Penguin Party Box North Epping, New South Wales, Australia
By
Normanhurst Scouts on 25-Sep-07. Waypoint GA1400
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S33° 45.034' E151° 5.481' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 323214E 6263863N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 98 m |
| Local Government Area: | The Hornsby |
/151.09135,-33.750567,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
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Zone Name: Lane Cove National Park (Click here for zone Details)
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Zone Name: Lane Cove National Park (Click here for zone Details)
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Logs
Decided to have a look in this area today, ended up finding 3 out of 5!
Nice quick find, everything in good order.
Nice quick find, everything in good order.
Rated: for Overall Experience
#54
On my way home from clearing out a bit more of my GC 16km radius when I remembered a handful of GCA caches in this vicinity. This was my second stop and I ended up with 3 finds out of 5 attempted. Didn't take too long to uncover the hide with good coords.
On my way home from clearing out a bit more of my GC 16km radius when I remembered a handful of GCA caches in this vicinity. This was my second stop and I ended up with 3 finds out of 5 attempted. Didn't take too long to uncover the hide with good coords.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Well I was definitly fixated on the wrong area last time. It took a whole 2 minutes to find this time.
This made two from three of the nearby scout caches for an arvo outing with Kazidy.
I spotted an obvious spot and raced over to find it empty. I widened my search but my GPSr kept leading me back to where I'd first looked. Perhaps my fixation on this spot made it harder to see other potential hiding places, or perhaps it’s gone missing, or covered in vegetation in the last 18 months. Either way TFTC
Quick find on a pleasant hike through the bush. SL TNLN TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
2nd one of the cluster, made my way to the large electrical item and then looked around. Quickly spotted the obvious spot and there it was. A nice stroll through the bush. Thanks Normanhurst Scouts.
I was running a bushwalking training weekend at Pennant Hills Scout Camp, so this series of caches was an ideal target to include in the walk. it was getting dark by the time we got here, but the cache was soon found.
Thanks for the cache Normo Scouts! A very good way to spreaf the geocaching word to other Leaders.
best wishes,
Wal
Thanks for the cache Normo Scouts! A very good way to spreaf the geocaching word to other Leaders.
best wishes,
Wal
Rated: for Overall Experience
Walked here from Azaria. Nice, flat and quick. Fast find too near the transmission tower. All in good order. Thanks scouts.
Geokid7 and I decided to find the "right 3" of the Normanhurst 5 after his cricket game at Pennant Hills Oval 4. The track to this cache is wide until the final 5m or so, but the hide is in the expected place. At GZ itself, while signing the log, a fly decided I was yummy and continually attacked my leg.
TFTC!
TFTC!
1850!!!
A nice quick find in the obvious spot. Found while my son warmed the bench up an age group for soccer nearby.
TNLNSL. TFTC.
A nice quick find in the obvious spot. Found while my son warmed the bench up an age group for soccer nearby.
TNLNSL. TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I made up a nice bushwalk from North Ryde to take in a few caches up this way. What a lovely walk! At this cache, we were entertained by a number of crows calling out through the surrounding bushland. TFTC
Found this nice cache after a short walk with pjmpjm who was the designated driver for the afternoon. Very nice area, found without trouble, in great condition. Signed log, took nothing left Yowie and signature Pathtag.
Thanks for a nice cache.
Thanks for a nice cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Today I set out on my trusty geosteed (MTB) to find the five Normanhurst Scouts GCA caches in Pennant Hills Park.
This was my first find of the five; relatively straightforward with the new coordinates. Thanks Normanhurst!
This was my first find of the five; relatively straightforward with the new coordinates. Thanks Normanhurst!
The archived and re enabled cache. Saw pjmpjm do it today, thought I'd check his co ords to see how accurate his gps is. Affraid to say...2m out 
so another in my 'race' complete. SL. TNLN. 4 Caches, 1 Trig all in 29m50s from car to last cache. TFTC.
so another in my 'race' complete. SL. TNLN. 4 Caches, 1 Trig all in 29m50s from car to last cache. TFTC.Rated: for Overall Experience
Cache appears to be alive and well.
Co-ordinates update to new location.
Co-ordinates update to new location.
'Penguin Party Box' survives!
It fact, it's doing quite well indeed, and in pretty good shape.
I wonder why this cache ended up being archived. I noted Yurt's June 2010 log and decided to track it down during my lunch hour today.
The 'first aid' container seems to have been moved slightly since Yurt replaced it, but it's within ten metres of the published coordinates, in a typical hide.
I'll add my own suggested coordinates, the result of two sessions of 'waypoint averaging' with my Oregon 300, and these should put future seekers right on the money, so to speak.
The cache isn't attached to, or located anywhere within, the obvious 'electrical equipment' towering above. It has its own separate hiding place. You really can't miss it if you look around a bit.
I wonder if this cache can be formally un-archived in some way. Seems a shame that a perfectly good geocache is just sitting here, near a group of other GCAs, and no-one knows it's there.
Anyhow, TNLNSL.
Many thanks to the anonymous scouts (I guess) who've placed and replaced this one!
It fact, it's doing quite well indeed, and in pretty good shape.
I wonder why this cache ended up being archived. I noted Yurt's June 2010 log and decided to track it down during my lunch hour today.
The 'first aid' container seems to have been moved slightly since Yurt replaced it, but it's within ten metres of the published coordinates, in a typical hide.
I'll add my own suggested coordinates, the result of two sessions of 'waypoint averaging' with my Oregon 300, and these should put future seekers right on the money, so to speak.
The cache isn't attached to, or located anywhere within, the obvious 'electrical equipment' towering above. It has its own separate hiding place. You really can't miss it if you look around a bit.
I wonder if this cache can be formally un-archived in some way. Seems a shame that a perfectly good geocache is just sitting here, near a group of other GCAs, and no-one knows it's there.
Anyhow, TNLNSL.
Many thanks to the anonymous scouts (I guess) who've placed and replaced this one!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Contrary to the logs below Penguin Party Box lives on! Well at least there is a cache at this point under the stanchion lying in plain sight. It looks like the Scouts have replaced it, with a date in March 2010 and a nice first aid box with a couple of note books and pens therein. We signed it and wrote Penguin Party Box Lives Again? in the front of the notebook. Re-hid it a bit better - not in plain sight now but an easy find and you are not damaging any bush by searching for it as a track leads you straight there. The box says "Jacqui Grove" but I'm not sure if that's the name for the cache or the former owner of the first aid kit!
Just a few faded remnants of this cache left now, was running in the vicinity so logged it for completeness of the area.
This cache has gone the way of the dodo it seems.
We'll archive the listing to stop it showing up in the search tools.
If the owner wishes to replace the cache they can reactivate this listing by placing an Unarchived log against it.
We'll archive the listing to stop it showing up in the search tools.
If the owner wishes to replace the cache they can reactivate this listing by placing an Unarchived log against it.
Found the log book and a few bits but not much left of the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I sort of found this. As I had found others in the series earlier in the morning I was able to identify the scattered litter as being the remnants of the cache strewn around.
