The Lilly Pond Kotara East, New South Wales, Australia
By Eynowd on 12-Oct-06. Waypoint GCYTVN

There has been a bushfire thru here and the cache now does not exist.

Awaiting confirmation of cache destruction.

Given the cache appears to have been destroyed in a fire and I won't be able to make it to Newcastle soon to replace it, I'm archiving this listing. It's a pity, because I love this spot.

This should be called the Hilly pond not Lilly pond...lol..Plenty of spiders greeting us on the way up, even had one running all over me when I was driving to the next cache which did become quite exciting let me tell you. Those little hitchhikers get out...Nice size cache and plenty of room for swaps took nothing but did leave some toys n stuff for future cachers..

Signed log now back to the car

Great spot

Tamykian

Found it after doing cross country in Blackbutt. Took Route 66 TB. TFTC

Spent some time searching. Wrongly assumed it would be close to Lilly Pond. Finally accepted GPS directions and fond cache - easy?? Great hide and many thanks. Left carabiner. Other Geacaches had just beaten us. TFTC.

I was on my way back to Sydney and thought I would drop a Travel bug at this cache.

I had hoped the rain might hold up until I was back in the car but no such luck.

It started pouring down as i got to GZ and to make it worse I was absolutely ravaged by mosquitos at GZ.

My GPS went completely silly and was showing me that each step I took was hundreds of meters apart, I just couldnt get to GZ because one moment I was close to GZ and the next I was all the way in New Lambton, or Kotara. Had full GPS signal and accuracy to within 5 meters so It must have just been a glitch with the GPS.

Anyway jogged back to the car in the rain feeling very itchy and disappointed. I'll try again next time Im in newie.

Found ages back now... logging..

What a beautiful and tranquil spot to sit and regain the strength after walking in from the wrong direction. GPSR signal was all over the place under the trees but eventually it was mine. TFTC TNLNSL

Went the most arse backwards way as usual but got there in the end! It wad a really beautiful place. Thanks

1 of several found in walk around park.

What a hike seen as we entered the wrong gateway...beautiful place however
loved the cache tin...left the travel bug OK Route 66

TFTC... beautiful walk. will go back one day for a picnic.
inrainbows x

Found this one after a great picnic Soon after replacing the cache, a gum tree decided to drop a limb behind us, making this my scariest find yet! Thanks!

A nice easy walk and a nice easy find too!

TFTC. Left Micro Daisy 2009 GC.

GC Drop - Micro Daisy 2009

Number 2

Good location . Took spining top , left water pistol

[:}] Nice walk, great spot.
Took Cancer Bear, left Monopoly Dog to guard the cache.
TFTC

Love the place, was there for a BBQ the night before I decided to go looking for caches....

Nice hide TNLN

Great Spot. Thanks.

Great day for caching. Up here from Melbourne staying with friends and then working our way up to Frazer Island. This spot is near our friends and we are now telling them what they have been missing out on with the lovely walks there is here. Lovely picnic spot here and no one here as you need to walk to it. Plenty of muggles all about the car park. Enjoy our journey to this spot, its even getting my partner walking. Nice easy find once the gps settled down. Thanks very much for bringing us here. NTLN

This cache is in a nice secluded picnic spot.No muggles about.Great hide.TNLN TFTC

Mozzies!!!!!!!
Another nice spot for a cache, and a picnic.
A great cache for the geo-kids, and a nice sized container for lots of swaps.
Took TB Blue Jeep.
Left yellow Smiley ball.
TFTC SL

I did this one some time ago, but I had the "Blue Jeep 4x4 #0001" which I intended to leave at Stocko Sands when I was there last week but it was too small to leave it.
The boy hadn't done the lily pond so I went with him while he did it and left the jeep.

good area for geocaching

This one is definitely off-trail, but I found it without any difficulty. I'm here on a trip from San Francisco.

Awesome one for little treasure hunters

A bit of a walk downhill, only to find muggles near the pond. Luckily they moved off and I made my way up to the cache. Nice spot. Cheers Gav [4005]

Nice cache. Lots of evidence of fire

What a great little walk. TFTC

nice little walk.thanx

How much fun was that! The kids loved it. A real treasure chest!

Found after a nice walk through the bush. TNLN. Mix

Easy find at the end. Bush bashing saw us find the cache.Lots of goodies, but TNLN. Great spot, didn't know it existed.

Came in from the parking area and a short walk to the cache site. Signed the log and on my way. It sure is a peaceful spot.

From Coala Creche to Lilly pond walking, is all up and down.
Reaching Lilly pond , the actual cache was hard to reach.

Out: Squirrel
In: Set of candles

TFTC

1st ever cache nice area great fun

Nice walk and bit of bush bash at end. TN, L soft toys.

Found it No. 1402 ... left TB and TN

ibar29 dropped off the Pool Ball 9

Nice area in Blackbutt thad is under utilised. Thanks for taking me there. TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found at around 8am. Nice walk from the nearby Bowerbird cache.

Took "Geotalk" Geocoin, left badge.

TFTC

BZZZZZZZ Quick bzzzzzzzzzz keep bzzzz looking bzzzz Ah bzzzzz found bzzzz it bzzzz. Lets bzzzz get bzzzzz out bzzzz of bzzzzz here bzzzz.

Will have to carry the aerogaurd next time

P

Picked up Geocoin Rock

way to many mozzies but found it good spot, tn left geotalk gc
TFTC

What a beautiful little pond and picnic place this is - loved the lillies too. Plenty of spider's webs to have us "dancing" but quite an easy find. Left a Ping Pong Ball took nothing TFTC

The walk was just what the perfect morning weather ordered. A few spiders were doing their thing but that never stopped a cacher.
Clear skies and TFTC from TeamAstro. [^]

Found it on the second visit. Must teach the wife how to read a GPS. Good hiding spot and the first decent booty. Now we gotta read up on what to do with these dog tag thingys. Thanks guys

Cache Scouts c.s. Go Go Go

Found this cache after a short search, good location, lots of spider webs.
Have never been to this area of Blackbutt before. Thanks
Took george washington travel bug, left curious mouse travel bug

After leaving wyong i decided I must try to complete one of this person's caches. I have completed one of his down in Canberra and tho this must be a must! I got to gz and found the cache quickly that I was so pleased in getting Took geocoin TFTC

Logging an old find - previously logged as Shmeegn

Nice Cache had a nice relaxing walk to this one after collecting Koala cache.

Left George Returns Home Travel Bug

TFTC

Found this cache after searching out the Koala Creche Cache. Took 'Speedy Blue Butterfly' Travel Bug, Left USA 2005 Geocoin #2. signed log.

Did this one as a family find, really enjoyed the walk to the cache took lots of great photos on the way!

Mozzies everywhere, but after reading other's internet based logs, I came prepared!
Came in using Freighburg street entrance and hiked in.
Took Red Jeep TB as well as Unite for Diabetes TB and left a 'bonka' marble and a Snoopy figurine.

TFTC

PS
Took tyre away from area (my bit of CITO)

[This entry was edited by Ikki G on Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 4:37:52 AM.]

I used to visit Blackbutt Reserve as a kid for family picnics and a couple of school excursions. Nice easy find whilst visiting family on holidays

Found at 7:50am, Very quiet morning in Blackbutt. Batteries decided to go flat 50m from GC, turn GPS back on and had just enough life to get me there.
Thanks Eynowd for the cache.

Dropped off "Middle Tyger River" Red Jeep TB

Picked up "Marys River" Red Jeep TB
2003 TB
Too Slow Robo TB
Viva Las Vegas II

Found 14:20. Last week Tom Tom died 100mts from location after walking the 2klms from Koala enclosure. This time parked 300mts from GZ. Found quickly. Dropped off & picked up TB's.

Lovely spot - dropped a mothaload of Travel Bugs.

Found it! I walked direct, through the bush, following the arrow to find this one and followed the path back to the car. I prefered the bush. The cache was easy to find and in good condition. Took DVD and left a carabeena with in-built torch. Cheers TFTC
suzukifreak_1

Well that one i could call a square container..

using this cache for rowing on geosports, not really sure if you could fit a boat into that pond though..

TNLN.

Xx

I was Chauffeuring Pruedence xx around as she did some last minute geosportz and this was the only one that I haven't already found, nice sized container.

The pond doesn't look to be at it's best at the moment but should improve over spring.

TNLNSL TFTC

Second cache found in Blackbutt Reserve today, this time my wife found it - her first find. A bit further away from the pond than expected but at least it is well away from any muggles.
TNLNSL, T4TC.

After two days in Newie for a work trip, I had been eyeing this one off but of course this afternoon there is torrential rain but I couldn't leave without finding it. It was surprisingly a nice walk even in the rain. The rain was falling on the pond and it was very relaxing! A quick wander up the hill and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks Eynowd for the cache in a nice spot.

TNLNSL

We have done a cache here before so knew the area and after parking the car we made our way up to the cache. Found easily as it was clearly visible from the path and it was so visible some people Koala spotting found it the day before and wrote a nice entry in the logbook. Once the caching duties where completed made the cache a little less visible.

0016

As usual I had to go the ruffasgutts4x4 way to get to the cache as the road was closed the way I came in from. Thankfully I found some kids bike tracks through the bush that helped me on my way, Easy find no swaps today Thanks for bringing me here, real nice pond!

First find with new GPS,was easy to find or else I was lucky.
TNLN

9 of 17
walked straight past it, was shown the right way to look by an 8 year old!
thanks for the cache
we took a b-line back to the car.

An easy find, the geo kiddie went straight to it. Certainly not near where we first looked for it so long ago.
TFTC

Found this one after walking around in circles for ten minutes.
Thanks

Gribblet No1 and I went for a nice stroll to grab this one. Well I strolled and she was on my shoulders. Nice easy find in a nice location. TFTC took marbles, Left hair clips

0484 re-logging due to name change

484 Nice little walk on pleasant winters day. The lilly pond would look gorgeous when they are in bloom. Thanks for bringing us to this spot Eynowd - it's nice to finally see some camo in Newcastle.

Found with JMCz (Texas) & Wagga Wagga (my brother from Las Vegas), I parked as close as I could to the old location and we had the walk from hell to the new location, TFTC!

We parked about as far away from the cache as we could and still be in the park! I had been here years ago on another trip to Australia and was pleased to return here. TFTC

Firts time finding a cache. Nice family afternoon walk.
Thank you.

Lovely area this morning. The mozzie have gone and the flowers were just coming out. Eventually the GPS settled down and the very obvious spot was revealed.

A part of Blackbutt I've never been to.
Thanks for the cache.
IBJO

What a nice location for a little jog. I found it no problems. The hints helped. I picked up the TBs and will place them in Nelsons Bay. Heaps of Tourists coming through to pick them up.

Our TB, Clancy the crocodile has been waiting here for someone to take him travelling. He won't bite you!
If you visit this cache, please move him to another cache.

Having never been to this ara before. I had fun trying to find where to park. With so many entry points to this reserve, the gps had me drving all over the place. The best place to park is the carpark off Mahogany dr. From here a short walk to GZ. My GPS had me 22metres from the hide, but I used the hint and had it in no time. Nice Container.

TNLNSL % TFTH

Coldzero308

TFTC. Took some mossies back with me. Hope they are not on the endangered species list.

once again wear lots of mozzie spray!! very nice area great spot to hide.. nice little quiet picnic area very nice walk.

A nice easy walk in however the mozzies were a killer. Was a little concerned about walking off the path due to snakes this time of year but took the risk and we were fine!! Located GZ and an easy find once there. Great cache container!!! TNLN, TFTC.

CRYSTAL PAULS

It was a pleasant but steamy stroll along the path to the lilly pond with the grandchildren.
A mother and her eight very new ducklings thrilled the children as they swam among the lilys and jumped on the leaves.
The children eagerly took some stickers and a compass.
We left the Clancy Crocodile TB and the 5K-CHIP TB and
took the World Youth Day 2008 TB.

Hutchtable kids took some newbies here on their first cache yesterday. Took nothing, dropped a penny and world youth day travel bug (sorry, had forgotten that we had this bug so it has been stationary or quite some time).

Nice spot that we never new about till now. Thanks for bringing us here except the mozzies were a little too frequent and friendly. GPS didn't want to play the game but got there in the end after checking out inside almost every base in the place.
Took - TB & Half Life Game.
Left - Polarity Game Gift & Tyre stickers
TFTC

found this in december
just back logging it

3rd for the day.

Approached this from the left hand path, which was obviously the wrong way to go. (more uphill walking).

The hiding spot was good, the mozzies were numerous, and the walk past the pond was nice.

a great spot i never knew existed.

Left the dangerous curves TB to start its adventure.

TFTC

Found this one with Roanish and as usual, I decided to take the wrong path. Ended up doing a bit of walking through the scrub to the cache.

TNLN.

Thanks for the cache, very nice picnic spot!

We're down in Newcatle for my Dad's 70th. This was my first find with my new GPS. Took the Geocoins. Thanks.

Took a while to find the car park, but once there we were on our way. The 1st of 3 for the day. Found this one at 13:15 after a short search with the hint making it easy. Great little container.
Took: Battery box (although we didn't know what it was at the time)and some money
Left: 2 Geocoins (one which needs to be activated i think) and a compass keyring.
TFTC

Pretty easy find this one and a nice walk to it's location the only problem was the large black snake that had decided to have a camp next to the cache.
I woke him and he made his way off but from then on every stick looked like a snake LOL.
Took nothing left Headin for the East coast Geocoin.
Thanks

Nice spot, thanks for taking us there...TNLN

Maybe it was the hurry I was in (last cache before picking up family from shopping) or just that I picked the wrong car park, but it seemed to be quite a long walk to me.

The final hiding place is spectacular - I've seen a few like that since arriving in Australia and every one makes me want to leave a cache.

Thanks!
Nick, from France.

Found it !
This one had us searching around for at least half an hour until sucess! Retreived small yo-yo and squeaky frog, replaced robot and a dice. Thanks for a great cache.

Nice short walk from the car park. The pond is very pleasant. Found the cache without too much trouble. Nice cammo job on the ex ammo tin.
Took nothing, left a scary PC game "Half Life"
TFTC