Cast in Stone Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
By losingtheplot on 07-Mar-11. Waypoint GC2PWD3

Logging with permission from the CO, despite not finding the physical cache yesterday but being in the right location for GZ, it would appear this cache has been muggled. I had actually planned to find this cache last winter (perhaps July) and I recall getting off the train at Newtown on my way to the cemetery only for the rain to start bucketing down, forcing me to retreat. Sadly it's taken this long for me to return but alas it appears too late. Thanks for placing this cache losingtheplot, there definitely was a lot of effort required to construct the multi. TFTC and best wishes.

Collected some of the required details but needed some assistance with a couple of pieces of information kindly shared by a previous finder. After calculating the final coords I made my way over to GZ but was unable to locate the cache, instead finding a cartridge containing two (possibly used) hypodermic needles.

Time to put this one to bed, i think.

Amazing first cache... After about 2 hours we found out all the stones and figured out the coordinates, but we were unable to find anything. I'm pretty sure we found the hiding spot, just nothing there.

Tftc

Found all of the grave stones except the 2 on the ground. The cemetery floor is quite overgrown at this time of year. Will return sometime soon.

This was so not a qaepag! Took about an hour to scour the area even with two pairs of eyes! But on a bright afternoon, this was a nice find!
Note to CO: the letter B is unreadable
Tftc!

With AlphaDeltaIndigo on our first cache after our trip from Adelaide. Great puzzle cache quick find but it took sometime to gather all the info . TFTC

Very interesting to walk through the old stones and collect the information for the final cache. Really a nice place. TFTC !

Cemetery was bigger and number of gravestones more than expected. Finally found all except gravestone for question A, but managed to find cache box. I really enjoyed the walk and the search, great spot und excellent idea, one fav for this. TFTC

What a great multi, I loved this one

It took two trips though, the first I hunted fun all graces except one but headed back this morning and made the finds

Beautiful place

Tftc

Yesterday I heard Coldplay will shoot their new video in Newtown and they were looking for people to participate, too. That's what I came to Newtown for.
But as spots were already taken and as there wasn't much to see I decided to go Geocaching instead. This one was the choice and it kept me busy for about two hours. Some stones were easy to find, some were hard, there was a couple sitting on "Sarah" for ages, I had to wait with that till the very end. Finally got something. Not possible. Check everything. Found out I took the wrong number from the gravestone. Recalculated. Should fit.
While looking up I suddenly saw a rain of paper stars coming right towards me, that must've been Coldplay filming their video to "a sky full of stars". That was a magical moment!
Found the Cache!

Thank you for bringing me here and showing me this and thank you for a beautiful memory!

PS: No TB inside!

They flew everywhere.

Cache # 700
Did my homework on this a few months but saved it for this special number. And today's the day! Beautiful day too.
Had to do something special with this location as one of my ancestors is buried here (1823) and one of my high school buddies used to be the minister at this church.

Co-ords are very good once you've done your research.

Cleaned up the cache, all good to go but had to dispose of the zip lock bag and pencil. Hope the next cacher can replace them.

Thanks losingtheplot, I really enjoyed doing this cache.

Thank you VERY much Jack Scruff who was prepared to get 'down and dirty' and clean up this cache on my behalf. She found herself confronted with a disgusting box full of melted chocolate that had got everywhere.... Now who in their right minds puts sweets in a cache?? I mean, this IS Australia - hint - IT'S OFTEN HOT. VERY. And we have a lot of insects that are attracted by food of any description, let alone sweet stuff.. I located a cache once that i couldn't even open (or get that near) as it was a heaving mass of ants, so I assumed that some moron had stuck something sweet in it. But even if we were living in the bloody Arctic, it would still be a pretty stupid idea, in my opinion.
OK, enough ranting. Thanks to Jack Scruff, who i owe a beer to, at least, I am reinstating this bad boy and asking that it remains sweet-free!!!
LTP
4.6.14

Took a couple of hours but lots of fun gravespotting with Felix the spy, Artemidorus and Amy the geodog. I hadn't visited this cemetery for years. Tftc!

Dear losingtheplot, a lolly left in the cache container has got sticky goo over all the swaps inside, to the point that my son rejected them. We didn't have the means to clean it up (a wet cloth would be needed). The Ziploc bag is completely dead. Most interestingly, poor Matthew Lane's gravestone has deteriorated since you took its picture to the point that it is now very hard to read (in fact the actual version now looks quite a lot like the photoshopped version!) We did a rubbing on it to confirm our initial impression of the number in question. Within a year or two, at this rate, it will be illegible. Great cache, thanks!

Some idiot has left a sweet of some description in the cache and messed up all the swops... doh... where ARE your brains, whoever is responsible??

Disabling till i get a chance to sort it out. It may be a while.

LTP
17.5.14

Thanks for a very pleasant hour or two! We got a knowing grin from the tour guide that we passed at the first clue stone. It was amazing how quickly the three of us would lose sight of one another as we spread out after each comparison of notes. Although GZ is in a fairly open part of the cemetery, it was easy to wait until the muggles strolled on, even on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I would suggest doing this as a team, ideally with multiple kids so that the grown ups can have a picnic or a quiet read (just kidding!). TFTC.

This was probably the hardest cache I have done so far because it took me two hours to do it so well done!

I think we walked the graveyard at least for six times before we matched all the pictures with the gravestones. Once we all found them it was an easy riddle... Was it? Noooo, it could not be that far away. Another try, and yes! Quick find! And our first completed ?cache yay!
Beautiful and quite place. Wondering why there is so much rubbish all over... However, we enjoyed.
TFTC! Galopetjalo & Allissa from the Netherlands

We had somuch fun and found all the graves bar one. We deduced the coordinates and found the perfect spot but it's empty. Could someone please confirm if we're just nincompoops or if in fact the cache has been muggled??

TFTC-OOOOHHHHHH wow
very difficult but also improved my MATHEMACATIONS!
Involves a lot of walking and Puzzling.
Hope you enjoy Cache

Jakusman- OUT

Well this is harder than I thought.

1. Driving around the streets here is hopeless - no R turn, no L turn, no entry so valuable caching time was wasted getting here.
2. The grass is really long so now I 've got soaked shoes and sox.
3. I only have a basic phone so I don't have the photos with me so made lots of notes and drew myself some pictures.
4. I'm a dog person and dogs kept galuting up to me and distracting me.

So I only found half the headstones today.

But this hasn't put me off. It was still a fun experience and I'll be back!!

This was a great geocache so thanks !

I loved exploring the centenary and solving the questions.

I had trouble finding the one of the clues/headstones but I did manage to find the geocache with help from my uncle bartman007 !

Overall - great cache !

A really well constructed cache. lucegoose7, jakusman and I spent 3 hours (including an obligatory gelato break) looking for the clues and finding the cache. In fact, there was one clue we couldn't find, but we were lucky that it was a "higher order" part of the GPS co-ordinates, so easy to guess at. An enjoyable afternoon and a great cache

TFTC

I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! for all the lovely logs and positive feedback posted for 'Cast on Stone' over the last year or so. I am truly gobsmacked that so many peeps have enjoyed what I believed was probs a 'torturous' exploration of the cemetery at St Nicks in Camperdown and seem to genuinely feel that the experience has been worthwhile.
Makes me smile and totally glad i did it.
Thank you

Had a hoot finding the clues with sandysa. I really like this graveyard and enjoy finding out about its history. After spending about an hour collecting the hints, the cache was quickly found. I was actually quite surprised that we got it all correct. Thanks for the cache! This was certainly a memorable one.

Found first ever geochaching on the first day of the year with Anominous Sign. Totally worth the mozzie bites.

This was a great excuse to get out in the sunshine and explore! It was so much fun exploring this old cemetery. We took photos of all the required graves and went off to a local pub to answer the questions over a beer! Our first solution had GZ in Stanmore which couldn't have been right... After re-reading the questions, turns out we didn't read one of the questions right! A quick digit change and we had a realistic GZ. Nice easy find. A fave point deserved! Cheers! [:o)]

Out with The Rats for a late afternoon caching run around inner Sydney.

Last time I was here I was so close but sometimes in caching a wrong digit here or there can mean so much. Today it was quieter and we made a quick find. This place is so interesting and so glad that caching brought us here. I looked up a bit of history after getting home and whilst we were driving around the streets we also pondered just how this place would have looked 200 years or so ago. A favourite for me. TFTC!

Out for an afternoon's caching with steeba.

This is what caching is all about. Showing someone a spot of importance and one steeped in so much history. I didnt know this church was here and since steeba had done much of the hard work I spent more time exploring the head stones. Seeing dates in the mid 1800 century is amzing.

The cache was eventually found and then we did a bit more exploring before we had to move on.
Thanks

Found with patsy249 and jo a little while back, now have premium so able to log this one :0) awesome cache, some great patsy detective work got us to the final location

With patsy249

Found in an hour and a half. Found with akai-ningyo.

Had a great time getting the clues and finding the cache. TFTC!

Took about 2 hours. Loads of real fun and hope to encounter more like this. Found with Gibzilla

Took me five goes and with the help of some new geocachers we finally found it...great cache...and I love hanging out in this graveyard, its a fantastic spot.

I had found all of LTP's other caches (except the one in the UK) including the memorable ferry series so was looking forward to this one. I only work a 20 min. walk from here but the length of time involved made me put it on the back burner for an afternoon where I had a bit of time on my hands. I found a couple of graves fairly soon but not being gifted at spotting the info the whole thing took about 1.5 hours in the end. I like cemeteries, especially old ones. Death is all too often hidden away. After school finished a whole bunch of kids came in and started jumping on everything. They were having loads of fun. I didn't end up finding all the graves but fortunately I was able to narrow down the location when I had most of them. I swapped TBs and replaced it in its hidey hole. TFTC!

This is a very interesting graveyard and we had to go back a second time to find the last clue - although it was raining heavily and getting dark at the time.
A most enjoyable trip into yesteryear - and we found near to the cache a gravestone recording the deaths of five children in the one family in just a few months.
I thought I had found the cache at one stage but it turned out to be a syringe dispenser. Be careful - we found several syringes in the area where the cache is hidden.
BTW, take a pencil or better still a sharpener - the pencil at this time is unusable.

Yay found it! What a great little mystery to solve.
Left a travel bug.
Michael & Shannon

Found it! Best challenge yet. TFTC!

437 - Enjoyed a late breakfast then set of with BGowza to knock this one off this list. Another amazing place that a would never have found on my own....! We enjoyed the walk, were frustrated by a couple, but eventually found all the clues and then made the find. Thanks for the experience and the cache!

28/03/13 12:32 PM. Cache #511. Current streak: 200 days (and still going, I think! Madness!)

A good choice for my 200th consecutive day caching (a small feat, perhaps for retirees and the unemployed but it has been a stretch for a working stiff like me, yet I think I'll keep going...for now). I tried to get another graveyard cache, "#7 Isaac's Rest" in Rookwood for my 500th cache last weekend, but that was a DNF.

So: on to this cache. Started last Weds (20th) in my lunch break, knowing that it was only going to be a first visit, expecting to find about 4-6 of the required 12 graves (I found 9).

Returned this Mon (25th), and found 2 of the others with young Mattie Lane still hiding from me. Pretty easy to guess his answer for B, so had a crack but my GZ was in the middle of a lawn with no hiding spot there. A message to Zal (thanks!) confirmed my D was out by 1 digit (note to fellow cachers: when comparing the death dates of the Crump's and the Farmer's kids for D, just use the years; don't get caught up with months like I did).

So I had my new GZ and returned today to make the find (after first finding a sharps container nearby). Signed & took the Surfing Kiwi TB which I hope I can help in its UK-bound goal. TFTC, defo a fave point, cheers! }:)

The Camperdown Cemetery at Newtown is a great place to visit to pick up a bit of Australian history. It will take a few hours to sort through the puzzle but it is well worth the effort. Spent a lot of time wandering around the cemetery in search of the numbers and did the sums over a pub lunch nearby before returning to pick it up quickly. A great cache. Thanks. Hope the Surfing Kiwi TB gets on a flight home to the UK from here.

Took longer than expected but a very interesting and fun way to go. Glad to have it in hand after all the effort and having walked for miles around the cemetery finding the right numbers. After a pub lunch while we did the sums found it quite easily. Left a TB to help it on its way to the uk. Took a ladybug magnet.

I thought I had sorted this one out but must have something not quite right. This place is surprisingly busy and is a really interesting spot to have a look around. After searching in vain I moved on .

Well that took a while! Probably closer to 2 hours than one and in the end I simply couldnt find one of the ground ones but luckily it was a logical number and my first brute force guess was right It was a lovely afternoon to spend some time outside and this was one of the closest caches to Uni so I wandered over. Found half on the first lap, then took 2 more laps to round up others targeting specific photos, then finally nearly gave up when I found my penultimate marker and could guess the last. Co-ords looked good adn sure enough cache soon in hand. Very busy place really! Heaps of dog walkers and wanderers.

I had forgotten some paper so the large fig leaves came in handy for taking notes Glad to get it first go! Cheers.

Rated: for Overall Experience

That was probably one of the nicest caches we ever did so far, what a beautiful and peaceful place!
It took us nearly two hours to find all the necessary informations but it was well worth the time as there were so many things to discover.
After we clarified some misunderstandings on our side with the answers the cache was nearly found spot on.
This was a nice beginning for our 3rd day of geocaching in Sydney.

Thank you so much for this cache, we really liked it a lot and will gladly give a fav point for it!

Greetings
Alkoholix

Tried for this one but realised that we would need photos or an entire day so aborted quick smart. Will try again.

Well the other #600 option was un findable for us so we set off glumly to see if we could find a nice but not frustrating cache to do for it. Then I saw this one less than 2kms from where we were - one that I'd eyed before from a good cache hider - and decided it would be good for the milestone. At the park we looked around this great place, though we're surprised at the amount of graffiti around the cemetery wall. We set up into two pairs with photos on the phone and iPad and set off. When we bumped into each other again we were near two and had found two and one each before that. So that made five. As we set off each time after bumping into each other we had found more and more graves until the oy one left was the one that I'd seen had being well... lying on it. People around this graveyard are randomly playing, lying painting, and doing other stuff I really don't need to mention in my log. So we kind of crept up behind the people (luckily they were facing the other way) and got the number. We'd usually been taking photos but that would be really stalkerrish to walk up behind them and take a photo.

Soon GZ coordinates were calculated and luckily the grave we were just at was less than 100m from it, do we headed off and grabbed the cache. Thanks for an hours' fun! Certainly more exciting than the last frustrating our of trying desperately to find Brick Wall! TFTC - a great #600 and a well worth favourite.

What an epic! Top cache Losingtheplot. Definitely deserving of a couple of favourite stars.

Our first attempt at this cache many weeks ago, with the help of Smigglepot, was abandoned after we found six of the clues due to heavy rain.

Returned today, sine Smigglepot, to finish. Incorrect rounding of a clue returned coords somewhere near Stanmore station. After adjusting the faulty digit, hit GZ spot on.

In: GC/Cairns City
Out: nothing
TFTC!!!

I came well prepared for this one and soon had all the information I required, a quick find once I got to GZ. Always quite enjoy this type of Multi. A shame about the empty bottles and needles lying about here and there. SL TFTC

This one has been on the "Closest cache" to me list for quite sometime... Its only 2kms away but I had left it for fear of it being too difficult...
To my surprise It was a relatively simple cache! A rather interesting mystery!
TFTC

Took us three visits to find all the locations. Nice spot. Met locals and geocachers, a dead raven, a few discarded needles and lots of dogs! Really enjoyed the search! TN L a red rose pin SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

Great puzzle! TFTC!

This entry was edited by zebrafive on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 at 12:21:02 UTC.

Interesting place with quite a few people enjoying a sunny afternoon in a dead quiet spot. Met a couple of local cachers looking for the same things. Took us a while to figure it out. TFTC. Took TB.

I have been wanting to do this cache for a while now and when I picked up the Mystery Machine TB (likes spooky places) in a cemetery on a recent trip to Melbourne I thought now is the time! I came by last Friday with a tired and grumpy 2yo in tow and gave myself half an hour to find as many grave stones as I could. I started with the more obvious ones but to my delight I managed to find them all except for the unfortunate Matthew Lane. I went away to do what calculations I could and discovered that I could make a pretty good stab at the info for Master Lane.
I looked up my calculated coordinates for GZ on google maps and felt that it was a likely place. I came back today and managed to find Matthew Lane (that's good closure, although, I do have to say that his is the hardest to read of all the selected grave stones) on my direct course to GZ. I managed to find a couple of syringes while poking around GZ! but turned up the cache in short time. I left the Mystery Machine TB and took the GC. Thanks LTP for another great cache. A favourite point from me for this one.

Not sure if I can claim this as the flatmate did all the hard work figuring it out. I was there for the final search and find though.

Returned today after two nights and one day of lurking around the cemetery, absolutely awesome cache. Picked up Fly Away Home to move it on its way to Ottawa.

(FTF-new position) Today I got end to this calculation work. Nice place to find correct stones and after that the spot. Thanks. Two TB in. J-LEST-TEAM

Ok, it's back!
I have moved it from its original placement. Therefore some adjustment needed to be made to the original coords. This has been done by adding 6 to the southings and deducting 19 from the eastings as is shown in the listing. I am hoping that despite the current cleanup in the graveyard, the new position will be safe.
Good luck!!
LTP

This has been muggled again, I'm afraid. It may be out of action for a while as i don't know when i will get a chance to sort it out. Apologies. However, if anyone wants to work thru the clues and send me the end coords i am quite happy for them to record a find if they will return to sign the log when it's back online.
LTP 22/08/2011

Solved the puzzle while in Newtown with ali_mog & Frangipani Pixie,
A great area and a GREAT cache, TFTC!!

TFTC! What an epic search! Shame it had been muggled but v.glad we had the right co-ords. Will return with Maddo87 & Frangipanipixie to sign log once it's replaced.

Confirmed with losttheplot we had the correct hiding spot exactly where container was hidden.. Sadly this has been muggled, will sign the log as soon as the cache is back in it's spot.. Awesome cache, thank you for the history lesson!!

We think we had the right co-ords and found a good hiding spot, but no find

Took us 2 weekends to get this done due to foiled first attempt from iPhone not having enough memory to display all the piccys. But a quick midweek print out did the trick and some time in the gorgeous winter sun paid off. Cheers!

Today I returned and rethought my caclculations as they had me outside the cemetary. Discovered the flaw in my maths and soon had the cache in hand.

I wanted something special for my 100th Mystery Cache and this was certainly special.

TNLNSL. TFTC.

I ran out of time today with two gravestones unfound. I shall return.

This entry was edited by Team Canary on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 at 13:24:08 UTC.

It's back !!

Anyone finding, please ensure that the camo is replaced well. When i arrived at the graveyard today, i could see immediately why there had been a problem... Hopefully it will be OK now.

LTP

Thanks Glenndara, it sounds like some thieving so and so has had it away with the cache... grrrr... Taking it out until i get a chance to sort it out. Sorry .
LTP

I'm pretty sure I found the container at what I'd deduced to be the GZ but some excavation work on the headstones at that location may have resulted in the cache being removed or destroyed. I can't say for certain but I think I had my hands on the camouflaged outer-casing, though its contents were nowhere to be found. This was otherwise a sensational puzzle! TFTH!

What an epic cache!

I was glad when I saw this cache come up on gc.com, as I had always thought that the Cemetery at St Stephens was worthy of a cache - and had plans of doing it myself, but it wouldn't have been as well executed as this.

Our hunt for the cache started well enough, as we were able to find some graves quite quickly - though others took lots of hunting. As other finders have mentioned, it was interesting to look for hints as to where a tomb may be based on what was in the background. After a fair bit of searching (maybe an hour) we'd found all but 'poor unfortunate Matthew Lane' - though with a bit of bravado we thought we could give the answer a guess (and we never did find him). However, our first attempt for the coords of GZ were well off. We thought that the cache was to be found in Erskinsville! And so we stopped for lunch at Janet's Pies (delicious) and had a haircut before tramping over there, only to find that the coords were pointing us into the middle of someone's house!

So back to the cemetery we went, were we re-checked our numbers, and more carefully read the questions being asked (sometimes the month that something occurred is important) and tried again, but no luck. So it was into the park for a bit of a play.

On the way out of the park, we thought we'd give it one more shot. As we were about to reenter the grounds of St Stephen's Anglican church, we realised that we'd made a mistake with some roman numerals which were on the Bishop's wife's grave. And now, with finally the correct coords it was off to GZ.

But even there, it wasn't easy. The camo on this cache is very clever. Enough to say that don't think that you're 'looking' for that 1l sistema container!

The cache box was a little wet inside, but the logbook is in pristine condition due to being inside two zip-lock bags.

Left a Mercedes keyring and signed the log book.

THANKS!

Finally found it after three visits. First time we got all the numbers and then had to go. Second time were muggled by hordes of drinking school kids on holiday and got it third time on Good Friday. Great hide ...... and great cache. Took OC18WZ Jakesnake12013 and will release him in New Zealand when we get home.

This one was another one in our small string of caches in the city today, and by far the best! There was a wedding going on there when we were there and they didn't seem to be taking any notice of us whatsoever. Running around chasing the right names was pretty fun, and all in all this was an expertly set out mystery. TFTC

Our main priority for the day! A great and challenging fun cache going too and fro through the cemetry! I definately think that just because of a mystery cache's ? sign doesn't give it the right to be ignored. This deserves a favourite point andeverybody should give it a go. It has been a great experience. Thank you sooooo much losingtheplot for giving me a great cache really worth trying and putting some effort into finding it.

Last night my wife asked me to find somewhere to go caching today, so I checked places we hadn't been, and discovered this cache. This cache was the primary reason we came to Newtown today from the mountains. We caught a train to Redfern and then made our way back to Newtown, picking a few traditionals up on the way. I'm so glad we made the trip.

Yes, the fig tree is amazing, and I love these old churches and graveyards. At first the task seemed pretty daunting. I had printed off this cache page and stapled it together, but decided it was going to be easier if we split up. I tore some of the pages off, handed them to the kids and wife, and we all started hunting around the graveyard. We all found some of the graves. Whenever one of the kids or my wife found a grave, they came and found me, and we worked out a bit more of the puzzle. At one stage we had to skirt a wedding reception which was being held in the graveyard, right after the wedding in the church.

Eventually we had all the calculations and we headed off a short way off to find the cache cleverly concealed. Normally I would have expected a a cache like this to have waypoints for the graves - that's the way I've done a graveyard multi in the mountains - but this was something quite different, and we found ourselves, wherever possible, looking for clues in the backgrounds of the pictures. Sure, it was more difficult, but also more rewarding. This was a great cache. Thanks for puting it together.

This was my ABSOLUTE favourite for the day. I have to hand it to the geohubby.... he picks great caches to do. At first, we took the wrong way to the entrance and had to walk all the way around the wall. When we got there, there was a wedding and garden party happening so, to find the graves, we had to skirt aroung the kids bobbing for fairy floss and toffee apples. I thought the graves may all be in the same general area, but they were spread wide apart. The photo's led to some great detective work, with all four of us looking for certain ones. The boys enjoyed wandering around and looking at the inscriptions as they always do in these interesting old graveyards. We walked past the cache resting place several times, before with the calculations done, the youngest pulled it out. Thanks for a great Saturday afternoon's entertainment. You've gotta love multi's. Some of these ones like this are the most rewarding! We have a few of our multi's up here in the mountains which get few people but are just as worthy as this one. Thanks losingtheplot for putting all the effort into planning this one. TFTC

OK, all sorted. New log book in place.
NOTE: Systemas are NOT waterproof!!!
Perhaps any future finders could use the two ziplocks like i left it today?? Worth a try anyway!!
Thanks
LTP ..

Took me two visits to find all the gravestones. My kids (the angels) actually found three of them including one staring me in the face on the 2nd visit. Then my on the fly calculations led us to a wrong spot. Out of time we left. Returned today with my sums hopefully done right. Success. WooHoo - 50th find
I took the travel racer trackable and exchanged it for Cooper's Bone.

++Maintenance report++ Unfortunately the logbook is soaking wet. The cache container was sealed, the zippy bag was locked and the rest of the container was dry. Don't know but i'm guessing it got flooded in all the rain this week. Seems a shame, all the pages are stuck together. I seperated the first 3 and dryed them as best I could. The rest is all stuck together.

Thanks Bell's Angels for report on log book. Will try and get over this week to replace. I thought i'd put it in a ziplock, too!!

What a great cache. As the previous finders have said allow a bit of time for this one. The upright stones didn't present too many problems but the ones on the ground took a bit of searching.

They necessitated a second visit this morning to finish them off. Then the maths gave me a few false starts. It's times like this that I need TLM Junior with me to quickly do the calculations.

Finally came up with a location that was within the grounds and locating it was easy then. Nice camouflage job. Thanks Losingtheplot, a great spot and interesting history lesson.

What a great cache! I noticed it last night, whilst scanning the general area (I didn't get the email about this one being released, for some reason?), and straight away it appealed to me. I love cemetaries; I find them very interesting, and quite tranquil. So I did my homework, and printed out the pictures of the stones in the cache description to take with me, to assist with the identification.

I rocked up this morning, and began my wander. The graveyard was very quiet, except for some locals who insisted running their dogs through the place, which I felt was a bit off. I got a real buzz when I found the first match, and when I was in the process of recording the second, a voice behind me counselled "the stones we're after are all over the place!!". Turns out Steptoe had already been here for a while, and had gotten off to a flyer. The stones that were at ground level were trickier, however, and although we discovered the 10th & 11th clues near each other, I had to head off home at that time, leaving Steptoe to persevere himself. He was already well down the path using logic & deduction, so it was no surprise to find, when I returned in the afternoon, that he had scored the FTF on what is a very nifty, camo'd hide!

Congratulations on a thoroughly enjoyable cache, losingtheplot! This is a top effort, and one of the best I have done in quite a while. I would recommend future cachers allow 1.5 - 2 hours to find the clues and turn up the cache...you might get lucky and find the stones quicker, but why rush?!

TNLNSL TFTC!

CC.

*FTF* WooHoo

I had some time this morning so headed to the cemetary for a look. I have visited here before and even considered placing a cache - but doubt I would have done one quite like this one.
To prepare, I copied the photos onto my GPSr, but as I did not check they were viewable, I got to the area to find I was working blind.
Anyway, after about half an hour of looking at graves and finding some, I got to the Crump one to find a bloke avidly reading the gravestone, as looking at his phone - I made the assumption he was caching - I was right - good to meet one of the croydon crew. We both keept searching for info individually, and I really only managed the FTF as I had more time to finish getting the final number needed. The camo was very well done - I had already looked at it a couple of times and decided it was not where the cache was.
So, after about 1.75 hours, I finally got the cache, an empty log, and the FTF scratchie (which unfortunately gave me a prize only $2 short of being able to buy a $2 ticket).
It would probably have been quicker, but there was also a worker mowing near where I was looking (no real hint there as by now probably 3/4 of the property has been done).
Swapped TB's - took a martian, left a penquin - seemed like a fair trade....?!?!
Thanks.
Oh, and check out the massive fig tree at the entry - it features heavily in an ABC kids TV series called My Place, and a great batch of giant abamboo as well.

Congratulations Steptoe on your FTF!! Glad the camo (almost...) fooled you!!
Yes, the fig tree is amazing - I took a few pics of it when i was there taking photos of the graves but i didn't realise the connection with a TV prog. Shame about the scratchie - but it's one of those 'you never know' type things of course !!

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