Park and Play Shelly Beach, New South Wales, Australia
By TheFourC's on 29-Jun-08. Waypoint GC1DM3Z

As there's been either no response from the cache owner, no cache to find or log to sign, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future (next 30 days), just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Hi!

A travelbug is in need of rescue.
TB412PZ "Doris" has spent three month there
(assuming it is still in "Park and Play").
We would definitely appreciate it if
someone picked up this trackable in order
to get it going again. Thank you!

Warn-a-brother

Due to the popularity of this one, I have decided to let it live on to fight another battle. I am contemplating alterations and it should be available and active in early January 2012.

Ok, this is finally getting tiresome. There are obviously many people doing the cache that are not logging it (as is evident by the items I often find in it, and the not-too-careful replacement of the cache). When I check this one (as it is placed near my regular run path) I often find it very exposed and replaced seemingly without much care. This cache, whilst well camoflaged, will never stay hidden for long unless it is replaced with care in the manner it was orignally hidden. It HAS remained unmuggled for long periods of time before, but to me it seems like perhaps it's time has come.
I will put some thought into this over the next week to decide the fate of this one.

Found the cache empty on the ground beside ground zero. Had a look around for the log/etc but couldn't find it so obviously it has been muggled.

first Geocache it was sickkk very well hidden props to you man.

Found quickly on the way to work this morning.7am seems to be a good time for a high muggle area. Left signature item and managed to squeeze in 2 TB's.TFTC

This one was exposed & the camo is wearing very thin. So a very easy find. We ensured it was out of site when we left. TNLN SL TFTC

2nd visit to this cache with dazndky

Super fast park and grab. The weather was less than amicable today so it kept the muggles away. Love containers disguised like this one - well done. TFTC.

This was a quick easy find.
A lot of the camo' is coming off the container, so it may need a visit soon to redo the camo'.
Thanks to TheFourC's for a graet search and find.

Really awesome cache, one of the best I've found so far. It's amazing, I have been here a few times over the last couple of months, and this has been here since 2008... lolz...
I was about to give up, as I was basically at the top of the tree. Awesome!

Easy find
unfortunately the place that it was in was surrounded by water + i was wearing thongs [xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(]
TFTC
Fossfellows

It was a nice quick find just after dark as there were no muggles about. We had a little play on the swings like the big kids we are. TFTC.

Nice camo,easy find...lots of muggles today! Tftc

TFTC. Easiest find we've had all day...perfect day, blue sky and 300 or so muggles on this first day of the school holidays.

This is a great park. Wish they were this good when I was a kid.

Took Sydney hat pin and left our trademark .

easy find was raining so no muggles in sight took finger puppet and left uk 2 pound coin sl tftc its in a very cool spot !!!

found with MrDamage took a pencil and left a pin...there was alot of muggles around aswell. TFTC

Located 1:28 PM with Skypirate~ nice camo. But lots of muggle kids in the area and climbing things is their speciality. TFTC. Skypirate~ liked a pencil and I switched for nice new opera house pin.

Interesting use of natural products. TFTC

Found while cycling around the bay. A good hide this one; good little spot and nice camo. TFTC

Found with geo-grandkids after a play in the parks. TFTC Great cammo!

TFTC ~ found with lilmissy. Took white van and go aussie go tag with attached geocachingNSW geocoin. Even made a video of lilmissy finding cache.

TNLN the geo rug rats had great time

Found myself to still be in possession of Team TWS's White Chevy Van TB. I truly thought that I had placed and logged this TB months ago, and have since moved and done little caching.
Feeling so bad to have kidnapped the bug for so long, I immediately headed over to what I think is one of the better caches within a few minutes of my place to send it back out into the world.
Again, my apologies to TheWonderTeam. I will be feeling far too guilty to log a trackable any time in the near future I think.

Found it what a clever hide tftc tnln
Left tb
Thank
Vra

Found last nite with casper. After getting feet drenched in the moat around gz. Finally managed to acquire the cache. Whilst casper Looking on from afar. Signed log and waded through the moat once more. Loved the camp

New container has been made and cache is now back in action! Enjoy!

Found with snoopy1976

Due to the large amounts of rain in the past month it has been difficult to acquire the material needed to remake the cache (in an environmentally friendly way). I have now aquired the necessary materials and will replace the cache by 27th August. Those who have visited this cache have appreciated the obvious time and effort taken in designing and making it, and I thank all others for their patience.

I've checked GZ and it appears to have been muggled. Since it has lasted a fair while this time I'll make another container and put it in the same place again. Should be back in action soon.

Searched all round GZ no sign of cache

Checked GZ no luck this time

Our first cache ever myself and daughters had heaps of fun used great stealth to get it out and have a look brilliant camo. We found it on the 27/ 02/11@1430 in good condition.

great cache geo dad had it in hands in minutes.
SL TFTC

We pulled up to the playground and the geo boys were very excited.Two caches in two parks within walking distance.
Now I did not read the clue for this but after reaching GZ I was a little perplex then I saw something that just wasn't right my geo boys were not even close this time Dad found it first.
Great camo and hide.The contents was safe and dry.I put back and added just a little more camo.
SL TNLN out five. and my first smileys given today.
TFTC,
Steveishere

Clever hide
my friend found it almost instantly which is just as well as I would never have seen it
TFTC
Hafrik
TNLN

Great little park with a great little cache. Easy find. TFTC

Schnell gefunden!!! TFTC!!!

Reperio at 1510. Plenty of muggles around today enjoying the nearby facilities, but while I did the tie your shoelaces thing, Darwinian made the find and signed the cache. Great spot.

Gratias.

Nice Cache.. Not easy 2 find..
Had 2 wait for 15min for muggles to finish walking dog then went in for the kill
Added kids puzzele thing..
Object of puzzle: Remove The Ring
TFTC

Great camoflage! Had fun finding it! TFTH

A great place to bring the little people. Returning the cache to its hiding place was challenging due to high muggle activity, but the cover of the 4 year old geogirl proved useful. Thanks for the great hide. TNLN

Lovely playaround area and look good relax walk on pathway to gz and found it as wow good one cache, like it... thanks

A great cache. I left the kids to play while I found this on my own because of so many muggles.

3407 - A visit to this area with some time for a few caches...

A nicely set up and Camo's cache - quick find as there were no muggles around today (they were all over at the Lions Park damn them !!). Thanks TheFourC's !!

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

Very busy today with muggles everywhere due to being school holidays.
Impressive camo on cache!.No sign of geocoin unfortunately.
Went for a quick walk through the bush and found nice foot bridge and great view over the water.
T:elephant key ring,
L: smiley magnet
TFTC

Awesome cache camo, loved it! Nice area. TNLNSL. TFTC

Neat Hide great park Thanks

The best camoflauge cache I have found to date!:) Took nothing, left Rip Curl tag. Ingenuity at it's best.

nice cache

found it

Awesome cache. Great container. Found with Ben&Jess and Bestcrew. Happy New Year.

Found in the early morning light. A clever hide with a great container. TFTC. Took tb left tb.

Tftc just staying at the caravan pk next door great place for the family

Great place picked up while on holidays at the beach, great disguise

Tftc

Night run. TFTC

Best cam of the eight today.
Nice park too.

TFTC

Found at 18:50 by Uncle David, with cousin Jo on their first cache, and Shuk Ha and Olga.
We had just ridden from here to The Entrance and back, a very pleasant ride. David was very impressed with the camouflage.
No swap. Thanks for the non-micro cache.

Geotwins loved the Cams took th SL

Went late night after work. Easy to find, even in the dark! Scared the boyfriend by thinking something was rustling in the grass. Never seen him jump so high in my life! Didn't have a pen on me, so didn't sign the log. We did leave a bouncy ball, but took nothing. Great cache! If you want to avoid muggles, definitely go at night.

On approach in light rain to GZ, the likely spot became a basic certainty, but the actual hide was a pleasant surprise - obvious to the avid (or is that obsessed?) cacher, but not likely to be even noticed by the passing or even climbing muggle.
As soon as I was signing the log, 3 muggle kids rode onto the adjacent bike track, and I thought I may have had to wait for a while before being able to replace it, however, they did three circuits of the track and rode back off the way they had come, leaving me with the chance to add a TB and a Geocoin, before placing the cache back in it's hidey hole.
#6 of 7 for the day on a trip to the area, thanks.

Amazing camouflage! Signed log, but took and left nothing... Thanks for the cache!

Kids found today Took Chelsea polly pocket (travel bug) & left Maze.. Great cache!! Thanks..

found cache - but the park was packed so did not risk getting cache out and logging find.
Beautiful area
TNLN
TFTC !!!

Great camo - not hard to find if you are looking but very unlikely to be accidentally muggled. We were just getting back in the car after finding 'Blast off' when we noticed there was another cache only a few hundred metres away. what can you do

love the cache! left matchbox car, took yoyo and geocoin. tftc

Very impress with camouflage. Well Done. Dropped off geo coin.

Lots of muggles around and was hesitant about going in for this one, but the location and ease made for a quick grab on way past tree to have a seat a tables in the distance. Picked of TB, left yoyo. Great camouflage of container. Very clever.
TFTC

Found it during peak hour liked the camouflage

Found on a Friday afternoon on a visit to the Centra Coast. Loved the camoflague. Took it to a nearby picnic table to fill in the log. Toog a TB and left a TB. Many thanks

Thank you very much for my first ever find. I must say that you went to quite some effort in the consealment of this cache. again, thank you.

Found it in Team with WODI on our way to Cairns

TFTC
Allosaurus

Found it on an windy day together with Allo.

Nice Place to make a stop

wodi

Found it and loved it. The best hide yet, I love the care that has gone into creating this cache. Very very clever.

Lots of muggles around today, but with the help of TheMiniHeadChefs, the cache was soon in hand.
Love the Cammo!!
TNLNSL TFTC

I have to agree with FourC's on this one.....I am sick to death of sooks....read the cache before you go and make the decision to do it or not....either that or grab some kid in the back of your kombi van from the nearest school, give them $5 to play in the park for 10 minutes and then send them home.......yeah ok...there is the small matter of abduction and the police don't always find it amusing, but it beats the heck out of complaining about nothing.

Personally this is one of my favourites on the Coast, one being for the attention that went into making the cache and then, the placement of the cache, sure it can be difficult to do when muggles are around, but that's what patience is for.

Keep up the great work FourC's....looking forward to paddling to your newest cache The Island when I have a minute spare to do so.

There's always one...perhaps the gloomy weather leads to gloomy feelings...but honestly, when the title and description make it clear that it's near a playground, then (as for any cache) a little judgement on whether it's a good one for you to do makes it pretty simple. The whole point of this one is to have a cache that highlights a great place, is easy for children to do, has very clever camo, and gives the children something to do afterwards (or while Mum/Dad/Siblings are looking for it). Geocaching is a great family activity and also a great educational tool, and as the Mum of 2 young boys I found that there weren't many around that we could do easily. By the way, for future searchers, it's not IN the playground, the area is used for many things and there is much more there (as you can read in the description).

Had an account with a leech - hm...
Had to rip it off and honestly - caches on playgrounds are not THE thing to do. It always feels weird when males walk around playgrounds with no children to look after. You get very funny looks!

TFTC! Nice park, the kids loved it!

Great Camo. When I got there somebody was just logging their visit in the log book

Camo for the container was great, SL TNLN TFTH

A nice easy find. Not too many muglgles about due to the very chilly wind that was blowing today. Great Camo. Found during Rudi63 and the Walenators assualt on a "Everything North of Sydney" caching weekend TFTH....SL...TNLN

Small repairs done to camo, restocked and back in place.

08:35am: The cache is now back in action with full camo and full stock of goodies (great one's for the kids). Please be very 'stealthful' and re-hide well with adequate natural coverage. Eventhough the container is very well camoflauged, a bit of extra natural coverage will assist in preventing it being muggled again. People who have seen this one will appreciate the effort I've gone to with the container, and it would be great if it would last a long time before being muggled again. Happy hunting!

Went by tonight to pick up remains and was pleasantly surprised to find both the container and lid (I guess the camo helped disguise it). The cache note was still there, but no contents. Thanks to those geocachers who reported it so promptly and helped to keep it going until I got there to pick it up. It should not take me too long to repair camo and restock, and should be back in action soon.

[This entry was edited by TheFourC's on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 4:22:16 PM.]

As noted the swaps, log and container lid are gone.

As the previous finder said, the lid and contents of the cache are gone, but the container and stash note are still there with the natural covering. I added a few pages on notepaper for a log.

Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble

Found the remains of the cache but no logs or lid or other contents.
The base is all that remains.
NEEDS ATTENTION.
TFTC.

Found by Mary & David at 0910. Excellent camo. We walked across the little bridge and were surprised at how fast the water was flowing. Looks like a great playground. Our thanks to TheFourCs.

muggles indeed.

Have to be careful of muggles.
well disguised.

Very well disguised cache! Lots of muggles, but nobody saw a thing!

Great park, geokids had a blast! Lots of people so had to use stealth but found a way.

SL tftc

Lovely park nice hide tftc

Great find went past early in the day but way to many kids about.
Came back later and geokids had fun while we found it.
TFTC

My son found this. Was well hidden. And great park.