Henry's High Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
By Mumma-Kel on 01-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5G11E

Gotcha - Found with a bit of difficulty. Not easy to extract. I used to go to school here in the early 1960's and was determined to find it.

Time for this one to be put to bed I think.

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Not found on a day to Gosford and back. Trying to get my way to 2000 finds I set out for a day of easy caches. Seems I am not used to this sort of caching anymore, as I am more at home on high D or T ratings. Or maybe I cache better with others then on my own now. Anyway with a success rate lower then fifty percent, I felt quite defeated at the end of the day.
This was my twelfth stop. Found GZ, but not the cache. From past logs it seems it has fallen down and got stuck somewhere, so putting on a needs maintenance.

I went to school here so was eager to give this a tick but unfortunately I had no luck - gave a pretty good hunt (lots of spider webs) but no luck.

Didn't find owner to check if its therr

We could feel the cache container with our fingers, but even using necessary tools it was not possible to extract it. We think it may have been put incorrectly into where it now resides, and is not possible to extract without de-mounting the structure.

In need of a cache for the day and it was already night time and on our way back to the motel, busy day catching up with family while in the area. This cache seemed ideal, parked up nearby then started looking about ground zero, not being so used to Aussie caches yet the "obvious" place was not so obvious, but soon found something not quite right and with the help of something managed to get cache in hand. Nice one!

Log signed as the 4B's to include Landyman123, Pinkducks, Legoman9494 and myself.

All in good order, thanks for the cache!!!

log on the way home out with the 4Bs

Tricky, great little hide! TFTC! : )

Good hide, cute little cache. Thanks!

Meticulously searched everywhere we could think of. Read some other logs and based on a few others we're pretty sure we know where it should be. But put a camera down there and saw nothing. To anyone else looking, there is a redback living underneath. Stay safe. We might come back another time. Thanks

Another dnf on this one for me, maybe next year when i revisit the area,

Found while in gosford for a doctor. Walked from the station, geez I hate that hill and arrived gz and made a quick find. TFTC

Found it!! 3rd for tonight!! TFTC

Dnf looked and poked in all crevices. May be in wrong spot

Dnf looked and poked in all crevices. May be in wrong spot

Dnf looked and poked in all crevices. May be in wrong spot

Tftc

Took the hep kids to kiddy hawk in Gosford and done a few caches on the way home, once we came to the spot I knew exactly where to look, tftc

Too clever for us today. . Attracted the attention of a nurse climbing into her car parked close by so decided today wasn't the day we would change this to a smiley so headed off.

Success! Returned for a late night find with backup of the geo-fiancé and quickly had CIH. TFTC! We've been enjoying your caches very much.

DNF . Spent 5 mins or so searching and used my pen to poke around in hidden areas but I underestimated the number of muggles around in the middle of the day and the high school kids were on the oval for lunch. Will be back later for a better look.

This was out second attempt and after 5 minutes we thought it was a DNF. just about to leave when I took one last look at the spot I would have had something and there is was. Cute case.

So as im having a look around, a man approached me asking if I was using the phone, after saying no he asked if I had a pen and continued to have a 5min conversation on the phone, I was amazed that someone didn't have a mobile, offered the man some paper too from my notebook. Once he was done I got back to looking and found cache and its little squatter, tftc.

Cute container, and not what I was expecting. Log is in great condition. TFTC!

In the area for a meeting. Quick find on the way home. TNLN TFTC

#4653

Mrs C has been wanting to go on a caching day for a while, but with work and other commitments we haven't been able to get out. Today was another matter. Even when the heavens opened up raining down its sogginess, we still made the most of the day. In total we found 23 caches.

It was raining heavily, and there wasn't much cover, but after a quick search the find was made.

TFTC Mumma-Kel

Took my son to tennis down the road, he didn't want me to watch so walked up here for about my third attempt for this cache. Had an idea where to look, felt around and found the cache this time after about a minute. Yay! Nimble fingers needed to get it out. Amazed to see a little Easter style chicken in the cache. TNLN signed log. Returned cache to where I found it, though I didn't know how far 'back' it was. I can now drive past this cache location with a feeling of satisfaction (instead of "grr"!! ) TFTC Mumma-Kel!

I felt, I prodded, I looked, I muttered to myself, still NO cache!

Found while school in. It's chilly outside of the car so a reasonably quick find was appreciated. Tftc Mumma-Kel.

Nice. Left a baby chick

TFtc. I like the cache. So tiny but yet not. Found with Ni-Nit!

Nope

Will we have stopped here a few times but could not find. Driving past today and saw it had had a find today so thought stopped again and searched were we knew it would be. Looked for about 10 minutes then OMG got it.

Can now finally cross this one of the list. Had noticed someone else had found it today after lots of dnf's. Driving past and had to have another look. I think this was our third attempt. TFTC

Mr and Mrs Fish met me at this cache today as there were a few dnfs and I had been one of them,they had already found it so could tell me if it was still there or not.When I arrived Mr Fish was already at geo zone looking,His finger was already getting sore and nearly bleeding from poking in a spot where the cache was meant to be.He was sure the cache was there but he just could not reach it someone had pushed it too far back to retrieve.mr Fish used several different tools with no luck ,I had tried and still have a bruise on my finger from trying to retrieve the cache.Finally Mr Fish came back with a suitable tool and managed to retrieve the cache it was in peices thats why it had been so hard as well,So finally I got to sign the log but I think I signed it with the wrong date and put the 24th instead of the 26th.I put it back in a little bit easier spot where Mr Fish thinks it used to be.Thanks for the cache Mumma-Kel tnln sl

Came down for the swap meet at the showground today and a few smilies afterweard.
No luck here today.

No luck this time.

Unfortunately no luck for me on this one Thanks anyway

getting stir crazy after being stuck inside with all the recent rain,we set of to find some caches.I went to Henry kendall high school when i was younger .Brings back memories.After searching everywhere we could think of no luck,We will be back with fresh eyes to look again .Thanks for the hide Mumma- Kel We like the tricky ones [ after we eventually find them of course ]

We DNF'd this one a little while back and tonight whilst driving past the same area we decided to have another look. Still very conscious of the passing traffic, we were grateful the neighbours weren't home to watch us. We fiddled in the area for a while but couldn't get the cache to release. So a quick PAF to ask if I was looking in the right area confirmed we were and seconds later we had it in our hands. Its a good hide and a great lil container. Thanks Mumma-Kel

Found this one after couple minutes. Good hint , helps a lot. TFTC

Was close by and thought being a kid free- Australia Day it was as good a chance as any...
The drizzle made it look like we were sheltering or using the free WiFi anyway took awhile to locate the right spot. Tried to look high with the iPhone and the light was "Trippy" and not much help.
Extracted the log, signed and replaced as found.
Very well hidden and out of sight.
TFTC.

Came by here about a week ago (sorry I forgot to log straight away), thought things would be easy but couldn't find the cache. It was raining a bit so I perhaps could have taken more time to search. Unless the cache was hidden 'under the front on the right' - there was a big spider web there and I could have stuck my hand right in, but normally spiderwebs don't last long around a fresh cache. Didn't think at the time to poke a stick in. Well, I was getting soggy. So, a DNF from me.

I'll watch this cache, see what happens. Taught at the school for several weeks back in about 1993, liked the school. TFTH! Cheers!

Found on a morning running around town picking up a few more smilies. Love visiting mum and dad and the family back in Gossy, they're all keen on caching and I can always con one of them for a fewMy brother ended up pulling this one out after a long search.
Thanks for the cache and cheers from Browngang

Found it with wolfboylost and snoopy1976

I just stood back drinking my slusheee lol. TFTC

Found with casper73 n snoopy76

Checked on cache today - found the log and lid in place as suggested by the finder/s....probed a little further and located the container base -- PLEASE be careful when retrieving/replacing cache so it all remains intact. Thanks! Cache on!

Suspect needs maintenance as log present - but only with lid

Kick out of home... drove to gosford meet Jfindit for chat and find few caches... Little start rain make me cool... thank

This is definitely a cache with high mugglability. Today though, we got away with it. Never seen this type of container before so it was good to see something new.

Dnf

An early morning visit before the student hordes started arriving seemed like a good plan ... what I didn't count on was that health workers starting at 7am have to park this far away from their place of work. As a result, the start of my search was delayed until all the close by parking spots were filled and the drivers (after doing whatever they had to do after they parked and before they got out of their car) headed off towards the hospital.

The delay in commencing my search did have an upside ... it gave me a chance to read through the experience of previous finders ... and with that, any expectation I had of a quick park'n'grab pretty much went out the window. Still, there are only so many places where a cache can be stashed so I still thought (no, hoped) it would be a pretty quick find ... and it probably would have been if I had been more diligent in checking likely places. I think I actually checked the place where I finally found the cache a couple of times before I finally had it in hand.

Thanks Mumma-Kel ... I really enjoyed this urban challenge ... should be more of them.

No find.

Very well concealed; it took me a while to find but luckily there weren't any suspicious muggles looking on. Didn't need to use the instrument to take the hint literally. But how is it that seaeagles had a pen with him? TFTC.

We called in here with DOC-WHO after a meet at Umina to help barefootjeff celebrate his birthday. A quick search in the most likely spots did not reveal it, and only after a more thorough search did the very well hidden cache appear. Thanks to Mumma-Kel for a really good urban hide.

I almost fooled myself on that one.. TFTC!
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Followed the Fishes here for slight detour on the way home and after a little get together for barefoot Jeff and his 60th Birthday !
The initial once over came up empty, and following thoughts were this must be a different type of container... and when found it certainly was. Whilst I have seen them online, I imagined them bigger.
A quick signing and we parted for lunch at home. If the winds weren't so cold today I might of done some coastal walks, but opted for a puzzle at a cemetery on the way home. This proved 90% successful, but I got muggled out grrr, since when do people hang-out in cemetery's now?

[green] - Found It on Sunday ... at 1:14 PM ...
TFTC! - [blue]Mumma-Kel[/blue] ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 1086
[blue] This log was posted with CacheSense v4.120, available on Android and BlackBerry ![/blue]

Ha! have my premium membership back now, so I better log this one now. Spent too long with Seaeagles talking with other muggles, then he tells me that there is a FTF up for grabs. Left ten minutes too late, as WTF had gotten there at 1:10 and us at 1:20. Unlike WTF we found this one without the CO help. Wow! the container blend in very well. It was one of the first places that I looked at, but it took the second search to turn it up with a better look. TFTC!!! Will have to pick up my game with my urban hides, now that there is new competition in town...

Published

Total Caches Found 5982

Sitting at home bored out of our little mind's late this afternoon. When the Geo Dawg heard the Phone go off, She said I'll bet thats a cache just published and so it was.
A quick dash around to the Bay to Gosford. Soon had the slippery little sucker in hand., Great hide

Thanks for the great cache Mumma-Kel

Found 6:44 pm with AuroraEve. As usual my day turned out pear shaped to go and find some of the more tricky caches for my daily find, now sitting at #241. So this cache was sort of in an area I was driving nearby so I figured might as well look for this. Originally I had hoped to leave this one for a crappy day. Anyway we arrived at GZ and started to search. The hint seemed to imply a certain location but our search couldn't turn anything up. I also checked out the nearby fence. Continued searching. AuroraEve was supposed to be elsewhere soon so she started getting worried, I then thought I noticed something but it looked like tool was needed so I returned to the car for a tool but upon returning and checking it out it wasn't what I thought. Soon AuroraEve was again getting edgy but we persisted and then I spotted something I hadn't noticed before. And then Bingo the second spot I checked there it was. A quick signing of the log placed us around 5&6th, as it turned out this cache hadn't been here very long. Thanks for the cache Mummakel and the rather devious hiding spot.

2nd to find at 1:35pm. Damn missed FTF by 10 minutes.
On arrival things were looking good, there were no familiar cars in the area, no suspicious people hanging around acting as if they weren't looking for anything or any muggles apart from the ones driving past.
A check of the hint narrowed it down to one area, but there are still are a lot of potential hidey holes for a micro. I first checked where I had found caches on this type of object before, but nope not there. Searched in a few more of the likely candidates and discredited that anything there could be the cache.
As mrnoo17 was with me the two of us made looking a bit more efficient and he found it in a place I had run my hand across and thought "well the cache aint there."
Only to open it up to find West Tigers Fan and just beaten us and must have left minutes or seconds before we arrived.
TFTC Mumma Kel A tricky little hide and container as it blends in quite well with the surroundings.

No luck i'm afraid. Lots of spiders though. Will have to come back when we have a better idea of its whereabouts.

Thanks MK

FTF found at 1:25pm.

I had spent the morning in Bunnings getting supplies and trying to work out how I was going to do a job I had planned for the day. Geocaching was the furthest thing from my mind as I spent a couple of hours in Bunnings working everything out. I finally worked everything out and was waiting for my timber to be cut before escaping the joint when my phone vibrated. I had a quick look and noticed it was another one in the Henry Kendall series. What was even better was that it was within a few km!!

I grabbed my gear and hopped into the car, making my way to the familiar GZ. Arriving upon the GZ there was a suspicious looking muggle across the road who kept an eye on us. We got out of the car and I gave my old man a task which would make it look as though we had a valid reason to be in there area while I had a search around. The suspicious character went back inside and we were able to search freely.

We looked for about 5 minutes before looking for further info in the details and getting the light bulb moment of where it must be. Just as we had begun to search in that area the suspicious muggle and another had come out of their apartments and were looking at us oddly. We went back to the previous task to try and throw them off what we were doing. They disappeared and once again we were free to search the area, but nothing turned up? There were plenty of possible hides but nothing stood out as a "park n grab" style hide.

I gave the CO a ring, just to ensure that the cache hadn't been muggled already. She assured me that it was still there and that I would have to search harder. We went back to the GZ and with a closer inspection of the area I managed to find the mischievous hide.

I had mentioned in the "Henry's Wake" log (which I still haven't found) that Mumma-Kel is coming of age with her hides and we are starting to see her evil side. This cache is true to her new found form and is definitely not an easy urban "park n grab".

Loving this worthy series so far! Favourite point awarded for another good hide.

TFTC cheers

This entry was edited by Wests Tigers Fan on Saturday, 08 November 2014 at 10:33:01 UTC.