Coronation Park Healesville, Victoria, Australia
By acts2youthgroup on 08-Sep-07. Waypoint GC15RE2

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This may take me a couple more weeks, just when you think it is warming up we get a months rain in two days and the area has been flooded out again.

I am just waiting for the flood waters to recede and then I will fix this one up.

Disabling till i get back from Queensland in three weeks. Looks like the resant flood waters have effected this one.

Found but needs maintenance urgently. Log soaked through and water ran out of the cache when we retrieved it.

Urgently needs maintenance. Very waterlogged.

Nice easy one.
Lovely little park...
Cache is a bit tricky to return to hiding place with all the people coming and going, probably not a good one to do on a nice weekend.
Unless of course you want to hang around for a while and have some lunch, then it is just perfect...
tftc....

Suscoe ventured up this way today.
Nice quick find and a lovely spot.
Took Chinaman
Left eraser and tasco badge.
TFTC acts2youthgroup.

Took 20 cents, left a toy. Thank you very much!

TFTC nice area. Youngest daughter located this one first. Great excitement about being the first to spot it.
Had to be careful as a huge group of muggles turned up.
Left: Orange spiky critter
Took: Green Lizard

I don't know why, but my eyes must not have been working well today. It took me some time to find this one. TFTC, TNLN.
Cv.

This was a nice weekend away with Mrs Iamapom to join a day trip from Narbethong to Rubicon with the Landrover and Pajero Clubs of Victoria.
We had stayed in Eildon last night - and were going to head home to Melbourne - doing some leisurely caching all the way.
I had a DNF on this one in January, but thought I would give it a go. Found it straight away this time. Container was jammed in it's spot very tightly (due to the way it had been replaced with the clips facing out) So I found a nearby stick, to leverage the container out. But BANG the stick went through the bottom of the container. Oh noooo!
Managed to get it out by hand, but yeah the bottom of the container had a big hole in it. Signed the log. And fixed up the container, both inside and out, with the black gaffer tape I had i the car.
Have emailed the owner to apologie, and to suggest a replacement container. But in the meantime I would suggest that the clips are front and back when replacing (that will make sense when you see the container).
TFTC - and sorry for breaking it !!

Nice stop.

Nice for a Lunch break. Easy to do.

Crazy, we only ate lunch here yesterday... Thought it was a good spot for a cache which lead us to pick it up today. TFTC.

767. Found the sign Did the math - had no luck, then read previous logs and found I had made the same Math Error, Ahh I'm not the only one ???, signed log 15:30. acts2youthgroup - TFTC

Found it after visiting the steam rollers. The kids now know why we call the modern ones steamrollers! The container was slimy and had a few slugs on it, but the contents perfectly dry. Took dolphin and bell. Left badge and pig-hog. TFTC.

I found the clue and then went to cache location. But once i looked around i still couldnt find it. I then figured out that i minus'd instead of divided one of the clues. I plugged in the right ones and found it straight away.

Left a mini dice, took nothing.

Thanks

nice park, we live around the corner and didn't know it was there. TFTC

What a lovely spot! We'd been to the township many times but never to this area. Thanks for an enjoyable stop and an easy find.

Quite a few muggles around at GZ after solving the puzzle. But as hard as I looked (and GPS had me within 1m) couldn't find it.

1st find which was reasonably easy!! Left a small morsel for someone else! Still in good condition!!

#10 and last cache for the day. After stopping for a coffee and snack at the nearby Beechworth Bakery, we had to get one more cache. Always like the park caches and this was no disappointment. After gathering the clues and strolling through the park we converged on GZ to get the cache. Took TB. TFTC. KemS

A quick and easy find for us (Mrs Biggles & I) and as there weren't too many muggles around we were able to extract and hide it again without disturbance. And we didn't need to get our feet wet!
TFTC

Lovely spot to visit, and not too difficult to find so very enjoyable.
TNLN
TFTC

Met up with Monch's Mob here and proceeded to the cache. A good spot here. Afterwards, we went to the Beechworth Bakery for some lunch. While we were sitting there, we overheard someone sitting behind us explaining geocaching to their companions. We introduced ourselves and had a great conversation with the 'crusty varmint' about our mutual hobby. We love to meet up with cachers like this. TFTC.

Nice easy one to start the day, and a good spot to meet up with our squalid mates.

TNLN TFTC

A very nice park that I had not seen before although that is no real surprise given how rarely I am here. The bolt gave me a start but all was well and the cache found easilyafter sweeping away a few cobwebs.

Thanks Acts2youthgroup for showing me this park.

Found by Mary & David at 1300. A lovely area, as you promised. The sunshine today really brought out the walkers, joggers and doggers, and they were everywhere when we approached GZ the first time. We grabbed some lunch at the Beechworth Bakery and sat waiting for the bellbirds. By then, the coast was all clear and we had a quick find. Collected 'Super Key Chain' TB, dropped off 'Ring Ring' TB. Our thanks to acts2youthgroup.

Cache has a small amount of moisture inside from the recent rains.

TN let Super Key Chain TB

Found RJ signs then found the cache. Took Jeep TB. TFTC

Wow our first multi-cache in the company of Sevillegroup.
Exchanged swaps. TFTC.

Oops forgot to log dropping off Red Jeep TB

Discovered "Marys River (OR)" Red Jeep Travel Bug TB not retrieved......oops [:o)]

Found with TheLaunchMob on a long day caching.
Exchanged swap....TFTC.

Found on a trip through Yarra valley for wine and caches.
TFTC
TNLN

it was a nice easy find.

good day out to find a cache

Tristan has come for a flying visit back in time.

On the way back home from a night in Healesville. Decided to grab a couple of caches on the trip back. This was the first of 4 caches found for the day.

Found at 12.50pm.

Took blinky pin, left krusty pin

Darth Vader TB came along for the ride.

[This entry was edited by PrincessDiala on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 3:38:42 PM.]

Found at 2:05pm as we headed to Eildon for the long weekend. Nice park and a straightforward find.
TNLN
thanks A2YG

We found our 28th Acts2YouthGroup cache at 6:55pm as the final of 12 on our pilgramage to Marysville tour. Night I didn't realise how long it had been since my last visit through here. This is a 2007 cache! Thanks for the cache from D,H & A B-A.

Out for a family trip to Healesville sanctuary and just had to find a cache to do while we were here.
This was a great little park that the little one would have enjoyed if she'd been awake! An easy find but I was interrupted signing the log by a couple of friendly four legged lick merchants out for a walk with their owner. They managed to knock over the cache spilling the contents, he apologized and I waited till they moved on and replaced it. By the way, the logbook is looking pretty full, probably could do with a new one soon.
Cheers acts2youthgroup TFTC. A great place to stop for a short rest.

Whoops! My apologies, the logbook was fine, dry and had plenty of room. I was thinking of another cache when I wrote that part of my log.

Quickly grabbed coords and found cache. Not many people around. We ended up having a few bites to eat at the Bakery nearby.
Great spot for a cache. Thanks for bringing us here.

Thanks for another lovely location and good little cache. Was the last cache for our weekend away with Keeper of Time(only our second weekend of caching ever)... Cheers.

Found 12.30pm
Last cache of the day on the trip home from a weekend in Warburton. Had a bite to eat before trying for the cache, once at WP1 we were a bit concerned at the placement of the sign fixing taking out one of the necessary numbers but soon worked out that it was not an issue. With the numbers calculated we took the walk towards GZ, one of the team took it upon themselves to get down and dirty an find the cache.

TNLNSL

Thanks acts2youthgroup

Found today at 11.30am. Huge thanks to acts2youthgroup for providing me with my 100th Find !!!!!!!!!

Easy find. Waited a little for area to clear of muggles, counting the seconds until it was clear enough to grab cache.

TFTC SL TNLN (though GeoSon had a play with the bouncy ball)

dv

NTNL

Nice little spot behind the shops. Nice easy find except for a few muggles. TFTC.

Found this cache while visiting from USA and traveling with my Aussie sister in the Yarra Valley.

TFTC!

Was able to sneek a cache in between all of the wineries closing and before heading out for dinner. Nice little offset cache in a lovely park.

Left Coin

TFTC!

Found @ 1340 on 2/1/09 by Johnny_Mud, Mrs Mud and GeoSam. Our first cache of the new year. Almost about to give up when Johnny made the find. Had to move into the sun to log the find and inspect the cache contents as it was so b@#$dy cold! Where has the summer gone!
TNLNSL
Thanks heaps for giving us an excuse to visit (again) this wonderful town. The icecream was nice too...

Nice easy multi at a pleasant park.

Thanks!
Wandrr and Mrs Wandrr, Ottawa, Canada

Found @1915 Hrs With Son Whilst taking him & His Girl fried home to Healsville.
& Some Help from A Phone a Friend after i muck up the coords.

Took: TB
LNSL
TFTH

Found at 1200 hours, what a great looking park, spent about half an hour looking around the park while I was here.
Took camera TB, Left Juan the Mexican TB
TFTC

Forgot to drop TB in.

Found the park and the telephone number but coundn't find the cache. Perhaps a additional hint might be handy.

Last cache of the day before getting dinner. Didn't take too long to determine the cache location and as soon as I saw where the arrow was pointed, I had a pretty good idea where it would be and we weren't dissapointed.

Nice big cache so we left the camera TB we have been carting around for a while waiting for a big enough cache in a scenic spot, taking a picture as required.

After logging the cache, we went for a walk in this very nice park and had a great time throwing a ball back and forth with the kids until it started to rain.

This was our 499'th cache and a fitting lead up to out first serious milestone.

Took candle (to make room for TB!) and left a cute paper clip thing.

Thanks acts2youthgroup - we enjoyed it a lot.

Woops - forgot to drop the TB

No problems with WP1 and nice easy find at GZ. TNLNSL. Thanks.

Found at 1526 hrs today. The QLD registered 4WD in the carpark attached to the huge caravan seemed empty enough, until I realised the curtains were twitching and I was being watched. I managed to retrieve and replace the cache unseen but only after the two old timers that were walking their dogs decided to move off after a 15 min chat right on GZ. TN left a No Junk Mail sign. SL. TFTC.

Found it on the way home from a day in the snow.
Thanks. Took TB 744mmb

I hope all 11 of us swarming over the cache site wasn't a tip off that something was up here.

Couldn't see much of the park as it was dark when we arrived at this cache (after havng a very enjoyable meal at a restaurant nearby). However, the Kettle kids were still full of enthusiasm and soon had the cache in hand.

The second of two caches today with my 6 year old god-daughter in tow. She loved every second of it, even doing the math to calculate the location of GZ.
Took Tweety-bird wristband.
Thanks for the cache!

Found @ 10.30am after locals moved on from a nearby shelter with their half consumed slab of VB.
TNLN

found at 2.10pm after a very cold start in Coldstream for a footy game! Fog finally lifted when we got to Healesville.
TNLN thanks

We found this on an incredibly rainy day. The GPS was all over the place but once our instincts kicked in we were onto the cache in no time at all! TNLN as we had no swaps, but TFTC.

Nice little park tucked away behind the bakery (did I say that out aloud?).
Thanks, Robmc.

First find for the day on a trip up to Marysville and beyond. Hate to admit it but the second stop was to the bakery for morning tea. How's that for getting the priorities right! Guessed where GZ might be and was right as it turned out. Nice little spot.
Thanks A2YG. Looking forward to June BTW.

Found @ 15:20 with Next! just knowing who the owner of this cache is was enough to tell me where it was hidden. A very easy find, we were in and out in no time. TNLNSL Thanks For The Cache
- Bug "Rilakkuma from Japan" grabbed

Found this one at 12:20 while we had a spot of lunch before heading off to see the parrot flight display at the Healesville Sanctuary. What a nice spot to stop on such a beautiful day and a nice easy find once Geko decided to settle down.

TNLNSL, although we did discover the Japanese TB in there, which was our 100th TB (as opposed to Geocoins) "find" . As it was a Japanese TB, our Japanese Geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks acts2youthgroup.

15:19 was the time this cache was found! This cache hunt was completed with Scooters Mob on our joint geocaching expedition. TNLNSL TFTC

- Bug "Rilakkuma from Japan" was spotted

Found the first bit of information but not GZ. Had lots of trouble with the GPS wobbling around - and a couple of muggles thought I looked a bit strange wandering around. So thought a revisit at another time was in order.

This was a slight diversion on the way home from a visit to the Wildlife Sanctuary and wasn't supposed to take too long. Sorted out the clues quickly and the probable location seemed clear but the GZ wobbled around a bit so we messed around. Finally the container was seen in its logical place - what a drama. Dropped in a TB we had picked up in Japan a week earlier. Took out a small teddy bear. TFTC

Found at 1630. After sorting out the coords at WP1, had a little trouble with GZ, but nothing a call to acts2youthgroup didn't sort out. Fantastic little park to relax in for a few minutes.

TNLN. TFTC.

We had to come over to drop off one of my boys mates so we checked the cache and found it where we left it.

Figured we knew exactly where it should be, GPS put us dead on top of it - but nothing. Spent 10 mins scouting around - looks like a bit of storm/flood debris is around the place, not sure if this warrants a maintenance check.

Hope someone else has more luck than us!!

First find for the day at 1120 at a nice park in a lovely little town! There were quite a few muggles walking dogs, but we prevailed... First cache with muggle dad, I think he was intrigued, but geoboy was estatic with his new whistle!

Took whistle
Left whistle

Checked on the cache and checked the coordinates, I have adjusted the formula to match the new reading.

After working out the co ordinates, we ended up in the scrub! We found the cache after reading other peoples logs. Found the cache in the place we assumed it would have been.

Took: Garfield Figurine
Left: Christmas Bauble

Amy and I were taking the backroad home when this popped up on the Tomtom. I had been sitting on 1199 for the last hour and thought I'd have to go home frustrated! I visited this great little park earlier in the year and really enjoyed having a walk around. No problems with the cache today and I grabbed the coin to move on.

Thanks Eric, nice spot for the 1200.

R + A - B

Found by Bob at 1515

Having headed off on a spur-of-the-moment caching run to get a few of the Warburton Trail series, I was on my way home and, when I got to the junction of the Warburton and Maroondah Highways, it was still only 2:30 when I remembered a2yg had placed a cache in Healesville fairly recently - so I quickly changed direction and headed off to do it. A quick trip on a busy Cup Day and I was soon at the park, where the necessary info was quickly obtained and the cache was in hand soon after that .

TNLN, but did drop off a geocoin which has to make its way to a scout camp in Pennsylvania (I think).

Thanks again Eric .

Found at 9.40am GAFF1. The co-ords that we had would have taken us way over GZ, but when we got to the likely looking spot, we searched and there it was. While logging the find a group of locals were already enjoying themselves in the rotunda with beer and other liquids being consumed - before 11.am!! Thanks Acts2 - took TB.

Found this one fairly easily. After working out the cache was not where the GPS was telling me, looking around it was fairly obvious! TFTC TNLN

just dropping the travel bug

Find 6 on a morning caching in this rarely visited area. A short simple multi that had me waiting until doggish muggles moved on. TNLN thanks Acts2.

We were up this way attending a CFA function so why not pick up some caches too. A great little find. We dropped off Mrs Krapappel TB but I can't find the number anywhere to log her. Will do it if I can find it. TFTC

Found 7:50, a nice easy find in a great little park, and a great way to start the day.

TNLN, CSI=3, thanks acts2youthgroup.

Found it after some muggles moved on. The GPS had me consistantly about 10 meters passed GZ but I thought it was worth a look in a likly place. Looks as if the cache has had a narrow escape from the effects of nature. The TBs listed in the cache where not there - not sure whats going on there. Its not that many years ago this was a caravan park until they removed it because the caravans where inundated again in one of many floods to go through the park.

TNLNSL

Thanks Acts2youthgroup

Great little park, I have wandered around here before and it was an easy find for me on a very cold and wet day. Grabbed tb's to keep them moving. Top spot, thanks for the cache.

Lucky *FTF* by Pickupfamily Mum and Dad at 1915hrs. By pure chance we were in Healesville Hotel having dinner without kids, and Pickupfamily Dad checked for new caches while we waited for our meals to arrive (not something I often do when we're out). There was a new cache 170m away!! So we headed off after dinner and found it reasonably easily with just TomTom using goal-seeking to the right co-ords (since it was getting locked onto the roads, as it does.)

Took the Kansas Sunshine Geocoin and discovered the other two trackables.

There is a small error in the description. Should be (G/C) and not (G/B) for the second last digit of the GZ co-ords.

Thanks act2youthgroup.

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