something fishy Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
By purple duck on 04-Jun-06. Waypoint GCWDD2

Found this one today, but the cache is in poor condition. The container was missing and the contents (including the log) were strewn around. We grouped them together but they are still exposed.

been tamperd with

#333, 10:40 am

found it together with Doc Browny.

TFTC, cRimehUNter

This entry was edited by cRimehUNter on Monday, 24 January 2011 at 07:13:41.

10:40

TFTC
Doc Browny

Clever cammo. Thanks

My Geodaughter (tadpole) and I completed this one this afternoon. The area of GZ was very overgrown with weeds, but with some select clearing we located the cache. Thanks for bring us to this nice spot and for your cache. Afterwards we climbed the tower nearby for a great view of the lake.

My Dad (Toadmiester7) and I found this cache today after walking along the paths. This was my first official cache, and I was excited when we discovered where it was hidden. I also enjoyed climbing the nearby observation tower for a great view of the lake. Thanks for my first cache.

Easily found as it was very exposed. No sign of TB, although another local cacher has signed log but not logged their visit here. So I'm sure the TB will show up soon.
I spent some time reconstructing the home of the cache so it is now safe from muggles, please take care to re-hide it properly.
TFTC, TNLN, SL.

Awesome big box. No troubles with this one. Dog tag not seen though.

Been here before but didn't find it. GeoCahce son spotted it straight away this time.

Found it!

Buried my shoes in the mud before I realized I had to move inland, where dylburger was busy uncovering the cache.

Fun walk with the kids - plenty of friendly two and four legged muggles about enjoying the sunshine. Had tried to find this at night a few weeks back without success, no issues this time.

Took Mothers Day geocoin and Keyring TB, left blue mars

SL TFTC

Brilliantly hid. immediatly looked up all your other caches as soon as we found it. TNLN

container replacment all done

Found on a run to Wollongong with fitzy_1965.
Wasn't too keen on the final bit of finding this one so I sent in my handy dandy cache retrieval tool and shouted out encouragement along his way!
TFTC.

2377 - Found on a run down to Wollongong with ACBC66 for a Birthday Party - how convenient !!

The walk in to this one is nice except for the last 30 metres or so - the long grass near water is a bit daunting ! Still it was an easy find. The container needs a major refurbishment or replacement as there are holes in the top and the contents are soaking. Thanks !!

TN Left Coin - TFTC !!

Cheers....

it's a bit worse for wear!

Nice walk to GZ, stopped for 5 mins to watch a sea eagle frightening the local sea gull population. The cache is a bit wet, looks like rains got in the lid where it's been burnt, the log's nice and dry though but didn't leave or take anything in case the owner wants to replace it

Went for an after school visit but the grass was as high as the kids because of all the rain. Will go back with our taller team member perhaps. It's also only our second geocache attempt.

It appears as though the cache has been involved in an accident involving fire. It has some melted holes in the top and sides and it's definitely not waterproof (as there were some pools of water inside and most swaps were wet).

Found at 18:10.

After avoiding 2x Golden Orb spiders (thanks to a SWRD that doesn't rely on eye sight but rather the effort Tarae used to swing it), he found his way down to the GZ. Nice hide and nice view.

Took nothing, left red, orange and blue sea creatures.

TFTF.

back on line the container is fine it seems

Found with P2k
TFTC SL

Easily found don't understand why this one has been temporarily disabled as this one is all in order.
A great sneaky hide and a fair bit of work gone into cache container.. TFTC

A great spot and easy find! It is really good to visit place you haven't been before. A lovely calm morning on the lake. Tbone and I got very dirty from the recent fire in the area.
TFTC
#92

There has been a fire at GZ and the container was damaged. Not super urgent but the container is not "weather proof" anymore but to burn holes.

off line till can get to it and replace container thanks

Found 10:30am with Cattledog-81. Nice easy walk along to the cache. TNLN. Thanks.

Found at 10.30.Out and about with jkcourtz enjoying a quick trip around the gong today.

Found at 1015. Parked at the designated car park, and as I got out, I could hear the soft playing of a mandolin or ukulele or something similar. As I walked past the eating area, it was an islander playing the instrument, however, he was only playing four chords, over and over and over. Headed off towards GZ and followed the walking path until the trail led off track down to the waters edge. Got to GZ, and after a few moments of searching the cache was found.
Returned later to the car park to find the same guy still playing the same four chords. Hey...at practice makes perfect I guess.
Really liked the themed cache container and enjoyed the walk to GZ.

Thanks.

A nice walk from the carpark to where I left the path and went in and out from this one via some tracks through the bushes. Nice easy find once at GZ.
Continued on to the structure for some photos before moving on to the next cache on the list.

TFTC

Found it very quick, I was lucky- drop GC. thanks purple duck

A great big find EVENTUALLY!!!

Very nice hiding. This was our 3rd of 4 that was done on our way to Bass Point

great hide

Found at 3.50pm.

Long wet grass, got wet to the thighs. Great cache box.

Took a horse.
Replaced with soccerball.

A beautiful day for a walk. Had no trouble finding the cache but lost the track through the scrub so ploughed my way out & then went up the tower. Good views all along here & with nary a breeze, the lake had a mirror finish. Thanks.

Nice cache in a perfect condition, had no trouble finding it.
Got wet feet at my way back out!!
logged at 12.00 while there was a school cross country going on.
Wilbert67

Easy Find should of had appropiate clothing though.Log Only
TFCT

Funny how things work out but we seem to be on a duck hunt today well the purple type anyway.Nice easy walk,with a slight not so bad bush bash.Just love the cache container fits in so well.Dropped of Billy the fish TB,left palm tree taken yo yo(a bit like caching up and down round and round we go )Just watch that last step down to cache I lost my footing twice. TFTC. PD.....

a quick find in the fading light. nice cache keeping with the fishy theme we left a whale and took a dolphin beautiful sunset captured by geo kid while obtaining this catch
tftc

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First find for 2009. Great well stocked Cache. T: Plastic Lure, Lobster and CD. L: 3 x Macca's Toys. TFTC.

After several almost looks finally snuck out and found the cache. Nice contents.
Caught a few bream and flatties and left for the next to find.
Have a great fishing DVD to put in but left at home will pop in some time soon.
Thanks: Ducky

TNLN
SL

Ironbark

I cannot believe that McWeBiTe did this at high tide! That would just be VERY silly. I really really like this cache and I think the location is great.

Thanks for the cache

Yet again on this Wollongong Invasion weekend we seemed to take a roundabout approach. But eventually the mission was accomplished. Great container - very apt! No swaps today. TFTC

Found with SuperJaz, Bewilderbeest, and Ultra Violet Z. on the Wollongong Invasion weekend. I liked the swaps in this cache, it was really well stocked.

Thank you thank you!!!

As seemed to be the case so often this weekend, we took a roundabout route to the cache. It's a great container for a cache though and well stocked with goodies.

Thanks Purple Duck, nice one.

*Overall Experience: 4*

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found late in the evening with BigOn, Tealby and McPhan. Luck no spiders on the last part in the trees. I'm sure the view would be great in the dark but we had to content ourselves with a fishing box in the torchlight. Excellent swaps if this was your hobby.

Thanks purple duck.

Wollongong invasion trip by the Canberra based McWiBiTe team.
McPhan, Winglen, BigOn, Tealby
OMG 35 in one day, 'Strewth'. As Tealby mentioned we just couldn't go back to our beds on a DNF, acessing the gz took a couple of tries in the pitch dark, the trees were a real problem followed by the incredibly deep tangled and yes wet grass, No problem with the tide? being highlanders it's not something that is usually considered for caching. Hmm Highlanders 'there can only be one'(team). Tackled this particular box without any issue at the GZ , signed and replaced, looked around and the rest had already vamoosed. Oi wait for me it's dark and scary here, caught them in the trees and we all walked back on the path sans torch light, all in all a very nice way to finish off a monumental day.
TFTC

After a DNF on the last cache we had to get our mojo back before retiring for the evening. So despite the very late hour we headed off to find this one. The walk along the path was great, but it got a little more challenging in the dark once we had to leave the path. Nevertheless, the very well stocked cache was in hand pretty quickly, so we could head on back to our beds after a VERY long day of caching, that started at 6.30am and ended when we signed this log at 11.30pm.
TNLN TFTC - #64 for the WIWE and #35 for day 2 - a PB.

Rated: for Overall Experience

A great walk in a nice area. One of the best stocked caches I have seen. Once the find was made I took the time to check out the nearby observation tower.

Thanks purple duck for the cache.

TNLNSL

[Easy find,along the waters edge. Took toy helicopter, and rubber ducky left hairclip and toy man. TFTC. Spotted mrchips0 and L'l chips leaving the area as we arrived.]

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Found after a bit of searching.

Great cache, L'il Chips wanted the stickers. Left behind a green bouncy-ball-monster.

Thanks a lot purple duck.

What a well put together cache, the contents are fantastic. Crash had a great time bounding through the grass and sniffing everything. I found the cache pretty quickly and we all enjoyed the walk back. A lovely spot.
Took TB

First one for the day with Toonarmy. I think we approached it from the same direction as Richlink. Once we found the area it wasn't difficult to find. Nice Cache. TFTC.

Found with The Carey Clan after tramping through lots of undergrowth to discover a really easy path to the cache.

Dropped off St Paulaner TB

TFTC

We probably approached from the wrong way and were confronted with knee high kikuyu grass - was concerned what might be lurking in there as we had to get through 160 mts of it. Anyway made it to GZ unscathed and logged the find. Plenty of goodies in the cache.

tb drop off

It was getting late but found OK - lots of loot there - thanks duckie

Good walk, loved the signs for the bubblers.
TNLN

thanks for the walk up the hill mate could of said it was easyer till walk around the water as i had two heart attacts going up the hill great cache took hooks left key ring

i like the tackle

5:15p
Thanks for the walk after a hards day work. Great to see a large cache container, rarity these days.
TFTH, TNSLLN

"good God wot do we have here" I say to little muggle Matthew, we were down for Mats aunties b'day. great night B4 now walking off the birth day cake
thanks
Acko

Handy if you have a line and are by the lake!

A great cache to get in a bit of a walk at the same time. We parked at the fish shop about a km east. Took in the view at the end where neither of us had been before and planned our discrete attack. A few young bike riders were working hard in the bush, very close and just N of GZ. After the gizmo went wild and had to be rest we found the cache OK and did our swap. Took a crab and left a little yellow rubber duckie. Also retrieved the TB that had only arrived earlier in the day. Was going to drop it off at THE TEMPLE except that it was getting a bit late and looks like it had just come from there anyway.. so will have to do some more caching. Thanks for the cache and the walk.
KemblaCashew and Bron.

found this one on a family bike ride not too hard
left Jeep 4x4 #1104 (will track as soon as i find tracking No.)
took paintbrush

More long grass for our 2nd of the day. Still looking ofr snakes after the first one earlier.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Took me a little while looking in the wrong places but once I found the right place it was obvious! TNLN thanks Purple Duck.

A nice and quiet location and protected by a masked owl.
LN took the coins for a trip

4:38pm
This park has some seriously silly signs, will post a pic of the funniest one, well, I found it funny. An easy walk and a quick find turned up, my god, a good sized cache, but wait, will it be stocked, or empty? I cracked the lid, wow, quality contents, you should be proud of this cache, it is a must do on anyones Wollongong trek!!

Took a couple of things, left a couple of things and a coin.

Again, well done!!

What a good cache, it was nice to find a cache of a good size and have good contents. Congratulations Purple Duck.

A nice location and a perfect afternoon the lake looked a treat.

Took soccer ball whistle
Left sunscreen for fisherpeople

Took the Chook TB
Left NZ 2006 Kiwi Geocoin

Thanks well done

all good back in its spot

off line for a touch up on the camo paint back in next day or so

Found at 11:00 - another find with the assistance of geo-newbie, Butters, and the third of four on my Wollongong weekend visit. We trekked the long way to this one, but it was a fantastic day and location for a walk, and the lake looked superb. It reminds me a lot of my old hometown Newcastle's Lake Macquarie. Some of the signage along the way was a bit bizarre though. Lots of long grass to trounce through, and bush to push aside. Butters actually found the cache, which was cool for a geo-newbie.
T: nothing
L: The Mighty Shark Gecoin (seemed appropriate)
Diabetes (Polasara, India) TB
TFTC !

Found it fairly easily. A nice quiet spot, was a nice lunchtime walk.
TNLN.

Another spot i would never have known about, but for caching,Thanks for showing me this area Purple Duck

Braved the thunder, lightning and torrential rain to find this, at least I didn't have to be stealthy, no one else was silly enough to be outside. Signed the log and made some quick swaps. Thanks Purple Duck

Took: Whale & Shark
Left: Keyring

Rated: for Overall Experience

bit of a bush bash to get there but well hidden .

Another good find for the weekend. Liked the container itself and this is a nice location.

Another good find for the weekend. Liked the container itself and this is a nice location.

Good hide. The biggest cache we've found yet. We're not very fishy ourselves, so no swaps. TFTC.

A short walk to find our last for the day, before heading on an interstate deployment for a couple of weeks. Great to see a large, well stocked cache for a change! Contents were dry and happy. TNLN and thanks for the hunt!

Thanks Purple Duck...this simply took us to yet another place in our local area we did not know existed....what a pleasant spot....Enjoyed the viewing platform, but what a shame it has too be all caged in....After reading an earlier log Krafty had to make lots of noise for Charlie to keep the wiggly things at bay....

T Green Frog
L Fishing game for geokiddies

Out here on a windy afternoon caching. There was something whistling in the wind nearby which made the whole experience a little eerie. Found the cache after a little poking around. TNLN and thanks for the hunt!

Nice one down by the water.
a clever cache container and some great goodies inside to boot. I must come back with some fishing line and some swaps.
TFTC
Rescued Tia TB

Rated: for Overall Experience

What a nice cache container with so many goodies !

Thanks for the cache; kind regards 2cachefix

In: TB Tia , bracelet, world cup whistle
Out: monoline, keyring, photoframe

Looked around the area for a few minutes but I started to feel rain drops and figured I'd leave it for today. Will try again soon.

A very busy day at Something Fishy! Cache was found by Jono (long suffering geo-son who was a little annoyed at not finding anything). He is now happy. We were out with Gribbly and Wassa on a great day for caching. This was a very well stocked cache, thanks Purple Duck.
TNLNSL,
best wishes,
Wal

Verrrry nice cache. Took the Steve Irwin death machine (plastic stingray) to deposit elsewhere. Left brand new battery for gps.

Largest and most fiiled cache we have found to date, struggled to close the container as there was so much inside. Great spot, climbed the viewing platform afterwards and admired the view of the local area.

Ok, went back again later today with the bf and together we found it! I like how the container itself is themed Left frog, took turtle

Found with McPhan

Second encounter with local wildlife on a day trip. Red belly black quite close to the cache had me jumping into McPhanKids arms. Nice place for a walk - just stomp as you go.

Rated: for Overall Experience

We went up the long way. Perhaps you get to see more that way? L:Buddist bell T:dino

Fishier and fishier. Stunningly stocked cache. TN L:gem (as this is such a gem of a cache).

What a well stocked cache, loved the area.
TNLNSL-TFTC
Regards Philma andGeo-Cheese & Kisses.

What a great spot, of course the geopups had to get straight in the water. every time I get a wiff of that "wet dog smell" in the car, I'll think of this cache.
had fun
TNLNSL
cheers
Belabb

Just came by to show off this cache and to my surprise a TB was inside. How could I refuse such a friendly hitchiker. He will go wonderfully in my own soon to be released 2nd cache!

[This entry was edited by Gribbly on Thursday, July 06, 2006 at 1:20:20 AM.]