Polly Want a Cracker! Algester, Queensland, Australia
By Mortified (and thefourbees) on 30-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XYXF

gone to cache heaven

I searched and searched for this one, without success. I am not sure if it is still here. There has not been a find since the area was flooded. Perhaps the CO could check on it. Thanks

Hoped to find this as our 50th cache after a family trip to the park, but was not to be. Too many possible hide sites, and although I'm not scared of snakes, I'm never keen to hunt through leaf litter with my bare hands. There was a fallen tree across where my phone said GZ was, so that may have buried the cache, but some previous comments suggested that we were a way off at that location.

No find today ...

Unable to get close as there is too much water to cross.

Found a better way to GZ. Looked everywhere and used hints from previous logs but couldn't find it. May have been washed away with the recent big rains.

Has been some pretty fast flowing water through here recently it seems - I can't find it I'll try again soon

Found it!!

Log not signed, I'll be sending a note to the CO about it

TFTC, had a great morning at the park with my daughter.

Had a good look around the grass clumps. No luck today??

Gonna c it soon hope to find the cache yay can't wait

Just couldn't get through the dense scrub and checked under all native grass...

A bit confusing at first (we were looking for a bush)- there are many clumps of Lomandra - a native GRASS - but there are NO BUSHES. It was under a clump of the grass, and the coords were spot on. Found at 11.45am on 5th Feb 2015. TFTC.

Out with Beeline_01 this morning with half an hour before she picks up her new (second-hand) car.
After attempting (and failing) a nearby puzzle, we opted for this one that Beeline had tried before unsuccessfully. It appears her GPSr may have been a little out - as mine took me right to it. We did need to use the clue form the previous finder though!
Thanks 4B's

Pretty hard find but well worth it

Don't make the mistake we did and venture too far in. Well hidden low and deep. Tftc.

WE DID OT YAY!!!!!!!!!!¡ it took us a little but we found it

Found. After several visits

Pretty tricky to find but did in the end

Looked at the area and thought that this would be a DNF and wondered where to start. Walked around for a couple of then I thought I saw something and on closer checking I was able to sign the log and replace it. TFTF

Couldn't narrow down anywhere enough to find the cache. Having a bit of an off day it seems

Headed to the coast for our holiday we stopped in at calamvale park for lunch on the way.

It was a really hot and humid day and the kids weren't all too excited about walking when there was a cool playground they had just left - we searched under and around for quite a while but came up empty handed. It's also been well over a month since we've been caching so we may have to polish our caching eyes!!

It defeated us today, but it's a great park so i'm sure we'll come back again oneday! The kids were excited about that part anyway!!

Day almost done but another for the tally
card!
TFTC

Found this with bennyboppers and lisylou geo kids

!!!!!tftc!!!!! A quick find all good with the cache . Went for a quick ride today and was expecting to see loads of birds but none seem to be near GZ today. A nice piece of bushland thou .

Stopped here whilst at the park for a play with my family. Tftc

We played at the park and then found this cache. Tftc

Blaming the recent storm for not finding this one. Lots of ground cover matted together

Really nice area.. Nice easy find

Didn't find it today. Checked all comments and pictures now I have itchy legs

I need more help

Found it WOOO hooo

Found it WOOO hooo

Nearly didn't find it... Sister spotted it as we were leaving! Lucky!

2nd find for the day with the scout master after being outed at the nearby car park by a kiwi exclaiming "are you all geocaching" 0 out of 10 for stealth. ..left an English penny...

The kids loved this one

Tftc

Found it!!!!

An impromptu outing today and this cache was on my radar.

Well, this turned into a career! After searching without success I used Nurseyjulie as a PAF and she advised that the coords were well off the mark. The terrain is also about a 2.

More hunting and then NJ texted a 'mud map' that showed which direction to look in. About 12-14m W of the coords, along the line of the gully, I located poor Polly in plain sight. If you can locate a tree with a wooden stake next to it, keep walking in that direction. You may hear a squawk!

This bird has seen better days and I was unsure how to get into its interior pulled off Polly's stem and peered down inside to see if it held a logbook! Poked and pulled and took out my knife and tried to tease Polly apart but didn't want to damage her. Took a photo as evidence should you want it. Time to get out of here as it has been along haul

TFTC Mortified and thefourbees

I give up

Bring items to trade

TFTC! Hopefully the first of a few today.

Recon for Greenbank cub geonight. Photo helped to narrow down the particular bush! Should be fun at night with 35 Cubs! Watch for a gaggle of TBs to dropped off soon!

This entry was edited by Greenbank Jacala on Tuesday, 03 June 2014 at 13:01:44 UTC.

Looked under plenty of bushes couldn't find it. But we are going by torchlight

TFTC

TFTC

Good find. I'm only a beginner and this was my first day searching for caches so it was a good cache to start with. Tried to bury it better than the last person who found it.

Took me a long time but got there in the end.

May have been moved had four goes trying to find!!

Got bitten by about a million Mosquitos

Round and round I went looking for this one. Whilst a mower from the council was going round and round. He in the end hopped off his vehicle, told him what I was doing and he joined the hunt! He had to leave and I continued to search. Widened my area and finally spotted polly. TFTC

Nice quick find early in the morning only a few meters away from where we were staying.
TFTC SL.

getting dark and too many spiders! will have to wait for another day.

TFTC Mortified (and thefourbees). Bnaksy found it at 6 January 2014 15:34

103rd cache I've found.
Found it at 4:57 PM. Second find of the year. Very nice hide. Took it after another nearby cache.
TFTC Mortified (and thefourbees)!

Almost gave up, luckily the wife had eagle eyes. Tftc.

Mum going this one.

After I was walking in circles for about 10mins and walking right into a large spider web with a missing spider this one had me doing a little yoga in the bush than a little dance I don't know we're the spider whet
I stopped at read some logs and bingo got it signed and got out really quick TFTCSLTNLN

Found it! My son was halfway off down the path before we realised he had gone too far not too hard for beginners like us. Photo definitely helped! TFTC

Found. Getting dark at this stage and we had to be out of the carpark in a short time. Polly didn't ask for a cracker so we just signed in and reset the cache. We did get back to the geomobiles and cleared before closing time.

Stopped by on our way home from an event. Found late in the evening with remsjw, it was getting dark so a bit of a search with our torches, log signed, back to collect the kids at the park and get out before we got locked in. Tftc.

Found with my geokids and the BennyBoppers. Took a bit of scratching around!

Found with misssusan79 and kids after some digging came across signed log and moved on

Well I could not find this for quids last time. I almost gave it a miss today too. Not so hot today, so maybe that made the difference

Of course it was a very quick find this time. LOL

This entry was edited by teamdfl on Friday, 02 August 2013 at 03:05:05 UTC.

Found it prevously after seacher everywhere last year then I tried again today thinking this is going to be really annoying and then I found it after seconds of searching left tb tftc

Found it eventually after looking under every bush. The photo gives the best clue.

It started to send Richmond Lad and I crackers as well. We were out caching on a very overcast afternoon. Think the GPS didn't like the clouds and trees - that's our excuse! Will try another time.

Unable to find on this overcast day - will attempt another time when it is fine

Found it!!!!!!!. How lucky am I. Whilst waiting for geohubby to get the GPS to settle on GZ, geowife, stood on the cache about 10 metres away. TFTC. (Have emailed CO, re the position of the cache).

This entry was edited by Gullivers Travels54 on Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 10:36:27 UTC.

Could not find. Dense coverage and difficult to get a Gps lock on this one.

Strange that even after looking at hint photo couldn't find it.

Polly want a cracker? I think Polly has moved out! Or I am just blind for the day.

We found it. Was a bit hard but is there all safe. Didn't take anything but left a few things. ??

TFTC!!!!!

Took me way longer then it should have!!!!! The hint threw me off!!!

TFTC. Took travel bug.

don't worry about Polly
we thougth we would go crackers looking for this one

we really do make things so much harder than they need to be

took St Stephens keyring
left green ribbon

Polly might want a cracker, but this nearly drove me crackers looking for it.

As with others, we made this harder than it need to be. After what seemed like forever and as we were about to give up, Barb comes up with the cache. Really, how did we miss that.

Log signed, cache replaced, dropped in TB which seems to be gone already.

TFTH

spend quite some time here. Looked back through the logs and realised that we were thinking way to hard on this one. Just about to give up and we spotted the cache container.

TFTC.

Got this one with Geowife and 2 little 'uns while visiting the awesome park close by. Spent some time looking to deep in the bush, before finding a pretty simple hide. TFTC.

TFTC

Found on a morning of geocaching. A nice hide very quiet today.
TFTC thefourbees

Took Geowife to find this one. I
Was looking too deep in the brush. Took rubber ball left precious ring. Also left GeoMoose

A good find on another day of geocaching around Brisbane area. SL TFTC

My daughter found this one. It was filled with lots of great kid type items. Thank you.

Kids had a ball finding this. Thx for the cache

Logged and took the dice and card game. Left 2 rubber balls, a hand game, a clapper.

Found with geograndkids Hannah and Mica. The plant that it is "under" is definitely not a bush! Took party popper and blue stone. Left a dice and a barbie skate. TFTC.

A very easy find because the cache container was exposed

covered it better

TFTC ...[^]... thefourbees

Out caching with An Old Hag as she wanted to reach 900

This cache had no camo so was found very easy

TFTC

One of my favorites in the area! been there a few times now - thank you!

I virtually kicked this one as I entered the geotrail, it was right out in the open. I tucked it behind something but not sure it is where the owner intended????

Yep this one is definately kid friendly - couldn't get easier but lovely still the same. Claimed by Geokid2. She obvioulsy listened to the clue. Took one, left one... Tftc - Cheers.

Visited the park here a few weeks back but the geokids weren't with us - so we brought them today. We were glad to find this one after a brief stroll. Needed to use the spoiler photo though. TFTC. Annoyed that we forgot to drop off a TB.

Went to check out calamvale district park which was ridiculously busy so went for a geo scoot with the kids instead. Didn't have any swaps with us so will have to return with the car on our way home.

Thanks for the photo hint! Relatively easy find in the end took Army man left dinosaur and Simpsons trackable. TFTC

Looked for a little while without success and then saw the photo hint and found with no trouble. No sign of the Simpson's TB (nor is it in inventory) that the previous cacher advised in this comments but we did leave a OTTO from the SIMPSONS TB!

Out for a really big day caching with Censations in Karawatha forest. Over the course of 15 and a half hours we managed about 25kms on foot (17 within Karawatha forest bounds), 42 caches and NO DNFs - gotta be happy about that. Legs are tired now, but what better way to keep fit?

I'm no horticulturalist, but I think describing this PLANT as a bush is inaccurate. No idea what sort of plant it is, but it would at least be fair to say it's different to what else is in the area. The photos in logs helped, since GPSr bounce had me in the creek some distance away.

As a community service announcement, be wary of the line of posts near the road when walking in here. There is at least one more post hole then posts, and the grass has grown and been mowed so that the hole is completely hidden. Stepping into it is a great way to roll an ankle or worse ... which I did. Rolled the ankle that is - bit tender for a while, but all OK now. phew.

The cache is fine too, by the way.

Out caching with Pprime. Cache No. 28. This one took a bit more effort. Picture of the plant sure helped as the GPSr was a little off. Located it eventually.

Geowife had a win on this one with the help of previous logs. GPS was not a lot of help due to the trees and the rain. TFTC

Well that was a lot harder than it should have been! We were starting to think it may have floated away in the heavy rain today. Mrs PJATPAC gave it one last try with the kids in the car, and with the aid of the photo hint came up with the goods. TFTC