The Pines Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
By Roger Explosion on 06-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3T6PJ

The nearby ANZAC pine will be moved soon due to construction at the school. As a result I have decided to archive this cache.

Fun found it in like five seconds

Needing a new log

Good job

Found it was very easy no juggles what so ever. But I was a bit to short so I had to jump a few times unti I could reach it.

Finally seen enough of these sneaky little caches to spot them first time.... Hoorah! TFTC

All good and surprisingly not a muggle in sight on Easter Saturday morning
But had to squeeze in a log entry

Finally no muggles about

Log is so full but I found a spot to sign,I doubt ohters will have room to sign. not too many muggles

This entry was edited by mccauley4 on Monday, 01 April 2013 at 06:37:56 UTC.

Found quickly on a Sunday morning. Sometimes being large is good when caching, sometimes not. Here it was good. TFTC

Found with some assistance and met the owner, Roger Explosion!

Took ages

I spotted this one fairly quickly but had to wait for geohubby to join me. It was even out of his reach so he gave me a boost up. He had a cousin that died at Lone Pine. SL TFTC

16:08 TFTC

#277 - 14:50; This one took a bit of time to find as the GPSr had GZ about 15 or so metres away. A careful inspection eventually identified the cache and after scaling the heights it was to hand and log completed. When I went to return the cache to its hide, I noticed to my horror a teacher from the nearby school still sitting in her car, where I had seen her go some time beofre making the find, and had probably seen my gymnastic? efforts . Still, not being from these parts, the chances of a future encounter are slim, and after seeing her finally leave, the cache was replaced and it was on the next adventure. TFTC

Found, with the help of child on top of GeoDad! Lol

Found but a few meters from coorninates TFTC

Found with lyndon1
Co-ords a bit off, but got lucky

With m@m@
Too high to reach so no log entry.

not today

Such a teenie tiny cache! Almost no muggles around today which was lucky. It is also lucky that Luke was here with me because he is less vertically challenged than I am.

Mmmm

Shizzam

Great oval with lots of muggles using it, easy to make a quick grab and sign before returning the cache and moving on with no one the wiser. Love this game, TFTC

A great day to cache and at this time very few people about. Log only has space for one more entry. TFTC SL did this with the Newberys who got his hand on it first

A quick find this time. TFTC

TFTC

With a sunny day chosen for caching, we were worried about high levels of muggles nearby. However it looked like the wind kept them away.

TFTC

Found with brother. Good spot! TFTC

Excellent....hard to look covert in wollongong ....its just too much of a great day by the water not to be out...tftc

Tftc. Wow! So tiny

With Geoevo22

Geoevo22 and Bezz are now 2/2

The hint was a dead give away here today, thanks RE.

Keeping with our continual days caching streak, I headed into the Gong after work. Parking nearby I set off in one direction but thought it was a little strange I was headed away from where I thought the cache was.

Checking the coords I realised I'd entered a wrong number. Once my error was corrected I was soon adding my name to the log and my 36th consecutive day was complete.

Thanks

Found it with Auzzieboy1125 and Auzziedad1125. Great cashe.

Found it

went with Auzzie Dad 1125 and H.J.Smith

TFTC

Found it with Auzzie Boy. TFTC

Found it but I have to admit it was in a quite sneaky position. Well hidden! Smallest GeoCach I've found yet!

Found during a lovely day off in the sun. TFTC

Hmmm. Back to the car for a special tool.. Gotcha. Log replaced as there was non. Now to put back....?? TFTC

On a beautiful day in wollongong we set out to grab a few caches.. This was first cab off the rank.. Lucky cheeky Dave was with me to retrieve the cache.. Great location!


This entry was edited by Cheeky Cachers on Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 03:27:19 UTC.

totally forgot to log this cache. Luckily I had taken a photo so could check the date at which I was sneaking around Wollongong at night caching.
Cheers.

Nice cache... TFTC

Dingo and I accompanied Chip here this evening as she did her best to avoid study commitments.

We loved the hint. Without it we would have been in a lot of trouble.
Many thanks Roger Explosion.
These are parking spots we knew about.

TFTC

Struggled to find it in the dark found it with light no worries.

tftc

I had just replaced the cache and getting the pram ready to leave when a man came out of the school straight over to me, saying 'I know what you are up to'. Feigning all innocence on my part, turns out to be a fellow cacher on playground duty. Nice to meet you

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At least an easy one - no muggle! But only with the hint, as GZ is a few meters off! Walked in from the industrial area of North Wollongong, coffee at the beach, flagstaff hill, and here to continue into the city. I never realized there is a such nicely located school here. That's how it should be: Education and steel works at the waterfront - not that tourism and real estate. If you want to achieve something, you need to live in a pristine environment. Reminds me my own school time in a fantastic location. TFTCM!
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[green]The Arkaroo - who loves the mountains and the waters.[/green]
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Caching Team:

* The Arkaroo

Travel Bugs visiting:

* Arkaroo's Treasure (TB38AN6)

* Blue Desert Drive (TB3ZQ7E)

* American Bear (TB2RX2E)

* Bis bald im Wald (TB44F3D)

* Trapped in Maryland (TB1FDZ9)

* Traveler (TB3MAWZ)

* Caching On The Moon (TB376NX)

* Cap’n One Eye (TB4N3T4)

* Little Island Stud (TB274YR)

* Ring of Love (TB2NMB3)

* Hobbits Templar (TB2MV1R)

* Schorsch (TB19C3E)

* Liebesbrief-Schlumpf (TB3FW88)

* Scout Woggle (TB2A2M0)

* German Flag (TB4BQZH)

* Dusty And Bengel (TB1RTH9)

* Bonobo (TB3FVVK)

* Route 66 (TB2RRP7)

* Emma Cool Wool (TB4K6GN)

#124
After searching in the wrong coords for a bit, the clue suddenly made sense.

Thanks for the cache Roger Explosion.

Not too many peeps around especially with school out. Everyone in the water. The hint led me to GZ, soon had CIH. Signed log (why do some people think they can take up 4 spaces in signing their name?) and returned. TFTC roger explosion.

We found this one after a lot of hunting thanks to the hint. The co-ordinates are about 14m off but luckily we saw it just before giving up. We have never found a cache this small before. Thanks!

Good cache, had to visit twice because could not get it.

Found it! great spot really well placed!

Best cache. In retrospect I'm surprised I found it.

Grabbed this one on a beautiful Saturday morning walk! TFTC

Thanks for the hint! Without it I wopuld have been without a chance, the coords were 20 meters of? Stil had to check the hint on 3 locations!
TFTC Wilbert67

Missed logging this.

Came after school hours to avoid the attention and creep factor of hanging around schools. Found quickly and was on my way. Thanks.

A great Spring morning with the park quite full. Probably the extra people there made the find quite easy. No one was concerned with my activity. Quick grab with the Cache removing tool, signed log and back in place. TFTC

I jogged over here on a lovely spring morning, and made a quick find in the likely place, due to no muggles nearby. TFTC!

Out for a walk with the Geo Family, Toadmiester7, Ace7, Geo Mum and Dog and decided to do this cache. Great spot, especially on such a nice day. TFTC Roger Explosion! [^]

This one requires a keen eye found with snorris and Paulyman

This entry was edited by Marachup on Saturday, 08 September 2012 at 07:41:21 UTC.

Found this one relatively easy, but with so many muggles, and my vertically-challengedness, this proved to be harder than first anticipated. Retrieval ended up requiring an implement - which I then broke. But my efforts upon return drew the interest of a geocacher from a nearby building, who very kindly offered to put it back for me!! TFTC!

Found this cache with sister Tadpole 7.
TFTC

Well it took a while because coordinates are 14m out and point in the middle of the road but luckily because of the clue we could figure out whereabouts the cache would be and we found it. Nice little area around here though.

8th for the day visiting from Sydney for Fathers' Day and Geocaching Birthday. TFTC!

I came down here at lunchtime, forgeting that the school girls eat lunch at the same time. Doh!

Waited long enough for them to go back to class and then made a quick find.

Cheers.

Not super busy, but kid muggle scooted up and stared as I was awkwardly retrieving cache. TFTC!

Quick find by geoson the other day. SL TFTC

found with burger after a couple at brewery hard to unroll

Quick find in the afternoon rain.
No-one about but a couple of exercise muggles. Surely they have better things to do than push ups in the rain.
Then again I was looking for a little hidden container and getting wet so I suppose they're cool. Can't judge.

TFTC

Ironbark

I knew this was a high muggle area during the day as my daughters go to the nearby school, so I planned my visit for early evening. I arrived close to GZ and after scouting out some parked cars for muggles and getting the all clear, I approached and found the cache safely hidden. I signed the log as TM7 and replaced as I found. Thanks for another cache down by some if the best beaches in Australia. Thanks Roger Explosion for your cache.

This entry was edited by toadmiester7 on Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 05:09:08 UTC.

Found with paulyman. A couple of willy wagtails were valiantly guarding the area around the cache. TFTC.

Found this one at night with SLKH & momoo14 and a bunch of non cachers TFTC

Teamed up with the usual suspects (M&M007 and momo14) and two to-be cachers for an after dinner hunt. After a couple of minutes we had the cache container in our hands (the hint speeded things up). Signing the lock book wasn't easy, but we tried our best . Its great to see new caches arround Wollongong! TFTC

Teamed up with SLKH, M&M007 and friends for night caching parade

Well a few surprises on this one - a new listing 2 minutes from work, adjacent to my old high school (even though I never knew the history of the tree) and a first time placing by a cacher introduced to the game by a friend I'd also introduced (talk about 'pay it forward'). Despite not having my handheld with me , checked out GZ using the car gps on the way home for an easy find just as the CO was walking past. Know why you placed this one here Nice to see you again Roger Explosion, thanks for the height assist and the chat!

Found it with snorris. Thanks for the history on the lone pine, didn't know that. Nice spot.

Does first to log the find count! Someone has written in it today but not put it up! So, can't claim ftf, but will claim first to log here!

A FTF is pretty rare for me these days but today at 17:30 or so I managed to claim my second for the day!

I rang Hoojar on the way thinking he might have beaten me to it, but no, he couldn't get away from work. So thankfully on my arrival I found a blank log. I didn't really know this carpark was here so will keep it in mind for the future. TFTC!

Norfolk pines everywhere. And also glimpsed the lone pine from Gallipolli.

TFTC

I watched this listing all afternoon, but knew that I was well too busy to be able to have a crack at it before someone else would beat me to it. What a shame, it is easily within walking distance of my office

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