Balls out: Netball Charlestown, New South Wales, Australia
By Team-Tonka on 08-Apr-13. Waypoint GC49CG0

did it with Djant some time ago

found this one with my Family account quite some time ago CO gave permission for me to log it with my new personal account
TFTC

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This one is taking a little longer than expected for it new container to arrive. We will hopefully have it back up and running again a a couple of weeks after I return from holidays.

Will replace this week

Branches down and broken. Came back a second time and still couldn't spot it. Even Mr Jennymarj failed to find this one!

4th find in Balls series. Lots of netballer mugglettes today, so found with stealth, the hint & a keen eye. We wandered off to the graveyard to be less conspicuous & let the old boy do the signing honours. SL TFTC

Geo trail a bit of an eyesore. A lot of broken branches. Keen eyes needed. TFTC

#114 - (edited to fix number) I was actually expecting this one to be somewhere else - but a fun exerperience. I'm sure Team-Tonka will understand why I had to pass it to The Kimble to do the signing part... Replaced, and headed off to Football. TFTC!

Last one for the moment with battery running out.

Tricky find, requires a very keen eye, but did eventually find after reading previous logs. A big stretch required too.

Thanks for the cache and the series!

Nice and easy find. Thanks

GZ was fairly obvious but spotting the cache required a very keen eye. Another good hide.
SL TFTC

After 3 attempt kayrawr and I finally found it
Very sneaky spot

Hard to see at night! Came back in day light and didn't take too long!

Once I got the right line of sight this was a piece of cake. Thanks TT.

Still there, along with a mozzie or two, but no netballers.

Our 2nd day in Newcastle, we have teamed up with Liz and Bruce to find a few caches.
This seemed a great area for people to take their dogs for a walk, lots of them around today.
The cache was quiet a reach for short people, it was spotted quiet quickly.
Thanks Team-Tonka

Having arrived in the Belmont area yesterday with Di Morgan and husband Bill it did not take long today to head off to do some of the trails and caches located within the nearby vicinity. It was the first time Bruce got to try out his cute little Strida lookalike fold up bike, which even with its small wheels performed well. A big thanks to Team-Tonka

After a few days of non caching I got the ole Geo itch again. Early morning start threw the trusty Mountain Bike in the back of the Geo truck and headed North. With a aim to complete the Toolbox Series and others of opportunity further North. Great cache, TFTC

We had a nice trip around Newcastle by bike. The weather was great. We found 30 caches. At the beginning we were attacked by thousands of mosqueitos, but we survived and enjoyed a lovely beach day. Thank you for all caches. Greetings from the Czech Republic.

Loved the Balls Out Caches series had a great night out with the girls finding them!

First one of the night with the girls. After nearly being ate to death by mosquitoes we looked high and low for a good 10 mins cause we thought that it might of fallen on the ground. The SAP from the trees were good camouflage to the cache. It didnt help that we were using tourch light to find it. One of the girls opted for climbing the tree and BINGO! TFTC

It was absent last visit but here today, even the trees looked a lot healthier. Nice and easy to retrieve and log without being watched. Thanks for the hide.

Had taken us some time to find this one...

Due to so many muggles around I had to send the kids in for this one and thankfully it wasn't too hard to find.

Thanks for this little series of four sporting caches.

Due to so many muggles around I had to send the kids in for this one and thankfully it wasn't too hard to find.

Thanks for this little series of four sporting caches.

Fairly easy to find.... Was much easier to get out than put back, just finishing off the series i started some time ago. TFTC

Nice quick one, TFTC

Found on the way to work

Did the rest of the series a couple weeks ago so decided to come back and grab this one since it was reenabled. A nice and easy cache to find.

New container in place same location good luck

I had a look here today, not knowing that it was disabled. The CO must have taken it as it did not seem to be there, a shame the small grove of trees has been almost ripped apart and stripped bare by some idiots, probably not cachers though! I'll be back when it is rehidden elsewhere.

Came to check on this one today and can confirm that it was still here BUT the trees in the area have been badly damaged buy kids and I don't want people to think its geocaches so I will work on a new hide and replace here soon

#3342

Found this after a chat with the cache owner, and told him about the damage to the trees.

Only just realised that I never logged it when having a search for caches around Newcastle. Sorry for the later log.

TFTC Team-Tonka

Warm day again , last day today from 1st to 31st of august geocaching straight as first time ever... Too many muggles play netball courts, lucky no one seem, Easy to find as hide very well thanks

Unfortunately I was unable to locate this one in the dark, even after a PAF. I will return...

No luck here tonight after a lengthy search
TFTH

Studied photo and before I knew it I had the cache, once signed and put back, older muggle with dog pulled up!!
Out of the quickly and as I turn to see every in order, she was amongst the cache location with her dog sussing me out!!
She promptly left and went on her way,
Be very wary of muggles here!!

Found after a bit of a search

Found this cache whilst out caching with a friend of mine whom I was visiting from brisbane. We detoured via these caches whilst heading into the city. I am glad I had her with me as I needed her height to retrieve the cache easily. Thanks for the cache team-tonka

Nice little series for the August challenge.
A very quick find for me on this one after a 10min wait for muggles and mugglettes in the cemetery to move on.
[green] - Found It on Sunday ... at 11:00 AM ...
TFTC! - Team-Tonka ... [/green]
Total Finds now ... 691


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Really cool hiding place well done!

Great hiding spot in tree

Found it on third try. Came at night but there was no way we were going see it, so came back early morning. Easy find when courts not in use. TFTF

Yay! 3rd attempt successful TFTF

TFTC

#166
Thank you for the inventive cache container and location.

Thanks for the cache Team Tonka.

With freezing hands and faces, Cccritter7 and I set off on our great Geocaching adventure. We started with the Toolbox series on the Fernleigh Track, then found the Balls-Out series in the Kahibah Sports complex. After this, a few stand alone caches in Kahibah/Charlestown. We then zoomed down the Pacific Highway on our bikes. After a perilously steep hill in Windale, we searched for the 'Nature Bird' Series in Tingira Heights. It wasn't the greatest time to take these on, as there was some very muddy tracks. After a spot of lunch along the way, we completed the majority of the caches and came down to the shore of Lake Mac. We picked up the Billion Dollar Boardwalk Series, then went on a long ride along the beautiful Lake Mac, ending up at Mega Fun. We then headed to The Leaning Red Gum cache at Glendale. After that we enjoyed a McFlurry at Macca's, before setting off for the Glendale to Wallsend Power Trail. After completing this, we tiredly set off home, exhausted but tired after an awesome day of GeoCaching.

Busy area today, looked for a while but didn't spot it.

Third attempt, success thanks to new hint, TFTC Team-Tonka!!

Thanks to cccritter finding the cache near gz this one is once again ready to go with a new log sheet

Found the container on the ground. Wrote on a bit of paper and placed it in the cache. Put the cache on a rock towards the southern end.

This one has had it's hiding place destroyed will replace into new area soon

No luck today, might need a check?

ALOT of broken branches

Found it

Changed the location slightly to help keep hidden same coords hint changed to suit good luck

I could see this one as I approached, so I tried to leave it better hidden thante way I found it. Maybe the wind had blown it out into view. TFTC

nice hide . quick and easy, it was very quiet.

Decided to drop in here on the way to visit mum on a quiet Sunday morning. There was a couple of muggles at the nearby graveyard and a family playing on the netball court but luckily far enough away so I could look for the cache.
I found it fairly easily and extracted the log taking it away under the tree to sign.
Had to wait for muggle in electric chair walking dog to go past before replacing the log and I left back through the graveyard exit
Thanks to Team-Tonka for the cache.

*FTF* with spikey mikey. We sped to this one when we saw MV attacking the middle two of the series in the hope he wouldnt be here yet. He wasnt, and we got here first. Another quick one. Cache very exposed

Published

No logs on this before I left home but not too hopeful for FTF.
Arrived to find djant just leaving, first time we have met. Spotted this from a distance silhoutted by ground lights. Think I was fifth to find, hmm, that's an FTF!
Thanks Team Tonka

Reperio at 1705.

After bumping into a couple of cachers at 'Balls Out: Soccer'...and not seeing them at the next two caches...I knew they must have gone on ahead to this one. As approached the netball courts...I could them hovering near GZ...and after another brief chat...I wandered over to find the cache. I think this one out of the four will be the likeliest to disappear as it's hard to inconspicuous while retrieving the cache...and muggles can see you from a long way off.

Gratias Team-Tonka.

And this one 4th to find meet yet another cacher as I was leaving nice to meet colleda never met him before quick find again love them tftc

We headed into town this afternoon after work to meet up with the CO, and Whats the best thing to do when you with the CO?......Go find hes caches of course!

This was the last for the night as the muggles had left from view, and the remaining were to far away not to worry about, once at GZ the cache was soon found, but the log had been pushed in the end as someone did not put it back properly! After a fiddle with the car keys we soon had the log out ad signed. Put it back in the right way this time

Thanks Team-Tonka

*FTF* After a quick dash with TheMonks fron from the previous "soccer" cache, we arrived just in time to claim the FTF before others arrived.
Cache is very open and exposed and I don't know how long it will survive.
TNLNSL TFTC