Sparkys special place Kings Langley, New South Wales, Australia
By Team Sunderland on 05-Oct-11. Waypoint GC35CW0

3rd time muggled te to go.

We found it - but it had fallen down into the spot we think its meant to be hidden. The log wasn't in the camo bison & was drenched. We retrieved the wet log & bison. Have taken it to dry out & ask what the CO would like us to do with it. May have been muggled to be in this condition. TNLNSL / TFTC

We found it but its been damaged. The log was out & separate to bison. Both were down hole & wet. Retrieved both with extra-long tweezers. Have taken home to dry out & contact CO to find out what needs to happen to repair. We've left it we our friends who Geocache & live next to the cricket field. Please make contact to inform us what you'd like us to do next

Came over from our 1st. Great to find it but as with crazyfour we found it but damaged.

Taken off line till I can check it out.

After having lunch at one of the nearby picnic tables, we walked over to this cache.

We looked for a little bit but could not find it.

We returned to the picnic table, had some fruit and CHOCOLATE and then went back to the search.

Soon enough I came up with the goods - I swear I had already looked there.

Looking back at past logs we had a chuckle reading our friends The Vikings' log: Hopefully the structural integrity of the bridge has not been compromised

TFTC Team Sunderland

Ahh, finally!

After a string of DNFs and with the evening almost over, rushed to this one to keep the streak going.

Found Ground Zero quickly and started poking around, probably putting my hands in spots that they shouldn't be because of spiders.

Was getting a little concerned that I might have to walk to another one to find tonight's cache, but sure enough, tried the other side, and... what's this... bingo!

Great cache, very clever setup, impressive camo.

Thanks for the cache!

Wandered across from poles to have a look . Was the second thing I out my hand on. Was good to sign a fresh log almost like a FTF . Nicely done TFTC

Streak day 90 #979 yep second hundred day streak coming up

New log and container replaced should be a bit more waterproof now.

Found this one

Took me 2 days lol Buhh very clever !!!

Hard but got it !

This cache was probably my most trying ever! Finally got it, and only after two visits and many a hint TFTC.

Rocked up to GZ and there was barely a muggle in sight. Sat down and the first thing I put my hand on....I thought what's this? TA DAA CIH. Now whilst log was a lil damp, more effort was in getting the log out than making the find...managed to scribe my name and place it back to its home. TFTC

Came through this way on the way home, and was able to ink (well, pencil, in the pouring rain) this log, as the other day the camo has disconnected from the container. A LOT more water flowing under the bridge than a few days ago!

#550

Thanks TS.

Back on line don't disconnect the bison like a previous cacher has done ( not you BB),cheers.

Bugger 2nd one gone missing this week!

Well done

OK Team Sunderland. We love your other caches but this one is driving me crazy! 2nd day there today with our team of 4 and still nothing!!! Under, over, around, under, over, around.... Have read all previous logs and still came up blank! Someone today thought we were panning for gold lol. U too good for us this time but we will be back soon with fresh eyes. Thanks for the effort you go to with your hides...well done

will be back lol..... thecircuscaches

Log sheet is full. So while I was staring longingly at my floating pen, a man and his wife wondered what was so interesting in the creek and he sees my pen and offers to rescue it for me. Oh sweet happiness I have my pen back.

The hint said I didn't have to get wet but nothing about my pen good thing I always carry a couple but that was a fav of mine. After help from CO and also SIH, I managed to find this tricky hide and my cache streak remains alive. I really want my pen back it's just floating but it's yucky down there oh well I SL #483 on day #84 my poor pen I'm sorry please forgive me, if I wasn't such a girl I would jump in and save you. Where is Sparky when I need her??? TFTC I think did I mention I dropped my pen in the creek?

This entry was edited by ris768 on Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 08:40:20 UTC.

Too many Muggles and even with a hint from SIH I was still unable to locate the cache, not to worry I found Our 1st to keep the streak alive today.

Found it on a sunny Sunday out with evangt. I think we were very lucky here as evangt found it almost straight away, we could have been here for quite awhile. Very clever camo. Another Team Sunderland special. TFTC

Out on yet another glorious Sunday morning with Footyfanatics. The days just keep getting better. You
wouldn't read about it. Found cache immediately upon arrival. First thing I put my hand on. What a find. So chuffed with myself. Signed log and replaced. TFTC

Cool hide. I checked here and overlooked it at first, then JYGE came up with the goods.
TFTC.

Brilliant container, found with mrryanmurray and Fairbz. SL-many thanks

Heavy metal fan! TFTC

This was a clever hide, a great start to a day of caching on a sunny rostered day off work.

Found on a fun day of caching in the hills- and cycling 20kms!


Nice hide, I went over it, under it, one side and then BOOM! There it was. A nice hide.

One log gave a substantial hint and my suspicions were confirmed once arriving at GZ!

Thanks

In all this was my 5th visit here and can now get back to my life. OMG, After logging 2 DNF's here before you don't log another until you find it otherwise you can have maybe 10 DNF logs. With a hint it might there, and you know what I checked all on one of my other visits. SL TFTC

Haha! Knew I could get to it from there. In the dark I found something that could be it? Lucky! Well done again. Half a log sheet remains

Muggles.

I managed to get a good break in between them and their dogs... so off I went looking at every bit of that bridge (without getting my feet wet!)
More and more muggles approached.. so... I reverted to PAF option, with a little encouragement form Steveishere (thanks mate) I was on track... so with no muggles, I made a bolt, and had the cache in hand, SL and replaced.
Another quality one TS!

Muggle central this morning will come back

sidoney took me along to this cache to get a feel for a skilfully placed cache, and I was frankly stumped! I didn't have as much trouble as others seem to have had with muggles, but I couldn't find the cache nonetheless. I looked under the bridge, in the stream, in the trees nearby, nothing! I'll come back to this one one day, it *must* be found.

Tftc

Sneaky hide! Took a while but found the spot. Much easier with fewer muggles about!

Too many people about. We'll come back.

Took Geofamily on an afternoon of caching. We couldn't find this one, because we didn't actually have the cache notes with us. So we will definitely come better prepared next time and ensure we have all notes for this one. Thanks for bringing us to Sparky's special place. Next time it will be special for us as well when we find the cache.

1105, GAFF3, Geoson and I arrived at GZ and spent the next 15 minutes searching high and low, we widened our area of search and came up empty handed.

After a few minutes to clear our heads and start over, we went back to GZ and the first thing we put our hands on moved, aha, a clever hide

Another well thought out and clever cache by Team Sunderland, makes micros much more enjoyable

SL, log slightly damp, dried in the sun for a few minutes.

TFTC for another challenging cache Team Sunderland

Had to check poles apart across the road so popped in to check this on its still there good to go, thanks to all the cachers that have found this and replaced it exactly .cheers.

After spending some time at GZ I had spotted a few possibilities but none of them proved succesful. In the end I tried the PAF option which indicated I was looking at the right things, but despite the encouragement none of them yielded me a cache. Not sure what I was doing wrong in the end. Oh well, one to revisit another time. Thanks Team Sunderland.

Did cache check this Arvo the cache is still nicely tucked away,coords to 2mtrs,cache on!

What can I say, I read nice easy hide in some earlier logs but I was walking in circles from all 4 corners of the bridge. Try again soon

2nd of the day

TFTC great hide log a little damp but still able to write on

TFTC Found with happypaintball. Kids had a great time with their canal leaf race.

Another great hide team Sunderland.
First cloudy day In ages and GPS would not settle. I tried all avenues and all corners of the area and ended up finding it in the first place I looked but only after much searching in the wrong spots.
I ended up sitting down to look at google maps and what do you know a short time later Found it!
So simple but so effective..
TFTC

This entry was edited by Gibbo455 on Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:47:16 UTC.

Quick detour to real life. Nice hide. I always think people who do caches like this are so clever. TFTC

This was my third attempt at this cache, and today it took two visits, one solo and one with two former finders to finally put this one to rest. The problem was that a paf insisted it was on the other side of the bridge from where it was....

Very clever TS, very clever indeed.

Mr S headed out with Sensible Sis and the boys for a quick caching trip. Sensible Sis had already found this one, so was able to provide a hint. Very clever hide, and we'll certainly enjoy finding other Team Sunderland caches. TNLNSL TFTC

I had fun throwing leaves into the creek and watching them float away. The nearby playground was fun too.

A nice park and playground. One day I'll be able to ride my scooter here like my big brother.

scared away the 100 cockatoos to find this one. TFTC

Easy Find but again the quality is right up there, Thanks for showing it to me, great spot too, I had to wait out a family of muggles before I could make my assault, what is it about this bridge that makes people hang around?? Oh it's Sparky's special place...

Out on a glorious afternoon, with very few muggles about. Took a little while to find this one, it is so well camoed. A great hide, thanks Team Sunderland.

After failing to get Our 1st due to the cricket game in progress we needed this. Couldn't believe how easy this was. Sometimes you can just fluke them and then othertimes you can search and search.

Great bit of design work. I was worried the construction activity might have interferred with it but it is ready to find.

Well it will teach me a lesson to read the details more carefully. After mixing up the D & T, so if this is a T-3 where would it be, must be under there so was disappointed when covered in dirt, dust and webs I didn’t find it. So upon extracting myself from under - there it was! So while dusting myself off geo-wife said it’s not a T-3 but a T-1.5 which made perfect sense for its location, thanks. I did enjoy the T-3 challenge, and congratulations on the very cleverly designed cache.

A few less people around tonight made it much easier to find this sneaky one.

Cheers

Amazingly sneaky hide! Great cache. Found with geouncle.
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Was about to give up but had a look one more time and something caught my eye. Well done

G'day again found this morning b4 going to work. Again gotta whinge. worry about these BRILLIANT beautiful hides, the genius that created them WITHOUT actually damaging property being archived like thewellishere.
Gotta stop this griping.
Thanks for clever cache.
Acko

Looked over, around, even under, but Sparky was better than us today

Cache check today all good,cheers.

very clever

Unlike "Poles Apart" I can't claim to have found this cache and had an issue. I simply didn't find it. Thanks

Very sneaky, it took us 2 trips but we found it in the end, after I noticed something was ever so slightly amiss.
Lot's of effort went into constructing this one - TFTC!

Another well constructed cache need a PAF to locate this one... even then we still struggled to locate it and had almost given up when Stepho located it.
TFTC SL

Took a little while to collect the cache but soon enough had it in hand. TFTC SL

Good hide. TFTC

This entry was edited by J+J.au on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 at 03:31:38 UTC.

such a cool container! TFTawesomeC!

Found it with Trillian (actually, she did all the work, I just drove her there)

Brilliant little hide from Team sunderland, got in early enough in the day that there was few muggles around. TFTC

Nice hide, took me a few attempts to spot it. Thanks for the cahce.

Even with a direct hint from a paf we couldn't find this one. Perhaps with all the work that has gone on around here it is MIA?

Spent a good 20mins searching for this one but to no avail. Must be a good hide!

Like the previous geocacher, I searched for about 10 minutes but a group of youth set up nearby so I decided to leave for another day. Well concealed.

Had a cursory scan, but will have to wait for another day before investigating a few possibilities in depth. Too many muggles

Couldn't do a real search, as the $3m was employing some workers who were just a few metres away from GZ.

Another enjoyable cache by Team Sunderland. Very crafty hide. Thanks

Second cache after the DNF at Bifrost, walked over from Our 1st. A lot of remedial work going on along the creek with workers everywhere and fences up. Luckily you can still access GZ and we had a good look before making the find of another well-thought out and constructed cache. How do you come up with these? Signed and replaced with the muggle workers none the wiser.
Thanks!

Wandered across from "our first" with Yurt and found several landscapers working nearby. After briefly surveying the possibilities in a most nonchalant manner, we pounced on one but it wouldn't budge. But, very close by was the quite impressively hidden little cache. Nicely done.

This entry was edited by Baktrak on Thursday, 08 December 2011 at 13:16:52 UTC.

Cache #898; GAFF3; Weather, Raining; Helpers, None; Condition, Good; Finds2Day, 2nd; STATUS, Found; GPSr @ GZ, 2m

I saw that this was a mere few hundred metres away from Poles Apart and what's this another Team Sunderland cache...Oh My...Why not. I drove over and then walked to GZ. Read the descritpion and started my search. After a short while I checked the hint and wondered if I needed to be somewhere else. The rain wasn't giving up and neither was I, so I continued my search. I went for a TAF (Txt A Friend), and as usual, once it was sent, I saw something amiss. Had a closer look and BAM, found the beaut camo and cache. CLEVER !!! SL and replaced, keeping everything as dry as I could. Well done TS...**FAV** from me, and TFTC.

This one had me looking in all the wrong places until I eventually settled down and looked with "caching eyes", very sneaky but very nice.!!

Tks ... Team Sunderland ... GazMag

#986

A great hide! We spent ages dodging muggles and dogs so we resorted to a Phone-A-Friend.

TFTC.

Quick find. Luckily we had the right idea otherwise it could have easily been a long search.

Clever hide and development done on the creek is looking good. TFTC.

Once I got to GZ I thought I knew the kind of thing I would be looking for, just had to work out which one. I think I actually had my hand on it before returning later for another look. Great hide.
SL TFTC

Hopefully the structural integrity of the bridge has not been compromised.

well i would just like to say this is one of the best caches me and the teamhave ever done so from the goodie bandits we would just like to say thankyou for the amazing cache, also thankyou for puting some awesome caches in peace reserve as caches in kings langley, wishing the "walk the fallen gaint" was still around.
well thanks again
goodie bandits

After enjoying the first hide I could not resist this one with the cords spot on I was at GZ fast then the fun began...WOW very cool guys this is a very sneaky hide and I loved it great job.
SL and Rntd safe. TFTC
Steveishere

A special place indeed! I had quite a search here before I was finally successful.

The cache was finally given away by accurate published coordinates and an accurate terrain rating . . .

Full marks to Team Sunderland for another interesting hide, well placed and well camouflaged. I confess I was nearly ready to give up when I returned to 'the spot' for the third time!

It's always a pleasure to look for those caches that show extra work and imagination.

All was in very good order, nice and dry. TNLNSL.

Thanks, TS!

Did this cache early on a Sunday morning when most of us would normally be asleep in bed. So with no muggles out and about, I went in search of this 3 and a half star cache and thought that if the terrain is only 1 and a half star it shouldn't be to far. Well! What a great and well constructed cache. Signed log and I was off to do some more.
TFTC
Cheers
dkmacca

A nice hide indeed! Thanks Team Sunderland.

Just to many muggles about for my liking. Will be back for this one another day.
Cheers
dkmacca

I really like the camo on this one. SL TFTC.

After doing my 1st earlier in the park we came for this one. Had the cache quickly in had. I like the idea behind this one and it fits in with its enviroment really well. TFTC

This entry was edited by dragansj on Monday, 10 October 2011 at 20:53:02 UTC.

I was not going to be denied the continuation of my October caching streak, even in the rain! Headed over to KL to go after the second Team Sunderlands caches as I knew it would be worthwhile after theie first attempt.
Took about 15mins to find and required a little bit of curiousity.
Very nicely done indeed!
SL TFTC

This entry was edited by Purplepeopleater on Saturday, 08 October 2011 at 11:40:21 UTC.

Nicely done TeamSunderland....but you didn't catch us out....had CIH within minutes....well done....but your going to have to make them harder....lol....TFTC

Relogging my old finds.

Nice quick find TFTC