Helene Park Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
By skyejam on 14-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1X921

It is a very sad to say that I have to archive this cache because the cache has gone after the construction put new footpath so I will have to move to another location soon. Thank you for find the caches after I put it a few years back ago.

Thank you to Swampcreature for letting me know that my cache is inaccessible now since it was due to the middle of construction site and also I can see my cache expose but I cant get access to pick it up so I hopefully they workers will leave it out until they done their work on the site so I will put it on temporarily disable for maybe next 2 or 3 months but I will keep checking to see if its finish.

This cache is currently in the middle of a construction site and is therefore inaccessible, and appears to be in mortal peril from the construction works. CO should perhaps keep it under observation and check it when the work is finished.

Fun find, great location! TFTC!

Beautiful spot.

Really nice view!

Very good hide in a muggly and scenic place. Crisp, clear Sunday afternoon - great for a walk along the river. SL TFTC Cheers.... Gaztek

A good quick easy find

I frequently run through this area in the mornings, and I must have passed this cache hundreds of times without having any idea that I was so close to it. I took the trouble to stop and find it today, but I was looking in the wrong place for a while. Then I spotted it...such clever camo for such a busy location.

A tricky one on such a busy walkway, might be here a while trying to put it back

Woah! Good one! Tricky spot as can be busy with Muggles!

Great camo, lovely day for a walk on the harbour. TFTC

I am house sitting close by and had better find those 'close to home' caches.
So, off for a walk I headed this arvo.
A quick find here. [^]
Thanks for the cache

Found it after Reuben gave up.

Found on a mother's day geocache with mum and gf. Dropped in travelbug from up the road, code 8997VM. Don't know how to log them yet :/

I drove my daughter down to Meadowback from the Central Coast for an appointment she had this afternoon and took the opportunity while waiting for her to finish to do some caches in what is virgin territory for me. This was a straightforward find once I was at GZ and saw that I wasn't looking for a micro. Thanks for placing something larger here skyejam ... and thanks for the smiley too.

We found it close to water

Very clever and very sneaky. Great use of public resources geokid friendly and easily accessible for wheelchairs. TFTC and thanks for the view.

Nice find. TFTC.

Searched for a bit and couldn't find

Quick and easy find.

Find #2
Found with Dave Davids
TFTC

Found with jacksandwich18
TFTC

Dear reader, let me paint you a picture. I've been riding my bike around from geocache to geocache for the past 3 hours, whilst the rain is steadily getting heavier. I get to GZ, and would you believe where my GPS point me to? A little beach, which water is lapping up to, covered in rubbish. I sigh, compose myself and drop down to begin my search. Just to make the whole situation worse, a rat scampers away as I arrive. I look everywhere I would imagine the cache to be, every crevice, every nook and every cranny. My shoes are now positively soaked and filled with sand, I have seen more maggots than I would have liked to and I am beginning to get very cranky. I retire to a nearby bench to scour the comments for any helpful hints, when a force that I can only describe as Godlike compels me to a place that I would never have otherwise searched.
I honestly laughed out loud when I found the cache, at how brilliantly simple it is. Well done, TFTC!

Hunted around but no find - was it a tree, a pine post, a light pole, the fence, the green Sydney water access flap, over the edge, the timber seats. Nope, too hard this time, I think I need to MACO - Message a Cache Owner before heading down there again.

Tftc great spot

Nice one. Handy. Just had to be used for a cache. TFTC.

Lovely walk along the river and breeze day beautiful. FTFS.

Today in sunny weather we took a tour with the every along the parramatta river.
Our first stop was Meadowbank followed by Cackatoo island and Greenwich point.
All caches took us to beautiful special view points.
Thanks for sharing
Team sissifalke

easy find on a beautiful day ☀️

Missed the ferry so decided to GC whilst in the area. Luckily found before the next ferry.

No. 482

Ooh this one was deviously simple. Looked around a few areas for a few minutes without any luck, but soon came across the clever hide. I won't say too much, but it was not what I was expecting as I walked towards GZ. No muggles around thankfully. Beautiful day, beautiful view. TFTC.

Nice walk near river. TFTC

Looked far too long in the wrong spot.Had to read quite a few logs before we found the cache. Clever hide. TFTC

Second time here and finally we got it. Logs and photos helped. Thanx.

TFTC Thank you for going to the effort of hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

My second last day after 2 months of travelling through Australia.. Just arrived at sunset. Nice ending for my journey. Took the trackable. On its was back to europe now.
Cheers and thx.

Tftf!

Tftc, when I saw the size of the cache, there was only one spot. Coords are spot on.

Found with Joanneeg. Great hiding spot.

Easy find. TFTC. Signed log. TNLN.

Find #: 1,247
Companions: None
Muggles: Quite a few
Weather: Pleasant summer afternoon
Cache Condition: Good

I was working out of our Concord office for the day, and decided to drive instead of going by train - love the lack of traffic during school holidays! I left close to normal time, and realised I had time for some caching on the way home; this was my fourth find.

I parked nearby and walked along the path until I was at GZ. Nice view. I needed to wait for a break in muggle traffic. When there was a gap I started searching, and soon found the sneaky spot. I signed the log, replaced the container, then headed back to my car. TFTC

Once again stealth was needed to search this cache as there were many muggles walking along the path next to GZ. We enjoyed the challenged of searching for this cache as it was an interesting camo. SL. TFTC. [^]

Lovely walk along the river, so many muggles it took a while to find! TFTC

I looked around the GZ in what seemed like an areas with very little hiding spots but still somehow came up empty handed. Next time perhaps.

No joy here today.

Another quick find late in the afternoon. We had to be a little stealthy with muggles around. TFTC

found on a great day out caching with geo friends . thanks for the cache skyejam tnln sl

Had this one marked as found using the app then changed phones.
Recently discovered that I never posted it. So here we are. Sorry about not having details on the find. TFTC!

Oh yes, the 1/1 caches are very difficult at times... Grabbed the [url=http://coord.info/TLG012PP]lego brick[/url]. TFTC.

#1248, 13:21, Found it with Cachebox!

Second cache in 10 minutes. Awesome. Tftc. Sneaky!!!

I was pretty excited to look for this one as the comments here are very intriguing. However, a few seconds in to my search today, I found an injured wagtail and hightailed it to the vets. I shall be back to try again! (11/06/2015)

Came back for round two today. Picked the worst day - Ryde Rollercoaster Run was apparently today and there were constant streams of people walking by, had to wait for a complete gap to both retrieve and replace. After reading more comments last night I realised there was only one place it could possibly be. Even still, I was still shocked to discover it there. Really?? Dropped off a pink lego travel bug.
Thanks!


This entry was edited by Natune on Saturday, 07 November 2015 at 05:55:10 UTC.

Sneaking around muggle.

We were out for another fun caching morning with Phantom Cyclist. Hmmmm. What can I say. It took longer than it should have to find. Sometimes the 1/1 caches seem harder to find than those with higher ratings. Nevertheless, we did find it so are happy to claim a smiley. TFTC.

Found this cache while out with goingplaces2. TFTC.

Where to start with this one...

I have a habit of making D1/T1 caches seem much higher than what they end up being. Teaming up with JJCC we had to visit Meadowbank again this morning and came back down to the foreshore to see if we could find a cache for the day. Yesterdays visit to the area wasn't so good with two DNFs and one find....but a find is a find is it not.

Anyway JJCC dropped me off before parking the car around on Bay Drive as parking seems to be a premium with all of the building works taking place at the moment. I headed over to GZ and the GPSr was pointing towards a tree but I had no luck finding what I thought was a small bison. By the time JJCC arrived five minutes later still no find, so now with both eyes looking we expanded the search area...but still nothing. Resorting to reading some logs we noticed the photo of the cache container...how in sweet molly do you hide that!!!

With this new information the potential hide spots narrows considerably and bearing in mind the D/T rating of the cache, one hide location stood out. During this time there were quite a few muggles jogging past on their morning runs, but as luck would have it my shoelace came undone and to save on an OHS incident must be fixed ASAP. Whilst attending to this we just happened to come across the well hidden cache. After taking a seat overlooking the water, we both signed the log book. Waiting several minutes for a muggle break, JJCC replaced the cache as found.

TNLN. Two TBs visited - Bart and Vanlith The Youngling
Both the cache container and log are in good condition. TFTC skyejam

Back to Meadowbank today completing a cache for today with Team Merlin.
I dropped off Team Merlin to start the find hoping he would find it before I found a parking spot. Parking is an absolute premium here so if you find one it is worth taking and then head off on foot. Eventually find a parking spot several blocks away it was off to locate Team Merlin. Finding a parking spot was harder than locating the cache. With coordinates in hand it was down to the waters edge.

Now at GZ with Team Merlin still not having made a find. It was time to look at a few logs for help. Once we found the size cache container we were looking for it soon ruled out the hide spots that we were searching. Widening the search area there were not many spots which could hide this cache. It was then Team Merlin checked his shoes as his laces were untied. Bingo ! Finally we found a likely hide location. As many muggles were about we picked our time and retrieved the cache without being spotted.
With cache in hand we both signed the log and returned it as found between the high muggle traffic.
Both the log and cache container in good condition.
TFTC

Awesome! Tftc

It wasn't the first place that I looked, but then I checked logs and ruled that out. Another spot was soon speed. Waited for jogging muggles to pass and cache was soon in hand. TFTC

Quick and easy compared to last time we were here.

Another KAREN! brought me too, great hide TFTC

A 1/1 eh? I don't know why, but I can have difficulty in finding the easiest of caches. Ended up checking the logs and photos before finding this cache... But in between the occasional walker, found cache and signed log. You put it there? No way! Way! LNTN. TFTC!

Found it

Nice easy find

Thanks for this cheeky little cache.

A great spot and very interesting lift bridge in the distance.

Tftc

Found it with geoteam (-Misfits) the moved spot is a much better hide but required some muscles though...

TFTF

I found the cache under the bench which was not appropriate hide so I just moved it back to corrected GZ. Happy hunting!

Sorry about this because I thought it was alright until inspicio temporarily disabled this cache so I will double check to see if the cache is still there or not then I will fix it up soon.

Found this today after the bushes were all cut down. Tried to re-hide it safely.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.
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Couldn't find. Might have found foul play.

After it hasn't been found for long time, had a pretty good look around the area found zilch.

Maintence required

No idea where this one might be!

I was a bit apprehensive about searching for this after reading the last 2 logs, but I gave it a go anyway, since it was near some others. I searched high and low and couldn't find it. It seems to have gone missing

No luck for us, based on the last finder, we did not have time to start sifting through all the pine needles and rubbish for a micro. We looked for a while, but no luck.

Mm dont want to rule this one out but geo bf and I looked throughout all possiblr cache spots. No luck. Guess we'll try again at a later date

Came back from the city on ferry.
Looked for a while but didnt have enough time

A pleasant spot. The cache was sitting on the ground albeit in a secluded area. I SL and replaced it with some natural cover.

Found it! Took awhile

Fun find!

Looked for a while finally found TFTC

TFTG

Found with meadowbank venturers.

Got it. Bit of a tricky find

Didn't find this one. Nice spot to take a break whilst scootering with 2 geokids. We'll be back to search another day!

Tftc!

I found this upon my return from a 26km bike ride from Meadowbank to Woolwich and back.
After our recovery coffee I rode around the area to find a few caches.
The hide did stump me for a bit, especially when taking into consideration the terrain and difficulty ratings, but in the end there were very little places it could be and the cache was in hand.
Thanks for the hide.

TFTC

Great spot Geodaughter found this one as well. TFTC

Sorry for double post I couldn't add 2 pictures to first post..Geodaughter wanted to be in on the find.

Good hiding spot.. Mind the spiders

Found it! Thanks!

Nice hiding spot.. Mind the spiders

TFTC

Plenty of traffic around and got lucky with the spot

Found by seven year old Geoson.
Found it. Trouvé. 見つけた.

Tftc! -BMF-

Easy find TFTC - BMF -