STICKy Situation at the HVG Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia
By TeamSenz on 05-May-13. Waypoint GC4BBNY

I have decided to archive this cache after some thought. As it was always being found on the ground and eventual was muggled or destroyed. Whether there was sprinklers nearby that kept knocking it off or what. But it doesn't seem best to replace it here now.

The cache has been muggled. Will replace soon.

No luck this evening. Must admit we didn't work that hard since we were on our way into the Christmas Lights. It was really good; much better than we had guessed. Never mind. Cheers... Gaztek

It is a shame that i can't claim half a find.
I was at the Hunter Valley Gardens for the Christmas light show and i thought after a did not find before i would have another look tonight.
Found the cache pretty quick this time, or should i say half of the cache.
There was no lid or log book to the cache.
I had a pen to sign the log but there was no log to sign and i didn't have a camera with me to take photo proof of me being there so again it looks like i need to log a DNF .
It will need to be checked out and repaired.
It was a good cache though Teamsenz

#42
I met up with my Poppy for lunch at the gardens and I wanted to go and look for some treasure. I love treasure hunting with my Poppy. I liked this one. Poppy signed the log for me as I'm only 4! Thank you TeamSenz for letting me log this find.

#1
Woohoo!!! This is my very first cache find. I was out with my mum, my big sister (Possum Blossom) and my Poppy (Calypso62) for lunch. Poppy helped me sign the log while I watched from my pram (well I am only 6 months old!!!) Thank you TeamSenz for letting me log my very first find. I'm looking forward to lots more treasure hunting with Poppy!

After a lovely walk around the gardens. Tftc

Replaced log today, noticed half of the caches camo is completely gone! How the hell does that happen?

TFTC

Driving around and some caching in Hunter Valley. Enjoyed the nice scenery and the excellent food and wine in Hunter Valley. Weather was perfect during this long weekend! Most caches were easy accesible as drive by ones. Well camo, took a while to find it. TFTC

Coords pointing to the wrong side of the road but easy find once on track. Great little cache. Thanx.

TFTC

TFTC awesome cache teamsenz have enjoyed finding your different caches

GPEC

Needed to read the past logs to find this one so will repeat the favour. Found the cache on the opposite side of the road that the coordinates were pointing to. Great spot here. Thanks for the cache!

Coords all over the place but got there in the end. Cool hide. TFTC

Up around the hunter valley this weekend to take in the sights and as a bit of a getaway, we had a couple of caches on the list that we planned to do which would also take us around the area to places we normally wouldn’t go to, very creative found at night thanks for the cache teamsenz

Zunächst haben wir an der falschen Seite gesucht ..... dann gut gefunden.

tftc

Interestingly, we also found the cache on the far side of the road from the indicated site! One suspects that the previous finder found it in the correct position and moved it to a new location. Nevertheless, we left it where we found it.Thanks for the cache! Found with Felix the spy, Arwen21 and Ava.

Find # 2868
2:41 pm Wed 2 Jul 2014
Staying with friends at Fishing Point just south of Newcastle on Lake Macquarie.
Today we went for a bit of a drive into the Hunter Valley to get a few kms up on Terry's new car, and to try out some of the interesting features such as adaptive cruise control.
During the day I clocked up 6 finds, this being the 5th of them.
After a lot of trouble getting the GPS to settle, we gave up and looked where we thought it would most likely be hidden.
Terry eventually found it on the ground about 12m from the indicated GZ and on the opposite side of the road. It was in reasonable condition, although just sitting in the camo, not held too tightly.
I needed a tool to unscrew the lid (my key ring) and after signing the log I returned it to where it should be according to the clue. After cleaning out the cleft at the bottom of the fork, it is sitting there fairly well.

Thanks for placing this cache TeamSenz

TFTC!! I loved this setup. One of my favorites =)

#506
Grabbed this one while having lunch at the HVG. Unfortunately, this was the only cache we could grab for the day. But it was a neat little cache, well made. We found it on the ground, so it was replaced under the tree we found it, in a spot that suited the hint.

Thanks for the cache TeamSenz

A lovely day out caching with Calypso62. Found this cache on a very enjoyable trip up to the Hunter Valley.

Found on Saturday, 24 May 2014
(Log may be signed as ADI, short for AlphaDeltaIndigo)
Caching buddy: GcPhil
Cache condition: Good.
Log condition: Good

GcPhil and I were on the Cachetours Hunter Valley tour!
Before attending the event, we detoured to find this cache! And hey! whatta camo! [^]
A well deserved FP for the effort in creating camo!

Great hide. Thanks.

Spent far too long looking for this, maybe next time.

After wandering through the gardens, I gave this one a bit of a look before leaving the car park but lost all battery power while searching - I had taken far too many photos on the garden walk. A quick return to the car and we met up with a family who had shown an interest in what we were doing, so together we went back to search for the hide. I was following the coords, but I should have been using my caching instincts instead! The hide was a few metres off and found by Geo-wife and everybody was suitably impressed! A great hide, and a really good example to show to some new cachers.
Thanks lilla07 - I think the 'new chums' are hooked!
Geo-Haiku:
Stick to your feelings.
Sometimes you can't see the wood
Near so many trees

This entry was edited by digby23 on Saturday, 17 May 2014 at 10:37:49 UTC.

Ran over during breakfast, got muddy and had a good look but no luck today.

Will try again some time.

Thanks for the cache!

Tftc well took us a moment to find this one as coords where way out by atleast 10m great camo just a little fency

Found it!

Fantastic hide ! Very clever! Didn't have a pencil so couldn't log

Found around 6pm by the light of my mobile phone. Very clever hide tfc

Found at 1:08pm. I have seen one cache like this one in an inner-west Sydney suburb. It is unique and well-crafted which is why I have awarded the FP. It is these types of containers that really give me a thrill when caching. It's just a shame there aren't more well thought-out caches out there like this one.

I struggled for 5 or 6 minutes hunting around for the cache and eventually I found myself looking in the right direction which made my eyes light up once spotted.

SL TFTC TeamSenz

Nope. Found some that looked right but no cache.

This entry was edited by stringfam on Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 03:59:22 UTC.

Visiting the Hunter with pdbunce I had to stop off to do this cache. At first we thought we were onto it but the co-ordinates were way off in the end. It took me to look at the photos to find it and even then I'm not sure it was where it was meant to be. Nevertheless signed the log and replaced. TFTC.

Nice Easy find after conference in hunter valley.

love the container - very clever

SL TNLN TFTC

Found while exploring the beautiful Hunter Valley, combining tasting and caching.

VERY clever. I picked it up and put it back until I saw the picture. G0 coordinates are way off, but the inherent GPS accuracy is not very good there.

TFTC

Found sticky on the ground and put him back in place.
April fools indeed!
Took me a while to find GZ away from where the coords had me on the other side...

Finishing a weekend up here for the cerebral palsy fundraiser at Cypress Lakes.
Walked up to GZ and was initially looking in the wrong spot. Rechecked some photos and soon realised where we should have been looking and very soon we had the CIH.
Great camo and concept!
TFTC TNLNSL #963

TFTC

My first cache of this kind, very clever. Found with Motomad and Coopstar, while on holidays here for the CMC rocks festival.

#885 & 1st for today in the Hunter valley. Found after 3.5 hours in the beautiful garden. Spotted the silver ring which gave the cache away. Lovely cammo. TFTC TeamSenz.

Found with taglz Tftc

Cool hide Thanks Aaron for the effort on this on no one about today nice quick find and log

Found

on holidays for the first time without geokids.geowife picked this one up first but didn't think it was the chache.about 15min later geodad picked it up and chache in hand [D:] tftc

Clever cache. Found with diecastboy. Their first one. Now we are off to the British lolly shop

Quick hunt, quick find.
Nice hide
TNLNSL
TFTC

Wow what an effort to produce such a cache, a favorite point. We looked on the wrong side but decided to try the brighter trees.... Tftc

After having spent the night at Broke, we took off towards Pokolbin and went for this cache. Helga with her arm in a sling, after her elbow dislocation the previous day, was not very inconspicuous, but we managed to find this, well crafted, cache without too many of the muggles worrying.

Visited the HVG lights with our daughter and her family, including our geocaching grandson speedyhorse8. As we returned to the car in the dark we noticed we were walking past a cache. It was dark enough to nip in and find it in the light of the I-phone without being obvious. Duly signed and replaced. Exciting to have a brand new logbook TNLN
cheers
greynomads - Bill and Diana

Changed log. May have to keep an eye on this as the side has cracked.

I had searched for this a few months ago, but had to abandon my search after about a minute. Today I had another chance, and brought Geokid9 along for support on a hot hot hot day. I had read previous logs, which gave me enough to walk straight up to the container. Nice camo! We signed the log (still full), replaced the container, then went to buy some drinks.

At this point Geokid9 expressed surprise that we were at Hunter Valley Gardens; we had been to see the fantastic Christmas Lights the previous night, and the field had been used as a parking lot, so I can understand his confusion.

Thanks for the cache!

What a cool container. The coords were a fair bit off but where they were was a better challenge. Tftc on a day waking for the Christmas lights. Log is very full

Fantastic camo which obviously had a lot of work put into it. Good Coords and the hint made for an easy find. Log full so have taken photo proof if wanted.
TFTC

Log now completely full and needs replacing. Have to photograph for verification.

Found it after widening search! Great camo tftc

This entry was edited by hdcrees on Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 06:15:42 UTC.

found with Evil-1, Jackal261, Commando283 and Spud1612 (now TheSpudFam)

Thanks For The Cache

this beening my second time here took a little bit to find very clever

this beening my second time here I had to find it after a few minutes of looking I spotted it clever cache

playing catch up with Commando283, Jackal261, Link1510 and Spud1612.

awesome find with Evil1 Jackal261 Link1510 & Spud1612

I found it with Evil-1, Commando283, Link1510 and Spud1612,
it is cool

Wow forgot to log these from a long ago trip!

Our GZ took us to a tree 25 Ft away from where we found the prize. Nice cameo! TFTC

-scoutboy

Tftc!

New log required

great clever hide. searched for a little while then success when I spotted something a little odd.
nice hide teamSenz

Found by the Quipollyites found by geograndson
What a great hide
TFTC

Found by the Miggies, well camouflage, great hide, needs more paper to sign. Tftc.

Found at 5:45 PM GAFF1. You know - we have seen this "title" for a cache many, many times and it still doesn't dawn on us what we are looking for until we are actually there and thinking about it again
We actually picked it up and put it back at first [:o)]
Thanks TeamSenz.

Feedback: Looking now at the hint, we think that it is far too descriptive - it is more of a "tell" and doesn't serve justice to the cache hide. With such a "tell" the difficulty should be a 1.0.

Found with paulyman while visiting the Hunter Valley this weekend. The coords originally had us looking at the wrong tree, but after widening the search field we soon had the cache in hand. TFTC.

Quick find with snorris. Thanks.

Had a look around gz the best I could but maybe school holidays not the best time to come here....lots of muggles.

This was a dnf for me...
Didn't have the time to have a good search but even after a call to Teamsenz, still couldn't find it. Ran out of time so it will have to be another day.
Good job on the tricky hide Teamsenz.

Satellite view lied to us! After overcoming that it was an easy find. Thanks!

After a while looking in the wrong place, we had success! Awesome camo, caches like this are always a bit more satisfying to find

Tftc!

Very clever container!

TFTC! Found with jadeleilahoney and mhoneybadger

Took us a while to find this one. The compass had me meters away completely in the wrong spot. My sister was onto it and found it right away. This is my second time back so I was stoked to be able to find it this time.

Cheers Teamsenz, another great hide.

What a great hide..just love these unusual hides. Had such an enjoyable time in this area finding another cache as well. TNLN TFTC.

We always appreciate the efforts some fellow cachers' go to create clever hides, so thank you to TeamSenz for this one. An easy find despite the co-ordinates having us in the middle of several possible hide locations. Signed log, TFTC.

ran out of time for a good search.

I am just writing a note because I have been here before but Scooby Doo was not with me so I brought him back today after the event.
The trouble was when we approached the area there were already 2 people with it in there hands.
So I deverted DJs attention and sent him up the hill until the others had signed the log and put it back.
Then called out to Scooby and said he was looking in the wrong area.
As he came over so did GRUB so the race was on to see who could find it first.
I think Scooby won but GRUB had to open it.

GREAT container Team Senz

I love the names you give your caches - very inventive.

So glad to see that since I was here last it is still in good condition.

Geocache #494.
Found on Sunday, 25th August 2013 at 1:25 PM.
Conditions: sunny.
Current streak #25 days.
Today's finds 8 of 16.

My 393rd find for The Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition 2013.

Day twenty five of the 31 Days of Geocaching in the month of August and I headed out to claim another daily souvenir to keep #31in31 streak alive.

I headed up from Sydney to the Hunter Valley for the day to attend the Caching Among The Vines Meet & Greet Geocaching Event. Towards the end of the event, OxfordMasterCacher and I snuck over to this cache for a relatively quick find with the aid of GeoIan and Dirtsquirter who needed to borrow my pen to SL. Another nice cammo and TFTC TeamSenz.

"JordsAU

#2193
Came for the event and being early, I parked, left the Geowife in the car reading her paper and walked over to GZ. As I got there I noticed something sort of out of place and made the find instantly. Love those type of finds. SL on the 2nd side of the log and replaced it again. Good camo TS, well done. TFTC.

Nice quick find as had read the hint while crossing the oval. Tftc

Found it but didnt have a pen walking away we spotted jordsru so we waited to use their pen. They were holding it and didnt know it

Found with JordsAU at the Caching among the Vines event. TFTC

I love the container

A nice play on words and a easy find. Thanks for the work put into this one TeamSenz.

Another find on a great meet and greet day at the vineyards, TFTC TeamSenz!!

Discovered with jfindit before a very successful and enjoyable Event at Hunter Valley Gardens. Found several caches before and after the event. Met and chatted with old and new faces
Nice camo work. Tried a sneaky wrong sided approach first hehe

[green] - Found It on Sunday ... at 10:40 AM ...
TFTC! - TeamSenz ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 759


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We returned to this one after a really nice lunch at a nearby vineyard, but ignored jfindit's method of approaching it from the main road. Parking right next to a deserted GZ we soon moved to another location 14m away to grab the nicely concealed cache. Thanks for another great hide, we liked it a lot.

This is a very clever container.Found this one just as Calypso62 was walking up to look we both signed log and continued on our way.Thank you Teamsenz for the effort put into the cache and for the event you organised today bringing us all to this great spot

#1446
Day 25 of "31 Days of Geocaching"

This certainly was a sticky situation. Arrived to find the Mighty Minions at GZ. I thought they were returning the cache after signing but discovered they were still to sign the log. All was sorted. A clever hide TeamSenz. Thanks for a good hide and a great event.

Found in company with Doc-Who on the way to The Hunter Valley Gardens for the Caching amongst the Vines Event. I won't go into details online but the first attempt was a case of So Near So Far. Nice Cache, TFTC

At the Vines event SDMT and DJ and I wandered off in search of this cache. I thought I knew what I would be searching for, but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately??) Colleda was already there when we arrived, which made our search null and void. But we did manage to keep young DJ away until we had replaced it, so that he could make a "find".
A nicely made cache. The cammo is great. No wonder it is still invisible even when it is dislodged from its proper spot. TNLNSL TFTC

Park directly next to GZ, got out and had a look but no luck

Contacted the CO for a few more hints but it still wasn't located, until I saw something shinning from my torch, cache was on the ground again. Put it back where the CO told me it should be. Hopefully it will stay there this time.

TFTC