Combarton Park Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
By nr240106 on 18-Dec-19. Waypoint GC8H4CR

Not there anymore

Had a good look around without luck. Will have to try another day

I found this cache today during a spare hour between two appointments. Thanks from D B-A

Found the cache. Cache is wet and left something for the kids. Geo kids were excited!

Placed cache in a plastic. Hopefully it will keep the log dry

Found it!! Very small. Think outside the box. Super cute park

Thought this was going to a dnf again but the cache was located just as we were about to give up. We definitely weren't looking in quite the right area last visit. Thanks for the cache.

A spot of caching this afternoon with MrsPapi4506.
Back again today to try for a dnf redemption. Took a while and about to give up, when GT spotted the cache. Woohoo! Time to turn that frown upside down.
Thanks for bringing us here today by placing this cache, nr240106

Nice quiet park to do some searching unobserved. tftc

Didn’t find it. Have been before and found it but not this time

DNF. It appears that someone is spending a lot of time in the location, I thought there might be more than a cache buried there.

Nice little park. Didn't take long to find with the clue.
The log was wet and my pen just wouldn't work, so not signed.

An adventure!

That took a long time to find. Eventually found after we started digging.

Tftc

Found @09:41 #7568
A little white object caught my eye and but then over looked the obvious. In the end it didn't take too long. I think I may of been to this park once before many years ago.

TFTC nr240106

TFTC! My GPS was a little off on this one, but turned out to be a quick find

I was waiting for this group to leave. It turns out they were caching!

It was hard but we found it. It took us four times to find it but our house is really close.

Nice

Yep fixed it to a mean cache

Found it

Didn’t have too much trouble finding this one. Thanks for such a fun hide!

Another find for this month thanks

I originally found this cache with my Mum heymissjo, but now that I have my own account, I am logging. Thanks for the cache.

For the past few years I have cached as part of "team heymissjo", but now I am old enough to have my own account so logging the find. Thanks for the cache.

#796
A nice quick find with geokids after completing a nearby lab cache. Thanks for the cache.

NB for self #791-#795 Lab Cache completed

So very tiny!

Hint needs a more specific location

No luck for us today. Spent quite a while searching, widening our search, looking down low as per hint, turning everything over that we could, reading previous logs. Will just have to try again next time we are in Melbourne. Cheers.

DNF

No luck after 15 minutes

Find number 8546 at 3:27:11 pm
Out visiting family this afternoon and made a slight detour to pick this one up.
A quick find this afternoon, I remember finding another cache here many many moons ago.
My iPhone (subjective) indicated the hide was 12 meters further to the west though.
Cache logged with sanitised hands.
**Thanks for placing this cache nr240106**

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Out caching with quiet1_au today, we had our sights on completing the 2 lots of Wonders caches. (GJMMelb team only as q1 had already completed it) This cache was for the Great Pyramid Wonder and took us a while to find as the GPS was jumping around all over the place. Finally with a very big nudge from q1, JMelb spotted the cute little cache.
TFTC nr240106 - GJMMelb

FOUND - 12/11/20 - 18:51

After struggling to find nr’s cache at Rose Reserve this one was actually the quickest I have ever found. I literally just walked straight into it!

This is my first time seeing caches of this sort so I presume it gives me a better idea of what to look for in the future.

The directions were precise, almost to a fault if you’re too quick to assume where it should be hidden

TFTC

Can't find it

After quite a search, no luck for us.

Despite a thorough search, no luck here today.

Yay we are out of lockdown

With stage 4 restrictions being implemented and the extreme trend of cases, I feel that it is necessary to disable my geocaches. Stay home and stay safe.

After a bit of looking around we found it. So tiny! No room for us to leave our Lego piece. So fun, thanks.

Found our first one!

Very small but fun find!

Easy find for a rainy afternoon!

Tftc!

Nice hide! Thanks for my second ever find

Good fun, thanks

The definition of micro!

What a lovely little park! No people around today .. the cache was quickly found and signed .. my pen wouldn’t work on this log for some reason but I managed to get half my name on the log and have a photo ..thanks nr240106

Omegaman1971
The Omega Empire
@ 6463 finds
Out and about in the area to help a mate and a few caches.
Found after lifting a few items.
Cheers for the cache.

Our first find since the summer. Nice cache to get back into it.

Good coords, had read logs. Quick find, but so tiny tftc

Thanks.. first post iso cache for me

Found it! Very smart hiding spot! Got us more excited to keep going

On my way home after dinner and thought to stop for a cache.

This was found quite quick.

Thanks to nr240106 for the placement and fun.

This cache is tiny. I was lucky that it did not take me too long to locate the little devil. Good spot for a cache.

My mate looked in totallly wrong place, I found it though. Was good fun

Nobody would move that to get it unless they knew it was under there !

Literally stumbled on log looking for it!

Find #4685. Found @ 16:52 with The Good Lady Wife.

With the lightening of restrictions, and the looming of the deadline to find a cache before my geo-slump was extended, it was a good opportunity to make a find today. Combine that with a planned visit to the in-law's place and the scene was set.

A quick diversion and drive to get to the area. Once we parked by the park, the game was on, only to be thwarted by a collection of muggles having a picnic in the park within view of the cache location. Oh well, we needed steps for the day, so we walked past the cache and figured exactly where it would be. As we continued around the block we noticed that if we could time it right, we could quickly duck off the path at be out of sight and grab the cache. So that's what we did.

Took nothing, left nothing, signed log and visited some trackables.
Thanks for the cache nr240106

First day back after corona virus lockdown. Along with wife and Crusty K9, we enjoyed this park, and I made a quick find. Tftc.

All of us out on a sanity walk, been more than 72 hours since someone touched it, so why not!

Logbook was full and has been replaced

Nice hiding spot

Rummaged around for a while. Was more obvious than what I thought.

Tftf was looking round a bit and ran into bulk spiders before I found it. Worth it tho

While cleaning up the photos in my album, I noticed that I hadn't logged this particular one. I remembered the beautiful lake and stay there and watching the birds for a while.

I’m like a muggle magnet ...no matter where I go...there’s always someone close by to thwart my efforts....finally looking nonchalant...I was able to make the find in this very pretty little park.
Tftc

Found with Listmaker. Something didn't quite look right and it was the cache.

Alansee made straight for this one, impressing with his excellent geo sense. Nice park!
Thanks for the cache, nr240106!

This one had us going for ages. We looked at the same thing about ten times.
When we were just about to give up we dug a little deeper and uncovered what we were looking for.
Thanks nr240106.
Chiefton!!!

I had been laid up for the past few days but today knew that I had to get out to make the most of a 1 in 4 year opportunity.

A quick park and grab. TFTC.

Picked this one up on the way to Geohaze's Choir. Had been before, but no luck. This time I was determined, and after the GPS settled a little better, thought whats that? And wha-la! There it was. How did I miss that last time? Oh well, another smiley. Thanks!

On my way from the hospital I pulled in to check this one out. Nice easy find but ants everywhere Thanks for the cache nr240106

Another tiny park that we have driven by many times and never paid any attention to.
Thank you for highlighting this area and placing a cache here for us to find nr240106

Quite a popular choice of cache on Groundhog Day.
Fortunately no muggles, 2 legged or 4.
A nice quick find here.
Thanks.

Wanting to find a cache today to mark the palindrome and headed to this fairly new "close to home" cache - I had been to this park before hunting a now long gone cache and the GPSr took me to a very familiar area but not quite the same as the last one! Had the cache in hand quickly then made a total hash of signing but its there if you look carefully through the marks from the other side. Thanks heaps nr240196 for this one.

Out for the palindrome souvenir today! We spotted an obvious object immediately but found nothing. Moved on and returned three times before the ever-helpful jimbo_80 put us out of our misery!

I worry burial is a big problem...

“Was it a car or a cat I saw?” - neither, but it did give me a palindromic souvenir for 02/02/2020

TFTC nr240106

TFTC with the help of a hint From the cache owner I was able to find this well hidden cache

What a delightful little park. TFTC

Found tiny as

YAPIDKA! A day in Melbs - enroute to Wilderness Shop to buy a map - a few missions on the agenda including this cache! TFTC

Close to home.
Lovely wee park.
Lovely wee cache
TFTC

A nice quick and easy find on a beautiful afternoon stroll around the area before heading home.
TFTC

The logs don't get smaller than this one and my entry is beside the pin! Thanks nr240106.

Out on our one cold day in months, I stopped here for a quick find. Cold hands don’t help to roll small log books.
Thanks nr240106

Found at 3:46 pm.
With an almost 30 minute muggle wait at the last park I was at it was nice to see this one deserted and I soon had the cache in hand in the 2nd place I looked.
It then took a few minutes to unravel, sign and re-roll the log back up.
Thanks nr240106 for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

Our first cache for the new year. A couple of women sitting on the bench near the playground but they were not paying us any attention. Phone pointed to an area out of their line of sight and a quick search found the nicely hidden cache. Thanks for the cache nr240106.

My first cache for 2020.
It took a bit longer than expected, but eventually found it in the first place I'd looked.
Tftc

This one came up a few days ago and I was pleased to see it. A likley contender for the end-of-year/beginning-of-year souvenirs. And yes, today it was in search of a souvenir I came. The satellites were happy today and pointed me to the exact location. I looked in the likely spot and there it was. I spent a bit of time reading about the California Bungalows to wait for a break in the muggles. I quite like this style, so it was nice to find another enclave. Thanks for bringing me here.

Yay! My first geocache for 2020! Found very easily. Tftc. I did not know about the historical significance of this place about box hill bungalows and Californian bungalows but thanks for bringing me to the spot to read about it.

A quick run up the road for a few Kms to get a final cache for the year. Extremely quiet area on a very quiet Tuesday (except fro the traffic that is anything but quiet these days. With my GPS jumping all the the place I had a read of the areas history and it was worthwhile and really interesting. A stable GPS led me straight to the GZ and geosenses automatically stepped in. Log signed and all returned. TFTC nr240106.

A bit of Déjà vu today as I remember finding a cache close by some years ago (showing my age perhaps! ) This one had me searching in a likely but wrong place for a while, changing my search area and remembering the previous cache I tried a different approach with immediate effect! (Hint - without giving too much away hopefully - it's not near the corner...) Final cache for 2019 found, I just have to make it out tomorrow to grab another to complete the souvenir pair TFTC nr240106

On a ride today to collect one for the souvenir, this was my target. Thankfully, the park was clear, so I could search in peace. Looking about, I spotted something likely and soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks nr240106.

With the last day of 2019 it seemed a reasonable ting to do and get a cache before the year runs out.
This park fitted the bill quite nicely Thankyou and the GPS wanted a day off it was behaving badly. But eventually settled down to point where it should have in the beginning.
Thanks nr240106 for your cache. TNLN SL.

A quick outing with the same motivation as the day's previous Finder - one last cache of the year!

A wayward phone GPS meant a couple of false starts but the container was in hand soon enough. A bit of an ordeal then ensued to get the log out, find a pen that worked on the waterproof paper and then get the log back in. But all done and the year ended appropriately!! TFTC

A new cache published this Monday, right near the way I go home on a Monday - looks like I'll be making a detour tonight!
The good thing about this crazy heat is I had the whole park to myself. I was looking in the wrong place but once my device settled I headed somewhere else and quickly spotted something.
Thanks nr240106 for bringing me here

FTF at 2:02 pm. Full log to follow.

STF at 14:25
I saw the email pop up and I knew by the cache name where the cache would be. I left as quickly as I could but obviously not quick enough as there were two suspicious characters on a nearby park bench when I arrived. It could only be cachers out in this weather so I went over to say hello.
After a bit of a chat I came back over to find the cache before retreating back home out of the sun.
Thanks nr240106 for the cache

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