Manea Park College Grove, Western Australia, Australia
By baffle on 11-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4H9BK

Thanks, needed the rest

TFTC

Found by Mary and David at 10:15. We found the cache easily enough, then went wandering along the track. Spotted lots of spider orchids and quite a few enamel orchids too. Our thanks to Rach2.

#5842 Found on our WA Adventure visiting from NE Victoria. Spending part of the day in Bunbury today and was immediately drawn to this reserve to explore some wildflowers. We were blown away by the number of orchids we spotted during our walk with the geohounds. We also spotted about 6 different species as well including the incredible spider orchid! Back at the start of our walk and nabbed this one after a couple of serious orchid hunters wandered out of view, eventually... TFTC Rach2.

Past through here on my way home to avenge a previous dnf. Managed to find a log page lying on the floor underneath the bench. returned to the car and placed it into a mint tin and tucked it away at the base of the tree behind the bench.

Thanks for the hide. Will have to come back to find the other caches on the trail.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 53 - Bunbury Day 6. For my last day in Bunbury, I chose to start the day with a cafe breakfast in town. With five to choose from in one block I was spoilt and had a great meal. The first part of my caching day was in the suburbs just south of Bunbury, with the usual mix of success and failure. Over my whole day it was almost one DNF for every three finds. I was happy that some caches have had maintenance recently, so that is good news. My afternoon was supposed to be a country road series, but that was troubled as well. There is a huge new road going in that made accessing some of the areas I wanted a very convoluted exercise, but in the end, I made it to the site of all the caches I had in mind. However, even out here there were more DNFs than I would have expected. I finished the day visiting three challenge caches before going back to finish a cemetery issue and get fuel for tomorrows drive to Freemantle. I have really enjoyed my time in Bunbury, big enough for plenty of services, not too big to be difficult. Not to mention lots and lots of great caches.I made two stops here, as some people came for a sit on the seat just when I first arrived. The bush tracks are closed, but the seat is ok. Cache found as described.Thanks for the cache Rach247833.13 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2015 Anniversary A#324**Albida**

Nice quick find here TFTC

Went back today and found it with the help of bazza65 . No pen even after scouring the car. Have a photo of the cache if you need proof. Thanks

No luck for us today

Found it finally after a few attempts but didnt have a pen , will be back another time to complete log.Lots of orchids out at the moment. TFTC

TaurusSix and I have decided to clear up our remaining unfound caches around the Bunbury area. In reality there are not that many, However they are spread around the place , some are dnfs that need a further investigation, some were disabled that have now become enabled and then there are some we have just not gotten around to yet. So in between domestic tasks and running around with life chores today we decided to pick up a couple of stragglers. The weather was initially rainy, cold and windy but did pick up a bit so we ended up having a couple of nice walks to collect a couple of caches today and ticked a couple off our list.

This was our first of two caches today. It was great to turn a previous blue frown into a happy yellow smiley. Once we had found the cache, logged and returned we enjoyed the nice walk around Manea Park, which was really lovely. The weather stayed nice and the birds were out in full song and apart from a lone muggle dog walker we had the place to ourselves . Thanks for the cache Rach2 .

Dnf for me

Very strange, the cache I put here is gone, but the original cache is back anyway there is a cache here

A temporary cache is back

Forgot about this one. I fix it on the weekend

I will check this one out next week

I was walking back to my car from the first cache of the day. I was checking my phone to read up on the cache. Just then someone drove up to me and asked what I was measuring. I just said I was tracking where I walked. They then asked, almost knowingly, am I looking for something. I mentioned a geocache, but didn’t get a chance to explain. They then said people shouldn’t be doing that because of the rare orchids. I suspect he knew what I was up to and did not approve. Each their own.
I continued and sat to finish my reading. Then I set about looking for the cache. And kept looking. And finally stopped when it was clear I was not going to find it.
I am hoping that it has not been deliberately removed by a ‘disapproving sole’, not unlike the one I met on my way in.

Found

We've never been here before. TFTC

Enjoying a long weekend in Bunbury for WAGB Spent the day pottering around picking up caches as I went - after a leisurely breakfast of course! This was one that I stopped off at today. A few cars parked up at the entrance but no-one around at GZ I'll be walking the loop tomorrow - today it's just a drive-by grab of this one on the way past No problems here - TFTC

In Bunbury and Collie for WAGB2022! A massive weekend of caching and catching up with friends. A big thank you to all the COs that have placed caches for this weekend, as well as COs maintained by existing listings. You have made this weekend what it is! Apologies for the generic logs. Cheers Rach2!

Its WAGB day! Spent the day hunting down cache with the Machman.
Thanks to all the COs for your efforts. A long but fun day out. TFTC

Out walking the loop of caches in this area. TFTC

Cache is now a plastic container

In town for WAGB 2022 and exploring the many unfound caches. Cache has been replaced by Rach2 , so happy to sign the log. Thanks for this cache and maintenance!

Out ‘n about with m4yb getting a few caches.
Thankfully Rach2 walked with us and none of us could find this, so she did maintenance and we claimed the smily
Thanks for the hide and Rach2.

Quick find here today. Thanks for the hunt

Walked this park many times- so great to search for a Geo. Wish I could have found the next cache as easily along the path! Great to visit family in College Grove

Quick find on the way to Busso.

That was easy
Cache all good

Tftc

Out and about doing a bit of touristy stuff and finding a few caches along the way. [^]

I was close to this one so stopped here and made a quick find.

Thanks for the cache baffle.

Super easy find

Tftc easy find

Caching day today with BJA3. Found in good condition with no issues, TFTC Rach1 & baffle!

Starting the circuit. Thanks for bringing us to this area.

Beautiful sunny day out with the family

Really packed in there but managed to get it out

Thanks for the find!

Good walk around Manea Park today with the grandies
Thanks for placing these caches and making the walk more fun

Found with Bunbury geo family. Tftc

Ouch sat on candle banksia, felt good but.

Churr manou

CHEERS

Another Park and grab cache after a night at work, thanks Rach2.
No lid on cache, but cache and log in good condition.
TFTC

Another Park and grab cache after a day out on the water catching crayfish, thanks Rach2.
No lid on cache, but cache and log in good condition.
TFTC

Nice quick find tftc

Searched for a nice looking series of caches in the bush and this group fitted the bill nicely. We had a fantastic time finding these well placed caches due to the ease of retrieval and the excellent paths. Thanks for maintaining this series, Rach2. Top effort.

Yay quick find

A quick find on the way down to Margaret River to do the Northern half of Cape to Cape hike. TFTH #keepthestreak

Quick find on our second attempt. Previous one thwarted by intense muggle inactivity. All good. TFTC.

Quick find for little miss tftc

Easy find before heading back to the car. Tftc The-Shredder

Quick and easy with The-Shredder. TFTC

Nice cool summer morning. Great caching day. TFTC.

Manea Park was transferred from baffle to user Rach2

With my 4 geo lads tftc!

Grabbed this one on the start of our walk after our overnight stay in Bunbury. SL TFTCM. Greetings from NSW.

Quick find on my way in today.
Log soaking wet and unusable.
Replaced plastic bag with new zip bag. Added silicon satchel. New log placed.
TFTC.

Quick find in a lovely area.
Day 2 of our Bunbury caching trip.
TFTC baffle this is find # 4498 for us.

TFTC

In bunno for my mother in laws birthday and thought we'd grab some caches nearby. Nice easy find to finish off our walk and a nice spot to sit while waiting for hubby/dad to pick us up. Tftc

Thanks gor the walk. Nice day for it.

Checked and cache is still in place.

pug002 DNF

**En route from Mandurah to Margaret River**

*Grabbing a few caches whilst I'm passing*...

Another windy day with scattered showers at times but it **is** winter. Grabbed this one in between showers. Managed to grab 64 today with 6 DNF's . What a beautiful part of Australia. I wish I had more time too look around. I love the places where caching takes me. Another time. A nice straight forward find here.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment baffle. Appreciate your effort.
Greetings from Victoria.
-P

**Took**: *Nothing*
**Left**: *Nothing*

**#11144**

Cache-On!

Quick find to start the Manea Park trail. TFTC

Nice easy find with jbjames, my gps was a bit off for this one!

This is find # 23866 for me

Enjoyed collected the cache and signed the log.

Thanks baffle for organising the cache and hunt [^]

Tftc nice quick find

Pommie Parkin2 was missing just one date off her hidden dates grid and with choices limited we decided a trip to Bunbury would be quicker than solving a puzzle that no one else has yet to solve.
I solved a fun puzzle down that way and rather than it sit in the solved and not found basket for too long a plan was hatched. Neither of us had done many Bunbury way so there were so many choices. Plus the 20 odd caches on the way down that neither of us had found.

With a slow full of caches trip down and our 2 must do caches found it was time to head off for some refreshments. Feeling revived we thought we would grab a few more. Being university holidays seemed the perfect opportunity to grab the ones around the campus. No big walks for us today given the heat about however this one was close enough for us not to drown in our own sweat. Looks to be a nice park hopefully I will grab the others on another cooler day.
TFTC baffle

A surprisingly busy corner today. Who would want to go on a Bush Walk in this weather. Never mind they soon went on their way and left me to the business at hand. TFTC

found sometime ago but forgot to log. thanks for the find.

It took us quite a while to find this cache but we were doing by touchlight. we will have to come back some time and walk the trail.

Thanks for the hide Baffle. Looks like a nice place to walk through the bush and find a few caches. Might have to leave that for another day at 7.30pm it's getting a bit dark and I'm getting eaten alive. thanks for taking me here.

Nice walk on this beautiful day. TFTC

Out on a days south bound caching with my mom ooh yeh. Quick find. Tftc

These caches are what geocaching is all about for us. At Manea Park we were able to combine two of our passions – wildflowers and geocaching. We photographed a wide variety of flora between the showers and despite the cold and damp really enjoyed our walk. Thanks for your excellent series.

This was a nice easy find to get us going. Already had the camera out to capture some orchids. TNLNSL Thanks baffle for this cache.

Mum found it (gave it away)

Tyftc

TFTC. Lovely spot to wander with the GeoTribe

Beautiful evening with a full moon Lovely spot TFTC

TFTC We left this a bit late in the afternoon so will come back and do the walk through the bush

Tftc found on a cold windy day

Tftc very wet day

TFTC Baffle

Tftc

Headed to Bunbury for the day with B12. Found some geocaches on the way there and back. Attended the event also. All caches were found in good condition. TFTH TFTC

TFTC! Headed down to Bunbury with Cravo10 to the meet and greet event in dalyellup and collected a bunch of caches on the way there and the return journey.

Had a great meetup with around ten participants ranging in experience from 27 finds to 14000 finds. Had a lot of chatter about the accuracy of smart phone co ordinates and some general how to questions around offline lists and alike. Was great to meetup with everyone.

We targeted a few caches around town before doing some of the pig series and departing Bunbury for Perth.

Thanks for a great day out will be back soon.

Very nice walk around the park Thanks Baffle.

Good coordinates made this a quick find.
Chris & Renate from Ontario, Canada

Finally saw 2 skippys at this cache. TFTC, Greetings from Singapore

Quick find. Tftc

1st of a little walk in Manea Park
TFTC

First find for the day. 84th find and aiming for 100 today ☺

A last minute decision to head south for a day or so had me heading to this area.
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A nice hide here and thankfully we had no trouble adding our name to the log book. TFTC .
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baffle - jinta29 found your cache Manea Park on 27/12/2015, 6:50 AM. This is my find #4637 and find #9 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!
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Have you logged your WILL ATTEND for WA GOES BIG in 2016[?]
I have and am looking forward to seeing lots of other cachers in Pinjarra on the WA Day long weekend.
Log your will attend at GC5YAGP!

Day 9 of our school holiday challenge. Nice easy find after catching up with family.

picked up this one on the way home from work. a quick easy one when time was short
tftc