Nowhere on Newell The Pilliga, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Bluedog and Emmnmnl on 23-May-05. Waypoint GCP178

Heading down to the Victorian Mega.
I needed a break along the way.
I headed into GZ and looked around.
After wandering around with the troublesome little flies trying to get in my eyes, I spotted an area I had not looked at and there was the cache.
Signed the log and returned to hide.
TNLNSL TFTC Thanks Oldbluedog and Emmnmni All good with this archived cache

Realised I hadn't logged this previously. This cache was found in good condition after a short search, thanks Team Bluedog and Emmnmnl for showing us this spot.

I'm over it all.

Stortigirls, Out'n'about and I were headed to the Melbourne Mega. This cache was on my list of "must haves" for this trip. We parked nearby and after a quick search, the cache was located. Our names were added to the log before we continued on our way. TFTC

We had to stop for this one, given the age and the fact it neatly fills a square on our "hidden" stats. A quick find and signing of the logs led to very happy cachers...mission accomplished! Tftc Oldbluedog

On the way to the melbourne mega with Dutchie1950. Having a good road trip and a rest here.tftc

# 1076 13:10 - On the road again with Triciac2 on our way to the Melbourne Mega.

I would have happily walked half the distance in the heat of the day, but a great spot for a cache.

Container in great condition.

TFTC

Nice and safe from the storm last night -all dry. Rest stop very busy with 2 trucks and another 2 caravans and cars already here. Lucky cache was a bit of a hike away and safe from muggle onlookers. Nice track to follow thanks to next gen networks!

Found it OK. TFTC
Tavurvur

[green]Find #7083[/green]...

Found this en route to Werribee from Warwick...

A beautiful day to be out and about in this beautiful area as I head for home after another fantastic house sitting job... I apologize for the generic logs - It no way detracts from my enjoyment and the efforts gone to by the CO's...

A short search, found the cache, stamped and returned...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Oldbluedog...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...
[green]Cache Condition - All Good[/green]...

Nice spot for a break . Luckily we fluked it quick , but could see others took forever .

Thanks for the cache hide.

Tricky one , look up. Tftc

Find #1 of 1 total caches for the day

The Crew Travelled today from Narrabri to Mudgee only had a small amount of inforamtion for the trip however travelling the highway towing a 24 foot caravan makes stopping on the side of the road a little difficult however we decided to have a coffee whilst travelling so time to have a quick internet connection look to see if a cache was close to our current stop location and low and behold there was so enter the coordinates into the GPS and find that it was not as close as I would have liked but ony a mere 450-500 Meters away the decision was GeoSon going for a walk to the cache and after a short stroll the cache was found log signed and returned to its location.

Thanks Team Bluedog and Emmnmnl for this nice location to stop for a cuppa even if it is a little far from that rest stop.

Total Cache count = 6 total 5 Traditional and 1 Multi

The total count for the day was 1 consisting 1 Traditional

Good to stretch the legs. Glad to find it after a bit of hunting.

Nice find!!! Very tricky for the kids!! Lovely place to stretch our legs!!

Spent a while at the GZ today and couldn't find the cache

We looked for quite some time. GZ site looked severely burnt.

easy find on our road trip Canberra to Townsville. Thanks for the break as I tend to drive till i'm
tired. SL TFTC TNLN Cache is in good condition

A quick driveby, TFTC

Nice hide, I like the green pen!!!

5209
Head to Brisbane for few days for my friend's birthday.
Stopped few places for cachings as the weather was so beautiful with blue sky.
Found it.
Thanks Team Bluedog and Emmnmnl

Tftc. Stopped for a break and saw this nearby

With Weebindi on our way to wedding in Bingara. Stretching legs and cup of tea. No trackables to be located. Tftc

Pleasant walk. Don't trip.

Found with Albida on the way home from the Stanthorpe Mega...

Grabbed as headed down to Coonabarabran. No problems and the cache was soon in hand.

A good hide which we found while travelling after the Mega. TFTC.

On the way to the mega. TFTC

On the way to the Mega in Queensland and doing a lot of caches along the way.

Made a quick find here.

Thanks Oldbluedog for the cache.

well i found the hard way in i must say, as it was certainly easier to walk out once i'd signed the logbook. a fairly normal occurrence for me i must say. tftc oldbluedog

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the Land Down Under" ...
On our way to Stanthorpe for the 2015 Mega. Parked just down the road and enjoyed a short stroll in. Cache was easily located.
Thanks for an opportunity to stretch the legs !

On the way back from Rocky with Taddy the Muggle.

He was kind enough to pull up and let me go and find this cache.

It was a quick find and the log was soon signed.

'Scrat' visited your cache whilst on his Great Aussie Adventure.

TFTC Oldbluedog

Drive by? And don't forget the kilometre jog too. Lots of things to bite you at GZ

On New Years' Eve we left our camper trailer at Warrumbungle National Park, and went for a caching trip to Narrabri, Gunnedah and Coonabarabran.

Agree, plenty of parking spots - but decided to walk the last 30 meters.

Tftc

found after a bit of a walk. tftc.

Final cache for the days drive through the Pilliga. There was a relatively large spider guarding the cache when Pesky! uncovered the cache. The spider took a bit of persuasion before he would let us open the cache to sign the log.
Future finders please be aware of the spider.
Thanks Team Bluedog and Emmnmnl.

Nice spot for a walk and leg stretch. TFTC

After too many months(even years) of not being able to travel due to health issues, we finally hooked up the van and headed off.
Day four found us in the Showgrounds at Moree.
However, this was a good find and sign on the way.

Found on our way south. Wattles spectacular. TFTC

A nice find on the way south

A nice easy find after a nice bush walk on our way South again as the holidays are almost over.
Signed and replaced. a great hide. TFTC Oldbluedog.

Did not take long to find this well hidden cache after enjoying the short bush walk to it.
TFTC Oldbluedog

found this with the sgts me and salem had the right head for heights for this one rios on the other hand may want to invest in stilts lol. tftc

Sneaky hide. Recommend having tall person with you like I did thanks westmead Concorde. Great hide tftc

Found with WC and Rios after visiting Rio' sister this week. The trip back to Sydney. Rios, a tad on the short side needed a little help here. Sneaky hide but WC and I had the altitude needed for this one

This was supposed to be a quick detour before driving out to The Sculptures In The Scrub but we were substantially delayed in both directions by the extensive road works. Fortunately we were able to complete the full walk before darkness started to fall. Great picnic facilities and there were also a few campers set up. Well worth the drive and a great walk around the gorge. TFTC.

Moving house from Brisbane to Tasmania. All packed and now in the car on the way south so what else to do but break the trip by caching. Nice walk to break up the drive.
TFTC

We parked up and then walked to the cache, we don't believe anyone will be driving to the cache from the parking bay as there are very large tree roots placed in the way. On arrival we were lucky to find the cache in the first place we looked, after reading logs we did not expect to find it there. SL TFTC

*Found with Tassiegirl13 while on our way to the SA Oz Mega*
We parked in the nearby rest area and had an enjoyable walk of a few hundred meters to GZ.
It's a good excuse to stop and strech your legs.
Once at GZ the cahe was soon found.
TFTC.

Woo found it middle of bloody nowhere very clever

Very sneaky hiding spot! TFTF

Did a little off road driving, nice hide .

That was a run but we bet the sun Fun cache keep them coming

Found 2:41pm , find # 2443
We're off to Queensland for a week, staying at Stradbroke Islands with some friends from Brisbane.
This is day 2 of our holiday and we're driving from Parkes to Warwick, and grabbing some caches along the way.
This one was find number 16 of 24 for the day.

Thanks Oldbluedog.

The cache description is true - it is nowhere on the Newell Highway. TFTC Oldbluedog!

Well nice day for a bush walk set off with friends to find this cache. Walked around and around looking about when Pete said here it is, great work signed and replaced. TFTC

Found it on our way to Fraser Island. Took a dice and left some dinosaurs

You are right - it is Nowhere on the Newell - But, I did manage to locate the cache.
TFTC
TNLN
SL

Found with Just a cacher on an escape from the Canberra cold to visit some friends and family in Brisbane.

A quick grab here on day 2 of the escape. We had some company on this one - 2 emus who joined us on the track there and back.

Thanks for the cache Oldbluedog.

Pretty spot..
Thanks bulldog

Xxx

Day 2 of our exciting caching journey through NSW and into Queensland.

This time I sent Black bunny off to get the cache whilst I got afternoon tea. Just as well I did, as I had the BEST view of him returning from the cache, in company with a large and unhappy-looking emu! I refused to bring the emu with us, though, so the friends had to part.Thank you, Oldbluedog!

Nice easy find with Geoboy and a newbie... TFTC TNLNSL

This entry was edited by Team Player on Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 05:14:44 UTC.

Sounds like the coords are not great and a million places to look, many of which I was not prepared to stick my hand in. Bit of a frustrating DNF. If the difficulty is 1.5, it should be pretty obvious.

Camped nearby overnight & took the short walk here this morning. The cache is well placed & took us a few minutes to find. TFTC

Found on our way back to Brisbane after visiting ducklings on Kangaroo Island. Thanks for the cache.

We're on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride

I'm feelin' okay this mornin'
And you know,
We're on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go
Another cache,
another challenge.

Thanks for the cache

Dropped in on this one while visiting the local sculptures and sandstone caves. TFTC

Perfect timing to pull up for lunch on the way to Pilliga Bore. Once coffee and lunch made and enjoyed, took a longish walk from the Rest Area to the GZ location. GPS was about 8m out by the time I located the well placed cache, so it took me a few false moves before I was on it. Signed log, and hurried back to continue the journey northwards! Thanks for the great rest stop, and a beaut cache!

After camping in the rain, lucky was able to cook under cover.
Thanks Acko

I made this much more difficult than it should have been by travelling cross country through thick scrub to the cache. The return journey was a doddle in comparison. TFTC Oldbluedog

TFTC

After a false start I managed to go down the service road and stop nearby. Was looking for the wrong type of hide for a bit and then I saw it. TFTC needing to stop about now.

Streak day 124 #1084

Went looking with great enthusiasm but to no avail searched high and low and the GPS told me I was on top of it but it was nowhere to be found. Starting to doubt that it is even still there!

We tried to get this one but as luck had it we had a large truck on our tail and couldn't find an easy place to pull over till we were a long way past the cache. Tftc .

On a 24hr road trip from Brissy to Western Victoria I hoped to grab a cache without holding up the rest of the family who dont share my passion as much as I. The daughter wanted to change driving about 5 km from this one so I informed her that there should be a good place to park in a few ks. We pulled up and the daughter took off running with the dog in the direction of the cache. I ran up to her and encouraged her to keep running. We were very close to the cache before she realised what I was up to. She followed me into the scrub for a quick pick up and her first cache.
Sometimes these things just fall into place.

When we got back to the car the others couldn't believe I what we had been up to.

Visited Nowhere on Newell (GCP178) while road tripping from Brisbane to Victoria and having a brief pause in the middle of the vast Pillaga Forest; Pilliga Yowie not to be seen and the world has not ended so we cache on!

Thanks enjoyed this one cheers

Found it, after some pillaging around !!

My 237th cache.
Thank you for a nice rest while I was driving from Coonabarabran to Cairns.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

Found on the 2012 Tour de Eclipse. Cache found in the last place we looked, which was as usual not the first place we looked. I left my swaps in the Pahero and I did not have anything of equal value in my pockets. Thanks for the cache guys, we love your work.
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This cache was found using a Garmin Montana 650t and/or a Blackberry 9700. Waypoints and paperless geocaching downloaded via GSAK and/or Cacheberry.

Found on the great Eclipse Trip of 2012 with Freddo.

A day of caching from Moree down to Dubbo. A road trip with a chance to stretch the legs with a cache is a good thing.

Thanks to Oldbluedog and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Got it

Good spot to stretch the legs. Gee. I didn't see any but I recon there'd be heaps of snakes around. Tftc.

One of 225 finds during a Brisbane and back drive. Went to Brisbane for 5 days with my family flying up and back while I drove with a car load of stuff for our working holiday. Well a holiday for me and my boys while Leanne had a wedding expo to attend, but we did manage to get to Sea World for a day, where we had a great time, before they flew back.
After some caching in Melbourne it was on to Tocumwal for the night then two more days to Brisbane. Five days there then the same trip back but in reverse. A total of 4516 km travelled with 225 caches found and even a couple of interstate FTFs along the way. The trip turned out to be a trial run almost for a Solar eclipse / Cairns trip I'm doing in November.
After caching in Melbourne I made my way to Tocumawal where I stayed the night then made my way just south of Goondiwindi, crashed in the car at a truckstop. Up at about 8:00 the next morning and soon hit the road again to make my way to the Gold Coast via Warwick. Found a place to stay then headed out to do the GCPT series which was only about a kilometer from where I was staying. Off to Brisbane the next day to stay five days with the familay, cache with the kids and tackle the monster series in Sandgate when I had the time.
After a great time in Brisbane it was time to head back home with the fam flying and me driving. I had a scattered number of caches to collect on the way home with a couple of hundred kilometres between some of them. Cached Warwick along the way, got a FTF out of Moree then made it almost to Coonabarrabran for the night. Onto Coonabarrabran to see the scope, Tocumwal again and home.
Up and on the road again and it wasn't too far to my first stop for the morning. Cache found and log signed.
Thanks for the hide.

Yet again Geowife always seems to know where to look! Left sock purse took plastic star TFTC .

In company with 'Clas-Nate' went exploring for the cache whilst camping for the NSW long weekend at Schwagers Bore.

Parked at the rest stop, then realised that the CZ was still some 400m sth. Followed the dirt track, then commenced the search on foot. Had trouble with reception (both ph and GPS units) trying to locate the exact area. Eventually found it. Wouldn't say its 'kid friendly', though.

Signed the log, exchanged swaps, returned to hidy-hole - TFTC 'Oldbluedog' - wasnt going to give up on this 1.

Camping in the Pilliga State Forest, we went exploring for a couple of caches with Cache Trekker. 2nd find for the day, further along the road than we expected though!

On the way home from Warwick to Melbourne with the oldies and grabing the odd cache on the way. Can't take too long as we need to try and get home for the Grand Final on Saturday.
Can't agree that this is nowhere, definitely a definitive spot. Nice new cache container in a protected side of the road location. The oldies enjoyed this and my auntie is almost a convert.
TFTC

Had a quick look but couldn't find it, will head back another time

Took a bit of finding as there was so many possibilities!
Found eventually.
TNLNSL.
TFTC.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Found at 4:28 PM GAFF1. Yep - it is in the middle of nowhere, but what was this track built for originally? Was this the Newell? Glad we didn't take our van any closer to GZ as there was a long piece of steel rod sticking out of the ground that I could easily have gone over thinking it was just another branch.
Thanks Oldbluedog

Found on this lovely sunny day while heading north to Woodgate. TFTC Oldbluedog

This entry was edited by Daynaduc on Thursday, 13 September 2012 at 12:50:22 UTC.

Parked at the parking bay then commenced the 400m walk down the track. Why???
Headed into the Pilliga scrub and located the cache. Saw some native orchids to make the walk somewhat worthwhile.
Took Car.
Left Sparkle
Lead 'n Lace.

***FTF*** at new location.
In the right place at the right time to be able to come back for this one. Found GZ quickly enough, and well away from muggles. Searched around a bit but was coming up empty handed so we paused for a moment and stepped back. Its hard breaking old habits but we did and quickly had the cache in hand. Just as well Mr C has long arms. A well thought out placement, thanks Oldblue dog.
Tomorrow we head for Siding Springs to grab a few more.

Coordinates changed from:
S 30° 51.290 E 149° 27.405

Coordinates changed to:
S 30° 51.473 E 149° 27.367

Distance from original: 1130.2 feet or 344.5 meters.

Quieter and cleaner

All sorted. Enjoy.

All sorted. Enjoy.

Dropped in to have a quick look but didn't have the updated coordinates. Will come back in the morning for another go. Not a nice place at GZ due to inconsiderate travellers. Nuff said. Thanks Oldbluedog