play GROUND Launching Place, Victoria, Australia
By ginahubbard90 on 02-Aug-15. Waypoint GC60R82

CO no longer able to maintain cache - Archiving.

No longer a geocache finder, would prefer to disable as we cannot keep the maintenance up.

It is a playground and I am guessing it is buried either way could not find

Sadly not here, or it were we couldn't find it.

Ran into another group, who also couldn't find it.

Got us crawling around but no find today will return

Found

Out geocacheing with my cousins. Sneaky find; fun for kids

I was on my way down the Warby hwy to get a wheel alignment with 15 minutes to spare when I
began passing this park. I had almost reached the turnoff so swung off and found a shady place to park. The GPS wasn’t being cooperative and the search soon brought me to my knees. Aware of time constraints I continued searching and was rewarded at last. Sneaky cache. Unusual and unique container. Log is dry. My car is having its wheels aligned now while I log the find. TFTC

Looked everywhere if on ground néw mulch may be covering it! GPS Also sent me into park!

Searched and searched. The playground has been re mulched do you think the cache has gone underground?

Looked and looked then gave up

I love finding something when others have failed. Still there and not where GPS told me. Hint is correct - despite my urge to climb the features

Running short of time here today and were hoping for a quick find but no luck, Will try again soon

Found your cache easy enough signed and replaced TFTC

The hint definitely helped me find it tftc

Today a big convoy took part in the Yarra Expedition #9, heading out to explore the upper reaches of the Yarra River. Starting with an event at the chocolate shop we made our way east from Yarra Glen generally following the course of the river.

I'm not a fan of playground caches and I'm glad they're no longer 'encouraged' but with a team of us searching it wasn't too bad.
Not one I'd attempt on my own.
Thanks ginahubbard90.

Found @13:10 #6727
The last find today on another great Yarra Expedition with lots of familar faces. Myself and ahomburg approach this one on foot while Lukie brought the car around. A quick find and coordinates spot on today.
TFTC ginahubbard90

Came here with the Yarra Expedition, and gmj3191 made a speedy find. Luckily there were no kids. Thanks for the cache.

Found on 16 Jun 2018 at 1:27 pm.
After a great Yarra Expedition event and large convoy of cars headed off on the way to a late lunch in Yarra Junction we had a plan of attack so some of these were signed as Team Hinky so the log books didn't fill up.
The convoy arrived here in the cold so no kids around thankfully and with a few people searching we had it in no time.
Thanks ginahubbard90 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Date: 16 June 2018 Time: 13:11
Find #9550

YE Part 9 was here and sedgwickDave volunteered to do the driving. Weather was not promising, but it turned out to be a wonderful day.

Last one before lunch. dave and i headed to different spots. Dave won

Many thanks to ginahubbard90 for the cache. TNLN.

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In a large group of fellow cachers on the 9th Yarra Expedition, we followed the river around by car grabbing the closest trads along the way and signing under the group name of TeamHinky. With the weather forecast to be the coldest/wettest weekend in 2 years we were very lucky to have sunshine follow us without any sign of rain.
Many eyes makes a sneaky hide appear quicker than normal.
Thanks ginahubbard90 for the placement.

A mass of people descended upon GZ and The Tritonz came up trumps first. Thanks ginahubbard90, found while on Yarra Expedition9 today.

Found by Mary & David at 1327. David finally caught up with The Yarra Expedition crew after the YB caches, and we all arrived here together. Lots of eyes searching, so the cache came to light quite quickly. Our thanks to ginahubbard90.

**Find #: 5936**
**Time: 1:39 pm**
**Date: Sat 16 Jun 2018**
This cache was found today as part of the Yarra Expedition Part 9.
Today we covered a stretch not navigable by kayak, or capable of being ridden along by bike.
We needed to cruise along the general vicinity of the river by car, regularly caressing its banks, in our journey up river.
Along the way we found a number of caches, this being one of them.
This second one in the park was found quite quickly, luckily in the absence of any children.
Then it was a bee line to the Yarra Junction pub to catch up with the rest of the group, for whit turned out to be quite a good lunch in a very congenial atmosphere.
I'd go there again.
**Thanks for placing this cache ginahubbard90**

Out and about with Yarra Ex 9 team today. Nice easy find - thanks!

Too many muggle dogs and their muggle owners at puppy school around this morn! I will return!

After picking up a series in Wesburn, grabbed 2 more on the way home to make it 9 for the night. TFTC

The day was all about Ausfox;'s 4000th find at Gollum's Cave and with that achieved it was now time to sample the area for the local caches.
Working our way towards home, very slowly via any cache that looked easily accessible. This one fit the bill and luckily for us there was no little ones on the equipment or anywhere nearby.
An easy find in the logical place.
Thank you ginahubbard for the hide

Out for the usual day, early start, late finish, memorable adventures with SimsFamily and Neville Devil.
On the home stretch now but there's always time for a couple more caches.
Thankfully we had the place to ourselves to make a quick find.

Log signed and replaced as found

Thanks for the Cache ginahubbard90
#4,010

Nice find

Tricky to start with but persistence is the key!

Very small and tricky!

Found it

Found! Nice little tricky one! No pen on me to sign it. Will do so on my next trip past.

Found this one, felt kind of awkward being at a playground so would recommend coming in the evening/night

Didn't feel comfortable searching too hard with kids playing on playground

Thanks for the hide.

Good hide

Nice find while in the area today. SL TFTC

It's bucketing down with rain today (Father's Day) so what else to do but go caching Luckily found this quickly in the first spot I looked. TFTC

Took 2 goes to find it

Searched for ages didnt find

We found this cache today at 12:40pm as 5 of 5 on our Woori Yallock Camp Pickup Run. A hard to get to spot if you miss the entrance from the main road. Spotted it only on my third time around the squares. Thanks from D, HA and H B-A.

Easy find it here.
Thanks for bring me here and cache.

Have looked previously with no luck. Quick find this time although our gps said it was 6m out. TFTC

Stopped here on the way to Upper Yarra Reservoir to show my friend a geocache. We searched and searched but no cache, so we went to find nearby Jadodade Park. On the way back we gave it another shot, this time using team work we soon found it. I could've sworn I already checked there! Thanks

Said I'd be back. This time found it where I thought I'd looked. Methodical search pulled up and left car park in under 3 minutes. This us such a clever container. TFTC SL

Monday of a long weekend. Ate my lunch and started to search but playground patrons arrived. Didnt want to be the weird old guy so moved on. Lovely spot. I'll try again soon. My work brings me tgus way a dat a week. Persistent and methodical I wish, I M a random access sort of guy

Nice hide took a while to find. TFTC.

The ingenious geokid found it after trying the same thing 6 times.

I had a general idea of what and where it could be. The name definitely helped out!

Me geowife and my parents all headed down to the river for a swim and ended up meeting up with n0w0rries +wife and afer the swim we headed home and i thought to myself oh lets get a couple of caches on the way home so these where it TFTC.

No muggles at the park today which was lucky. Found it finally after we nearly gave up. Was missing the log so we added a new piece of paper and replaced it back where we found it. Thanks for bringing us to this cute little park that we have driven past many times and never noticed!

Found it

Out with Ruschie today. Log sheet full and needs replacing. tftc.

Found with Crustyvarmint
TFTC

We have searched for this one previously with no success. Today we spread our search a little wider and were soon rewarded with a find. It always feels good to replace a DNF with a smiley. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

On our way home from another great weekend away with friends we stopped to check this one out. In luck on a beautiful day like today and not a soul about. Gave all the usual hiding spots a go and relocated most of the tan bark with no joy. Maybe next year

9:57 AM #2064
Caching with Ruverbug Jam today, this was our first for the day.
Thankfully possibly a little too cold for any children to be about otherwise this might have been a little harder.
TFTC.

Caching with OzHockeyChick today.
Quick find in the park. I think a muggle may have found it as there was an abusive message scrawled within on the log page. Wouldn't want mum to read it.
TFTC.

LTF

Wow that cache is very cool the way you get the log. Geokid8 found it quickly. TFTC

Took ages!!

Tricky one but worth the look in the PLAYground

Very cute

Tffc

The teams LinearZZ and ThetaZ are on a caching drive up the Yarra Valley towards Warburton. Although playgrounds are not our favorite place we stuck it out and Mr Thetaz saw what the rest of us missed at 12:30. TFTC

Lovely playground. TFYC

We had searched for this one before with no luck but today found it quickly.

Had the muggle-nephews with me this weekend, the time seemed right so took the plunge and deviously introduced them to caching, enormous whew, they loved it and have now been promoted to geonephews with their own tags - MadMatt and Dan the Man We had just found the other cache in this park and were headed back to the car but the geonephs can't resist a playground so they were totally torn - did they romp all over the equipment or ferret out the cache Was rather fun watching them try to do both at once! I spotted this one fairly quickly but maybe that's cos I wasn't distracted by swings and slides!! Geonephs finally had it too so quick sign and off we went

A warm day midweek had me out on the motorbike. I have found another cache in the same park which made navigating to the car park easier. Not a fan of play ground hides I stopped for a look and found a muggle free park. The gps bounced around a little and I was starting to feel the heat a little. On my 2nd look from a different angle I spotted something, and after the retrieval it was clearly labeled as a cache. Left my mark in the log and back on the bike for the return loop home.
T4TC.

Exploring Victoria heading North towards NSW. Trying to escape the rain. Not very successful until we arrived at Yarra Junction, and the sun came even out so we walked around the corner to get the two caches here. Tftc

Exploring Victoria heading North towards NSW. Trying to escape the rain. Not very successful until we arrived at Yarra Junction, and the sun came even out so we walked around the corner to get the two caches here. Tftc

What area the chances of finding a playground empty on a Sunday afternoon in Summer. We made the most of the gz being muggle free and set off in earnest searching the obvious areas, we had just located the cache and were signing the log when a couple of muggles and their dog came past. Thanks ginahubbard90 for the hide. I can't say playground caches are my favourite places to search but it certainly is a lovely spot to play.

omegaman1971
Was lucky to find the park muggle free. Looked in the obvious place and made the find. Just as some muggles arrived for some doggy fun.
Cheers for the cache

Waited for the muggles to leave, had a lengthy look around, but couldn't locate it.

Not keen about caches in playgrounds and near a pre- school but on a wet Sunday morning not many people about, quick find now onto the next hide...TB,s paid a visit

Finally found it

Found it! Was tricky but it's there

Looked for ages but couldn't find this one. Kids enjoyed the park though.

Could not find

Last weekend in Melbourne before I head back to QLD for Christmas, thought I may as well grab a few caches instead of wasting the entire day in bed!!

Lucky for me there was no-one around today, a quick find.

TFTC!!

Found with pprass who was in town, it was good to be back in my old stomping ground doing a few caches, these country caches are far more enjoyable that city caches, we had a great day touring the area. Thanks ginahubbard90 for the cache.

Found at 1:31 PM GAFF5 in the company of Rebel Acts.
Not a fan of these playground caches, but today there was no one around so we were safe.
Thanks ginahubbard90.

I promised the kids a play ground on the way to visit friends so they were extremely pleased. It was the last one i checked. Loved the container too. Very quiet this Sunday with no preschool and no one at the oval. TFTC.

Out caching with Gunks when found this cache. TFTC

Out and about tonight with GrumpyGramps1 picking up a few stragglers in the area. After a lovely warm day it got surprisingly chilly tonight. As usual I was the most bait, bloody things ate me alive again. More smiley faces as I try to find 1000 cache in this calendar year. Around 100 to go. TFTC

New closest to home cache found on the second attempt with the dogs running amuck on the kids playground.

Nice drive up to Healesville to have to have some lunch and maybe do a few caches while we are on the way home.
TFTC

I was here a while ago while I was in the area but there were plenty of muggles not going anywhere so I moved on. Today there wasn't a person to be seen and we were both on the case, but after some time we had to call it quits and still no luck. Never mind, we will be back again. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

Lucky no one was playing today so after a quick search the cache was in hand and the log signed

Some muggles came along with their muggle todler. Luckily we had our geokid for cover. He enjoyed it and we enjoyed the sun and loverly spot. Tftc.

F̺o̺u̺n̺d̺ w̺h̺i̺l̺e̺ t̺h̺e̺ g̺e̺o̺k̺i̺d̺s̺ P̺l̺a̺y̺e̺d̺ r̺a̺t̺h̺e̺r̺ t̺h̺a̺n̺ h̺e̺l̺p̺e̺d̺.

T̺o̺o̺k̺ a̺ l̺o̺t̺ l̺o̺n̺g̺e̺r̺ t̺h̺a̺n̺ i̺t̺ s̺h̺o̺u̺l̺d̺ o̺f̺ I̺ w̺a̺s̺ s̺u̺r̺e̺ t̺h̺a̺t̺ I̺ h̺a̺d̺ a̺l̺r̺e̺a̺d̺y̺ l̺o̺o̺k̺e̺d̺ t̺h̺e̺r̺e̺,!!!!!!!

Thanks for a fast, simple cache found on my way home. Jadodade is now done.

I'm not a big fan of playground caches but with no-one else in the area the cache was soon in hand.
What a neat cache container.
TFTC ginahubbard90

Great for kids to find

Excellent hide and great for the geokids

Came home after a day out shopping and a wedding and needed a cache for Geocaching Day. So into the caching clothes and out to collect this cache that even though it is only a few k away, I haven't got round to finding. Old men lurking around play grounds is not a good thing, so we have to chose our times carefully. When I arrived at GZ, as it was getting dark, there was a man and his dogs roaming around. Eventually they moved on and I could complete the search. Thanks ginahubbard90.

I fond it

Found this one on a great day out with BorisB&Natasha.
After a nice hot coffee we wandered over a found a nice quick cache.
Thanks fir the cache ginahubbard90