'I Do' West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia
By The Bronze. on 04-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMHCK

Knowing we had plans later, my son and I got out early and came up the mountain for a drive. There was 3 or so other caches we hadn't done nearby, but why do one of those when there are archived ones to look for. It was a bit of a walk from the main car park, as the gate to this section was shut. It was all downhill (so all up hill when we go back, tired) so made for easy walking, and sometimes running, just for fun. Though I had to hold Juniors hand when he runs, as he tripped 2 times within a minute, when I wasn't. There are some very nice views near GZ, and I could imagine popping the question here would have a very high success rate (one friend of mine was proposed to somewhere on this mountain, so I assume here, and she said yes, which means 100% success). After admiring the views we looked for the cache. We eventually found it after using the hint, But I'm not sure how accurate the coordinates are. Didn't use the ones provided by the recent "finder" that replaced the cache. But the cache was in excellent condition, Better then a lot of the active ones around. Signed the log and put back. Then headed back to the car with a very grumpy boy.
Thanks for the great views and fun walk, we'll need to bring some cardboard next time for some fun!

Found this one after i had tried to find this a few times and just remembered that it had been replaced and so i went back and tried again and this time bingo the cache was found and log signed.

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

Enjoy the caching at night time, but we did pass a couple of muggles, even at that hour (they soon left)!
Thanks to Team Senz on keeping a significant cache going. Love these D2/T2 caches
Think I left a plastic bag, and a pen there.
Hedge Hopper and Nick Starrs Starr TBs thru
TFTC Bronze
(May have left Hedge Hopper TB there, as I didn't write down where I left it)

0210 GAFF1 Finding this cache brought back a bit of personal history, as I had suggested that we (with the then Mrs C) go and find this cache on the way back from some 21st anniversary celebrations in Sydney. It took another year before I realised why she wasn't keen to come on up for this one
That seems another life away now. At that stage I would have some 300 caches I think, so with a 2 to 3 year hiatus largely from caching (with a few exceptions) I felt it was time to come and get this one.
I think that I walked up this particular ridge some 30 years ago, but not too sure now.
Soon found the cache - dry and intact. GOOD coordinates Team Senz. Don't think I could leave a Correct Site Marker in there tho, due to size of container; but did leave a ziploc bag.
Another for the night caching thesis book mark.
Brought through for mileage: 3 Bros, Aust Light Houses, Beagle Bixby, B 2 B ingot, Iconic Bridges, Just Monkeying Around Oz, Little Moo, PAP, Play Well, Slugging Around the World!, Trackabulldog, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, and trackable shirt.
TFTC Bronze, just needs the cache Enabled again!

#3029

We've been waiting for a while for this cache to be replaced. We were 4WDing in the area and decided to take a quick walk to this one as TeamSenz had replaced it. There were plenty of muggles around in the picnic areas as it was Easter monday but we had the lookout to ourselves for a quick find. TFTC

Found it! Loved the new view, been up here before but never to this path, what a lovely place

I do again

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, or it's been a number of months since the last owner note. I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it. Should you replace the cache after 30 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

S 32° 53.126 E 151° 32.392

Today we were getting the caches in the area, and as this one has been out of action for some time, with CO unresponsive, and we notice previous cachers have replaced this cache before.

We decided to take a replacement cache with us to replace it so other cachers can enjoy this great spot.

We have supplied Coordinates for the cache that we took when replacing it. the hint seemed to match this locations (under the 2 boulders) near the lookout.

Hope CO doesn't mind if we keep this cache going.

We replaced it with a Black Plastic container.

This cache needs replacing. I will endeavor to replace it in the next couple of weekends. Apologies for those teams who may have been put out by its theft.
Regards, Bronze.

Could CO check if cache still exists and confirm coordinates please?

Spent a long time looking for this one but only found a black plastic syringe kit. Removed this to dispose of properly. Co-ords are well out as they had me quite close to the edge. Checked within a 15m radius but found nothing but pleanty of possible hidey holes. Will need checking by CO.

Couldn't find this one either think it's gone may need to check this one.

Looked every likely spot and then used the clue and looked some more. No luck I'm afraid.

Searched high & low but no luck today, although there were plenty of "possibles" sighted.
As it was such a nice day we did a nice long bush walk anyway, so the trip wasn't wasted.
Thanks for the view!

I havn't been up here for quite a long time and this cache is close to where I went sliding off the cliff when I was a kid lucky I didn't hurtmyself too badly.

Not many people about but plenty of mozzies

Took a while to find the cache as it was about 13m out today but spotted just as I was about to give up...
TFTC

Found today at 5:45pm. A lovely view, which we had to ourselves - thanks!

The seventh of many on a day out caching with spikeymikey and what a shame the National Parks choose to lock people out of using this area as it does offer wonderful views.

The seventh of many on a day out caching with spikeymikey and what a shame the National Parks choose to lock people out of using this area as it does offer wonderful views.

Came down from the summit. No weddings today (a bit to wet)

Views must be grat when the clouds part.

Picked the typical geo hide. SL and returned

TFTC

Great spot and beautiful wedding location

Nice location for a wedding

What a wonderful view!!! Perfect place to get married Bronze. TFTC

Took advantage of a perfect morning to grab some caches around Mt sugarloaf....
Looked for a few minutes before i spotted the likely hide and was able to grab the cache.
Great views from GZ.
SL TFTC TNLN

Nice spot. A good easy cache. Thanks.

Mt Sugarloaf cache hunt #4
Great location, great walk, fantastic view and a nice straightforward hide. Near perfect experience.
Log book is in v.good condition
SL TNLN TFTC

Reperio at 1345. After stopping by 'Hunter Valley Vista', I followed the cliff walk around to GZ to another wonderful vista. The GPS had me a good 10m away from where I eventually found the cache, which didn't seem to match the description, but it was found nonetheless. A wonderful spot to tie the knot for sure.

Gratias Bronze.

Good to see this one back in business, it is a great spot. TFTC

Beautiful morning for a caching run between jobs
Thanks for a great walk and hide
Left geocoin

12:11 Hrs
Just a short stroll from a nearby cache and we were greeted by some lovely views and an assortment of muggles attached to ropes jumping off a cliff.

After ascertaining that the cache was missing we completed some cache maintenance and continued on our way.

Cheers.

A joint attack with Team Webguy & Wingnut. This one was obviously missing and after leaving a phone message with the CO, it was decided to replace the cache in the only obvious spot that fitted the clue, even though we thought the co-ords were slightly out.
There were several muggles abseiling off the nearby drop-off using the railings and we spotted a bunch of flowers nearby where apparently someone last week decided to you know what - poor bugger.
A great spot though and super views. Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

12:12pm
After reading the logs about all the no finds, I tried to get the CO on the phone but was not able to I wacked together a replacement cache just in case.

We arrived and had a pretty good look around, the clue only seems to point to one spot really. So, hoping the CO did not mind us putting a replacement out, we left a new cache behind.

These are the co-ords I recorded at the time...

Seriously a spectacular spot to tie the knot...

Had a good look around but alas no cache. Great walk though!

Another great day for a wood fired BBQ and picnic, the goekids found this again, and we dropped off the reindeer geo coin. Picked up the okinawa geocoin in its place.

Could not find a cache at the coordinates, should have read the logs first, looks like it is gone.

Cache appears to be gone.

Took Ben and Nic out for their first geo-caching experience up the mount. Didn't find it. Definatly not where it was last time. She's goooone!

Both our devices said we were at the GZ but no sign of it anywhere...

We were up here with the scouts and and we had a look around the area and i'll confirm it's not in it's original hide.
Looks like it definately gone missing.

Well I didn't. No luck like others before me. Maybe a check by the owner may be required. Thanks anyway. Really nice area.

Well: We spent a lot of time looking for thiis one. But alas we 3 couldn't find it . Yes it must be well hidden!

Walked to this location from Hunter Valley Vista, but we were temporarily detained by a leech attack! The iPhone sent us all over the place, but after searching a few possible hiding places we gave up. After 2 previous DNFs we figured it may have been muggled so we didn't want to waste too much time looking. We will keep our eyes out for a find and come back and look again if it's still there.

Was a really nice spot here. In our search I stumbled upon a memorial plaque hidden in the bush. This must be a special place for a lot of people.
Unfortunately we didn't find the cache despite finding plenty of hiding holes.

Had a good look round for this one but no success. Read through the posts and thought we knew where it should of been but it wasnt!!

Great cache there today with walkabout 4x4 tftc

The whole families first real find, was a little diificult at first and were about to give up because of he rain when something unusual was spotted.

Found after attending the HAVOC Event. Enjoyed the hunt for this one.
TFTC

#281
Found this while enjoying the HAVOC event. What a view. I can see why it was chosen for the celebration. Our co-ords took us down a bit but we widened our search and came up with the goods. Found with Smurfyguy and Geotooter. Thanks for bringing us here.

The sun was acutally warm as we approached GZ, we stopped to admire the view before grabbing the cache. A stunning location and an enjoyable cache. Took bear and left a bear and snoopy TB. TFTC Bronze. [605]

#T315
Found this cache with Smurfyguy & Calypso62. What a location!!!! Almost forgot what we were doing there. TNLN TFTC

Found this one on the day of the HAVOC Anniversary Event. Found with Big Matt and Shell.

This was our 4003rd overall find.

Found at 12:10 PM. Found this one with Pensive Travelers on a beautiful day. I can see why you chose this spot to say 'I Do'. A nice find once the GPS settled.

Thanks Bronze for the cache.

T: Froshing Around TB
L; Nothing

This is a great spot for a picnic - most of the thousand muggles 200m up the road, away can't walk more than 20m from their car - therefore they miss out on this spectacular place!! MAybe that is not such a bad thing!!

Found cache about 5 metres east of GZ with our brother in law while with the Newcastle X Country outing-team cyndon

Picked up "Bazza" TB, Nice day for a walk around Sugarloaf with the boys......

dropped of bazza tb

Found this one with Gillette.... she is seriously addicted to the game...

Final cache of the day on my caching trip with The Wandering Wilkos. Nice view. TFTC.

We contemplated driving directly from Hunter Valley Vista to this one but the track was getting just too narrow to continue, so after about five minutes getting the 4x4 turned around we came via bitumen and I was glad to see to continue any further than we did, would have been impossible. Nice quick find although I think there may have been a little cache creep as it really didn't match clue

Nice view from GZ and thanks for sharing it with us, always a pleasure to do another “Bronze†Cache. Oh yeah the log book needs to be replaced, sorry I didn’t have one with me.

TFTCSL

meeting place for a 4wd trip. I took my dad and dad's mate shane to find it. Shane found it and the smile on his face was priceless. thanks guys great find. beautiful view.

Found by TAVS(T), though she made me reach in to get it.

Might of been muggled had good look around all rocks but no luck.

We decided to give the caches around Sugerloaf a go today as i had purchased a new GPS yesterday. I found 50 without a GPS and it was time to get one. We filled up the camelbacks and hoped in the car. The GPS took a little getting used to and we ended up going all around the mountian. We finally got it right and found two other caches before we found this. The log is full and needs replacing. I think you might like to cover the cache a little better as my brother found it straight away. TFTC

Very pleasant spot to say the vows indeed. Having walked there from the nearby Vista cache I was thinking it would have been an interesting track in a wedding dress, but of course once at GZ spotted the nice way in. Had to drive up here today to look at a wireless link back towards Kurri, so while on top of the hill why not find a couple of caches. TNLNSL, thanks Bronze.

Did this one while doing some others up at sugarloaf today, TNLN

Angus found cache very quickly even though Dakota was throwing up some funny advice. Excellent view of the landscape west towards Broke - Mount View Range. Tried to work out what the tower was to the north-east of Cessnock Airport. Took elephant, left pencil and bubbles.

Notebook is full. Needs replacing.

A bit of a walk in a wedding dress now that gates are all shut , but we now know why The Bronze and his Bride chose this spot.
Just perfect for an outdoor wedding.
Left dice, TNSL TFTC

Knowing this was where a wedding was held we were not expecting to park our car near a run down toilet block with a burnt out car body beside it. After we parked, we walked down the track and saw the wonderful view and knew we were on the right track. After searching where the listed co-ordinates were, we were a little confused as we were very close to the edge of the cliff even though it said we didn't need to go near the edge. It seems we are not the only ones to find the co-ordinates are not quite accurate - but we eventually has the cache in hand. Took the Travel Bug, signed log. TFTC

sweet, went at night!

Found this one whilst out geocaching with all the family, The Wobblys and The-Don.

Did the Bushrangers cave then headed up to Sugarloaf for a bbq then a bit of walking to find the three caches up the top of Sugarloaf.

A great spot. I have always liked this area and bring the kids here for a drive to admire the views.

TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Nice walk with the family after a bbq lunch. TFTC

Found this one out with The Cash Man and The Don.
Great view!
TFTC

found this cache after finding the hunter valley vista cache...nice long walk to do the both in one go. Greats views too...SL, TFTC

Nice cache Thanks

Great spot easy find, took took bug left Kevin's bear.

Searched everywhere well almost everywhere but did not locate it.

Quick find on the way home



Dropped off the shark tb


Fattyacid and family.

Nice find will have to give this one to Mrs Tamykian. Here I am running around like a kid in a lolly shop, looking at going over the edge and she did was turn around and go "there it is"well bugger me. SL TFTC TNLN

Tamykian

Found thid one after our usual easter breakfast up here at sugarloaf. Was going to find this last year but it was raining so we were pleased to see a pleasant day this year!!

TNLN, TFTC.

We have breakfast with "Crystal Pauls" TFTC

Another great Hunter Valley view.

No dogs allowed, according to the sign on the way in.

TFTC. What a wonderful view took some happy snaps of the kids and moved on.
cheers

ben&mel and geokids

Found it after a couple of minutes. Excellent views to the west.
TNLN, TFTC. haven't been up here for many years.

could not find it at first but i went and looked and found the other 2 near by and came back and found it

The last of three great caches, I never knew this place existed and today was just a beautiful cool day with a light drizzle to come and find them.

We loved the walk and the adventure, thank you sooo much "The Bronze" for sharing this place with us...

We loved it.

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

Found at 12:30.

Like everybody else, my GPSr was encouraging me to commit suicide by going over the edge.

I resisted, and eventually found the cache. It took a while though, and I suspect that the hiding place may have moved because it doesn't seem to match the hint (though it is very nearby).

Took the Aladdin TB (it wants to go to exotic places - you can't get more exotic than Canberra...), and Twin Peaks (UT) Green Jeep TB.

Thanks, Bronze

Took my wife up the hill for morning tea at this lovely spot, been too long since we were last up here, grabed this cache after the GPS told me jump off the cliff so I read the hint.

Left the nearby caches so we can go back up and do it again.


Took Woof Woof TB
Left Jeep TB

TFTC

My GPS had me hovering all over the cliff edge :p. I only took the location and didn't read the description before setting of so I spent about 20mins searching all the little holes on the cliff.

Great view . This was found while surveying the local walking trails for OpenStreetMap.

Took Rosebud TB.

Spending the weekend looking for caches this one was high on the list as I had been here before with mum but it was Raining so I camped here over night with the 3 local caches in mind ( it wasn't till after I got here that I found out you can't camp here)this one had to wait till morning to be done so in the morning of I went too find this cache after getting to GZ I had a good look around including it's hiding spot [:-D] but I didn't see it I looked for a good 1/2 hr not finding it so went to get hunter valley vista which is close by fount that cache I then returned to this cache after checking the cache in GSAK and getting the hint plus my old 76garmin returned to GZ both Gpsr tried to get me down the cliff after looking for another 30 minutes decided to DNF this cache and on the return was still looking and looked right at it so it's found yee haa . [:-o] how dumb do I feel after looking in the right spot early on but not seeing it but to be fair it's a long way in [:-D]

[This entry was edited by Postman Pat on Saturday, June 07, 2008 at 12:35:13 AM.]

The firstfound of three in this lovely area on a beaut day. Chock a block full of TBs so took two to move them on

Found by Team Ladava in transit from Queensland home to Melbourne.
Fantastic views and a great place for a cache.
Like others, the cords. lured me far too close to the cliff until I re-read the notes and the well concealed cache was soon found.
Took 2 TBs
Left one
We missed my own 60th. Birthday TB by about 10 days.
Thanks for a very memorable cache bronze

Minime and I tried for 3/3 but we couldnt find this one. We might have another look after lunch. We hate it when we can't find a cache.

At relo's for Chrissy day so after the usual stuffing of lunch we decided to walk it off via a quick cache break. Nice easy find. Great veiws. Never taken the time to drive and appreciate the veiws as we have been past quite a few times.
Took - 5 x TB's & GC to relocate way out west way.
Left - Polarity Game Gifts, 2 x Toyo Tyres patches, Bridgestone Earthmover Tyres patch, Aug Steyr patch and a couple of tyre stickers.

SL
TFTC

Would be a terrible shame if you where to turn up to look for the cache and find the nearby table occupied.

Yep - it's there but it's well hidden. And for good reason to.

You will have to look hard. It's not buried but if you were near the edge then you were in the wrong spot buy about 6 or 7 meters. There is no need to go anywhere near the fence.

Just adding 13 Travel Bugs from the Bathurst 24 hour event. Please ensure the cache is sealed well and hidden well to ensure the safety of these bugs. Feel free to take a few and move them on quickly.

To make room this cache has had it swaps removed and stored in the Hunter Travel Bug Hotel on the New England Highway.

Cache on.

Bronze.

looked around here for a while
the GPS said that the cache was very close to the edge of the cliff so I was a bit discouraged

will have a recheck of the clues and try again

fattyacid

Had the Bronze show my wife & I the beautiful views from here, and found a cache as well. Great spot, and well worth the detour on our way home to Brisbane.
TFTC

Popped in for a maintenance check with come good friends. Things look good but the swaps are looking a bit ordinary for the kids so I will take some up these next holidays and replace the container while I'm at it.

Next on the list for maintenance in this area is 'Noonan's Discovery'. It will be done in two weeks also.

Bronze.