site

we made a G for geocaching mark on the rock
with nearby charcoal from a tree (nothing permanent)


so still worth finding



fattyacid and family

We had some success, the road less travelled was open so in the Bedmobile went. Drove to within 40 meters even, from there no more luck. We had good accuracy 5 meters. Search high and low in and out, but no cache was to be found. Maybe the next person will have more luck if it's still there?

There's probably some sneaky wombat sitting on the other side of that waterhole, laughing everytime he sees another cacher scratching around at GZ. What's the bet he has the cache in his burrow?

After last weekends fiasco where I accidentally logged a find on this one and then realising my mistake deleted my find. I decided while I was up here for work I'd may as well have a go at it! I really enjoyed the walk in and the 'not so old' remnants of a mine or quarry, I arrived at GZ and had done some prior homework using the spoilers so had a pretty good idea what I was looking for and where! I searched all likely spots for 20 metres in every direction without success I must of been there for a good 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour the satelites were good while I was here giving me 5 metre accuracy. This was a double whammy for me as it would have been a nice size cache to put this bug in I'm trying to offload. Oh well guess I've got an excuse to come back! Probably worth a little check on this one by the owner (just in case) otherwise Thanks for bringing me here!

Tried to delete my find it log here as I found one a bit further south seems I stuffed it up! Can,t find the log now to change it's status! Sorry for the confusion.

was driving by here

thought we would have a quick look for this one

the rock face was a little steep
and it was getting dark

so we pulled out, without locating it


I did attempt it without reading the clues


.... hence ....

I will have another shot at it in a few weeks time


fattyacid

This was our fourth cache for the day. Tried finding this cache yesterday but were unsuccessful so decided to try our lack again today. Cache is very well hidden and took us ages to find GZ. Took sticker and left indonesian money. TFTC!!!

Hooray; Geo wife first to find on my own with a girl friend out for the day great hide however this is now private property. TNLN

LOL. The "Path Not Taken" had another traveller. I concur that approaching from the SW is a bad idea.

Sporting wholly inappropriate footwear and shorts I was really struggling to make much headway in awful terrain (and trees). Actually gave up and returned after a few failed inroads attempts, sporting a number of cuts from the foliage and getting stung by some wasps on shoulder and ear - ouch!

Not being one to give up so easily of course, I tried again from here: S33 06.338 E151 37.662 which was a much better plan, I still took the most difficult way but returned on the way which was probably the best, so saw it all. Had a fair while searching around and found it in the end, co-ords were pretty much spot on, but there were a lot of possible hides within the search radius when satellite lock was poor. TNLNSL. Thanks for the hunt.

Rated: for Overall Experience

To get to this one I think I took the “Path not takenâ€â€¦ except for stepheneva maybe …

I started out SW as well and when I could not find a path eventually set off across county (cross a path funnily enough LOL!). Up hill, down hill until I eventually found the cliff face just above the GZ. Walked left, walked right … no the GZ was at the lowest stage of the cliff …. Bugger, I could see the “Road less travelled†from where I stood. Nothing for it but to scramble down the “cliff†(funny how looking down makes something looks higher than when looking up). Searched around but no cache. Hmmm. Tired going to the Road less Travelled and approaching from that direction. Voila! Coordinates spot on.

TNLN

Now to get back to the car ….

TFTC

What was meant to be a quick cache before lunch proved a little harder. Went in from the SW I believe and a bit of a stuggle up and down a couple of minor cliff lines before finding the cache relatively easily. Thanks. (originally logged as stepheneva)

What was meant to be a quick cache before lunch proved a little harder. Went in from the SW I believe and a bit of a stuggle up and down a couple of minor cliff lines before finding the cache relatively easily. Thanks.

Went after this one with the kids. Found the GZ easy enough but after a bit of unsuccessful searching had to abandon the hunt. I will return.

Found the cache at 3.15pm. Wow!!! Very interest to see it. Love bushland... No swap. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Entered from the Pacific Hwy. This was our second visit. The first we tried to come over the ridge which proved a little too difficult. Came back at 2.45pm and fter a short search discovered the package.

Debcol01

Rode my pushy to this one, nice to explore the area before it is over developed, and there is still some bush left in the area rather than thousands of McMansions that all look the same (end of tirade….)

TNLN

The next person to search for this cache should take an extra pen as the one in the cache does not work.

Thanks SteelRat, nice hide.

Finally got this one on third attempt. Looked in the right place on two previous occasions and did not see it. It is well hidden but think I need to get new glasses. Thanks SteelRat
TNLN
Took TB

Not knowing the area this was a little tricky but we ended up on tracks that took us to the cache. Took wipe and left TB. Thanks Steelrat.

I am logging this old find under my new username

Also took the short way in from the Pacific Highway. Didn't take too long to find although I don't think I would have found it without the clue as it was hidden so well.

TNLN

Thanks for the cache SteelRat

After a start from the highway we fould this one after a good walk in the bush. Well hidden.
Left: ruler
Took: game
Thanks SteelRat

Found at 9.20am GAFF3. After staying the night at the Swansea Caravan Park, we started early to look for this cache. We skirted the whole area to try and find a quick way in, but then found that the quickest way was from the Pacific Hwy. There are now signs at all of the access points saying that it is a development site by DARACON - but we still pushed on. We only had to walk 250 metres, but both our GPSr's suddenly went nuts when we were about 100 metres from GZ. My wife then took a hunch and started looking around a likely spot. I joined her and within a few minutes the GPSr's indicated that we were in the right area. However it then took another 20 minutes of serious searching in the humidity to eventually find the cache. Took: Jeep, Left: Ausie wine charm. Thanks SteelRat

#99 I remembered this road when we were going on holidays as a kid. Definately much quicker now. We took the sorter way in which was fun. A bit if a bush bash through fairly thin bush. Then a scale dowm a rock wall for the last 15 metres which added to the adventure. Thanks Steelrat, a very enjoyable cache.
I remembered seeing a lot of beer bottles where we parked so I took a CITO module from the cache and put it to good use.

This was our third find of the afternoon, after a short walk, we found it pretty easy after a little climb.
cache is well hidden, and in good shape.
signed log, took bubble pen, and left screw driver set.
another great cache thanks

Took a while to find a good way in to this cache (didn't have a street directory). Pleasant wander to GZ where the extremely well hidden cache was eventually found. Bit of drama when I discovered I'd dropped the GPS from my pocket. Luckily I'd only gone about 100m from GZ. Had to go back 98m to find it.

Will be a shame if this goes the way of subdivisions as it appears. In spring the flora would be wonderful - there were several blooms out already and the bees were making as much noise as the Harlys on the highway nearby.

TNLN. Thanks Steelrat for the trek

Good walk, wish we had followed the instructions a bit better though - the 4WD access track is now blocked by concrete blocks and its a bugger of a bushbash for 500m if you attempt access this way. Came back the way Steelrat suggests via the old road.

Great hide and I love the container, still in really good condition.

TNLN - except Travelbug.

Thanks Steelrat.

My First One!
Feel like a deflowered virgin.....Great fun this game, took the wrong track first time round but followed the road up a bit and found the right way in.
Took nothing/left nothing as I didn't actually think I'd find it!
Well hidden, I like the camoflage.
Its in good condition, even after all the rain it's still dry and pen is working fine.
Thanks!
Team Bushpig
NSW

Thought this would be an easy ride on the pushy, but I rode all the wrong ways first.

Took 2 trys to find this one. I'm here in Australia visiting from Michigan in the United States. The first time we went out I had WAAS turned on. I was told to turn that off and my GPS's stopped jumping all over the place. The terrain here is very different than what I'm used to and makes easy caches very challenging.

[This entry was edited by JeepCachr on Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 1:11:21 PM.]

It is easy to find if you stick to tracks but me I had to do it the hard way yet again. As I was Visiting Mum it has taken me a Couple of days to log it in even then I used the wrong date in the book oh well .
P.S. keep an eye out for the wild life as Mum took a digital photo of a 3 foot long Goanna up a Tree and as it walked up the hill. It may take a while but I will try to up load it later? As mum does not have axecss to the internet, so I have to get it Sent to Tamworth.
Ron

After the previous few logs mentioning they could drive so close, I thought I would investigate. After checking all the standard streets on the beach side, looking for entry via car, finally decided to try the highway, and voila!

S 33°06.230, E 151°37.701

But I wouldn't try it without a 4wd. And a GPS.

Everyone else should probably try walking from the original posted park.

(By the way, cache checked out OK, but I thought it would)

Found this with not too much difficulty. Luckily it was a Saturday and there were no workers on the road construction. Didnt read SteelRats directions, just went off the coords. Drove my 4wd within 30 or so metres of cache. From memory there were about 5 logs in the logbook but only one here on the net? Didnt do any exploring as we were on a schedule to find some more caches.

Took : Maccas Toy
Left : Torch

Thanks SteelRat

Thanks Steel Rat

Found on or about this date with a Sydney mate of mine Alex. Was in with the boys seeing my granny nearby and decided I had left this cache un attended long enough. drove to within 40 meters of it after covering about 30 kilometers of roads - eventually narrowing it down thrugh elimination. The only way to see it all.

This is all going to become a housing estate - hence what all the surveyers tape everywhere. How do I know. I asked them.

Anyhow Great cache - shame it cant fit Tonka Toys.

Continued around the southern end of Lake Macquarie to Easter Eggs and Bob's Blue Box of Bits.

The Bronze.

I'd personally bump the difficulty on this up a point, as the tracks to access the location are labyrinthine if you don't follow SR's route exactly. Also, the only 'legal' access to the site is via the Caves Beach side-- road construction (blocking what would've been a more direct path; guess what I tried first..), private property, and closed council lands surround it. The remains of a sign at the locked gate shown in the photos is too much like an unauthorised entry warning for my liking, and I personally wouldn't want to leave my car (if I had one) alone in an area with scattered burnt-out wrecks and teenage hoons about. But riding my bike along the Old Pacific Highway was a Win..

(I've higher-res photos than what can be uploaded here at:
http;//kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/mainboard/imgboard.php?res=285 )