Childs Play (3) Reservoir, Victoria, Australia
By kenneth050881 on 04-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3A80P

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Visited this park on the weekend with the kids. Have previously found this one and re-confirmed it's existence on a few occasions as others have logged DNF's and believed it was missing. The other times it was good to go. This time, I can confirm, the cache is absent. Muggled. Missing. Not there.

Be good to get this back in place as it's stumped loads of geocaches over the journey.

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We borrowed a couple of children from someone in the park so we could search without feeling sus.
We explained the game to the supervising adult and had the kids help us in our quest.
Anyway, with children to aid us in our search for "the hidden treasure", we still were unable to find it.
The kids were disappointed and so were we.
Thanks for helping us enlighten some possible newcomers to the game.

I had arranged to attend GIFF today however I thought that I would grab some caches that were nearby the event venue. The rest of the family had decided that they had other things to do so I was flying solo.

I parked the car on the street and ventured into the empty GZ which gave me ample opportunity to conduct a thorough search however, unfortunately, I had no luck.

My second attempt this year on this one, I checked the cubes and all the obvious spots, there aren't that many spots there, unfortunately a DNF. Seems like the playgrounds are very prone to muggles... it's a child's play to put there hands everywhere and potentially interfere with a cache.

Ran out of time so this was unfortunately a DNF. Grrr...

Had forget I was scared of spiders for this one but braved it in the end. Good hide.

Hmmmmmm didn't find it today even after sticking my hand in lots of places. Had to keep moving because the geo-dog was anxious to keep walking...

I was brave and then found it. Thanks.

This was our first geocache adventure and it took us a good 20min to find. Like others have said, it's where you think it is. Just do it haha

Play time! Thanks!

Phew found it! Thanks for the clues about taking the plunge. Took us ages and you might scramble around a bit.

Yeah after a long look we found it

Didn't find BUT i found this!!

Had a good search but no luck Next time!

Was waiting for mini muggles to leave, instead 4 more showed up. Next time!

We have been back to this one 3 times with no luck... Can someone possibly verify geocache is still there?

Despite an intensive search it was a DNF. Muggled perhaps.

Found it

Found it! I was in the area for piano lesson so I thought I would look for this cache. I had been passed previously but there were too many people in the playground. A rainy, cold day is the best time to look for caches in playgrounds! As everyone was inside keeping warm and dry, I had GZ to myself. Found in about the fourth or was the fifth place I looked?! TFTC SL

Had a good 20min before a few muggles stop us in the search. Did take the plunge but my hands didn't reach any cache:-( we'll be back!

Was out with softicus today, we had a good look before some muggles settled in for a play. Reached into some tricky to get to places but couldn't feel anything.

Its exactly where you think. Just take the plunge.

yay! TFTC was tricky.

persistance pays off

On our way to the local cricket and wanted to get a cache on the way. We looked for 20 minutes then decided to "Facebook a friend". Friend came back with some very specific clues but certainly not there. Next time.

Yayyy my first find!!! Hahah thank you!!!

Imagine 3 middle aged girls (46,49 and 50) at 10:45pm searching And sticking our hands in places they didn't want to go and came up with zilch! Our first ever geocache search is a failure boo!

Yay! Finally found it on 4th attempt. Added a little something extra for ages 3 and above.

Our first cache in Oz! TFTC!

My very first cache. Tftc.

I thought this one sounded easy but it's not. Well hid

Found on working trip to melbourne took other family members to see what geocaching is all about thanks for the fun

Had to wait until and muggle and his dogs moved on and then it was clear to search. Wasn't sure at first if I had found the cache. Persistence meant I finally that I got hold of it and happily signed the log.
TFTC kenneth050881

Unfortunately unable to get this one.. Will give it another crack in a few weeks

I'm not entirely sure it's there anymore. Could not find it even after searching the location extensively, and even my friend who has found it previously believes it's gone.

You need to be brave enough to stick you hand in the unknown. Good luck took me a few go's

Found it

"Be brave and stick it in"

Found this one tonight finally. I think I have been to this one about 5 times over the time I have been caching. I was doing deliveries around the city and when I saw one of my deliveries was near here I decided to try this cache again. This was in a place I had looked before but not carefully enough. Tonight apart from a dog barking nearby there was space to look and search unhindered. Found it and signed the log.

Thanks for the cache.

Took a small child to find it.

Waited 10 mins for mini muggles to disappear then found straight away☝️

Found with Richi, not magnetic

Driving passed and checked on cache. All good. Exactly where it was last time I did a check up on the cache with the kids at this little park. Have fun!

Can't find it anywhere had the three boys looking and myself maybe not here anymore

Can't find it anywhere had the three boys looking and myself maybe not here anymore

Was certain where it was, after searching for about an hour I rang a friend who had found it and checked again but it must be gone.

Was certain where it was, after searching for about an hour I rang a friend who had found it and checked again but it must be gone.

Looked in the same place multiple times and only found it on the fourth go. We were determined to be proved right it was in that spot! Thank you ☺️

After searching for 20 minutes high and low. Finally found it. It is where you think, just be brave and stick it in!

Thanks for this! Gave us big kids something to do whilst the little one played on the slide. Def not magetic!

Found on second attempt. A bit lazy the first time. As the name suggests..... child's play.

Shit

Couldn't find it. Had whole family looking. Might have been taken by little school holiday mugglers

Or first attempt at a find. Had the place to ourselves and searched extensively for nearly half an hour including crawling under all the equipment and putting hand inside all the hollow steps which seemed the most obvious place given all the comments about it not actually being magnetic anymore. Wasn't expecting it to be this hard but we live close so we'll be back another time.

Or first attempt at a find. Had the place to ourselves and searched extensively for nearly half an hour including crawling under all the equipment and putting hand inside all the hollow steps which seemed the most obvious place given all the comments about it not actually being magnetic anymore. Wasn't expecting it to be this hard but we live close so we'll be back another time.

We stuck our hands in places I really didn't want to and even with a torch couldn't find anything. We will be back

No luck, maybe next visit I have more time.

Nice park. No one around. Quick find. Not magnetic. TFTC

Found with atsmug took as a little we walked in circles and then finally returned to the first place we looked and found it

Park deserted , TFTC

It was our first and it was very satisfying!

Looked everywhere but the right spot. Gave up. It's a good hide. I'll be back.

Nice little park - found with not too much trouble. NOT magnetic.

Nice short walk from home. nice little park. Thanks

found by Zoella and Molly

Found with carkisser .
TFTC ....

Nice quick find with Sando23468. Nice little park which was empty despite the amazing weather. TFTC

Was my first ever attempt, only signed up today. Quite bummed I didn't find it. In my defense, it was dark already. Will try again. Defeat is not an option

Geoclem strikes again!

A little miffed about this one. Had a huge search last night with no luck, so 'watched' it and got a notification that it was found tonight. Had another quick look where I had been looking last night, and there it was! No idea how I missed it last time, I looked in that spot a number of times. Glad to know I had the right idea though. Will note though that the hint is no longer true - future cachers, ignore the hint and just search around the accurate coordinates

When I came past this cache a week ago the park was crawling with kids out enjoying the park on a sunny afternoon, so I decided to keep walking and save it for later. Coming back today it was very cold and getting dark, so no kids were around. Failed to find anything by feeling around in all the likely places. It was only after turning on my phone's torch did I see the cache in one of those places I looked first.

Thanks kennetho050881 for a great cache.

Searched high and low at the given coordinates, and eventually spread out to look for other possible locations on the equipment close to the coordinates. No luck. I'm loathe to give up, but I just can't find it

Found it... Great hide!

Been twice before, once with syblings and once with parents, went again today and FINALY found it, great amazing hide, thankyou for the joy

Apparently I don't fit the demographic.
I'll have to bring my son back.
Can't find it, and not too eager to go slithering all over the wet and cold equipment.
Not in the two 'obvious' spots I checked first.

With two young kids and living in the area, this is one park they love to come to.

Found it again, and it's exactly where it always is. Co-ords are spot on! Worth looking at the satellite view of the park.

Will have to favorite this one

DNF it was a long search but I had no luck with it maybe it was taken idk but it was in a good search area!

DNF oh well but I think it has been taken

DNF after multiple searches, we have come to the conclusion that the cache is no longer there.

It isn't where the direction tells me to go

Yup

Attempted this one today. I had tried previously at night not successfully then. Today I met up with some newbie cachers but got muggled by a mini-muggle and then the rest of her family so I decided to leave it for another day.

No luck today here. Looked in all the obvious places but couldn't help thinking that I was thinking about the clue from the wrong angle. A group of kids arrived ending my contemplations and so I had to walk away empty handed.

Have found this one before, but went to double check on it today. My sister said she went to the park and couldn't find it and there was also a lot of "Didn't Find It" logs entered online. So as i was taking the kids to the park, i decided to take them to this park to do a double check on it.

Cache is definitely there! Got it straight away, again, today.

The clue is very useful.

Found the co-ordinates to be nearly spot on.

Great little park for kids of all ages. Very good cache. Thanks again, kenneth050881.

Hope this helps out some people.

Cheers

The coordinates take you to a tree yet the hint states it's magnetic. Something wrong here. Had a 20 min uninterrupted look and no go. Presumed missing.

Don't think this one's there anymore...

Nothing to be found today

I did not find this one, maybe the Grandfather and mini muggles did see the cache being retrieved?

This is so stupid it isn't where the GPS says

Could not find. If moved give us a hint because it is no where to be found and the gps tells us the old hiding location.

A couple of little muggles entertaining a doting grandfather on the play equipment made me wonder if I should abandon the search before I began, but on approaching GZ realised I was hidden from their view so made a quick find TFTC kenneth050881

Too many muggles around! Kept waiting for one Aiche to disappear with her kids. Had a few mins to look around until the next muggle pack came along... -.-

A big fat DNF for me. Finally had no muggles on about my 4th visit but a thorough 20 minute search, including a big web clean-out, found nothing.

First one I found

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Enjoyed finding this one. Raining and dreary, but nice little park.

Thanks kenneth050881

Nice easy find, TFTC!

Not under a slide for once! Really enjoy caches in playgrounds haha, TFTC!