Train Spotter - M17 39.505U Quakers Hill, New South Wales, Australia
By Blundo Busters on 10-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YFAT

GZ has changed too much after the new fencing.

Couldn’t find it

Couldn’t see it spent ages looking tho but saw plenty of which is great

Spent a while looking, looks like a new fence has been put up, wandering if its still there? Will monitor to see if a better cache than me finds it?

My first "train spotter"

And #20 for me - this makes me happy

Thanks for the cache

So near and yet so far.
My last find was Night Friendly #4 - Watch from Below and from there the GPS said this was barely more than 200m away. I could just about see it, but there's no way across the rail corridor so I had to drive round - nearly 2km.

Parking was easy, no one is out using parks today after all the rain, even though its a beautiful sunny day today.
Once out of the geomobile I could see why - I needed gum boots to get round to the cache!

Finally reached GZ and spotted the biggest skink lizard drying out in the sun. I looked where he was looking and it was at the cache.

Didn't see any trains while I was here but several passed in both directions while I did the 2km drive up and back along Railway Road.

TFTC # 3828

Accompanied with skyejam and found it. Thanks for leading us here

Our first for the year. Interesting Camo worked a treat. Log signed, tftc

Headed out west to get my numbers up and close in on an average of 4 finds per day for 2019.

Boy the heat is getting to us! Somehow it was missed even though it almost hit us in the head. What a shocker? TFTC

OCW Brewmaker

Headed west for a few caches today

I’m blaming the heat but I’ve had some shockers today.....this one by far the worst ! I can not believe u missed this one so many times !!

Tftc

Easy find.

TFTCM, quick n easy find.

Sorry for a late log. Found it and this is for the streak days. Thank you for bringing me here.

Boehoe... Looked for over an hour... we think it is not there... Greetings Anja en Sjoerd

2nd find for the night, nifty little hiding spot. Easy enough with spot on location. Thanks!

Found it straight away, and logged as a Tangara went past.

cleaver but easy tftc

Easy find, but had no pen to log in

TFTC

Tftc

**Total find count: 813**

Chasing some DNF's with @squirebarney and found this previous DNF of mine.

**TFTC Blundo Busters**

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The following TBs and Geocoins helped with the search to find the hidden cache:
* Miniature Itsonlybarney
* GeocachingNSW 2016 Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2017 Geocoin
* Geocache Talk Geocoin
* Planetary Pursuit Micro Geocoin
* Geocoin Club Jan 2015 - Rescue Coin
* Geocoin Club May 2018 - Blodeuwedd
* OzGeomuster 2018 Geocoin
* Col Miner HAVOC Geocoin
* Geocoin Club June 2018 - Illumination
* Caching Under the Moon
* Geocoin Club July 2018 - Dive Deep
* Geocache Talk Blackout Geocoin
* GeocachingNSW 2018 Geocoin
* Clear Waters 2019 Geocoin

Good find
Thanks

Nice quick one. Like the camp. TFTC.

Really easy, looked right past it TFTC

went right past it first time

thanks for that

TFTC

Tftc. Quick grab while kids played in the nearby playground.

Usually I’m not up for trainspotter caches but this one happened to be really near another cache we did want to do so off I went, finding the hide, completing the signing duties and then quickly evacuating the site before the creepy crawlies got to me.

The rail door and cache location on map was different. DNF Today

Quick park and grab

In plane sight TFTC

Haven’t had much luck with the TS series on solo runs but with my local PAF waiting in the car, her hint made sense once I approached GZ… well, actually after I spotted the cache.

TFTC! This one took me longer than it really should have. Haha. Great find!

Hangs by a thread!

Storage tank lock

Train came past while signing log. TFTC!

Almost gave up then i found it
Thanks for the cache

A quick find after school on a friday afternoon, msS came out before today but DNF that time, but today we emerged with CIH. TFTC

It was unusual to find a giant teddy bear at this cache but the good thing was we found the cache! TFTC

MsS feels like such an utter goose after a super duper quick find this afternoon. When I last visited, i saw the cache but thought it was a feminine hygiene product. Was obviously having a shocker that day! In any case, it made for a nice quick find today, on a day when we needed a find to fill an empty day in our grid. Seriously, woman - lucky MrS wasnt here today to witness your spaz-ness!

In other news, just before spotting the cache, we found another drunken giant bear.... (and 3 trains throughout the process of the hunt and a quick playground visit.)

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

Very clever!

MsS was out solo this morning. I parked but did not grab. And now, rain. Hmmm.

Nice and easy to find.

We’re grabbing some caches before the heat of the day. Another one done and dusted.TFTC

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Nice

Complete newbie here. Second time trying to find something and still having no luck.
I looked around the trees, but all I found was litter. Wish beginner's luck was a thing with geocaching

Found it

Got ya

Quick cache check, 3/10/17 15:13: cache is in good condition and still in place.

No luck

#57
We were here for RIDE for Refugees today. After a 25km bike ride and some well-earned lunch, I decided to see if there were any caches nearby. It took a little bit of looking around before I found it. It was in good condition and the log was signed. A great way to finish a most memorable day. TFTC!

Not today!

#4095 (2 of 2 today)

Out mid afternoon today for a few caches. Went for two previous DNFs - one found one not attempted - and a recent cache.
One pleasant walk and one park and grab. Bargain!
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So after aborting a previous **dkmacca** DNF I came here for a previous **Blundo Busters** DNF. Am I a glutton for punishment?
And the light is starting to fade. That'll make it easier...
Why is there still a family in the playground?

They finally went after 5 minutes of so and I got to work.
Went over the same ground as last time, checking the likely hide area from both sides - one farmer's friend heavy. Saw nothing, even using the *Geo Headlamp*.

So started again. I'd identified a number of possible hide types based on the CO's previous form. And then the headlamp hit the right spot. Gotcha!

Took to the bench to complete signing duties, then back for the replace. Time for home.

SLTNLN
TFTC

Hunted around the hollow wall and reets to no avail. Not today.

Searched for this for awhile and just as we were about to give up something caught our eye. Yep there it is.

Took a little searching but perseverence paid off. Made the find!!!

sadly a dnf today in the rain will be back though

unable to locate

Found. Short search soon revealed a suspicious object.TFTC.

Found with Coybear2000. We parked nearby and walked to GZ and started searching. It took a little while before C had CIH. TFTC

Out with Trodectus for a find. Arrived GZ and started searching, have a few ideas for hiding spot. Located cache after a short search, signed log and replaced. TFTC

This cache was found quickly and easily after a short search. The log was signed and the cache was replaced as found. Thank you Blundo Busters for placing this cache.

A quick find to bring up a hundred day streak. TFTCs, BB

While I was running back over to the car to grab a pen geogangsters and AWTYON were distracting the seniors meeting and grabbing the cache.
TFTH

4 found today
1 DNF today

The local grandfathers seemed to be having a meeting here... Must be their local hang out! They took no notice of us though abs despite the gps having a jumpy moment here, I soon had the cache after spotting it from the right angle. TFTC!

AWTYOW and SlurpeeClan thought I could have been the decoy by going to distract the old blokes in the park but I didn't go along with that! Instead I took one side while AWTYOW took the other, but she had hawk eyes and saw it first. TFTC.

Found by Mary & David at 1445. This one took a while. Had a good steady reading for GZ, but the cache is well camouflaged and hard to spot. Mary grew up in Victoria, so seeing the local double-decker trains is always a novelty for her. Our thanks to Blundo Busters.

I found Jim Doctor first to fill a calendar vacancy and then took return trip to Acacia Gardens to try to rectify some DNFs and survey the location of some other caches to fill some more calendar vacancies in the future. I think this one was MIA on my previous visit.
TFTC

Wasn't as simple as we thought, but still good.

New container and log. Same spot as before.

Nothing here unfortunately

I set out to find a few in Blacktown to fill a vacancy in my find calendar and ended up travelling west through Acacia Gardens and Quakers Hill for 10 finds and 5 DNFs.
This was the 2nd last of my DNFs. I have now noticed there have been no finds for 10 months.
I'll keep watch.

Nothing here

Found the gate, looked high and low. For something considered a "park and grab", I'm scratching my head.

Didn't find it was looking everywhere need more clues

Our first attempt, but can't find anything.

Met a newbie who also couldn't find this one

Nope! I didn't spend as much time as I usually do, as I had read the numerous DNF logs...

Decided to head out Quaker's Hill / Schofields way for a few caches today - mop up some of the caches I'd not previously attempted.
Managed to grab eight (and DNF a few along the rail line) as well as get caught at one cache by the CO.
And this time as I was heading home I remembered to grab the nearby puzzle cache I'd solved.
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Not for me today.
Had dome the cursory pass and was about to get down and dirty here when two muggles arrived and sat a a bench nearby. They aren't going anywhere soon, so h=gave it up.

Hey
Sooooooo Many MUGGLES!!!!!
I'll Be Back.

This was Number 2 out of the 7 I was aiming for. I Got 5 at the end of the day.
Not bad for a 2 hr Ride.

Thanks again
GingerGiraffe

I found it

Easy find. Tftc

Kids rode around the empty car park while we looked for the cache. Spotted 1 train & one cache on this hunt. Tftc xo

29/07/15. 1:36 PM. Cache #2744. Streak day #402.
6th of 11 this afternoon, clearing out micros between Quakers Hill, Marayong and Kings Park.

I came here after "Men In Tights" (the only non-micro of the day). Thanks to the good coordinates, this one was a straightforward park and grab. I looked at what else was around here: "BB's Milestone" and "Squeeze Play Is On!" both full of DNF logs, so I decided to change direction and head south to "Quakers Hill Arboretum" next. TFTC.
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Last one for today as I need to catch the train back home. Total of 6 found.

Quick one luckily. Thanks for a great morning of caching.



This entry was edited by P&Q on Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 04:54:20 UTC.

It was a nice and easy find now. All my poor luck trying to find it before made me think it was in a more difficult hiding spot.
Thanks for the cache.

Made it so much easier this time. It was there. Tftf...

This entry was edited by Snakepiters on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 07:16:20 UTC.

Maintenance done

Coordinates changed from:
S 33° 43.943 E 150° 53.432

Coordinates changed to:
S 33° 43.945 E 150° 53.429

Distance from original: 19.6 feet or 6 meters.
The original spot has been muggled too many times, so it's been moved to a more out of sight location.

Not today. Even broke my glasses. Have to close one eye now for remainder

#25 wasn't where my GPSr showed as GZ located about 5 metres away. Hard to spot. Log was wet at one time and was stuck together.

Sneaky

After a DNF weeks earlier I thought I'd confirmed the right location with a PAF however after a few subsequent finds I decided to return to GZ. GPSr drew me back to a particular location matching the description where I'd checked before. Nothing. Expanding the search area I was surprised to find another almost identical location that also matched my PAF's description, and I soon had CIH. SL TFTC BB!

Current streak: 120
Cache no: 1153

Quick park and grab. Log still damp but okay. TFTC

Log was very damp. May need a new one.

I was a woman on a mission this morning. Once all the kids were signed out of Kids Church I was off and running. I had to find 5 caches before picking up my son at 12:30 to make an assault on '1905' for my 500th cache.
I found a cache heavy area not too far from home and went to work.
Cache number 5 for the day. It didn't take too long to find the cache but it was tricky to extract. Used some conveniently placed tools. The cache had a slug squished to the bottom and by the time I'd opened it I had slug squished over me too. 3/5 successes but my time limit had been reached.

Found by lurkalittle and JS