Dead Horse Creek Yarramalong, New South Wales, Australia
By Detourism on 15-Nov-05. Waypoint GCRC56

Will move TB's on shortly

Time for this cache to retire

My favourite to date. Continued on after Coventry street. Beautiful walk down to the valley after getting a bit off track - topo australia was a bit ambiguous in its marking of the track - would have been better to just follow the trail signs.

Once down in the direction, headed off the track to the cache and found where I thought it would have been hidden. Took another 15 mins to find - very well hidden.

Nice walk out - passed Conventry St, wombat hole, back to Cherry lane and into the car and home.

Very satisfying.

TNLN TFTC

Second attempt at this one. Ventured into the valley with my Dad, Hunters and Collectors, a recent convert to caching. Told the family we weren't coming back until we had found it. GeoBoy asked if we were taking a tent!

Entered from the west, past Coventry Street where the Hunter senior found his first cache. Moving on we got close close to GZ, but took a while to locate the cache - and what a fine cache it is. Lots of interesting swaps in the largest cache I've seen in a while. It always amazes me how you can be within a few metres of a cache this size and not see it. It was well concealed in a very natural environment.

Took a TB and left another. Also left a gold medal and some stickers.

Thanks Detourism for getting me out for my weekly dose of leeches - 2 in 5 minutes - on a day that was above 30 degrees by mid morning.

Dropped TB.

Spurred on by finding "Coventry St" we pressed on further into the valley. This one was not as easy - deserved a higher degree of difficulty rating. However we navigated to within metres and after 10 or so minutes of searching eventually hit gold. Thehuntergathers took a travel bug and left another in return. After a rest we returned to the west passing Coventry Street on the pleasant walk back to the car.

Stunning location. Absolutely beautiful, tranquil, secluded, and I imagine this would be a great place to relax on a hot day. We approached from the west after finding Coventry Street. Quite a tricky place but we soon located the object which should have the cache - but then it became a search in, around, and under, said object with no luck. Very sneakily we eventually found an amazing cache full of lots of treasures. Very natural and discrete hide. Well done. Left a precious stone, and took the beautiful "Suncatcher" geocoin to help it along its way. SL.

Our blog entry for this find: http://www.teamwolfie.com/2008/11/tranquility-and-beyond/

Oh no the first one we couldn't find, it was bound to happen though! Lovely walk on a hot day and I am kind off happy we didn't find it because I am very keen to review the clues and take the walk again!

Beautiful walk in, but no luck today. Four of us (The Hunter, The Gatherer, GeoGirl and CacheBoy) searched for quite some time, but it was not to be. We'll be back on our next visit to Grandma's. In the meantime, we'll be watching to see if anybody else has any luck.

What a great spot and nice walk, wonder why more people are not visiting this area. Dropped two T/B's
Thanks Detourism

[This entry was edited by the bower birds on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 5:06:46 AM.]

Great walk to the cache! Was a bit lucky to find it, as it was hidden quite well. Having hiked both ways into this cache, one is definatley easier than the other! Especially with a 3 y/o on my back! The creek is well worth checking out. Thanks for the cache!

Took: the Glo-Stick
Left: a Qantas Surprise Pack

Dropped off the Suncatcher Geocoin #CR591H (This geocoin is worth the hike alone!)

Took the Fly My Little Witch-Walpurgis Night Geocoin# TB10Z6H

Rated: for Overall Experience

After the "coventry street", we pushed on down to the creek. Me and Harrip ventured down the creek, the path was bit slippery, and half way through we lost out track, but eventually we found it and arrived at GZ puffing.... My GPS works fine down the creek and the coordinates were spot on. Found the GC easy. Left a Geocoin, signed log. And yes, the hike back up was even tougher, I was exhausted by the time I got back to the car, but it was worth it! TFTC!!!

Our 150th Cache, and another FTF. This time a joint team effort with Liz and Bruce.

The track to this cache goes through different terrains and enviromnents, from high bushland to rocky creek beds.
The walk went well until we reached the area around Dead Horse Creek, where the GPSr reception disappeared and so did the track. Aided by some ribbon marked trees we found the path again and headed up the hill, where reception returned. Then we faced another dilema, the 3 GPSr's couldn't agree on a distance to the cache (from 100 to 300 m away).
About 100 m away from GZ 2 GPSr's begain to agree on the location of GZ, so we continued on. With the help of the original clue and the picture clue the cache was quickly located and retrieved by Bruce. We took a well earned rest and a photo, before embarking on the trek back toward the archery club and the car.

Left: shifter and smiley magnet, took whistle.

Thanks for the great cache Detourism. And thanks to Liz and Bruce for teaming up with us for the FTF.

We ventured out with Shifter Brains to see if we could get a FTF on this one. Travelled along a minor track in the 4wd and before long realized this was not going to be any drive by. Found a suitable signed walking track and headed off. With 3 GPSs and all recording different distances and at times no satellite reception at all if was good to be able to read the revised clues. So we went down to the bottom and up again (had to search a bit before we found where the track continued up from the lowest point). Before long the GPSs were pointing in the right direction and the cache was found easily with the coords being accurate. Took nothing expect a team photo and left eraser. A most enjoyable caching experience thanks Detourism for giving us the opportunity of seeing this part of the country. Thanks to Shifter Brains for their company and local knowledge.

Heading out to do a cache check and see if the GPS reception is strong enough to warrant it remaining.

Cache still in its place with a fairly good GPS signal, although it was just keeping a signal at the bottom of the gully. Have revised description and hint in case someone does lose the signal while trying to find it.

NO satelite reception for more tha 70M from the listed cache location.. Considered suggesting it get archived. but maybe i just had a bad sat day. I did a geusstemate,and seached for anything that might match the
fairly inadequate clue ( another reason to archive this one, a 2Km hike to get 70 from the cache in a area that has so many "v"s
suggest a few more clues or a cache check.

But not to worry I found a victorinox pocket knife in its holster about 1/2 way down to the cache, so took knife left nothing (except a few pints of blood)
a word of warining for other attempts.
LEECHES! and lots of them.

I wonder how the leeches survive between snacks? or do they eat other animals blood too?
eww~!

Revised the hint so that it isn't too cryptic

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