Saltmarsh Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
By Grank on 18-Mar-06. Waypoint GCT8N0

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Went there nice and early (7am) Saturday morning before the muggles came out to play. Found it pretty quick. Left metal star from Cutrock, took Pokemon Hypno card.

Logbook full. Stickered the back of the logbook (no other room left).

TFTC.

Logbook Full

Took awhile but I found it.
Collected travel bug

dropped off a Dodge Viper...

Missed logging this one, geo kid two enjoyed wathching the boats at the end of the walk.
JABs.

This was my last of a quick six finds this morning. I came up early from sydney to find a couple of caches before a mucic festival nearby, at Gosford Showgrounds.

I ended up standing in the heat in a line for about 1 hr. If I knew the gates did not open till 12 and the first band did not start till 1pm I would not have goten there at 11am. I would have got in more caching.

The festival was good though.

An enjoyable walk to near GZ where I waited for a muggle to leave. Found quickly at 1245hrs once the muggle left. Thanks Grank.

TNLNSL

TFTC

The last of three finds before breakfast. Then it was off to set up for the Coaster festival.
Took a bit of finding but once my gpsr settled it was easy.
Thanks for taking me here.

[This entry was edited by pjamesk on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 5:57:44 PM.]

Couldn't find this one last time but with a slight help and the benefit of being there before located this one pretty quickly. We woke up someone sleeping in the car in the carpark as well.

Found on the way back home after a weekend on the Coast.

Cheers

I found this one with Hoojar on our way back home.
There wasn't anyone about so it was a nice and peaceful cache grab.

Cheers.

Just picked up the TB! I have a great place for it!

Lovely boardwalk through the wetlands and found the cache easily using the hint. We should have just trusted our new Oregon GPS'rs before using the hint as they were both spot on at GZ
Walked the loop back to the car and enjoyed every minute of it.
Thanks Grank for the cache

Found fairly easily though had to get over the rail to retrieve.
Thanks Grank

Interesting location with great view. Found the cache without too much trouble. Took the SD card, left the geotag bottle opener. TFTC!

At first we could not agree with the GPS which corner to investigate, but finally we found the cache.
Took a giant fly, left a green can opener with inbuilt compass and other features.

Another great location. Took glass marble and luck coin. Left coloured pencils and Mike Hussey mini cricket ball.

Took Cachecard, our first and left Cache a falling star. This is a pretty place! Thanks for bringing us here. We live nearby and I would never have known. Best wishes, Woyboys

Again another easy find with key keeper no travel bug in this one TNLN.

Enjoying the walk and went straight past GZ, backed up and had a nice easy find. TNLN

Best view easy find with clue. TFTC
Took Nothing Left Nothing.
Found with the Ferriters

Beautiful walk and a great water view as well. TFTC
Took Car, Bali thongs. Left China coin & Fly bug
The Ferriters

Found with The Carey Clan

Took Dolphine TB but didn't see Traveling puzzle. Having said that we didn't look before hand so weren't expecting anything so may have just missed it.

TFTC

Found at 1400, no problems and had nice walk around the boardwalk.
Left: Dolphin TB

Found with richlink. An easy find. Thanks.

Found with geo parents and richlink. An easy find. Thanks.

Found it... T T/B, L chinese lucky coin.

T N, L T/B

Couldn't find this one- had a look in the likely spots- perhaps the wet weather was playing a bit of havoc with the GPS? Anyway, was a nice walk and know where to go for next time.

15 of 16 for the day. It was getting pretty dark by this point but we found it in the end. Found with Team Wintonio
TNLN TFTC

15th of 16 for the day with Team Batty
8:45pm
Heaps of mozzies, long search but the coords were pretty right
TNLNSL TFTC

Took a while to find, considering that i did not use a GPS just put the cords in to google earth and went from there. found at 12.30pm. left SD card. took nothing. great hide. well done.

Nice little area to walk around and an easy find. TFTC.

Took: Nothing

Left: Toy Car

CRYSTAL PAULS

Found today by Mr Emu @ 6.00 p.m., GAFF3 http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/GAFF . My second attempt, and so much easier when you bring a torch! Thanks for the cache Grank, it was a nice, quiet area to visit at the end of the work day.

Took: Nil; Left: Nil
Dropped: "Sagauli, India" Unite for Diabetes TB

Nice spot. Was going to get the travel bug but the previous cacher got it. Too bad as I am off to Norway in a couple of weeks and the cache has to get to Denmark. Oh well. TFTC.

I enjoyed the boardwalk and reading the informative signs along the way at the end of my day's work in Gosford. Sadly, in spite of hunting in what I thought was the right area (plus some), I was unable to come up with the goods. Having spotted a place that seemed to fit the description in the hints, I will just have to watch the logs to see if it was me having a "boy's look" (it's been known to happen once or twice!), or if the cache has gone "walk-about".

Thanks anyway to Grank for showing me an interesting pocket of habitat that I would otherwise never have visited.

found ages ago... my name is in the log...
*blush* sorry for the short notice *blushes even harder*

can finally put this one to rest after 3 attempts found with Harlus. was so easy, i cant believe i'd missed it before, i guess the light was just coming in at the right angle this time. took travel bug and left pliers.TFTC!!

Found this one today after a short stroll along the board walk. The GPS wanted a different spot to the one we found the cache on. The oldest Geodaughter should take the credit for this one as I was looking in completely the wrong place.
We have placed the Peg TB in here I hope she finds many more enjoyable places to travel. No swaps today TFTC SL

The ran let up as I approached the cache, but it had already done its job keeping the whole area empty for me. Glad I was in my wet weather gear as I had no qualms kneeling in puddles to search. The pants worked and I found the cache after a little searching.

This one took a bit longer to find than we thought it would. We were just going through the "it may have been Muggled" stage, when we widen the search and found it just as described.

TNLN


TFTCSL [8D

[geocoin was not left at point, trying to get it out of here and now registered where it really is.]

found it this afternoon.

It was a good hiding spots and the muggles in the park didn't take any notice of us (us being me and my friends)

It took a little bit of looking and we have replaced a few of the things with an old little card that means a lot to me and is from my childhood,

i Found it with my Friends like caleb.s and timot7 and calebs brother
thank you - angel0072

found it with friends like Timot7 Caleb.s and angel0072 Introduced them to Geocaching oh no look out Central Coast Geocaches

[Found after a bit of searching, little bit further than first corner. T Red stuffed toy, L TB HOO-RAY.TFTC]

[Got dirty knees looking for this one, 20 minutes later found it. T Ping Pong Ball, L TB Ricky the Reindeer. TFTC]

[Difficult to find, not quite at he corner where GPS wen '00' distance to go, T Bluey Day Helicopter L TB Boomerang "Wisdom & Respect". TFTC]

[ Got it after a little search up the track abit. T Pencill sharpner L Geocoin BW250 USA. TFTC]

[ Tricky dicky putting it up the path a bit, T Motorbike, L TB Travelling Puzzle. TFTC]

[ Was there, 21 Jul 07, today at approx 1000hr, didn't see Geocoin Civil War Geocoin #2 Manassas or TB "Burnie, Australia" Unite for Diabetes. Maybe they were picked up at start of weekend, Fri evening but not yet logged.]

[Was there morning of 21 Jul, no geocoin or diabetes TB to beseen. May have been already picked up, unless I was blind]

didnt have a GPSr, but with the hint i thought i was in the right spot. crawled round looking til my jeans were saturated and still no cache

Back in action. Thanks theUMP and Philma!

Put a big rock on it!

Found this cache today, I know it is off line but the cache is in place and in good condition.
TNLNSL
Regards Philma and Geocheese & kisses.

seems to be prone to washing away.

Time for a cache check

Couldn't find this one after having it suggested to me by a local Pesky cacher.
The clue was pretty explicit but still no joy in the hunt.

Joint effort with smatty.After about 5 mins Mr Smatty Found it.It had floated away.TNLN

Found log floating away after recent storms..
Help from our mentors Dentoz.. Thanks guys. Put cache back in its home.

could not find but will try again may have got washed away

Took two tries. The first time, my GPSr showed good accuracy and took me right onto what the clue described, so I confidently looked around but couldn't find it. Returned the next day and the GPSr showed the same accuracy but took me to different spot that also matched the clue, but this time the right one!

T: Generic GC
L: Manassas Civil War GC

TFTC

this one was a good hide took me about ten mins to find had to look in about 100 differnt spots then bingo had cache in hand
took whitetail deer tb
left geocoin
tfth

What a nice spot! I moved up to the coast from Sydney 6 years ago and this was the first time i had been here! Nice day, nice walk and not a single muggle to be found! GPS was way off the mark so i relied on clues and a bit of searching. Took pegs left Sewing kit. Must go back and take my husband to show him this lovely spot! Chase'em - the Hydro flare number is: 200512 TFTC!

Fairly easy find. Took your advise and walked around the boardwalk for a different experience checking out the marsh. TFTC.

[This entry was edited by chase'em on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 4:19:59 AM.]

Great cache Grank. We managed to find a break in the downpours to get out for an hour. The gps was getting a little confused, but managed to find it after 15 mins or so. Left the Whitetail Deer Travel Bug (208447), little motorcycle/key, & some cable ties. Took Sherlock Holmes. Thanks!

Do you catch crabs here?

4th today
Left Carabina took Orange Pen
TFTC

Finally found this one by the geo mum.
TFLH the bower birds

Found the cache at 9.05am. Lovely walk along to the cache. TNLNSL. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

[:o)] amazing if you follow instructions things are found
took mini mave again today
no muggles today so gave the area the work over
TNLN SL THTF

Tried to find with out sheet
looked all over but alas went home emty handed

Nice and easy. A frisky muggle couple nearby meant some stealth was needed, but they were too busy getting busy to notice me. Peri the Platypus TB was not there - was collected by a Canadian team on 8 December 2006, and is still not logged online.
T: Golfball
L: Seashell
TFTC !

A great stop on our trip to Brisbane. Had never seen mangrove in a swamp before. Picked up the platypus travel bug and will take to our next stop in Canada.

Ama and I stopped in here on our way to Lisarow. Great spot! This is not a type of ground cover we're familiar with in Victoria BC. Really enjoyed walking the boardwalks and reading the info signs. Many thanks!

Lots of searching around on our knees, but turned up nothing. [Pretty sure we were on the right corner, but checked others as well]

This was my first cache for the day. After a brief search, the cache was found. Thanks for the cache.

1 of 1. 4.50pm. Cache 125.
Retried this one as I was determined to find it, especially as someone else has since I failed to. I was a little more thorough this time, and was successful. Left Peri the Platypus TB (one of my own, starting her journey). Took nothing. T4TC.

After searching 45 minutes on our knees we could not find this one. Area was dry but maybe the tide has washed it away. We will try again when we have more clues
Thanks Grank
the bower birds

A very interesting stroll along the boardwalk. Good views at the end too
My Aussie oriented GPS pointed to the correct location straight away and I soon had the cache in hand
Took a keyring and left a fridge magnet. TFTC.

Nice walk, would have been better if I had been able to find the cache.
Tried in the obviuous place as suggested by the clue. Then I checked the other bends in the path (well, under them) as one of the other logs suggested that the co-ords were out by 20m or so.
Tried everything I could think of. No luck. So either I missed it (and I think I was fairly thorough) or it has been muggled.

2:52pm
Late lunch in the park near here and then a bit of a wander to find this one hidden away. Easy find, took a pen and left a box of clips.

Cheers

What a nice cache! Didn't take description with us, which made us search for an hour )
A problem was that co-ords were about 20 m away from the container. Still we were persistent enough to discover it.

Took Polynesia TB to make it roam some more and a rubber cat for friends. Traded for a Sherlock doll.

Lots of baseball games going on nearby but only had to wait for a dad and two kids to leave the area before we found the cache. Took TB and left TB Polynesia.

Nice easy find but got wet knees, a school carnival was in progress nearby but no muggles in vicinity of the cache, which was in perfect condition.
tn left T.B. Fitz Giggles Mobile Clown School.
Thanks for giving us a reason to visit this wonderfull area.

I was driving this way so stopped of for a few minutes. Well, I finally found a sistema not suited as a cache - the lunch box with cooler. Replaced the container and contents (I'll dry them out at home). Log book is in tact.

My GPS made this one a bit more difficult than I expected it to be. I suppose the tree cover threw the signals off a bit. At one point I was 20 metres off. But anyway, after a a bit of searching in areas suggested by the hint, I laid hands on it - and then wondered why it had taken so long! The container was very wet inside. I was able to dry it out a bit, but it needs a little TLC. The official geocaching notice is very soggy, but the log is safe in its baggy. TNLN. Thanks for the visit. By the way, it's my first Gosford area cache - staying with friends for a week.

We were on our way to find park'n'ride and realised we had gone past it, this one came up on the GPS and in we went. Mr S'Downer found it easily and I retrieved it being very careful not to get marshy knees. Had no swaps on me sorry. TNLN Thanks heaps!

I went to the look out at the end first and was about to go back and start looking when a couple came up the board walk. I though I would have to wait these muggles out until I saw them pause at GZ in Classic GPS stance. I confirmed it was a fellow geocacher when I saw the GPS in ther hand. I let them think I was leaving the area but came back and introduced myself when they started to search. Turned out to be the Bateau Bay Bandits.
It took a while for the find it, we tried feeling around with no luck. In the end I spotted it from a distance and retrived it. There was about a inch of water in the cache and the geocache information sheet was covered it mould. Log book was not wet. TNLN. Thanks Grank

The encounter is now well documented.

I must say, Supermoosie has a great dog!
Placid as you could hope for and quite a looker as well.

We all got very wet knees looking for this one but Moosie found it in the end.

Took the "barrel of monkies" monkey and left a playing die.
Thanks for the cache Grank and thanks for your assistance Supermoosie. Would probably still be looking without you!

Waited for what we thought was a muggle and his dog going for a walk to leave. The muggle and his dog were waiting for us to leave. Hence, a mexican stand off ensued.As it turned out the muggle was a fellow cacher Supermoosie, so we banded our efforts together to try to find the cache. Now we had the three amigos all looking for the cache, looking extremely suspicious lying spread eagled on the decks.

Luckily Moosie came up with a good alibi if a muggle should happen to come by. Of course we were all looking for my ring that I had dropped.

We had all looked for quite a while until "Supermoosie" put on his super hero cape and came to the rescue and found the cache. Great effort Supermoosie.

Thanks, Supermoosie and Grank - tough find.
Took plane and Left Wizard figurine

A nice wander. It is definitely a more pleasent place in the cool of winter than on a hot summers day.
Picked up Bayou Beastie.

Salt Marsh 3/6/06 - 7.55am What a lovely spot to wander around and check out the marshes and local wildlife this is what caching is about. Thanx Scenic Routers

First cache of the day. GPS reception wasn't great - but a quick find none the less. The cache container had a few inches of water in it, so I emptied it out, dried off the contents as best I could and signed the damp logbook. I think it may have been a victum of the recent king tides...

TNLNSL.

Thanks Grank for another great cache in another great location.

Caches are easier to find with a correctly programmed GPS. Dropped off Bayou Beastie TB so she can continue her journey up North to meet Steve. Picked up Fish Out Of Water TB so she can come to Sydney to an equally nice Alligator friendly environment.

This was our preferred cache to drop off TB Bayou Beastie and was the main reason we decided to visit the Gosford area for a pleasant Saturday of geocaching. A mis-programmed GPS stopped us from finding this (or any other) cache - see my entry about GPS error in the Groundspeak forum.

[This entry was edited by ozjeeper on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 6:20:10 AM.]

[This entry was edited by ozjeeper on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 6:20:45 AM.]

after another nice little walk i came acros the cache.
thanks again grank
TNLNSL