Tuross River Bridge #1 Bodalla, New South Wales, Australia
By The Mountain Goat on 10-Sep-06. Waypoint GCY983

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Disabling this one while the bridge is being sandblasted and re-painted, the whole area is fenced off preventing access to the cache (or at least where it used to be).

Arrived there and disappointment - couldn't go inside due to maintence... I should have read the comment - will save my trip anyway that life.... See pic. Thanks.

Agree with If's comment below. There is no access to the likely GZ at present as it is completely enclosed by barriers.

This little cache is still inside a construction zone and unless it's well hidden, is probably not going to be there when the work is complete [:o]
Could the owner please disable this one 'till work is complete

First of 3 TRB DNF's for today !!

Not for lack of trying, but just impossible given that it's all closed off due to it being repainted - might neet to be disabled till work is completed.

Found this one on our way home for the annual Clarke family holiday. We had plans to do a lot of caching and be leaving the area with a lot of smiley faces, alas it was not to be. A relaxing holiday with almost no caching, but since we were driving right over the top of this there was no way we could resist.

A few muggles fishing near the boat ramp otherwise it was fairly quiet, a nice stop whilst we signed the log and continued on.

TFTC

Found this one on a caching road trip around the South Coast. There were a number of muggles launching their boats, so we just had to pretend to be tourists while they got their boats off. Once the coast was clear Marco was able to act like a billy goat and retireve the cache. Quickly signed the log before any more muggle boaties came along. TNLNSL TFTC

#711

Sixth of 7 finds today with Mrs MPH.

Had to wait a minute in the car while a muggle couple finished with their camera's - but then while I was retrieving the cache, three large carloads of muggles arrived, totalling about 12 people who were a little too interested in what we were doing!!! Fortunately, I was able to sign the log and replace the cache with no harm done!

TFTC!

Tristan the Travel Turtle Tag (TTQWTC) has come for a flying visit back in time.

Our climbing goat found this one in his sherpa climbing boots
TNLN SL
TFTC
greynomads

We stopped for this cache on the long way to Sydney from our home to break up the drive and place a few more smileys on my tally.
Nice place to fish, there were a couple of people here doing just that, but they didn't pay us any attention as we went about hunting for this cache.
Someone nice had placed a mattress down to break the fall haha.
Thanks for the cache The Mountain Goat.

Found it first time on a saterday arvo with geo son.
Beware of the huntsman.

A quick find in the evening and failing light. Glad I had my trusty mini maglight on hand!
TNLNSL TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 1030. Our hearts sank as we approached GZ to see 3 cars already there. However, they all had empty boat trailers attached, and the cars were empty. The occupants must all have been out on the river, so we had a quick find. Hard to imagine the river in flood these days. Our thanks yet again to The Mountain Goat.

There was a local putting a boat in when I arrived, but he was soon gone. The mountain goat business was easy today as the place was all dry, would be fun with a bit of water.
Thanks, Robmc.

Quick easy find. Am thinking I might attempt all Tuross River bridges by boat. TFTC. Logged and Re hid.. SAC.

Hey Mountain Goat. log was pretty much full today. Didn't have a proper log to replace but Mr Duncan had some spare small note paper in car so ripped out some pages for a temp log sheet. Hope this helps. TFTC. SAC.

on a lazy trip back to canberra via bega

My 41st cache for the day, 42 for my caching partners, breaking our groups best for a day.

Time for a Mea Culpa: I found this cache in November '09 with TraineeDiplomat and Aboreham but neglected to log it online at the time.

While the details of the day are now mostly lost to memory, it was an great day with many excellent caches.

TNLN
TFTC

Again, apologies for the lateness of the log.

Found with TD and BB!

[This entry was edited by aboreham on Sunday, November 08, 2009 at 2:25:25 PM.]

Found at 1050. Drove past this one the other day with the caravan which makes it a bit awkward to go caching. Returned today without the van to see if we could find the 4 Tuross Bridges. One down three to go. Thanks The Mountain Goat.

Nice and eay find TFTC

easy find
no trolls here today just a few boat trailers
Cheers

Would have to agree with a previous cacher that this cache deserves a higher difficulty rateing for senior cachers.
Took Washing Machine
Left Sydney Harbour Bridge
TFTC

Well after a few DNF and driving over this bridge many times,
we thought we better stop and see if we could find it this time.
We found it pretty quicky today
Dont know how we missed it in the past.
Thanks Mountain Goat
SL

Found with Wahlenbergia. The advice about non-slip shoes was very useful. TNLN TFTC

This find proved challenging for Gloriosa and myself. Possibly a 4 star difficulty rating for senior cachers.

Found 18/06/09 14:30
A quick find, after doing the mountain goat thing followed by the troll dance
Made the trip north much more interesting.
TNLN TFTC
DON55 #209

found it on the way home from Weekend Wide Game at Potato point
nice cache

found with Paegleboy on the way home from Weekend Wide Game at Potato point. Easy scramble. no fishermuggles. Paegleboy spotted it first as my head was directly under it.

Tried to locate this one, the area was quiet allowing me plenty of time to explore, but alas it evaded me. The GPS was pointing to an area I wasn't prepared to scramble to, being solo today. Thanks

Easy find, just got to make sure you have good non slip shoes on as this could be slippery when retrieving the cache.

You would think that the spirit of adventure would inspire my daughter Budgie to scamper off and grab this one - but no I have to go. A quick scramble and the cache was in hand much to the bemusement of the fishermen who turned up at the worst time.

TFTC
CHEERS
MC KENNA

Easter Sunday: Lots of boats using the nearby ramp, so finding the cache without attracting attention was never going to be easy. A lucky guess had GeoBoy within a metre without the gps leaving the car. Quick log signing and away we went. Thanks Mountain Goat.

Found 1.30pm with Ywurry

Ha! Watching Ywurry be a 'troll like billy goat' GREAT.
TFTC

Raainjoy

1.30pm
Love these easy ones on a long road trip! TFTC!
Ywurry

Second find by Neocacher. Found along with International Geocacher Scouting friend. Easy find as it is in my stamping ground.

Found with TerryJax an easy find in a great area

almost broke my neck trying to get this one. I was wearing flip-flops, not a good choice. Luckily I had geo-hubby there to find it for me! SL.

Had a quick look around but there were a few muggles in the area so I thought I will try another day.

Nice little spot by the river and the clue is exactly what you have to do. TNLN SL TFTC

Piece of cake, TNLN
Pelusa

A bit slippery but easy find.
TFTC

Found on the way home from a nice coastal holiday.

Turned off the highway, and after a scary cattle grid we arrived in a very full car park. Luckily everyone had already set sail for the day so there was no one around. Found the cache after a minute or two, and while signing we got another scare as a parade of logging trucks crossed the bridge, Very loud indeed.

Thanks, Jezzza Xtreme.

great one!
and it was pretty easy aswell!

TFTC

mad clue good relevance to the cache had to bend my back to grab it

4th find of the day and still going strong. I hadn't been here in ages so it was good to check it out again, even better when theres a cache involved. Keep up the good work MTN Goat
4x4Kid

Parked very close to this one & sent the geokiddies off on the hunt. They enjoyed it (up, down, up, down, up, down...)!
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

Had a quick lunch break here after scaling the heights to find the cache. Cheers Gav [2896]

Found this one with Moneydork, Tofska , Rediguana and ADV during our Australian caching holiday.

Nice spot to stop for lunch, so we did.
TFTC

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: my new shoes have passed the slope test. T4TC, M@

Stopped for lunch at this spot - TFTC

How good was this.
Came with the boat and went fishing and when we got back thought to myself If I lived around here it would be a good spot for a cache.
So went to where I thought the obvious spot would be and well I am now logging the find. Checked the PC back at camp and here it is, so then went looking for more in the area.
To find a cache you must think like a cacher, now I am getting frightened at what I may become.

TFTC

Ironbark

GOOD SPOT, NICE PLACE, FUN DAY!! (TNLN) MOUNTAIN GOAT IS DA BOMB!!

First find in what we hoped would be a successful series. We were already calling each other Trolls.

1st for the day of 5

Toddy toddy toddy.
Roy Roy Roy
Toddy
Roy
Toddy
Roy
Toddy Toddy Toddy
Roy Roy Roy

(Going for GOLD! with more bad olypics references)

Nice old brigde fished under here as a kid. didn't catch much though.

Thanx Mtb G

Third of 4 for the day on our trip home. Last time I stopped here I was on the wrong side of the bridge and traffic made it too difficult to go back. Gotcha this time though.

Got there. Thought I know where it will be and did the climb. No luck. Hmmm, back down to read the hints and logs, then back up again. Why didn't I spot it the first time? Oh well - quickly signed. A nearby fishermuggle cleaning his catch was behind a tree and taking no notice of what I was doing. Thanks Moutain Goat.

Got to the cache location only to find that a tradesman was eating his lunch right next to the cache site. Absolutely no way to retrieve this cache without drawing undue attention to ourselves. Rats! Wandered around for a bit looking at the skeleton of a big old tree & finally the guy was on his way so that we could have the place to ourselves to search. Cache then found quickly, log signed & we were also on our way. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

0454 re-logging due to name change

454 My billy goat ignored the trolls and got the cache without any harm coming to him. Pretty spot. TFTC

Note - when clambering up something, think about getting down first.

TNLNSL, TFTC!

#523 at 0953

Yay! Got this one this time!

Dxixen and I attempted this one on New Year's Day 2007 and failed to find it (God only knows how...).

This time though, I found it relatively quickly. After signing the log, I slipped on the way back down and managed to rip a hole in the back pocket of my jeans!

Still, it was great to come up with the goods this time.

TNLNSL TFTC!

Found by Kiddo after much hilarity sliding down bank, we can not say it was easy as it took some hunting and scrambling, we thought like trolls. SL

WalW did the deed today and was the first to grab the cache, Gribbly, AB and mself were no to far behind. TFTC TNLN SL. Cheers AH

Found on the way home from BigMickB's Bucks weekend. A nice quick one. TNLN SL

An easy find on the way home from Narooma with Gribbly, AH and AB.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache,
best wishes
Wal

Found with GeoStrom. Lovely place, I love then unexpected gems.

Found with ConcreteGnome exciting climb.

This cache set the scene for what was to follow with the rest of the caches in the series, by that we mean the traffic traveling across the bridge just above your head certainly makes an un-nerving noise. It took us a little longer to locate the cache than we expected, but once we located it, it makes us wonder why we didn't just look there in the first place.
Thanks for the cache.

*Overall Experience: 4* http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

The last of 16 cache finds on our big four wheel driving adventure tour and after just doing Tuross River Bridges 4, 3 & 2 we got to this one expecting to find a rickety old wooden bridge and a Sistema container but The Mountain Goat has thrown in a twist for the end of our big day out, thanks for a great day of caches Mr Goatee, we'll keep an eye out for any of your others TNLNSL TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found without any problems even with the large number of holiday time muggles around. Eba has been known to launch a boat or two from here in the past.

Found it together with eles78 on our way to Melbourne. T4TC

Found this one on our holiday trip on the way to Melbourne.
The weather was fine and caching down under was great fun for us.
TNLNSL +

T4TC

Last of 7 finds, 1 x DNF, 1 x DNF as to close to a cliff for my liking and 1 x DNF as site area was awful, on a day trip from Canberra to Narooma and return.

Was a little worried about this one with no logs on it since 08/08/07. However, when I saw the area, a cache from my local area came to mind, and with quick run and climb, then a 'jump to left' the cache was safely in hand.
Signed the log, replaced the cache and baby stepped back to terra firma.

The noise from the cars was a little un-nerving as well....

TFTC.

Chees,

Found 10:10am. I'd been to look for this one late last year. This was in the days before I got my trusty PDA. I just put the cache details on the GPSr and off I went. I didn't realise it was a micro until I got back home. Now, armed with the PDA, I put the entire cache details and logs in a simple .txt file. If anyone's interested, get a program called "Documents To Go". It's great for viewing .txt files and even HTML. The best part, is that you can edit with it, which is handy when you want to dercpyt the hint. I just write it right there on the PDA underneath the decrypted code. And, once found, use the Cache Log program available right here on the geocaching website. It enters the time and date found automatically with just a few taps, plus you can leave notes along with what you took and left.
Thanks to the PDA, this was an easy find (except for the muggle boat users slowing things up).

Another CNL rather than DNF! Very wet grass prevented me from "getting up there". My shoes didn't have the grip to climb the stone work so will have another go in the future. If you drive down the dirt track to the west you will find some great fishing.

[This entry was edited by Tuena on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 8:39:42 PM.]

624. Missed this one and did Bumbo Lake first. Then headed back and misjudged distances so over the bridge again. Stooped and turned around and back over the bridge and past the same flagman for the third time. Then he watched us drive down another track.

Quick find after that in a nice area with a few boats to watch.

TFTC and the back and forth trip (my fault)

Rated: for Overall Experience

Quick find after climbing the wall. Mr Furter actually looked for this one a while ago and couldn't find it. Nearly kicked himself when he located the cache.
Thanks

Fortunately, this bridge was unaffected by the flood, so we went exploring, and quickly located the cache with first-timer friends making the find. Having crossed the bridge countless times, we had never before bothered to stop and check out the river from this angle. TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

A nice easy find to start the day. LN but took those tiny ballons that some people seem to think are swaps. Thanks for the cache.

Found @ 2:22pm on my way home from Narooma.

Nobody else around although there was a waterskier in action.

Felt a bit like a mountain goat getting to this one but didn't grab any bats by mistake.

Quite quiet except for the steady stream of traffic!

TFTC!

nice spot, great find, didn't take long to find TNLN

Found this one after a quick search. The local fishermen didn't take any notice of us climbing all over the bridge. Anyway I should be be back soon to do the other caches in this series. TFTC.

Who need a GPS when you get such good clues? Thanks Mountain Goat - we have a few more of yours in prospect.

Found the cache and found a bat asleep nearby. We first thought that it was the Micro till it made a noise when we grabbed it. Thanks Mountain Goat.

Nice spot for a break
Thanks Mountain Goat

Easy find but stay clear of that nest! TNLN.

I'm sure I was looking in the right area, but I couldn't
find it. I did scare the hell out of something and vice
versa, I think it was a large rat.

I'll get it next time. TFTH

10:45am
Cache easy to find, thanks. Btw when a truck goes over this bridge at 100kph and your acting like a troll, it gives you one hell of a scare.
TNSL left small spider.

Sorry Eynowd, you just didn't find it. Good news is... wasn't muggled. Safe trolling!

Well hidden as we missed seeing at first. It took a fresh pair of eyes to spot it.

Dvixen and I hunted for this one on New Year's Day. Despite looking in the area indicated by the clue, I couldn't find the cache. There were a few lolly wrappers and the like up there, so it's possible it's been muggled (or I simply couldn't find it).

Didn't even need the GPS for this one, easy find, great location, another top cache by the mountain goat! TNLNSL TFTC

TNLN TFTC Great spot had to wait for the tourist to leave before I played the troll Thanks Mountain Goat

GeoDad found it. YIPEE. GeoKids with all their enthusiasm and vigour scooted right past it. Lovely area. Wish we had a boat so we could go up river a bit and look around. TFTC

A little trickier that expected, but found it easily enough. Took puzzle coin. Thanks Mountain Goat.