Hamilton Gardens Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
By VK3JAP & GeoGinaG on 10-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1KN6T

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Doing some caching with my sister and she was unable to find it. I had previously found it and when I went to where it was last time it had been moved. Can you please check up on this one??

The frog wanted to visit the cop shop - I stopped him about 3 times. He had blood on him and we just didn't have the time.

Thanks to vk3jap and clear skies from TeamAstro.

There will be blood. Epic fail. We nearly visited the police station to ask if they knew where it was.

Found this one back in october while I was visiting for a wedding. Was a quick find, quiet late at night with my geofriends.

Note:- you need to be quiet.. We had a visit from the police (station across the road) to make sure we weren't up to mischief.

This is the second time I've searched for this one only finding prickles! Never the less I live close by and will be back to look again soon. Beware of muggles Wednesday mornings when they congregate outside the courthouse over the road!

Nice quick one.

Found at 10:35am, splendid gardens and a beautiful day to set off our "Gina the Tortoise-shell cat Travel Tag"since the cache was conceived by a GeoGina! SL TFTC

Quick find aftera nice walk throught the park after lunch.
TNLN TFTC
Team Doggle

11.20 a.m.

Found it very quickly.

tftc

Beautiful gardens, not a muggle in site....TFTC

Very easy and simple cache to find. Great gardens and not a muggle in site. TFTC

Found after a nice meal at a local hotel. TNLN TFTC

Found at 1220hrs prior to having some lunch in these fantastic old gardens. Strolled the suggested "circuit" and enjoyed the huge trees, then went shopping in the town as Ladybug was needing her "fix" after some days camping in the bush! T: nothing L: ladybug

What a gorgeous spot! Cache was a little exposed, but we tucked it safely away.
TFTC

Found this one together with Triaden1 on our Australiatour .

A quick find on our way to the Grampians . Thanks for the hide .

Muspel

Found and logged together with Muspel during our holidays in Australia .

Thanks for the cache .

Triaden1

found on our way to Adelaide to The Australian Masters Games,TFTC,T:-Butterfly,L:-Fly,nice place to stop and have lunch

TNLN
TFTC

We really enjoyed our walk around the gardens. The trees are marvellous. I put a fish in the cache. I hope it doesn't smell to much. Thanks vk3jap.

Netty and I ran into muggle trouble at GZ. Luckily they kept their backs to us and I was able to retrieve and replace the treasure with ease.

Greetings from Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Beautiful gardens and easy cache. TFTC. Need a new book.

Thanks goodness quick find in the rain..
Thanks for bring me here beautiful garden
TFTC

18/7/11 1045hrs
Found after an overnight stay in Hamilton on the way to The Great Ocean Road for the school holiday. Took nothing left tag. TFTC

Marshall's Geelong found this cache today,
this one we could not look for a while today as there was people who were at the police station near by.Because of the garage fire earlier today.
This one was difficult as we did not have a GPS.
The cover of the cache was blown off but it is fixed now.
TNLN TFTC

Found on 15th May 2011. Very lovely gardens and the emu was checking us out through the fence. Took us a while to find but got it finally. There were no 2 trackables in container as stated so we missed out on retrieving trackables SL TFTC

This entry was edited by HALOJIZE on Sunday, 15 May 2011 at 04:01:55 UTC.

2nd visit here & must have been looking with our eye wide shut last time.
This needs a new bag as a little bit of water starting to get in.
TFTC

#1341 This was a lovely park and we seemed to have come at a perfect time with the autumn leaves turning their array of vibrant colours. Was surprised to see emus here as well. TNLNSL TFTC vk3jap cannot recall seeing the trackables in the cache

Log book is very full

Suscoe found this cache around coffee time.
A lovely walk and an interesting gardens.
Thanks to vk3jap for bringing us here.

Nice gardens. Thanks.

A pleasant stroll around the beautiful gardens on a chilly morning soon had the cache in hand no travelbugs were in the cache and the emu was very inquistive. Luckily he doesn't let on about what us cachers are up to. SL TFTC

Such a beautiful place and the emu gave us a very warm welcome! We found the cache easily and enjoyed walking through the gardens. Thanks heaps..

What a lovely little park. After a quick find and sign, we enjoyed a stroll around saying hello to an emu on the way. Can imagine that there is quite a bit of wedding photography done here.
TFTC

Found on a family weekend to Hamilton. TNLN TFTC

What a lovely spot and lovely day.

Tool ring left clip.

Thanks

I love wandering through gardens and today is a beautiful mid 20's day. Found quickly before heading to SA TFTC

Nice place

Hidden away in a good spot!

Another find with Bmac and cindy and Flounder. A fun filled crazy day of searching! Took candle, left screw.

Found the cache in the Gardens with Huffy76 and Bmac & Cindy after a long day of caching in the area. Had a great day caching with awesome friends!!!

With tape at the entrances and police coming and going nearby we ummed and aahed about doing this one. Technically there may have been tape across the entrance but there was no 'keep out' sign so in geodad went whilst we sat looking very inconspicuous on the brick wall. Luckily he made the find quickly and we signed log and casually walked back to car. Poor geokid was anxiously awaiting our arrest!
Thanks for the cache.

Marshall's Geelong didd'nt find this cache today,

we looked for ages but i dont think it is where we were looking. right at the gate with the police station across the street.

This proved to be a quick find in some lovely gardens. It was a great day for a walk around, and despite there being nobody around town, two muggles were lurking nearby. However they soon cleared off, allowing me to nip in and grab the container.

This was the last on our list and night was on us With light from Liz and help from Alsume, the cache was found at 8:50pm. Took the Jelly Belly TB. No other trackballs in cache. TFTC

This was the last one for the day and it turned out to be a nice easy one to finish on at 18:55 in a very serene spot .

TNLNSL. Thanks VK3JAP & GeoGinaG.

PS: There was no sign of the Golden Sunshine and Cache Critters: Baa Geocoin geocoins in the cache.

A quick find at 3:15pm but a bit too wet to have a good look around the gardens today.
TNLN
thanks vk3jap & GeoGinaG

Recently found TB Jelly Belly bug outside of this cache, under some leaves. The bug was a bit dirty, so kids cleaned it up & we came back to drop off.

Was beaten to find it by a friend

Didn't have to go far into gardens to see this one

Beautiful gardens. Thanks.

Cache found and logged using GeoScout http://www.navstation.co.uk/geoscout

Found with geofriends who had been here before.
Came here many times as a child, Always loved the place.
TFTC!

Nice cache, kids even found a birds nest, TNLNSL.

Thanks for the visit to the Gardens, the last time I was here they had a Cocky and a monkey in cages, nice to reminisce. Thanks for the cache
Just noticed that geocoins were supposed to be present I dont believe they were

This entry was edited by yrrag on Saturday, 21 August 2010 at 03:23:45.

Drooped off Baa Geocoin and Sunshine geocoin

This entry was edited by chazzanz on Sunday, 29 August 2010 at 17:07:47.

TFTC Loved the ducks in the pond/lake. And younger sister loved the playground and the birds. Thanks for the great walk around a great place.

Nice find, left a Travel bug from Scotland and took the poker chip.

A nice easy quick find, with a torch, as it was almost 6pm.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Lots of muggles about! Had to be careful!

Revisited today to grab ByteBORG`s Malachite Butterfly Geocoin.
Pretty cool. Will send on its journey soon.

I have visited these Gardens on my last few visits to Hamilton. It is a good walk around the Gardens and the birds are good to see. Cache easy enough to find. Left a Geocoin. Took nothing. Thanks guys.

TN LN SL
TFTC

My 5yo son found this one! He was very proud of himself!
Left Frog Took Pin
SL

Lots of mugglers around. Had to wait a while for clean pick up.
Great day for a strole in the gardens.
Took: Frog
Left: Poker chip keyring

TFTC

Easy find
Great park
Beaten to the coin
Took nothing
Left nothing
Thanks for the cache

We were so excited to find our very first geocache ever- beautiful day, beautiful location. Nice way to enter the geocaching community. Left a platypus card.

Found cache whilst visiting The Grampians. Passing through on our round Oz trip. Took play money. Left 5 cents.

Woody and the Family went and had a look around the Gardens and also as a cache in Hamilton (less than a KM from home) to register where the Family is currently staying

Found at 4.30pm. This was our 2nd go at this one, Left play money. Pencil could do with a tickle up .
Thanks monkey 63

A bit scratchy retreiving the cache , no sign of either trackable
TFTC

Great location. TFTC and the walk around on a beaut day.

Found on a road trip.

Revisit, dropped off TB "Flatcoat Koala"
TV "Japan Coin" was not in the cache, even though it was supposed to be according to online inventory.
TFCT

Now this is a nice spot to have morning tea which is exactly what we did. It reminded us of where Mr Rhyan Popped the question to a now Mrs Rhyan at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens feb 16th 1997 nearly 13 years ago. Still as happy especially seam as though we both love geocaching. Was a good opotunity to also tell Team Scallywag and The Wild Gang some family history lol. Thanks for bringing us here. TNLN SL

Team caching at it’s best as we were out and about with Team Scallywag and They Rhyan Clan. TFTC TNLN SL

Team Caching at it's best with 100% success rate 20 out of 20 caches done and dusted today all with happy smiley faces wahoooooooooooooo!!! TFTC, TFTMemories, TNLN SL with The Rhyan Clan and The Wild gang on our trip to Melbourne!!!!

Thanks for the hunt. Found no worries with clue. Had a chat with a talking bird in the aviary too. Slight drizzle today kept the muggles away.
No swaps.
Cheers
Willebago

Found with Last of the Time Lords
Great little spot on a hot summers day
Thanks

Found with Team Geoplesk on a lovely sunny afternoon. Thankyou for taking us to this lovely garden! the peacocks were pretty cool!
T: TB to move on
TFTC

This was my first attempt at finding a cache.it was an easy find, now out looking for some more

Cheers

Found with lebac and a day trip 1st of 3 for the day. Shouldn't have to much trouble with security for this cache. TN left "Show me the world" TB. Apologies to TB owner, TB has been traveling with us for 12 months.

Spent a nice afternoon in Hamilton with fellow members Team Wollaston finding caches. TFTC

Heading home from our SouthWest holiday today and managed to con the Wench into waiting while I searched for a few more caches along the way.

Enjoyed the wander through the gardens and had to question why the forefathers of our home town didn't have the foresight to create something such as these gardens. A real asset for the district.

TFTC.

Beautiful gardens. Enjoyed the many old, established and exotic trees. Most of the trees had informative plaques, but a few didn't and it would have been nice to know what they were... Anyway, it was a great sanctuary in which to eat lunch, escape the heat and find a cache. Thanks!

found after a bit of a search
took highlighter
left candle

Just a few seconds after we put the cache back police drove by. Gave us a bit of a fright
TFTC!

11.40 hrs - Three of three for the morning by treadly, geokid in tow, for a bit of school holiday entertainment. Wished i had of read the bit about watch out for the thorns. TNLN. Thanks

A little trouble finding this cahe, without the encrypted clue I wouldn't have found the cache

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Nice quick find, but as it was raining I took the cache upto the rotunda to open. Last time I was in the rotunda I would have been playing christmas carols with the Hamilton Brass band! TFTC

73's!

A spur of the moment cahce that was relying on iPhone to lead to GZ. iPhone could lock down no closer than 17m so co-ords loaded in to real GPSr which still couldn't narrow down search area. Even with resorting to hint the search took 20-30mins. Found by geoP as geoD was about to give up. Hide much easier than we made it

TNLN SL TFTC

These are wonderful gardens and we had parked on the opposite side so it was a rewarding walk through them to the cache. The GPS took me unerringly to the spot right where the hint said it would be.
Thanks Ian.
TNLN

10:30 at night and I found it with my bike lights (ayups). Nice and easy for my second find.

Cheers and thanks

Pete

05-12 3rd find of the day at 11:28 and 723rd find in total.
Loved the gardens!
We parked just outside the gates and were almost run over by a bride to be on a scavenger hunt against a car full of other women, all racing to the wishing well just near GZ.
After they were gone we grabbed the cache quite easily and headed to the noisy peacocks.
(''\(OoO)/'') TNLNSL, thanks vk3jap for the caching fun!

One last find for the day. These are lovely gardens which not surprisingly remind me so much of England. The cache was an easy find, thanks.

Out with the family today to have lunch and spend some time with one of the great grand children we thought that this cache would be ideal. We were planning on doing another one but we enjoyed this park so much that time got away from us so this turned out to be my only cache for the day
Thanks guys for the cache

We came here with Superpop and the rest of the muggle family after having an enjoyable lunch nearby, it was a good excuse to walk it off. We first headed off to gz and located the cache where we left a Tb and then went for a wander through the rest of the gardens where the youngest of the group (15 months) fell in love with the ducks and the other birds in the area and also the play equipment. We spent over an hour here before returning to the car
Thanks VK3AP & GeoGinaG for the cache

Final stop for the day, quick find helped along by a very inquisitive maggie, who insisted on helping me find the cache.

The Geo coin has gone from here.

SLTNTN SFTH

Cheers