The Troubled Puzzle Murray Bridge South, South Australia, Australia
By Sydneykiwi and family on 06-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Y8ZC

Seemingly gone

Stopped by and read the logs. Did not even take a look.

Our second look in as many weeks & even with a hint from a friend no luck. May need checking.

I searched thoroughly for this one for ages before giving up. Looking at more recent logs this one may be missing?

We spent ages searching here and couldn't find it.

looked twice now and still cant find it

Nice hide, fftc

Mr C took his parents (Jus'Swaggerin) out caching for the day whilst Mrs C went shopping with her mum. We intended to complete all of these last time but half way through the day they decided that 100 was a respectable number to complete.

Today was the day to complete the rest

There were some wonderfully interesting containers. The majority of the caches were a nice easy find.

Sorry for the cut and pasting of the logs but time is precious and thank you all for taking the time to place this rather fun trail!

on my big cache round now on the way to canberra
merci

Quick find while passing through the 'Bridge'. TFTC

Found in the company of Honeysucker.
Easy find when a certain cat isn't blind!

Nice easy find, pitty about the park it was good fun in it's hay day.

TFTC

Nice easy find in an obvious spot. Love the strong magnets inside the cache - where do we get them, can anyone help please?

TB Joe visited cache with us. TFTC

found while out tackling the wandering heroes series!! TFTC

What a shame this facility has fallen into rack and ruin, would be one of those great places to take the kids for the day. Puzzling alright. Thanks again Sydneykiwi

Good quick find at site. SL TFTC

Didn't expect one here lol

This was cache # 93 of 102 today in my bid to set a personal best daily record. Nice quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Certainly is in trouble.

Easy find as we headed home.

TFTC

Found at the end of a long day caching with Team Waldron. I remember visiting here many years ago! TFTC, it was an easy find.

Last find before going back to our caravan park nearby...searched a while then found it. Thanks Sydneykiwi.

I always heard about this place as a kid. Nice that I finally come here as an adult for another reason. Cheers.

Tftc nice hide pity the kidlets couldn't play here cheers

We knew this park when it first opened, sadly it has been let to ruin, closed up. TFTC.

another easy one. tn. left a bowling man stick pin.

I remember visiting this place when I was in my teens, and the last time in about 2002.

This spot brought back many memories. We still have the kids puzzles brought from this park from over 30 years ago. Sorry to see it has been left like this now. We spent hours there playing with the kids to break the drive.
Thanks for the memories Sydneykiwi.

My first SA cache! Thanks Sydneykiwi for the hide, this one being another good reason to take a break while driving from Melbourne to Adelaide. Regards, 38degsouth.

A quick find on the first day of the Bicycle SA 2011 Annual Tour. (The find would have been quicker if I hadn't based my search on the D/T stars.)

Thanks for the cache Sydneykiwi.

A nice easy cache, with 38degSth, making our journey across to Adelaide from Melbourne a little more interesting TFTC.

Found on 4/10/11

Found it!
A little late to log,
Missed it on our last trip to the 'Bridge.
TFTC

Took a while I touched it once and didn't realize it

I forgot to pack the GPS today, but found the cache quickly without it. SL then returned home for the GPS. Thanks to Sydneykiwi for the cache.

A bried stop for a quick find. TFTC Sydneykiwi

TFTC

Nice trip back into childhood. Tftc:-)

This was the place to be after the original Monash Playground was killed off by the liability Nazi's so many years ago .
Looks like they want to turn this place into a residential development [B)].
Found while dodging the looks of the lawnmower man!
TNLNSL.
Thanks SydneyKiwi & Family.

quick drive by! Cheers!

Thanks Liz and Bruce for restoring this cache.

The cache is well and truly there, thanks to Liz and Bruce. Thanks Sydneykiwi.

Cache now back in place - thanks Sydneykiwi and family

Sent from my mobile device.

Has been mugged. Will attend to when I can.

Looked hard for it but couldnt find!!
after gettin home and now reading clue i beleive it is missing.

Last DNF of a most frustrating day. I seem to have this problem every time I come over this way. I'm actually pretty sure this one is gone after reading the description, clues and previous logs. But I could just be blind. What a shame this isn't still operating. Sounds like a really fun place.

Luck we able to park because I need to park with very big space for my car and caravan.. glad to park close to GZ while the weather was drizzle.. Quick and easy found it TFTC

This cache was VERY troubled! Terrified of heights and frightened and bruised from being poked with sticks to be got down, it begged for help. So I replaced it at a more user friendly height, no little fingers will ever get this magnet off! Here for the Pedal Prix with the Seeker! Naturally took time at the end to cache! Today in memory of my dear friend Clair Harrop who was a teacher supervising at the 2002 Pedal Prix. Up all night and then, apparently fell asleep, and subsequently crashed her car about 500 metres from her home and lost her life. RIP Clair I think of you often and especially today.

Found by Mary & David at 1515. We concluded that the children of today probably wouldn't enjoy this kind of entertainment, and wouldn't consider it 'cool'. Our thanks once more to Sydneykiwi and family.

With the advent of wet weather and some spare time we decided
to do some caches, with Rokz, on a visit through the Upper South East.

TFTC TNLN SL

Quick late night find on the way to Adelaide for the weekend.
Good spot for a hide. Shame the place was closed... the go karts were awesome.
TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker

Easy find
On way to Melbourne
TFTC

Easy find - fun to do at night

Easy find.Great spot.TFTC

Out with the family for a bit of winter camping in Ngarkat Conservation Park.
Nights are a little cold!
Cheers.

Quick find on our way back from camping.TFTC

The waterslides here were great. Pity it's closed now. TFTC

Found on my trip to Adelaide from Melbourne. Nice quick find. TFTC SL.

Quick find on my caching trip from Melbourne to Adelaide TFTC TNLN SL.

Introducing a couple of friends to geocaching. TFTC Sydneykiwi

found this cache without a torch as did this cache at night while visiting the bridge had tea very close by tftc had a little trouble getting log out pitty this place is closed down would have been good for the rug rats

Found on the way home from a trip to Horsham. TFTC.

Found by Gizmo's Mum with some non-cacher friends after spending some time planting trees across the road from here.
TFTC

good hide- awesome magnet- spent more time trying to get the log book out than anything else- good one guys.

We were sad to heat that this fun park closed down, we visited here a few times when the kids were younger and always had a great day out. You can't help wondering if it was insurance issues or just that being a bit too far out of major populated areas that caused it's demise. At least there is a cache here to remind us of the fun we used to have. We retrieved the cache, the log book was nice and dry again
Thanks Sydneykiwi and family for the cache

[Its sad to see these venues close, but it does make for a good hide. what a wonderful] magnet [TFTC TNLNSL]

I got to GZ too late for the park, and the angle of the light made it hard to see the cache. There were no muggles around to make extraction difficult but I did need to get the tweezers out of the car to extract the log.

It took a while to find it on the way home after the wedding in Newcastle. Tricky hide. I had to ask my geohusband to get it.
ThanksSydneykiwi and family for the cache.

Quick find. TFTC. TNLN. SL.

Boy that magnet sure is strong. Logbook wet and is falling apart and is almost impossible to remove. Persevered for about 5 minutes and eventually was able to carefully remove it with the help of some tweezers and managed to sign the log. TFTC.

Great cache. Found on MrMoochy's way to visit an alpaca farm just around the corner. (Glad we had a screwdriver with us to extract the cache from it's hiding place and the logbook from the cache) TFTC

Thanks for the cache

Unable to use log as its too wet. It needs to be replaced.

The only thing that made me persevere with this was the promise of a PT I didn't have. All in vain the cache only contained a sodden log book and pencil. So sad !
TFTC SL

Catching up on on a few hundred missed logs
Found with bucketeer
Thanks for the hunt

Found at 2:38 on our way to Adelaide for the weekend (without kids!!!!)
Spotted this one from a distance. Grabbed a hold of it and it and it slid for half a metre before it managed to let go, that magnet is mighty reluctant to leave it's home.
Grabbed the PT.
My thanks to Sydneykiwi

24/4/10 2.00pm Team:A
At Last a weekend away to geocache!
Off on the hunt again after lunch, and wow Gayle needed all her muscles to get this little sucker down.
L: Puzzle Meltdown Path Tag
SL TFTC
[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

Haven’t been here for years and so sad to see Puzzle Park closed – should make a great caravan park though. Easy find – but what a magnet! –geogran needed all her strength to get the cache. TFTC

Retrieved by geodad as mum is vertically challenged & was unable to reach. Sighted by eldest geokid. SL TFTC.

Cool!!! Easy find...love those magnetics!!! 30 seconds to find it.... 5 minutes rumaging in my tool box for a set of small pliers to get the book out!!

We found the cache quickly.

tftc

team Ywie the Netherlands

Not a soul in sight, as we pulled up to this one. It was to be the first of many on our south east SA caching trip. Easy find. Cheers.

A first I thought it had been turned into a pub, but as I crused the carpark, I found the place in question. Looks a bit sad in this state.
A quick find, but a bugger to get the log book out!
Thanks, Robmc.

This was an easy drive by and no one took any notice of us from the pub car park next door.
SL TFTC

Had to be quick in this large open public area, so logged and left. Thanks for the cache.

Over in Murray Bridge for the Australia Day Weekend, was able to spend a few hours each day to cache which managed to build up quite a few numbers for the weekend. Plenty of cars in the car park but unfortunately none visiting the puzzle place. Cache located and logged. TFTC

Brought a class of school children here once and a child broke his arm while playing on the equipment. The new development sounds interesting if you read the sign on the door. Thanks

No trouble puzzling out this little hide, but was almost hanging from that strong magnet.

TFTC

Searched for a few minutes, then found it - first magnetic cache! Yay! Left a small pink heart.

Cool hiding spot.

Raining so I gave up caching in MB
and headed for this one. Then going bush

I'm puzzled about the trouble found here. Easily found ... TFTC.

Having read about this one on the information super highway thingy I was sure I had a fair idea where it would be, so at Dundees for lunch today and with no cords for this cache I thought id try me luck and there it was in the first place I looked.
Thanks for the cache!

Up at the crack of dawn today and with a long drive back to Melbourne in front of me I chose two local caches to round off my MB expereince.
This was the first and an easy driveby and I must say those hard drive magnets pack a punch!
Thanks to Sydneykiwi and family.

Found @ 13:00 after the eldest geokid finished at the swimming carnival. Quick find on a hot day. TNLNSL. TFTC.

One last stop for the weekend, on the way home from Tea Tree Crossing with the Blackwood Scouts.
2 & 1/2 mins off the freeway is all it took.
Thanks
Actually used to work with the guy who had this park. He used his super money!
I guess it'd be gone now anyways!...

Such a shame the place is in such disarray. We fought the spiders and we won. TFTC

A quick find.
I remember actually visiting here as a kid many years ago.

TFTC

Found on the Keeping Ahead Tour 2009.
A quick find on our way to the south
Thanks

It's a shame that this place had to close down although I wouldn't have thought it would get enough visitors to keep it afloat. The cache was easily found and it was nice having a big structure there to keep me hidden from traffic.

Thanks,

R - B