Mangrove Picnic Mogo Creek, New South Wales, Australia
By chambos, Team Yota & y4dodis on 10-Dec-05. Waypoint GCRKJX

We missed the stairs and came up via the metal rail. Took us a while to locate, the photo helped us narrow down possible hiding spots. Thanks for maintaining this cache in this awesome spot!!

Climbed via metal pipe then spotted the stairs. Was rummaging around a while then extended search and spotted TFTC. Found with Crazynumbat.

Loved this, thankyou for the adventure

That took its time to show itself. Although I didnt see the old stairs that led up here until I was at GZ, lovely location, thanks for

Thanks for the cache. Great spot.

Despite growing up on the mountain this is the first time I have been out here, except for a scout hike years ago.

What a lovely spot. The dam is looking very full after all the rain with gum trees on the edge half under water.

We wondered what the stone stairs used to be for as they continue up through the fence these days.

Thanks for the cache and the new container.

Was a bit more hidden. Beautiful view.

Great find thankyou

What a beautiful view

This cache has been in need of some TLC since it was burnt in the 2019-20 bushfire. I have replaced it with a new container, so now I (and those who follow) can legitimately log it as a find. I hope the CO doesn't mind. Note there is no mobile reception here, so you need to put the coordinates in your GPS before you leave civilisation.

Camouflage or needs some care… awesome find… no service up here is hard

No luck

Not luck today

Came for a picnic and a look around. I've visited this lookout years ago and it's interesting to see how it's recovering after the bushfires.
Had a brief look for this cache, but wasn't having much luck and the wind was freezing so didn't hang around for too long. Saw lots of potential spots out could be but couldn't see it hiding in any of them. Unlucky. Maybe next time.

After the recent deluge we thought we'd take advantage of this beautiful day and have a picnic at Mangrove Dam - somewhere we have never been before even though we live just 50mins away on the CC. Most of the time we had the place to ourselves (which we were pleasantly surprised about), apart from the reptiles lol. Was expecting more water in the dam but obviously we are nowhere near Warragamba.

Oh look there's a cache here. The cache took some time to locate as I wasn't expecting what I found. Only now whilst logging it later do I learn that it has a NM due to being badly damaged by the 2019 fires. Managed to extract the log ok and find a spot on the log to sign. I think this thing has probably had it's day. But TFTC and Jasmer spot anyway, chambos/ Team Yota/ y4dodis.
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Well another day trip up to the Central Coast and you just never know where you'll end up!
It was a very dreary day today but despite that our bird watching group found plenty of really unusual birds.
We started at the Letter A at Bucketty then visited spots around Kulnura and Bucketty ending the day here at Mangrove Creek Dam picnic and viewing area.
We were really interested to see how much the bushland had rejuvenated since the fires 12 months ago. It really looks beautifully green and lush up here.
There were no caches that I haven't previously found along our route of travel but on arriving here I realised I hadn't been here before. What a great view!
Even with the mist, technically we were actually up in the clouds, it was a lovely view.

Having never been here I checked the GPS and found this cache only a couple of metres from where I was standing. Well fancy that!
I left the others enjoying the view and began searching. Surprisingly, or maybe not, half a dozen muggles from our group came over and watched me search and find the cache.

OK, it was severely damaged in those bushfires.
Don't know how 2 finders this year could say its in good condition??
The container is really melted. Fortunately although I couldn't get the lid off I could extract part of the log book and write my name.

TFTC # 4404

The container was severely damaged in those major bushfires last year.
It is very badly melted and needs replacing asap.

The lid cannot be removed as its melted on and there's a hole in the side.
Really its remarkable that any of the container survived those fires.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

On our hunt for some of Australia's earliest caches this one was on our watchlist. So with a bit of time on our hands we came for this one

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 chambos Team Yota & y4dodis

The following TBs visited for the distance - Hawkesbury Tiger, 2011- 2019 NSW geocoins, Area 51 Tag, Cache In Trash Out Geocoin, Cache In Trash Out Tag, CITO Micro Geocoin, dirty Black Juke, Four Elements Geocoin, Mary Hyde's compass, Optical Illusion Geocoin, Spindoc Bob Memorial Geocoin, Trackable Building Brick, Wales Flag, Wheel of Caching Geocoin

Made the run up to GZ with phlphotos and TARDIS 0061 in the hunt for some early caches. With the cache in hand, we signed the log before replacing it as found. Both the cache container and the log are in good condition. Thanks for the cache chambos, Team Yota & y4dodis.

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, teamMerlin's Football

Full log to follow

Ty

Found it, but unable to sign log due to fire damage. Will send another log for needs maintenance.

Severely damaged by the fires earlier in the year and needs replacement - unfortunately I did not have anything with me.

Another beaut day out on GC Patrol .The GeoGerman came up trumps . A little harder to find then we expected judging from previous posts . But when we saw it couldn't believe we hadn't spotted it sooner . TFTC Cheers

Cracker day for a picnic today in spot I have never been to before. Like others we crushed a lot of caches on the way out here but unlike everyone else, didn’t see any lizards! TB picked up to be dropped off at the Ourimbah rest area on the way home. TFTC!

TFTC. What a beautiful place.

7412 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1020. We searched up then down and because the Mrs is just a little shorter she managed to spot the container. Left TB SL Tnx chambos, Team Yota & y4dodis.

Found with Banj Ward TFTC

Found with Beary_Unicorns on a sunny Saturday afternoon, tftc

Easy find great spot for a picnic

Great spot! TFTC

Found it. Was a beautiful place for a picnic and some exploring. Thanks

Found with Ecneput

BEAUITFUL views dam, After Earthcache, short walk to GZ and easy to find, sign in almost full note... ...

Magnificent spot and great hide.

Nice spot up here. TFTC

Nice place for a picnic

Found it.. Nice spot...

Found with the geo-crew during a pre-Easter detour around Kulnura and Mangrove Creek Dam. The look-out guardian was up out of his hidey hole in a flash looking for a feed but didn't get anything from us. All good at GZ. Many thanks chambos

Some good picnic facilities here, plenty of picnic tables that's for sure, even in the middle of the carpark. Stopped here for some morning tea overlooking the dam. Cache was located quickly, we had read previous logs although coordinates weren't too bad for us today anyway. TFTC

Had a good look at GZ, however nothing to be found. We had no reception so couldn't see the advice from previous finders that the coords are well off. Will come back on another occasion.

No problems finding this cache even though a couple of muggles seemed to be quite interested in what we were doing. Tried to be as discreet as we could while signing the log and replacing the cache. Had a picnic lunch there and saw a large goanna wandering around on the hunt for food. Thank you to chambos for putting this cache into play.

Found when visiting the area with a local. Previous comments were a great help as co-ordinates are a little out. TFTC

Out today to get a few around mangrove mountain. TFTC

Day 3 The Entrance.
Today we followed the Classic Motorcycle trail continuing on to Taz & Tweety & The Central Mangrove.
We stopped At Mangrove Creek Dam for lunch, comming home by Yarramalong Road.
We were surprised how many people using the picnic facilities.
Such a big variety of hides & caches found.
Thanks for placing this cache

Today we drove from Broke to Mangrove Creek Dam and had 40 finds and 4 DNFs. We had a great day! TFTC

Find #691

After our trip into Yengo to find 'From the Dreamtime' earlier this year, we
decided to explore further south today, so planned a route from home to Broke, then south through Paynes Crossing, Wollombi, Laguna, Bucketty, Kulnura and on to Mangrove Creek Dam. We then had an interesting drive home through Brush Creek Road through Yarramalong, so we now know where our next day out will take us...
Final stats for the day read at 40 finds, 4 DNFs and 280km traveled.

At the dam for the earthcache. This one took a while, and was nearly given up on when spotted. GPS was swirly, and finally settled, but kept pulling us to the other side of the steps, as other finders have commented. Go high people, then left!

TFTC

Another sunny day, So I am going geocaching.
I am heading up the hill again to try to find those caches I missed last time.
I missed these caches the other day, just did not have time, So, I am back. [^]
A quick find here today. It is VERY gusty up here today.
Thanks for the cache.

Easy find while having lunch with the monitors. They were quite interested in what we served up. Great views on beautiful day. Thanx

Nice views and 2 monitors looking for food. One of them gave my hubby a fright. TFTC

Nice view from up here. TFTC

Tftc, on a geo-bro-road trip north of Sydney today. It was a good chance to show my brother, the moose, an amateur cacher, an awesome variety of caches with great views!

Found it with my bro MrSmith00, tftc!

Arriving to GZ, there was some people around. I waited for them to leave and freely could explore the area. Quickly find the cache and had all the time to appreciate the landscape! As a company, a Monitor lizard! Actually, I forced our friendship.. I wanted to get a shot of him, but he didn't keep still! Finally, he decided to trust me and made a good pose! Thanks chambos! Beautiful spot!
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We had a picnic lunch, gathered the Earthcache details and followed the goannas for a while. The GPS said there was another nearby so I set off to find out where. These steps would now be pointless if it wasn't for this cache. Thanks chambos.

TFTC had no reception so took a little longer than expected. This was also between the visiting muggles

A day out with the two geokids today exploring the area and finally getting down to check out the dam after a few failed attempts in the past due to bad weather. This took a while to find - GPS had GZ about 8m away from where it was listed. Clue helped with this one - my GPS had it further down the stairs, but once we realised we needed to go all the way up it was a quick find. Kids and I saw a massive goanna lurking around the lunch tables today. He was friendly enough but definitely a big unit! TNLN TFTC

Out for a huge day of caching with Mr Roo. We planned on doing as much of the local area as possible. We ended up getting 60+ for the day and had a great time doing it.

Gotcha !!! TFTC

Out today for a huge day with darkside dan. We had planned on doing as much of the motorcycle series. On the way we thought we would get as many other caches as well. We ended up getting 64 for the day and that's why i say sorry about the copy paste logs. Thanks for the caches and we had a blast together

Great day out with the Grand-Squids finding a few treasures. What a beautiful area this is. TFTC

a Lot of People were out and about at Picnic Spots all over the Coast this weekend.
So as we approached GZ I could feel the Eyes on me.
I climbed the stairs and admired the View.
Everyone else turned to look at what I was looking at too. So I turned on my heels and Dove onto this Cache.
TFTC chambos

Perfect weather today, great enjoyed drive on Mangrove country after classies motorbike series and some caches with ALL7, on the way home but first do ALL7 series, closer dam, wow pretty nice view..
Easy to find as no trouble, Thanks

I was planning a geo-drive to Mangrove Creek Dam today in order to do some caches in that part of the world. Mumma-Kel, who was going to take her kids out today anyway, decided to tag along and pick up enough caches to get her to her #600 milestone.

We arrived at the Dam to find it quite busy with visitors enjoying the picnic/bbq facilities but they didn't cause us any concern as we wandered off and headed up the hill. As we climbed, I soon saw the likely hidey hole and directed GeoJorjy there, where she was delighted to make the find and then fossick through the treasures it held.

Thanks for the cache chambos, and for bringing me here ... another place it's unlikely I would ever have come here but for geocaching.

About 8 months ago I was out here doing the Earthcache for my 300th find, but I hadn't stored this cache into my phone for offline use, and with zero reception with vodapoo down here, I was out of luck then.... This time I returned prepared, with cache stored offline, and The geokids and Opa-Shrek in tow. When we pulled up in the car park, GeoJorjy said "oh, look, stairs" and joyfully skipped ahead of us up them - straight over the fenceline to stand above the 'No Entry' sign

A lovely spot, and had it all to myself.

TFTC

Tftc xx

Stopped here for lunch whilst out caching with the Webguys. A great spot.
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

What a great place to go visit, great facilities. Wonder why they closed off the track that leads up the hill...

We started early this morning and making a full day of caching around this part of the country side, Had a very successful morning, this is a road we have not travelled before and were delighted with what we seen. wild life, the hides and company.Some of the hides were quite tricky and challenging. Thank you for placing all these caches for our enjoyment.

Cache survived the fire, hopefully it will survive the lack of camo and continue for another 9 years. Tftc rescued tb ln

Camped at Wollombi, and headed out to pick up some caches in the area.
We travelled along the winding country roads, with fantastic views.
With a good variety of cache hides, we had a great day out.

GPS didn't settle, so this one took us longer than it should have, to locate.
Took 2 trackables, and left one trackable.
Many thanks for placing this cache, chambos, for us and others to find.

This is the second time ever we have been to the Dam. Wow, it sure looks a lot nicer now than it did a while back. A lot of work been done to make it a beautiful spot to have a barbecue picnic. Lots of muggles here today, so luckily cache located a bit away from prying eyes.

Second visit. Dropped off Travel Bug

Lived on the coast for more than 14 years and never visited the Dam. Today we not only visited it but we cooked pancakes for breakfast their. A great spot to have breakfast and find a cache.

I forgot to log this one, I know it was found around this date somewhere. I've never been up to see the dam before so I thought I'd make the drive! Such a beautiful spot. TFTC

Tftc. Beautiful area

Out caching with riebot and the geofamily a nice little picnic spot! TFTC!

Out for a ride today with the VJMC (Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club). The dam was our destination where we had a BBQ. While here I checked my GPS and saw that this cache was close by. Walked straight up to it - good co-ords. SLTNLN. Cache in good condition. Thanks chambos

First for today lets hope the rain holds off TFTC

Thanks for the cache, chambos.

With plenty of muffles about we navigated to GZ and spotted a SPOR. CIH
SL TFTC

good find

Came in here to do the earth cache, our first one, and was about to leave when we looked at GPS to see where next cache was and it was approx 50m away! DUH!! Talk about being disorganised. So back out of the car, up to the cache making sure we made lots of noise as it was a warm day and certainly a nice day for snakes! Cache soon in hand. The grounds here are supberb! They must be one of the best maintained at a dam and have fantastic views. The peice and quiet was also brilliant. While there we were watched by 2 Lace Monitors about 1m long each. Australian wildlife, got to love it! TFTC

Signed this one between mouthfuls of lunch. Thanks, Spartman for your keen hunting.

#21 for the day. Team effort with barrelled over. Great place to stop for lunch! SL. TFTC.

Bit hot day out for caching but enjoyed this journey to the dam with Everlasting. Thanks for leading us here

Trust Rainbow Spirit's comment and found this cache. Signed the log with sevabo. Loved old stairs and view from GZ. Thanks to chambos, Team Yota & y4dodis.

Found this one as it was nearby an earth cache and I was out to get 10 earth caches to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first earth cache today!
Nice little hide in a great area.
TFTC cheers

I found the cache a little further up and more to the left than I was expecting. Thanks.

Scouts Australia Geo Competition.

TFTC [:x]

Out with the Geofam on Beautiful Sunny Sunday doing a trail in the area. What a lovely spot for a BBQ. Stopped on our trail for Lunch. Found the cache first though. Took a little searching, but we found it. TFTC

today we went geocaching with geofamily and did a mad trail

TFTC. out with geo fam [8d]

Great location for a cache. TFTC

This really is a beautiful spot ,so quiet and peaceful and the amenities are all really clean so great for a family picnic.found the cache without to much trouble.Thanks Chambos

Beautiful spot, am the only person here today.... So peaceful

Quite a lot of people around the lookout for a weekday but think it was some car club picnic. Made a detour via the amenities block and quickly ducked up the hill to “check out” the stairs to nowhere… nowhere but a cache