Zoidberg Has Fallen Needles, Tasmania, Australia
By Team Tiges on 20-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMJ4B

A wonderful walk on a glorious spring day! The falls were very picturesque and the waterhole was rather inviting. However, we dunked our feet in and were quickly reminded that we were in Tassie, it was freezing! We then sat and had our picnic lunch on the rocks admiring the view and serenity. Loved this spot, TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan

This one was a bit trickier with signal decidedly dodgy. Reading the comment about the fallen tree helped. Beautiful falls. TFTCs a great addition to this beautiful walk.

After lunch in Chudleigh and visit to the Honey Shop we back tracked a little to walk to Lobster Falls . It was a wonderful afternoon for a walk. We werent sure what to expect some said tricky hike and others said nice stroll. So I brought my trekking pole and wore my walking shoes.We loved the walk and both caches were found easily (Geohusband was on fire )TFTC

What a wonderful place, thanks for bringing us here

Took awhile but finally located it. Stunning area. Thanks

A day out from Arthurs lake to Mole Creek (where we had a great chicken burger) and we did a very challenging walk to Lobster falls.

Thank you for the cache to be included in our day

TFTC

What a great location & view.... cache is in perfect condition

Favourite point given

TFTC. My phone was jumping a round a lot showing the cache to be 10m from actual location, so I was reliant on the hint to pin this one down. Went for a swim whilst here. Cache and contents in excellent shape.

Enjoyed the stroll out to her and having lunch by the pool below watching the falls
TFTC

What a magical place. Thanks for a great day out and cache.

Zoidberg is not the only thing that’s fallen I dropped my phone over the ledge while taking a photo. A quick skinny dip in the water caused some hypothermia but alas no phone. Luckily I’m not one for sweating the small stuff and my friend and I were laughing at my stupidity all Arvo. She helped me find the cache. A very expensive day out for me!

Tftc

Found at the second set of falls. Lovely waterfall and pool. Tftc

TFTC Cache took a little longer to locate than expected as GPS was bouncing around a little but once it stabilized found Cache in good dry condition

This was an adventure. The track in is at points quite hair raising. The end of the path was a great place to arrive. After taking some photos, and TaurusSix discovered an ants nest, we moved and found the cache soon enough.

Spent a while searching a burnt out tree stump rather than a fallen tree, GPS was sending me up the wrong tree so to speak. TFTC

I was back again, after logging a find on the 15 March 2012.
The cache is in good condition and ready to be found!

Fun walk to a very beautiful spot. Spent a bit of time searching for this one, realized i was too far down, so headed back up the hill and spotted the massive log. TFTC.

Great hike! the birds were singing and egging us to our destination. Unfortunately we did not get to see the platypus. Cache was in good condition TFTC

Good found after a hard 1hour walk.
TFTC

Lieb's Gruessli
#5375

Awesome place. Easy find once got to the end. Found with Feleepofalapel which was her first find. Highly recommend proper walking shoes as track was a bit tougher than expected with a couple of rock falls. TFTC!

Did this walk to Lobster falls with my mum, wish i had bathers to swim here its so beautiful! Found the cache nearby the falls fairly easily, nice sized container TFTC

This cache has been on my to do list for a very long time and my closest cache when driving on he highway for a while.

Today I decided that I would parked and go for a walk. Despite the almost 4km walk I really enjoyed the walk and the views along the way. This was definitely an animal walk, I managed to see a: tiger snake, echidna, black cockatoo and a rainbow trout.

I arrived at GZ and was blow away by this special spot, I wish I bought my bathers down here. I just wanted to sit here all day.

Off I went and found the cache all in good order. Fav point added for the location.
I’ll be back.

Today I headed out to the meander valley to find a few caches along the backroads and also some of the longer walking caches that I had left on previous trips through her. A beautiful day out with 10 finds in total.

Thanks for the cache

Hi Team Tiges
A flying trip to the NW Coast today had me find, log and Saint this cache at 1425 hours
This has been a bucket list cache for a long time - now completed - so glad I changed my mind today and took the walk
Enjoyed the walk to and from this cache - bushland odours are always great to take in
A challenging walk but most enjoyable
Lingered and pondered the whole scene for some time - thanks
A great place with excellent views - I love waterfalls and this one did not let me down
Even saw a trout doing its thing in the clear waters at the first pool (Look at the photo and you see its shadow in the water)
The round trip was 709 km in the car
To find and log 13 caches I walked, I walked a total distance of 11.01 km using 14421 steps while burning 1906 calories
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
My FINDS: GCA 4408; GC 3937; TOT 8345

Beautiful walk today to the upper and lower Lobster Falls glad we did this! Cache in decent order with new log book.
Had seen the sign to these falls previously while on our way to caveside, with a little research we decided to get up early and set out on our walk to these falls. I’d seen pictures on a waterfall page so i knew that today they were flowing well. There are a couple of spots that could easily be mistaken for the track along the way we even had to point some people in the right direction the walk has a couple of hairy bits but nothing too crazy that a averagely fit mum & teen couldn’t handle. The reward of the falls is well worth the effort!
Favourite point for the stunning location

TFTC

Often go along this road en route to a caving trip and just as often say we must come here one day just to do this walk. Well today we did, and a thoroughly enjoyable walk it is. The track is very good, maybe a little rocky towards the end but nothing untoward. Pretty easy stroll to be honest. Had a look at the first waterfall, taking a few photos before heading on to the second one where the cache resides. Here we found another lovely waterfall running into a large pool of water. Very nice indeed.

On the way down to the pool we spotted a likely looking stump which matched the clue but nothing to be found after a good search. Decided to head down to the pool and lo and behold there was the PVC pipe container sitting on a rock in plain sight next to the waters edge. Not quite right we reflected. Log book was full and very damp. Cache had some damp rubbish inside, so we cleaned it out, dried it and put in a new log book in a zip lock bag. Went back up the track about 20m or so and over to the stump we'd checked out on the way in and hid the cache there. Its an obvious stump on the right as you head down to the water.

Lovely spot and well worth the walk.

Set off for this walk thinking it wouldnt take long, for this slow walker it was 2 hours and I was back in my car. I enjoyed the walk and the water falls. Thanks Zoidberg for the placement of this cache

Tftc. Beautiful place. Nice swimming hole.

Tftc. Beautiful place. Nice swimming hole.

Awesome little walk to a hidden fall we'd never have found on our own!! Saw some platypus on the way, found the Cache in an incorrect location so moved it to its rightful home.

The track was ok except towards the end when it became more narrow and steeper. I looked around for a few minutes at GZ without success and was about go when I noticed the container lying in the open. The contents were a bit damp. I signed the logbook, grabbed a TB that was inside and covered the cache as best I could, not knowing exactly where it should go.

If on river side of track, said stump has broken off and fallen below. No sigh of cache. Looked extensively

No luck today! But i will be back to try again. The falls are amazing anf the track down isnt for the faint hearted. Took us 40mins to get there from first car park. Thanks for leading me to this amazing place! Awesome walk!!

Our apologies for the delay in posting our log. Things have got a little out of hand recently & the backlog has become rather more of a "log jam".

Our thanks to Team Tiges for placing this cache for us to find (or occasionally not) on 24/01/2018. Further details (for earthcaches & the like) will be supplied to the CO once the jam has cleared.

Lovely to find a spot away from the regular tourist area. Thanks for placing a cache here Team Tiges.

This took us two oldies out of our comfort zone. Almost turned back. But was an easy find. TFTC

Nice spot! Under the rain with tom and jemm! The adventure just start!!

Found yesterday. We initially went down the very steep track to the first waterfall and couldn't see a way through but on our return spotted the track continuing up the hill and then only another 100 metres on. Lovely spot. An easy 40 minutes walk in today. TFTC.

#283 easy find plenty of water going over falls today tftc

great container, has given me some ideas tftc

Got to the lower pool but needed to cross the slippery rocks and shallow water to get to the other side and didnt want to get wet runners so missed out by only 50 meters.
BPFAC
Beautiful place for a cache.

Plan for the summer. Hike, 4wd and Geocache around Tasmania. It will be a great adventure. Cheers for all the caches along the way. This is my last day of caching this trip. A great way to finish with a walk up to these falls. On my first day of this trip. We came past here but it was too hot to hike in. Today was perfect weather.

A 10 day trip to Tasmania with a lot more caching then initially expected, but I enjoyed every minute of it! This was one of the many caches I found and enjoyed. Can't wait to get back here and do it all over again, there are so many great places in Tasmania. Very tricky at the end.
TFTC Wilbert67

found it.
TFTC

This is a lovely set of falls that we might not have visited if there had not been a cache there - so thanks for bringing us here. TNLN. We had read the hint, so recognised a likely location when's e saw it, even though the gps thought that we were still about 30m away. T FTC

Found [Time to Find: 13 min] 24 December 2013 09:40:00 Ok so this morning we decided to tackle this group of caches out to the falls. All it needs is another one at the car and one half way between the carpark and Decapod 10. A very enjoyable walk with the last part to Zoidberg has fallen the hardest part and only smelly belly 8 joined me while the others slowly headed back. Interesting to see new stair treads and other track maintenance equipment just sitting around )looks like they have been there a while and forgotten about). Thanks Guys for the journey.
JABs.

Gotcha !!! TFTC . A favourite from me.

Albany Nomads found whilst on their Tassie 2013 caching holiday
Many thanks for the cache
Found as part of the Mole Creek Caching Challenge,
We succeeded in finding this entire collection of challenge caches in one day..and had a great great time,
Many thanks to the Mole Creek community for putting this challenge together, we had a ball.
Also many thanks to Brenda, Kirk and Sykes at the Mole Creek Lodge B&D..what a wonderful place to use as a base to explore the area, caching and enjoy the district. (the best B&D we have come upon)
To our surprise the Albany Nomads where only the THIRD caching team to have completed the challenge

Great walk first of seven caches for the day completing the mole creek challenge.

DNF. I suspect that a flood may have washed it away.

A nice and non-strenuous bushwalk to the falls, though the last section of track was slippery. We came the day after a storm so there was plenty of water roaring over the falls. Half an hour each way was overly optimistic as two hours had passed by the time we got back to the car. We'd planned on doing Westmoreland Falls as well but had run out of time by then, so went and treated ourselves to honey icecreams instead. Thanks for the cache and a refreshing walk in the bush.

A lovely set of falls. The track starts out ok, and obviously there has been some work on it, but the last section is a little tricky, especially for our smaller cache hunters. Still we found it, logged it and answered the question

Magic spot to find our 100th treasure. Kids loved the walk, even got to stop and have a up close and personal chat with an echidna on the way out.
TFTC. Cheers

Went all the way to the falls and My phone (GPS) went flat. Searched around a lot but really had no idea where to look : )

Found last year on an adventure where the fungi were plentiful and the leeches enormous and thirsty. We eagerly sought the pool at the base of the falls and kind of hoped for a swim but the water was really pumping over the falls and the current way too strong to even consider swimming, the roar was quite deafening. Found in the company of Platypus on Ice and one of the last caches that we found whilst living in Tasmania. Thanks Team Tiges for your great caches, this is another special place.

Thanks for this cache. Gorgeous area. Tftc

The rest of the peleton stopped at the upper falls (pretty) while I went on to the lower ones (just as pretty) and cache (hide spotted from some distance).
This looks like a great place for a swim, though I guess the farm upstream might pollute it a bit.
Thanks.

A really great workout to get to this one, a bit hairy on some parts of the trail, worth the effort. Left a toy boat and took a bouncy ball [^]

Found in the company of 3daygrowth. A great walk, taking in all of the wonderful forest.
The falls were beautiful, well worth the visit.
TFTC

I've added the google maps link for the stop point on the main road.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=41+32.644s+146+31.928e&hl=en&ll=-41.544124,146.532152&spn=0.00114,0.002411&sll=-41.547966,146.539861&sspn=0.004561,0.009645&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=-41.544124,146.532152&panoid=ylaIw8SvF3jcKIV2vrVZqA&cbp=12,344.37,,0,0

And for those wondering about the name ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoidburg

Also above is the gpx co-ordinates for this main road waypoint.

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My second visit here, this time in the company of Spreyton22.
First time around I couldnt find it - 4 eyes made the difference.
Is certainly a beautiful spot.
Many thanks.

Dropped in to deposit Pirate tag and clue as part of the Mole Creek Geocaching ptoject. (you can read more about this @ http://www.molecreek.info/mole_creek_geocaching.html). Cache in good order and falls looking greaat.

Lovely location. Don't think you can access the car-parks any more so we parked on the grassy area next to the main road beside the sign which says "No cars beyond this point" It doesn't effect much though as the car-park was only a short distance along the track anyway.

Lovely walk in nice easy track, the final hundred meters gets a little rougher but nothing too serious. The falls were lovely although we though the gps was well off at first until we guessed there must be two sets of falls

There was talk of going for a swim but the water smelled a little of... hmm perhaps some farmer upstream had been fertilizing or something. Still it was very much worth the visit. Thank you a lovely walk and cache.

Found the Bushwalk in a book, looked up to co-ordinates and checked Geocaching.com and found this cache along the walk.

Really nice walk, though a bit tough at times for the unfit (like me) but even I managed it and enjoyed the beautiful scenery along the way. Sweaty and tired by the time we got the pool and much joy was taken putting the feet in the water for a long time. Our kids enjoyed themselves by throwing sticks and stones into the water. Found the geocache on the way back. The journey back wasn't as hard as I feared.

Probably the best Geocache I've been to in my short Geocaching experience.

Found on our caching and caravanning weekend to the North West coast. Had the caravan in tow so walked from the road, a pleasant walk in and rewarded with magnificent falls. There were some very keen fellows taking a dip at the base of the falls apparently for a film. Found cache after detouring down a couple of wrong tracks but enjoyed exploring the area. This is why we love caching as it brings us to spots like this. Thanks Team Tiges for bringingus to this great location and for the cache.

Found at 12.10pm. I loved this cache...and in particular the location and getting there. I lost the track a few times. At one stage I thought the cache was on the other side of the river, so I crossed it via stepping stones only to realise that I was now on the wrong side and I need to backtrack. I don't know whether it was the satellites or my gps, but my gps read that the cache was 17 metres from gz...it didn't matter that much, because the hint was pretty good. TFTC. TNLNSL.

Out exploring the area.

TNLN - GeoCoin in transit.

On an overcast and drizzly day, it was a pleasant walk into the falls with the exception of the last 150 metres which were very slippery (rocks and clay) and leech ridden. Our GPS was not settling in the gully and the clue was a real help in locating the cache. The cache was in excellent condition, with the contents completely dry. TFTC

Been here BC (Before Caching). Very slippery with all the rain today but we made it OK without ending up flat on our backs. We did not see the platypus today that we here last time we visited. The cache was a bit exposed so we replaced it a bit better than it was.

What a great cache! Loved it even though I couldn't find the cache itself.
The GPS kept losing comms and was going pretty haywire down by the falls.
Did a lot of scrabbling around and even with the hint didn't find it.
I was on my own and not wanting to risk a fall didn't do a lot of the precarious clambering.
Finally decided to head back as time was marching on.
Took a few wrong turns on the way back. Nice to have the GPS to lead me back to the Car and the Maid!
Thanks for getting me there

Another spot I visit each year. I have walked past the cache every time and now I know it is there. A spot well worth the effort to see. TNLN. TFTC

Always wanted to go in and have a look at these falls. About half hour each way from 2wd car park. 4wd will get you within 800mtrs of the falls. Clue is spot on, left slinky took torch. Loved the walk in. TFTC

Have not been to the falls for years so the return was not dissapointing. Tons of water going over following recent heavy rains. Cache was dry and in perfect condition..
TNLN Thanks

30 min. into falls, found cache which was in perfect condition, then 40 min. walk back out, think we took wrong turn on way out but got there in the end

Had to do a google search to find out about the name of this cache. I did that after I'd told several people I was going to Zoidberg Falls - no wonder no one knew where they were... Good walk in and just a little drizzly on the way out. I've wanted to do this cache for ages, but I'd been a little unsure of the exact location of the falls (due to the aforementioned problem)!!!!!!!!! Took about 1 and 1/2 hours return, including a bit of track wandering and exploring around the falls and a bit of a backtrack on the way back when I went along a wrong track for 100m or so. You woulld hardly have thought it possible but even on the way in I'd wondered if it would be straightforward when driving, given there are a few tracks leading off in a couple of places. Very nice cache, Team Tiges, I love your containers. I'm really pleased to have finally visited.

Cruising along the backroads I was watching the ships navigation display. A couple of cache symbols were nearby, but with no clear paths through hyperspace leading to them.
Suddenly I noticed it ! A sign pointing to the site of this tragedy [:o]
I couldn't get much closer using transport, so hopped out and set off on foot
I made sure to take something to eat along the trail
After 15 minutes or so I reached the end of the '4WD road' where those who are probably too lazy to continue would reach
The trail became much nicer for the last 600 metres or so. There were even some boardwalks and a bridge. Some of the drops by the trail were quite high nearing the falls themselves
I wandered out to a lookout between the cascades and could see the pool below near where the GPS was showing GZ.
A bit of backtracking and more descent along the trail got me to the waters edge and some more beautiful views
The caches hiding place was obvious from reading the clue.
When I saw a bit of the lid poking out it became obvious that this cache hadn't been found for quite a while.
When I read the logbook I was very surprised. Almost two years [:o]
The cache and contents were in perfect condition and I happily scrawled my name in the logbook
TFTC and views.
Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor

It was a nice walk in, the falls were great.
Looked around for about half an hour.
Thanks for bring me here.

First find!! Haven't been to the falls for a number of years and was surprised at the amount of water for such a dry season. Cache was very novel and instructions clear and helpful. I am now inspired to look for more.

The GPS has us 5m out in the water. The cache obviously wasn't there. Searched for ages. Maybe next time.

A most pleasant walk! We saw a snake, a cowering echidna (second of the day), and Snuva was able to do her platypus impersonation at the end of the track. I saw a very suspect geocache hiding spot well before I found GZ, but continued to GZ then backtracked to the spot.

Thanks for another marvelous cache, Team Tiges!

Great walk in with lots of water going over the falls because of recent rain. Rocks were a bit slippery but that added to the fun. That pool at the bottom looks very deep, we'll have to come back in summer for a swim. The cahce was a bit hard to find but we didn't have to resort to the clue in the end. Nice position though, not too far off the track. Took Grand Experiment geocoin and will find a good home for it soon. Took bracelet and left torch. Following the example of an earlier visitor we had to go and have an icecream afterwards too. This is one of those places that as near locals we always intended to go to but never did so thanks for the reason. We enjoyed it.

Listing changed to reflect new container type. Oops, I shoulda done that before!

Dropping coin into cache to enjoy the view of the falls

Yesterdays torrrential rain has made falls fantastic. Prayer to cachegods for an easy find after we got bogged atop a hill and didn't finish the Homage to Ginsberg series ( gee that was a funny cache - the police rescue party went off to take photos of themselves with the cache camera as well! ) was answered with lovely weather and equally lovely friends who cheerfully searched all the hard, slippery spots where the cache wasn't for Feralz as GPS nohwere near - took other coords then lost ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IN THE GPS when hit reset button when back at car! It looks like I am in Mt. Druit, NSW when I hit "points of interest" now Anyway Hint was ok enough for a fairly quick find when hard spots all checked as we know Tiges always makes his caches sensibly close to track.
T cache pencil and plastic bag (oops), glass pebbles and miniclip L geocoin, shell earings,
Finished up with icecream from honey farm down the road to repair the children. Now i will just have to get up and do 8 hr walk all the way out to Minnow falls to work this off and to salvage my FTF competition score Saw Caxixi's brave log - what a storm! another madwoman doing FTF.

A very atmospheric (and wet) walk in the rain. I've never been to this area of Tas. before, it's a beautiful spot. SO much water today and I got very, very wet! TNLN. Thanks Team Tiges.

Team Tiges mentioned they were off to the falls for maintenance and I was quick to put hand up to tag along! 2 sets of waterfalls for the price of one walk...seemed too good to resist. All was going well untill the camera batteries died after 4 shots Was able to get a few shots of second cascade using batteries pilfered from Team Tiges...Another couple of falls to add to the ever growing list that are awaiting publishing on my site!

The walk in here is a nice easy one, tiny bit scrambly at the end but certainly nothing to worry about. Thoroughly enjoyed this one...more cachers should attack it i think!

TNLNETE

Thanks for the note about the maintenance Sirius. Went in today with Aloysius and replaced the container. The falls were really nice, well worth a trip back at this time of year!

Great spot.Needed clue as GPSr wasn't getting much of a reception.Clue was spot on.Have worked in this area before, but never been to falls.TNLSSL..Thanks Team Tiges

Rated: for Overall Experience

In my rush to log cache, forgot to mention that the container cliplock has became brittle and broke while opening..sorry guys..bound it up tight with my compass lanyard..all I had..anyone intending to go in may be able to take a new container..1 ltr..with them.

Wow, they just keep getting better! If it had been a hot summer day this would have been my last cache for the day cause I would have been swimming and rock jumping from here on in! Loved it.
Needed the clue and still struggled for some reason.
TNLNSL. Thanks Team Tiges

Its great how caching gets you out and about. This place has been unknown to me even though I have been in this area before. Nice walk to a great set of falls with a good hiding spot for the cache.

Another spot that I have driven past many times but Team Tiges keep attracting me too!!

Excellent most enjoyable walk. Better get out more as the hill on the way back got us working. Mr H decided to take a shortcut on the way out and you can guess how that turned out...

Took eraser
Left yoyo

Thanks Team Tiges

out this way to shear a few sheep(didntlist that as a hobby!!)just happened to have gps with me and made a return visit to here
didnt realise there was a house so close to falls .still a lovley spot. the track is a lot better than i remember
t frog l antelope sl

The promised pictures...

A wonderful walk!

This was a great trip into the falls. The boys (6 & didn't have any trouble with the walk at all - I was very surprised. The terrain rating was about right though - it is a long way and the track is dicey at times.

Swapped a smoke butt bin (coles sell them) for a keyring.

Took Lucky Lobster as well!

Thanks!!

After dropping the rest of the clan off this morning at the Airport, What better way to spend my day off than wandering to a cache?

Chose this one, as I had in my possession a TB that was just made for this cache & had to drop him off.

Well, what can I say, it's a beautiful place, well worth the half hour walk in & 1 & a half hour walk back out

thanks for showing me this spot Team Tiges, very enjoyable.

didn't swap anything as the only things I had room for in my pockets was Lucky the Lobster TB & a well needed drink.

Oh, I forgot the camera too, so could the next visitor take a photo of Lucky the Lobster at his namesakes falls?

thanks heaps

FTF for Team CraigRat.

We heard a rumor that Waterwells were heading this way, so we got up that 5 minutes earlier to beat em to it...

A great spot, but contrary to the notes, it took us about an hour each way, but it was well worth the trip!

Another superb spot for a cache!

Due to the slightly dodgy reception, we did have to resort to the clue!

After re-hiding the cache, we sat down and had lunch and heard a SPLASH.... then we realised, the riff-raff had arrived!!!

We had a great time watching the Waterwells seek their 50th cache!!

If we'd known it was to be their 50th, I would have let them take the honour.... Well done guys on your 50!!!

And thanks to T.T for the great little cache.

Took: Necklace and Ball
Left: Elephant Suckerfish and a Truck(?)

Rated: for Overall Experience

We parked next to a white car in the car park and said to one another, 'hmmm, that car looks mighty familiar!' As we wanted to be FTF, we thought about leaving a rude note on the windscreen, and then taking off - but then decided it might be seen as a tad geo-uncharitable? ..

So off we trundled. We arrived very close to GZ and sure enough, there they were ... the indomitable CraigRat Team. We did the papparazi thing and hid in the bushes and took some photos!! (oooops!). They still hadn't seen us, so Mr Waterwells threw a rock into the pool. That got their attention! (Could see them wishing they'd brought their fishing rods!) .. And then they saw us!

This is an amazingly beautiful area and well-worth the walk in, even though a big black snake slithered across the track in front of us on the way back out.

Unfortunately, we had left our swaps in the car, so we TNLN - but thoroughly enjoyed putting our note in the log book.

Thanks TT for leading us to here.