Happy Geoversary Elderslie, New South Wales, Australia
By SueDan83 on 17-May-23. Waypoint GCA8RNN

Container loose on ground. Mower damage preventing tube removal. Looks like a bit of repair work needed

The cache, a fake rock, is indeed missing. The previous finder actually found a broken vape which is the same size and colour as a mint tin. However, it contains a battery and not a logsheet. This has been removed and binned.

With the summer finally arriving, this place is now very busy. Not convenient for a cache.

Enjoying the last day of the school holidays with the geo kids. Stopped here for a picnic and so the kids could cool off. Soon found ourselves having a long chat with the chicken ma , getting to know much about the area (incredibly he was born in the information centre nearby that his parents used to own!)TFTC

found with martydeskHSI, shinkoweeeeeeeHSI and tree100000Loved the friends watching over us!TFTC

Nice hide! TFTC

With TjaaroxHSI, MartyDeskHSI and tree100000 adventuring around town and hit up this spot. Excellent Cache! First time we had encountered a cache like this one but we thoroughly enjoyed. TFTC!

#387 - nice easy find and I enjoyed the nearby fauna ?? TFTC!

Nice to be back in Camden.This is such a wonderful place for children to cool off on a very hot day.Cache found. Log signed and cache replaced as found.Thanks to SueDan83 for placing this cache.

It's been a few years since frazeydaze and I cached in Camden, so today we returned for a couple of Adventure Labs and other sundry caches. With it being school holidays and an hot day the nearby Water Play Space was alive with lots of young children. What a wonderful innovation. TFTC SueDan83

This area was so busy with kids on holidays that no one noticed me make my way over to GZ. Quick find here and happy ten years! TFTC

Found it after hint from owner. Tftc Lovely spot for a cache!

Harvey and Stead

Well played

Trusted the hint and quickly found cache safe and well at GZ. Happy 10th Geo-versary Meritonnn.

Cache has not disappeared. It is exactly where is should be. No attention needed at all.

Think, it was the right place, but didn't found anything

Dieser Geocacher hat gemeldet, dass der Cache evtl. verschwunden ist.

Found it!

Quick find on way home from Burragorang. TFTC.

Checked cache - all good.
Someone has torn the logsheet into two parts. They have been rolled together.
Met the "chook man" and had a great conversation. Fortunately, all geocachers have been well behaved and haven't caused any trouble to him or his chooks.

Found a cable tie with nothing on it.

Out with Gundrills looking around, found one log outside of the container and then after a short search, found the container with another log inside. TFTC

Drove past with macka4867 today to check how busy it was here. I guess benefits of a cold and little wet day makes for an empty park. Got to GZ only to find a log lying in the grass and thinking the worse. But after a little more of a search found the cache with another log inside. Returned the roaming log with its mate after signing. TFTC.

Lovely little spot for a geoversary hide for a lovely person. I have met Meritonnn twice, after seeing her name on basically ever local cache I've ever tried to find!
She was immediately friendly to this very socially anxious cacher and didn't even laugh at me when I fell over face first in slow motion out on a geoadventure! Thanks for being so welcoming Meritonnn and TFTC SueDan!
Enjoyed some time with the nearby chooks and sheep.

A quick find on the way to work. Got here just as three crossfit group were getting set up.
Thanks for the cache.

Great find!

I first met Meritonnn back in around 2019. I’d been seeing her around for a while but we didn’t really know each other. I remember one of the first things I said to her was “I love your tights!” (Meritonnn is still the undisputed queen of the funky athletic tights!). Since then, we’ve formed a wonderful friendship, galvanised by many Geoadventures in the bush in 2020 when you couldn’t really do much else. Geocaching really brought us together, so I have this quirky little activity to thank for what has become one of my most cherished friendships ??

We’ve gone well past just being geofriends now. We’ve since completed a 22km rogaine, a 27km adventure race, a few orienteering events, lots and lots of 1km track runs, countless hikes, many coffee dates, a handful of parkruns and probably lots more beautiful memories that currently escape me!

Thank you for being such a beautiful friend Meritonnn! I am so grateful to have you in my life and glad there is a cache dedicated to you. You bring so much to this Geocommunity!

TFTC SueDan

Found this afternoon on a walk with the Geodog and geodaughter. I’ve been meaning to grab this one since @Meritonnn’s geoversary. Finally got it. TFTC.

Found just where you said it would be. Had to outwait the muggle tending his chooks. TFTC SueDan83.

#7122- A quick find with thomo31 while heading past. Happy 10th Meritonnn. Thanks

Found with WaywardWoman while out caching today. Spotted this on the map as were passing by! A quick find. Signed log and returned as found. Happy Geoversary Meritonnn!
TFTC

Today we headed out to Camden (via Roseville Bridge, Warringah Freeway, Harbour Tunnel, Eastern Distributer, M5 Motorway, and Hume Highway) to attend The Booos "Maker Magic: Cache Creations in Camden" Event, stopping off along the way for a few caches, and then collecting a couple more caches after the Event. This was the 2nd of 7 finds, plus 2 DNFs, for the day.

After finding "Sensory Garden" we next walked over to this one, and it was a nice quick find on arrival at GZ. TNLNSL, and then replaced as found. The chickens near GZ were very friendly, and very chatty. TFTC SueDan83.

Find #6168

TFTC nice easy find

Roved around for a simple find, thanks

Familiar and thus quick find.

A good way to mark a Geoversary.

Watched on the by the chickens nearby, but fortunately that was all. Thanks for the trad


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In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

A quick find in the likeliest of places. Tftc and congrats meritonnn on the milestone

Tftc. Quick find at GZ. Thankfully GZ is hidden behind a hedge.

Kids found it! Super excited

Nice easy one for the kid

17 June 2023
This is find number: 8564
Streak Day: 2739

Found Today with Snoopy1976, a quick and easy find in the dark tonight. Thanks

Thanks to SueDan83 for placing and maintaining this cache.

TFTC

Streak Day #3628 - Out for a drive this evening with Dave8153 and stopped by for a quick find for our cache of the day. TFTC

A short search in the rear of a nice park. Rooster was annoying me as I did the find
.log dropped out of one piece and then the other, found that there was 2, so replaced in same position, as couldn’t see them both fitting in one. TFTC

Found it - log to follow

Very easy to find but good camo

Tried to do this one a couple of days ago when I cleared the old DNF on the other side of the park. Unfortunately on that night there was a group of teenage boys hanging around about 30m from this one, and I decided it was a no go.

Came back tonight to a very quiet park, and once I figured out the final approach to GZ it was a quick find.

Thanks SueDan for the cache, and congrats on the geoversary Meritonnn!

Great hide! Tftc

Published

You snooze you loose! {FTF} !! Early morning start for a parkrun at cowpasture and an event in Camden. Only time for a few caches on the way in and back.
TFTC Wilbert67

A quick find during the Event.

TFTC.

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On attending the Event nearby the word got around there was a new cache had just been published to mark the Geoversary of Meritonnn . As people disappeared in small groups , Sensible Sis and I decided to investigate .If you weren't a geocacher and watching a number of people circling a tree one would wonder what are these people doing , I know I would .
Eventually , after someone's laces were checked the cache was in hand . A pen was made available as log was shared around for signing .

TFTC SueDan83

A group event had the cache quickly in hand, thanks for the hide

A quick find with a group once the cache stealer revealed themselves. TFTC

Found during the event, and we almost has an event at GZ with 11 at the find. TFTC

Find number 9275

A quick find while at the event.

Thanks SueDan83 for placing this cache

For so many experienced cachers we took far too long to find this one.

Thanks SueDan83 for placingit here at the event.

After being severely distracted by cache finding on the way to the event I was surprised when I arrived that there seemed to be so few people here, yet there were vehicles I recognised in the carpark. Where were they?

After meeting and chatting with the CO I learnt that a large group had gone off in search of this cache. This is outside my notification range so I didn't even know it had been published. I chatted and indulged in some sweet treats instead. After the group returned I headed over alone.
I found the cache quickly then chatted with and patted the friendly goats who were over the nearby fence and obviously interested in so many visitors this morning. It's always more satisfying to find a cache yourself!

TFTC # 5424

I saw a few walk away from the event, thinking that they were going for the one I already had - Sensory Garden. I went along for the chat and realised that I had not been here before. Looked at my app and realised that it was a new cache...just in time for the log to be passed to me. PHEW!

Found with a whole bunch of others from the event that this cache is dedicated to.

TFTC

An event in itself. So funny standing there after I found it, cache was in full view in my hand for a minute, watching everyone else before Brew saw it in my hand. Thanks for the laugh.

Once again, I am nearly lost for words. I am completely blown away - in the very best way of course! Thank you SueDan83 for placing this cache to celebrate my 10th anniversary of geocaching - such a lovely and thoughtful gesture! It was certainly a very unexpected and wonderful surprise on the day! Geocaching has brought me a great deal of fun and joy over the years and I am grateful that it has also allowed me to meet the two of you and enjoy many fantastic adventures over the past few years! Hopefully many more to come!


TFTC and a FP of course

Found It!
Wandered over here with the group from the nearby event. With about 10 of us searching the area, the cache was soon found!
TFTC

What a joyful cache this is for me. Meritonnn is the sort of lovely person who well deserves to be celebrated, and SueDan83 are the sort of lovely people who think to do things like this to celebrate them.

Geodog and I came along to the event today and were having a great time with the event CO when they suggested we go and find this cache as everyone else had been. About this point I realised I'd missed the publication notification. I had thought that a physical cache could be published in conjunction with the event, a few other COs around here are known to do that, including this CO.

We continued our conversation as we strolled along to the cache. Sadly little actual finding was required as the large group of cachers made it obvious where the search area was, and I saw the cache in tronador's hand - a lot quicker than some others it seems. The log was being passed around and Meritonnn was kind enough to add my and geodog's names. Then we joined the group to walk back to the event location.

A great addition to the day and a great indicator of the qualities of the local geocaching community. Also probably the easiest SueDan83 find I'll ever have. Now, having become aware of it at the event I just have to hope that nothing in this log gets me put onto the D list...

Would have loved to have made the event today, but more pressing family matters were at hand at the time. So in an effort to redeem my non attendance, and still commemorate the day for my geofriend Meritonnn, I made a bee line in between things to attempt to track this down.
It took me longer than I would have hoped as o really wasn’t expecting that particular type of hide, but eventually tracked it down and performed the duties.
Happy Geoanniversary my friend, and thanks to SueDan for making the effort to put this out for the day. FP for that