Damn Good View Jerrara, New South Wales, Australia
By Kiama Krew on 09-Jul-06. Waypoint GCX6JR

Am archiving our caches when I'm advised they require attention, as my kid's interest in geocaching has moved on. We had a ball while it lasted.

In need of a new container - and a new book - and a new location which is less strenuous to access.

Watch this space.

Phew puffin uphill but found it alright. Merry Christmas TFTC

Container lid badly cracked

With Wheatz having smoke... Tftc

Not sure if our gps on phone is way off (38m) or cache has been moved. Found because of the hint though! Tftc

TFTC! All uphill, we choose a poor day to come- 34 degrees! Silly us!

TFTC. Quick find whilst looking at the low dam levels.

the bear went over the mountain. dam what a view!!!! TFTC.

Tftc. Beautiful spot to arrive at. Mrs Jaybeem wasn’t too happy about the climb but agreed it was a great spot. Quick find today.

Found it. Dyl & Gem - 'The Flower Pot Men'

Wow

An amazing view out hear and as well a quiet peaceful places when I excuse the guy with the chainsaw

Thank you for guiding me hear!

T4t$ palivei
Regards from Germany
In fafo

Damn steep walk more like it, that got the old juices flowing.

I came back down today to find the new kayak caches, but found myself on the wrong side of the tide. So while waiting for the tide to turn, I decided to find done land caches first.

Well after that climb, i hope my sea legs work better. I felt a bit wobbly on the way down, even though it is a relatively cooler day.
Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for the cache

Worth the walk up the hill

easy to find but great view

easy to find but great view

easy to find but great view

easy to find but great view

easy to find but great view

Quite a hike

Tried this one a few years ago but thought better against pushing through the final 70m when confronted by tall, spiky grass and lantana surrounding GZ from all directions. My desire to rush back anytime soon was also clouded by memories of a stinking hot day and a steep hill. Looking at nearby grabs for the Mary Hyde Challenge, noticed the co-ords had since been updated and even though I still had memories of that hill, today’s weather was “t-shirt in winter” beautiful and ended up being an easier attempt. A lot of scrub clearing has also taken place as I actually got a good view of the dam along the way this time. Swapped TB in and out.

Found it

Was down this way and had some time to spare.

Easy walk up to GZ - bit of a puff. Red-bellied black snake got a spook on my walk back down.

TFTC

Took a little longer than it should! Celebrated being ftf in its new home by taking an orange plastic grenade BOOM

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 40.481 E 150° 48.441

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 40.456 E 150° 48.444

Distance from original: 152.8 feet or 46.6 meters.

Justifiable complaints about difficult overgrowth (and sharp thorns)

Cache relocated to more accessible position.

Based on the thorny feedback recently we've disabled this one. It's obviously too overgrown now, so we'll find yet another GZ for our very first geocache - somewhere less challenging for the geo-kiddies.

We have travelled down from Sydney to Kiama for the April school holidays, camping for a week at Kendells on the Beach Holiday Park in our Jayco Swan Outback camper trailer. Today we headed up to Saddleback Mountain for a solved multi-cache and a couple of Traditionals, then it was on to the Minnamurra Rainforest for an EarthCache and a Traditional. And the return journey had us stopping at Jerrara Dam for a couple of Traditionals. This was the 7th of 8 finds for the day, and the 32nd find for the holiday.

After visiting the Minnamurra Rainforest, and finding both the Traditional and the Earthcache that's located there, we were now on our way back to camp. Diverted slightly off our route to visit the Jerrara Dam and have a look for the two caches located there.

After finding "Kiama suburbs - Jerrara" we continued along the road and parked at the reserve's entrance gate. Despite the sign on the gate, and info in the cache description, the gate was already closed and it was well before 4 pm.

So we parked and walked along the road and then up the track to GZ. A bit steep towards the end, but we finally made it to GZ, and that's where the fun, err pain, began. Looked around the perimeter of most obvious natural structure but couldn't find an obvious way into it. Looked like this was going to be a solo mission by geodad, err me.

So a bush bash it was, and I've got the scars to show for it. That lantana is quite savage, then there's the stinging nettle. But if all that's not enough the natural structure has it's own defences, in the form of big sharp black thorns that threaten to rip gashes in your limbs. Anyway I survived the worst of it and eventually (it took a lot longer than it should have) I spotted the hide and had CIH. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. The things we do for a smiley! TFTC Kiama Krew, I think.

Find #1682

We got within 17m but it was to over grown and looked like a great home for snakes...
So, we let this one go for another day...

Wasn't sure how to approach this one because I hadn't read the instructions. Went to the right place first time then left drove around for 20 minutes then came back and followed my instinct.
Finally at GZ it hasn't been found for a while so there has been some growth.
Clue for the next finder bring a machete or tomahawk to trim the very thorny coral tree shoots that are all over the hidey hole. You get torn to threads trying to access cache container.
Spilt some claret but got there in the end.

TFTC
Ironbark.

Nice little cache. Thankyou for bringing us here. Found with nissan 65 and shrimp 92.Thankyou for the cache

Nice view with lots of muggles around stealth ysed to get this one with cullum 68 and shrimp 92 thanks for the cache

We decided to park outside and walk. It is a decent walk. Pretty walk though. Nice hide. TFTC.

I had to laugh at myself after this one.
It had been raining this morning,when i arrived the outer gate was closed so i walked in and found my way up and now GZ is down 90m through long grass.I walked through wet knee height grass in trackies and sneakers to search and i couldnt find anything,now wet and confussed,i read the logs to realised i have loaded the old coords and the new GZ is now 90m back up!!!.by the time i reached the real GZ and the cache im now soaked through now to find i didnt need to do that....DOH!!!
I had to chuckly at my mistake.
This is a cache adventure i wont forget.
TFTC

Cool thank you!
Very happy to get this one, hasn't been found since last year and were after some lost caches.
Thongs and stinging nettles however do not mix!!

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 40.479 E 150° 48.503

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 40.481 E 150° 48.441

Distance from original: 310.2 feet or 94.5 meters.
New GZ Co-ords. Relocated 03 April 2016.

Curious to see what's happened to our geocache, I went walking today and being unsure of exactly where I hid it, I went to within 8 metres of the co-ords and found it straight away (under the only huge rectangular block of rock laying oddly perfectly horizontal on top of the rock wall. However, when I hid it there ages ago access to the rock wall was easy - just walk across the low field of kikuyu grass. But now it's a jungle of tall grass trying to trip you with every step and lots of bracken trying to impede your progress - which is not very geo-kiddie friendly - so I relocated it to a more accessible location. Stay tuned for the co-ords. Kiama Krew.

Way to bushy. Had a look were within 90m but met the end of a fence on either side. Not found since July 2015?

Didn't find.. Got within about 90m but too overgrown to bush bash through with the kids! Great spot to discover however! Cheers b, j and k

This small park is just magic. Loved the climb and the find. TFTC

This was fun to find, even if we started to bush bash. Read the description it will save you a lot of time. TFTC

Couldn't get to the location of the cache due to the long grass in the way. Too snakey in this weather!

On my way home from Gerringpn. Great quiet location. Thanks.

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 40.404 E 150° 48.522

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 40.479 E 150° 48.503

Distance from original: 465.8 feet or 142 meters.
New co-ords 26.10.14 (approx 160 m from original GZ site)

Original GZ was muggled as the bushes that once hid it are now gone and visitors to the picnic table nearby had a clear view of the cache. So I moved it to a safer site - some 150 m away and off the walking track.

The cache has gone and the vegetation is much less now than when we hid it - and so much easier for muggles to see from the nearby picnic area. Will find a better spot soon. Standby.

Some nasty bastard has taken the cache and replaced it with a dirty baby's nappy. [:(!]
Spent a good 40 minutes hunting for it. Left dirty nappy in situ.
Glad Kiama no longer has to rely on Jerara dam for its water supply, it is mostly a muddy quagmire.
Lots of birds about, lovely place for a picnic.

Thanks for the cache, would be a nice place to come for a picnic with the family.

Found it!! With Maree_ree lots of goodies in there

Wow nice walk, very fun and relaxing thanks for the cache

Tricky hide, no stump or sticks in gz, found under a rock though!

Found with baaner and his muggle sister introducing her to caching on way back from Kiama nice location for a cache:-)

Dropped off the Landsharkz coin that belongs to Cyberchasers. Done the cach with b-mezz

First one I found! Great view

Awesome spot lots of cool birds did it with the family

Had me stumped for a bit

Found this to be a very quiet spot for a long weekend.
Without the dam operating i hope this spot doesnt become worthless.
Good find in a great place.
Took nothing left nothing.
Cache seemed to be in great condition.

Such a beautiful spot

Found with paulyman, beautiful spot for a cache. Took the TB. TFTC.

Snorris and I had the place to ourselves today, what a beautiful location. Great spot for a cache.

Such an awesome location! Thanks!!!

Tftc! Made swaps

A Nice walk

TFTC interesting park.

It was pretty easy to find once we read the hint

First visit to Jerrara. Coordinates were spot on and the description led us stright to the cache. Thanks

Was to easy to find cache was easily visible from the track. Signed log, left unused gift card for $20 and took bouncy ball . Hid in same location but with more camouflage.
TFTC

TFTC,
I love when there is a 200m walk from the car, a cache won't get hit for a couple of months

Returned to car at 3:46pm an council was there waiting to lock the gate.

This was a nice location and a quick find by Geowife on our caching trip to Kiama. TNLN, TFTC

Great spot TFTC

very nice spot for a stop over, bit of a shame about the Dam being decommissioned, most of the water all gone now, but the creek and picnic areas are still lovely. Found the cache, took a small button pin and left $1 in return payment LOL and signed LB.

Please do not search for the cache in the rock walls, someone did and we had to replace the hole they left!!!!! Cache is reasonably easy to find with NO rock extraction needed.

TFTC

the Mozzies

A nice quick find on this one. Pulled up at the carpark and the place was packed. Oh how I love sunny days. Got out of the car and walked to the gz where I made a quick find. The dam looked half empty? TFTC

This was the second attempt at this one. Last try we had a late lunch and by the time we finished it was raining so we had to leave. This time one cloud came over as we parked and sure enough it tried, but soon stopped. A short walk and search and we had the cache. Terrific little spot we will go back again.
TFTC

Great area I shall return to search more of this park. TFTF

Nice area, and nice walk from the car park. The cache was soon found and the log signed.

Great view.
Good little cache

Found with geohubby (SESBLOCKER) while on a weekend in Kiama. Lovely, peaceful walk. Left Geo coin and took a coin.

Found with "The Neighbs". Great coords made for an easy find. Such a tranquil place. Glad to visit Jerrara Dam while there is in a "no alert" condition. The Neighbs swapped TB for another TB. TFTC Kiama Krew

I got muggled away from this one last time so it was nice to return with nobody around. Nice little walk, lovely spot and a quick grab. I like the camo too. Left a geocoin. TFTC!

Grabbed this one late in the day with Mr Rick, TFTC

Getting late in the day, so no one around. Nice walk but as it had been raining very heavy we were worried about getting over the creek on the way back,. We made it back. Took marbles Left Geo Badge. TFTC

Reviewing the logs, retracing the TB advertised, I believe it was placed here long ago but may have been moved since.
(TB Owner of Wombat advertised) http://coord.info/TB3VR4N

Great spot! Our first cache without out beloved dog Maisey but with our new puppy Poppy! Saw a red belly. Took the wombat trackable and left a walk-a-trout. TFTF

Now you will find more than 'one' wombat at this geocache, and this one loves to travel. Cache is in a great place beautiful walk

Nice walk, quick find

Kids had fun Exploring the Area Nice One Thanks

What a beautiful place, so many bird sounds, frogs etc. Gates were closed so an early morning walk is always good. Great place. TFTC t
TNSL.

A lovely location. Another tick for geocaching

A nice spot and a nice walk into the cache.
Great spot.
TFTC

Quick detour (not!) on the way to pick up the kiddies from school. So lovely and peaceful. That will all change in about 30 minutes though TNLN SL TFTC

Bit of a walk in, as the gates were locked.
Unfortunately the Silver Koala trackable was not in the cache...

Windy day - found fairly quickly. Cache is in good condition. BernieJ

Have been here a couple of times before, good to see the dam full.

Retrieved Czeck Geocoin & left Silver Koala TB

TFTC

Replaced log book. Wow, the place has changed since we placed the cache here in 2006. The views across the dam are little obscured because of the tree growth and the old stump we hid the cache in (ie what Sir Don protected best - his cricket stump) is no more, but parts of it remain, so look for them. Enjoy. Kiama Krew

Called by here while on the way up to the Illawarra Fly treetop walk and the walk to Minnamurra Falls. Took nothing but left a lucky Chinese Feng Shui Coin. Log Book is full - so signed where I found a spare spot - out of chronological date order. TFTC. 2BluFish

An easy find with the kids. Enjoyed a snack at the picnic table before heading off.

A nice quick find whilst on holiday at nearby Werri Beach.
Enjoyed the location
TFTC