Corroboree Park II Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Bewilderbeest on 18-Apr-08. Waypoint GC159NE

Its time to go...

We were going off PDA data which was several days old, old enough that the fact that this cache had been disabled as it has gone missing didn't appear. Which I guess is why we didn't find the cache. At least I feel better now I know it wasn't there!

Darn, the cache is missing. This will take some work to replace...

I'm not sure if it's still there or if we're just a bit too blind to find it. We found some nails in a spot a cache could have been. Or maybe we weren't tuned in enough to work out the hide.

Spent some time searching in the semi-darkness last weekend without success - very frustrating, despite the clues. Give it another go next week.

tried to grab this one, but the muggles at GZ seemed intent on trying to work out what we were up to.
next time...

[This entry was edited by feral five on Sunday, March 08, 2009 at 5:07:10 PM.]

Nice camo, I liked the container. There are so many people putting so much effort into the hides that it makes me wnat to make hides myself.

TN and released Buttsy and Hootsy owl GC into the wide world, seemed like a good place for an Owl.

SL
TFTC

Found it during a lunchtime Caching run with Bezerker. Nice hide.

TFTC

Some coins passing by

Out for more geocycling around the lake i decided to ride inland first up to collect this one prior to the mad morning traffic.

Great piece of Canberra history and a clever hide to boot.

Found by Mary & David at 0950. Delighted to have such informative and historically-based cache notes. To think we lived not far away in Hackett from 1977 to 1981 and didn't really explore this park, although David often passed by on his way to and from work. Great camo. Plenty of birds about this morning. Dropped off 'Civil War Geocoin #9 Chickamauga'. Our thanks to Bewilderbeest.

Great park. The outdoor table-tennis table is a rather unique feature
I found the cache after investigating a few of the other unique features of the park
TFTC.

Actually tried this way back when I had just started caching, and funnily enough, my mate found the cache and pointed it out and I dismissed it! What a fool I was...
I found it and signed it fairly quicky this evening by the last light of the day.
TFTC

Didn't take me long to find this cache (clever camo BTW!) but I have to admit, rather bashfully, that despite several minutes of determined effort, I couldn't seem to get this cache open.

So....unfortunately, I couldn't sign the log. Perhaps someone stronger or with better grip will have more luck than me.

I did enjoy the hunt for this one however and what a very pleasant little park!

TFTC!

Went at dusk and searched around the tree bases everywhere! Just before I was ready to give up (due to failing light, not determination) I felt it! Great spot! TNSL.

My First Find!

Hardest part here was avoiding the mother muggles but it seems we managed that. Nearly had to help one who's BMW wouldn't start though, but it did at the last minute.
Thanks indeed

[This entry was edited by chewinprickles on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6:19:38 PM.]

Great park. We thought we would be early enough to avoid any occupation of the buildings, but some class had just finished when we drove up, and everyone was chatting outside!
We wondered off and found the cache a short while later. Nice hide.
Thanks, Robmc.

Took a while to find but we got there in the end like always. Signed the logbook and were off once again. Thanks Bewilderbeest for the cache.

Loved the camo

Nicely hidden! Pohutukawa the youngest found this one. Cheers Gav [3162]

Found with the kiwi team on our great Australian caching tour. Easy peasy find but good camo all the same.
TFTC

Found this one with Moneydork, Tofska , Rediguana and ADV during our Australian caching holiday.

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Pohutakawa spotted it, even though he couldn't quite reach. T4TC, M@

Very clever. TFTC

A nice find on an evening's outing nearby. Took the opportunity to pick up some local caches. TFTC

I thought the camo for the last cache at this park was good. It was but this camo is fantastic. I think I've seen were you got the idea from. I can't wait until I bring slowdad back to find this one, I'll have to bite my tongue to stop from laughing.
Found this cache with mtrax.
TFTC

snap, Found with psychokat , again due to the rain although it had stopped only a small number of muggles about.. good caching time.
found after a short search looking for a copy of Version 1 but found the upgraded V2 much improved .. obviously a bit of time put into this one.
TNSL

Forgot to log this one after a quick drive by last week. The rain meant that the park was quiet so it was a nice easy grab.

Found after a short stroll with geobaby - found the cover lying on the ground while signing the log so replaced it on top of the cache... man that plastic container was hard to open...

Much better hide than the last cache we found here, very clever.

This is very challenging for people who arent very tall, like me. But it was well hidden, it was hard to find it but eventually we got it.

Thank you thank you!!!

Found at 0925. DJ and I were here the night before, but it was near impossible to search around by torchlight while there was an urban corroboree going on nearby. Today, while there were only a couple of people entertaining their dogs nearby, we made the interesting find without any problems. Interesting that one of the trees fell over during the night.

Thanks.

Had come here the night before but it seems the Corroboree was well under way. We decided not to try anymore and come back today to make the find. Only a couple of people in the park but were too busy entertaining their dogs to notice us.

Out - Crikey GC.

Cheers.

Found the cache easily enough. Extracting the container from its nest was another matter entirely. Bewilderbeest generously let us claim the find even though we couldn't sign the log (he obviously knows what's good for him ).

we found it with no trouble at all, but we couldn't reach it.[:(!]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A quick find in the morning despite the barbie brekkie going on about 20 meters down the park...
Nice camouflage.
TFTC
In Coin
Alpini
proud PLG member

Great camoflage - nice hide. First entry for new log.
Thanks for the cache.
Took the GC to move it along.

Finally arrived on a muggle free day - they sure have a lot of picnics in this park. A very well-made cache.

I dropped by today and put a new log book in the cache, as well as several new SWAPS. They're swaps people, NOT takes - the container was stuffed when I placed it, all that was left was a plastic soldier!

Also left a GC.

This was at least the 3rd cache I visited today that Urch has been to in the last couple of days, but I havent been lucky enough to score a pathtag.

This is a lovely park, very popular today with picnicers. Retrieved the most unusual cache and was very puzzled that someone had put in today's date in the log book, but nothing more.
Thanks for the hunt, Bewilderbeest.
PS Sorry to have missed you, but we might catch up at an event on the weekend. (I will be bringing my pathtags...)

Had a great time finding it. Loved the container.

Wednesday afternoon and with my last uni assignment in I decided to check out a local cache. My GPS seemed to be insisting that it was inside the building and with a maggie trying to swoop me I looked around and didn't take me long to find the cache. My first successful cache in Canberra. Took nothing left nothing.

I dropped by today to check on the cache, after Super-Ts log suggested all wasnt well.

I have returned the cache to it's original orientation so it now sits a bit better in its home. Unfortunately the camo isnt weathering as well as I thought it would. There's still a bit of space in the log book but it's just about due for replacement - I'll do that soon.

10 of 10

What a way to finish off the day! Great cache loved it, founded pretty quickly TFTC

Another nicely hidden cache before work. While it is obvious when looking for it, it does not stand out when occasionally glancing over the tree.

TFTC - Fogg

After the Geokids taking off for the nearby park, Ra had a wander with the GPSr, which seemed to want her to walk around in circles (I think because of the nearby buildings).

After she gave up I had a go and experienced the same problem so gave up on the GPSr and found it shortly after.

T Frog & Keyring
L Solder & Spider

SL TFTC

Cache is no longer nailed properly to the tree and stands high enough to no longer look even remotely natural, and stands out way too much.
Lid could not be fitted tightly enough for my liking due to the looseness of the attachment to the tree and my inability to reach up high enough to do it easily.

Grabbed this one as part of one of those frustrating days when you spend the whole day waiting on kids on school holidays. Dropped one at Floriade for work, then tried to kill some time with the other one in Civic until the first one had finished work again, etc.

There was a geocoin in here that was a very tight fit, and so have taken it to move it on to another container, and will probably place it in the Northside Travel bug container for it to find it's way towards the International Airport in Sydney in the hopes that it may make it closer to Germany where it wants to go. Though why a coin called "exploring the great southern land" or some such name, would want to go explore a Northern land like Germany, is beyond my understanding, but ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to help it on it's quest. So it shall be done.
Took the coin, left nothing, signed log, will move the coin on as soon as possible.
Thanks for the cache.

When is this rain going to stop .A spare day and I spend more time sitting in the car ? Blue sky over the city. Heading south.

Was on this side of town so we thought we would give this cache a try. Only a family of Muggles having a BBQ and they took no notice of us. It helps when you have GeoKid looking for a cache in a park. TNLN, TFTC.

Found on my second attempt. The first evening I came by, I felt uneasy about looking for the cache with muggles converging on one of the halls and was looking in totally the wrong area. The second evening, there were muggles in the other hall, but I managed to go straight to GZ and found the cache quickly. Nice hide! TFTC.

Great cache container and a quick find nonetheless. TNLN and TFTC.

Coool hiding spot made me think about this one

T Bug
L Frog

Dark Menace

Very clever hide which was an easy find.
TNLNSL
TFTC

#78

What a brilliant hiding spot. Unfortunately as usual I was vertically challenged, but with a bit of adventuring I got the cache. A lovely park.

Gwen

I found this one quickly and sat on the nearby seat to log my find
T unite for diabetes
L Aussiepuschaks left travel bug

Dropped off Fuwa YingYing who was hoping to make it to the Beijing Olympics. Alas on the day Australia won a gold in the pole vault, she finds herself now several metres high in Corroboree Park II. (swapped on behalf of Unicornnikita for Kuchera India Unite for Diabetes TB).

#298 - Took a while to find this one as the GPSr keep changing its mind where I should look. I found a lot of good spots without a cache in them! When it finally made up its mind, found a great cache, but nearly had a CNO (could not open) rather than a DNF. To get it open, I ended up levering it on the edge of the nearby BBQ.
T: Kansas Sunshine GC L:Unite for Diabetes TB.
Thanks for the fun.

I wanted to leave another coin when I was here the other day. But I didn't have it with me. I stopped by tonite to drop off the Kansas Sunshine Coin.

Second time I've been to this park for a cache. Hope this time the cache sticks as it's a rather nice hide! Appreciated it a little more this time, as it was a sunny day. Odd though, both times I came here I went to Maccas beforehand. TFTC

loved this cache, very cool hide. Spotted it straight away, but i think really it was a lucky find. TFTC!

Visiting from California working for the Australian Dept of Defense and I decided do do a few caches. My GPS took me straight to it with no problem, I walked from my hotel down on City Walk. It took a few minutes to recognize the cache. Very nicely done. I had planned to to leave the Rock Hound TB and take the WDD coin BUT WDD was gone and Rock Hound is too big for this cache. I will have to find a different cache for Rock Hound.

find on out trip to canberra with the j-man,Black Catalina,johny ulus

this has to be up with my best

Great cache

found while on a caching weekend

at canberra. tftc.

Awesome cache!!! Found on a Canberra assault. This cache is just 1 of 27 found in the weekend. TFTC
Black Catalina
This cache would be up in or top 15 caches.

Nice cache, found on Paegle’s Canberra Cache-A-Thon with me, The J-Man, Black Catalina, Johny Ulus, & ,of course the birthday boy, Paegle Boy.
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Very clever cache.

I used to walk past this park every weekday and am glad to see a well put together cache in this area.

Had me thinking for a while, until I resorted to the clue.

(#49) Found 11:45. What a great container and terrific hide! TNLN TFTC!!

i had to wait for some school girls smoking on the nearby bench before i could grab this one. i was glad to have geokid with me so we did not look too out of place.

TFTC

Final cache of 11 for today's School Holiday Caching run - a new Team O'Grady record!

Great little park tucked away - have never been here before so many thanks.


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Groovy camouflage - well hidden. Thanks for the cache.

TN, Left GeoCoin

Nice Hide... Looked in the wrong tree for a while. Google Earth was a little out.

Tricky camouflage, but a fun find. Got stuck looking in the wrong place (damned Blackberry GPS).

Loved the home made camouflage on this one as much as I did its predecessor. Thanks Bewilderbeast.

Dropping of GeoCoin for Eozboots

Nice Hide... Looked in the wrong tree for a while. Google Earth was a little out.

Beautiful container.

I had a look at this last weekend but the GPS was having grief with the trees and pointed in the wrong direction, Too many muggles walking their mutts to do a long search so left for another day. I nailed it's location pretty quick when looking on this day. TFTC Nice bit of work on the hide. TNLN.

Beautiful cache. a pleasure to find

Did a quick caching spree at lunchtime and managed to fit this one in. Had to hurry with log though as local playgroup kids were heading straight for us . TNLNSL, TFTC

A friend and I found this nice cache, but it was about 8 m away from where the GPS receiver was indicating... TFTC!

1 out of 22 caches for the night
nice woden container
TFTC

#101

a cache of 22 today for a birthday caching run with geoKid zoratz

neat container and hide, might have missed it except for the hints

TFTC

Lovely container! Easy find.
TFTC

Out on a Great Southern Raid with Rastas000. Very nice hide, found by torchlight. TFTH

Nice work on the hide!!!Out on a southern caching run the nations capital and the surrounds with the She-Green Gecko. TFTC SL

Spent a little while looking for this one as the GPS was insisting it was 20m away from where it was actually located. Must have been all the tall trees. Anyway, once we expanded a little it was pretty hard to miss. Fantastic container.

Once retrieved a man and his dog walked into the park so we retreated to the nearby bench to sign and wait for him to be done, then we replaced the cache.

Mush of been a lot of hard work to make the camo, very nicely done.

Thanks, Jezzza Xtreme.

Brilliant hide, great creativity on the cache!!! TFTC! LivandMez.
T - Leopard
L - Ladybug

A bit late with this log. Found this one while in Canberra for the day. What a clever hide!! Most impressive. TN. Left a penny. SL. TFTC Bewilderbeest.

Nice find at 8:30PM on a quiet Canberra night! Cool container. Took a penny as a souvenir from my Australian tour.

TFTC!

This cache is the evolution of the Bewilderbeest hides. I loved the effort that has gone into this one. Nice job!

Thanks Bewilderbeest for the cache.

TNLNSL

Our second for the afternoon.
Another cool hide, I love the effort you've gone to.
TNLN

TFTC

Very cool hide, this one. Clever workmanship

Muggles around the nearby building caused us to delay the start of our search but they moved and it was Feathertop who had the goods in hand while I was searching elsewhere. TFTC.

Our 42nd and last cache for the day under the cover of darkness. Night time forces you to concentrate your eyes more and after searching for a while we had our ah ha moment and found the really impressive cache. TNLN thanks bewilderbeest.

Popped into this cache on the way home from the WWFM event nearby. I liked this container very much. It took me a while to spot it though. Thanks very much.

Decided that I just HAD to find this as it was so close to the event today. Definitely a completely different hide to the previous cache in this park & I managed to find this one much more quickly this time, thanks to having the clue on hand with my new GPSr. (I decided that an extended search with muggles at the picnic table nearby was not wise. In the end I was well concealed from their eyes.) A cleverly constructed cache, albeit a little tricky to open!
T: pin L: pathtag TFTC.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Took a while before the GPSr settled down but once it did located the great cache container. Was quite a peaceful spot in the morning.

Enjoed the park and the trees and thanks for letting us log this one.
JABs.

This one had us going around in circles for a litte while. didn't take too long to log it mith a few mugges around.

Last time I was here was for an annual work breakfast which made me think of the original Corroboree Park cache. Relieved it has been replaced! This took me all over the shop, GPS was everywhere. Eventually found the cache, fantastic container, love the work put into it. Took Coin, LN. Thanks for the cache. ZZ7