Wet Wet Wetlands Paxton, New South Wales, Australia
By bshwckr on 02-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZMMX

Found cache in the grass. No longer magnetic it seems. Log dry but could do with replacing as it is quite full but we found a bit of space to sign. Placed it where we thought it would have been if it was still magnetic but it may fall. thanks bshwckr

No magnet, log needs replacing.

Had a good run. I will archive to open the area up for a new cache.

Had a look on our way back from Yellow Rock, but could not find it. Upon getting home and reading the recent logs, it seems there is something wrong with the cache.

Found after an extensive search of the area. It was broken so have put it back. Love the view

Quick find with the geokids in our attempts to maintain a streak. Day 33 of a planned 100 - although a mate tried to talk me into 150 yesterday so we'll see how we go. TNLN TFTC log a bit damp

Wonderful view, cache still unable to be located in its correct hiding place. New magnet needed.

Found in the grass at the bottom of something magnetic, returned to the same spot TFTC

Tftc, great spot I wish I could get access to fish the lagoon haha. Sorry the magnet fell off the cache so it is sitting in its hiding spot without it now... sorry!

Tftc

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Hit a Skippy around the corner :'(

Gorgeous views!!!

TFTC!!! Easy find. Lovely spot. Didn't even know this was here =)

We were having a leisurely trip down to Sydney to attend our church conference and visiting some relatives over a few days so we had some extra time to grab caches along the way.

We had stayed overnight at my sister & brother in laws who had bought a house in Cessnock and we were pleased to see a cache only 600 metres away ATCF.

We headed over, via the roads of course, shame we aren't crows!!!

We parked safely and headed to GZ.

Between muggle vehicles we grabbed the cache and headed off towards Sydney.

Thanks Bshwckr. TFTC SL

Great view. TFTC.

Beautiful Day today.. Jfindit take me drive to around to find caches.... Hide well.. thank

Headed North to The Hunter Valley early this morning to Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, Belbird and Paxton in company with ALL7 to do some exploring and hopefully find some caches. Great cache. TFTC

Grabbed this one while hunting landmarks for Picture Perfect. A pretty place. TFTC.

Grabbed this one on my way from Millfield at about 1 am. Co-ords where spot on and my first official bison tube!! Cool!! I noticed another one about 6km away on a hiking trail while I was there so I looking forward to coming back to do that one.

TFTC

Quick find!

Well played, nicely hidden, quick find.

Found it

found this one a couple of weeks ago but I didn't log it for some reason tftc

Beautiful day at Paxton! Great spot

Fine view. We had a pie at the Paxton Hotel a few days earlier, after walking down from Mt Bright lookout near where we were staying, but hadn't the energy to go on to here that day, as we were already facing 10km up hill to 'home'. Glad we came back by car today.

Fence is badly damaged. Log is full.

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nice quick find on my way thorough the area. driven through here hundreds of times in the past but this is the first time since caching. lovely wetlands TFTC

streak day 73 #946

What a pretty spot. Not a lot of traffic and a nice easy find. Geomum had the cache in hand in no time. Signed the log and returned the cache. TFTC bshwckr.

After spending the morning at the Maitland markets it was time to do some caching. We were organized today and even had a list of caches we were hoping to find. This was one of them and we enjoyed the hunt. We enjoyed the view.
Thanks to bshwckr.

A quick find on a drive through the valley picking up the few remaining caches left for me to grab on a beautiful day. The Cache is in good condition. TFTC bshwckr

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Easy find with Minyakano on our holiday

Found it with Trillian on a day out. Lovely view

The cache must be feeling 'oh so lonely' but what a lovely view. TFTC.

Lovely afternoon for a ride. Lake is looking veey full. Thanks for the hunt.

Found while out on a Mothers day drive nice quick find and sign bit of traffic about today but large enough gaps to return the cache Thanks bshwckr for the hide

Easy find while travelling north...
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Easy while on my way up to singleton

Found today , however there was no room on the log to sign. TFTC

We parked with morning tea from the local shop and then looked in the most likely locations, the third one showed it to us from a distance. The view is something else, but a camera won't do it justice. Thanks for bringing us here.

Having lived in Pelton for a short while a few years ago I thought I would bring the posse and check if the bacon and egg rolls at Ellalong shop were still top notch - they were! Quick feed and drive around the corner had us at GZ. Although we had viewed log photos at home previously only took a short time to locate cache despite it not being where pictured.

There were some great views from this spot. The cache was found instantly since it was in plain sight. I moved it to the other side where it should be easy to find, but harder to spot for muggles. Thanks

I grew up in Cessnock & don't think I have ever been out this way to enjoy this view. To Paxton's down the road yes, this spot, no.

Bikerbuddy found the cache out in plain view, so we replaced it at the back instead of at the front for a little bit of concealment.

Thanks bshwckr

Reperio at 0810.

Had the day off work today so decided to head off for a walk or two, and stopped by this one on the way to 'Barraba Trig'. Once at GZ, the cache was quickly found, and I enjoyed the view of the wetlands from this spot.

Gratias bshwckr.

This site was the end of our hike from Macleans Lookout. Lucky there was a cache at then end

Glad to find a cache to end our 30km hike through the Watagans. Always a highlight. TFTC. Nice views of the lagoon, it is For Sale too aparently.

Looks a lot cleaner now than it did years ago, nice views.TFTC.

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After spending the night camped up in thw watagans we headed down this side and came around to explore this little valley, picking up this cache on the way. what a beautiful little hidden gem this valley is. Whilst down the end of the road we came across a couple of runners that had left our campsite just before us and made it here in almost the same time as us, but they had to turn around and run back up.

Thanks.

Great spot, glad it didn't get developed, nice quick find. TFTC.

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Nice area would not normally stop here SL TFTC.

TFTC nice view

Nice quick one thanks

Once passed all the spider webs it was an easy find. TFTC Gotcha16

A quick find, with a nice view. TFTC!

We drove up to near this one and there was a couple of people sitting in a nearby car, but we were able to block their view of us while we conducted our search. We did quite a bit of searching in the spot that the hint suggested it would be, but in then end we spotted the cache in a toally different spot - not quite sue how the hint related to it at all! TNLNSL TFTC

Beautiful view from here. Quick find. TFTC

In the area for a 40th party. The walk here in the crisp morning helped the after effects from the night before!!
And there are monster carp in the pond below.
TNLNSL TFTC

I think this was our final one for the day, but will have to check..Watching Miss Tamykian trying to reach the cache was quite funny as the arms were just long enough.. Streeeeeeeeeeatch ah there you go I got it ok give it to me for signing. Now you got it you have to put it back haha

cheers

Tamykian

Replaced the log sheet and the container. New container should be a bit more waterproof. Still a mico and you still need to bring your own pen.

Better get down there and replace the log sheet - it is in a pretty bad state!

Found at 4.45pm GAFF1. What a vista we experienced as we drove over the crest! The light of the setting sun illuminated the whole valley below - just magnificent - we weren't expecting that and a great way to finish off the day's caching.
The container certainly isn't a small micro as described, which put us off for a moment and some one before us placed it upside down so the log sheet is now totally saturated. Some cachers just aren't that clever!
Thanks bshwckr.

2:37pm
Another easy find and yes, the view is a bit of a surprise!! Plenty of water down there at the moment.

Cheers

Thanks for bringing us to this locale on our le grande tour de Hunter.
TNLNSL
TFTC found with teach cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Found on a day out with the Cash Man & Wobblys.A quick drive-by cache with amazing views of the wetlands.I certainly wasn't expecting anything like this out here so it was a pleasant surprise.Thanx for bringing us here Bshwckr

Found on a day out caching with The Don and The Cashman familys.

Great views of wetlands from GZ.

TFTC

Thanks Bushwacker

Found this one caching with The Wobblys and The-Don.

This is an amazing place and an amazing view.

Although I have lived in the Hunter all my life I never Knew this place existed.

Thanks for showing it to us Bushwacker.

Rated: for Overall Experience

trackable dip

8:20 - Number 9 of 51 found today on a ruffasgutts4x4 Hunter Discovery Tour. Nice quick find not in the first place we looked by soon where SIGNing the log and congratulating Wilko on his 1,000th Cache.
TFTC SL

Whoa what a great spot we really liked this one, it would be a good spot to come to under less frantic circumstances (Big Caching Day Out) and just take in all the bird life.
Thanks for bringing us here

8:20 - Number 9 of 51 found today on a ruffasgutts4x4 Hunter Discovery Tour. This turned out to be a memorable event for me, my 1,000th Cache. After handshakes all round and checking out the birds it was back in the Disco for some more Caches.

TFTCSL

~ Ruffasgutts4x4 Hunter Discovery Tour ~
Caching Party comprised Geomatica, Deputy Dog, Ruffasgutts 4x4, Ruffasgutts 4x4 Jnr and The Wandering Wilkos.

Time found: 08:20
Cache tally: 9 of 52 for the day.

Thanks for bringing us here.

TFTC,
Finally got round to having another go at this one, and I know I definately checked this position out before. It must have been muggled the last time I came.

It's quite hard to get without being seen as it seems to be a very busy junction.

Found on the long way home from the Watagans event...camped on the foreshore down the other end near a greyhound run...nicely re-vegetated area

What a great view from GZ of this one. Took me a couple of minutes locate the well hidden cache.

Visited Ra's Gecko

SL TFTC

Quick find how ever looks like somebody has taken the fence out recently so may have to keep an eye on when they repair it.

Cheers

Ben & Mel

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 32° 54.446 E 151° 17.095
Distance From Old: 10.4 feet
If the Routers cannot find a micro it is usually because it is not there. The erection that this one was on has now altered and it looks like to cache has been lost in the long grass. Have replaced it very nearby on what is hopefully a more permanent location.

Could not find this one today

What a excellent micro, had me looking all around until my young fella said "DAD I'VE FOUND IT". Thanks bshwckr for a great cache.

Stopped and enjoyed the views. Had a hunt round, but no luck this visit. I will have to try it again next time.

Found this one as the last cache for the day, I got some good photos of the views while Shell signed the log.

Thanks bshwckr for the cache.

TNLNSL

What a beautiful location, i must have walked passed the cache 8 times or more but i got it in the end.

What a beautiful location, i must have walked passed the cache 8 times or more but i got it in the end.

what a micro
very small indeed

took a bit of looking

but finding it was a great reward


see the photos

Well found it. Took a little while and when you say micro you mean micro LOL.
Took some great pic but will respect your wishes and not upload (Pitty). LOL

Thanks for the cache and hope more people come to this beautiful spot.

We had some time to explore the back roads and in the ten years I have been coming to this area I had never traveled the 3km from our holiday area to see this spot. It is really a great area to sit and take in the beauty. I was ready for the small size of the cache and had it quite quickly. I really wanted to post a pic I took yet will let the cache speak for itself and each finder will get their own sense of satisfaction. TFTC

What an amazing view. In over 20 years of travelling between Wollombi & Cessnock we had never turned off the road in Millfield. Glad you led us here. Like the Bower Birds Mrs Riptide found this one.

I cant remember when i found this one, but it was in January some time.
an awsome view I will have to come back some time with the camera.
TFTC

My geowife found this tiny one and said it was a great hide
TFLH the bower birds

Great view of the swamp, been here a few times as a kid, thanks for bringing us back
keener

OK, I'll take First-to-Find honours for this one. This was the start of an interesting trip home from Maitland to Singleton via Paxton, Cooranbong and Dora Creek (find that route on a map!).

For interest's sake I discovered that the road leading South (Congewai Road) from the cache site is not *technically* a No Through Road as stated on the sign nearby. It joins up (in a round-a-bout sort of way) with Rope Road in the Watagans.

Anyway, I digress, enjoyed the hunt and added this to the list of the equal-smallest cache containers I have ever found. Beautiful views, thanks for bringing me there. Left my mark. TFTH!

Rated: for Overall Experience

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