Batemans Bay - Gateway to the Eurobodalla Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia
By Partic on 21-Mar-05. Waypoint GCN6XX

Any idea on when this cache will be repaired?

Not soon enough

Hi, Well I have some bad news. When I found it it was exactly where the clue put it. So it must have gone again. It was attached with a magnet, so should have had some resistance to vibrations, but I suspect not enough.

Albida.

A new container to appear soon.

maddie and I search high and low for this one and even resorted to the clue to no avail. We searched for a good half hour. If its there it is well hidden. I had 4mtr accuracy on GPS which usually means a find if it's there. AH well one missed in the trip ain't to bad except the cache is about 800km from where I live so there won't be a return in the near future.

Good to see this back on the go trid to find but couldn't find any where we were proubly lookin right at it but any way if any one has any hints i'd love to know

Great to this back in place. Albida.

Forgot to reenable this one after my sister went to the trouble of replacing it for me in February.

Find away!!!

Had a look on the way home from the coast. The only DNF of the trip. Now we're able to log on to a computer again we can see why. A good excuse to stetch our legs anyway.

Well, I too could not find it. You have disabled it but after I captured the GPX file last night.

Thanks.
Albida.

OK, I give up!

Had yet another unsuccessful run at this one yesterday evening, this time with a couple of geokiddies (they can get their arms into places I can't) but still no luck? So I called upon another cacher who found it recently and received instructions on exactly where it was supposed to be... but still couldn't find it?

I can only think that with all the vibrations the cache has fallen out of it's hidey hole and been muggled??

Just my luck that as soon as it got recapped, it has possibly vanished.

I do find it hard to beleive the vibrations caused it to dislodge, as it's been there fine for 9 months. If it has a black cap on the film canister now, it may have become almost completely invisible.

Will have to get the family onto it unless someone else finds it in between.

Like Odee has mentioned we spent too many times looking for something that should have been right under our noses. Would be curious to know whether this one is still there. This place certainly gets a shake-up when those 18 wheelers roll by.

It was late at night on our way home to the Gong after a wedding in the area. We joined The Rats on there 3rd attempt at this cache. But even with 3 sets of cache hunting eyes looking for this one still no luck. Some nearby fisher men were starting to get curious at what we were up to, so we caned the search and headed home.

Couldn't find this one 12 months ago, but this time it did not escape. We even brought a spare lid with us, so this cache has been finally re-capped.

3rd find on my short South Coast holiday tour. After a day of relaxing it was time to head south for the 2 nearby caches. Nice easy find & sorry no spare lids on holidays. I told The Rats to bring one next week. TNLNSL.
thanks Partic.
Roostaman

Found after a hard days swimming at the beach.
Cache lid still missing.

I have my parents hopefully recapping the cache shortly, but if you're planning to do it before I post a note saying the've done it, take a film canister lid with you

Thanks in advance. Partic.

Easy find but don't forget a pen! Lid still missing but cache in ok condition. You need to pick your times with this one as vehicle and pedestrian traffic can be quite heavy. TNLN.

Thanks for the clues which led straight to the cache. As per previous notes cache lid is missing. SL
Thanks Partic

As usual, Isquba forgot something, a pen. We took the cache back to the car to fill in the log and walked it back. While at the car we looked for a lid in our bag of goodies for this container. But, darn these digital cameras, we don't use these containers anymore.

Thanks for making us stop to appreciate the lift bridge, Chris & Renate, Barrie, ON Canada

Maintenance request put in, and cache should be suitably repaired soon.

Found it at 10.15 hrs. Lid is missing, logbook too. Put new paper in.
Thanks,
Meryl(granddad from Holland)

Found really easy, lid missing, no log book.

Either cache has been muggled or needs maintenance.

Thanks for the cache

Found by Connor. Geohound didnt really like this site, preferred nearby microbeach with quicksand. Managed to squeeze in two microswaps. Didnt have a pen so no log entry. Still plenty of mega jellyfish lurking in the depths below.

Down here to do a bit of fishing
Why not do a little caching
Pulled over in a park
Crossed to GZ before it got dark
Found I had to use the clue
Time was the essence and dinner was due
It was a hard place to keep my cool
People looking at me as though I was a fool
Found the canister and noted my find
Off to my mates place to have a beer and unwind

Found easily as have already found a Partic cache at Cooma with very close similarities, nice one. Nice day but very cold wind and hence had nobody else on the bridge. Pleanty of very large jellyfish in the water.

Took a little while. Must have looked right past it on my first sweep and spent about 15 mins looking in other places. Luckily there were not very many people around to notice me hanging around.

Had no trouble finding this one. I had to wait for 5 minutes for a break in the pedestrian traffic in order to replace it though. I simply pretended to gaze out to sea lost in thought and admired the view.

Wondered where this could be after 10 minutes of searching. The gaze of a pair of tourists wondering why we were standing on the bridge for so long didn't help our cause.

I resorted to taking pictures of the structure and looking like I was taking notes on the Palm Pilot. They wandered off (as Writehanded approached them on her way back to the car), I grabbed the cache, filled in the log and replaced it. TNLN.

One engaged the bridge-master in conversation while the other retrieved the cache. While we were doing it, the ferry in the pic came by & we were treated to the bridge opening. Thanks, Partic, for a good weekend's caching.

Ran out of time today so didn't get to have another look for this one. We'll be back this way sometime later in the year... it will not elude us then

Found this one easily with MattS. Have crossed this bridge many times by car, but have never tried it on foot. There were huge jellyfish in the water below, which added to the excitement. Couldn’t climb the ladder to get a better view… Thanks Partic.

Didn't find it this time, but we'll have another go on our way home on Monday.

1:10pm
The first of 2 virgins on this trip, and the other is in this series as well. Not too hard to find, in between the frequent muggles that walk across this bridge.

A small stub of pencil would have been good, but we always have a pen so it was no major drama.

During our South East NSW Caching Adventures over the past week, Samantha and I dropped some caches based on my knowledge of the area from my Youth, or at points of interest along the way.

We hope you enjoy this one as well as the other four.

The five locations are:

Batemans Bay http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCN6XX
Moruya http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCN6XR
Central Tilba http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCN6Y0
Cooma http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCN6Y6
Tarcutta http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCN6YE