Lavender Loot Cypress Gardens, Queensland, Australia
By bristracker on 14-Nov-09. Waypoint GC210E9

After difficulties finding the cache, and complaints about nearby canine, muggling and moving of this cache, have decided it's not enough fun for geocachers. I'll clear this area in case someone else wants to do something creative here.

It proved tricky to extract this one and we ended up using two people. Of course, holding umbrellas in our other hand to avoid a drenching didn't help much. Dropped in a TB. TFTC

Easy find. Damn dogs gave me away while putting cache back. Human spotted today annoyed i was making the dogs bark. Managed to get the cache back with some stealth

Got to this cache easily after coming from the cache Witt's End. No muggles or barking dogs around made this cache a nice and peaceful one.
TFTC

I haven't disabled this one because people are still finding it.
I will check it this week to see if it should stay in place. It is difficult for people to find the location (the roads are confusing here) it so maybe it should move to another site.

We took quite a walk to get to this cache, if you don't know the roads its tricky to park. We have been trying to find a nice safe spot to drop trackadog and this is not it based on the last log but we really enjoyed this spot anyway. Skipped a few stones across the water and signed the log. No barking dog today. TFTC

Arrived at GZ and began our search...

After a bit of looking we though it's not meant to be this hard to find...

As I glanced around I suddenly saw the cache - yep there it is 20+ feet up a tree (a muggle with a sense of humour)

back to care for appropriate tools (walking pole) and cache soon bought back to earth..

Cache replaced in what we assume is the correct location

TNLNSL

Thanks bristracker for the cache

Hmm, this cache has been the victim of muggles with a sense of humour...

Kaisho53 and I arrived and checked the likely spots. NOTHING... Looked around a little more and still empty handed. Then, Kaisho53 spotted it... HUH... How on earth did it get there... [?] The attached pic tells the story at this point...

OK, so it was clear we needed to arm ourselves with a retrieval tool of some sort. Kaisho53 nipped off for his stick while I snapped a couple of pics. Back in the same location, K53 conducted the removal while I braced for the catch... Well, this is a sport right and played better as a team...

The cache itself did not seem to be compromised on the inside. I don't remember seeing any notes in the log book either... But, it could not have got where it was, without some intervention...

Keep an eye on this one fellow hunters, if you can't find it where you expect to, look up...

Cheers bristracker.

Two dogs barking at me most of the time I was searching made being discrete pretty difficult. Took quite a while too! Another nice little area though. TFTC

Hard to get in the wet but we found it Ashsa & Brendon

Found this one on a day babysitting the kids on school holidays. Sent the kids down the hill to find this one while I took in the view from the handy seat. TNLN TFTC.

What a great collection of lavendar things in this cache
Did not take or leave anything
tftc

Nabbed this one with Bedmaker at night.
Quick find for us. Nice little area.
Sorry for the late logging.

On a night time hunt with TassieGirl13 we nabbed this one.
Looks like a nice spot, will have to return in daylight hours.
TFTC.

Quick find in a lovely area. TFTC

This cache was the perfect opportunity for hubby to try out the gps I had borrowed for our trip over to the ditch. This was our second and last international find. Thanks for the cache.

Thank goodness the fish weren't bitting, two fishermuggles moved on. TFTC. It was well hidden

Nice quick find.
Had to dodge a couple of fishermen in a boat nearby.
TFTC

Had the cache in hand quickly ,in and out before any one was about

8th of 29 for the day with two of my kids, James and Jasmine on a bit of a Gold Coast onslaught. Limited to traditionals pretty much with the kids. Another find by the kids who made a few swaps. Nice spot. Cheers and TFTC.

Looked in the wrong spot first, plenty of empty beer bottles around.
Then the GPS pointed in a different direction directly
towards the cache. Found it shortly after.
TFTH. TNLNSL

I could only see 4 boats on the water as I nabbed this cache. maybe the others were out? Thanks to bristracker for the cache.

Just about to claim the cache as a fisherman turned up. Had to out wait the muggle TFTC bristracker

Found it No. 2902 ... no dogs here today ... TNLN TFTC

2nd after a visit to local RSL prize home over the road. More luck in finding caches than winning a house! Great spot. SL TFTC

This was the second last cache of 6 on a relaxing Sunday. A nice area near the water, the cache was soon in hand I am glad to say as i felt rather exposed here. My thanks to bristracker for the cache.

A great little park out of the way (an interesting area to try and navigate to/through), but nice park all the same.
Cache was found quickly with NyletaM.
TFTC.

Found quickly with Alkzura as the GPS led us straight to the GZ and the cache was in the most obvious spot. TFTC

I was expecting to come out of this cache smelling of Lavender but the cache was hidden in another type of tree and the name was alluding to the contents. I must read cache notes more carefully.
No movement in the nearby house so a good final cache before I head home for breakfast.
Thanks

Pleasant little spot this. Recon it would be a good fishing spot too. Nice quick find. TFTC

Found this one just as the batteries in the GPS were dying. TFTC

All quiet today while we found the cache.

Great little spot. We sat in the sun by the water while we logged our visit. It was nice and peaceful & there was nobody else around. TFTC
T Timer & Scissors
L Pencil and rings (with lilac on them)

Quick in and out. Managed to avoid the gaze a nearby fisher muggle, Nice little spot. TFTC TNLN

Checked this one today and found only lovely lavender loot inside. Special thanks to radnoski for the lilac tinteddinosaur. Thanks also to fangsoki for replacing log. Cleared away bottles and cans and fishing debris left by recent visitors to the site. Somehow I don't think they were geocachers. Added some pencils and a couple more small lilac items.

Didn't bring a little, old lady with me today, so had no lavender swaps . Cache was found quickly on arrival. TN/LN/SL and chatted to a couple of magpies while I sat and gazed at the water. Without the nearby traffic roaring past, this would be an even lovelier spot.

Good start to the day today - this was the first.

Nice find at GZ - TNLNSL _ TFTC

Another find on my business trip to the GC

Found this one muggled - some items inside but lid and cache all open. Logbook is gone. Took everything back to the car and cleaned it all up - then dried it out. Put in a new notebook and plastic bag. Re-hid it back to its home.

A relatively quick find of this one as it was muggled . Had to wait for some muggles to begone themselves that turned up while I was there. TFTC Bristracker!

Arrived at GZ to find... someone sitting there having lunch!!! Well, that pretty much explains my day today

Was glad that the cache was located in just the right spot that a tree hid me from view.

Thanks BT.

found today by the barnies i think the spider thinks this cache is his home we also came across it, and the box went flying,and the spider ran away
took nothing but left lavender mini scissors

Geo boy found it instantly! he is getting clever for his age! TFTC

Nice hide and spot. Some big expensive toys sitting out in the water. I laughed and laughed as WaldenClan almost rolled down the hill after being surprised by a big spider.
Sorry for the late log
TFTC

Quick find while trying to beat the rain. I just about broke my arm when I smacked it on the tree. A fairly large harmless spider reared up at me as I retreived the cache. I think he was just as surprised as I was.
Sl
Tftc

Had to find something Lavender coloured b4 visiting this one. Found a lavender dinosaur (of all things). TFTC

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

WOW Lovely view river and beautifuk FIJI house over ther... hide well...

Checked this one today after the heavy rains and it was OK. See gallery photo of rainwater runoff gushing into canal near cache.

Quick find after visiting a friend in the area

TFTC SL TN LN [^]

Third find of the day. Easy location and interesting place to watch local anglers. TN. Left lavender hair band. TFTC

Unfortunately I didn't have anything lavendar to leave but La Kedi had a wonderful time going through all the little trinkets. TFTC

Whoops! Mum's in-car GPS culdnt figure out how to get to the right spot, so we took a roundabout route, doubling back on previous tracks, until we figured out how to get in there. I liked having a theme to the cache, made me smile. TFTC! ='.'=

I took a bit of a round about way of getting there but I did get there.. TFTC

Nice hide, took my little geodaughter along and had a lovely time!!

Bit tricky following the roads into here which were testing our Garmins routing ability but a nice easy find for the geokids. TFTC

2TF - Two in a row. Try driving from Toy Box to this cache. I found it very challenging. Easy find once I was brave enough to search in the correct place. Picked up coin. I see Aussie Liahona has already given it a brief visit to NZ. Time now for a proper tour.
TFTC

Well, I didn't want to grab all the FTF's (lol) so I waited until the end of the day to go for this one. Was surprised to find I was still FTF by 5:00pm. However, I'm very happy to be FTF! Thanks Bristracker for a well organized and full cache all nicely themed. Nice little spot with a lovely cool breeze this afternoon that seemed to be keeping away the mozzies as we didn't have one bite while there. Saw nice young fellow fishing with his dog obediently and contentedly waiting by his side. Relaxing location. TFTC. SL. Took: lavender fields fridge magnet. Left: Ench's Geocacherday Geocoin.

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