Explore Macarthur: Manna Gum Reserve Narellan Vale, New South Wales, Australia
By Meritonnn on 07-Dec-20. Waypoint GC91J17

A quick check here and it seems the cache has either been muggled or suffered from cache creep. Either way, it could not be located. On reflection, although this is a lovely spot worthy of bringing people to, the hide location itself was probably not the best. Needs a rethink. Thanks to all who have found.

I wasn't going to come here but I had no other option than to go south on the Camden By-pass from my last find as I was heading back to Campbelltown for a high school reunion lunch, which believe me I was not looking forward to!
So with really no time to stop I wove my way round the streets of Narellan Vale and stopped here.

After about 15 minutes of thorough searching I left empty handed and quite late for the lunch. Still had to change from my caching gear to semi reasonable lunch gear!

Hopefully next time!

Third day of the new year and we have signed the log for this cache. Thanks for arranging and giving us the opportunity to explore.

TFTC,
Out with others while they find caches in LGA's they don't have.
With so many DNF's today all 13 finds across 4 LGA's were special.
Thanks for a well placed cache, visited trackables.

Out showing Liz & Bruce a tour of the area, with Wazza9, quick find, stamped log and replaced. Thanks to CO

Thanks for the cache. Muggles about.

This is my first ever gel cache because there are few non premium ones around

Too many muggles having a party within sight of GZ.

Muggle party a few metres from GZ. Not a chance today!

It took 10 minutes to find but a good find
27/9/2022

it is in the bushes not far in

In the bush

Well ok there it is. Yes no need to go into the garden. My geosenses were missing last time. Love changing a cache to a smiley. Tftc

No luck today unfortunately. Beautiful day for a walk though

Dropped in to check on this one and can confirm it's still in place. The original camo has disappeared, but it was tucked in nicely, out of site from muggles. This can still be reached without the need to enter the garden. I'll update the hint and description accordingly. I did need to clean a lot of 'crap' out of it. Please don't place candles or other flammable objects inside caches. Additionally, old 2016 slipknot concert stubs, lolly wrappers and bandaids don't count as swaps - trade fairly please!

I think people found it… Couldn’t locate + people at the park.

Been to the park a million times .. kids loved the find !

Great fine 15 minutes than found with all my best friends thanks to jayce and haley

Kids found m it with some help

Park deserted after a girl went past walking a dog. A short search turned up the goods! Took TB TFTC

Added a KampKoral trackable! TFTC

Found it

Very fun

Pbls

Great little cache in a lovely park!
Found with the family

Couldn't find it, alot of people at the park so couldnt really look. Will try to go by another time when people aren't around

#350 - full credit to my chef, who found this right away. TFTC!!

Possibly missing, followed all hints and nothing.

Nice little find! Left a little something inside

FOUND IT! Took me quite a bit but I had loads of fun! This was my first time geocaching and my day had been pretty crumby beforehand but this made me smile, thanks for a great experience!:)

Back into weekend caching and there are lots of areas that have new caches or caches I haven't done yet. Today I picked Campbelltown and Camden and had a good go for a few hours.
TFTC Wilbert67

First proper day of caching since freedom from lockdown and Oldmorty, Missmorty and I headed to the Campbelltown area to find some treasure.

Arrived to find the place almost people free. Thanks to great hint it was just a matter of joining the dots. Another Missmorty find. TFTC!

Out for another days caching around Narellan with morty8888 and missmorty. With the generous hint it was soon CIH. Thanks for the hide.

Nice easy find. TFTC

Took a pep big rock and left a tazo.
Good find for the kids

Second time a GO, the first time too many muggles. TFTH

Thank you! Perfect spot for it also! Beautiful day

Very easy find. Signed and placed back. Little one has fun at the park.

2nd one for the day with the family. Great park for the kids.
TFTC

Tftc

Quite easy, fun to find. HINT: *BUSH*

Nice quick find. TFTC

Great little cache just down the road from home

Nice stash, dropped a note and returned.

Couple of bushes right to the post

Good find

Quick stop & grab...TFTC

Found it! 5/7/21

TFC

Found

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Find number 5766

A lovely park with a nice quick find on a beautiful sunny Sunday.

Thanks Meritonnn for placing this cache.

Found with Brendan. Second time straight to it different phone made the difference. TFTC

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Quick and easy find. I didn’t have any swag on me today, so just signed the log and replaced as found. TFTC.

This one revealed itself without too much difficulty. I was keen to grab one today to add some additional distance from my last cache in the Southern Highlands. Off to Darwin tomorrow to be able to grab caches in all territories which has been enjoyable.

Thanks Merritonn.

Quick find with Ris768 for the daily cache thanks Meritonnn for placing & maintaining this cache

Log 2784
SD 1596

Quick find with Deep_99 to keep the streak going. SL #4916 on streak day #3236. TFTC

Nice easy find on the way to Coles. Coordinate spot on . Great Camouflage and nicely maintained cache . Thanks Meritonnn . TFTC

This was my first find so it was fun. Had to use the hint but found it quickly.
Thanks

Nothing in location

TFTC easy find kids are loving caching! Hooked.

A nice easy find, thanks

A quick find here today thanks for the cache. No muggles about today , nice and quiet thanks.

Nice quick start to my day of caching, I go to this park all the time with my family as it’s right around the corner from my sisters, nice quick find TFTC!!

#7591 (5 of 5 today)

Headed south again today for more calendar finds. Got five out of 6 attempts - muggle issues at one spot where I ended up bailing and then returning.

Most were easy finds, but that one with muggles - I really needed clear air.

But got there in the end.
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Full log to follow

SLTNLN
TFTC

#5711- An instant find not far from an unsuspecting crowd having a meeting in the park.Thanks

A quick find with WaywardWoman while caching in the area. TFTC

Read the hint , and surprisingly didn’t have to do what I initially thought tftc

Forgot to log this but found with Emilycamden on Christmas night. Another nice playground here and nice camo. Tftc, FP awarded.

Thanks Meritonnn for the cache !

Really behind on my logs and only just catching up, sorry for any generic type logs!

Popping out for my daily cache and not wanting to travel far, I had kept this aside for a day just like this. I headed over in the afternoon and had an easy find thanks to good coords despite the trees. Thanks for the cache Meritonnn!

Tftc. Quick find. There were muggles in the park but they paid no attention to us. The tears of the toddler may have kept them occupied.

Tftc. Quick find here today regardless of muggles. Kids play areas are not my favourite caches.

I was on my way home from a morning expedition with friends when I remembered noticing a few traditionals had appeared in my old manor. Well we can't have little green dots everywhere can we? So I popped by this nice park for a quick find in a thankfully deserted spot. One of those very nice hides where a cacher will usually spot it easily but a muggle will never notice.

Found today just after nightfall. I thought I’d located it while searching at GZ, but turns out all I’d found was an opportunity to explain to a child why the bottle with the hose coming out of it definitely WASNT the cache. It was in the second spot we looked with some good camo. TFTC Meritonnn and merry Christmas!

A cool day, great to get out for a cycle. Better still, cycle to this cache. Only 7.5km from home. With no one else in the park, we made a quick find thanks to extremely accurate coords. Thank you for that and thanks Meritonnn for placing this cache and bringing us to a lovely location.

After work I decided a cache was in order and this one was on my radar as it only popped up a few days ago. Knowing the area decently well, but never coming to this park, I was surprised at how peaceful it was. A couple of kids were playing in the park, some dog walkers and a few people biking through. Enjoying a sit down in the sun under a tree, I scouted go and waited for the muggles to leave. Before long everyone disappeared and I made my move. A quick find thanks to the hint. These one would be great for the geokiddies coming through. TNLN. Signed the log and replaced. TFTC Meritonnn!

A pretty quick find on the way home.

Feeling somewhat adventurous after a tough gym session, I decided to take on one more of this COs caches that are proving to be a bit of a nemesis to me! So on arriving, being 20:45, I thought it a safe bet that the area would be vacant........(buzzer sound) eerghh! As usual, there’s kids playing in the park, in the dark! So I think, to hell with it, so I carried on to the GZ, in my stealth blacks. I honed in to what I suspected was the location by the hint, as I wanted to keep the light off on my phone. Nope, after feeling around, it ain’t there, and no spiders either(well, I couldn’t see anyway).So while the kids carried on screaming and yelling, I was on the ground fumbling around by extending the search area. Doesn’t seem to be in this area, oh well, I’ll step out and look back in. That proved to be beneficial. The familiar sound of cache! Where was that. So turned around and crawled back in. Kids were now on the move, so did the duties torchless and moved off! Thanks for the adventure!

SLTNLN

Published

It feels like a long time since I've had an FTF - according to my stats, which are themselves quite out of date now, my previous one was in January! COVID has certainly made for a strange year, caching and otherwise. Anyway I was at work not far from here and had some errands to run at lunchtime. I checked my phone and saw these two new caches had been published in the late morning and didn't seem to have any finds logged yet. So I came directly here and was fortunate to find the park quiet and the cache easily spotted thanks to the camouflage. A blank log was the icing on the cake. TFTC!