Deep Forest Leura, New South Wales, Australia
By bshwckr on 06-Nov-06. Waypoint GCZ8AV

Cache removed, with permission from the owner.

Cache is in NSW National Park. Will be removed.

[font=Comic Sans MS][orange]Kia Ora[/orange]

First business of the day: Go to the police-station a borrow a PLB for free. Second thing to do: Find a cache.
Ok for the little Walk along Federal Pass a PLB is a little bit of an overkill but what the hack - you'll never know and it doesn't cost a thing.

[green]Dankeschön & Cache On!
Martina & Philipp[/green] :bad:

P.S.: see more about us travelling apac at http://traces-in-the-sand.blogspot.com/

katomba in a cloud, wath else to do than finde a Geocache or 2... nice spot, left a old danish scoutbadge

This is a fantastic area and a very beautiful spot to stop for a while. I was with a group on a bush walk and decided to pick this up along the way. They're used to me by now, dashing off to find a cache and now and then I even get a few to come along and help me search. We started at Sublime Lookout and quite literally walked right off the end of the cliff. We scrambled down a little known climbers track called Copeland Pass. Steep and lots of loose vegetation underfoot but nothing too hard. This deposited us at the bottom of Sublime Point on the Lindeman Pass. From there we took a delightful walk via Leura Cascades and Linda Falls to our lunch spot at Leura forest. And look, they even had picnic tables waiting for us. This is a really special place underneath the many huge trees. But even though my GPS never lost sat. lock, reception here is woeful. The cliffs and trees causing havoc with accuracy. The GPS would not settle and couldn't make up its mind where GZ was. When we first got there, it had me scrambling up a slope almost to the cliff line before deciding I should be elsewhere. I gave up and decided now was a good time for lunch. After wards I tried again and was hopeful when the GPS decided a new place was GZ. Now we had been looking for a turpentine and even though we didn't know exactly what they looked like I knew they were very large. Then some one says, there's one and another one and another one......... oh boy..... this was not much help and the GPS was still not co operating. Finally, I was just about to abandon any chance of finding this when I thought I'd look in one last spot I hadn't looked at closely enough and where the GPS had once given me the closest reading yet. Oh what joy.... I shouted out to the others who had already given up.." I found it". They came rushing over to see the look of glee on my face. This was one very tricky hiding spot.Once the caching business was complete the cache was returned and we continued on our way. Upwards and onwards. We climbed the stairs up to the top of Leura Cascades where we then took the Amphitheater Track and then the Cliff top track, back to Gordon Falls and the cars. Next stop the Sourdough Bakery in Leura... mmmmmm... a fitting end to a great walk and a reward for finding a difficult cache.

We had our first walk in the Blue Mountains today and caught two caches!! We dropped our beloved Juliette in this cache. We hope she meets Romeo soon...

TFTC!

Found this coming in from Leura Cascades and heading round to the Scenic World Railway.

TNLNSL. TFTC.

A splendid walk down and up from the cache - great views and vegetation. TNLN TFTC and greetings from the UK

with the family in tow , in was an easy task to get them down there , its only 500m away. ( hee hee )
after a looking in a fewnooks and cranies , cache was in hand .
continued to the three sister, great spot , what else can i say

cheers

Our GPS pointed to a spot about 30 m away from the actual cache location. But with the help of the hint we eventually found the box. We had taken the Scenic Railway to get down and done the boardwalks there, where we learned what a turpentine looks like. TFTC
In: Wolf
Out: Kaleidoscope

coords absolutly spot on. Very easy find. look in the obvious places first. You may want to google the clue first.
There is a named example of the clue on one of the tracks in.

[Ohhh, nice walk, but hard to find the cache. Poor GPS coverage and we didn't know what a] turpentine [is, which made the search much harder! But, we truly enjoyed the walk! Took the Furber Steps up, 871 (give or take a few) steps, puh!]

/Blåmes and Eastindiaman, Sweden

This Day we decided to walk from the Leura Falls to the Giant Stairway. It was a nice walk (>3h.).
The GPS made a good job and we had the cache depiction in my PDA. We searched for a long time but we didn´t know what a turpentine was. Back at our B&B we asked our lokal hosts which also had no idea. [?]
Maybe you can specify the Hint.

G´Day Nina74 + Kird, Germany

A DNF was a great excuse to do this walk again. Parked at Scenic World at 4.40pm and walked via the streets to the top of Fern Bower.
Down to Leura Forest and the cache. Its still there! Checked co-ords with 2 GPS's. I could actually get GPS reception today. The posted co-ords are as accurate as possible given the flukey nature of GPS coverage in this area. Dont leave home without the hint though.
Took Federal Pass to Ferber Steps to check on "Point to Sisters), also still there. Katoomba Falls was magnificent after the rain.
Back at the car at 7.00pm.
This is a great time of day to do this walk at this time year. I had the place to myself.
I would recommend taking a bit more time if you have not done this walk before. The views are amazing and should not be rushed.

Spent the day walking in the Blue Mountains. The GPS reception was non existant in the "Deep Forest" but we were sure that we found GZ based on the clue. However, even though we searched long and hard, we could not locate the cache.

Parked at the Solitary Cafe and walked down via the Fern Bower. What a really beautiful walk. Didnt see a soul, even when we got to the Leura Forest. WobbleBoy got out the GPS "It's 54m this way, no, hang on, it's 3m THAT way, no wait, its 17m over there...." We put the GPS away and then realised that "someone "(ie not me!)had forgotten to print out the clue. "It said something about being 100 metres past a turpentine tree" said WobbleBoy. 100m? "Oh maybe it was 10 metres. Well there was definitely something about a turpentine tree..."

I decided to try the old fashioned way of using a topo map, a roma scale and "thinking like a geocacher". Found it within minutes! Took a NASA pics CD and left a mini kaleidoscope (look at the trees through it - very entertaining).

Headed along the Federal Pass to avoid the tourists on the Dardanelles Track. We had planned on going up the Furber Steps because the NPWS website stated the Giant Staircase was closed but it turned out to be open so we backtracked along Dardanelles and then slogged up the Staircase and had a pleasant walk back along the Prince Henry Cliff walk.

Although there were heaps of people on the Giant Staircase and the Dardanelles Track, we saw only a couple of people on the rest of the walk so its mostly very peaceful and really worth doing.

Thanks Bushwckr for a really great afternoon.

Jakkles

Checked on cache. Picked up a couple of bugs to move along.

This was my second time in searching for this cache. The first time I had the old co-ord's which had me about 60mts from the new ones. Even then it was quite difficult to get a steady reading, very flaky but after climbing up a big rock I got a better read and after a search in the bush virtually stumbled upon the clever hiding place. It is a great area to walk through and after signing the log I headed off to the furber steps to enjoy the bellbirds and the flora. Thanks bushwackwer for the adventure.
TNLNSL

A long walk down a big flight of stairs. TFTC
Left bug

After spending most of the day abseiling down waterfalls and wading through crystal clear water we made a detour on the way home to have a look for the cache. We thought the crowds might have thinned out but there was an endless line of people still enjoying the great location. Some of the girls doing the walk certainly have an interesting idea of bushwalking clothes and footwear. Approaching GZ there was a bit of a commotion in German as I got closer there was a bunch of people standing on a picnic table. First thought was they must have seen a snake and when they spotted me one guy in pretty good English pointed to the ground and was saying “spider, poisonous spiderâ€. I tried very hard to keep a straight face and as they where very close to GZ I thought I would do my bit for international relations and went over to see what’s got them so excited. The guy who could speak English showed me a guidebook in German (lot of good that was) but he pointed to a photo of a Funnel Web and said there was one walking on the ground where I was standing. I pointed out the name in the book was the Sydney Funnel Web spider and unless one was up here on holidays you did not see one. Once that was sorted out, they moved off and the cache was quickly in hand as the co-ordinates are pretty good if you let your thingy settle. While walking out we got stuck behind a couple of Japanese girls going up the stairs and once at the top they moved over to let us pass so I said thank you in Japanese which got them all excited and they started talking a thousand miles an hour thinking I could speak Japanese and I only know about ten words. So I kept saying yes, then goodbye and left them to the journey through the bush. Really nice walk and well worth bringing your camera and a tripod. Think that’s everything.

Dragged ourselves away from the cricket to have another go at this'n. No worries this time - the revised co-ordinates seemed to help. Biggest help though was that we were early enough for there to be no muggles.
This is a good cache to test out the sensitivity of your GPS plus your techniques for locating a cache in an area of poor coverage. We enjoyed it. In addition it is an excellent little rainforest walk. The rain from the previous day meant the small waterfalls were flowing quite nicely. Walking along a dappled green path between the tall trees you hear the rush of water and then amongst the gloomy greens and browns you see the white gash of a tumbling fall - very nice.
We again took the short way in and out - needed to be back in time for the start of Day 4 of the 3rd Ashes Test. We counted 1239 steps - only counting steps that were uphill. We took the cross stitch kit & Paul the German koala travel bug - leaving a photo frame & needles.Thanks for the cache & challenge bshwckr.

Checked if still there. It is and still untouched. Managed to squeeze a bit more into the container but now it is totally full.
GPS coverage was a bit fluky so I averaged to around 200 readings. Updated the co-ordinates with about a 10 meter change, maybe more.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 33° 43.581 E 150° 19.196
Distance From Old: 109 feet
200 point average has suggested I may have been 10 meters out to begin with.

Had a go at this today. Alas the satellite coverage was atrocious, the muggles in plague proportions and the clue too cryptic for us'ns. Walk was nice albeit rather hot - Fern Bower was pleasant. We took the short way in & out - good exercise back up the steps. Will wait for another day for this one - and maybe a find log.

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Started with two bugs