The Rapides Narellan Vale, New South Wales, Australia
By thekingclan on 12-Mar-10. Waypoint GC24Y7X

No response from owner. 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 current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 30 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness. If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

Well no reply from the cache owners on this one after two weeks. This cache is gone and needs to be archived.

Checked up on this one last night, being the CO seems to have neglected most of their other caches, so I decided to stop by and see if this cache was still there, so stopped by on the way way back from taking my geokids to school. Its seems to have gone, I presume muggled. I will email the cache owner and and wait a week for a reply, but as I did the same recently with one of their caches in Harrington Park I am not expecting and answer, so this one will need archiving soon I would say, like most of their caches will eventually.
Thekingclan have not logged into the Geocaching site for many months now, so I would say they have ended their caching hobby.

We only had a quick look for this one....the smell from the area was quite yucky & we were unsure as to which side we were meant to be on due to the GPS not settling down

We searched for 20mins in all the obvious places we think it's gone ,cheers.

On my second attempt at this cache today. Searched for an hour without any luck

Found it after ferreting around for a while. Noted the wasps have gone!
Bongie52

After a bit of searching we ended up having to use the phone a friend feature. Soon after this tricky cache was discovered. Thanks thekingclan for the hunt.

Stung by wasps, bitten by mosquitoes, found plenty of drug paraphernalia but no cache.

With a helpful hint from a friend cache was soon in hand. TFTvery tricky C

This one sux !!

This one is driving me nutz. I've poked, I've prodded, I've dug, I've scraped. I've been bitten by so many bugs and endured so many strange looks from muggles. I really do give up.

Very glad to get this one crossed off my list of locals with dastylze. And on my Birthday of all days! Thanks to those that assisted, you know who you are

Finally with a little help from a fellow cacher !!

Out on an afternoon/ evening run with Hoojar around the wider Campbelltown area.

We were finally able to put this one to rest after both visiting on previous occasions. After a search we resorted to calling a previous finder and then still it took a little while. The smell of someones turd at GZ may unfortunately live with me for a while to come .

TFTC!

I was very happy to be able to put this one to bed. We searched and searched, phoned a friend and then searched some more. Despite the nauseating smell of someone's nearby faeces Steeba eventually managed to prod the right spot and find the cache.

Cheers.

On my hands a knees I crawled Thu a cave in the reeds till my hand suddenly fell upon a...

... Dead bird! :/
Nil for me but I'll keep it on my hit list

DNF, I'm thinking i might be blind. will try again tomorrow.

Another day out and another DNF. This one is getting personal now

I'm not sure I could find this one if it was painted hi-vis orange and yelled at me "over here" lol. I shall return when GPSr isn't so sketchy

Take some perseverance, founded we did. TFTC

After a decent search had no luck. Signs of obvious disturbance from the searchers on the previous few days. Was getting late in the day and didnt try to hard. Will definitely be coming back for this one.

Searched the area could not see it. With wessiri and cmacno4.

Couldnt find it, will return later

3 Time Lucky ? Found it this Time
Thanks

took a while to find this one. lots of places searched, and finally Jim bob found it after ten min on his hands and knees. tftc

Visiting in the area for Christmas. Found after a short hunt, clever camo. We liked the huge blue tongued lizard nearby.

Very tricky camo here!! Didn't find it last time, but was more lucky this time as now the coords were spot on!!? Last time it had me meters away and then you can search forever.
TFTC Wilbert67

Thanks For The Cache thekingclan
Out with TeamBooo Boo's Dad and Booo Booo on a caching when we found this cache.
TeamBooo and Boo's Dad had this cache already and now with their help I can cross it off the list
well hidden

TFTC

Looked in all the obvious places and widened the search beyond the coordinates but no luck today.

A very easy find with some quick probing.

Cheers

DNF for us, right gz area, searched everywhere, crazy today... check prevous logs, oh last visit was found... come back again looked around for half hrs, still no cache there, show two star on diffculty, should be easy but grrrrrr unable to find one...

We found this - our first as a family. The young bloke was stoked! We left some luck and a toy car and took a gold yoyo. Well hidden after winter tree shedding.

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iPhone was jumping all over the place
still couldnt find the cache after looking in all the obvious places
might have to be checked

Geo wife found this one after a bit of a rummage around the place. TFTC

Arrghh! The GPS was going crazy today. We think we were in the right spot but looked everywhere and couldn't find it Will have to come back another day!

we searched for it at night probably not the best. our gps kept dropping out the closest we got was 10 meters away. hope to get there on a second attempt. is their a possible second clue you could give my team?
thanks
We thinks

This one had me looking for quite a few minutes before it was eventually located.

Cache all in good order.

Tks ... thekingclan ... GazMag

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First find for the day after spending a nice afternoon at the botanical gardens. piced up Little Blue Airplane and will get him on his was ASAP.

TFTC

found it after a bit of a search hidden well thanks

This took a little poking around to find but eventually a sit and look showed me where the cache was. Great little park that i would never have known about.

Found with Daddy to Mini Moffs and the youngest mini. Took us a while, and searched both sides of the stream; it wasn't where we'd come to expect a cache so either it's been moved or you need to widen your search parameters (we did find a fellow cachers' calling card outside the container, so maybe it's been disturbed? We put it back, though.) - we hid it a little better, too. Dropped off the Little Blue Plane TB. Took nothing. SL TFTC!

No luck here this afternoon.

Found it, pretty hidden but definitely there. Thanks

Found this one on our second attempt.Took the older Geokid this time, who found it once we got on the right side of the creek. This cache was way off the GZ mark for us, but as others have stated, it was an easier find, and we looked to hard.

Took my youngest geokiddie with me, on this hot day in the hope of finding an easy cache or two, just local. Thought this one would be easier then it was, but after 45min of scrounging around, digging and moving stuff, we still didn't find it. Previous hunter had the same result, and there was lots of signs of muggles frequenting the area, being fresh bottles, and party poppers. Maybe heck if this one is still there. But I count this as a not found for today.

Got to GZ and found nothing...Unless my GPS was having a bad day I don't get it...how could I miss it the same day someone else finds it?! I'll be back tho

Probably tried to hard to start with but got there in the end. Thanks

Found at 2.30.

Finally managed to get this one. Wasnt there when we looked the other day.

Geowife finally spotted it.

Took Green Crab.
Left Snake

TFTC

Seems I timed my hunt here well, just back online it seems! Found it - after trying to look on the other side of the water and even road. Came back, found it. Great hide, loved it

The work in the area is finished and the cache was OK when checked.

As stated by The_Baxter_Boys, there are currently building works going on in this park. The entire area has been sealed off. This cache may need to be put on hold for a while.

Cache needs to be Disabled until the works are completed.

There is some work happening in the park, and there is temporary fence around the cache.

There are currently building works going on in this park. The entire area has been sealed off. This cache may need to be put on hold for a while.

second time lucky

TFTC!! Love this park - especially at Xmas time!!
Quick easy find on the way home from shopping.
SL. TNLN.

Had a good search in everywhere I could think... Now reading the logs i'm glad im not the only thats struggled a little on this one

How did I miss it last time? It took about a minute to find today..
Oh well, thats caching for you!
Thanks for the chance to come here twice!

Nice and quick find in a very pretty spot.

Took little miss sunshine and left Spaceman

Thanks for the hunt

C7 found it very hard to find. Not where you would expect it to be... E9 took action figure, left Lego cube. C7 took car left a different car.

Parked near gz and walked to gz. I started my search on the wrong side but soon realised that it was on the other side. I then started searching there I kicked the cache TFTC

After having some trouble with the GPS we finally found this one. Other logs were right - you can make it hard for yourself but it was an easy find really. Left Little Miss Sunshine - picked up medal. TFTC

Took a little while to find this - but the little blue martian came up with the goods. Think were were looking too hard at the beginning. Took a zebra finger puppet, left a blue mars and I seem to remember dropping of a keychain TB - if not here try GC24Y7Y 'The Climb'
SL TFTC

Well done, 2nd time lucky. Thanks for bringing me here. TNLN

A nice easy find for our littlest 4yr old geokiddie! He was very exited to find it where no-one else was even looking! Swapped some treasures. TFTC and the excitement for our little one!

Found this cache while taking kids to footie on a Saturday morning. TFTC
Cheers
dkmacca

TFTC

TFTC

Poked around for a few minutes before the WaywardWoman turned this one up. You could make this one much harder for yourself than it needs to be. Thanks.

I found this one fairly quickly as the rest of the tean were still looking. TFTC

Second time lucky! After checking all the nooks and crannies we found this hiding just well enough! Right where the GPS was telling us it was!?!

TNLNSL. TFTC.

tftc tnln sl

This was our 4017th overall find.

Found at about 11:08 AM. We made this one a whole lot harder than it had to be! A fair bit of scratching around and we located the cache. Once you think about the possible high tide the location can only be in a few spots!

Thanks to thekingclan for the cache.

TNLNSL

We couldn't find this one today. We shall return!

I got just near GZ when a woman walked out of the bushes and stood staring out into the lake. I continued walking thinking that’s a bit suspicious. I continued on a bit further turned around and came back and she was still staring out to the lake. I thought oh well I’ll give up and try somewhere else. I was crossing back over the bridge when I spied some movement out of the corner of my eye and looked down to see someone stooped over a GPS. Busted. The Hancock Clan have become number 23 on my "Cachers in the Wild" list. We then teamed up and tried together with no luck. In the end I phoned a friend for a hand as I was having a dead set shocker of a day and they put us on the track. Nice hide.

TFTCSL

We'd been here a while and were almost about to give up when all of a sudden we hear "found it yet?". We'd been spotted by Wandering Wilkos! It's always nice meeting other cachers on the hunt and it gave us that bit more inspiration to continue with the search. After a while though, we still resorted to a PAF and the cache was soon found.
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

we couldnt find this one will try again

Things change considerably in the daylight! This time I struggled for a little while but eventually discovered it in the obvious spot, beaut water features around here that we missed last time too!
Thanks for the cache great camo job Left a bug took nothing.

I'm sure I'd done a cache in this very spot some years ago. If it wasn't then its a spot that looks very similar.
This one took a little while to find, but once found you give yourself a slap and say its quiet obvious.
TNLN Thanks

This one had us scratching and ducking our heads. First of all there were alot of muggles in the area so we had to stay low and keep a subtle presence. A 5 minutes sweep over the area and a read of the past logs led us to the right spot and we had it soon signed and replaced. TFTC, left behind a googly eyed dragonfly sticky

Spent a lot of time looking for this one. Found it in the last place I thought to look.

TNLN TFTC

Hools26 found this one at the end of our sunday morning "georide".I think this one seems hard because the GPS leads you a little off course? Thanks

In another pleasant evening of geocaching with two good mates in Deputy Dog and Homedg, however we were unable to locate this one this time, crawling around under trees and bullrushes is bad enough without trying it at night, it would need to be well hidden given the muggle activity we encountered round gz, next time

No luck with this one on a night caching run.
Maybe next time.

Found this after a bit of a search thanks for the warning rainbow spirit saved me a few stings for sure.
TNLN SL TFTC

Found 18:15 after logging this one as a DNF after a failed FTF night search, it finally revealed itself today. TNLN thanks.

WARNING......there is a wasps nest at GZ, luckily one of the lesser painful native wasps, but still with a nasty sting, they got me on the arm and nose!
They are hanging off one of the prickly leaved paperbarks. I have (very carefully) tied a red ribbon on the branch they are attached to.
Good luck with your searches, I looked high and low with no success....

Man, how am I going to explain the red welts on my arms when I return to the office in nearby sunny Smeaton Grange after my lunch break. I search amongst spiky reeds and got - curiously enough - spiked -- a lot!! Didn't find it but will eventually. So moved on to try newly hiddent The Climb. Will be back!!! Cheers.......Gaztek

this one was one of the last to do on the list for the day this on was easy but hard to find parking in the area parked about 3 blocks away after a quick walk back and about 20 mins in searching we found the cache and that the ones on the list for the day have been done

Found this one pretty quickly, which is always a good thing especially with the high amount of muggle joggers. a clever hide in a nice area, around december i see this cache having a few more finds than usual with its proximity to christmas lights. TFTC TN LN

great area for christmas lights i go here every year was a great place for a cache got spiked big time looking wrong place lol tftc

A nice little spot there and pointing arrow working well here today and soon on right side for search and
found after about five min of looking around.nice one in the suburban oasis series...TFTC...thekingclan...

Had to hunt around for quite some time for this one - including in amongst some horribly spiky reeds - but eventually it was found. Didn't hold out much hope that this would be a FTF and was dreading opening up the log at page 1 to find somebody else's name there. But the log was blank and I was a very happy cacher! Thanks thekingclan for a cache well hidden.

DNF may have better luck in daylight.

No luck. Found a new blue pen on the ground but couldn't find the cache so hopefully it's still there.

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