Samboo Park Elanora, Queensland, Australia
By
petan on 30-Nov-18. Waypoint GA13272
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S28° 7.713' E153° 26.689' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 543683E 6888477N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 1 m |
| Local Government Area: | Gold Coast City |
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Description
Samboo likes to think he owns this park, but in fact its Schuster Park
Samboo Bear is having great fun exploring Schuster Park. At 68 hectares in size there are lots of places for adventures.
The land was originally owned by Benedict (Ben) Schuster who settled in the Tallebudgeera area as one of the orginal settlers in the later part of the 19th century. He ran a dairy farm, but was also a blacksmith. The property and business passed down to his son Joe, who was also a shire councillor. The property was acquired by Gold Coast City Council who turned it into the park we enjoy today.
The park is dog friendly with one of the largest off-leash areas on the Southern Gold Coast, although there are areas which are dog prohibited and spots where they must remain on lead. The park contains wide open lawns, as well as wooded areas, and wetland areas. This space is also a koala conservation area, so look up. There is a small land bridge, which takes you onto the Peninsula Trail, which then takes you through melaleuca woodland, she-oak open forests, mangrove and saltmarsh communities. When its time for a break, there are picnic and BBQ facilties, as well toilets and a kids playground. Access to the park is either by car via Heather Street, from Tallebudgeera or via pedestrian (cycle) bridge on 19th Ave. In otherwords, lots of spaces for an adventure.
At the time of updating this listing (4/10/20) Samboo has 5 GCA caches hidden in the park, and 2 geocaching.com caches
- GA13152 Is there a troll under the bridge? Traditional Cache
- GA12455 The Teddy Bear's (and Friends) Picnic An Augmented Reality Cache (Needs the metaverse app)
- GA13153 The Gateway To Adventure Traditional Cache
GA13221 5-4-3-2-1 Bessie's Cowtemplation Experience Traditional CacheArchivedGA13165 Heads or Tails Multi CacheDisabledGA16925 Sounds like its ... PodcacheDisabled since the council ground staff cut down the camphor laurel it was hiding in.Keep watch on the Gnome Tree (S28° 7.664' E153° 26.678') Sometimes its a 'portal' for Moveable caches.
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Logs
This cache is fine, perhaps a little damp but will dry out considering the amount of rain we have had.
Plenty of caches to find in Samboo Park now.
It was a little damp inside, so I dried it out and rehid it.
This is good to go.
Mr Ted wanted to find all the treasures that his friend Samboo has hidden all over Schuster Park. We had great fun Criss-crossing the park. With Mr Ted’s help we found 3 GCA Traditionals plus another 2 caches on the big Geocaching website. But before we could find them all there was lots of thunder. Mr Ted said he doesn’t like getting his fur wet. He says it makes him smelly.
TFTC
We replaced it this afternoon while on today's walk.
Photo from todays walk in the park but not near GZ.
Unfortunately we were unable to sign the log as it was so we the pencil just wanted to tear the pages so we took a photo of the log book if proof is needed.
The cache was exposed and had been found by muggles as there were two sets of 'signatures' int eh log book that appeared to be muggles, based on dates and online logs.
Thanks for the cache petan.
Yep, still there.
We now know what an orienteering marker looks like.
Thanks.
Caching with whitewebbs a cluster of GA caches at this location caught our attention. Found four out of the five we attempted and this was one of them.
Many thanks Petan for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a
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Blue - Cerberus or Orange - Minotaur. Earn trophies and rise through the ranks from Dragon Fodder to Ruler of the Universe. Out and about caching with Tassie Trekkers and we headed out from Nobbys Beach when we thought the rain had stopped to target a group of GCA caches. When we arrived down came the rain but we managed to find 4 out of 5 caches in the park. It is a lovely spot. TFTC
