Camo in the park Karana Downs, Queensland, Australia
By GIB69 on 21-May-09. Waypoint GC1RKPK

Found as The Houldsworth Clan

Apologies for late correspondance. The Brisbane City Council still hasn't restored the park and it's access road is blocked off. Am I able to de archive this one myself in the future when they reopen the park?

This entry was edited by GIB69 on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 at 02:51:59 UTC.

As there's been no cache to find or log to sign for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Hello fellow Geocachers, I do intend to replace this cache however, the park sustained major flood damage and all the landscaping surrounding this cache was washed away. The council is slowly restoring this park and should re-landscape the area where this cache was. At the moment the area is covered in washed up gravel from the river ane the area is quite exposed as all the small trees have gone as well. Hopefully not too much longer, hang in there

Sorry folks, the park is closed with a no entry sign and barricades. The council is doing a flood clean up in there at he moment. As soon as it's open again I'll get in there and look for where it was.

Thanks Loki, it's probably washed away I'll have a look this weekend but until then it's disabled. Thanks for the note.

Hi Gib69, Planning our Sunday outing and from nearmap it looks like this one may need to be disabled until you get a chance to get out there and check on it after the floods? Thanks

couldnt find it unfortunately gah ! but Im going to go back with precious pete and check again . after looking at the map again i can see where i may have gone wrong. Since i dont use a gps it can be hard sometimes... but so much more rewarding in the end ahahah

Had a late night attack on this one seeing as I couldn't see it during the day on two previous occassions. Got there just after midnight, and finally found it. I can't believe I missed it the other times.
Thanks for the challenge.
TNLNSL

It was well hidden. I like it when people put some creative thinking into their cache and how it's hidden. Good fun to find.

AAAAARRRGGHHHH. This one is doing my head in. Second time looking and empty handed after another 1/2 hr search. Even with clues from a friend who recently found it. I must be cache blind.

YES! Found it at last after 3rd attemptted.. I dont know why I miss the last time.
Love your clever cache.
Nice to meet you again at oz mega.
Cheers

WOW Excellent one, well done drop TB

My second attempt at this one, I don't know how I missed it the first time, a good hide, no swaps made, thanks

Spent about half an hour scratching around like a scrub turkey with no success.

This was the second attempt at this cache, and finally success. Good practice getting to know the ins and outs of a new GPSr as well. As per previous logs, well done GIB69 it is a great hide.
Left golf ball, took MADSTARS MINI MAL SURFBOARD.

TFTC Cheers

Replaced pen with pencil till I can get another short pen. Dropped in a couple of trackables while I was there. Happy Geocaching

Awesome Hide!! In Snake, Out Train TFTC

TNLN pen wasnt working to sign log )=

TFTC tho, great hiding spot, took us ages to find

Very sneaky cache indeed...awesome!

TFTC

What a fantastic piece of cache construction, very well done Thanks for the cache. TNLNSL.

Found with Manic wombat
Good park and nice spot by the river. Excellent cache design thanks for the effort. Couple of water ski boats on the river but the area was fairly quiet.

TFTC TNLN

Met up with the Berrymacs -1 . Both team Mortlow and Berrymacs down a member.
This cache was of an excellent standard and shows the effort some of you people go to.

Great cache!

Cool cache, kids had fun, Ferg is on a roll!!!

After about 30mins running around the area, finally found the area as described.
very sneaky

T: GC, assorted toys
L: assorted toys

TFTC

Found it as xplained. Ha ha
in: Coin. Out. Nuttin

Great Camo spot. In- love heart pin, out- bouncy ball. TFTC

Great find I found it with Bruiser_Oz

TNLN
TFTC
Mitchman_oz

TFTC TNLN

Great cache TFTC. Took the Space Gate geocoin and will move it toward Melbourne.


Cache found and logged using GeoScout http://www.navstation.co.uk/geoscout

Found this today, what a fantastic cache! TFTC T TB bear L 20cents and geocoin

Cache check, all good dropped in tb

grabbed Cito, good cache dad

Found it after searching for 15 minutes & nearly giving up. Had myself and the 2 kids and the dog all running around scratching at the ground until I managed to stumble upon the cache. Great hiding spot!

New Cacher, first find. The leaf litter made it challenging. The Kids loved it. TNLN. TFTC.

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Jinga2 at 1:25pm. What a great hide and in a great river park. In: TB Cito Geocoin Out: TB Thingy TFTC

No free rides alright, he makes me look just like the rest of you have to!!! After a short search I did find the 'Tupperware'. Sorry, I left the TB. TFTC

Spent a lot more time than I expected searching for this one. I think all the recent wind has deposited a lot of leaf litter. Finally found the "thing" in the hint after doing my scrub turkey impersonation for many metres around GZ. After signing the log, I put it all back carefully and covered it as I found it. Sorry, no free rides from Lat&Long .

Found today, this was our second attempt, had tried to find it some time ago with no luck, even today I had to read the clue several times, I knew it had to be there but couldn't see it. Nice hide. TFTC

I got to GZ and must have searched around for 10 minutes without luck, then started to doubt the coordinates and looked around other gumtrees for another 10 minutes. Then I took a deep breath, went for a walk and came back hopefully with fresh eyes - and there it was . Cleverly camoed. Took dinosaur TB, left Clifton Bridge geocoin.TFTC GIB69.

Just dropped in a couple of TB's.

This time I walkd straight to it. Do not know how I managed to miss it on the first attempt. Quick find at 1300. TNLN TFTC.

On tour with Toutotatis today. This one took us a while. Clever hide. Luckily there was no one else around so we had all the time in the world.

TFTC, wemwolf

Very good hide

TFTC, Toutotatis

Came back to redo this cache today ,as we got soaked yesterday in the rain. Great hide ,well camouflaged .Thank you for bring us here .

in the area for our niece's 3rd birthday party, so decided to pick up a few caches too.

My brother and i started searching for this one, after a bit Ant24 joined us and with the help of the clue we quickly located this very well hidding cache. Great hide!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

in the area for our niece's 3rd birthday party, so decided to pick up a few caches too.

MrsAnt and the brother-in-law started searching for this one, after a bit I joined them and with the help of the clue we quickly located this very well hidding cache. Great hide!!!

TNLNSL

TFTC

Found by Penguiny at 1420hrs after about 20min of searching. Even with the clue, the cache took a while to find.

GZ looked like it had been taken to by a raffle of bush turkeys (I too did not not know what the collective noun for a group of turkeys was ). After gently probing likely areas, so as not to cause any further mess, I grabbed a stick and ended up resorting to Poke-poke-poke-THONK! method of cache location. Cache was found hidden under at least an inch of leaves and debris.

On finding the cache, though, I was impressed with the thought that's gone into it's design. Took the 'Travelling Around the World' TB. LNSL.

Thanks for the cache, GIB69. Great hide.

I left the camoflague at the top of the cache visable, so hopefully the next cacher won't have to dig up the garden to find it, although it's location will mean that leaves will build up over it.

Hello fellow cachers. The cache IS there. If you zoom in as far as you can on the satellite image it shows you where it is (a few feet from the base of the gum tree that's near ground zero, between a couple of small saplings). This may have been how Gunnie 69 found it. I have added a picture of the top of the cache hide showing the x in sticks. Happy caching

[This entry was edited by GIB69 on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 6:03:23 PM.]

Found & logged at 15:25. Very impressive camo & well designed cache.
IN: bilby, badge
OUT: TB-My Quest, mushroom

TFTC

Will claim a DNF. Spent about an hour looking for this one. Searched an area of about two meters diameter of where GPSr indicated Co Ordinates placd GZ. The area had certainly had a good going over with the surrounding surface well and trully disturbed. Will come back another day next trip to Brisbane.

Afraid this another DNF for this cache. Dropped in with Tratty to try our luck, but it appears someone or something had been around earlier, as there was quite a bit of disturbance around GZ. We wandered around for a good while scratching our heads, looking and waiting for something to jump up and say "here I am", but alas it wasnt to be. Unfortunately due to the previous activity even the clue was of no assistance. Will come back another day, as it may be we were just not looking in the right place, and this sounds like a well disguised cache. Thanks anyway. Cheers

Cache check following DNF. Cache, contents and GZ coordinates all good. Dropped in a couple of TB's I picked up on the weekend. Happy caching.

Couldnt find it after search with ALL7 due very muddy and slippery.
will come back when its dry.
thanks

Bombs Away... *FTF* #10 for Gunnie69.

I love it when the sun comes out just in time for a new release... [^]

I was alerted to this new cache shortly after arriving at work... Could I sneak an early lunch, or maybe a little extra time for morning tea... Sure I can... Only problem was, the key instrument for a cache hunt (GPS) was sitting at home on the coffee table... DOH...

Not to worry, I had the Nuvi in the car and surely that will get me to GZ so I can hunt from there... [^] Off I went with a google maps pic and the mighty Nuvi.

At GZ, there was not a sign of disturbed camo and the Nuvi wasn't helping me much now it had done it's initial job of getting me close. Way too many hidy holes here and it took quite a while to spot the booty....

This is a very creative cache and the hide is extremely impressive for GIB69's first. If this is a sign of things to come, I look forward to the next in the GIB69 series. Hats off my friend.... [^]

I grabbed your coin and the resident TB for my trouble. I am heading to Australia's capital next week and will drop them there for a taste of the cold... May as well rack up some K's on the first move...

Found at 10:02. Cheers

Published

Dropped in TB and GC,