During 2013 and 2014, seven Central Coast cachers (defined as those who live or have lived in Gosford City or Wyong Shire local government areas during their geocaching careers) found their 1,000th find, and become the second group of inductees into the Central Coast "Flying High" Club. Also joining the Club is a cacher who reached the 1,000 find milestone prior to making his home on the Central Coast.
A cache has been placed to mark their special achievement, but it is NOT at the posted co-ordinates, which is in the middle of an airstrip used by model aeroplane enthusiasts. To work out where it is, all you have to do is find out some information about each of the new Club member's 1,000th find. By the way, you are looking for the caches that each of the inductees has logged as their 1,000th find ... it may or may not be the one that the authorities have listed as the person's milestone cache
xPhenoms started geocaching in 2012 and a little over 12 months later, on 25 May 2013, scored their 1,000th find near Victor Harbour in South Australia. A = the number repeated in the GC code of their heavenly milestone cache.
SeaEegles (formerly seaeagles1997) got into caching in 2011 and made his 1,000th find on 29 December 2013. He is one of only two members of the Flying High Club who made their 1,000th find locally, his coming at a much favourited and now archived D3.5/T3 multicache. B = the sum of all digits in the GC code of that cache.
Shockers reached the 1,000 find milestone on 26 June 2014, just over 2 years after getting started in geocaching. Shockers' 1,000th find also came locally and they favourited it "because of its significance for us and for its beautiful location". C = the first or second digit in the GC code, doubled.
DOC-WHO, who got into geocaching in April 2012, scored his 1,000th find one day after Shockers, on 27 June 2014 while up in the Port Stephens area. D = the first number in the GC code of his milestone find.
Elev8!on [mrnoo17] reached the 1,000 mark on 10 Aug 2014, after geocaching for a little over 3 years. In typical noo fashion, he celebrated this milestone by descending a 500 ft T5 cliff at Dover Heights without ropes ... but he admits it took him out of his comfort zone. F = the only digit in the cache's GC code.
Robak65 had been caching for over 31/2 years when he made his 1,000th find on 7 Sep 2014 while holidaying in New Zealand. He claimed his milestone find at the first in a series of caches around, would you believe, a sewerage treatment plant at Mangere. G is the second digit in the GC code of that cache. For whatever reason, his stats on gc.com show, however, a different milestone cache ... G is the first digit in that GC code of that cache, plus 3.
MrDamage also made his milestone find about 31/2 years after getting into geocaching. To mark the occasion, he found the ACT 1000 Club in Canberra on 7 Dec 2014 ... the very cache that became the inspiration for establishing the Central Coast Flying High Club. H = the higher of the 2 digits in the cache's GC code.
mr_roo lived in Canberra for most of his geocaching career (which began in 2008) but is now living on the Central Coast. He reached the 1,000 milestone in Nov 2009 and marked the occasion by finding a cache in Cooma that bears his name. J = the single digit in that cache's GC code
So that's it ... the cache can be found at:
S 33° 22.AB(C-D) E 151° 20.(F-H)(G+J)B
Checksum: A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+J=40
To reach GZ, you can go the shorter (but much harder) way or you can look for a longer way that is quicker ... the DT rating is based on taking the easier route and is the one I suggest.
If you are lucky, you may be there when the boys are flying their planes ... it's fun to stay and watch for a while. However, please note that on a flying day, you need to stick to the edges of the reserve and not walk down or across the runway. This area is also a popular place for dog walkers.
This cache was inspired by sol de lune's ACT 1000 Club series in Canberra ... thanks for the idea.
Enjoy!
Congratulations to
Mr&MrsFish and jfindit
for being the First to Find this cache.
It seems fitting that two foundation members of the Central Coast Flying High Club
should be the first to log this tribute cache ... well done!