Kapooka - Wagga Bridge #8 Kapooka, New South Wales, Australia
By Roostaman on 25-Jun-05. Waypoint GCPEFP

Would Not have found without hint. Coords about 50 feet off On a driving tour of Australia. Visiting from USA.

Not that easy to find look hard and you will find it

Found it.

Good find thanks

Coordinates changed from:S 35 8.970 E 147 18.486Coordinates changed to:S 35 8.949 E 147 18.486Distance from original: 127.8 feet or 39.0 meters.Maintenance visit and moved to a better location.

Nice find, gunfire in the background was interesting

A top hide I was impressed with the sign!Silly me missed the number so may be back some day?Thanks for the cache

Out for a drive to collected some caches and adlabs to push towards my 3000th find.This was my last find for the day before heading back home to Albury. A quick find in this hot dayCache found, log signed and returned as found.Thankyou Roostaman

TFTC!

Nice easy find once I found my way into HZ

A loose plan was hatched for a 3-week road trip with RoamingHowie to explore locations in Country NSW wed not been to before and of course, find a cache here and there.DAY SIXTEEN: Exploring Wagga Wagga.Wandered around in circles for a while before I finally spotted the cache partly exposed. Clips were not done up but thankfully contents were nice and dry. Put everything back as it should be. Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Roostaman ~~

It was time for the traditional post Christmas road trip. The stockings were emptied of presents, feasts were devoured and great times were had with family and friends. Now to get away!Day 16: We are camping in another great free camp on the Murrumbidgee River. After a great morning swim it was time to explore Wagga Wagga. We stopped to grab this one and had a bit of a search. Eventually found it exposed and not sealed a little further downhill than our GPS wanted us to be. Contents is dry and in good order.Thanks Roostaman for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

Spiders

Thank you for the cache! Lots of treasures!

Thanks was a great find for the kids

Great to see this older cache still active! So much for the bridge! Tftc.

Thanks for placing this cache. Nice day out for a walk. Easy find.

Had to search a lot of tree bases. Grassed it in. Nice looking bike track.

Kids loved this one

Left 2 x trinkets

Find #8098

I’ve been looking for that window of opportunity, a few days, to get across to WW to do some the various trails in the region. Finally a spare long weekend and plans began to form.

At the recent Mega in Rutherglen, I’d mentioned my intention to barb2e and she was keen to join me. Plans were almost abandoned as the Academy Games crowd had virtually booked all of accommodation out within a 50km radius. Thankfully camping is always an option. Well for me anyway

Then opportunity to meet some local cachers, and COs of some of the much anticipated trails, meant an extremely early start to get across to a community event though this was the perfect way to kick start the long weekend.

With some specific target caches, plus so many AdLabs, the Pub series, W.W.W. Trail, Friends series, Riverina crop series, Riverina Geocaching's Geotriad Tribute Series, and so much more. There was enough to keep us going for weeks but only had four days. Oh well, we gave it a good crack.

Apologies for the generic logs as this never does justice to the work that goes into placing and maintaining all of the caches that we have so enjoyed finding.

It’s been fun! Great to get this oldie too ️

Thanks so much Roostaman for putting out and maintaining this cache. And of course for getting me out and about and enjoying this area too

Boys loved looking through the scrub.

Thanks, the johnston

Found It!
A quick find here to start the day's caching with. The old bridge is gone now.
TFTC

CheChe

Great spot, not too far out of town TFTC

Tftf

Found with PapaGrouch on a short trip up to Wagga Wagga today. We were targeting some of the older caches to fill out our Ausmer grid and chose this one. This was a quick find, I spotted something suspicious as I approached GZ, and after rounding the tree so I could reach it the cache was quickly uncovered. TFTC

Found this one with SciFiRulz TFTC.

We found it

Cool

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Good spot put 50$ in it

A straightforward find here today, thanks!

Tftf. Looking a few m off correct spot, went out of the tree cover to reset GPS, and saw it when coming from the other side.

Found it. Our first Geocache ️

good hide

Spent quite a while hunting for this one! In the end it was much bigger than expected and bleeding obvious but it still proved elusive !

This one wasn't where we first thought it would be, but we trusted the GPSr and soon had it in hand.

After a longer stay in Tumut than we had originally intended it was time to move on. Time spent with family is never wasted though, so our time there was very well spent and much enjoyed.
We didn't move far however and have arrived in Wagga for a few days where we have caught up with Roosterman and Mrs Roosta again and then also joined by Rebel Acts. The team back together!
The weather has been variable and made approaching some caches challenging due to the accumulated water and mud. And boy has it been cold at times!
Still we have chased a variety of caches and managed to find some high D/T ones on our way.
Always a great time caching with good friends.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache Roostaman.
**SKI Pair****

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Nice hide TFTF

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Quick find with SJG66 on our Wagga Tour. TFTC

Found with O319 caching around Wagga for the day

Nice spot

Cool

The hint helped me find this one. TFTC,

Good spot

TFTC

TFTC

Coords had it a bit out but found it.
An adventure weekend to Wagga with Kittykatch and barb2e chasing old ones and DT. Signed as Capital Crunchers.
Thanks For getting me out and about Roostaman

Found with capital crunchers, having so much fun tftc

Second day of tbe trip to Wagga Wagga with Joolay and Kittykatch. Collecting some solved puzzles and other targeted caches and labs. Found with Bella Happy Chappy. Tftc

Road Trip - Wagga Wagga
Joolay, barb2e and I took a drive south to Wagga to attend a couple of events. Signed caches as Capital Crunchers. With BHC. Dropped tbs

Thanks for your hide here Roostaman

Cache found without any issues, heaps of mozzies biting my elbows. What's with mozzies and elbows? That's heaps for the cache!.

Tftc!

Tftc

Nice little drive. TFTC

Doing some more caching with goingplaces2 and enjoying the day. Cache found, log signed. TFTC.

Found during a week in the Riverina.

Completing the 'Wagga Bridge' series was one primary goal of the week.
Made a quick find here under torchlight. TFTC

Nice hide thanks for the find

Quick find today cache is good condition signed dsd thanks for the cache and the adventure

We keep forgetting to collect this one when we are up this way, but not today! SL a at 1.46pm Took: TB that has been languishing here for some months. Left: armed forces token. We did forget to collect the secret number, so will have to revisit. Doh! #7678 TFTC Roostaman

4799 24 October 2020
Got away from the city for a break and to do some caching. Heres hoping the weather holds.
Thanks to all the CO's for placing their caches. T.B. drop.

TNLNSL
TFTC Roostaman

Found quick and easy at GZ. Cache in good condition, replaced as found. Thanks!

After a longer search than I was originally anticipating, and expanding my search area finally found it after almost calling it a day. Coordinates may need to be updated but apart from that, a good hide. TFTC

Have to look hard

Found it! My 4 year old is addicted (so ami!)

#6308 8th for today

Day 3 of the Kengal Trip.

Most of the "Capital Crunchers" were back in Canberra at work today, so just mtrax and myself remained. The weather east of Wagga was pretty bad so no incentive to hurry home. Only light showers locally, nothing worse that what we'd already had yesterday. Our goals today were to get the Library Cache, the Virtual as well as a couple on the way out of town. We returned to Uranquity to do some of the "bendy" trail that proved to be very enjoyable. Also enjoyed going out to the gas-power station. We had a pie from the famous Uranquity bakery (which was delicious) before our return to the capital.

A simple find.

Thanks Roostaman

Couldn’t find

Great hide! Tftc!

Found it.

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With a long weekend looming plans were hatched to go and do some caching in Wagga
Wagga. So Rapidlywild and only the monkey half of the FFLL team hit the road on Friday after
work.

A lot of different caches were found while driving around the area enjoying the views and
the lovely weather.

No issues with this one. Although we did have a visit from the local authorities asking if we were OK after blinding us with their spot light. .

Thanks for the hide Roostaman and thanks Rapidlywild for a successful weekend away.

With a long weekend in Canberra, a geocaching trip away was calling us. So FurfacesLL and myself made plans to hit the road and revisit Wagga Wagga to do some more caching. A large range of caches were collected, many terrain and some lovely country views enjoyed.

No issues locating this one, signed and replaced. And whilst we were pulled off the road a bit further up, we had a visit from the local po po to check we were ok

Thanks for the hide Roostaman And thanks to FFLL for another fun weekend out and about the Wagga and surrounds region

Cheers & TFTC Roostaman

I have been staying in Wagga Wagga this weekend to attend my son's March Out from Kapooka. This morning, after attending chapel with my son, I stopped here to find this cache.

I didn't see a bridge but I did take some photos of the Blamey Barracks sign to add to a small album that I am making of my weekend of memories.

Thank you Roostaman for this cache and chatting to me at yesterday's event.

Found after some searching TFTC

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Find#: 2422

Found on: 28 September 2019 19:40

Buddies: none

Weather: dark

Muggles: none

Cache condition: good



Found it after orienteering in Wagga Wagga.

TFTC Roostaman TNLNSL

Find#: 2422
Found on: 28 September 2019 19:40
Buddies: none
Weather: dark
Muggles: none
Cache condition: good

Found it after orienteering in Wagga Wagga.
TFTC Roostaman TNLNSL

GPS is a little off. Expand your search area!

This bridge used to be a nightmare so I am glad it is gone. Though I wish that the RMS had thought about what they wanted before the biocertification of the Wagga LEP went through - the new bridge impacted on an important connection for the local Squirrel Glider p[opulation. Oh well it is a nice high bridge so the trains can get through and the trucks don't have to slow down.
Was in Wagga for work so on the way home I tried for a couple of caches. This was the first and this was a busy road at 3 PM. Parked safely and crossed over - GPS was about 7 metres away (though I had walked further) when I found the nicely sized cache.
Log signed and on my way - TFTC Roostaman

Gps spun us around, location of cache To GZ was off by almost 10m. Expanded search area after looking for some time and came up with the goods. Took nothing and left nothing. TFTC.

Catnap777 & OZREG formed a team on 10 May 2020.
Logging FOUND Caches as individuals on approximately same dates since 07 July 2019, this
is one of those found Caches, and backdated as shown.

Generic log........
Catnap777 and I left Albury/Wodonga on a morning so cold I swear the breeze had a knife in it.
We had a list of 25 caches and got a100% find result. A wonderful day was had. Some caches were very innovative and awarded favourites for that. Thanks for placing this cache.

What can I say. Nice and easy

The old bridge has gone! TFTC!

Yippee- Happy find - orienteering at ‘Connorton’ not so successful with elusive checkpoint #3! Not the only one so hoping to make up for long journey by finding a few caches on the way home. TFTC and info

Returned on 21/05/19 and entered name in log. Thanks again.

Found but was unprepared with no souvenir to swap or pen to write in log.
TFTC!

We enjoy finding a large cache every now and again a good diversion from all the nano's and micro's. We had a small ball that we had picked up when we parked the car and it fitted into this cache perfectly. The sign is certainly impressive sign here. SL TFTC

I noticed there was an event in Jugiong this Saturday, and had decided to go to that, then noticed one the next day, with overnight camping beforehand, at Oura Beach - so I decided that this weekend would be a Geocaching weekend ... so, as I was out somewhere else on Friday evening, I got up on Saturday morning and packed camping gear and food, and all my other stuff, and drove from Canberra to the "A Country Town Event #1 Jugiong", then while I was there I found a cache nearby (that I had not found when I was here and looked for it 2 years earlier) then after that event, I went and found a few more in Jugiong, then headed over toward Wagga Wagga to camp overnight, for the the "Come to Oura Camping Event!" which was officially on Sunday morning ... hung around after and found a nearby cache, had a swim and lunch, then found the cache in Oura, before I headed out to Kapooka to find a couple caches there (I had not been there, or even to Wagga Wagga (apart from driving through the edge of town on my way to camp at Oura beach - lol), since I did my Army recruit training back in 1987) then I headed back past Oura (decided that was a more interesting way to go home) and found a few caches here and there on my drive home to Canbera ... and my last find on the way home (between Murrumbateman and Canberra) was actually just after Midnight - oops? - lol
TFTC - I, too, searched the wrong tree first... Then I had to answer a phone call - lol ... Then had another look and found the cache.. Took the tiny plastic soldier I found in there, because last time I was here was when I did recruit training in 1987 (which is why I had decided to come and find a cache or 2 near here - I like finding the nearest cache to places I have lived/worked/etc. in the past, if I am in the area/back visiting). Left a Science week badge... Because after being an Operator Signals for a few years, I got promoted to "at home Mum", then became a High School Science Assistant... did that for 18 years, until they "broke" me... What a pity I can't get paid for Geocaching - lol
Also, while searching, I found a star picket and took it home, because I might need one more for my garden... (Planning in having a bean trellis, if I ever get around to planting my vegetable garden)
Photo: one of the nice big interesting (to me anyway) piles of grass seed heads that have accumulated anywhere they can get stuck

I struggled with that one. Bigger than I thought and GZ was about 10m away from its direction.
The odd bark from different tree helped.
Old posting location here so some nostalgia and the old bridge is gone...
Visited a TB.
TFTC

Nice find with the kids

**The Day:**

The forecast for today's weather in Wagga Wagga was a top of 42 degrees, not weather I really want to be doing too much caching in! So I decided to beat the heat and woke up at 5:15am when it was only about 24 degrees, still quite warm for that time! I cached my heart out while it was coolish, by grabbing the 2001 cache "Kengal" first and then the "Bed-Rock" series before grabbing a few on the way back into Wagga until 10:30am when it was already 30+ degrees!

I then fueled up with some liquids and food before starting my drive back to Canberra, and only opting to grab some very quick park and grabs along the highway so as to not be in the heat for too long!

Overall quite a productive day despite the hot temperatures!

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**The Cache:**

Nice, another 2005 cache by Roostaman! And a medium sized too, even better!
Took me a couple minutes to find the cache, it's not at the obvious tree that the coordinates led me too! Spotted it soon enough however!

Thanks!

Found with phlphotos. TFTC!

On a short trip to Wagga to pick up boxes managed to pick up this cache in the evening a nice quick find was made

With cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Both the cache and log are in good condition. Thanks for bringing me to the area and thanks for placing the cache Roostaman

The following TBs visited for the distance - phlphotos 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW geocoin, phlphotos travelling 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2018 NSW Geocoin, phlphotos Mary Hyde's compass, phlphotos Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, phlphotos, phlphotos Area 51 Tag, phlphotos backpacker canister cover, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, phlphotos Cache In Trash Out Tag, phlphotos CITO Micro Geocoin, phlphotos Col Miner geocoin, phlphotos Four Elements Geocoin, phlphotos Optical Illusion Geocoin, phlphotos Trackable Building Brick, phlphotos Travel Bug Dog Tag, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, phlphotos Oz GeoMuster 2018 geocoin, & dirty Black Juke

Came through on our way down south to the Mega event in Melbourne. Luckily a quick find was made at GZ. After signing our name we replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Roostaman.

The following TBs came through for the mileage : Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB.

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