El Caballo Blanco (Forgotten Fun Parks 4) Catherine Field, New South Wales, Australia
By The Booos on 16-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2T90W

the gz has been fenced off

need to relocate

Not sure if this cache is still accessible. The original driveway into El Caballo is fenced off with a locked gate. We're afraid this cache may have gone the way of the park itself.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Out on a late night adventure with Littl3Vix.

Whilst I never visited the park despite growing up nearby, its been interesting to watch how this area has developed as I have grown up. There are a lot more housing estates out here!!!

We parked just off the end of the street and made our way up, keeping an eye on a car loitering near mine while we walked. They ended up leaving before we made it to GZ so we began our hunt once we got there.

There is now a tall fence around GZ which we searched around unsuccessfully before I went back to the place I first searched and went a bit further and came up with the cache.

Now this tall fence is here, you DO have to go to the other side of the low fence as its the only way to get to the cache, but it was still safely accessible for us.

Thanks for the cache and history!

On a geoventure tonight with MizCupcake for this cache I've been looking at. Heading straight for a parking spot not too far from gz, we jumped out of the geomobile and made our way up the road. Not too far up and we noticed another car pull in, turn around and stopped. Wondering if they were more cachers, we had a giggle and made our way out of sight, the car soon vanished as well. At gz we read the description and were not making any headway with our search. Realising how old this actually was, and the fact that another fence has been erected means you do need to get around past the first mesh fence to get to gz. We soon had CIH and completed signing duties. TFTC!

Good spot!

Easier than I thought

Found it

TFTC another easy find

no luck

Long grass.... needs clipping

Great hiding spot TFTC

It may be there, but we couldn’t find

Today I teamed up again with marj01 for another day of caching, this time around the Narellan/Camden/Cobbity areas. We had a very enjoyable and adventurous day visiting the cache locations, finding a heap of hides but also a few DNF's along the way.
I don't recall having ever gone to El Caballo Banco but I do remember it. TFTC.

Ocw oldmorty
Quick park and grab
Thanks for the cache

Found while on a trip away with tmann421, heading back from the MEGA in Canberra
Signed as TM/WW NZ
*Thanks for the placement*

Another great day out with woolwood9 hunting containers.
SL - Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or printed tm421/ ww9
*Big thank you to the cache owners who made our trip fun!*

No fun when we parked here today, but a good cache found!

Went past today with geowife and replaced the cache with new container and log. All good to go.

Out for the day for trekking around George’s basin with Gundrills. Thought we’d stop by this one on the way home so that he could replace the cache.
I remember going to ECB when I was a little girl (not sure how old) for my sisters birthday. Thanks for letting me go back in time.
TFTC

Accompanied by Gundrills again we searched for a bit and then I spotted the cache for a worthy retrieve.
Reminded myself that my uncle used to moonlight as the official photographer at ECB back in the 70’s. By day he was the photographer for John Sands for their board games and cards! Just a bit of trivia to share!
TFTC

Thanks again boos. That’s 2 today from you. All creds to hooky for finding this one. I vaguely remember coming here a few times with the family when i was a wee lil tott. How it has changed so much around here. Thx for the trip down memory lane. TFTC.

Cache container is in a bad way as mentioned before. I think I have a suitable replacement. Will try to swap over in near future.

Yess first one

Grass rather long at the moment. Container has not top and a big junk out of the side.Will be no good at all if it rains TFTC

TFTC

Thanks container needs replacing a little broken.

A short search then a find in the loggical place, tidying up a couple on my far boundary of geocaches,Tftc

Quick one on the way home. Tftc.

I recently came across a video showing the disrepair ECB had fallen into prior to the developers purchasing it and remarked on it to llama_boy. Although neither of us remember going there it was definitely part of the cultural environment of our childhood and its absence now seems saddening. I wonder how much of it remains as it doesn't appear that houses are going into the area yet.

The guardian of this cache seems a bit out of his depth but kept it hidden from us for a minute or two.

Rassilon256 had reminded me recently of the forgotten fun park that used to reside here. It seemed fitting that we would explore the place once again with the purpose of getting this cache. It didn't take long before rassilon256 had the cache in hand. TFTC

Finally after 3 attempts found it. The Camo works very well here. TFTC

Finally. After several attempts finally found the illusive little cache. Tftc

This was a bit tricky the camo is working well hand through the fence low very low tftc

Could not find. Searched all around through long grass with out luck

This cache is very ingenious, but it does exist. Gotta get low people

Saw that the last few people couldn’t find it and didn’t have much confidence, but after searching hard and low, it was soon in my hands TFTC

This one needs to be looked at. There is rubbish everywhere. I wouldent bring kids too dangerous

Can't find it

GPS was leading us all over the place. Just rubbish and grass.

Couldn't find this one

Found it

Found it

Came here many years ago to see the dancing stallions. Couldn't find it for a bit and thought that the undergrowth was a bit too heavy but find one and you can find another easily.TFTC

Checked cache and replaced log.

Took a little bit of looking. I remember the ads for El Caballo Blanco, and I'm singing the jingle as I type. TFTC

Found it easy

Found it easy[Time to Find: 7 min]

TFTC

Such a shame to see what has become of El Cabello Blanco, I used to come here as a child and even did my work experience with the horses here. TFTC:)

Found with Lucky Cricket and Little Cricket, nice spot with an interesting history. TFTC

04 September 2016 11:58:43
OK I hate cut and paste logs so will try my best to add a little something different to each log I post. Code 1 and myself were out on our annual caching run weekend. So some of our logs read both names but to save room on micros and nano’s etc we used CJ1.
Like most of our past trips a little homework was needed to work out a suitable location, route and to build lists and PQs, with this done and set we found our self’s in the Camden location. A great range of finds and styles were located with a great deal of questioning over some of the posted difficulties and terrains.

Remember coming here in primary school I think it was well lets say the late 70's a great show.
JABs

Found it in the dark too.

Found on a weekend invasion of my old romping ground with JAB's.
It's crazy to see how much the area I grew up in has changed over the years.
I can still remember the Spanish Dancing Horses.

TFTC The Booos
Find 5045 logged from c:geo.

I was in the area for a Special Olympic event so on my way home on a wind but nice day I made a few detours. I remember coming here as a kid. That was a long time ago. TFTC and the memories.

#3259 (2 of 7 today)

Decided to travel down south today for a bit of cache plundering. The main problem was the further south I went the worse the rain got - actually I suspect it was just the fact the rain was developing during the afternoon.
Went for eight today, and found seven. Probably would have gone for more if not for the wet, and tried to pick targets that would keep me as dry as possible.
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Well, there is certainly plenty of parking here. Was attracted by two close together hides, but was surprised by the passing traffic - including a bus.

Surprisingly quick find on this one - to be honest the camo is more of an indication than of concealment.
Completed signing duties and then off to talk to the horses...

SLTNLN
TFTC

Found previously with aWTYOW, came back with geogangstas to sign my own name. TFTC

I remember bringing AWTYOW here many times when she was a kid.... I remember her nearly falling off a horse... I remember her crashing her go kart.... I just remembered she won't take me caching anymore if I keep laughing at her past misfortunes! Luckily for me AWTYOW pulled over so I could make this find with Gab__Star. She dried out the cache and replaced the wet log to help out the COs and soon we had replaced it in it's home. TFTC.

Took geo-gangstas and Gsb_Star here today and the log was soaked and destroyed so we dried the cache or and replaced the log. Good to go again now.

Cool find don't over think it

Not an easy find

3rd find in our travels. Needs maintaining paper And bag full of water

originally logged as gavman74** opened new acct

TGIF TFTC

Nice hiding place in the grass

Third find of the night go team

Tftc

3rd find today within an hour. Long grass and not so easy

Too much rubbish and broken glass to search fully.

Tftc

Quick and easy. Thanks for the cache

Fourth find this hour. This is turning out to be a productive drive home this morning.

TFTC

This was our third attempt to find this cache. Found it quickly today. TFTC

Tftc

TFTC fare bit of rubbish around the place. I didn't even know this place used to exist.

3rd attempt at finding this cache. TFTC

Nice camo! Quick park and find on our first day! TFTC

TFTC came here on a beautiful sunny day. A quick park and grab

TFTC

3rd find with nan & kaliah. nice day out. TFTC

found with Ellyse 2004 . TFTC

Couldn't find it. Needed to use a bathroom so have up much quicker than usual. Will come back another day.

GC#6 for us today. Thanks for the quick find

lot of rubbish around.

We used to go here all the time as kids. It's a shame it was shut down. The sign is now gone as well and by the looks of it, its becoming a construction site.. housing? The cache was a relatively quick find. Checked the hiding spot straight away as it was a similar spot to a nearby hide and sure enough there it was! TFTC

Too hard for us today

El Caballo Blanco (Forgotten Fun Parks 4) was transferred from Booo'sDad to user The Booos

After a chat with pitman clan I realised what went wrong on our previous visit... It seems the area Dwight Shrute was sure she'd checked thoroughly had not been thoroughly checked at all! So, as DS's punishment, I stopped by without her on my way past today and made a very quick find!

Yay! Finally found! after a few visits, GPS played tricks with this, after re thinking description and knowing it had not long been replaced I knew it had to be here, large trail of horse and riders can by from the riding ranch, Should of gone with very first trip instincts, sometimes you gotta put the GPS away! TFTC

After a few searches for this one finally had cache in hand today with Pitman Clan, Cheeese Pizza, TFTC

Couldn't locate cache

Have been here twice now, once day once night without luck Lots of rubbish around GZ. hoping this cache is still here and we've overlooked it. Thanks for the hunt

Hi Did not find this one on new and old co ords, Thanks.

Had a good search in daylight without luck.

Night caching with Pitman Clan. Co ords kept leading us back to fence looked everywhere but unlucky this time.

Coordinates changed from:
S 34° 00.262 E 150° 46.604

Coordinates changed to:
S 34° 00.253 E 150° 46.606

Distance from original: 55.7 feet or 17 meters.
Cache was gone, gates look like they are now regularly used for the development happening in the area.

Have moved the cache to these new co-ords!

No sign of the cache, had a good search

Did not find.
Looks to be a new construction site entry now.

Sneaky little hide! I remember coming to this place when I was about five. It was nice to come back. Tftc