May's Garden Harvey, Western Australia, Australia
By richlink on 27-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1N4EM

Only replaced 3 months ago- too far away for me to maintain now!

Not sure if this cache has been muggled again...found a bunch of kids hide-and-seek rocks but that was it

After DNF oh dear! we worked out the puzzle right Co ordinates but with permission from CO if we could assist to replace the cache. The cache is now all good to be found TFTC

Many thanks to TheKellyGang for replacing the missing container.

Looked high and low with no success.

Dnf.

This has been muggle do. Found these just sitting in the dirt, had nothing to replace it and not sure of its proper location.

Surprisingly busy at this pretty spot today. I dropped WebblyWA off to start the search while I parked the car. By the time I joined her she had almost finished working out the coords so we walked on to GZ together. Whereupon she located the cache, signed the logbook & replaced it all. Glad I was able to help you out with this one Webby. TFTC

Hit the SWH trail today and a couple of towns along the way with Pommieparkin2 leaving our 2 and 4 legged loved ones at home to recover from their injuries. I started the day on 1971finds and the question was - Will I hit 2000 today?
Lovely gardens here that I enjoyed exploring. Grabbed the information and made our way to GZ glad this spot gave us a little bit of privacy from the muggles enjoying their lunch in the garden. The find was a quick spot but a bit of a reach to retrieve. Replaced with a bit more leaf litter so it wasn't quite as exposed.
Nice simple multi here. Once that was completed I made a visit to the fillies section of the barn before we were off on our way again. TFTC richlink

I do enjoy a good multi and try to complete as many as I can when time permits. I was in the area today and stopped by to work out the coords for this one. A well constructed multi here topped off with a nice hide to finish. Thankfully we had no trouble adding our name to the log book. TFTC .

richlink - jinta29 found your cache May's Garden on 11/12/2016, 10:27 AM. This is my find #6085 and find #8 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

Tftc richlink staying at logue brook dam and out for a drive looking at wildflowers. Had lunch at stirling cottage and solved the coordinates and then wandered around and found the cache as well.

We found this interesting cache today using our iPhone and the app GPS Kit Free to input the coordinates. The phone took us to within a meter of the cache. You certainly need to approach from the south to avoid the gaze of muggles at the tea room. Left a tb. Thanks richlink for this adventure.

I enjoyed this one!

Found two geocaches here this afternoon. After reading some logs, we transferred all contents into original container and took the replacement black Sistema with us in order to avoid confusion. Original container is in great order with dry log. Took TB. This was a lovely spot to visit, thanks richlink!

Found in this lovely peaceful setting on my way through my old home town

Amazing location in beautiful garden had a bit of trouble getting there without touching the grass (which was closed for lawn mantiance). Great quick multi in lovely area

TFTC

What a lovely garden and Cafe Nice find didn't pick up TB thought I'd leave it for someone else TFTC

Checking the area
Droped tbGeocache for fun !
Geocache for life !
Found it. Logged it. Loved it.

Headed out with Skippy 46 to find a few caches today. This was the last one for the day before heading back home. This was an enjoyable multi to do and it was the first time i had been here. Unfortunately the container was missing but with the CO,S permission i have replaced it with a black 400ml sistema so we could log our find. A favourite point for bringing us to this great location. TFTC richlink

Caching down south with ooh yeh today and we stopped in here on he way home.
I have never been or known of this place but will definetly visit again, this time for a morning tea.
Beautiful gardens made searching for the cache a pleasure.
TFTC richlink and for showing me this gorgeous place.

No luck for me today.

I headed on into this delightful place today on me bike ride around the towne
Definitely Gum Nut territory
But after working out the coords for GZ,
I was no closer to finding me a cache

Maybe the Big Bad Banksia Men have relocated it elsewhere ?? [:o]

Found it

Enjoyed this very much
Thank you
Gorgeous gardens
So fitting for TB I dropped off.
Geocoin. Help its challenge and move it on
TFTC

Found out on our trip to the south west coast.
TNLNSL
TFTC

New log sheet in container.

This one seems to have been muggled. I found cache container and contents strewn all over the ground around the tree. The caching note is quite damaged from exposure to the elements, but is till readable in places. The log was gone, perhaps destroyed by rain. I placed one my old worn receipts in there as a makeshift log which should keep things going for a while until CO can perform maintenance. Cache has been rehidden according to the hint provided.

Out with Chickenhawk07 and his mate around harvey. mybfirst caches since WAGB.

Forgot to log this last time I was here.
Found this on our last family trip out here.

richlink - Kyzabra found your cache May's Garden . The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing and maintaining your cache.!

nice multi this garden is beautiful TFTC

Over 4 years since our DNF Unbelievable! Well we were very new then and I remember being very shy about being watched and behaving strangely. This time we did the required climbing and it was a quick find. A favourite for the lovely garden, lovely coffee and lunch and a geocache as well. We had king skinks begging for scraps of our lunch! TFTC

Returning back to Perth today and getting any missed caches from yesterday along SWH. With B12 and Itskate tftc TFTH

Lots of ants in and around the container all good otherwise

Out with Barnzy12 and Cravo10 on this beautiful weekend on a long hunt from Byford to Bunbury and back, TFTC!

TFTC! Out for a weekend caching run to Bunbury with Cravo10 and ItsKate to complete the South West Highway trail, some Moneybox caches in Capel and of course as many others along the way. Thanks

Walked around this beautiful spot with IQO. To many muggles today. Took the required info and returned early this morning for a quick find before they opened. Well worth the visit. TFTC Richlink.

At last , it was where I thought it should be, so nice to be able to remove the . I think I may not have attempted this cache again had it not been for Gypsy Roaming.

Always a lovely place to visit.

TFTC.richlink

Tftc, not too good with my math, but got there in the end, very well done, container was excellent and in good condition

Information gather and I retreated to a nearby seat to do the calcs. Turns out I went the wrong way. Once at GZ the cache was easily located.

I never knew that May Gibbs had a Western Australian connection.

Turns out we were to have breakfast here the tomorrow.

Thanks for the cache richlink.

Nice to see a deco container again. TFTC.

out with mum looking for zoom in on harveys last photo . thought i had better get this one aswell.TFTC

We decided we needed to get out for the afternoon and go for a walk and pick up some caches. We had a choice of a walk around a salt lake or a walk around Harvey. Harvey won and we spent the a lovely sunny autumn afternoon walking around, exploring the town and, some of the history and the facilities to be had. A good choice .

We have stopped at the Visitor centre and had coffee in Stirling Cottage a couple of times and even grabbed a couple of caches here. Not sure why we hadn't grabbed this cache as well. Found the required infoa soon found GZ. Grabbed the cache to find it covered in ants and soon I was too. After eliminating numerous ants I was finally able to pen the cache and sign the log.
Replaced the cache but beware of the ants for the next finder - small ants not very bitey.

Thanks for the cache richlink [^] - all inside was good and dry

Found with the help of the copwats after walking round the glorious gardens. Enjoyed a drink and cake. TFTC

This entry was edited by studlandbeach09 on Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 04:45:45 UTC.

This was our 11th cache find in a caching run of 13 Finds & 1 DNFs today.
We found it at 11:55 so this now makes our total find count 7720.
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Another day out caching. We started quite early in an attempt to beat the heat - and by and large it was a successful day.
Thanks for not placing an eclipse tin or a 200ml Sistema here. For over ten years we have steadily watched the quality of caches get worse and worse. Once upon a time caches seemed to be "regular" sized,and well stocked with goodies for kids to swap. Nowadays it seems like every other cache is small and devoid anything to induce children to enjoy the hunt. It made us feel really good to find this cache in a "special" place.
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Coordinate Accuracy: Excellent (Around 2 metres.)
Cache Condition: Container and log book are in good shape.
Took: Nothing.
Left: Nothing.
Thanks richlink for the hunt today.

Left the Mandurah area, to continue south on our trip around Australia.
After picking up a few caches in Yarloop, we headed for Harvey for an overnight stay.
A short stroll and a few calculations, the cache was soon in hand.
A well kept beautiful garden, very peaceful after hours.
Thanks for the cache, richlink.

Our 6th DNF today.
[red]We spent quite some time here at around 10:35:00 AM, but couldn't locate the cache.
We spent some time trying to figure out how 9/10/1994 (7 digits) fitted into WXYZ (4 digits) and then decided life is too short to worry aboutsuch trivial things.
[/red]Ian and Penny

Heading south for work we stopped off at the information centre to stretch the little one's legs. After a look around the garden Daz decided there to be a cache here and so had a look on the phone and what do you know! While Ky gave our geodaughter a snack Daz made light work of the puzzle and quickly located the cache. Fantastic garden that is deserving of a cache. TFTC.

TFTH beautiful gardens

Has been a few years since I last tried for this cache. Found without problems today.

Thanks richlink for the cache

Miscalculated twice before I got the correct coords. TFTH Richlink.

Apologies in advance for a copy/paste log, but I have very limited internet access, and sooo many logs to catch up on after an energetic 3 days of just caching!
Set off a day early to go to the WA goes BIG Event, on a very blustery, cold and wet day, caching as I went, many of the hide sites ankle deep in water! However with some soldiering on, it was a remarkably successful day, dodging most of the worst downpours, and ended up in Busselton cold, muddy, wet through, but cache happy!
Loved this area. Had lunch here before moving on. Cache was the home for zillions of tiny ants. Removed them all but expect they will shortly be back... Thanks for this cache richlink.

This was our special weekend away to attend Wa Goes Big in 2013 - hosted by Felix11. As well an opportunity for Mr Luna Maya & myself to celebrate Our 25th Wedding Anniversary. We travelled south along the SWH. Caching in rain & even hail. All good had a great time.SL TFTC Richlink, also a great place for lunch

Re-logging under new team name ONLINE ONLY (were formerly part of TheChatterboxes but the team had got too large). If CO is not ok with this please contact me. Thanks.

We are fairly certain that we did the maths correctly, but were sent a fair way away to search with no luck....might have to try again another day.

Finally found, did my head in for a while now. Took travel bug. TFTC.

I didn't find it but I think it was because there were too many muggles around preventing me from looking properly so will have to come back again another day!

Out for the day caching with freebkids, TomatoesRule and McKids 101. We decided on a drive to Harvey getting the SWH caches and those in Harvey then across to Myalup, Binningup before heading home.

What a lovely place for a cache. Sent one of the younger more agile cachers to get this one.

Once again we meet up with a richlink cache. Very common occurence so far today

Left Claudia's Slipper TB and took Boticka TB

14th find out of 25 for the day

Once again TFTC richlink

Dimor worked out coords and TomatoesRule found cache, I enjoyed the beautiful garden. Magnificent spot. Thanks Richlink

I retrieved this one after Dimor worked out the coords. We had fun in the garden until mum stood in dog poo. The garden is beautiful and I loved the big tree with the butterflies attached to it.

With IlanthaK on holidays,in your wonderful part of the world. We visited the beach, wetlands, bush, did the tree top walk, etc. great time. Heather climbed the Gloucester tree. Enjoying all the towns with an "up" in the name. We were even given a list of their meanings.
Heading up to Perth when we found this one. The Gumnut people display was wonderful and the extra "bonus" of May's Garden, for our picnic lunch, was a real bonus. Other monkey child did the goods with the tree and the ants...TFTC

I'm on holiday in the south-west corner of WA with Triciac2 Day 6 of our trip and we are finally heading northward to Perth after visiting a friend in Busselton. We decided to take the inland route just to be different, and Harvey was our stop for a snack. We were both delighted to discover May Gibbs' Garden was attached to the Info Centre. I have lots of fond memories reading her books as a child [^] And there was a cache here, too We got all the info we needed, then found us a seat to have our coffee and to crunch the numbers, only to discover GZ was only 5 metres away

After a quick look, I knew what I needed to do to get the cache, and Triciac2 was pleased that I was willing, but I was thwarted several times by tiny little black ANTS!!!! They were all over the hiding spot, and are persistent little blighters An awful lot of hand-slapping and clothes-brushing happened, but I did eventually come up with the find [^] Phew! TFTC, richlink. A favourite point from me.

This is one of the best times of the year to see this beautiful garden

This entry was edited by copwats on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 at 10:19:24 UTC.

what a gorgeous little spot. a relaxing walk around the gardens a great place to stop for refreshments tftc

[:(!] Did a caching run to Harvey and back starting at the junction of the Old Coast Road and Forrest Highway then back via the South Western Highway to Perth and this was one of them, parked the geocar as close as possible to GZ and walked in from there, worked out the needed coordinates and then made a bee line to the said cache, on arrival at GZ we had the cache in hand in a matter of minutes.

SL TFTC\TFTH Richlink

What a beautiful garden. We could have spent hours here. Well, we might be back for that one day. Nice easy multi, well worth a visit! TFTC richlink.

Found it together with Moselund United, on our trip in Aussie:)
Denmark

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our journey in Australia.

DK

Unfortunately cafe was closed on Australia Day....still enjoyed gardens though....thanks again richlink

Australia Day proved the perfect time to complete this very clear multi. Thanks for the cache richlink.

A wet and windy day but after a superb lunch in Stirling's cottage resjes and I worked out the coords, then made a quick find. Been here before and it's a lovely spot.
SL TNLN TFTC richlink

Come back and admired this garden - fall in love... Enjoyed wander etc etc... Took geocoin, Signed the log. Thanks richlink.

Stopped for a coffee on the way to Bunbury, a really beautiful spot. A Favourite point from me!

This entry was edited by Swaggies on Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 09:01:27 UTC.

We hunted for this cache after we sampled some coffee and cake at the cafe. Had to wait until a fewmuggles moved on and then geo sister lept into action and found it quickly. A beautiful stop on our way down South. TFTH.

Out and about with trevkevred on a grey and wet Saturday.
After having some delicious cake and a cup of mocha and checking out the tourist centre, we got the needed info and soon had the coords worked out.
A quick find was made before the rain came down again.
This is lovely garden, I wish mine would look like that!

TFTH

Caching with Me&B this was my second visit as the first time 18months ago there were muggles sat at GZ. Found after a lovely piece of Pavlova in the Cafe. TFTH

Lovely peaceful place to visit
Thanks Richlink

Great cache. Found with great niece

Replaced container - please make sure it is covered with leaf letter.

Had a pretty good look and sure we were in the right spot but alas no cache to be found. Beautiful gardens though and pretty good cake so still worth going for a look.

How annoying. I didn't get a cuddle and snuggle with pot and pie and cut my wrist in some barb wire in the cradle of a tree and no cache either.

Another DNF for me,but no complaints as the gardens are a delight,
plus the coffee and cake with lashings of cream were enough to make anyone smile.

TFTH.

Wd didn't find this one. Not sure if our calculations were wrong or the GPS we were using was very accurate?? Beautiful gardens and nice to see Snugglepot and Cuddlepie!

A lovely garden that we will have to return to one day for lunch. A nice easy multi. SL TNLN TFTC

What a beautiful spot, obviously kept so by constant watering at this time of year! Found the cottage and cache easily then had a walk by the river. Thanks for showing me this place.

Another lovely surprise in Harvey, and well worth the visit. I know I will be returning - the gardens are fantastic. Another spot I will be returning to soon. All those people who use the new Forrest Highway don't know what they are missing!!
Found cache in unexpected spot, so returned it to spot that seemed more appropriate. Hope that is ok? TNLN, just signed the log before taking a wander around the garden, admiring the hydrangeas, ferns, everything. The ladies in the coffee shop are lovely too. Thanks for bringing us here.

This entry was edited by Mistraluna on Saturday, 07 January 2012 at 02:12:09 UTC.

This one may need to be checked. I tried for this one last year but didn't have any success so when we stopped here again I grabbed the required info and then went to sit down near where I ended up last time so I could work out the coords. I didn't need to work anything out as the cache was on the seat where I sat down.
I have put it behind the seat but it might pay to check to put it back in its original location.
TFTC

Today rudi63 and I headed South for a bit of a caching run. The original plan was to hit Bunbury straight up, but we changed that and decided to clean out some of the South Western Highway first.

On arrival at the initial waypoint I realised that I have been here once before. A few years ago now with the geowife and son when he was much younger - say 6 years ago or so.

Today we arrived and gathered the information. While I kept an eye out for muggles on the verandah, rudi63 made the grab. I signed the log and he returned it. We then grabbed an awesome coffee from inside before heading on our way again

Thanks for bringing us here to this bit of history today richlink and thanks for jogging the memories of a few years ago

We took nothing and left nothing today

Cheers

Got to love holidays!. Off with Mr. Wileyclan today to undertake a caching assault on the South Western Highway to Bunbury. A pleasant Summers Day and off we went. [^]

A beautiful park and garden, and it is nice to read the history of the area, my first May Gibbs cache in WA. I have in the past grabbed the cache dedicated to her in North Sydney. Thanks richlink for giving us a reason to stop at this historical spot. And the coffee in Stirling's Cottage is very good.

The Harvey Visitor Centre and Stirling Cottage Tea Room is one of the best kept secrets in the Southwest. We have been here on numerous occasions, but haven't gone geocaching until now. TFTC. Mr. Walker from Saskatchewan, Canada.

Scouting for a few caches down South on a lovely summers day! Stopped into the cafe for an early lunch, then to the mental arithmetic to find the cache. After arriving at GZ Chil found a GCA Gnome by the cache(to her surprise). SL TFTC RichLink. Had a quick look around the lovely gardens.

OUT TB 4KM53Y

Found it! And dropped off GA3011 GoGo Gnugget the Gegnome Racer into this cache's hide for any keen gnome hunters out there!

lovely gardens, full of muggles

lovely spot. brings back happy memories
cache container was open on ground but log undamaged. returned it to the location it was in its previous container on advise from previous finders. tftc

Replaced container and new log book. Now a small sistema.

very wet, full log sheet.

Yay, 2nd cache of the day n my 2nd find. Sheet is very wet, and full so didn't sign. TFTF

This took much longer than it should due to missing half of an equation and ending up 500m away from where I should have been, so after finding my mistake found it easily. Log is quite wet and full could use replacing. TFTC in such a beautiful spot.

A delightful cache. Thanks for taking us to this lovely spot. We may come back tomorrow for the carrot cake. The log is very damp.

This entry was edited by ecamp31 on Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 09:00:05 UTC.

Had a little search trying to stay inconspicuous!! I SMS'd a friend but hubby found it before she text back!!
Lovely place! TFTC

NICE EASY CACHE

VERY BEAUTIFUL SCENERY

THEY MAKE A VERY GOOD CARROT CAKE AT THE REFRESHMENT SHOP

TFTH

What a lovely place!

TFTC richlink!