Maude Maude, New South Wales, Australia
By alex on 21-Apr-06. Waypoint GCVJT0

No luck

With regret I am forced to close this one down as I am not in a position to check it in the near future. Hopefully someone else may seed this interesting spot.

We think the cache may be in that big pile of woodchips. Some work being done around the weir.

Nice easy find, TFTC

Easy park and grab
TFTC

The weir is currently closed until Nov/Dec 2020 whilst the weir is being recoated. It is inaccessible whilst the area is closed.

Thanks for this. Nice town too.

It spent 6mths at my place in Altona Vic. Now back in original position 13/2/20.

We found a long hook, suggesting that it was high. No luck though!

That was so fun

Well I think this one has finally bitten the dust - came down last night and in fading light had no luck. Then back today and nothing to be found in the tree at GZ or any within 15 metres - see attached photo (happy to delete if reinstated). A bit sad as an old one and a good place to attract people - just glad I hadn’t made a diversion off the Sturt to get this one (staying here for work)
TFTC alex

On our travels from Brisbane down to Mount Buffalo we searched and found som Geocaches. Thanks to all owners for the Caches.

Found - while on a walk to the weir, also got some amazing free limes from outside the shop.

Easy to find it with dads help great little hour adventure

TFTC,
Caching our way west. Made the detour to get this one.
Visited trackables.

Quick find, all goid, signed log and replaced. Thanks to alex.

Found with Mum (GLISS!) and sister (Batz7) on our trip to Adelaide. TFTC.

Found with Mum (GLISS!) on our trip to Adelaide. TFTC.

A quick find in this sleepy village. We came here for icecreams and stayed for the cache. Tftc.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Quick easy find with the kids on the way to hay

Found at 2:35 PM GAFF1.
Love those old names - Daphne, Gwen, Rose - don't hear them any more. It's all Brittany and Jade and Shannon now.
Made a slight detour from our intended route and explored this "town" before heading to the weir to find this 12 yo cache - and boy does it show its age! Looks like it has flooded here and the lid was not on properly, 'cause it had very rusty water inside it.
We actually contemplated camping the night here, but then we thought that there may be a better camps along the side of the river a bit further out of town - and there was [^]
Thanks alex.

Found easily. Muggles watching from across the river. Tried to be sneaky though.

Heading towards Hay, a little detour for this cache today. TFTC

Did the detour to this 1 – the gate was closed – there is a way to walk in – I get the feeling they don’t want anybody to use this area – it’s a shame because it’s a nice area – cache wet – log damp but able to sign – a big thanks - TFTC / TFTH / SL

Thanks for showing us another way on the Hay plain lovely spot.
Log signed.

found it, nice hiding spot! road was closed jumped the fence, nice quick and easy find.

What a shame have to climb over fence into a no go zone to find catche. Log is also wet

Made our way across the fence after asking at the store about entry. So after a short stroll while watching the Pelicans fishing in the river the cache was located .
Signed Very Damp logbook 10:30am and replaced all as found.
1 x TB Visit.
alex - TFTC.

First cache for out outback holiday. The are said it was closed but the person at the general store said, she'll be right. Tftc

An interesting diversion from my drive down the Sturt highway.
A lovely little town and an awesome spot. TFTC

Quick, easy find in an interesting little town.

Nice easy find.

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.
After enjoying the benefits of free camping at the Lyrup Ferry (with power) we continued on, stopping here to admire the view and make a find and sign.
This was our second free camp, on the river a little west of the bridge. Camps book talks of a toilet but it was not serviceable. There are very clean toilets in the town by the institute.
Thanks Alex, now I too know of another way over the Hay Plain.

In Balranald for a day or so and a little caching is in order. A pleasant spot with picnic tables.
Thanks alex

Found on our way home to Canberra from the 2014 OZ Mega Event. TNLNSL TFTC Found with Scruffyblake, Charli_Bear & The S's

OMG what an absolutely beautiful location. We stopped to have lunch in the picnic area as it was so beautiful. Thanks so much for bringing us to this oasis.

Found on our way back to Canberra after the 2014 oz mega event. Found with ScruffyBlake, Charli_Bear & Me_to TNLNSL TFTC

Found this with the family on way home to Canberra after the Mega Event in SA.
The S's Me_to and Charlie_bear TYFC

Found on our way back to Canberra from the 2014 oz mega event. Found with ScruffyBlake, The S's & Me_to TNLNSL TFTC

Found in a lovely area and well worth a visit.

Removed nothing but added mozzie band, no pen at cache, nice place to visit. Weir full to nearly overflow

I see another piggy has been to visit well piggy's do like water, tftc

Nice picnic area tftc

Found it but contents damp, spread them in the sun for a while.

Water in cache. We got rid of most, but bit of maintenance maybe needed. It's cold and tonight! But we found it

Found during a 2 night stop over in the caravan park at the pub. I recommend Kat's special stuffed steak at the pub. Thanks Alex for this cache. TNLN

As an alternative across the plains to Mildura, popped out this way from Hay.
Worth a visit to see the lock.

Found it on the 29/3. Mobile app won't let me change the date.

Stayed at the free camping spot by the river. Quick find on our way to Hay. TFTC

Thank Alex, for another quite old cache. 2006 is getting up there these days for 'well-aged caches'!
I enjoyed my respite in Maude, but didn't partake in the ice-cream. I'll have to save that next time!

Another cache for today while travelling in a roundabout way on the way to Swan Hill to visit friends but caching does come first so why not do some before we visit them,easy find for Geodad. TFTC

Found on the 2012 Tour de Eclipse. Second Alex cache. Great location. Impressed with the amount of water on the weir.
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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.

I visited the shop and purchased a chocolate ice cream. The frog managed to drip more on the hand break than he got in his mouth. It was a warm one at Maude.

A day of caching from West Wyalong - the town just west of Wyalong down the road to Mildura A road trip with a chance to stretch the legs with a cache is a good thing. A day of plastic dinosaurs in caches - it had everything!!

Thanks to alex and clear skies from TeamAstro.

Found at 11.00

The weir was up to the brim & running well.

Very wet still in area.

Cache still high & dry.

Took dice
Left disco ball.

TFTC

On a venture back to hay. Stopped in for a bite to eat. Great little spot.

Stopped in here at this fine little weir on a rainy day on our way back to Hay. Tftc

Found and logged at 14:00, A great area and verry interesting weir
Thanks alex

Found this quite easily as it was laying on the ground in full view! Put it back where previous logs indicated it was. TN put a pencil in. This was a very interesting area, loved the weir. Thanks alex

Found this cache at 12:40pm on our way home from being to Menindee Lakes, Mungo N/P and Mildura Country music Festival for 2 weeks and caching as we go. We decided to take a different road across the Hay Plains. This was a delight coming this way.
It was not at the base of a tree on a fence line it has been moved to higher ground. It is up of the ground in a tree. Probably due to all the flood waters that appear to have been running thru the area.
The log and contents were all very very wet, dried out what we could. Have had to put a new log book in and some new goodies.
Thanks for bringing us to Maude.
The Bushies.

Book moist. Needs attention.

Found whilst taking a short detour whilst on a 'long' drive to visit family in Rockhampton. The water was flowing fast, the weir hoisted high and the mozzies as large as small birds! TNLNSL, Cheers, R4R

Found with Black Bunny on the homeward leg of of our journey.
We thought we'd try the detour through Maude as a bit of a change from the straight highway. I was glad we did, it was a bit different. We'd been across the Hay plain many, many times, so it was good to see a bit of different scenery. There were birds, trees, lovely scenery, sunshine, and, of course, after all the rain, lot sof standing water. We had a cuppa at GZ, and saw an elusive, lonely brown sheep across the water as well. The dogs enjoyed a stretch. Of course, all that water rushing past made me wish that someone had thought of placing a toilet here.
Thanks for bringing us here.

A quick find with Just a cacher on of our dash back to the ACT. What a great little area to stop and have a coffee and grab a cache. The water was over the weir and surrounding area lush and green with new growth. thanks for bringing us here.

SL TFTC

Maude was a bit hard to find, but got there.

Took a detour to find this one. Good to see the rivers full of water. Tftcsl took tb left gecko.

Lovely maintained park. GZ coords were off by 10-12 metres. Found after widening the search.
L: TB "Blue Lizard"
T: Key clip.
TFTC.

Found by Bob at 1500

I was travelling up the Sturt from Robinvale on my way to the Mega Event at Wagga and, even though it looked as though I'd be getting in late, thought the short diversion to Maude would break the trip up a bit. I'm glad I did, as I always like these sorts of spot and have a bit of a fascination with locks and weirs. The cache was nicely concealed, by was a quick find, nonetheless.

TNLN

Thanks again Alex

have found that many caches today will log comments later.

Bloody hell I thought these bridges didn't exist anymore,these can be hell on a road bike when you don't expect them.Nice location and it has exposed another side of Hay that I did not know existed......vegetable growing.tftc

When I was a kid I had a chicken named Maude. And others named Mabel and Mary, but not Mildred. They gave us lots of eggs, but in the end they all ended up in the pot.

This was a good time to visit after the recent rain, plenty of water both upstream and down! Easy find, although the coords seemed to be about 10m off. Thanks Alex, another of your interstate caches crossed off !

found on oz mega trip to wagga
maud a special detour for this one (groan.....)
i liked this little town
quaint knobbly bridge, cute general store and nice spot for a hide
all the farm signs on the road to hay were backwards though!

Found this one as the start of a Murray River adventure. You have to start somewhere!
Didn't get a chance to sign the log book because I was muggled. First by a council worker (who told me all about the 100 Mg / day flow for 100 days as part of an environmental intervalley transfer) and then by a State Water rep. When the council worker pulled out the cigarette paper, I knew I would not get to sign. I had to saunter back over to the cache and cover it up with my foot as I pretended to take photos. It was hidden again when I left.

Found with Mrs Murf on our Murray Adventure.
It would have been a shame to leave this one as a single unfound cache on the radar west of home, so we decided to detour through Maude on our way to Mildura. Glad we did!
TNLN, Cheers,
Murf.

1039 Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1000 on our trip to Lake Eyre via Marree to see if we can see the Pelicans? Easy find and first of our trip.TNLN Tnx alex.
Dropped 2 TB's in for a visit

Found by Mary & David at 0640. Nobody names their daughter Mary either. Our niece lives in the trendy new suburb of Doreen in Melbourne, and loathes that name too. An early start from Hay for us this morning as we head west for the 'Let's Raid the Food Bowl' Event in Mildura. A lovely spot. Our thanks to Alex.

Found at 10.10am
Another pleasant spot on the "Bidgee"
So many towns across the nation that have seen better days,
At least this one has an open milk bar and pub.
TNLN
Thanks
K&M

Had a lovely morning tea at this spot and found the cache with Soo's easily. Lots more water here now after recent rains.
T - Jeep TB L - Super hero
T - screw driver L - thong key ring

Found just after sunset. Not a lot of water in the river. Left the Jeep TB. TFTC.

Day 304 of non-stop caching

Found by Bwpbwin
10/1/09 @ 2.00pm
Been passed several times but never been into here. Lovely spot for a cuppa on an alternate route to Hay.

TNLN

Yet another diversion off the main road. Took TB to keep it moving. Thanks for the cache!

A good reason to divert from the boring plains ! thanx

placed geocoin PCYGAQ here forgot to log
acko

placed geocoin out here where water is very scarce unlike where it came from.
acko

How FLAT is this terrain?!?!
but with a cache to break up the trip VERY COOL!
thanks Acko
Took TB left TB

Isn't the Hay Plain a boring area once you have crossed it a few times on the Sturt
I too always used to love finding new roads across it on my way between Sydney and Adelaide many years ago. But I never made it to Maude [:o]
Sort of quiet out here...but what a strange sound at GZ. The sound of a waterfall nearby [:o]
I wasn't imagining it either
A short search found me the cache safe and sound
TFTC, I left "Maude" geocoin to begin it's travels (have a guess how this coin got it's name)

Found @ 3:11:32 PM (Cachemate time)

A nice quick & easy find. The water in the river doesn't look too flash.

T: 200 Years of Federation medallion
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC
1/07/08

We took the back road from Hay to get to this one. It proved to be a good alternative road to head west on as it got us away from the heavy traffic. Found the cache after a bit of a search around. Took GC. Thanks alex

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 34° 28.547 E 144° 18.231
Distance From Old: 11.5 feet
– Replaced in new location – new cords S34 28.546, E144 18.229. Added Meet & Greet Geocoin.

11.00am
Max and Roma failed to find this one.
After an initial search at our interpretation of GZ and using the hint, we then widened our search area considerably, still to no avail.
We hope it was just our inability and not that the container has gone AWOL.
However this being our first visit to Maude, we enjoyed the experience.
Thank you alex, for bringing us here.
Romax.

Found by Poddy1 the thrid for the day. Went to the pub not a bad place to have a drink (coke that is). Bought a stubbie holder and some stickers for the ute. TNLN

I headed off the beaten track across the plain to check this one out. Thanks.

11/78 TNLN
Visited: World Travelling Gold GC A#6 & Clam GC A#30

Albida

This cache gave us an excuse to find a different path across this neck of the woods.
TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Another Alex cache out in the sticks.... This is a different and more scenic approach to Hay. Thanks. Found the cache highly exposed, probably due to muggles clearing debris and grass. And the grading of the surrounding dirt areas. Rehid a little better.
TNLNSL
Thanks Alex for the stop on a long trip..

Found the cache at 6pm. Excellent hide spot. Swap items. Worth for me to come here - Love this area so peaceful. Thank you for organise the cache and hunt.

Nice spot. Beautiful sunny day. Broke up long trip to Dubbo. TFTC. Took Kindy Surprise. Left photo frame. Tuccamore

Glad I took the time off the Sturt Hwy - pleasant spot, well worth a visit, Thanks. Took keyring, left "the Scrat" (from Ice Age).

For such a sleepy little town the area around GZ was very busy today!! People just looking around, or stopping here for a break & cuppa. Had to wait about 15 mins before the quick search for cache.
swapped a padlock for an LED keychain
Cheers again Alex.

FTF - also diverted the back way along river road into this sleepy town of 60 people , admired the location.
Took Nil , left Keyring. Ta Alex

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