Scissors, Paper, Rock Georges Hall, New South Wales, Australia
By tronador on 28-Dec-07. Waypoint GC185QD

The original cache was muggled long ago and these replacements do not meet my standards any longer. Time to clean up and put out some real caches!!!!! Ammo boxes.

I'd say this is gone

OK time to check this one.

No luck, I'd say this is gone.

No luck today possibly as the latest DNF logs suggested it has been moved by rain. Though I've been out of action for awhile and may be a little rusty lol

I came past here on the way to mums to check out this cache. I spent 20min searching both sides of the creek with nothing to show, even using the hint. With all the recent rains and flooding in the last few months, and judging by the derbis and level of where the water was, there is a good chance, that the cache may be floating or sinking around Lake Gillawarna somewhere. Maybe...

Searched for about 30mins

Found this morning after initially searching on the wrong side of the creek. Cache in good condition. TFTC

Took geocoin pc434m, left porcupine.
Not too hard a find.
I will move the coin on in NSW in Feb or overseas early Feb.

Out on a bike ride with the kids. A nice & easy find. Left a geocoin.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

This entry was edited by The Hancock Clan on Friday, 14 January 2011 at 15:26:50.

This is a great parkland, the family and I once live not far off.

The cache was well concealed and all contents are ok!!

Tks ...... tronador ..... GazMag

#526

This one was a bit tricky,,,primarily because, for some reason, the map on the geocaching app in the iPhone looked nothing like reality?! There was large areas of lake that wasn't even shown on the map, and this made getting to GZ a challenge!

I eventually found the cache after many wrong turns, and it was complete with its own 'guardian', in the shape of a lizard! Sadly, it ducked off towards the waterline before I could photograph it!

TNLNSL TFTC, Tronador!

I parked beside the main road and as I was walking away from the car a pair of ducks with a brood of ducklings were wandering in the grass only a few metres from the car.
Leaving them to their own business, I headed off along the path to mind my own, and was soon at a crossroad (well, a bridge anyway) with the dilemma of deciding which side of the creek I had to be at - I chose wrong and had to backtrack (not far though) to search on the other side from the one I had chosen.
On arrival at GZ I knew xactly where to find the cache.
Signed the log and headed back to note that the ducks and ducklings were heading back to the water.
On a side note - the grass was being mowed in the park - by a maniac on a speeding tractor-mower - any ducks in his way would not have stood a chance - a good thing this lot were no where near him.
Thanks for a reason to stop here.

Nice park that I never knew was there

Took me three go`s but third time Lucky [(8)

droped off spike

6th find today wooo hooooo! Found in the dark, spiders and frogs!!!

Was hard to find in the bark but still fun

Sent from my mobile device.

11am. For the record, almost a year ago to the day I was first introduced to Caching here. My first individual Cache 1yr anniversary is on Saturday. -Waterfall.
Yes as the comments a year ago said, Yes I am hooked
Picked up the Teddybear TB and left the Hotair Balloon TB
TFTC and the memories

In search of an afternoon walk with Isaac we decided to head south and check out this area. What a great location. The place was buzzing with BBQs (the kind with hot coals and smoke going everywhere), kids kicking footballs, men sitting in circles and women walking in large groups. It was quite a festive atmosphere.

We walked along the bike paths (Zac rode his bike), until we reached GZ. Zac scared us by nearly launching into the creek, before he spotted the treasure and brought it back to Nay who was waiting nearby. Swapped an Aldi keyring (handy for when you don't have a $2 coin) for a Geotalk pathtag and a bottle opener for the rubber ball. Dropped off a TB.

Great walk and location. Thanks tronador.

2nd (tent)!!! i mean cache for the day, i was worried about the person in tent (if any) more than finding this cache hahah, well with a bit of search, cache was in hand, quick sign the log and on the road again

TFTC

Even though there was a homeless person living within 4m of the cache, we used stealth and quickly had the cache in hand, signed and replaced. TFTH...SL....TNLN

Interesting today at the GZ, over in the distance a party was happening, but the muggle party goers had placed a small portable generator near here, also, as we approached the GZ, we stumbled across a no longer homeless muggles camp. Walked away and approached for another direction, the cache was soon to hand TFTH...SL....TNLN

What is it with the homeless muggles? That's the 2nd cache in a row where a homeless person is camped on or very near to a cache.
This guy was camping about 15m away but just out of sight because of the trees.
The cache is very slightly damp and would probably be at risk if the recent floods had been about a foot hight.
Thanks Tronador.

...couldn't find this one. Spent good 40min, found old cans, papers maccas cups etc, no cache.

Visiting friends in Georges Hall but quick trip around nearby caches came up with 4 finds over two days including this one. I witnessed the Ibis and Duck Weed problem. The Ibis numbers are a bit scary. Managed to not fall in or get stuck anywhere in this area bit it was touch and go for a while.

This was slightly harder than the last but I found it aster around 15 mins. TFTC - TNLN

Well at 2030 this was the last one of four in our first hunt for the year. Torches were the order of the evening (as was mozzie guard as BurgerGirl complained) and, once the right side of the creek was accessed, only took about 15 mins of hunting in the pine needle litter. FireboltCal spied this one after searching around the same couple of trees for a while, marvelous how plastic shines so well in torch-light.

Thanks for another fine hunt and Happy New Year to all!

TNLN ... TFTC ... SL

Well 4 from 4 today, but more mozzie repellant is needed for this one. I am not into spiders and night-time walks in the ush, but I am getting better.

T - foot rubber
L - Aldi Token

TFTC ... SL

Many a happy family enjoying the Sunday sun but no muggles at the GZ. Re-implaced camo so the hint makes sense

Rated: for Overall Experience

Walked down from Landsdowne Park. I can't believe how green the grass is in this place. Looks like a golf course! TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

After about a 200m walk the cache was soon in hand.
What a nice area this was with plenty of paths that would be suited to those even in wheel chairs (with the exception of the last 10m or so to the cache). After a pit stop we were off again as the bbq's started to smell to nice and we were getting a little hungry.
TFTC TNLN

What a nice place to go for a walk. The recent rain had made the hide blend in really well.

TFTC

found this one while on the way home once I got to the right side of the creek all was good.

TNLN SL TFTC

A beautiful park by the creek
Dropped by for some quick hide and seek
Glad no mug's around
As they would have frowned
If they saw me as I took a leak

Thanks for the cache, was introducing a friend to geocaching and I thinks he's hooked after finding this one.
TFTC TNLNSL

found it at 2115 tftc tnln looks like a good area

Nice open area to be out and about at this fine hour.
JABs.

After a walk in through the wet grass we spend some time searching the wrong side of the creek for the cache. Seeing nothing that even looked like a hide I tried the other side of the creek and came up with the goods.

TFTC

Yep - we ended up on the wrong side of the creek at first too!

This was a beautiful park to come to, and such a nice day for it as well. Picked up the TB and hope to help it along its way.

TFTC

Found it with some difficulty. We thought we were closing in our ground zero. Usual signs of previous activity in the area confirmed our suspicions (or so we thought). But after repeated searches we still came up empty handed except for a golf ball. We were about to abandon the hunt when the penny dropped and moved our search area to the right spot. Once in the right spot we had the cache in no time. Now we understand how everyone else found it so easily. Made us realise that our caching skills are still a bit rusty. Fortunately the little oky's mates are still keen to do another one so no doubt we will continue to hone our skills in the future,
Took coloured pencils and left bouncing balls. TFTC

The most confusing part of this cache is where it got it's name from?! The cache itself was easily located.

Cheers

Found 14:50. Lovely afternoon for a walk and a couple of caches. Left TB. Thanks.

Hoojar and I were lucky that we had just come from the right area. Just after some other geo-cachers.
I don't understand the name though..?

334 - 7 for today. Found on 8/06/2009 at 3:03 PM.
Nice easy find in a great location. TNSLLN

Found the cache without too much problem.
Took TB Dave's Travel Bug, left moose.

YAAAAHOOOOOOOO Finally found my 200th cache. True to form I must have parked as far as possible from the GZ and then proceeded to walk right past the GZ. Then after thumping around the scrub getting covered in cobblers pegs I gave up and ddecided headed back to the car. Feeling very dejected I decided to give it one more go. This time following the GPSR EXACTLY and WAHLAHHH I found my 200th cache. Pity that it was in blues country. TFTC Dropped off a TB and picked up the jeep to put in gods marroon country.

Quick find absolutely no muggles around today, other than at the car park hundreds of meters away, nice big park. TFTC Left "White Jeep Darnel" (Reincarnated) TB

Quick find and easy to achieve today as there was no muggles around. TNLNSL. TFTC.

A nice little area with muggles riding and running around all over the place. The spiders decided to build a web around this cache to protect it, but they were not there for long as I had to sign the log. TFTC TNTLSL

Gave up!! bad day today for us, oh well, we will try next time. Thanks for bringing us here.

Took muggle brother to find this one, they had tried before but where on the wrong side of the creek... Once we had that sorted the cache was quickly sorted not quiet sure what the X marks the spot or the cache name but hey .... TFTC SL TNLN

I've driven past this park hundreds of times over a period of 4 years, and this is the first time I've ever entered! Thanks for giving me a reason to check it out.

Found without too much trouble. TFTC.

1:14pm
After lunch in the park nearby, we sent the kids after this one while we took the lunch type stuff back to the car. Took em longer than we expected but they got it ok.

Cheers

I think I worked out what the cache name suggested however it didn't fool me and I chose correctly- a nice quick find in a nice park. TFTC!

Great find however the water is rising ..
It should be alright for now ..
TFTC !

Saw no Rocks, paper or scissors. I'm guessing the cache move made the name less relevant. Nonetheless a fairly quick find after a walk in the park. The sun was a touch furious, otherwise this would be a great park. Picked up coin.

QF @ 1030 While on my bike for a break.. TFTC Tn L coin

OK so what's in a name?
Found this yesterday, looked at the spoiler pic today and remember saying to Jumbuck "not where I would put it, I would put it next to that tree over there" - 'There' is the tree in the pic! So it is about a metre or so from the large tree in the pic, didn't have/doesn't have a cross on top....so the next finder can please adjust. We only put it back exactly where/as we found it - well covered!

Found it, with help from Oldridge....

The recent rain means the river has risen an awful lot, and the waterline is dangerously close to the cache. It's okay for now, but if there is any more rain, a new GZ might need to be organised.

(Will leave a maintenance note for this)

Took nothing, but left a few goodies.

This cache is in danger of being washed away due to recent rain.

A new GZ might need to be organised for it, or it might just need to be moved to higher ground.

Future cachers, Please make sure you seal the logbook bag nice and tight once you're done signing.

Nice little walk around the river watching the white birds and the pukeko. Cheers Gav [2817]

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Great park bird life. T4TC, M@

BIRDS RIVER

Second time lucky with this one. Had to use caution as Muggles were everywhere today.

Great little spot..loved the find amongst the trees.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found after a bit of looking. Took Solvognen Holte #1 to continue the journey. Left Globetrotter geocoin.
TFTC
The Woodies

My first cache on the way home from Uni. I wasn't wearing the right shoes for this one and kept slipping over on the needles but it was still fun. I love the caches where you are just about to give up then you spot it. Thanks for a nice trip home and the cache. Took TB, left TB.

Quick easy find this morning after completing the epic cache "Fast Food Fiasco".

Came to do this a while back, but it had been muggled.

No problems today as no one was around.

TFTC TNLN SL

WanderingAus wandered by day 116 of a 6 month trip Wandering Australia and made an easy find.

My find No 859, LCC, TNLNSL, grabbed WDD 2007 Commemorative GC (ref = TB1ZYRJ), dropped Bruce the Bilby TB (ref = TB1961C), also dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again.

T4TH tronador
Keith

What an interesting park! The nearby island is full of noisy, nesting Ibis with chicks in different stages. We stealthily ducked in to nab the cache between muggles. TNLNSL Thank you for the experience and for the cache tronador!

Retrieved:
Geodementia Australia Geocoin #2

Dropped:
WDD 2007 Commemorative Geocoin

Better luck this time around since it had been replaced. Easily found with no nearby muggles. Took TB, left geocoin found last week in Victoria. Thanks tronador.

A nice quick find in a pleasant park. As the golfers took aim across the ways I was thinking that may have been able to see me, but all was good.
Followed some well known cachers around this area of cachers today, I cant have been too far behind Maccamob.
Thanks

Found by Mary & David at 1000. A nice walk from the car park. A big flock of ibis were enjoying the grassy area. A few walkers about, too, but GZ was all clear. We know now that our DNF last time was because the cache was missing. Glad to see it replaced so we could try again. Collected 'Castle Man's AG Cache Rewards Geocoin'. Our thanks to tronador.

I was lucky found it very quick.This is a very good spot and I think there the cache will last for a very long time. Retrieve a TB and GC.and placed another TB and GC.- Thanks tronador you found a good spot.

[The GPS couldn't make up it's mind as to which side of the little creek we should be, but we soon had the cache in our hands. I had had this one on the back burner, as it appeared to be gone, and the descriptions of the people around the toilet didn't seem too inviting as well. All is OK now. TFTC, couldn't sign log as we hadn't brought a pen. Dropped off Friends and Family travel bug, TBHTHJ]

went to find the original one a while ago with no result but got it this time around. nice hide. took TBs. left geocoin.

Nice hide. Took travel bug X16PPJ.

This cache has been replaced in a new location. Please make sure you are not seen acsessing GZ. Hopefully, this one will not be discovered by muggles.
Unfortunately, I am not able to replace the original unusual container, so this is a standard 400ml systema.
Dropped off afew TB's.
Thanks to the Ump for republishing.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 33° 54.223 E 150° 58.619
Distance From Old: 659.9 feet
Updating coordinates.

Thanks for notifying me andreaandcarl and sorry you went out to look for this Marcus Vituvius. I actually went out to do a cache check today before I received these notifications.

Unfortunately, I can confirm the worst. It's gone. It seems that the council has spruced up the area quite a bit and removed a lot of the vegetation near GZ that added to it's own camoflage. The cache was not your ordinary container, so I won't be able to get one exactly the same.
I have disabled the listing and will try and get a replacement out as soon as I can.

Not sure about these strange men, people keep seeing cause every time I've been here I haven't seen a soul except families enjoying the sunshine.
I will have to put the replacement in a new location seeing this one is exposed now and compromised, so stay tuned!

I think, based on the recent amount of DNF's, that the owner of this cache carries out a check and confirm the worst.

Definitely no cache here.

Nope, no luck with this one today.

From the look of the logs this one shouoldn't have presented a problem - but despite a fairly thorough search it failed to come to hand. There was a nice box shaped depression in the ground near the base of a tree though which makes me fear the worst. Managed to do the search unharassed anyway! Thanks tronador.

YIKES ! ! !

Slugga perhaps the same guy. Was there today and walked down from the carpark, past the toilets and was followed. Walked past the cache, eventually the guy went away. Wandered back to the GZ, had a good look around and gave up after a good look around.

I also noticed quite alot of scratching around all over the place.

No luck here today. Plenty of evidence that others have scoured the area. There was one spot that looked to be a prime contender, but the correct spot eluded us.

Geezzz... wish I'd read the logs before attempting this one!

Stopped by for a look at this one in my lunch break since I was in the area. The male toilets seemed to be a popular place with quite a few individuals wandering to and from thier cars. Seemed unusual but didn't think too much of it at the time.
Luckilly I didn't need to go so gave them a wide berth and followed the path to GZ. After arriving at the right area I noticed a strange man who decided he would follow me and make it quite obvious he was doing so.
Decided I would try another day when it's not so 'busy' but then noticed this strange man had gone back to the toilets after I had walked back to the car. (week bladder maybe?)

This is not my cup of tea so I don't think I'll be back to retry this one any time soon.

Logged as a note rather than DNF as saw a good hidy hole that matches the hint but didn't get a chance to look inside. Problem was too many other people there seemed interested in a different kind of hidy hole.

Thanks anyway.

im blind

Had to come back to finish this one off. None of the strange men were around, nor the training soccer teams to trouble us. Mr Bloopy totally missed the cache, but thankfully Mrs Bloopy was a bit more focused.
Thanks Tronador for the cache.

I stopped by here the other day but experienced the same stalking that Ruffasgutts did. I had heard rumours before that the carpark and adjoining ablutions block are a meeting point for anonymous males so was a bit spooked.

This morning on my way to work, and with the threat of rain in the air, I had the area to myself and the clever cache was quickly found. Team Bloopy must have been here earlier this morning. They had dated their log 2/2/08 and I followed suit. Should have read 1/2/08. Oh well.

After doing the deed a light rain started to fall so I hightailed it back to the car. On my way out, despite the rain, I notice about 4 cars, each with just a single guy behind the steering wheel. Hmmmmmmmm.

TFTC, nice spot.

Left a geo-coin which wants to visit caches with "Rock" in their name.

Rated: for Overall Experience

Can't really say it was a DNF as the training soccer team would not let us look! Pretty sure we know where it was after the prelim scouting. Will be back.

Decided to take the carbon neutral approach to reach this cache and had to decide to paddle or ride. A quick check of the Georges River in our neck of the woods revealed I would have to fit wheels to the SK Firm & Willing so it was on to my bike.
I can easily reach Casula via bush track and back roads but had to join the M5 at Liverpool then nicked over to Lake Moore and followed the cycleway which went the wrong way and ended up on doing a tour of Chipping Norton Lakes. This led to the discovery of a new wetland development and a new cycleway (which submerges at high tide) and a series of single tracks which take you up to the bridge near the airport (Bankstown). Then I sneaked along the edge of a fence and joined up with another cycleway which took me straight to the cache. I passed some really amazing play equipment and would have loved to have a go but some kids where using it, what a waste.
Anyway zoomed up and grab the cache, once the formalities where completed it was time to turn for home. Along the way I found a power socket at one of the picnic areas and was able to set up the blender and produce a refreshing mango smoothie.

This was my first cache find for 2008 and one that is quite close to my place of work so getting out at lunch to find it was easy, finding this tricky little cache was not so easy, so many places it could have been and much muggle activity, also one fellow in particular who was quite interested in my whereabouts as everytime I turned around he was watching me.
I waited him out and continued my search but there he was again! Finally I confronted him thinking he was most likely looking for the same thing i was looking for but that was not the case, however after greeting him and explaining that I was playing a game he seemed to have his mind put at ease and left the area so the search continued, I was quite sure he had moved on when the cache was discovered I logged my find and moved on quick smart.
When I returned to my car I saw him again, This guy was just a little sus! oh well that was my experience other than this the park was a pleasant place to take a stroll and I have had many a family reunion in these grounds over the years Thanks for bringing me back here Tronador nice spot interesting cache!

Quite an amazing Park and one we had never visited before, lots of healthy people running around. Not sure about the colour of the water in the nearby lake but the birds seem happy enough.

Thanks for the FTF prize but unfortunately I can't give up the day job

TFTCSL

didnt get here first but i found it did the log and put back.
took nothing
left same
tfth

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