Kourumbung Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
By Detourism on 01-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQCJX

Time for this cache to retire.

There were quiet a few Muggles about when I pulled up but thankfully the Cache is at the quiet end of the park so I could go about my business unnoticed. After a few minutes searching I found the cache. Had to poke the area a few times with a stick to make sure whatever lives in there was well and truly awake and angry before I put my hand in. Nice spot, thanks for showing it to me.

TNLN

TFTCSL

was the 4th or 5th for the day fairly easy to find

Found at 1640. After a quick drive from Wodonga to Newcastle today, I decided to stop by on the way to Gosford to pick this one up. Had a good search around for 5 min before settling on the cache hide. A nice little area.

Thanks.

Nice easy find no13 for our trip many thanks

Great spot, and thankfully well out of sight of the many muggles on picnic! TFTC

26/12/08
Found 6.50pm with Ywurry

Nice spot with easy cache found. As said water is real still.
BEWARE of the wasps, Ywurry was stung!

TNLN SL
TFTC

Raainjoy

6.50pm
Beautifully well maintained park, Easy cache once on the right side of the water!
A note to future cachers - those hornet/wasps are not babies anymore! The nest is located a couple of metres above the cache - so pls take care!

TFTC!
Ywurry + Raainjoy

Easy find in a peaceful spot.

TNLN TFTC

TFTC, Found it straight away although whilst logging I thought I could hear some buzzing, only to realize I was now being attacked by some baby hornets that have taken up residence just above the cache.
I must have disturbed them when grabbing the cache from it's spot.
I tried to rid the area but then more hornets appeared. That was it I was outta there.

So just becareful when getting this cache.

This was our selected lunch spot on our day of caching. Thank you for describing the park accurately. Little Miss Madstars love the park and the bridge and the pond... it was a great little lunch stop over for us.

I love to stop in a nice park, have a great lunch and then find a cache.

Thanks Detourism for this great cache in this fantastic spot.

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

Found it after a little wandering around working out which side it was on. Didn't get the feet wet!! L T/B.

Mummy 'C' (me) and the 2 little 'C's were up this way visiting Daddy 'C' at work, so I planned on doing a few caches whilst in the neighbourhood. This was the third of four. Great spot. 3yr old 'C' led me straight to it - he was right on target. Nice to see some decent items in the cache. We went over and played in the park afterwards. What a lovely experience - nice place, good sized cache with decent contents, easy to find, and a park to play in afterwards. Thanks!
Took: 2 toy cars
Left: Glo stick and stamp kit

Number 4 for the day with Walw, and yea I was slightly amused by the hugh sea of green. It just sucked the twigs right in.
TFTC
Wassa

A quick find once Wassa and I figured out the correct side of the water. Well, we think it was water...the floating pond vegetation is a little out of control at the moment, though entertained Wassa who spent some time throwing small sticks in. If I'd brought the kids they'd have suggested it was a prime crocodile location!
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache,
best wishes,
Wal

Had a quick hunt after my son's 21st on Sat night but it was too dark to locate the cache easily and too cold to persist. Nest time I am up this way I will try again in daylight hours.

Very nice little picnic spot.

Thanks

We really enjoyed wandering through this pretty park. Very natural and wild. I loved the little bridge. We took our time and enjoyed everything, thanks.

Found it. Left tea candles and took a sticky purple gecko.

0755 Heading through the 'Bung' towards Monkey Face for a weekend for abseil instructors to be assessed. Have been past this park many times over the years, and great to get in and finally get the cache.
Left: a purple stretchy lizard & a surgical skin marker.
Took: Keyring Collector TB.
Brought through: Dr Quack & 'Thanks for the Memory' TB's.

Thanks Dave and Dot for the cache, and hope you don't lose it in local floods.

Easy find with Geo Dog Bella in tow.
Left key tag travel Bug Took bouncy ball.

TFTC

It's good to see that nothing much changes even when you leave your home state. If there is a natural barrier to be found we always end up on the wrong side of it but we did enjoy our walk through another picturesque part of this park. Once we got ourselves geographically sorted out the cache was easily found. Sometimes drizzly days are to a cachers benefit, muggles don't come out to play
TNLNSL
Thanks Detourism

great cache.. tryed to find this one without gps and had no luck so needed a friend with a gps and had already found to locate the spot but once in right place easy find.
tftc

This was our fourth successful find of the day. Found with Lyrebirds after visiting the cemetery as we have a cousin buried their and we had his family with us for the day. Found ground zero but got attached by a wasp whilst trying to get the cache out and it really hurt!!! TFTC.

TOOK: Police Car
LEFT: Toy Car, Bounce Ball and Pencil

CRYSTAL PAULS

Have often visited the cemertry next door, have a grandson there so we approached it from that side. One of our party was attacked by a wasp quite close to the cache, this is not a method of finding the cache, just a warning to be careful. TNLN TFTC

As per the hint, it is a good thing that the water level here doesn't change. After all the recent rains I was concerned about what I'd find.
Not to worry, a cleverly hidden cache all nice and dry.
Had a nice walk over from the cemetary.
Thanks for the cache.

Oh, there is no pen in the cache and as I didn't have one on me I marked my visit with a dirty thumbprint. Would appreciate if the next finder could date my log and verify the find.
Thanks again.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took the three sons along for this one. Had to call a caching buddy for a wee small hint as the geo kids were tiring quickly. Found it soon afterwards - took bouncy ball and left a model police car.

tftc

Moosetrekker

Had to wait for Santa Claus to move which was a bit unusual. After a short wait he boarded a fire truck and was last seen heading in a southerly direction.

In the dark of night we visited this spot.Beware of the spidar web that hang from all the trees.Great spot.
JABs

A nice park located somewhat off the beaten track. As I had been driving around the Watagans during the day I was able to exit the forest nearby and make my way conveniently to this park. I can't imaging this park ever being overcrowded and would make a great lunch spot. Glad to have been able to see this spot.

Kid were playing in the park the other day - so decided to check on this cache again. Also took the opportunity to drop Ducky TB - it's been to a few schools already - but no higher ed ones.

First find ever, wasn't too hard to find after i opened my eyes and started looking properly.

Found it with Hoppy Bounce on my mums B'day.

On the way through Cooranbong and decided to give it a go - ine xactly the right spot - well hidden. Took TB and replaced a post card. TFTC

Started raining very heavily here. Enough to beat the band, who actually packed up and left. The rest of the mob stayed in the car while i sought out the cache. What a neat little hidey hole. Received Jay Jay TB and replaced BergArt Bead TB. Rain Stopped as we left.

This was a real nice spot- nabbed on the way home from rogaining nearby. Found without and problems.

The cache has had an overhaul and is back in action.
TB Jay Jay has also dropped in for a visit.

We were up at the John hunter in the last week of the holidays because my brother was getting some brain scans done. While we were up we decided to go to cooranbong and than I realised that this cache was near by and I had a sheet for it.(but was printed off quite a while ago) I noted that about a month ago that it was disabled but I didn't know if it still was, so I thought I would see if it had been fixed. So me and my brother (aka Shane Schofield) went for a walk in the nice park while we waited for lunch. When we got to ground zero we found it pretty easily. The container it self didn't look to bad but everything inside was drenched.
Although alot of the swaps were drenched the mini yo yo was good so I took that and I left some bubbles.
TFTC. Even though it was in bad condition. Have stopped in park a couple of times to go to the toilet but never walked in it.

The recent storms seem to have claimed another victim. Will repair shortly.

The cache had almost floated away in all the rain. The cache was filled with water and the log book all but ruined as the zip lock that it was in was torn. We tipped out the water and dried things out as best we could - also threw away the destoyed metal items in the cache. We have put in a new log book in a new zip lock but the cache owners will probably want to have a look for themselves sometime soon.
Added to that we had a guy stuck in his 4WD halfway across the creek - he had misjudged where to cross and was waiting for some help - the bloopy mobile is not up for the task of towing so unfortunately we were not much help. Luckily he was too concerned with what he was doing to worry about why we were searching around for plastic containers!

Found this while on the way home from the old brush event
TNLN SL
thanks for the fun hide

found to the jazzy tunes of some " shape up with Jesus" zealots who where on stage in the park today.
we came in the back way via an old cemetery and were not noticed.. we think the spectacle on stage was distracting enough.

took a little red car, left a lanyard thingo...

Second find for the day, on our way home to the ACT. Found to the tune of bagpipes practising near by!!! T little dog L Lupin keyring. Good hide thanks!

Phew, it was muggy today. However, it was nice and cool at 5,000ft soaring above the Hunter Valley for the afternoon.
I dug this one out on the way back to Sydney.
TNLN. Thanks for the detour.

Found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1540.Visiting friends in the area.Enjoyable little spot.Took embi Coin and tape Left car.Tnx Detourism,

Found this one nice and easily, we started in the Cemetary and ended in the park.

Took GC, Left GC.

Found with -e^ip and friends. Came in from the wrong direction via the dead centre. -e^ip took the find as I was a bit slow uploading data from PDA.

Took Texas Geocoin Grimlock to continue it's travels.

Thanks Detourisim

Found my first cache. I don't yet have a GPS, so I used Google Earth with surprising accuracy. The google earth map took me to the exact location, only took me a minute to find the cache once at the location.
TNLN

A nice easy find as we headed off to the hunter valley for a weekends caching, thanks.
keener

16:05 Hrs
I was in the area visiting family for Christmas, and brought them out here as an introduction to geocaching. A great time was had by all, except for a bite from a jumping bull ant to one member of our group.
An easy find in a nice park. A very family friendly cache.

TNLN.
Dropped off Geocoins: “arlorggen's FTF" & "Grimlock" (This is near a small lake or 'lock'. Best "Lock" that I could find on short notice.)

Thanks Detourism.

This was an unplanned cache hunt after a little detour became a long one and I ended up in the area near this cache. Took a little while hopping from one side to the other, and had to stay out of view of the delinquent muggles hanging out near the bus shelter nearby but evventually got it! Nearly stepped into the water which would have sucked. TNLN but signed log - 9pm. TFTH

Rated: for Overall Experience

As the last finder we were first stuck on the wrong side of the bank but once corrected we had the log book in hand straight away.

Great little park and place to have a rest.

It was round about lunchtime but we had to track this cache down first. Initially tried the wrong side of the lagoon/billabong as it was much more interesting botanically, however the messing around provided a good line on the likely GZ and the cache was quickly located. Traded out a pink anenome for a bouncy ball with lights going in. Also took out Med Crew TB. Peter Penguin TB was travelling with us and we tried to drop him off but he realised that he was going the wrong way so he stayed with us.

An easy find a the start of a day's caching in the Watagans. This was sticking out a little when I found it so I tucked it away a bit more.

No wet feet for us although one of our group did nearly fall in. We took Sevabo Southern Ontario Geocoin to place in another cache. Also my daoughter took a fancy to an incense elephant incense holder so we had to collect that. We left a carabiner.

Geocoin dropped off

First of 14 finds for the Team FAST Cache - Hunter Valley Night Caching run with geo-wal and zebrafive. Found at 9:30pm.
A great one to get started with, despite heading for the wrong bank!

TNLNSL

TFTC!

One down, 13 to go. Team FAST Cache on the start of a long Hunter Valley caching night. Found at 9:30pm.

TNLNSL

TFTC!

First of 14 finds for the Team FAST Cache - Hunter Valley Night Caching run with geo-wal and atificus. Found at 9:30pm.

A great one to get started with, despite heading for the wrong bank!

TNLNSL

TFTC!

Good Bye TB enjoy your trip

Found this very easily. Because of the way I approached GZ, you could see the container in its hiding spot - not that anyone would normally be in the place I was. To a muggle, it would have remained unseen for ages.

TNLNSL and covered up the container a little more.

Found at 1:45pm Sat 15 July in the rain. Went to wrong side of water first but then found our way.
TNLN

took new geocachers team macca out for their first taste of the cache. a great first timers spot - co-ords were spot on.
took cards
left elephant.
also found a little grave-yard tucked in behind the bridge.
photos of our new geocachers.

Another great cache from Detourism
Because of the recent rain walking along water edge slipped in, my daughter offered to save my GPS.
Great find on a cold windy day
The Bower Birds

Our very 1st cache with our daughter & son-in-law...we are hooked...this was a very lovely place to do our first one

Nice spot for a Cache. Found this one with my family and extended family. The muggles were far enough away that we had time to search. Took nothing, left nothing. Thanks Detourism.

A very clever spot for a cache.
The muggle children don't have a clue that it is there.

Well Done!!

I have left a nice carved coral flower for a lovely lady to find.

Cheers!!

Cache check completed and cache restocked with some more goodies.

Delightful little spot. Got the thermos out for a cuppa. Took TB and left TB. Caravan friendly. Thanks guys.

after getting down the wrong side i swung around and found a nice spot where what a surprise there it was ileft the travel bug bear had some lunch and ventured off for (oh wata feeling).

3rd cache for the day, with an extra difficulty due to muggle factor. The buggers were everywhere! Stormin Norman managed to sneak the cache away, and we perused the contents while the kids played on the swings and had lunch.

Little Miss Rat decided on the heart keyring and left a photo frame.

After a slight decline in muggle density, Stormin snuck the cache back into hiding and off we went for the next one on the list.

Thanks for the fun

Found at 8.50am. Easy find if on the correct side of the pond. Nice Park. TFTC.
Took torch, left some toys.

I hadn’t seen a mate at Dun’s Creek for a while so thought it was a good chance to plan a small trip north and grab a few caches on the way.

This was our first stop and it was good to finally see Cooranbong after passing the signs on the F3 quite regularly - definitely worth the "detour" .

We could not see the TB ALF. I was looking for a TB tag and there was no item with one - don't recall seeing the badge, but as I know ALF, I think I would have noticed it.

This cache was claimed by Tylander 1st as even though I saw it 1st, he touched it 1st - apparently that makes him the “finder†... I’ll have to look up the “Guide to Geocaching Etiquette†on that one!

Thanks for the cache - great to see a few regular + sized caches out there.

we saw it at the same time, I got to it 1st!!

Popped in w/ KitPie and Cassie on our way to Watagan State Forest for a spot of camping w/ friends. Lovely little spot for a pit stop.

After a play in the park for the geokiddie we found this one easily. Well it was actually found by a person we were introducing to geocaching.
Took: Motion rings
Left: mini torch and toy dinosaur.
TFTC

2nd find for the day. Great little spot. Also did the wrong side of the pond, ... still getting used to GPS.
T: Soap, nail polish, face wash and TB Best4x4Quaterly.
L: Playing cards and Glass Keyring.
TFTH

Found this one at 5:15pm. This was our second attempt as when we had passed by early there were two groups of kids hanging out. Luckily i think the rain that had drenched us while doing Oh WATA Feeling had send them home. Found this one quite quickly, very clever hidey hole.

T: TB ALf and Buddha Bell

L: TB Best 4X4 quarter and silver bracelets.

Dropped off Alf TB

Lovely place to stop. Got us off the freeway which is always a pleasure. People were having morning tea, but the cache location allowed us to sit down at our leisure. Cache is well stocked.

For our long drive we decided to take the puzzle and left motion rings.

Thankyou

Nice little park. Beautiful Sunday morning. Left small bronze Buddha bell. Took small packet of tissues - runny nose, no hanky.

3rd for the day, and a very nice place to finish up. I started out by going over the wood bridge and exploring the wrong side of the black water before swinging right round to the cache site. Nice easy find then back on the road. Took tape measure, Left minotaur puzzle. TFTH.

My GPS has a thing for always being 10 metres off to the east.. I'd spent 15 minutes searching the small pool, then thought "I'll bet the eTrex is 10 metres off again" and went straight to the cache.

Left a measuring tape and a cachecard. Took nothing.

Our first FTF. Great hidding spot.
Took Sydney 2000 watch & TB
Left lockout padlock and deck of cards

Dropped in Let's Do Lunch TB

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