Coffee rock Broadwater, New South Wales, Australia
By azucar on 12-Jul-06. Waypoint GCX3R9

Retiring this cache, apologies...

Must be missing so disabled until I can check out, apologies...

My GPS is not accurate so we looked around all the local bushes and dug for six inches under all the likely ones. No luck. It could be covered or gone. Could someone please check.
Thanks

Out with the boys

Looked at gps spot. only 1 banksia bush covered in a large amout of sand.
Dug around Banskia looking for the coffee rock.. as per clue.

NO LUKE..


First DNF for some time....

Found this a while ago, turned out to be a good fishing spot

Took awhile to find. well hidden due to growth of trees and build up of the sand dunes.. Container was very wet inside and the book was wet and could not be open. Took ear plugs added highlighter. Place container in resealable plastic bag.

Went on windy ,overcast day to a very pretty spot ,will go back on a sunny day think the rocks may look more coffee coloured , no GC in the cache ,where is it ? TFTCx

We all had a nice play on the beach prior to finding this one. We loved it. Must come again here soon. Cheers.

What a top spot for a cache! This was supposed to be cache 2 of 6 planned for the day, but we stayed here so long there we ran out of time to get any more caches today! We parked and walked into to the beach – there was a bit of rubbish on the sand, probably came down in the river with the recent deluges! Took a while to find the cache, the sand had completely covered it. When we opened it, there was a thin layer of water in the bottom. Most of the swag was ruined, but the logbook was reasonably dry, as it was in a snaplock bag. I dried the log book out, and signed it, then replaced it in its bag. I also took the ruined swag out and put in some fresh stuff. I removed the sand from the lid’s seal, and closed it up again. Hopefully the water stays out! After this, we went for a paddle and build some sandcastles. The only people we saw the whole time we were here came past in 2 four wheel drives. Such a nice, peaceful, easily accessible spot. Nice one, Azucar!

Great coastal views, struggle through the sand hills and a find with Dingbat12. tftc

Different sands hereabouts, with Lozza47, cache a bit exposed.

Unreal sand dunes. Nice walk up the beach. Dead snake at GZ (stinks).
TNLN
TFTC
Fergclan

Found after a pleasant walk along the beach. No TB in residence. TFTC.

Bit of an explore of this area.
Great spot. Watched fellows pulling fish.
Bogans pulling wheel stands and Muggles pulling children.
Shame a dead python near the cache someone has chopped it on the head.
Nothing like a bit of mindless violence in a National Park!
T: Scooby Doo Toy
L: Necklace

Found with Fangsoki. TFTC

We were camping a bit further south near another beach with heaps of cofee rock. Its interesting stuff.

Left fancy NT geocoin.

Dropped in fancy Northern Territory geocoin.

We decided to go for a trot while caching in the area - we had been camping at the nearby Black Rocks. Found GZ relatively easily after a bit of a walk- and I came up with the cache. It was a little damp inside and had sand in it too. I cleaned it out properly and cleaned the seals. TFTC Azucar - a great area

Great place. Did a bit of exploring behind the dunes and came across an echidna ambling along!

Kids enjoyed the walk through the dunes to the GZ & grabbed some coffee rock for show and tell at school. Cache was a little damp. TFTC TNLNSL

Foster 2- Shields 1

Found the cache after a great drive down the beach with Blo Karting friends. The log was a bit damp after some water ingress.
TNLN.TFTC.

Like previous Finder I did't know about Coffee Rock, But I didn't have footprints to follow, I was more worried about muggles wondering what the footprints led to, after doing a circle a couple of times (with GPS in hand) trying to locate GZ, Signed log 5pm, Great Beach area ! TFTC-Azucar

Caching is a good learning experience. Didn't know about coffee rock. Found just after Temingi. Could still see their foot prints in the sand. Lead us right to the cache. Thank you

Took thong keyring. Left party popper.

SL/TFTC!

Team-Riot!

Coffee rock is really interesting. It's so soft you wonder why it hasn't all erroded away. Mrs Temingi searched for a big piece of pumice stone while I scaled the heights and grabbed the cache. TNLN TFTC

Thanks. Hot day, hot sand and definitely a great place for a swim.

Great spot for an evening swim. Once the kids saw where i was heading they ditched me and went swimming instead.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Hot day, clear weather, after days of rain!!! TFTC

Bit of night time caching with KidzJCT whilst holidaying at Evans Head.

Kids loved playing in the sand dunes and as it was night time we had the place to ourselves. Thanks

The walk over the dunes was terrific and good exercise. The cache was easy to find and most enjoyable.

TFTC
Cheers
John and Helen

Nice walk on the beach and sand dunes. Make sure you look when the tide is out as almost got stuck! Probably suppose to keep of the dunes, but they are so amazing and white! Have fun emptying the sand from your shoes. Took Lucky Chinese coins, left Yo Samity Sam toy!

[This entry was edited by travvy2000 on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:33:32 AM.]

A great spot to stop on the trip south and stretch the legs. The geopup had to stay in the car though

The swell was huge and the beach not there, but we still found the cache.

Cheers!

What a beautiful day for the beach. Although from all the big rains in the area the beach was pretty much nonexistant. Still saw amazing views and it was great to share it with Hoojar.

cheers.

Great spot for a cache, thanks.
Took Geocoin 'Blazing Sun'left toys, will relocate coin asap.

The temptation to do some geocaching while we were down camping at Evans Head over the Easter Long Weekend was too much... So off we went to hunt down the local caches.

Pretty amazing that we had been camping at Evans Head for the last 5 years and had never even once come close to finding this spot before.

The geokids had a blast running up and down the large sand hills on the way to this cache.

The cache was a nice easy find and still in very good condition.

Dropped off a geocoin "blazing sun"

Thanks for the hunt
Ksix
2008-03-22
14:40

We have passed through Broadwater many times before but never travelled east of the highway. Thank you for showing us this lovely part of Australia.
The walk over the sand dunes was tough in the strong wind - our footprints were almost immediately blown away. Lovely walk along the beach at low tide. The cache was an east find with spot on coordinates.
TNLN TFTC

Another interesting spot with various types of volcanic rock in the dune. Took a bit to navigate at first but once on the trail all was well. Thanks azucar.

Best to do this one at low tide as you could get stuck. High tide nearly caught us. Need to watch out for bluebottles at this time of year.

Decided to use the obvious track to the beach and was glad I did. Apart from not trampling the nice bush, it was easier, and I saw both Brown Quail and a Brahminy Kite on the way! Once at gz the cache was an easy find. TNLN thanks to azucar again for another good cache.

Nice walk through the sand hills bit hard on the knees but managed to get to the beach then onto the cache mrs A/D sharp eyes came up with the goods.T/N/L/N/S/L Thanks for the cache Azucar
Regards Angel Dust

Found by kavnoo sarah (3yo) with help from big sister. gee those dunes were tough on my legs (wife) the rest of family got back to car about ten minutes before me took keyring torch and left Med Crew TB

Nice spot. Loved the rocks on the beach. Took some stunning photos. Easy find.
Thanks for the cache.
Cheers

Great views along the coast and a nice walk.
Took Cpt. Cook and lef a keyring.

Not a good place to access in sandels, but made the find. Thanks for the excellent info on getting to the cache. Another interesting "deserted" area in the middle of the city. TNLNSL. TFTH.

These dunes are huge! And the sand so soft!

We trudged our way up and down and on to the beach - oh and what a beach!

Finding the spot to leave the beach was easy & finding the cache was very straightforward.

The kids had a bit of a splash before we returned to the car. TFTC.

Was a bit worried that the shifting sands had swallowed the cache, but soon found the coffee-bean. TNLN. Cheers!

1830. A not quite so easy find after a plod through the loose sand. with an easterly blowing all day the loose sand was piling up around the edge of the drift, but not quite enough to totally hide the coffee rock.
Was an interesting collection of animal tracks in the sand, including a number of different sized kangaroos, possably a bandicoot (or similar), a lizard or two and a snake.
TNLN T4TC the Chambos

i have driven the beach a few times but not come in through the national park before. nice walk over the sandhills and up the beach. found easily and signed

Nice workout walking thur the dunes.
The little Hylton's enjoyed sliding down the white dunes, it was great fun.
Took key holder left $3.

Fathers day 2006. A nice walk in the dunes to an interesting cache. Beautiful warm sunny day after a week of rain. Took Crazy Eights card game and kft Capt. Cook figurine.

Tftc

Another beautiful place along this coast, nice walk along the beach. Took whistle, left magnetic key holder.
TFTC SL
mitasol & family

Congratulations If on the first to find. For the benefit of future visitors, the best way to tackle this one is to head straight down to the beach and then let the GPS lead you the rest of the way. Checked out the log book and I think the muggle was my youngest daughter having a scribble before I put the notebook in the cache. Cheers...

This one took longer than expected
With only four ways into GZ I tried all of them. Having got to the right spot, I had to dig for the hidden treasure
Windblown sand covers everything
It would appear that a local muggle found this cache before me [:o] Hiya M.Y.

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