Kokoda Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia
By thompson_clan on 14-Aug-11. Waypoint GC326B1

our last day in australia - in a few hours we must leave perth - so sorry !!!! but we come back !!!

Since i downloaded caches a while ago this one was looking available. And it still was availabe. So i logged on the way to Kings Park (also with bikes ).
TFTC - frigidor (Switzerland)

BGPA Bushland manager requested archival as permission was not granted for this cache.
(Dunno how this one slipped through, actually...)
-theUMP.

Wow the muggles hit this track early on a Sat morn - 530am! Waited for a break and after a quick grope I had cache in hand. Cheers

Loads of stair climbing muggles - glad the hint was available. I got a few strange looks.

Had to sit out a short but heavy downpour, Geoson then decided to roll down the steep hill getting very wet and then whinged about having a wet t shirt! Great spot

High muggle area that spent a bit of our energy.

Here from Canada, doing a bit of caching as we explore Australia....

Lots of muggles getting their exercise today. Had to wait for the coast to clear before searching. It was well hidden.

Thanks for the hide thompson_clan!

After finding Glass and Steel we took the low route to get back to our car. A slight detour was made to walk down the stairs to GZ.
Great hint and good camo.
TFTCTNLNSL
Thanks thompson_clan for giving me some exercise and showing the trail.
#391

Found on the way to the botanical garden. T4TC

Found with M and TWDG - first spot of caching for the New Year. Came up this track from the brewery last time I was in Perth, but it was July then - nowhere near as hot!

Found whilst in Perth for Xmas/New Year.
Last day, so doing a few caches & sights with Anja & Setsujoku
Nice hide, interesting spot, so glad it's cooler today [^]
TFTC

Found on our Operation Return from sand groper trip with TWDG & Anja.

3 days, Perth to Adelaide, and a lot of caches in between.

Straight from the plane and we were out caching. A lovely day for a walk in Kings park to pick up a few caches and enjoy the view over the city.


TNLNSL

what a bloody spot. we didnt see it until searching for 5mins. nice camo selected!!!

# 4938

Easy find on another hot day in Perth.

TFTC and best regards from Germany.

MTKEus

First for year!!!! Very well hidden now to climb back up the track lucky its not to hot TFTC

TFTC!

Out for a jog in the Park, crazy idea as so hot, and running up and down the steps to find this as the GPS was playing up was not fun. TFTC

GPS had me in the bush to find nothing. Traced back to the path and searched again around the rest point. Finally found the nano and glad it wasn't hidden in the prickly bush!

Mad ass fitness freaks giving us a heart attack just watching them run up & down the stairs!!!! We were in & out within minutes leaving the freaks to exercise in peace. Great romantic walk on our wonderful fun filled holiday to WA:)

Took some friends new to geocaching to find this one - GPS actually had us about 8 meters away, but luckily the hint resonated with one of the geokids, and cache was in hand fairly quickly!

A refreshment stop at the top and down we went. No one running now it's midday. There was someone carrying their bike up though. Loved the hint. NINO TFTC

We made this much harder than it needed to be and were just about to leave when one last search revealed the cache. Great location. tftc

I was attending an evening dinner reception at Frasers nearby and, quite frankly, after a few glasses of red, decided to grab a quick cache before the coaches took us back to the CBD. I must apologise to the couple who were on the bench when I arrived as they headed off into the dark. I soon found the cache with a flashlight function on my iPod, no pen I'm afraid so it's a photolog. Replaced cache as found (the o-ring has split but should be ok where it is), TFTC and greetings from the UK.
#764

Found

Very pleasant evening walk. High Stealth engaged as lots of crazy joggers doing the stairs. Nice view. Tftc

Thanks for the hide. Enjoyed the walk but not so keen on running up and down the stairs as some people.

A good little nano. After doing Jacobs ladder a few times these stairs were a challenge. But good cache

A good little nano. After doing Jacobs ladder a few times these stairs were a challenge. But good cache

Had to use some stealth to find this cache, as several manic fitness fanatics were jogging up and down the steps continuously - crazy! Once found, I quickly signed the log and left them to have their heart attacks in peace TFTC
ph1-6 (from UK)

another nano but found it

very sporty muggels around. TFTC and greetings from the swiss-honeymooners.

Don found this one. Beautiful park! TFTC

Found several weeks ago with jilaross but only signed up to geocaching as a member today. TFTC

Found @ 1529.

Good cache and hide, with nice views and information (which I photographed to read later as I was short of time)!

Last cache before returning the hire car, but I hope to be back soon to complete these trails...

Signed wrong date in the log!

TFTC!

Our first find for the day, the fitness fanatics must have thought we were strange ditching the pram and carrying our one year old down the stairs with our 3yo tagging along behind Luckily for us we didn't have to go all the way to the bottom

Whilst the kidlets picked wildflowers, we went in search of the cache... Reading the hint, the cache was found in no time TFTC thompson_clan & thanks for showing us this spot [^]

Nice easy find when you get to the right spot.

Lots of muggles beware!

We did the steps twice:- once for the cache and then to access the memorial, lookout and botannical gardens. An interesting cache. Thanks.

Took 5 min to find but was about to give up and then located. This Kokoda is not as hard as the melb one which is also know as the 1000 steps.

Went for a night time stroll and thought we might pass this cache. No muggles to be seen but plenty of Mosquitos -.- haha TFTC

Nice and easy. Cheers.

Lots of blood sweat and tears getting up that hill

Tricky camo. Nice hide.
In a park full of memorials this walk is a fitting way to remember the fallen. Thanks for bringing me here.

After spending a good five minutes searching the rocks, I had a lightbulb moment and suddenly felt like an idiot. After that, it was a very quick find! Thanks for the cache. I also took the harder route, carrying my bike the way!

Nice easy find after lunch at the cafe $$$$$$$$$$$$, lol, and a visit with the kids to Rio Tinto adventure playground, Tftc

This entry was edited by SeabreezeOZ on Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 15:27:39 UTC.

Very nice walk. Learnt a bit of history... There was some muggle runners going up and down so a little difficulty. Easy find other than that.

Out with the Jantoshys on a night caching trip while visiting WA for the National Table Tennis.

Out for a night cache with half of team Froghoppin while in Perth for the Table Tennis Nationals. Just had to come for a look at the city all lit up & hunt a few caches while here. Missed the track on the way down but managed to find it on the way back to the car
TFTC

It was hard to find but a lovely view tftc

Thank you for taking me to this part of Perth. Lots of joggers out this morning. A sobering memorial.

Was grateful for my previous knowledge on caching when I did this one. Took a friend and it was his second cache ever. Lovely view at the top. Bit smelly at gz! Tftc

This was done in between showers, the fun way to go caching. Took me a little while to find it, but the gasket gave it away. It was a good a great cache but not quite favorite point worthy for me though. Tftc!!!

I can see why this got the fav points. Nice camo. Only in Perth for a few days but glad we found this one. Tftc.

An afternoon 'toerist' trip with a colleague who did not know about geocaching.
We did part of the city and part of Kings Park.
Quite a number of 'founds', even my 'newbie' found a few himself
Thanks for all and greetings from Belgium.

[blue]Difficult to search here with all those stair running fanatics [/blue]

Found with ethanolshaunasheep -- and many thanks to their dad's sharp eyes. Never knew this trail was there. TFTC

After finding the "blood stick" we realised that we had to look some where else and small.
Dad smugly said after 10 mins. I have found it.

Found with Jilaroo

Really interestin but not a very long climb!
Started from top


TFTC

So glad that we didn't have to run up this trail then or now!
Excellent little critter, thankyou.

Great cache
Lot of fitness fanatics about
TFTC

Found it with fmcorz

Nice found with ankit_frenz at night.

Tftc. Never knew this spot existed. Good exercise!

Loved Kings Park. Couldn't believe the same people were going up and down up and down. I was only in Perth for a few days and my caching wasn't very successful I'm afraid. Mind you two of those days it was very very windy and I got hailed on! Thanks thompson clan. An interesting area I wouldn't have noticed except for geocaching.

Got to GZ ok but GPS batteries gave up and so did I.
Maybe next time.
Thanks

Well hidden. What a climb! TFTC

Nice tranquil spot but very busy spot had to be super careful all good in the end what a great way to start a Fathers day cache hunt

All the way from Bendigo Victoria in Perth for the weekend for a motorbike comp. Nice quick find had to wait for a few muggels TFTC SL

Sorry for the delay. Replaced cache today. Enjoy

Looked and looked but could not find it. Gave up and looked at the photos. It definitley was not there!

Found seat , but did not find - muggles?

Searched and searched but could not find. Then looked at photos . Cache was not there!

Didn't look for long because of muggles but given the previous DNFs, we decided to give up.

hmmmm, 3 DNF's in a row. Might have to swing by for a check....

Thanks for the exercise, down the path fine, hard work going back up. Looked and looked, lots of muggles, couldn't find it. Beautiful sunny winters day in Perth, very enjoyable.

Coast’n Along and Kool Running heading north from Esperance to Karratha, then heading back to Albany in 5 weeks. Part of time spent in Kings Park enjoying the beauty and peacefulness of Perth’s icon bushland. This has been muggled, even though the steps are punishing, there are lots of fit and not so fit muggles going up and down all the time.

Just no.luck. Perhaps I need a torch when I go out before dawn.

Thought it was because I was using the GPS on my phone that I couldn't find this one but returned with the Garmin and still no luck. Glad I went down the stairs rather than up!!

Time consuming find between the muggled. Tftc

Found it!

Found it with my brother
No more log space and only had lipstick = improvisation lol tftc

This one had us on our toes!

After a somewhat frustrating morning it was decided that some fun was needed to be had. Twilight was dwindling as we headed down from the top of the track/trail. We both imagined this one would be muddy and a 'make your own path' sort of cache so we were pleasently suprised with what we found. The hide was rapidly discovered and signed and replaced between passing fitness muggles. Found with Mr CDM261, can we now say we have conquered Kokoda? TFTC!

It was now after sunset and night caching was starting.
Kakoda trail ... awesome, but not has hard for us as the puffing fitness fanatics going up and down the trail.
Quick find made in the lowering light, between fitness muggles puffing by, then back up the trail past some of the muggles to head off on more night caching adventures.
We conquered the Kokoda trail! Yeah for us!
TNLNSL
TFTC

This was loads of fun but tricky

Nice easy find last night. Didn't have a pencil, but took a photo. TFTC

Found it easy as good cache

Found, but no room on the log, and no spare paper. TFTC

Wasn't any room to sign the log....tftc!

Needed to fill in some time between appointments so what better to do on a beautiful day than wander Kings Park and find some caches in the process.
There were very few masochists on the trail today so had a clear go at finding and signing the log. There is still some space on the rear of the scroll. Thanks for the hunt FelixII.

Felt a bit guilty just walking up and down the trail but decided those jogging were at least half our age and we did it too 25 years ago. A bit envious though! T4TC Thompson clan; one day we will find the one you have placed in the dinosaur park close to where we live!

Lovely park, lovely day for a walk, tftc

This was my introduction to nanos about a year ago from overseas geocachers that were visiting. Decided that today was the day that I finally get to log it in my name too. TFTH thompson clan

Difficult to retrieve as lots of sporty muggles around today.Tftc.

found @ 15:50 with mum and dad (ross47)

Quick find between muggles.
Sad I didn't get to spend more time in Kings Park, had a great day there.

TFTC

Found @ 15:50 in the company of the geowife and emeraldflame - a nice sneaky little hide. Those few steps down to GZ were enough for me!

Thanks to thompson_clan for the cache.

Had to wait a while before retrieving it. So many people out today in the park. TFTC.

This entry was edited by mr_fy on Sunday, 01 July 2012 at 08:35:13 UTC.

Log is full

On a night walk round the park found this cache hiding in a well hidden place!

Found while taking a well deserved rest after a night walk around kings park Couldn't log visit as log was full

YAY! Found it! It took only a couple times of going up and down to figure out where we were suppose to be looking! Excercising muggles must of though we were a bit enthusiatic wearing casual dress for this trek!

Thanks you for the cache!!